Post by Tim Dormer on Aug 4, 2016 2:47:27 GMT
G'day mates, it is Tim!
I will be perfectly honest, I had no intention of playing this game. When the host brought it to my attention I immediately dismissed it. I have been out of the Online Reality Game (hereafter ORG) world for 6 years and honestly I am content with my life. The times I played these games I used them take out a lot of frustration about my life on other people. I made a name basically synonymous with villainy and deceit. I was universally hated and I did anything I needed to in order to win. It made me a great gamer because i had great perception and challenge capabilities. I won a lot of games and consistently made a lot of enemies. I also lost a lot of games due to my reputation alone. So needless to say it was a big decision to try this season. Where I was then and where I am now are basically two completely different worlds.
This time around, it isn't my intention to win. I am trying this game out to see if I can play a more heroic role, be a nice guy and help my team rather then help myself get ahead. Being in this head space, it doesn't matter to me if I finish in 27th place or first place. I just want to show that I have grown as a person. I could just as easily return to that dark place, but I want to challenge myself and play cleanly. If I can contribute in a positive way for this season, then I will be happy. I do feel that the way my life is now will likely impede o my ability to do well in this game and I am fine with that. Games don't come first for me anymore. So enough about my background, lets delve right into the meat of the the game.
You can all read my initial thoughts on my tribe in my cast assessment thread. But what I wanted to isolate this week is my working relationships in the tribe. The way I have approached this week was being honest. I was upfront about not being able to make the challenge on time and I knew that coming into the game. So I used the two days prior to find out about my team mates. The best way to keep yourself in the game is through social standing. So even if I cause the tribe to falter in the first challenge, if people feel like they have a connection to me, they are going to want me to stay around.
I feel there are going to be two important players on this tribe. Dustin is a very social player right from the start, he wants to get to know everyone. He and I seemingly hit it off night one. We bonded over him shirtless and my rock renegade style. We talked about getting into the shower together to impress the viewers (PW) but when we did there were censor bars to keep the good stuff hidden. (Sorry Nikki) So as he washed my back and I washed his, we spoke about how I recently made a return to these games and how he was going to take me under his wing. I feel like I did a good job with connecting with him and I do legitimately think he wants to help me get back into the swing of things. If he is infact lying, all the more power to him, he is playing very well socially.
The other person I want to acknowledge as an early powerhouse is Tiffany. She seems to have social game down and she also appears to be decently cunning. This is the kind of person I want to see myself working with. If she seems me as an asset she is going to fight to keep me. She seems to already have a lot of connections. She clearly has an alliance with Holly, very protective of her early on while Holly has hardly been around. Thats fine, something for me to keep at the back of my mind. I have probably invested the most time into talking with her (partly because of who she chose to play as). I wanted to allign with whoever had picked Tiffany in the initial cast list, so I am thankful we got thrown on the same tribe together. For now its #TeamTimffany.
Going into the challenge, I was very clearly going to be two hours late. By the time I had logged on, one team had already completed it. So with the host announcing 3 people leaving in total this week, it meant I was coming in and we were either booting one or two people. I quickly was able to catch up to the rest of my tribe and they had been working for around an hour on the second last password. I think I got it in 3 minutes, freshet was a word I used last week when talking about spring in my city. I think I came out of there looking pretty good moving them into the last part and ultimately landing us in second place. Dustin got to go to exile. Great for him, I hope he finds the idol, as I feel like if its a couple of weeks down the road he is more then likely willing to tell me about it, should he be the one to retrieve it. But he also doesn't get to vote he and he was one of the main people I was hoping to acquire a vote from.
I wasn't out of the woods yet, I needed to leave some feelers out because ultimately I was still late and I did contribute to us falling out of first place. I spoke to a couple of key individuals (Cody and Tiffany). Both commended my challenge performance and helping them move past the ninth password and that they had no intention of voting me out, however they didn't know who to vote out. Only person that was mentioning any names at all was Amber, and Tiffany informed me she was suggesting Natalie and Austin. However when I asked Amber what she thought about the vote, she had said to me she wants Holly or Austin gone. Now based on the very limited conversations Amber and I have had to this point and her being one of the people I was more apprehensive about having on the tribe, I figured i would take this opportunity to inform Tiffany. Tiffany as you know has dropped several hints to me that she is working with Holly, so I knew informing her that Amber is spilling Hollys name would get back to Holly.
A couple of hours later, Holly knows about Amber wanting her out and now wants Amber out. She isn't being overly subtle about it either. Today I decided to tell Holly that I heard directly from Amber that Amber was using her name (she legitimately told me Holly/Austin). Needless to say throwing around three different peoples names (Austin/Holly/Natalie) before people have an opportunity to even propose one name is going to put people off. I think the tribe is very likely to go unanimous against Amber at this point in time. I didn't put much work into it, but I know I absolutely did not want to write Austin's name down and Natalie has some semblance of a connection to me.
Anyway something positive came out of my conversation with Holly. She has expressed how much Tiffany likes me and how both of us want all three of us to work together. Sure I am coming in as a third wheel but that is okay. At least it is an opportunity to get in some sort of an alliance at this stage. I think we should call ourselves the Stoned Cold Bitches (name is a work in progress, maybe next time).
I will be ending every confessional with a Bootlist, a cumulative ranking of where I feel my target would best be served placed amongst the available tribe. Lets not waste any more of your time, you have spent far too much time reading this shitty confessional as is.
Bootlist:
1. Amber
2. Simon
3. Natalie
4. Austin
5. Cody
6. Holly
7. Dustin
8. Tiffany
Good-night, tomorrow is a new day!