Episode 5

[Nathan Marlow]

EPISODE FIVE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

No more two houses! YAY
Second chances players! EEK/YAY (Josh/Alex respectively)
Double elimination! YAY (I think...)

I am very happy to have the houses broken up. It was nice to be able to be safe for a whole week, but I did not want to be losing any more saints and if I were to be HoH that would be a tricky situation if I could only nominate Saints, so yeah. I think this is good. And as far as the second chance players. I LOVE ALEX. BUT, he loves a lot of people so I don't know how he will fit into all of this. Hopefully he will be a good little evbot <3. And Joshuah... well, I've barely played with him and didn't really interact with him in that game. He is bipolar though and I don't want to deal with him. He has blown up on me outside of a game, so within the game... oy. I'd like to see him make an early departure. BUT WHY OH WHY COULD IT NOT HAVE BEEN ERIC. He would have been an amazing ally and I would have gone F2 with him fo sho. So sad that he was so close. And a double eviction could be good if the power is in the right hands. It's always good to dwindle down the numbers if I'm safe. I felt good about it though, I don't think there are that many people that would nominate me at this point.

HOH COMPETITION

So I liked my chances at this challenge for sure. Then I suckeeddddd. I think I would have won if I hadn't saved that picture as a bitmap though. It was loading so, so slowly. I should have known better, but oh well. I wanted it, but I think I am fine regardless. Sheila was already out and it was turning out to be very interesting. A James vs. Roddy battle, but in the end, they both fell, and my good pals Renny and Jason came out on top! w00t. w00t. w00t. I AM SAFE BABAY.

NOMINATIONS

So for Jason's nominations it was pretty obvious that he would be putting up Rachel since they have been so at odds. And since Jun vetoed her last week, she naturally went up along with her. I think Eddie is actually her strongest ally but like he would ever win a veto... And then for Renny, she is basically my hero <3 I was cracking up after seeing the ultimatum she gave Sheila, and I was soooo hoping that she would go through with it. I too have know her for a while and want to know what the person behind Big She is really like. But I think we will never know, because she did not go through with it and I didn't really expect she would. Too bad. So she goes up and then the other person was up in the air. Renny was thinking about putting up Alex next to her because the two of them are close. This surprised me since Renny is close with Alex too, but I saw where she was coming from. If Sheila were to come off with the veto though, Alex would be in great trouble, which is not what I want. I don't know what will happen with him yet, but I can trust him way more than others. So I pushed him to put up James or someone else instead. James is someone who is unpredictable and I can't trust to much of any extent at all. Renny decided to go with it though and then James came running to me all mad and betrayed and said he had a F2 with Renny but now it was over and wanted one with me. Mmmyeah, that really shows you to be a super ally. But I went with it Of course.

[Nathan Marlow]

THE VETO

When I saw the veto, I was like FUCKKKK. Why couldn't this challenge happen when I neeeeded to win a challenge!?!? I pwned this one twice in Season 2. Turns out, I SUCKED this time, so it is a very good thing I didn't actually need it. My heart wasn't really in it, but I was just stumped all around. A lot of people were wanting my help and I wasn't sure what I would do if I actually found one. I eventually did find ONE and decided to give it to Sheila. I know she needs to go eventually, but not quite yet. Will there be another chance? Maybe not, but I'm willing to chance it. I need her gigantic targetted ass to stick around. Makes it easier for me to not be targetted and with Jason around he will be the one to go up with her. She would have won anyways though, so I am glad to at least have been able to show her a little bit of loyalty.

Sheila took herself off obviously, leaving Renny to make a replacement. I don't know how seriously she considered putting Alex up, but I still wasn't a fan and told her if she wants James to leave now, that Will would be a safe bet. I do believe that to be true, but also if it were to be Will to go, I wouldn't be mad at all. I want a weaker player to leave from this block so that'd be completely fine with me. This left it open for a good option either way, but at the time I was not sure of what to do.

THE VOTE

My strategy has turned into the "Tell em what they wanna hear" strategy. I pretty much am playing all sides and anyone that will talk to me. I don't know how many people legit believe me at this point, but for now, this keeps me safe and in the clear for nominations. Then when I vote them out, it's too late and no one is mad that is still in the game hopefully. It worked with Natalie and I am currently employing that tactic with Jun, Eddie, Rachel, James, and Sheila to an extent. The people who truly have loyalty from me are Jason and Renny mostly, and also Sarah and then Sheila a bit, and Lydia potentially. When it's time to choose and stand and make a move I will. But for now this will get me to the point where I need to be hopefully.

Who do I really want to stay this week? Definitely Jun. I did make an alliance with Rachel, but I don't trust her to truly have my back at this point and Jun really might. I can barely even ever talk to Rachel, so yeah, peeeace. For the other one I could really go either way. Renny wants James out and I told her I would support her so that is probably the biggest driving force for me. James could be a help to me and he is a target and a nuisance to other people. Keeping him could be an advantage, but really I can just never take anything he says worth shit. He will lie or do anything he has to. It helped that Will came to me and made a deal that if I vote to keep him I have his vote to count on and he won't nominate me either. I don't 100% expect him to hold this up, but hopefully just in the short term he will do so. Jason did bring up the idea to keep James if the vote is there, but I think now I am going to just tell him about how James wants to go after Sheila and him if he stays so hopefully that will sway him back.