[Jeff Probst]

The game takes another turn. How are you feeling with your new tribemates? Has your strategy changed for this portion of the game?

Do you feel like you have any control in your fate and who goes home? If not, how would you go about changing that?

[Jim]

This is the first point in the game where I don't feel 100% safe. On refuge, I obviously couldn't go home, and at the first Lucayan post swap, I was aligned with nearly everyone on my tribe so I like to think I was calling the shots there.

However, here with the Taints, I'm severely outnumbered 5-3. Im a bit lucky since Chrissy seems to think shes in debt to me for telling her name was out there on refuge, and Lydia and I have been close along with Brian and Danni. I would be worried that Chrissy would go back to the returnees, but she doesnt like Ryan, and overall feels like shes on the outside of the returning players.

Orignally thinking that the three of us were completely dead at this point, Lydia Chrissy and I have two glimmers of hope.
1. Ryan and Gary are close, but do not like how buddy buddy the three original taino (Hannah, Adam, and Zeke) are on the tribe. Hopefully we can draw the two of them in, saving us for (at worst) three vote offs).
2. The second hope we have, is that I suggested to Lucayan that the tribe with the majority of post swap 1 Lucayan would throw the challenges until merge.