Episode 04

[Retarded Dumbfuck]

Episode 04: After basically lying to Aaron and misleading him about where my vote went, I felt extremely concerned at the start of the round. I needed to win HoH, or I needed Aisleyne, Sophie, or Dino to win it. I felt like our group was pretty strong and that all of us had a good chance to do that. That's part of the reason why I joined it after all. So I needed the win to come in our group, or I felt like I had a great chance of being nominated.

I was disappointed when I saw Sophie was having issues and couldn't compete. When results were revealed, the other three people in this "alliance" that I have managed to be in the top three with me on the top. This was exactly why I chose to vote out Ragan last round; I felt like it allowed me to main an alliance with the strongest competitors in the game. However, as far as if this alliance of "Aisleyne-Dino-Sophie" is simply using me for the fact that I can win competitions and keep me safe, I'm not 100% positive. I guess it's best that I won HoH so that I don't have to test their loyalty, but it's unfortunate because I have to make the second move in the war that Aaron essentially launched, and it'll reveal some of my cards.

I made my nominations based on the following criteria. Which HoH winners kept me safe? Aisleyne, Sophie, and Aaron. I wasn't going to nominate them in return. Who did I feel closest with in the game? April and Michelle. So they were safe. That led Brian, Dino, James, and Sarah. I was asked by Aaron/April/Michelle to nominate Dino. However, Aisleyne felt like he would go home and that this was the wrong choice. Again, this makes me question if they're closer to him than me, but I decided to keep him off the block so that they do know that they can trust me and that I'm on their side. I felt like I still had a bit of a connection with James from earlier in the game, even though I think that he's probably closely aligned with everyone, so I didn't want him up on the block. Therefore I chose Brian and Sarah, and Brian is my target because Sarah hasn't proven to be good enough on the challenges to be a threat to me later in the game whereas Brian was.

Basically my goal this round as HoH was to give me a cushion at final 9 where I couldn't win HoH so that I wouldn't be nominated then. I realized this move may upset Brian and James, but my hopes were that Brian could go home and James could just not win the next HoH. Sarah probably doesn't have a chance. Aaron has these crazy delusions about Brian and Sarah are with Dino/Sophie, but I think he's nuts. It's how I justified my nominations to him, though. I think April and Michelle will be upset that I didn't put Dino on the block, but I can act like I'm going to backdoor him and that he made a deal with me to keep me safe the next round that I believe. I can also make up some nonsense about how I heard Brian's been playing all sides, being the snake in the house, and that's why he needs to go. I believe if Aaron/April/Michelle win HoH, they'll go after people besides me. Possibly getting revenge on Dino and putting him up along with some combination of Aisleyne/Sophie. And if Aisleyne/Sophie win HoH, I expect to be safe and some combination of Aaron/James/Sarah or April/Michelle will go on the block. Dino will put up a combination of Aaron/April/Michelle. So there's still a slight chance I'll go on the block, but I think I'm more comfortable entering next round than I've been this entire game.

That's the goal at least, although I hate to be the one to have to make nominations because not putting up Dino did reveal a little about my game to everyone and my position with the veterans and Aisleyne is probably going to be theorized. If we take out Brian this around and someone like Aaron/James next round, if I win HoH at final 8, I might shake up the game and go after some of the threats in my alliance like Dino, but I'm appeasing them for now because there is still too much uncertainty to make a big move like that.

[Retarded Dumbfuck]

Note: Not using nicknames since they didn't apply at this point.

When veto started, I knew that I had a good chance when I saw that it was going to be AIM mini-games. I've always been good at speed competitions assuming they don't involve distorted images or trivia on things that I don't know anything about. Sarah actually put up a good effort, but it came down to me and Dino. I was able to edge him in most of the competitions by enough points to clinch the win. So I managed to win my third straight challlenge! At this point, in my head, I'm looking at next veto and hoping to just keep wracking the wins and extending my streak even though it's not beneficial to unnecessarily win as many competitions as possible strategically.

When I nominated Brian and Sarah, it was just to satisfy the opposite sides and allow myself to stay in the middle since they didn't seem strongly connected to the veterans or the newbies alliance. Both sides semi-supported those nominations. Everything changed as soon as I was declared the veto winner. Aaron gave me a PM that he said Aisleyne sent him. Just looking at this PM, I knew it was fake. It didn't match Aisleyne's style, and the strategic information contained within it wasn't consistent with anything that was actually happening in the game.

So at this point, I discussed this PM with Aisleyne, April, Michelle, and Sophie, who I consider my closest allies. I decided I'd wait until the next day and confront Aaron about why he faked it. April is really close to Aaron and didn't want me to backdoor him, and Michelle actually seemed to be on Aaron's side as well. I knew this would create problems if I couldn't backdoor him without evidence that he was definitely lying, so I wanted to get evidence against him.

I told Aaron that the PM he showed me was fake. So then, he told me that James actually wrote it. I was talking to Aisleyne the whole time, and we were laughing at how Aaron's story kept getting more and more absurd and how he was digging his own grave to go on the block. James sent him screencaps which he sent me that were obviously fake and flawed, and the story wasn't consistent with the times on them. It was a really hilarious moment to witness, and I thanked Aaron for his information and started preparing my ceremony. I was all ready to send Aaron home, but when I told April this, she told me to put up James instead. She's very close to Aaron and assured me that Aaron didn't intentionally take part in anything malicious. April and I are really close, and I took her opinion into account and put up James instead of Aaron, removing Sarah from the block, at the last second along with revealing all the fake information that Aaron revealed.

At this point, after my ceremony was posted, I disappeared from the scene for the round knowing that James was likely going to be evicted and couldn't talk his way out of all the evidence against him.