[Dean Kowalski]

HELLO AND WELCOME!!!
 

This is the first officialday of your journey in Stranded! You'll have the weekend to get to know your tribe better, I suggest bonding well with each other over the coming days. There were questions in the pre-season confessional, but let's give a couple more.

1. The Tribe Leader is an intriguing position... what do you think it means? Would you want to be it or not? How do you feel of who gets it?
2. People are chatting it up today, so give us the deets: who are you vibing with, who are you more mellow on, etc?
3. Any plans for the weekend? Both in-game or out of it?

Trust me, when we say this game will get real intense and fast once the challenges begin to start after the weekend, we mean it. Good luck! And as always, feel free to type or speak whatever you want in here.

[Evvie]

[I've been trying to write this confessional for the last hour and a half and keep getting it accidentally erased because of chats. MY WORD.]

1. The Tribe Leader sounds like someone who is going to be in charge of major decisions and not just choosing what's for dinner every night. They seem like they're going to be the one that has a target on their back immediately when they fuck up or people will give them some grace because they are the 'tribe leader' or whatnot. I think it means that they'll have some sense of power but it'll be solely for like challenges and sit outs or something. It could also be something on a higher level...who knows! I don't want to be that person because I'm unorganized and that's a sense of responsibility that my psyche just can't handle right now. I wouldn't mind Xander or Abraham being the tribe leader because those are two of the people I feel like I can work with and trust right now, but Deshawn is the person that popped up and said they didn't mind taking that leadership role. He says it's because Sara popped up last and he didn't want to put that burden on her but I feel like there's some sense of it servicing him as well since he may get tea that everyone else isn't privy to and he gets to decide whether or not he wants to share. Deshawn stepping up doesn't really bother me either way. He seems to be pretty chill and it's a relationship I can massage to see whether or not he wants to work with me moving forward. He wanna be in charge, it's Deshawn in charge and I'm just here as his faithful servant for the time being.

2. Let me give my initial ranking of everyone based on just ~vibes~ and who I feel like I get along with the most.

Shan
Abraham
Xander
Deshawn
Sara
Heather
Danny

This is solely based on the style of conversations, how long and how in-depth they've gone, etc. This is also subject to change, clearly.

I'm vibing with Shan for sure, she just seems fun and my type of person with a sassy personality. IDK, there was an interaction we had and when she said "bitch you started it" as a response, I was like 'oh this is my type of person' and my walls were down. Gave the lowdown on how we feel about each person and one thing I want to point out is it seems that her initial conversations with Xander were a little dry compared to mine with Xander where I feel like Xander trusts and wants to work with me *actually*. He gives golden retriever energy and I live for it. But I do hope that they can warm up to each other because I do like Xander as well. Abraham is cool, chatty, seems like he's pretty level headed and also can keep up great conversation. It's effortless, which I appreciate. Deshawn seems like a cool guy, is responsive but also isn't the most inquisitive. Sara seems aight but doesn't talk much 1:1 yet with me and Heather seems cool but doesn't really give me that much in general. She seems like a very straight shooter and not here for the small talk honestly. Very 'matter of fact' as I put it to Abraham. I do feel a sense of loyalty to the first 3 I mentioned right now and Deshawn is someone I want to have on my side. Abraham has already thrown out the idea of him, myself, and Xander being a crew because we all smoke and just have a similar conversation style and he also put out there trying to pull together a majority with myself, Xander, Shan and Deshawn. It is literally the first few hours, people! But like, that's just how the game goes I guess! Oh yeah, and Danny is a no-show for now. He's someone I was actually looking forward to meeting, too!

3. I have a podcast recording tomorrow for the first time in months but weekend wise, nada for the time being. Hopefully spend some time close to home as usual. In game, just want to continue getting to know people but not spend hours and hours on this site like I did tonight. I know it's new game jitters and wanting to seem competent but babyyyyy lol. 

Ya'll were NOT kidding about this moving fast.



Let me pull myself up by the bootstraps and get ready to sleigh.

[Evvie]

I figured it's time for a quick little update as to what's been going on the past 24-36 hours!

Good morning Andean Angels! So we are still in the very beginning stages of the game with everyone getting to know the other people on the tribe and I think I'm doing smashingly if I do say so myself. At least, with the people that I've been able to speak to and form some sort of bonds with. I feel like I'm starting to get more of a picture of everyone's personality and who I naturally gel with comparatively to who it takes a little bit more work to socialize with.

Let's start with Xander because that's where my head keeps going back to. I love Xander so much and he may be that ride-or-die that I was looking for when I started this game. I do feel like the relationship I have with Xander is mutual and we seem to have a lot of similarities in personality plus we found out that we both have the same tattoo which is absolutely fucking WILD. His is the one I feel the most secure with so far and we've deemed ourselves the 'Honeymood Honies'. The word honeymood is a portmanteau of the words honeymoon + mood = the feeling of being on a honeymoon. That's the type of vibe we want to have being in this game and what we want other people to feel like when they work with us. At least, that's the way I'm thinking about it~ Either way, Xander has been consistent with me, we just seem to have like a very cute camaraderie right now. 

Abraham is someone that I feel like I'm getting to know more and do like. So much so that he said I'm his favorite person he's met and the fact I call him brother Abraham I think makes him very happy. BA thinks that him, Xander and myself should create an alliance together because we all feel on the same page but as I said before even though it feels a bit early it's still never too early to say yes to a connection. We noticed that person had created a groupchat in the server called 'dew it' and I'm like who the fuck would have made that? Abraham and Xander wondered if it was someone on our tribe and I wasn't necessarily sure that anyone had been online to do that throughout the day LOL I had a feeling it was someone from the other tribe because IMO, if someone was creating a groupchat then I feel like I would have been invited to it! FER SURE. That's the delulu talking lmao anyway they said we should try and create something so we can all chat and lock something down, basically like some sort of stoner's coalition that I think Xander originally brought up and Abraham jumped on it. I'm trying to put my finger on Abraham - like, how to describe him. He's like here to play and it's VERY clear. Ready to hop into it. EXCITABLE. And also he seems like he has an interesting story. I'm learning how to meet him where he is because my natural state of being is to be very ~~~~~ but games like this force me out of it for the sake of keeping my ass around. ANYWAY BC THIS STORY IS BECOMING LONG. Basically, we didn't want to create the chat while there were other people online to try and connect it back to us so they were supposed to do it later in the night and I had the brilliant idea to create two chats, one is kinda like a dummy chat that if someone ends up breaking into they can't figure out who was there and then the real chat and we can kinda decide what we want to float in between if it becomes that. I wonder if you can clear PMs...I should read if that's in the rules. I disappeared and I thought they were supposed to create them but I woke up to that not happening at like 4:30 AM. So I thought it was smart to drop one chat this morning and I told them the password but I want to be mindful of how people are able to get the chat back to the three of us and we have to be VERY smart about how we use it if we do choose to use them. VERY HIGH LEVELS OF PARANOIA.

So that's the Abraham/Xander saga, I put the two of them together because it sounds like Abraham really wants to lock that trio in. I do feel closer to Xander between the two of them, though. As far as Shan is concerned, I still love her and she's the realest bitch on the island TO ME. This feels like a secret relationship of strength between the two of us and I feel like she's the type to shoot it straight with me and I'm looking forward to having her be more upfront and continue to be real with me as the game actually begins. Since it's lull time, she's been around but we haven't been able to catch each other. But I wonder how our game relationship will work or like strategizing with them. I'm definitely a backseat bitch and passenger seat princess so whoever is gonna let me ride shotgun and firmly plant myself there is who I'm gonna roll with LMFAO. 

The other person I've been speaking a lot to and am still getting an assessment on is Deshawn. I've noticed that I catch him in the mornings the last few days so I wonder if that's going to be a constant with him as far as the time he logs in. The way I can describe our conversations is pleasant for the time being. He has asked how I feel about the players and stuff but we haven't gotten like super deep just yet, or at least I haven't. I do get the fact that he's a kind person because he's spending the weekend making dinner for his mother's birthday and that takes patience LOL. We've spoken a little bit about the upcoming challenge, whether or not Danny was going to show up (he did!) and just kinda general chit-chat. I have gotten confirmation that he does like Xander as well and apparently Xander has been saying good things to Deshawn which I love as well. We love positive karma and positive vibes!

Sara showed up a little bit yesterday and she did put out there the first night that she didn't want to write each other's names down which I totally am fine with, sister! LONG AS IT AIN'T ME. But we haven't really been able to 'talk talk' much. Heather didn't pop on yesterday so idk where she is and I did send Danny a message sometime during the day yesterday since I noticed he logged on late in the midnight hour. He did respond to me and said it was nice to meet me so at least that door is open. 

I think that's the weather update for now! Here's my updated list of tribe ranking this morning. This is so petty LMAO

1. Xander
2. Shan
3. Abraham
4. Deshawn
5. Sara
6. Heather?
7. Danny? 

Those last two spots feel interchangeable...still gathering data on mother Heather right now before I make any sort of brash decisions. Still got a day of socialising ahead of me...

[Susie Smith]

Digging the color coding and these great updates!!

[Dean Kowalski]

Digging the color coding and these great updates!!

'Tis the season after all!

[Susie Smith]

Congratulations on the challenge! Amazing team effort! Enjoy your night off from tribal tomorrow.

Please share your thoughts on the challenge with your avid lurkers.

1.       How did the challenge planning talks go down tonight, any surprises there?

2.       How do you feel about your own challenge performance?

3.       As you’ve been getting to know your fellow tribe members, are any working relationships forming?

[Evvie]

1. Challenge planning got done right in our Ancha Tribe chat thread. It seems like Sara was the one who asked everyone what they were comfortable with and Deshawn filled in the gaps to do whatever we felt he would be best at as tribe leader, he was the one who got to post the puzzle once it was completed. I wanted to be a part of the transfers because I know if I was in charge of doing the puzzle, I would have been useless. I mean, I would have figured it out but not as quickly as Shan. I think that I wasn't necessarily surprised by anything, aside from the fact that Deshawn didn't necessarily "lead" last night. It was more of everyone kinda throwing in what they thought was best, but we all listened to each other and collaborated well.

2. I was the slowest to transfer all my pieces because the thread was moving slow, but I think I did pretty well. I showed up, hell. That's more than Danny can say for the time being. 

3. There are definitely working relationships forming and I feel like my tiers of who to work with are shifting as each day goes by. I feel like I'm sweet on everyone in some way minus Danny and now, Sara. From what I hear through the grapevine of Xander, Sara wants to target me and Shan because she thinks that we will be gamers and she needs to keep an eye on us. But apparently, Sara threw Heather and Danny's name out as the first outs from our tribe, which originally I would have been fine with ...however, Heather and I had a very deep conversation today and she said she likes me and Shan so maybe that's another threesome that I can pump for information? What's funny is in both of my trios, the Stoner alliance and the potential of a Shan/Heather/Evvie trio, I have one person in the alliance I want to stick with deeper than the other. Xander in one, Shan in the other for the time being but I love the five people I've been able to connect with alliance-wise. I think Deshawn would fit into the Xander/Abraham alliance for the time being if it comes to it but idk who he feels solid with honestly.

1. Xander - still my number one, the person I talk to the most and it feels effortless and I know he's looking out for me
2. Abraham - he gets the second spot over Shan for the time being only because we have been talking more lately. he's like the nighthawk of the group. always keeping an eye on what's going on and giving updates. better he's on my side than anyone else!
3. Shan - this feels low for her but I feel like we will work well together and I really love her personality. still obsessed. and she's a challenge beast, she's the one that whipped that puzzle out for us last night. queen.
4. Heather - today's conversation shot her up a few spots for me, solely because I can tell she's wanting to work with me and spilled some tea about wanting to go for Sara and aligning with Shan. I love this for us, for me.
5. Deshawn - I like Deshawn and I can tell he wants to work with me. I just don't know how upfront of a person he is, not necessarily in a bad way but he feels like he's hiding something?
6. Sara - I kinda think I wanted to drop her to 7 but at least she's here! Nothing's wrong with her, she seems nice, but she's definitely an aggressive player. I'm worried if she gets deep, she'll be annoying as fuck to deal with.
7. Danny - Doctor Danny is somewhere on safari I'm sure and not even worried about this game.

[Tyler Frederickson]

I also feel compelled to shout out your CCCs (Color Coded Confessionals)! LOVE! So helpful to know your temperature on a player as you discuss them.