Final 5

[Ben "Benry" Henry]

Yay! I was correct in what I thought would happen. Shannon DID have the idol, and me kind of passing Yve around to Brenda/Jane/Shannon ended up getting Yve bounced instead of Kelly S or I. Now comes the part where I really need to reinforce, HEY IDIOTS, Shannon DOES need to go now. So I think everyone knows the deal, and that I should be able to hopefully get to final 4, and at that point I'll just vote with Kelly S because I know she'll AT LEAST provide me a tie. I will act like I'm 100% with Jane though for extra security. This has worked out amazingly though, and going the route where I suggested Yve without actually putting her down has allowed me to have Yve on the jury not mad at me! Excellent stuff.

[Ben "Benry" Henry]

So yeah, now I'm reinforcing to Brenda and Jane that Shannon really needs to go. Which he does.

Then beyond that I'm allowing Jane and Brenda to think I'll have their back in the future, In reality, my hope is that they just take this group to final 4, and then I'll just vote with Kelly S no matter what. I think it looks best to jurors for me not to stick with Jane/Brenda all the way, so it'd be good if I get Kelly S into a tiebreaker with Jane/Brenda, and HOPEFULLY, Kelly S will lose so that I can go to the final 3 having kept my word to her, with yet another jury vote in my pocket hopefully, and able to sit next to a group that they will see as a pair that lied and schemed, while I, even though always in the know for the most part and planning things more than they probably see, will hopefully be seen as a really nice guy who played a good game...

I won't let them know everything though, even in the jury phase, because I think this is actually a case where if people know how much I was actually involved in certain facets of this game, that they might actually be more mad, lol. I'm gonna downplay aspects of myself to both not bury myself if I make the jury phase, and to also keep people thinking that I'm not this cocky bastard. Regardless how you slice it, the idol has been played TWICE now, and it was me treating EVERYONE like they matter that allowed me to get to the next phase in this game both of those times even while voting with my allies. (of course, both times I had a strong sense both that an idol would be played, and was actively securing if it was that I wasn't the person to take the fall, but....beyond that I won't suggest an even greater truth that I was playing a role trying to decide WHO of my allies went, as with Yve).

Anyway, winning immunity again would be nice, but it was great to see that I could still handle myself without it ever after a risky two immunity's won.