Bill's Diary Room ~ Episode #7 Confessionals

Well, finally, the merge. Even with the downside of the whole Lafayette thing, I feel I am in a good position. The key is, we must knock out someone this round. If we do, then this game is mine to lose.

Basically, right now the original Bon Temps has 5 players, me, Sam, Jason, Eric and Jess. The forkers have 4, Emma, Jacob, Mike and Alice. If we win this round, we then have a two player advantage. We then knock out the leftover forkers. Even if one person decides to flip at that point, it’s too late.

Now, I am in what is called The Vampire Alliance. Eric, Jess and myself. We should then have the edge. I also have a final 2 alliance with Jessica. That should be game, set and match.

Of course, nothing ever goes as planned. My number 1 concern is Jason flipping this round, or someone getting voted out due to penalty votes. Hopefully, that will not happen.

PM I sent to all original Bon Temps

I have a concern for this coming up round. Penalty Votes. At tribal,
any penalty vote you earn will come out. Since this is all of your
first Tribal, any penalty you earn will be counted against you at this
vote.

You earn penalty votes by not participating in a
challenge when you should (not counting valid sit outs) and not posting
your required confessional for a round. Even 1 penalty vote could cause
an issue this round. I think if any of you guys have penalty votes, we
should try to deflect the votes away from you, and try to get you the
hidden idol.

It kind of sucks, because in many ways Bon Temps
is being penalized for never having to go to tribal, but I believe we
will over come it.

If anyone is interested in what happened last
round. I tried to get Mike to vote for me. Tried to piss him off, but
he wouldn’t even reply to me. My plan was to use my hidden idol, and he
would use his, and then with the revote, Lafayette and I would have
voted for him. The host confirmed that the idols don’t stay in play for
revotes. But Mike ended up voting for Lafayette, causing him to go
home.

PLEASE ANSWER THESE IN YOUR DIARY ROOM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!

1) How do you feel about how you did in the challenge?

I feel I did OK. Didn't expect to win, but was happy I didn't end in negatives. The main goal was to allow one of the original Bon Temps to win, and that happened, so all is good.

2) What are your thoughts on the results of this challenge?

I am happy that Jason won the challenge. Was sort or wary that he game the idol to Eric, but it's all good.

3) What do you think about the game thus far?

It's been fun. I wish some players would be more active strategically, but what can you do. I am playing hard, and that's what matters.

4) What do you think about the other members of your tribe?

Not all that much. No one is really playing the game on the same level as I, except for maybe Eric. I believe there is a great possibility that Eric may flip on us. I hope that doesn't happen. If he does, there is a good chance that I could go home this round. I hope my intimations that I have an idol, and may play it will get them to switch.

From Jess:

Penalty votes. I don't think I have any for not participating in
challenges, I'm pretty sure I participated in all the ones I wasn't
sitting out in. Confessionals is a different story. I have one for
every round, but sometimes I was late with them. Sometimes kind of
means always. I don't know if that counts. I'll ask the host if there's
a way to see how many I have against me if any.

I did the
challenge taking points away from Mike and Alice as well, we should
have others taking points away from Jacob and Bella just to be safe.

Is there any way of knowing if there is another HII in play, because that would also be useful.

From Jess:

I was thinking Alice just because, hey, she was voted out already.

From Me (To Everyone)

I have heard from 2 separate people with two separate vote ideas. I
just want to make sure that we are all on the same page. This may be
the most important vote for many reasons, to make sure that this tribe
is able to knock out the all of the former Forkers.

The two
names I have heard we Alice and Mike. Alice, because she was already
voted out, and Mike, based on his challenge performance.

Personally,
I would be happy with either of this players getting voted out. I
strongly dislike bth of them from having spent time with them on the
tribe. If I had to choose between these two, I would say Mike, because
of last round. He's not a stupid player, but is very annoying. He is on
AIM a lot, which means he could be a potential leader or organizer for
the Forkers.

That being said, I am 99% sure that neither of
them have any penalty votes. I think Mikes poor challenge score may be
due to many of us targeting him. Alice had a penalty vote used in her
last tribal, but, she is typically active and probably didn't gain any.


I would recommend we consider knocking either of them out, as
long as we believe that Emma or Jacob don't have votes. If either of
them do, it may be beneficial to our tribe to take them out.

I think it may be smart if we come to a group decision by tomorrow evening, when TC is posted.

Thanks guys,

Bill

From Jess:

Ok guys, we only have until 4pm to get this vote ready which for me
basically means I only have tonight to talk all of this out with you
guys. I'm going to cast a vote for Alice in my journal right now, but I
will change it to someone else if I hear otherwise from you all.

From Me (To Everyone)

I am going to post a vote for Alice. I think it's basically a toss up between her or Mike, and she was voted out once.

Talk to you all soon.

From Jess:

Hey Bill,

I was approached about voting you off by some of the
Forks tribe. Obviously, I'm not doing that. But I wanted to let you
know they seem confident that they already HAD the votes to do it. I
don't know where that's coming from or if that's true, but I wanted to
warn you there's a possibility they already have 5 votes for you.

From Jason:

Hey for the vote I was thinking Mike since I don't think he even tried
at the challenge. I'm all for booting people that don't really deserve
to be here. Plus I think he may have a few past votes, making him even
more appealing!

From Jason:

Hey did you get a message from Jess? She's basically voting Alice
unless she hears reason to vote otherwise. We should all vote together
though to give us the best shot of taking one of them out. Also do you
have Mike's screen name?

From Me:

Yeah, I think we should just all vote for Alice. Personally, it doesn't
make much of a difference to me as long as it's not one of us.

Mikes SN is bballchris878

From Eric:

Hey All!

I think we should vote out BELLA. I know this is going
against how everyone already voted but we can't be sure that Mike or
Alice doesn't have the idol... but what we are sure of is Bella gave
her idol to Mike right? So we know that she most likely doesn't have
it....

I can probably get Jacob to vote this way too, that way we have 2 votes incase an idol is pulled....

Thoughts?

My Reply:

Well, I am pretty sure that Mike and Alice don't have hidden idols. Here's why:

When
we voted Alice out of Forks, Lafayette and I practically said it during
tribal questioning. She screwed up the challenge, and we both said that
we were voting based on challenge participation. Honestly, we probably
would have voted out Mike instead, but it was 2-2, and we knew Alice
had a penalty vote. If she had an idol, then she would have played it
then.

Mike used his hidden immunity idol in round 1 and then used one give to him in round 6.

So, this is round seven, so, we know there are 7 possible idols out there.

One clue was given to Eric this round.

I received two clues when I was on Forks, one of which I played last round.

Emma gave hers to Mike which he played last round.

Mike payed his in the first round.

According to the host, at least one wasn't claimed.

So,
there is possibly one out there that may be owned by someone, but, I
don't think it's MIke, since he needed to be given one to Survive last
round, and I don't think it was Alice because she didn't play one the
round she was voted out, and she definitely voted.

My biggest
concern is that Jess, and Sam have already committed to a vote for
Alice. I think to be safe we should stick with that.

I have
heard rumors that the Forks my vote for me this round, plus they are
intimating that one of our five will switch, I think this ma be just
bluster from them, but if anyone hears anything, please let me know.

If this goes right, we should def. consider voting Bella out next round. For Lafayyette.

From Me to Sam:

I know, as a tribe, we are planning to stick together. Would you be
interested in something more than that, Eventually, we are going to
have to vote someone off our tribe, and I do feel concern that I was
the only one left who went to Forks, I may be the odd man out. I am not
sure if there are any sub alliances within our tribe, but I would be
interested in getting a strong partner in this game. Someone I can work
with to make it to the final 2. I am hoping that could be me and you.

Just let me know what you think. I think a final 2 deal would be beneficial to both of us, when we get rid of the final forker.

Bill

Sams Reply:
I would absolutely be on board with working alongside you Bill. I've
worried about alliances amongst us Bon Tempers from the beginning. Not
having to talk to anyone about votes has led to a whole lot of just
riding out the game and not needing to discuss strategy. I have noticed
that Eric and Jess have grown a little close and Eric was very keen on
wanting to keep Jacob in back on Bon Temps. I've wanted Jacob out for a
while now but my tribe never lost and then Eric had said if we were to
lose that he would have Jacob vote with us against Bella. So that's
been a concern of mine as well.

I'm not sure where Jason fits in.

Got your PM on the penalties thing. I don't have any penalty votes coming my way so no worries there!!

To Eric:

Hey man,

It's great to be back. Being on Forks was a bit of a struggle, and I missed you guys.

I
was wondering what you plans were for the end game. My basic idea was
the Vampire alliance, between me, you and Jess. We would knock out the
Forkers first, then you Jess and I go for the final 3. At Final 2, I
would be up to an alliance with you, but I wanted to feel you out
first. I am pretty much open to any ideas or suggestions you have.

Bill