Week 07

[kaysar]

The vote went as expected for the most part.

As far as a cast assessment goes, I would consider my group to be me, Heaven, Keith, and Hayley. Heaven, Keith, and I have all proven that we can win competitions. I tend to like Keith and have since the start, but I feel like he's too confident in himself and his gameplay is sometimes reckless. Heaven and Hayley are much more reasonable to talk to and work with.

I honestly look at Aaryn and Allison as almost irrelevant, but they're going to make it far because they don't threaten anyone. They have almost no chance of winning a challenge. Allison is so difficult to hold conversations with. I feel like she's mobile a lot of the time. In my last message with Aaryn, she told me she was loyal to her original house and didn't have any plans to go against them. So with that being said, it's hard for me to even want to work with her and the fact that she didn't vote shows that she might not even be into the game much.

Then you have Jon, Lane, and Memphis who are clearly together. Memphis is the best player of these three, in my opinion. He has the social game down and great ties with everyone. Lane's also a decent social player and took some time to talk to me last night even though it's clear we're on different sides. I feel like Jon has no intention of even trying to talk to me because we just ignored each other on AIM earlier in the game and I haven't seen him online for the past two days to even try to talk to him.

So out of everyone so far, it's been house versus house. Nick is the only mystery. It's possible that he's more in the middle, but he's also good enough at challenges to be significant.

[kaysar]

I'm glad Heaven won. I took long enough on the challenge finding all the images that I didn't want to spend any time checking them, so I got one wrong somewhere. It wasn't my greatest effort, but the two people who beat me were people who could keep me safe. Hopefully this will be a good round for me. I wanted to win HoH so that I could work out some deals, but now I can compete in the next one assuming I'm still around.

Jon is missing, hasn't been on AIM in days. Allison and Hayley are away. Aaryn is inactive, and I hope she gets removed. The game feels really slow right now, but it's easy to keep up with at least.

[kaysar]

I feel like the game is getting more interesting.

I like Heaven, and I'm glad she won this round's HoH. It just makes sense for the two of us to keep one another safe because it's only final 10. If I left or if Heaven left, then whoever stayed would be the primary target to leave right after. With both of us here, it gives us more possibilities to stay.

Now this round, Nick offered me an alliance with the two of us. We haven't decided on a name, but some of the final choices are the Defectors and the Conspirators to reflect how we're associated with the different sides but also comparing notes to try and look out for one another. I don't know if I can trust this alliance because Nick may just be looking out for himself since I'm good at challenges, but I had to accept because it could be an opportunity to keep me around longer. If he's not loyal, it's no big deal because I had to win challenges anyway. If he is loyal, it puts me in a much better position because someone else here can be on my side.

[kaysar]

There are lots of reasons why I should vote to evict Jon here. Jon nominated me for eviction and tried to get me out of the game. Heaven is targeting Jon primarily, and she's an ally I don't want to upset. Jon's allies are players who all have wanted me out in the past and would still want me out now. Nick and I may have an alliance forming. So it just seems completely logical to vote to evict Jon, and that's what I'm going to do.

Keith is telling me Jon came to him campaigning for his vote and agreed to keep us safe whereas Nick would nominate the two of us. I'm hearing from Nick that this is a complete lie and that Jon actually wants to be evicted. Keith wants Nick out this round and I believe he's warping the truth to try and convince me to do that. I think Keith wants Nick out and then Heaven out. Following this progression, I'd be next if he's aiming to get rid of all the challenge threats until only he remains. It's worrisome what Keith could be doing because he's so unpredictable, assuming Nick is telling me the truth, but it supports what I've seen in the past with Keith. Still, even though I'm frustrated by Keith, my focus is still mostly on Lane and Memphis. I'll keep evaluating each round to make the most intelligent decisions possible.