Post by Maggie Smith on Feb 5, 2021 13:02:15 GMT
Round 11 - #MaggieMixesitup
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First of all, there's just so much to unpack from the last round. It ended up being so much more complicated than I expected. Here I was expecting a simple consensus vote and then that happened. Despite rumours of Bard and Monk being behind the Bonobo votes I still don't truly know what happened or why, or how.
But let's go back to the whole Monk/Cleric thing anyway.
For me the decision between Monk and Cleric was actually very complicated! And I'm honestly still not sure what the best decision for me was.
Between Monk and Cleric, I would say that the potential of an individual connection was strongest with Monk. I think I have figured out how Monk works and how to best communicate with them. As I think I said in my previous confessional, the simplicity of PMs with Monk is refreshing in its own way, and I kind of hope that they make it out the other side, even if they don't end up an ally for me.
But yes, all this talk of making it out the other side. That's what the vote really came down to, isn't it?
Because with Monk on the other tribe instead of Cleric, Dave and Bonobo are in less strong positions. I expect that Dave will scrape his way out, but I'm honestly worried for Bonobo, especially after those two votes. At the same time though, with Cleric there instead of Monk, if the other tribe went to a TC I could easily see things swinging against Bard. Maybe he'd use his idol, maybe he wouldn't.
Regardless, I think the main reasons why I voted for Cleric were it was what I had started telling people (I think I did know what the tribes would be before I said this, so maybe with some extra foresight I could have started out against Monk) and I actually did not really feel good about Bonobo/Dave/Bees +/- Grogu running the show. I'm okay with Bard looking like he's in charge. I'm okay with him being big here. But people like Dave and Bonobo I could theoretically end up at the end with, and so I don't want everything to go their way. If it means that one of them needs to go, then so be it. I don't want any one person here to be crucial to my game. I want to be able to flit from place to place, to be able to survive regardless of who I'm surrounded by.
And on that topic, with the tribe make-up being what it is, I think I may actually prefer it if my tribe is the one heading to tribal council. From the other tribe, I would be very happy with Ranger getting voted out, but I don't see that as likely. Whereas on my tribe, I feel like I could potentially achieve a Bees? vote, which would be perfect on a number of levels. I have to be careful to avoid complacency. I don't think I can rely on Dark Rey to be loyal just because she made an alliance with me. That said, I do feel fairly good about my connections with her and Grogu, and I think that together we would have the ability to run the tribe.
In regards to future planning, I could definitely envision nestling myself within a group of people like Grogu and Dark Rey, with people like Bonobo and Dave as peripheral allies that get cut for being threats. Essentially I am going to need to use the BIG threats such as Bard to help direct things towards keeping a group alive that I feel able to get to the endgame with, before progressively cutting the threats remaining. I essentially want to be the last moderate-ish threat left standing, or something like that. It really depends on how things play out. But I think an approach like that could be my best chance. I just have to make myself a bit more of a threat first.
Also I miss The Lindsays
