[Jeff Probst]

Bit of a reset here.

What are your thoughts on the game becoming 20 players? What are your thoughts on playing with the returning veterans?

With mostly all of the inactive players gone, do you foresee the gameplay ramping up? Will the returning players elevate the way the strategy of the game is played?

Who do you think will be the immediate target on the tribe? How will your game evolve with this new stage of the game?

[Danni]

I felt like I needed to sleep before I could answer this because last night was overwhelming tbh

WOW. Back up to 20 players was a shock. Here I was thinking I had made it a week in without any trouble and now it feels like this last week was a practice round hahahahahh. I'm really excited to work with the vets! I think they will be good assets for challenges, and I'd put some money that they have some killer confessionals and tribal comebacks. So for entertainment purposes, I'm here for it

lol I loved playing around the inactive players because they made for an easy few votes, but I definitely saw the gameplay ramping up without the announcement of vets. now that the vets are here, it looks like that growth is going to be hyperbolic. I definitely think the returning players are going to elevate strategy, because they've learned some tricks from their previous seasons. I'm hoping to pick up some strategy and info about how to play from them.

oooohhhhhhh the immediate target. That's tough because I've heard multiple different strategies about moving forward. of course as soon as we swapped FREAKING BLAKE messaged me saying he wants all the OG Lucayan and Mari to vote out the vets. This is the same thing that got him in trouble on night one! dude has no tact. Lydia and I are pretty sure that Brian and Jim are going to have some deals with the vets, and I'd much rather work with the two of them and their allies than with Blake.

How is my game going to evolve? Bahahahahahah I have no idea. My final 2 deal with Gary is now in danger since he's on the other tribe. I'm going to have to go all in on Lydia and Brian I think. use them, use Brian's connections to the vets to my advantage, and hopefully win some challenges to avoid tribal before the merge.

TOUTTE forever, but it's time to dig deep and win this thing

[Danni]

Ok. I’m gonna run through all the players in the tribe since I have now talked to them all.

lydia-lovely human. Definitely loyal to me for the time being. Sweetheart

Brian-social butterfly. Great person but a sneaky player

Jim-lol who?

Caryn-bahahaha what a crotchety old woman. I love her. Hoping we get to talk strategy so I can figure out where her head is at

Chrissy- love me a woman with a dirty mouth. I like her a lot. Like caryn, I want to be able to talk strategy sometime soon

Dale-I’m a big fan of him. He’s a dick but a dick that I think I can work with.

Joaquin- probably my favorite of all the vets. Probably because he reminds me of Gary tbh. Definitely want to work with him going forward

Blake- my feelings here are well documented. Fuck blake. We can come up with a more interesting way to play the game than newbs vs vets

Mari- haven’t talked to her much? Not sure if it’s because she doesn’t like me or if she hasn’t been online. I’d be willing to pull her in because the way she handled the crazy after their first tribal made me lol

Overall thoughts: love lucayan. Sad we need to vote someone out, but at the moment I don’t think it will be me. Hoping I can get a group together of vets and OG lucayan, but I would probably want to work with Joaq and Dale and be able to meet up with Gary at merge and the 4 of us can kick ass for the rest of the game. That’s ideal scenario.

Darkest timeline: it never makes sense to fucking vote out blake when people go inactive so I’m stuck with him AGAIN until the next swap/merge

[Danni]

I’m planning on having strategy talks with all the vets, Lydia and Brian today. Maybe go through the motions with blake and Mari.

Basically I want to figure out if it’s in my best interest to vote out a former lucayan before targeting the vets. There are 5 of us here which is an intimidating block, but we are definitely not a cohesive group..... if you couldn’t tell

[Danni]

Here's where things stand

Blake thinks we're going to be Lucayan strong and take out the vets. lmfao what a piece of shit

Here's where things stand based on conversations I've had today: It looks like a majority alliance of Chrissy, Caryn, Joaquin, Dale, Me, Lydia, Brian and Jim is in the works. Obviously a big group that wont stay together super long, but a good group to weed out the irrelevant players on our tribe.

Obviously I want to keep working with Brian and Lydia, but I have had some great conversations with all of the vets so far. I think Chrissy will be a valuable ally down the line, but i think I'd rather align myself with Dale and Joaquin. I'm all in on Joaq's idea of #NoBorings this season, aka eliminate the people who suck that I don't want to talk to.

It looks like either Mari or Blake is going to go home tomorrow. I guess we'll see how the challenge plays out and go from there, but I'm looking forward to my first tribal and cutting some dead weight

[Danni]

Oooooooohhhhhhh baby. Blake threw Brian under the bus last night and I took the opportunity to make him a target.

Basically he told me that since Brian went to refuge, he’s obviously working with the 4 veterans and not our OG Lucayan tribe. He told me to keep an ear out and that I’d brian mentions Mari as a target it means he’s against us

Bitch I wanted Mari as the target until you opened your dumbass mouth

Basically Blake is digging his own grave. I let Brian and Lydia know what he said to prove they can trust me to report back to them, and also because I fucking can’t stand Blake!

His time is coming and I’m HERE. FOR. IT.

[Danni]

So Blake is gone! GO US! lol who am I going to bitch about at the end of every post now?

I'm glad we got the whole tribe on board. This was definitely the right move. Blake was unpredictable and threw everyones name out in the open. not the kind of guy you want as an ally

I'm hoping Mari or one of the vets goes next. I dont really want to be involved with targeting the vets because I think they want to work with me, but so does everyone else. Idk. I'll see where tomorrow takes me

I think Joaquin and I are officially in an alliance now. We're calling ourselves the degenerates. Dale might be invited, because hes a dirty old slut. I'll keep you all posted on the status of that one. Still hoping to reconnect with Gary at some point because TOUTTE is still a thing, at least in my mind. We'll see how things shake out.

WOOT. PS MARI FUCK YOU.

[Danni]

The degenerates of the tribe have officially come together. Myself, Dale, and joaquin are going to work together from this point forward. I'm not planning on turning my back on former lucayan just yet, but I definitely like the idea of having options. The ideal scenario would be to win at least one of these upcoming challenges so we can lessen the number of tribals that we need to go to before a swap/merge happens. The less I need to expose my hand to the tribe the better.

But if we lose tonight, peace Mari. and good riddance