Captain's Log

[Rodney]

Alright, I'm gonna try to keep this somewhat organized.

Day 1:

First impressions:

Erik- Erik is my boy so far. He's the only one I've held a conversation with the whole night. Hopefully we will be on the same page for the life of this tribe at least.

Shirin- She's number 2 on my list so far. We found a mutual connection talking about football and Worlds Apart. As lame as that sounds its pretty huge when we are only going off first impressions for the first vote. I want to do some more talking with her. 

Ken- Ken is about as vanilla as they come but I want to use that to my advantage. He holds a conversation like a basket holds water so I doubt he's making many person connections. He's self-described socially awkward so I feel like I could earn his loyalties easily just be being his buddy. I do have to be careful though as he's coming off a little game-botty (did i really just use that term? Uhg I'm becoming a lifer) and it could get him in trouble.

Natalie & Ciera- I have talked to very minimally and I haven't formed any strong opinions on them yet

Sandra: You do you, Sandy.

[Rodney]

I somehow landed on the Brain tribe and in the spirit of brains over brawn I'm gonna map out exactly how I take the cake in this game. So luckily for me through lots of in depth analysis, I have developed a strategy that I will use to easily cruise to victory. The game is typically broken up into 4 simple parts.


Phase 1: Momma Bear (Just right)
With 3 tribes, the important things are to be social, not get too big of a profile, and be relevant in challenges. If I can hide somewhere in the middle socially where I make friends and form bonds but don't become the alpha dog then I can avoid being the two kinds of people who get voted off early: the no show, and the over-player.

Phase 2: Numbers
When we get down to two tribes I am jumping to the bigger alliance. That's all I got to do to sail into the jury

Phase 3: Disappear
When I get to the final merge I'm gonna disappear faster than Eddie Murphy on Father's Day. All I want here is to not be a threat. While your enemy's are eating each other, sit back and pass the salt.

Phase 4: Asskissing
Once you're in the finals the key is to remember that people love to hear about themselves. All you gotta do is go ham with "You were my biggest threat!" and "I felt such a connection with you" and all that bullshit and the jurors will eat it up.



And no I'm not this cocky with my fellow survivors.


Trying to keep a low profile has been... challenging.. for me so if I completely disregard my own advise and become Don Corleone by day 3 don't judge me.

[Rodney]

Day 2 


Okay, some new developments from Rodneyland. I wanted to sit back guys, I really did.

So I'm in the tank for Erik. I put my trust in this guy for no reason other than he's putting it in me. If he's fucking me then I lived a good life. 

Natalie came to me talking alliances. I never really bonded with her but I don't think she's baiting me, she is legit worried about after Sandra is medvac'd so I'll Be happy to take her up on that. If I can get Sharin on board we got ourselves a fearsome foursome.

Ken needs to check himself before he wrecks himself. I was trying to be cool with him but he called me out twice over nothing in this challenge so now he's on my shit list. 

Erik says he's gotten close with Sharin so this is very good. I want her with us, however we gotta do it.

Ciera is just kind of there at this point. I don't want to leave her out of things so I'll try to hit her up. My new survivor resolution is to always have a back door plan so I'm not gonna alienate her or even Ken at this point.

[thenavneet]

Nice updates Rod. Good luck to ya.

[Rodney]

Ohhhhhh mygoddd Ken is so fucking boring, he doesn't understand any references, figures of speech, or idioms I use and I have to keep explaing them to his socially awkward ass. Do I really have to talk to him? Bout to shove whatever he says into Cleverbot.com and copy/paste it's response so I can tolerate having this conversation

[Rodney]

So everyone in my tribe goes to bed super early. I work every night this week til 11pm. This is not good

In other news the secret location password is not any South American countries, rivers, or top 62 cities in population in lowercase. Go figure

[Rodney]

Day... of the second challenge (idk i already lost track, this how I'm doing it now) 

Recent events: Sandra voted off

This challenge is wrecking us. Kenny and I already shit the bed and Ciera made her very very low bet. Hopefully the other half can get it together because we're staring a tribal council right in the face. I have my alliance but I also have my doubts. I don't know if I can trust these people yet. The funny thing is Ken seems most genuine with me out of the lot. For whatever reason me and him have clicked since my last entry. He's not part of the spoken alliance but I have convinced Erik that it might be a good idea to keep him around as a 5th. The good thing about Ken is he's probably the only one who gives me a run for my money when it comes to being high profile. I don't think I've gotten there yet but I am very prone to making that mistake. Ken is my "canary in the coal mine." Once merge comes, as long has he's on my side I think it's safe to say he would be targeted before me. I was about ready to just assume Ciera had other plans that did't include me but she messaged me tonight and quickly got to wanting to work together. She is giving me the same feel as Natalie which is, she's probably say this to everyone, Neither one is putting in much of an effort t talk to me.

Erik and I are starting to plan for the worst and he wants to put something solid together before the challenge is over so it's not scrambling. I think it's about time to get Sharin in on this as a solid threesome. That would give us a tied vote worst case scenario but if Natalie is who she says she is we got 4 and I think Ken would vote with me too. Sorry, Ciera but as of right now it's too little too late. I don't really want to be the one calling the shot though so If it lands on anyone but Erik or Sharin I would be down to go with the flow. I am hoping I've put myself in a good spot here, I will find out, the next 42 hours are gonna be nerve racking.

[Rodney]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to make the parchment background transparent on windows 8.

[Host Julie]

Save the image and then open it. Also what program are you using?

[Rodney]

Don't judge me but MS paint. I don't want to download some extra editing program I won't use for anything else. I used to be able to do it on paint but it feels like the w8 version has no features.

[Host Julie]

You can try this, I have never used it but others have

pixlr.com/editor/

[Rodney]

Dear Ken,
If you just read me blasting you please read my voting booth. Unless I'm getting blindsided in which case you probably don't care.

[Rodney]

It's been like a week and I still haven't had a meaningful conversation with Ciera. If we go to tribal I know she will have my name in her mouth. I don't like the idea of that. I haven't been as active as I would like because of my work schedule so even among the people I have deals with I think they could be swayed to vote me. I do not want to see us lose this challenge. Looking forward to the swap so I cam switch up my strategy. I hope I'm available to make a good first impression when it happens. Ideal situation if its tribes of 8 has me with one other brain on with 3 of each of the other tribes So I am comfortably in the middle. We'll see what happens, I think we'll have a decent shot at the challenge. We've all worked pretty hard to drop what is about to be the dopist album of 2015.

[Rodney]

A few notes I figured out the first night of swapped tribes:

-Colby and Courtney are aligned
-Parvati and Andrea seem to be aligned
-Colby for whatever reason likes me from the first challenge? Colb and Court both already decided they wanna work with me? Kinda strange considering how early I was bumped and how little I said. Gonna be wary of that for now but I'll happily run with it if I feel it's legit

[Rodney]

Got the idol clue whittled down to like 2000ish options... A lot more if I'm wrong assuming the survivor and bb name are in that order.

I got my lists made up it's just a matter of putting in the work which I'm not really feeling. I'd hate to get it and find it already taken. Maybe I'll wait for another clue