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Welcome to your first confessional!

We take confessionals seriously because we're genuinely interested in your story. We want to know everything you're thinking and, more importantly, what you're feeling. Think of it as free therapy. We will guide you along the way, asking you questions, provoking thought, and helping you think about things you otherwise might not have. Just talking through your situation can help you get a fresh perspective.

So, unlike in the actual game where you only communicate via text, your voice and video confessionals are welcome here! Please keep your videos and audio recordings to a reasonable length, but feel free to express yourselves here with whichever medium you prefer.

Only hosts and alumni, the lurkers, can view this space. Talk in these threads anytime to ask the hosts questions, let us know about alliances you have and which ones are fake or real, who you are vibing with and who you want out, or just nonsensical venting or goofing off. We love a good and active confessional and we want to see your arc evolve! We hosts and lurkers are excited to have you here.

After every Tribal Council, there will be a new confessional thread given by hosts to you with new questions to ask. But remember, this is YOUR personal sub-forum. Use it how you see fit, and make whatever topics or posts or replies you wish at anytime.
Here is a practice mini-challenge for you to work on if you want. It is a challenge that might appear once or twice throughout the season in a different form. While it will be easier to do in the actual challenge using a puzzle-builder, this will help you practice reposting images. Image posting is something that will pop up in multiple challenges and is a skill that you should perfect. Please refer to the guide in the Camp forum for detailed instructions on how to post images.

This particular challenge is a 4x4 16-piece puzzle. You must correctly unscramble the puzzle using the ORIGINAL image links. Meaning, you can't simply rearrange them in a photo editing program. You must use the original images by using the IMG tag. Fortunately, you are now able to just copy and paste the images direction from the challenge by highlighting them and selecting copy, and then pasting into the post editor. From there you can drag and drop them to rearrange your puzzle.

Good luck, please don't be afraid to ask us for any help or further instructions.

You will need to reply to this thread ahead of the season and sign the rules in order to avoid being replaced.


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Here are some starting questions to get into the swing of things:


  1. How excited are you to be playing Stranded in The Andes?
  2. Look around your camp. What are some initial thoughts about who is on this season of Stranded with you?
  3. Tell the lurkers a bit about yourself. Who are you? What are you all about? Why should they root for you?
  4. Talk about your past ORG experience, if any. Many of you have never played an ORG. What are your thoughts going into this new experience?
  5. Does anyone in your household know you’re playing? Do any of your friends? What do they make of it?
  6. What do you think your initial strategy will be going into this?

Good luck and best wishes to you. You’ve joined the Stranded family; we’re so happy to watch you play! Have fun!
 

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How excited are you to be playing Stranded in The Andes?Super excited, very terrified 😆  
Look around your camp. What are some initial thoughts about who is on this season of Stranded with you?My initial thought honestly is I KINDDDD of wish I was on the other tribe, only because China is one of the very few seasons of Survivor that I've seen 😂 I asked a friend who's a Survivor fan who Shan is and he said "Only one of the biggest characters of the last four seasons" so NO PRESSURE THERE.  I'm trying to speed through some "best of Shan" videos before the game officially opens so that I can not immediately give myself away as being clueless.  And also do some justice to playing a female gang member turned pastor 😆 Tell the lurkers a bit about yourself. Who are you? What are you all about? Why should they root for you?
My name is Kate, I'm in my 30s (that's all you need to know), I'm married with an amazing 3 year old named Lucy, and while I am temporarily in a different job I have spent my career as a chimpanzee behaviorist.  I consider myself a scientist in the field of behavior, which is probably why I love ORGs so much even though I don't really watch Survivor.  I depend almost completely on my social game tbh because I blow at challenges and I usually get too attached to people to be a cunning strategist lol.  You should root for me even though you probably don't know me, because I have a lot of disadvantages-- I'm old, I haven't played an ORG in two years and an alias one in even longer, I'm awful at challenges, but most of all because because I'm pretty sure I don't know anybody in this community and everyone is going to be rooting for everybody else 😆 

Talk about your past ORG experience, if any. Many of you have never played an ORG. What are your thoughts going into this new experience?
I played my first org approximately 10 billion years ago, hosted by someone probably nobody knows named DGT.  This was back on Sucks.  DGT was a RL friend of mine at the time and he told me about something he was playing called a survivor org, and I made fun of him because he was struggling and I told him if I was in it I would win no problem. 😂 Just shit talking, but then I couldn't back down when he hosted a Survivor China game, and I played as Courtney, having never seen a single episode of Survivor.  I almost got voted out super early because people thought I was a troll pretending to not know what anything was.  😂  I made it to f3, won the challenge, and picked who to sit next to at the end.  It was between a goat and my closest ally, I picked my ally, and I lost.  DEVASTATED with second place, I played an Arrested Development org as Maeby right after (hosted by FML), and I won.  After that I played a billion orgs that I mostly don't remember, mostly at ORGy, and I was in the finals a few more times but never won again.  I took like, a ten year hiatus and then someone dragged me back into orgs, but the skype ones (discord now).  If anyone knows the Endure series, I played my first game in that format and won season 5, came back for All Stars season 11 and got 6th.  I swore off orgs after that for the fiftieth time in my life but here I am, writing a way too long intro post.

Does anyone in your household know you’re playing? Do any of your friends? What do they make of it?
My husband knows and he thinks I'm a nerd 😆 My sister also knows but she's not in this world so like my husband, she doesn't get it!

What do you think your initial strategy will be going into this?
Honestly I'm hoping there's an inactive or two so that I have a little extra time to get my footing. 😬  I feel a little encouraged by the rules post containing a sentence about many people having never played an org before, which may help me form some solid relationships of people who feel like they need me but are too inexperienced to be threatened by a strong social game.  Lots of newbies has definitely worked against me before too, there's been a few times when I've been voted out first just because nobody knew what they were doing and I was randomly targeted for no real reason.  Once I got voted out first because of something my avatar was wearing.  That fucking sucked 😂

Sorry this was so long!  I'm usually an active confessionaler, especially when there's amazing people in here responding 🥰  

Off to watch more Shan!  
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Shan

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VERY early impressions:

Abraham: Love
Evvie: Obsessed
Heather: Adore
Deshawn: Nice but a little tough to talk to
Xander: boringgg first vote if Sara and Danny don't suck
 

Shan

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Less than two hours in and I would literally go f2 with Evvie right this second 😂😂😂  Abraham is very sweet and strikes me as being an extremely loyal player.  Heather is falling a little, she came off strong at first but I think I might have given her too much credit because she's kind of Xander-level conversation now.  We're "watching each other's backs" though.  Sara just showed up and she seems aight.  Deshawn isn't the easiest conversationalist but he strikes me as genuine.  Danny ain't here.
 

Shan

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Susie Smith" wrote: Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:27:32 pm Hey Shan! You're my winner pick!! I'll be interested to see how you leverage your old Suckster and ORGy experience here. Best of luck in the game!!
omg what an honor 🥺  i will try not to let you down!!
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Shan

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James wrote: Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:58:28 pm As someone who does research in animal behaviour, I love your career. It was a dream job of mine when I was a kid.

Good luck!
ummmm WHAAAT we need to nerd out immediately, message me sometime!!
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