Team of 5, nowhere to hide. Lets get it on.

[stephen]

Aight, just so yall know ill figure out that video thingy mah jig that I gotta do once I can get to it. But lets get to it.


FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
 
This being my first ORG in god knows how many years I'm not fully sure what to expect. But if theres one thing I do know in the game of Survivor, and anything that's particularly socially driven, first impressions can go a long way. And particularly in the game of survivor first impressions mean a myriad of things. Mainly just the effort to put forth activity and try to socially relate to people can garner you a major stepping stone early in the game, if you do it right. If you come off too brash or too aggressive It can easily paint a target on your back. Same things go for talking "Game" too early in my opinion. I guess I'm trying to let the game come to me so to speak. I'm trying to make social and emotional connections with these people early on. I Think the more you connect early the more likely you leave an opening for trust to grow as time goes on. Connecting with people could mean nothing early on if youre a shitty teammate, but it could mean everything. Well see. So here we go, my first impressions of the group I'm with. 



THE RETURNEE:

Logan is the apparent returnee to the game and it shows. Hes the most vocal and adamant about talking over every other person here because I think he gets it, or at least learned some kind of lesson his first go through. Hes making every attempt to connect with the team, which is cool. But how much of it is fake? I think he knows how to play the game and given that hes a returnee he knows to play from the get go. That all being said he was the first to really reach out to me. Its obviously strategical but I had no problem playing back with him. We found a lot of common ground in our lives early on and joked a bit here and there. That's about as well as a first go around can go. I give Logan a solid A for effort.


CAPTAIN STRAIGHT-LACED:

Of the four other people in my tribe the only two to jump out and make an attempt to talk privately were Logan and Andrew. Now as with Logan where we found common relatable ground me and Andrew don't think have much. But that doesn't mean we couldn't, it just seemed to be much of the same run around when you first meet someone. "what do you do?" "where do you live?" blah blah blah. But Andrew made the effort which cues me into the fact that Logan and Andrew are people who are actively seeking hierarchy within the tribe, not power plays, but early plays enough to make sure theyre not on the bottom of a group of five, where theres nowhere to fucking hide. It only takes three. Which three that will be will be interesting. I found relatability with Andrew in the fact that he was going to see Thor:Ragnarok during the evening, and that me and him are both big Marvel fans. So maybe theres something there.
I give Andrew a B+.


HOLY FUCKING WILDCARD:

Josh is one of the other two more no active(as of right now) people on my team. He was there for the release and admitted it was his first ORG. Maybe his first survivor game. I don't know. I don't know a damn thing about him haha he was the gun toter early on saying we should all have a team call on Skype and even put in his line "or am I jumping the shark?". perhaps he is, I dunno, its been awhile for me too. But he definitely had the effort going on early, then was silent. I exchanged some words with him on our own just about basic stuff but other than that not a whole lot. Could mean I'm already on the bottom here or it could nothing at all. I dunno, hard to tell with him, fuckin wildcard. Josh gets a B.


THE QUIET ONE:


From the experience ive had in past ORG games, which has been forever ago, the silent ones are either silent for a reason or they present themselves as an early boot target. Like myself, Victoria was distracted upon the tribe chat opening and was late to the party, but once there didn't try and get a foothold in at all, at least not publicly. Then talking with her privately it was the same hunky dory intro garb that gets nowhere. like a poor tinder match "hey what do you do?"  "uhhhh I live"  "great seeya later" . however shes in an interesting spot in the game being the only female on this team, which unfortunately this game has the tendency to divide by gender way more often than it should. But it means SOMETHING. particularly when one gender is outnumbered. Possible swing vote with her here, but who knows? I give Victoria a C+.


Alright, just shaking some rust off the old ORG style game play here, haven't don't it this way in a sec. Given that I have ZERO clue how active the tribe is being with each other and I have to kinda guess, I don't know where I stand four hours into the game but I'm sure thatll all come to light sooner or later. Given that theres only one chick on this team I'm definitely gonna have to find at least one ally within the boys...... call it "BROcery Shopping" if you will but daddys gotta get some allies with a challenge looming.

Game on.



   

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The Beef Loganoff with a side of confusion

DAY TWO


I got my first video confessional loading as I write this. Just so you know hosties.


But lets talk turkey, and by turkey I mean day two of survivor, challenge and all.


I firstly have to retract my original first impressions.....to a point. Lets get to it.



WILDCARD TURNED MILDCARD


Day two was interesting in all aspects but I believe the most interesting turn of them all was the redaction I must place on one individual....Josh. At first Josh came off as....well....Josh didn't come off at all haha
But on day two this individual made an impression. After Victoria made a phone call via skype(which was simultaneously terrible and awesome because I chose to nap mid evening) Josh shortly joined after. and my opinion of him completely flipped. I didn't have a negative view of him but he opened my eyes to what modern ORG's are. Being on a skype call with him versus texting him were wildly different experiences. and I immediately clicked with him. Fuck. Josh is FUNNY. Josh is personable. Josh is someone id hang out with in my own every day to day life. It jarred me at first but he was a personal "ice breaker". Making sure that me and him and Victoria connected at all times. Strategically I don't know what to make of it other than I feel like I WANT to play the game with him. But at the same strategical side hes scary as fuck. He came in and made friends so quickly that how can I possibly compete with that? but theres a side of me that thinks "why wouldn't you want to PLAY with that?".....this game is about furthering yourself but theres something to be said about the experience you get each go through, and sometimes the people you choose to play with are make it that so much fun. Josh is a likely candidate in that for myself......for now.


BIG VEE


Another redaction I must make is my title of "quiet one" to Victoria. Now granted I still think she holds that title within this group of VERY talkative people but I felt I made a depiction of her in a negative way with being quiet. Yet, here comes day two and Victoria is on the horn ready to rock and roll and play the game and start video chats. She(thankfully) woke me up from my nap with the video call and took control of the social progress of the game by basically saying "we need to have interaction". I appreciate the flying fuck out of that cuz I was hesitant, and nervous, about doing such things. But Big Vee pulled the trigger and I found myself talking via skype to the two people I felt were the least social from day one. But on day two me josh and Victoria had a fucking blast bullshitting for a couple hours before the challenge. It completely flipped how I felt and I found myself thinking "what if this is the three that escapes the five dynamic?"...which is a question ive had on my mind since day one and I think EVERYONE should have as long as were in this format. Top it all off, she volunteers for the hardest part of the challenge and from what I collected fucking killed it. Big Vee for the win! However, she still remained silent through most of it and that's concerning. and then there was her exchange with Andrew. Ill get to that.


HANDY ANDY


So, Andrew comes into the tribe chat about 20 minutes before the challenge. Toting a totally different flag than I pegged him for. Talking about life struggles(which don't get me wrong I'm sympathetic to but within Survivor I'm looking at every ulterior motive) and honestly came across as someone who needed an escape. I feel for him, hes from Houston(which I used to live in) and his life seems to be in shambles. But its survivor, how much of that Is game? May sound cold hearted but if were playing the game your exterior life struggles may bring us closer together but its not gonna make me keep you around. However Andrew is smart as a fucking tack. Wait, are tacks smart? whatever, Andrew holds a lot of good qualities in this game outside of his social function within it. His entrance into the tribe chat created a good 20 seconds of silence.....which is way too long for myself. and then we did the whole she-bang of trying to get on the same page. But he seemed off socially within the dynamic that me, Joshua and Big Vee had already spent hours(which is valuable in a short game) cultivating. More on Handy Andy later, but I want to state I have no qualms with the guy, just trying to figure out where we all fit.


CHALLENGE BEACH WAS A TRICKY BITCH


Okay I had no idea what the hell we were doing going into this and still struggle operating a computer and a phone device(thanks carlos and jay for helping me) so the challenge was daunting as all hell. Turns out its a game of charades.......kinda. We each got three minutes to do a certain category and only three minutes to determine who would do what category. Logan took pure charades, josh took top music hits, Andrew took fairy tales and I(by design) took the last category out there....acting out occupations. Theres something to be said that volunteering for ridiculous shit paints a target on your back and I acted accordingly. However the "quiet one" ol Big Vee volunteered as the guesser. Bless that womans heart. I cant guess for shit. and I wholely believe you should never volunteer for a leadership position within a survivor game. but Big Vee did it and killed it. We win. All of the fucks to the yeah. This team has some decent chops! But if you look at the scores its hard to tell who did what....except for one instance, carlos played a clip back from Big Vee and Handy Andy's session to clarify a mistake but they were rattling off answers as if it were my mom securing pain pills. it was nuts. and after careful eavesdropping i discover that Andrew is a tenured ORG player. hes got some chops himself. Handy Andy and Big Vee may be more valuable team wise than i originally thought. But i don't give a fuck what we do in challenges, i give a fuck if i make it to the next round. So alas.....



BEEF LOGANOFF


I gave it the title cuz we both have culinary aspirations but something clicked....again. After day one i expressed how i felt he wanted to play the game and how maybe playing too early could hurt....but I got on here to PLAY survivor. if that means i go out tomorrow or if i win i don't care, but what I'm saying is that within that time i PLAYED. Andrew and Josh are gonna keep their cards close and i think this is victorias first game. I'm not sure where theyre at but i still want to cultivate relationships with them. But then comes Logan....hes played before....and from what i collected finished fifth. that aint to shabby....i still think he comes off as "play too early" but that's a moot point when someone wants to play back. That person being me i decided to. As soon as we won the challenge, we all kept chatting....and by "we all" i mean me and Logan, which scares me cuz we were just jiving so well i think Andrew took notice. I think ol Handy Andy used his handy Andy hands to shoot a text to Victoria, which i only took notice of by watching their faces within the group chat as me and Logan continued to chat. It could be nothing........but i think it was something. They log of simultaneously. Interesting. Leaving me with one option in a tribe with nowhere to hide....and its the only person here who wants to play outwardly.......outside of myself. So me and Logan shake hands(so to speak) and lock in an alliance I hope goes to the end. I think we made ourselves to outright public but maybe we didn't? i don't know. But going further its me and Logan and we have to pull a third in. Hes gonna work on Big Vee and I'm hoping i can get Josh on my side just cuz i think my personal connection with him is better. I guess well find out. But if i can use some poorly used Chef references, i need to solidify my main Entree' and get ONE good side dish, then i think ill be good. Until then.......



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