- Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:24:49 am
#76039
In the wild world of Stranded, emotions can run high. How have your emotions influenced your strategic moves in the game this week?
Whew, this has taken me so long to write or just find time to sit and scribe my thoughts over the last few days. Mainly because I didn't have the energy to write so here we are! I think that a lot of it was wrapped up in what the last few days of the game was like and I just needed a break from everything. Talk about overwhelming. My emotions this week have influenced who I felt close to and I'm kinda glad I've gotten a little bit of time away from everyone to reassess. Hell, this could be what puts the nail in my coffin this week. My emotions this week helped me to know who I was clicked up with, meaning the Abe/Xander coalition and Shan + Deshawn on the side. Heather is thrown in there but as part of the outer ring of trying to keep them safe. I feel like I've just been trying to make sure that I stay connected to everyone and conversational enough with everyone so they don't try to target me but I'm very much in a place where whatever happens, happens. My emotions were very much on a rollercoaster this week so I feel like they influenced my decisions on who to trust. I'm still holding onto the shit that Abraham, Xander and Shan put me through next week but I'm in a place where I can't do anything about it because it's just the way the game is set up. I wouldn't be surprised if those walls started to close in on me and soon.
The HetDensa challenge scrambled more than just letters and tested your teamwork. Did each of your tribe members contribute equally? Any major gaffes? How well did your tribe perform as a unit?
I know that for me, I showed up a little late to the challenge because I was finishing up a baby shower that day and I did guess like one or two of the words that were on the list. I think I actually only got one, lol. However, I was the person who thought it smart to go and Google the damn phrase that we were given because like, the hosts aren't just going to make a phrase up out of nowhere and not get it from somewhere. I traced it back to Nando Parrado and that was what let me know that the phrase was wrong but there were a bevy of issues that took place that day... Abraham posted the answers in the wrong place, giving the other team access to the answers that we have along with the wrong phrase. Then, we ended up posting in the right place afterward and still managed to beat the other tribe because they can't even cheat right. I feel like Shan got the phrase and Sara said she double checked but clearly she didn't double check that well...I feel like this was the first time I found chinks in the tribe and everyone just being super excitable. There were a lot of issues we could have taken care of had we moved a little slower, but I'm just gonna mind my business. I fully had the intentions of signing off and talking to no one that night if we lost, self-sabotaging like a bitch. But, we won! And it was needed as we went into the long weekend. As far as everyone else, I feel like we all pulled it together but it felt very clunky. I didn't contribute THAT much, however, so beggars can't be choosers. We also won, so like...I'm really not about to complain.
Surviving week one in Stranded requires social finesse, strategic prowess, and strong competition skills. Which of these skills was your strongest this week? How did you wield it to protect your spot in the game? Which area is your weakest? What will you do to overcome it?
I feel like this week, social finesse was what got me through the week. I know that at my core, I'm a relatively likable person and people enjoy being around me and that translates well into stuff like this. Not even playing people against each other, just me being a nice fucking person and sociable enough behind a computer screen to keep up. I will say that I have dropped the ball the last few days because I just haven't felt in the mood a lot with anything lately, that's a deeper issue at hand with me. I'm surprised that I've been able to connect with people and I like the folx that are on my tribe, for sure. I'm still waiting for *that* moment where I fall in love with them though, I think that hasn't happened mainly because I've been in my own personal spiral lately and it's been inhibiting me from allowing people to feel that connected to me. This definitely could cause an issue later on down the road if I don't fight for myself enough or keep my spider senses on. I used my social finesse to ensure that people wanted to work WITH ME and even if there are issues, I'm learning that my tribemates will bring it directly to me. The blowout with Abraham and Shan is a perfect example of people not necessarily giving me the benefit of the doubt, but it does show me that they'll let me know when something is up. This is good for me for the future because that means they won't be necessarily apt to getting rid of me immediately without talking to me about it which is a good sign for when the chips start to fall. My weakest was probably between strategic prowess/challenge prowess. I'll give challenge prowess my lowest mainly because this week, I did find myself in alliances and have a boot list for the time being. I hope that no one tries to push me on who I want to vote for and when because that's the quickest way to piss me off LOL I just had a little spiral in my mind while writing this about what if Xander and Abraham try to get me to vote out Shan before I want to? Will I throw my vote? Will I vote with them? Will I tell her the votes are coming her way? Problems for future Evvie, I guess. I need to pick it up with the challenge game this upcoming week. I always contribute but I don't try to do the most and I hope people are not clocking that! I want to seem useful but not like the judge and the jury on this tribe when it comes to performance.
Can I also throw out there that I'm not looking forward to meeting the other tribe right now? To have to hit the ground running with new conversations is about to be a whole thing. Even though Frosti tried to reach out across the benches and talk to me but the hosts were looking at me so I just stood there silent like a scary hoe. I hope that Frosti is still around so maybe I can massage that relationship because he seems like a kamikaze. And tbh, my goal for this week is 'anyone but me'. That's all I have to give and as long as I can make it through this part of the game, I should be okay to at least hit the merge.
Please share an update (visually or in words) on your alliance situation or lack thereof.
For the time being, I feel very up in the air after the way things were left on Wednesday. Like yes, it will be easy to just forget everything and move on, but I really think there's some scars with the relationship with Abraham, I feel like my relationship with Shan went up and down but ended on an up, Xander and I are still aligned pretty deeply as far as I think...I do think he's closer to Sara than he wants to let on and is projecting what he thinks we want to hear regarding her, Deshawn is a big question mark even though he's got me wrapped around his finger for the time being with the trust, and Heather pops in and out. I may go into depth with this later with a video but I haven't been wanting to see myself on camera much (I used to record myself a lot for content creation but have taken a really long break from being seen/wanting my face back) but this feels like for the time being, I need to regroup and I can go deeper into the alliance situation. My numbers for now are:
1. Xander
2. Shan
3. Abraham
4. Deshawn
5. Heather
6. Sara
