Episode 1: Ego Inflation

[ian]

Okay, I have like 10 minutes, but I want to make a quick confessional to gather my thoughts. I have pretty much spent this entire round so far kissing ass and making others feel like the true All-Star while I'm just under the Dumb Ass category that I deserve. Let's run through what progress I have so far on these "masterminds"...

Heidi: Just started talking to Heidi and she already claims that she wants to be my mentor since she won the first season and is clearly far superior at the game in comparison to me. Blindsiding her will be very fulfilling to her, but part of me just want of wants to fuel her ego further so she can feel better out her hold over me. I want to make her a little paranoid and make it seem like others are intimidated are her, so, while everyone is voting for Ethan, I casted a vote her way too. 


Sean: My only official ally so far. H's a nice guy and the type of person I think I could relate with. unfortunately, I realized that he over plays the nice and oblivious card like I have and I don't know how far I can go with someone so similar of a game.


Silas: Fucking weird. Like I can't tell if he's trolling or just flirts with everyone.


Morgan: Holding an actual conversationw ith her is painful, which sucks since I loved watching her in season 11!


Ciera: Another Wueen that I want to blindside early. She's smart and apparently is MAry/Monica/Mikayla. I don't want to get in with that shit.


Ethan: Nice guy, really excited to play with him and see where that goes.


Tanya: I'm thinking about having a secret alliance with her, since we're actually pretty close since she hosts EPic, but I'll have to talk with her further. 


Carter: I can't really put my finger on him. Judging by the finale thatI read in New World, he seemed to be a very viable goat canidate and I can see it now. 


Savage: This is the weirdest one. We played and live game together and i blindsided him. But he claims that everything is all right and we're even now and we should legitimately work together again. I still dont actually trust him. But again, I have to feed the egos and he provides me with someinteresting information. I really want to explore other options, but there is no use of dispensing someone on my side.


Everyone else has either not talked to me or hasn't left that significant on a mark on me. Signing off!

[ian]

Since I'm now on the green Escambia tribe, I find it only fitting that I use my initial tribe impression in green, and Comic Sans of course!

Okay, so overall impressions. Compared to some of the other tribes, which I'm entirely sure how either are arranged yet with there being 3 tribes, our tribe seems very....lax? Not a whole lot of big characters, except for Silas, but he's just a flirt. Hopefully everyone will be in such perpetual happiness that we do well at challenges, but honestly I wouldnt even mind losing and trying to draw first blood in this game. But yeah, I doubt there will be much drama here in the initial phases unless we lose. But that doesn't give me an excuse to not play this game. I actual;y for the most part am happy with the way this tribe divide went down. Let's go through each tribemate one by one...


MALCOLM

You know that guy that you like really want to like and be friends with, but you know that he's just playing on your feelings to take advantage? Yeah that's Malcolm. He's hella sketch. But I frickin' love talking to the guy! He's hilarious and likable and I'm able to be like real with him. Like I'll always make sarcstic comments about how everything he does or I do is just part of strategy, kinda breaking that forbidden wall into actual game talk. However, that is the extent of our game talk. We have no deals and hhe seems to like me, but I'm pretty sure that he talks that way to pretty mcuh everyone. I do like that fact that he often posts in public threads and needlessly draws attention to himself. That way, if we are paired and things go haywire, he will take the fall. I don't know. I'm gonna keep trying to force into making a deal with me. I don't want to be the one to pursue the deal with him. As of now though, I'd like to keep him around and don't see him going first.


VECEPIA

Ghandia, Vecepia, Sherea, whatever you want to call her, I know how this chick plays. She sneaks under the radar and, although never winning, always makes it to the very end. Plus, she played the little Blood vs Water game with Sean and Sean is mine not hers. She's a threat to make it far and I want to keep the bigger guys around for now so that I can use them as my shields later on when the competition picks up more. SOO... I want her gone first. She hasn't really messaged me (by the way, I couldnt talk to ANYONE yesterday, horrible day to announce tribes Brandon . I feel behind now). Maybe if she proposes a deal with me, I'll do something with her, but I know that's not what she does so she is target number one. Already planting the seeds with this one. Nice playing with ya!

JAMIE

So it's no secret that Jamie and I have a history. Brief summary from what I remember, I pretty much put my unwavering trust in this guy on the first day of Gobi. He was clearly in an alliance with others, but I never wanted to believe it. Lo and behold, I was wrong and blindsided him while Savage had the veil over my eyes. But at the same time, he's the only person on this tribe from my season, so I almost feel obligued to talk with him and work with him short term. He came to me actually, saying that he is letting the past be the past and would be willing to work with me long term since he knows that I am trustworthy based off my confessionals I guess. I keep buttering him up, but I don't know I don't really like to based off previous relations, but as of now I don't know if I have a choice. He wants to do a Tanya-Savage type strategy. We'll see kids!

RC
 
Oh, RC. Part of me thinks you're too nice for this game. I actually watched you pretty closely last season, whether she knows it or not, because I found her pretty interresting. She's pretty amazing. Playing with 3 kids is impressive. I'm making sure that she knows that I am 17 and maybe she will instintively try and play the protective mom role over me. I respect her alot and she seems pretty gullible and trustworthy, so she may be one that I like to work with. I don't really see her intiating any big moves and her likability will probably be a bigger threat than mine. Definetly an option I want to pursue, in fact Jamie mentioned pulling her into something. A deal has yet to be made, since she is so often busy, but hopefully soon.


SILAS


Surprisingly, I don't have a whole lot to say about him. Like he's actually acting like he is dropping the goofy, flirty attitude all of the sudden and palying the nice card. He defintly fooled Jamie, mkaing me think they have deal since Jamie played as Jean-Roberte last season. Jamie told me that only RC on our tribe knows about JR, not Silas. could jsut be a ploy, so I'm a little suspicious. I need to feel him out more. I don't dislike the guy and he's bigger, but entertaining, character that I like to talk to, so he's not on my radar yet.


HEIDI

I haven''t talked to her since the last post I made so I have very little to add. Jamie says she should be an early target and like I said I would love blindsiding her really early. But I kinda want her to feel isolated and forced into working with me at the same time. She's still a target and wants to be my fucking mentor still as far as I know, which is ridiculous. 

Boot list coming up! I'm really getting back into this now! Let the blood rain down!!!

[ian]

Well, fuck. Before I delve into sucky-ness of losing, let me say what all has gone down in my game leading up to this!

So I have a new number one ally. Coolest kid on the block, Malcolm, came up to me proposing an alliance. Here's his actual proposition. It was kind of cute actually. 

Nov 1, 2014 9:49 PM 

John Wilson's iconJohn Wilson 

Do you want to have some game talk? 

Nov 1, 2014 10:02 PM 

Ian Rosenberger's icon 

Sorry I'm really bad at replying right now 

But absolutely 

Nov 1, 2014 10:02 PM 

Ian Rosenberger's icon 

I was waiting for you to ask that  

Nov 1, 2014 10:20 PM 

John Wilson's iconJohn Wilson 

Haha bad time for me to go take a shower 

Nov 1, 2014 10:22 PM 

John Wilson's iconJohn Wilson 

But I figure I'll just jump into it. This is All-Stars, normally I like to take things slower in games, but quite frankly since 2 of our tribe members won't be there for the challenge, I think we're all but fucked, so no point pussy footing around the strategy talk, haha. You're the person I've enjoyed talking to most since even before the game started and I was fucking pumped you were on my tribe, even despite the fact that you dissed Agents of Shield and are a Baylor fan. So point blank, do you want to work together in this game? I mean like Final 2 

Nov 1, 2014 10:23 PM 

Ian Rosenberger's icon 

Dude, I love you. 

I'm so glad you've asked because literally you have been my favorite person to talk to on this entire cast

I really like the guy. I'm almost positive that he has more deals than he lets off, but for now I think he's with me. I actually want to follow through with this guy for awhile. As long as he stays loyal to me, I'll keep him. He's a nice number to have on my side and it's nice to know he comes from a season with veru low representation. 


But then it came to the point where we were tossing names around. Malcolm proposed Silas. He thinks Silas is pretty much an instant pair with Ethan when he joins our tribe. And I kind of sees his logic for that. What I don;t see his logic is for his steadfast refusal to do anything about Vee. I told him that she was a threat who made it to the Top 4 in every one of her three seasons. She's a perfect goat canidate and that is dangerous to me. But Malcolm doesn't see Sherea as a threat and that's what worries me. I smell there is more there than I suspect. You're treading on dangerous waters buddy. He also was pretty adament on saying that Heidi was a threat. I guessssss.  I think she's kinda overrated from what I've seen of her, but whatever. Malcolm is still sketchy and I don't want him to be. 

Now, last night, which was a suprisingly hard challenge, there was one clear cause to us losing. Jamie. Sure, Vee and Silas didn't show up until later. But Jamie didn't post until 2:00 am after we slaved away at this challenge. Jamie is making this difficult for me. And the worst part is that I have to play up the false veil that we don't like each other! He has nobody right now! Jamie is a downer though. 

But you'd think, after Maloclm tells me he wants to pull in RC and Jamie and get rid of the other 3 over time that Jamie wouldn't be on anyone's radars and we'd do just as we said we did. But now, what the fuck Malcolm?! He goes ahead and tells VECEPIA that the three of us should work together and target Jamie!!!!!!! What happened to pulling in Jamie and taking out Silas or whoever the fuck you wanted? I want Vee out and he knows that, so apparently, according to what Vee told me literally 5 minutes ago, he goes ahead and forms an allliance with this chick to force me into wokring with her? Nah, that don't fly. Especially if you're gonna go against what YOU said earlier by targetting Silas, which I would have done and temporarily hold off my reservations towards Vee, and target my secret boy, Jamie. 


I need to talk to Jamie, RC, and Malcolm and quick to figure this shit out. 

I guess the best news about this all is I'm not gonna go home. Right? I take that back. Don't air that. I wouldn't want to labeled at a dumbass or anything. 

[ian]

Get ready for a blindside folks. 

This is an all-stars season so let's start out with a bang. So I was debating about whether to follow through and go with Heidi and Malcolm and do what I thought the majority and vote I guess Silas now. So I started talking with RC about our options, since she would pretty much have to be on my side regardless of which way I would sway. Almost immediately she say that she has hardly talked to Vee. Bingo! That's all the impetus I needed to get that girl out instead of Silas. She probably has more connections than anyone else in this game with her massive experience within this series alone. I pull a couple strings, gather Silas, Jamie, and RC together and boom we have an alliance together! Vee now. Heidi next round. That simple. I'll try to show Malcolm that RC was like dead set, which she wasn't on Vee. Malcolm and I talked earlier about needing RC on our side. In fact, I may show him at like 8:00 tonight right before the reveal. I don't think he's a lost cause but he certainly isn't my top ally anymore! 


Quick post, let's see how this goes. Hope it's not my last!