[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 newbies?

With mostly all of the inactive players gone, do you foresee the gameplay ramping up? What is your strategy in this new tribe?

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

[Caryn]

I’m not surprised at all that I made it into the actual game. I knew it was gonna happen due to the weak returnee selections. Now I’m just ready to play the real game.

My plan for this whole weekend has been to act super nice to the new faces I’m meeting here on this tribe, cause I know most of these new players are probably frightened at the thought of returnees (which they should be), so I wanted to ease their minds a little bit by making myself seem friendly and fun to be around (which I’m not, but they’ll find out about that later). But at the same time I don’t want to come off as being fake as fuck, so I’m posting a shit ton of emojis in my messages I’m sending as well as ending a lot of my messages with a “haha” or a “lmao” to make myself seem more genuine. I am such a mastermind strategist.

I feel like me & Chrissy/Joaq/Dale definitely got the better end of the swap here, compared to Drew & Ratface Ryan over on the other tribe. We’re all 4 strong, and we have Brian over here who voted with us in Refuge. And apparently he managed to form an alliance with Gary/Danni/Lydia before he joined Refuge. 2 of those 3 (Danni/Lydia) are here, which is good.

That’s why I wasn’t really surprised when Danni approached me earlier today and said she wanted to work with the returnees along with Brian & Jim. I imagine Brian put in a good word for us returnees to the newbies he got close with previously, and I continue to love this guy even more with each passing day after originally thinking he was a snake ass cunt lmao.

Blake & Mari seem to be the two people on this tribe who are on the outs. Blake I don’t give a single fuck about, but Mari actually seems kinda cool even though she doesn’t strike me as being game savvy. So I don’t have any problems with booting their asses out first on this tribe.

I have to be honest, I thought it was gonna be a lot harder to turn these newbies against each other. Like, I thought me and my fellow returnees were gonna have to do all the heavy lifting when it came to that. But apparently some of these newbies (namely Danni) have no problem with wanting to eat each other alive. Because she approached me first, not the other way around.

So shout out to a few of these newbies for doing all the hard work while the returnees get to sit back and relax. I appreciate you greatly.

[Caryn]

After not caring about who gets voted out between Blake & Mari, I now care a whole lot more.

Blake is apparently very anti-Returnee. Can’t say I’m surprised, I could tell just by interacting with the guy that he already harbored a severe dislike toward me. But luckily his original tribemates have no problem voting his ass out, so he should be killed off tonight as long as he doesn’t win immunity.