Week 3

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Week 3

While the challenge was a rough start for #MysticMark, I turned things around and I am your third Head of Household!!! Who wants to see my likely very British HoH roooooooommmmmm!?!

Jen, Porsche, and Austin threw the HoH to me. Why did I want it? Wasn't I just last round talking about coasting? So far this game has moved very slowly. No one is making waves and the nominees are just the players that aren't trying very hard. I'm not looking to rock the boat, but I feared that another player in my position would use this round to form an alliance. If I form the alliance, then I'll know that I'll be in it.

I'll post more details about today after I get home from the movies, but damn people SUDDENLY got a lot more social. Hmmm I wonder why that happened? haha. I made my first alliances of the game and went toe to toe with Marvin in an early social battle. More to come!

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Pandora you little devil you, tempting me with you mystery and might.

Call me old-school, just don't call me old. I didn't want to open Pandora's box. The obvious downside is that it could be terrible for me. I was scared that I would not be able to play in any veto challenges this season or something that would wreck my game. On the other side, if I got something good, everyone would know and that could put a target on my back.

I considered nominating Marvin this week VERY seriously because I knew he had a power. My thought process is that if we just get him to play it early he can't use it to bone me later on down the line. Marvin was up my ass today and sudden the funny guy routine stopped. Marvin revealed that he actually knows what the fuck he's doing. He told me his power was the ability to cancel 3 votes until the final 10. He also told me he too had to roll a number, 1-8. Some or all of this may be a fib, only you hosts know.

The power move would be to nominate Marvin this week to force his hand. We'd all be on equal playing ground and it may discourage people from opening Pandora's box in the future, which is what I want. I want people avoiding having that "reputation" even though it's not actually something to be afraid of. I just know if I can't have a special power in the future I don't want them to either. I can talk my way out of a lot of things, but not a twist.

I threw my idea out to Marvin guised as an attempt to make his action feel "defensive" and not like we were in cahoots. Marvin was not down for that and talked with me a ton afterward. Ultimately I backed off and said that we could save his power for next week to keep us both safe. I'd love for that to be true, but I'm not certain on marvins intentions.

If I don't start feeling better about Marvin I may put him up as the replacement to force his hand. We'll see.

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So let me quickly review who was in danger this week:

Amy, Louise, and Sarah all get knocked for not having a great social game with me. Maybe these ladies are on at different times then me, but I just don't see them around to make conversation with them. Louise I feel like is in a different country maybe since her English is only so-so (Kim), so (Kim) I give her a pass.

David is the strongest competitor so far this season and I don't have a close relationship with him. David admitted that he was nervous that I might be putting him up this week.

Marvin is a target for me for the reasons I listed above.

And lastly I don't really trust Austin. I can't tell you exactly why I don't, but I don't. Austin has a used car salesman vibe about him. I feel like Austin is saying and doing all the right things only because he knows they are the right things to do and say. I don't feel like my relationship with him is unique in any way to the relationships he is making with everyone else.

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I have a main alliance that I am trying to build this week, and then I'm trying my best to sure up side things with other players in the game.

I asked Jen and Porsche to be my core alliance. They helped me in the challenge and the two of them are online usually when I also am. I think they are easy to talk to and would make for good allies. Cody is the other main person that I want to bring into the fold. Cody told me he was another Amy vote in week 1 and we get along very well I've felt. Cody said he really trusts Louise.... not quite sure about that yet but it could be a possibility.

Completely separate from my work with the girls and Cody, Will wanted an alliance with me! I like Will though I realize he is not online at the same time as most people. Will wanted to make an alliance with Marvin. My deal still technically stands with Marvin to keep each other safe next week, but I don't know about how that's going to work out quite yet.

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I totally bombed the Veto competition! UGH! I'm not great at live challenges, and I had a VERY limited window to complete everything in yesterday. I was doing fine at the challenge, but then my browser crashed. I knew the winning time for the comp was going to be crazy low, so there was no point in continuing on after those problems occurred. I hope people didn't think I was intentionally throwing.

Puzzles just don't lay down for me like lovers.

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Last post in my confessional diarrhea,

If someone came off the block, I think I was going to put up Marvin. I just don't feel like I handled my situation well with him the other day, and I'm nervous about him having power next week. All the work I put into building an alliance this week will be undone if he cancels out our votes next week. David won veto this week for reasons that are beyond my comprehension and he said he wants to respect my decision and not use the veto. I don't have a good enough relationship with him to tell him to use it so I can put up Marvin, so it looks like a pretty tame end to this week. We'll see who the house wants out between Amy and Sarah... I don't much care.

I don't know how I did with my reign as HoH. I think I went with the wrong combo of being too strategic and not accomplishing a big enough result. I fear being targeted by Marvin, Austin, or David next week. Still, I hope I've made in-roads in creating a good alliance. Overall, I'd grade myself a B+