Stranded in Mykonos

Welcome to the second week!!! Hope you had a nice, calming weekend, because it's back to the meat grinder. As numbers get smaller and smaller, the pace will be quicker and the stability will start to collapse.

1. This challenge showed what your fellow castaways thought about who is here on the tribe with you. How did you feel about the results of who was picked for each question? Which ones were a surprise, and which ones were predictable? Were you happy or irked by any of the results?
2. Although it's a short season so it may not feel like it, we're in the middle of the season now. Does your strategy and the way you vote or ally with other people change compared to the first week?
3. This was a tie vote which was split 4-4 evenly, but the revote on Rodney was unanimous. Why did the vote turn out like this?
4. What is the best path forward for you to get to the finale? Who has to go out sooner than later, and who needs to be beside you? Could we get a rough boot order from you?

Holy smokes Michelle! You've had quite the day!

Can you walk us through your early strategy? What got you to this point in the game?

Are things going how you'd planned/hoped they would when you started?

I'm breaking into an excited musical number for you right now, congrats on immunity!

QUEEN PLEASE EXPLAIN 

whirlwhind of a night y'all idk what to think rn! This is one hell of a game 

I hate work. 

I hate people calling in sick to work. 

I hate being the one who has to cover for people calling in sick to work. 

I hate that playing orgs isn’t a good enough excuse to call out of work. If I ran the country things would be different. 

Michelle 2024

1. This challenge showed what your fellow castaways thought about who is here on the tribe with you. How did you feel about the results of who was picked for each question? Which ones were a surprise, and which ones were predictable? Were you happy or irked by any of the results?
Touchy subjects is my fave challenge they do (did) on the real show, so its always a good time. None of the results were tooo shocking for me? I didnt like being picked for "who is most likely to go home" but it was a 3-way tie meaning what.. 2 people put my name down? And they were wrong anyway so in the grand scheme of things it wasn't too bad. Mike was def man of the hour, he got a lot of the subjects that pointed him out as a threat or the one to beat. So... keeping that in the noggin'

2. Although it's a short season so it may not feel like it, we're in the middle of the season now. Does your strategy and the way you vote or ally with other people change compared to the first week?
Its so weird to consider that we are mid-season, and just a few steps from endgame. We did start at a merge so all the pre-game stuff was meshed with that, which has been interesting. The main difference is that there's really not time to form deep connections. Which is why i think prior season relationships mattered a lot/still matter (see my closeness w paul based on just being on the same tribe on s40). 

It also makes strategy a lot different since it's so condensed. Maybe im a bit naive, but it feels like most work is done in the hours leading up to tribal. Which gives less time for things to really shift around, and less time to plan really chaotic last minute ideas. Because of that the overall gameplay feels very basic, not necessarily a bad thing, but that initial alliances/bonds will hold strong and it'll be harder to have a more dynamic game. That being said i will still be prepared for and gladly accept more chaos into my life. On top of all that, the smaller amount of time to prepare just gives me the impression that i can trust what im being told more. Since it would be a lot more work for the people talking to me to be planning secondary/tertiary plans on the side. I know i'm too busy for all that lol! But if they are then more power to em. 

It feels safe to stick with the alliance of me, paul, hali, and mike - since we have been working well together since basically the start. I think first impressions matter a lot more in this shorter game bc we dont have as much time to change them. So any initial trust built amongst people i think will hold pretty strong the entire game. 

3. This was a tie vote which was split 4-4 evenly, but the revote on Rodney was unanimous. Why did the vote turn out like this?
When talking with Paul, he wanted to go for Sydney or Rodney - since they seemed to be the bigger question marks in the game. They were being tossed out as targets before the immunity challenge ever happened. 

Then Stephanie was worried that Rodney may have an advantage, so she talked to Paul about splitting votes. We had the numbers to do it, so Hali said to put girls on Sydney and boys on Rodney. Then on the revote we would vote Rodney. The reason we ended up Rodney over Sydney was because of him being more of a wildcard. 

The kinda shit thing is i think Rodney actually did trust and want to work with me. It just became hard to reason going against a 4 that I had built so much trust with. I was talking to Voce about the vote, and said that i was open to a 4 of us, Rodney and Sydney. I told Rodney I was hearing Sydney's name (bc i was), and tried to give him enough hope that he'd wanna work with me, but not be super shocked if it was him. In that regard i think i failed bc i imagine he's prob a lil upset with me. I prob got his hopes up too much.. i just like telling people what they wanna hear lmao. 

So during that I also reached out to Sydney to see what she was thinking, bc i only heard about her wanting to work together through Rodney and Voce. Without much prompting she said that she was sketched by Rodney, thinking he was tryna flip the vote against her after recognizing it was the two of them on the chopping block. Now it became an even bigger task to work with that 4 because i would have had to reconcile Sydney and Rodney and i honestly didn't feel like it. Sue me. 

I told Paul most of what i was hearing, and he said that he was furthering the divide between Rodney and Syd, and making them think the other was throwing their name out. Rodney said he was upset with Sydney throwing his name out, and I told him that i was just going to vote for her then. He agreed he'd be voting that way as well. And Sydney being sus of Rodney voted him. so we had a perfect tie. 

Rodney was always the initial plan on the revote, but during the pre-tribal period he was throwing a lot of names out, including mike and paul. naturally they did not like that, and he remained the target for the revote, with Sydney just leaning into the goat role. 

That's my POV of it all, think it sums up most of why what happened, happened. 

4. What is the best path forward for you to get to the finale? Who has to go out sooner than later, and who needs to be beside you? Could we get a rough boot order from you?
I'm gonna be honest, i feel like i'm not playing a winning game. What have i actually lead? I've just gone along with plans being brought to me. I just don't think im gonna have a lot of jury respect with that. And then.. i do this dumb thing of being everyone's ally and telling them im with them... which obviously i can't do with everyone. So i just end up betraying people lol.. my least favourite thing! Like with Rodney, i told him i value honesty... while i was lying about him being the target and voted him out... why did i do that? lmao. 

The people who are  less friendly are gonna have less bad blood on their hands. I guess if im in a position to fight for my case i could just present it as a "ya i went there. I built strong bonds knowing i was gonna have to break them. i wasn't scared of the fallout" but idk how well that would go over lmao. 

Right now it feels like the simplest/easiest thing would be me, paul, hali, and mike going to the end. But those are like.. the three people who would be the hardest to go against at that point lol! But AGAIN idiot that i am, i keep saying "i love this 4! Core Four all the way baby!" So if i go against that do i just piss them off? Would they respect it? Im such a passive bitch tbh. ugh. 

I think (hope) the main thing i have going for me is that if everyone thinks im working w them they just wont go after me lol. And if that's the case then i guess any boot order would work just fine. But since you asked nicely i'll try to give one right now:

The person I guess i feel the least connected to now is stephanie? So perhaps her as a next boot. Though i think people will want to go for sydney - who im hoping still sees me as her closest person here? 

I really do feel like Mike and Hali would have to go for me to have a realistic shot, so them being the next few out might be ideal? 

Then I sit at the end next to Paul, bc i love Paul. Or voce bc idk.. maybe he's doing a lot of cool shit behind my back, but from my POV he asks me what to do/how to vote. So in that sense i should be able to beat him at the end. 

I'm just a social player lol, we dont strategize in this house 

Susie Smith" wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:26:24 pm Holy smokes Michelle! You've had quite the day!

Can you walk us through your early strategy? What got you to this point in the game?

Are things going how you'd planned/hoped they would when you started?

Missy Byrd" wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:35:06 pm QUEEN PLEASE EXPLAIN 

Maybe the idol was the friends you made along the way?

lol if anyone asks if i have an idol i'll just tell em like idc. its no good after tomorrow anyway so why not! we just vibin 

am i stupid? 

i dont even know what im going anymore. i just say things 

prob shouldnt have told paul the idol expires at 6.. but gah im so tired of constantly lying to people lol. I mean, im not lying in the moment most of the time. But i give all this false hope to people knowing full well its more than likely theyre going home. which does kinda suck :(

how did y'all actually stay sane on season 40 lmaooo, this is a quarter of the time and im already saying im tired lmfaoo 

oh shit its time 

Michelle wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:33:07 pm how did y'all actually stay sane on season 40 lmaooo, this is a quarter of the time and im already saying im tired lmfaoo 

oh yikers! thank goodness gosh i have this idol lol

but ya im def not winning this game oops 

playing major suck up w sydney lmao