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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 3, 2013 1:36:21 GMT -5
I'm going to try and have one of these up for every set of eliminations. As of now, I can only go based my previous encounters with these people, as well as the short conversations I've had with them.
As of right now, my most potential ally partners are Kourtney (Who I have to keep an eye on, her social game is extremely powerful) and Coach, who shares the same sentiments on the game as me for the most part. I also want to take to Sekou, and Rob at the very least. Gonna give a full ranked list shortly.
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 3, 2013 18:32:29 GMT -5
Kourtney
Coach
Mary
Danielle
Boston Rob
Miki
Sandra
Sekou
Ted
Wanda
Colby
Carter
Alexis
Judd
Kim
Shawna
Sydney
Eliza
Rob C
Rory
Chase
Brandon
Alex
Candice
Christa
Ibrehem
Jason
Jonas
Kelly
Neleh
Pete
Sean
Phillip
Vecepia
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 4, 2013 13:22:46 GMT -5
My main two "friends" at the moment are Coach and Kourtney still. Me and Coach both see eye to eye with one another on most game related issues, and we both don't feel the need idle around with small talk either. I feel having him as a close ally will cut down on headaches later down the road if I can make him into my number 2.
Kourtney is just overall friendly, and very receptive to game talk. While I know that she's an absolute social monster, and while I'm very wary of that, keeping her close could end up being a godsend later on. She's much better with connections than I am.
As for my tribe, I'm going to go straight for the easiest ally, since it's so early on. Mary has already contacted me once before, and seems extremely open to talking about the game, so there's no reason to go ahead and accept her as an ally. Especially since her and Coach got along extremely well in Season 4, up until the end.
Jason's a strong competitive team member. Kelly, from what I've heard has a weird time zone. Carter is also been friendly enough to both me and Mary, so we'll probably try and start getting closer to him. Rob wasn't the most loyal of players back in his season, so me and Mary figure he'd be a pretty easy first target.
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 4, 2013 13:28:05 GMT -5
I think the biggest struggle I'm having right now is that I want Coach and Danielle as a future merge alliance. If at all possible, I would love to set up a much more stabilized web strategy (with people that have proven to be active players in the past) with Me, Coach, and Danielle as the core. Mary would be my second layer, and I'd probably also pick Carter since he seems the easiest to sway to our side. Coach and Danielle would then have to find two people each, leaving us with a strong 9/6/3 alliance, if we can make it to merge like that. Once again, like last time, a complete speculation of future events, but this would be the most optimal path I could take.
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 4, 2013 18:06:02 GMT -5
I've created a good alliance with Carter and Mary now. Pete's also on our side, as far as we know; so that creates a strong 4-man on Poseidon. First target will be Rob C, since none of us trust him. Still wanting to befriend Jason, and Kelly, although I haven't talked to Kelly at all yet.
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 2:23:55 GMT -5
Good lord, lot's happening tonight.
FIRST BIG NEWS: The Pentagon.
This is the name of the alliance that me and Coach came up with for our current adversaries. The people in the game that we are the most concerned about. Apparently Ted has been leaking information to Coach about it. I'm gonna post our conversation below.
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 2:25:10 GMT -5
Coach Wade (1:00:25 AM): I'm here
John "Swag" Cochran (1:02:01 AM): Ok.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:02:04 AM): So
John "Swag" Cochran (1:02:11 AM): The most important part of this.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:02:21 AM): Is that we're completely open right here, right now with each other.
Coach Wade (1:02:27 AM): I agree
John "Swag" Cochran (1:02:30 AM): I trust you more than anyone else in the game.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:02:54 AM): My alliance at the moment includes Mary(Ari) and Carter.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:03:07 AM): Carter trusts Danielle, I want to work with Danielle.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:03:15 AM): Pete is our outlying fourth vote.
Coach Wade (1:03:43 AM): My issue with Danielle
Coach Wade (1:03:49 AM): is she wants to kill me
Coach Wade (1:03:58 AM): So that's a bad start on my front
Coach Wade (1:04:04 AM): But there's no reason you can't work with her
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:10 AM): Alright
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:13 AM): That's good to know
Coach Wade (1:04:26 AM): Both Kim and Danielle are gunning for me early
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:28 AM): I've been chatting with Kourtney, sorta as well.
Coach Wade (1:04:33 AM): Me too
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:35 AM): But I haven't made any promises
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:43 AM): I think an alliance between you and Kourtney
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:48 AM): would be hilarious
John "Swag" Cochran (1:04:51 AM): in its own right
John "Swag" Cochran (1:05:05 AM): How useful is it? I dunno, but if we can work with her that'd be great too
Coach Wade (1:05:15 AM): I'd like to work that tbh
Coach Wade (1:05:37 AM): I've been going around and talking to people
Coach Wade (1:05:43 AM): make sure you keep it confidential though
Coach Wade (1:05:47 AM): who I've been speaking to
Coach Wade (1:05:52 AM): since I think I'm in a bad spot
John "Swag" Cochran (1:06:04 AM): Of course.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:06:16 AM): As I said, you, at this moment, are my number two.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:06:22 AM): Mary is second, Curtis is third.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:06:27 AM): Kourtney is just, there atm
John "Swag" Cochran (1:07:35 AM): Pete's just there.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:07:39 AM): I don't trust him
John "Swag" Cochran (1:07:41 AM): whatsoever
John "Swag" Cochran (1:07:46 AM): but he seems safe around me
John "Swag" Cochran (1:08:59 AM): Bleh.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:09:08 AM): So, how are things going on your tribe?
John "Swag" Cochran (1:09:15 AM): I'm pretty safe at the moment.
Coach Wade (1:10:32 AM): Awful
Coach Wade (1:10:40 AM): But I'll get to that in a minute
Coach Wade (1:10:43 AM): what's up with this vote?
John "Swag" Cochran (1:11:07 AM): Everything points to Jonas.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:11:15 AM): I tried to pin it on someone in Tribe 3
John "Swag" Cochran (1:11:28 AM): but I don't have the power to do so
Coach Wade (1:13:21 AM): Yeah
Coach Wade (1:13:27 AM): I really don't want Jonas to go this early
Coach Wade (1:13:36 AM): he could be a very useful ally over somebody more useless
Coach Wade (1:13:52 AM): This feels like a power move by somebody
John "Swag" Cochran (1:14:03 AM): It's a power move by someone I'm certain
Coach Wade (1:14:03 AM): Kim and Miki are the big power alliance at the moment
Coach Wade (1:14:04 AM): I feel
John "Swag" Cochran (1:14:09 AM): We all tossed around
Coach Wade (1:14:14 AM): And I know they're gunning for me
John "Swag" Cochran (1:14:15 AM): the idea of killing off someone powerful
John "Swag" Cochran (1:14:21 AM): and then jonas' name came up
John "Swag" Cochran (1:14:27 AM): That wasn't really what I was thinking
John "Swag" Cochran (1:14:32 AM): What's their beef with you?
Coach Wade (1:16:12 AM): I don't know
Coach Wade (1:16:20 AM): they think I'm powerful maybe?
Coach Wade (1:16:30 AM): I have a leak to some information
John "Swag" Cochran (1:17:06 AM): What sort of information?
Coach Wade (1:18:25 AM): Hold on
Coach Wade (1:18:28 AM): I'll tell you in a sec
Coach Wade (1:18:36 AM): nothing about you or anything that concerns you yet
John "Swag" Cochran (1:18:42 AM): aight
Coach Wade (1:25:05 AM): Okay
Coach Wade (1:25:19 AM): keep all this under your hat because this is literally all of my aces here right now
Coach Wade (1:25:27 AM): But I have no reason to not trust you
John "Swag" Cochran (1:25:35 AM): I told you, I trust you, and you can trust me.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:25:49 AM): This will prove right here that I can be your most trusted person.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:25:55 AM): This info isn't going anywhere.
Coach Wade (1:26:01 AM): Good
Coach Wade (1:26:03 AM): Okay
Coach Wade (1:27:22 AM): Right
Coach Wade (1:27:31 AM): Ted is spilling me inside information
Coach Wade (1:27:57 AM): because he wanted to work with me. I don't completely trust him enough though, not to have him as a 100% trusted ally
Coach Wade (1:28:08 AM): Even though he has no real reason to share this info, I'm still a bit dubious
John "Swag" Cochran (1:28:10 AM): He could make a great ally though
Coach Wade (1:28:14 AM): He will
Coach Wade (1:28:17 AM): I'm not discounting it
Coach Wade (1:28:21 AM): and I'm not telling anybody else this
John "Swag" Cochran (1:28:26 AM): Right
Coach Wade (1:28:36 AM): He agreed to be in an alliance of 5
Coach Wade (1:28:45 AM): with Kim, Miki, Brandon and Danielle
Coach Wade (1:28:55 AM): I think they might be one of the power alliances of the game right now
Coach Wade (1:28:59 AM): who are trying to control things
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:04 AM): Ah
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:05 AM): yeh
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:07 AM): That explains
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:08 AM): a lot
Coach Wade (1:29:09 AM): and Kim and Danielle both said they wanted me gone
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:09 AM): actually
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:17 AM): You might want to add Jason
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:19 AM): in with that
Coach Wade (1:29:21 AM): Holy shit
Coach Wade (1:29:22 AM): okay
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:34 AM): But that just raises my suspicions on him
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:35 AM): higher
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:43 AM): So he'll probably be one of the first to go here
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:50 AM): We may end up throwing the first challenge
John "Swag" Cochran (1:29:53 AM): so you don't go
John "Swag" Cochran (1:30:01 AM): and so that we can remove either Rob or Jason here.
Coach Wade (1:30:49 AM): That'd be good
Coach Wade (1:31:05 AM): You need to not share the alliance thing because I'm worried it'll point back to me/Ted though
Coach Wade (1:31:13 AM): I've not told anybody this information
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 2:30:48 GMT -5
John "Swag" Cochran (2:11:33 AM): So where does Kourt stand in her tribe?
John "Swag" Cochran (2:11:47 AM): And do we let her know we want to work together?
John "Swag" Cochran (2:11:48 AM): Or what
Coach Wade (2:13:35 AM): She feels safe
Coach Wade (2:13:52 AM): I want to pull her in on something but I don't want to spill everything I know
Coach Wade (2:14:02 AM): That alliance of five thing
John "Swag" Cochran (2:14:04 AM): That's about where I stand
Coach Wade (2:14:06 AM): we'll call it the pentagon
Coach Wade (2:14:12 AM): that has to stay completely silent
John "Swag" Cochran (2:14:19 AM): I agree completely
Coach Wade (2:14:23 AM): It's a crucial bit of intel that could really fuck up the game dynamics
John "Swag" Cochran (2:14:30 AM): The less people that know about it
John "Swag" Cochran (2:14:31 AM): the better
John "Swag" Cochran (2:14:40 AM): Me, you, and Ted
Coach Wade (2:14:40 AM): That's the kind of intel you want in your pocket
John "Swag" Cochran (2:14:46 AM): are probably the only ones that need to know
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:03 AM): That being said
Coach Wade (2:15:11 AM): Don't tell Ted I've shared it either
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:16 AM): We need to set up some sort of anti-alliance against it
Coach Wade (2:15:18 AM): It's better for him if he sits where he is
Coach Wade (2:15:22 AM): Oh no, we do
Coach Wade (2:15:23 AM): I agree
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:24 AM): of course
Coach Wade (2:15:28 AM): I mean it's better for us
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:29 AM): Ted is our insider
Coach Wade (2:15:29 AM): not him
Coach Wade (2:15:37 AM): Plugging that leak
Coach Wade (2:15:41 AM): Yeah
Coach Wade (2:15:45 AM): exactloy
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:46 AM): I suppose though
Coach Wade (2:15:47 AM): *tly
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:52 AM): Do we expect him to flip
John "Swag" Cochran (2:15:54 AM): when the time comes?
Coach Wade (2:16:06 AM): I'll be worried about that when the time comes
John "Swag" Cochran (2:16:10 AM): True
Coach Wade (2:16:18 AM): I'm not being completely open with him like I am with you
Coach Wade (2:16:29 AM): even though he came to me first, he has his hands in a lot of pockets
John "Swag" Cochran (2:16:39 AM): With good reason on his part
John "Swag" Cochran (2:16:40 AM): tbh
Coach Wade (2:16:46 AM): Yeah
John "Swag" Cochran (2:16:50 AM): I can't necessarily blame him for that
John "Swag" Cochran (2:16:54 AM): that's always been his game
John "Swag" Cochran (2:17:08 AM): Hopefully when the time comes our pocket is the one with the most money in it
John "Swag" Cochran (2:17:13 AM): Until then though
Coach Wade (2:17:20 AM): For now
Coach Wade (2:17:26 AM): Both of us are pretty well seated
Coach Wade (2:17:44 AM): I'll talk to Kourtney a bit but I'm not going to throw out that me and you are working together
Coach Wade (2:17:51 AM): not until I see where her loyalties lie
Coach Wade (2:17:53 AM): you can do the same
Coach Wade (2:17:56 AM): but not mention me
John "Swag" Cochran (2:18:03 AM): Makes sense.
Coach Wade (2:18:04 AM): Maybe see if her story matches up on both sides
Coach Wade (2:18:16 AM): I mostly just say her because it'd be good to have an insider
Coach Wade (2:18:18 AM): on each tribe
John "Swag" Cochran (2:18:31 AM): That's what I was thinking
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 2:35:47 GMT -5
So, pretty much as it stands, the Onion Web Strategy is coming along nicely, whether I wanted to or not. I actually discussed it with Coach and he felt like it was a pretty solid plan. Right, it's looking like my side is:
(?+?+(Coach+Me+Kourtney*)+Mary)+Carter+Pete)
*Kourtney if she decides to join up with us
And the other side I assume looks like
(Miki+Kim)+(Brandon+Danielle)+(Ted)+(Jason)
Kelly may be in that bottom section. The only ones that I can confirm with the bottom side is Miki, Kim, Brandon, Danielle, and Ted are all aligned with Ted spilling beans.
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 2:36:38 GMT -5
In unrelated news, I chatted with Sekou for a bit. We still seem to get along.
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Post by Host Brett on Jun 5, 2013 2:42:19 GMT -5
What did you talk about
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 3:00:10 GMT -5
John "Swag" Cochran (1:32:35 AM): Sekou!
sekou sekou (1:34:35 AM): sekou!
sekou sekou (1:34:39 AM): whats up my brother
John "Swag" Cochran (1:35:29 AM): Nothing much mang
John "Swag" Cochran (1:35:34 AM): How you been since Season 3?
sekou sekou (1:36:37 AM): sekou always good he just enjoyin the sausages and the island folk and such
sekou sekou (1:36:40 AM): how are you
John "Swag" Cochran (1:37:35 AM): Pretty good, losing some of that nerdyness and starting to get some game.
John "Swag" Cochran (1:37:44 AM): Now Cochran can enjoy some sausages too.
sekou sekou (1:37:49 AM): O LAWD
sekou sekou (1:37:57 AM): thats what sekou like to heyahhh
John "Swag" Cochran (1:38:01 AM): LAWDY LAWD
John "Swag" Cochran (1:45:01 AM): So how goes the game for you so far?
sekou sekou (1:45:13 AM): pretty good
sekou sekou (1:45:17 AM): sekou enjoyin this twist
John "Swag" Cochran (1:45:44 AM): Haha, why?
sekou sekou (1:49:18 AM): it causin tribes to panic and stuff
John "Swag" Cochran (1:49:36 AM): Lol, indeed it is
John "Swag" Cochran (1:49:44 AM): Meanwhile, me and you can just sit here and relax
sekou sekou (1:51:54 AM): sekou wanna go to war
sekou sekou (1:51:57 AM): he dont wanna relax
sekou sekou (1:52:12 AM): sekou tryin to pin someone down and have 18 others get in on it
sekou sekou (1:52:15 AM): i mean 17
sekou sekou (1:52:29 AM): sekou dont do the math
John "Swag" Cochran (1:53:13 AM): Trying to keep Jonas in the game huh?
sekou sekou (1:55:52 AM): who are doin that to sekou
John "Swag" Cochran (1:56:35 AM): Well as far as I know, you're not the target
sekou sekou (2:00:01 AM): yeah i think sekou safe
sekou sekou (2:00:09 AM): affirmative action comin through
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Post by John "Swag" Cochran on Jun 5, 2013 3:02:11 GMT -5
In visual, this is what my mind looks like right now, in terms of the game and it's players.  |
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