Episode 08

[Yul Kwon]

Congratulations, you have survived the first part of the game?

How does the refuge tribe stack up now that it's fully formed? Are you happy with it?

How does your strategy change as the two tribes have merged and Refuge tribe is now back in the game?

Who is your biggest allies and threats on this tribe? What about over on the Hiva Oa tribe?

[Chad]

I don't know Yulia Generic-Question. I just got here.

[Brenda Lowe]

Last-in, first-out? Congrats on getting to Refuge and not getting a single night off

Give me your best guess at the overall dynamic of this new tribe. Is there room for you to work your way in? Who do you feel most close with? Who, the least?

[Chad]

So I am leaving first? Boo.

[Chad]

So from what I'm gathering, Refuge has basically been a breeding ground for inactivity?

[Chad]

Last-in, first-out? Congrats on getting to Refuge and not getting a single night off

Give me your best guess at the overall dynamic of this new tribe. Is there room for you to work your way in? Who do you feel most close with? Who, the least?

Can't do that yet Brenda. Half the PMs I sent last night are still sitting in my outbox.

[Chad]

Yea. So either this is the lamest tribe in the history of ORGs or I'm getting voted out tonight if we lose.

Whatever.

I knew I shouldn't have played this game and now my jury streak is fucked.

[Chad]

OK. So there's no TC tonight. So maybe I'm not going home.

But good lord this tribe SUCKS. I guess that's what happens when you put people in a hole for a week and then they have to start playing again.

Other than that Katie is just OMG. She wants to align with Jane. Fucking Jane? Seriously? And she has our Nika Hiva idol. If she uses it to save Jane I just can't even....

[Jeff Probst]

Do you think that puts you in an advantage because you never stopped playing the game and some of these players have been lying dormant or not paying attention for a majority of the season?

[Chad]

Do you think that puts you in an advantage because you never stopped playing the game and some of these players have been lying dormant or not paying attention for a majority of the season?

I don't know Jeff. It's really bizarre and I think I am at a disadvantage because I am completely NOT on the same wavelength as the rest of them are. I'm like all hyper like "OK what's the plan? What's our strategy? Let's have a two page discussion about this." And they are all like, "Hmmm. I have a PM there. Let me go take a shower, catch a quick nap, eat, go to class, get my hair done, come home. Oh wait. There's a PM. Maybe I should read it."

They all seem to be fine with this approach so I'm probably going to have to adjust a bit because I probably look like an over-reacting psycho to them.

[Chad]

OK. So not to be all "I told you so" and shit. But Vytas.....

This was the same dude Cochran was chomping at the bit to merge to Hiva Oa so he could align with him. Where I knew I was going to butt heads with him because I wanted NO PIECE of that shit.

Yea. Cochran. When you read this. I told you so.

I'm feeling better and better by the minute about being here. I just really hope Katie doesn't fucking waste her idol on fucking Jane when we eventually do to to TC. Because Jane is slated to go first.

My allies always have really poor judgement. Does that say something about me?

[Jeff Probst]

OK. So not to be all "I told you so" and shit. But Vytas.....

This was the same dude Cochran was chomping at the bit to merge to Hiva Oa so he could align with him. Where I knew I was going to butt heads with him because I wanted NO PIECE of that shit.

Yea. Cochran. When you read this. I told you so.

I'm feeling better and better by the minute about being here. I just really hope Katie doesn't fucking waste her idol on fucking Jane when we eventually do to to TC. Because Jane is slated to go first.

My allies always have really poor judgement. Does that say something about me?

I'm a bit surprised by your allies so far on the tribe (sidebar: who are they exactly again?). I would have thought that being friends with Mia might guarantee you an "in" somehwere on the tribe. Is that turning out not to be the case?

[Chad]

Well I would have thought so too, Jeff. But I think part of the problem is this lethargic PM phenomenon. And I hadn't really heard from Mia much at all. She has told me she would like to work with me. We PMed a little last night. She was worried I would see her, Ken, and Jolanda as a huge threat and join that band wagon. I told her that is not the case with me and she has nothing to worry about. I'll play with "threats" over raging psycho misfits any day of the week. I do hope that is genuine, because this IS where I would like to see myself in this tribe. But the slow PMs make it a little difficult to feel comfortable. It may just be something to get used to.

That being said... Katie is above and beyond everything else my number one here. I trust her and she's got her head on straight most of the time. But I guess the slow PMing has been getting to her as well because she seems to think the Nuku Hiva people are sort of on the outs here and we should align with Sarah and Jane and use an idol to get us four through this if we have to. Not crazy about this at all.... clearly. Like, I'm not aligning with fucking Jane. And Sarah is just not my thing either. She's some kind of weird attention whore or something. She's asked me like three times if everyone on Nuku Hiva hated her - not in a paranoid way but in like a yea I'm badass way. Bitch, you weren't relevant enough to be "hated". WTF? Anyway, I don't want to play with her either.

So maybe that's what you were confused about? I hope that's it and it's not that Mia doesn't like me and doesn't want to be my friend in this.

[Chad]

So there is a high probability that Ashley or Ted snagged the idol while the rest of us were sleeping. Probably Ted.

I hope Cochran plays this right and doesn't fuck it up. But he's probably going to fuck it up. Oy.