Sorry I'm exhausted so this might be a short, rambling one
Kingsley was definitely going to be the vote even if HK and Igor were trying to use Kingsley to boot Oliver - they obviously wouldn't have had the numbers because myself/Crouch/Barty were never gonna do that.
I assume Fleur and co decided to boot Pyrites and then gave Kingsley the heads up in an Owl so that he knew to switch.
I really wish we had lost that challenge and booted Kingsley because now the waters are murkier that Pyrites is here.
Ostensibly we are now 5-2 down in the numbers which is a scary place to be in when I was in a comfortable majority of my starting Side and have only lost 1 challenge ALL GAME! This is almost as bad as Botswana when we won both challenges but Damien and I swapped 5-2 down.
But luckily I do feel reasonably confident in our 4 and all my efforts are spent in keeping it together and not giving Yaxley or Oliver any reason to stray from it. I NEED it to remain intact to get tot he merge safely
Interestingly there's a lot of bad blood between Hedwig's Killer and Pyrites. HK has the biggest hate boner for Pyrites and has put his foot down and said we're throwing the challenge to get rid of Pyrites. Given this is a very teamwork heavy challenge, I can't even see how we can possibly stop him. HK has a plan and he sure hell ain't listening to what anyone else wants to do.
So the easy vote is Pyrites... boot the inactive player that no one on either side cares about.
So enter my plan - I call it
"Hedwig's Killer is a bad ass and a manipulator of this game" plan
Drew Christy's downfall in S29E4 is one of my favourite episodes of all time. And I just see so many parallels between Hedwig's Killer and Drew Christy. He's someone who has absolutely no reason to be this confident, and then decides to Leroy Jenkins and go out on his own and single handedly throw this challenge so that he and he alone gets to choose who goes home. It would be SOOOOOOOOOOO satisfying to send him home because of a challenge that he forced us to throw. The cosmic irony would be hilarious!
The other benefit of this move is that it leaves Pyrites (who unlike HK, cannot be saved again) as an easy vote for a future tribal, meaning I have to survive AT MOST one more council before the merge (where hopefully we still have Igor to boot)
BUT I'm also aware that I have no real power on this Side. Ultimately, Crouch and Yaxley need to come to this decision that this is the best move for THEIR games. All I can do is break down the pro's and con's and saying that i'm just happy to go along with what they think, while not-subtly hinting that the HK decision is the better one.
Who knows, maybe it'll come back to burn ME. I wouldn't even be that mad. Would be the perfect conclusion to my OTTN story arc
Oh and looks like there's another HII up for grabs (I hope this doesn't mean that there were 4 hidden before the merge...)
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At least Yaxley and Pyrites have been given it, and Lucius at least knows about it. I've shared it with Diggs as a sign that I'm working with Yaxley and tend to keep working with him in the merge