Round 1

[porsche]

Hi people! I'm Porsche and I'm really looking forward to this game! I've had an interesting first two days in this game. I really don't know how well I'm doing at all. I know I've said this before but this game is SO different than other games I've played. By this point, I would probably have an alliance or two and I would be talking with everyone about who we liked and who we wanted to target and I would have a sense of who liked me and who didn't and what my position in the game was.

In here, there's no alliances and no game talk whatsoever. At least that I know of. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some alliance that existed, but I'm not going to go crazy trying to sniff it out. The game has barely started and I'm just trying to focus on getting to know everyone and getting people to like me.

I think I should be okay though? I've talked to most people in this game and I feel like as long as I've had at least some kind of conversation with them I should be good with them for now? I've started like 80% of the conversations I've had so I really don't know how much these people are talking. I think I'm doing pretty well and I assume I'll make it through the first week but it's a little weird with nobody talking game at all.

For this twist, I thiiink I have an idea of who it is. I don't see it being a week where whoever gets the most votes is eliminated. If it was something that serious, I would assume the hosts would say that in the post. I get the feeling that whoever gets the most votes is going to be the HOH for maximum drama. Especially with the votes being revealed.

I'm not sure how to play this twist though. Not being able to talk to anyone about it makes it hard. If I could I would find someone who wouldn't take it personally if I voted for them and then I would vote for them so nobody would be mad at me. It would also be a good way to start easing into game talk with people.

I don't want to vote for someone I never talked with though. If it really is for the HOH, then I could be helping someone who would possibly nominate me get into power, and they would know that I voted for them. If I vote for someone who I've talked a lot with though, there's no way for me to communicate to them that I'm doing it because I want them to be HOH. I can tell them after but that's what everyone will be telling them. I don't want someone feeling betrayed by me.

The best case scenario is voting for someone who isn't going to win. Maybe someone in the middle, who I've talked with but not a lot? I don't know. I also don't want to vote for someone I'm tight with just in case I'm wrong and put them in danger.

[porsche]

Time is running out to submit a vote and I'm really not sure what I'm going to do. I guess I'll just run through my first impressions and hopefully me talking out loud will give me an idea of what I want to do.

Amy: I've talked with her by far the most and I like her a lot. I'm not sure how close I am to her but I do want her to stick around. She's the only one who I talked at least a little about game and we had a lot of the same experiences on who we talked to and who we hadn't. Of course, she then immediately dropped the gametalk.

Austin: I like him! He was one of the last few people I talked to but I'm getting along pretty well with him. He has personality and he dislikes Austin from BB17 which are all good signs.

Clay: Clay is a little...boring? That's just the impression I'm getting from his public posts and his PMs. They all seem so short and I'm not sure how to reply to them. But he's making effort and he replies quickly.

Cody: Cody is alright. He's one of the longer talkers, even though we haven't spoken that much. He told me "you must think I'm a schmoozer" so I don't know what he thinks I think of him. It was slightly awkward but he sounds like someone I'd like once I got a chance to talk more with him.

David: I've talked with him the second most after Amy. I'm liking him more than now than when I answered the staff questions, but I wouldn't call him my favorite. He can sometimes just give one line replies that are really hard to respond to. He did tell me he liked me when we were joking around but that was after we had exchanged three pages of messages so I would feel pretty good if he won HOH.

Janelle: I saw her online but put off PMing me. She was one of the few people who reached out to me. So far we haven't really talked a lot.

Jen: Okay first of all I just came out of a game where someone playing as Jen voted me out. I'm not going to let it affect me of course, I'm sure they're not the same player and even if they were, that doesn't mean we can't be allies here or anything. It is freaky especially because this Jen has the EXACT. SAME. AVATAR. Lol. But anyway, I like Jen. I've talked with her a ton, however most of it is just kind of filler PMs. She is friendly, though.

Kaitlin: I sent her a message just now.

Louise: She's fun and I love her creative emoticons. Our conversation doesn't really go anywhere though, but she is one of the people I enjoy the most.

Mark: I've gotten two PMs from him. One was him telling me he would reply to me soon and the other was telling me how much he liked my signature. Okay then.

Marvin: He's been flirting so much with me. I'm kind of playing into it to be fair but I keep waiting for him to talk about something else and he never does. I wonder if he knows I'm not really a girl lol. I've talked with him more than most of the others though.

Sarah: I've just started talking to her because I put off messaging her but she seems pretty good from the two messages she's sent. She feels like she's pretty competent and I'd like to get to know her more.

Will: Will made a public post hinting that he thought our vote wasn't a vote to evict. That immediately made me think to vote for him since I don't think he would see that as negatively as the others would. The only problem is that I don't want Will to be HOH. I've talked with him a little bit and he seems strong but then he totally dropped my last PM and I don't know how safe I would be with him. It's probably just him being less active with everyone but I don't know.

[porsche]

Okay Clay voted for me. Not sure what to make of it but at least now I don't feel bad about my vote. Hopefully I don't get any others.

[porsche]

Oh great, the one person I hadn't gotten a PM from becomes the new HOH. Hopefully the people that voted for Kaitlin did so because they hadn't talked to her and I'm not the only one.

[porsche]

kaitlinraf13 (16:34:41): So it's getting close to the deadline
kaitlinraf13 (16:34:47): I think I have my noms in mind
Porsche Briggs (16:35:02): oh?
kaitlinraf13 (16:34:52): you're safe


Porsche Briggs (16:38:36): so what are you thinking for noms?
kaitlinraf13 (16:44:18): I'm thinking Clay
Porsche Briggs (16:44:45): I would be good with that
kaitlinraf13 (16:44:35): he hasn't initiated a convo with me
kaitlinraf13 (16:44:44): so I'm like *shrugs*

I was really worried when I saw Kaitlin had won HOH. I never spoke to her and I didn't vote for her because she was such a wildcard. But this week could go surprisingly well for me. Louise mentioned that I was in Kaitlin's "top half" simply because I had approached her which a lot of these players hadn't done. I don't get it, why would you not at least talk to the HOH and ask to be safe? But that's not my problem. I'll be happy to make it through the week.

Kaitlin said she would be putting up Clay which is great for me. Clay voted for me and when I approached him about it he didn't come right out and say that he wanted me to be HOH so I assume I must have rubbed him the wrong way. If he leaves, that's going to be great for me. He also dropped our conversation so I don't really care for him. Kaitlin hinted her other nominee would be Amy which I'm not too happy with, but I don't really care as long as I'm safe. It shouldn't be too hard to get Clay voted out over Amy, I think. A wildcard winning HOH and getting rid of a threat while the blood stays off of my hands isn't a bad idea actually, but I feel like Amy likes me so I don't want to take that path. I'm getting ahead of myself though, I don't know what the nominations will be.

Kaitlin is interesting. Pretty much everybody said they hadn't talked with her and nobody sounded confident about how the week would go. If Kaitlin doesn't have anybody in this game, she could become an easy target later on, or someone I'd like to get close to. I'd prefer the latter but we'll have to see, I imagine other people are thinking the same thing and it's kind of hard to have a full conversation with her.

[Ika]

Porsche,

Congrats on being safe so far. Welcome to the game gl to you...

[porsche]

I'm safe! I was expecting the worst when I saw that Kaitlin had won HOH but I've quickly realized that nobody had talked to Kaitlin and we were all in the same boat. I had already sent her a PM but I sent her another one and reached out on AIM and now I'm safe. I got the first key which is interesting but probably meaningless. I'll just keep up communication with Kaitlin and I'll see if I can talk with her more. I feel like most people will stop talking to her once they saw they were safe.

She put up Clay and Amy which is what I was expecting. Everybody I've talked to has said that they're leaning towards Clay which is how I feel too. I'm really not sure how Clay feels about me and I feel a lot better about Amy. He did vote for me too, and I'm not sure if that's a positive or a negative thing.

A third of this cast are all telling me how much they like me and want to work with me. I still haven't heard of any alliances that are more than 2 people which is a little worrying, and I'm not sure what to think of it. There's nothing I can really do besides get close to enough people where they would invite me into an alliance if they were starting it or tell me about it if it already existed.

Now that I've gotten to talk to some of these people a little bit more, it's time to rank them! It is still incredibly early of course, and it could easily change.

1.  
I'm really loving Louise! She's a lot of fun to talk to and her emoticons are amazing. She also asked me to work together, and it felt more natural than any of the other people who told me how much they liked me. We haven't talked too much about our alliance but we are talking about the other people and it seems like she values my opinion. If we can make this a pair I would be really happy.

2. 
I wasn't sold on David when we were talking at the board even though we did talk a lot, but I'm liking him better when we talked on AIM. He's the right mix of funny and trolly and I've talked with him more than a lot of the people here. He's also been free with sharing his opinions on the other players, even when they're mostly negative and I value that he trusts me enough to tell me his thoughts. There was one weird thing that happened, though. He asked me for an alliance and I accepted. And then 40 minutes later, this happened.

Porsche Briggs (23:57:51): so
Porsche Briggs (23:57:58): now that we're working together
David (23:57:53): We are?
Porsche Briggs (23:58:10): do you want to compare notes on how we feel about the others?
Porsche Briggs (23:58:55):
David
So on that note
Wanna work together in this game :-D
David (23:58:53): Hahahaha, I know
David (23:59:09): Sarah and I just said how are you to each other like 10 times
David (23:59:14): I like Sarah right now

I really don't know what to make of it. He forgot about our alliance, I reminded him and then he said he knew and brushed it off. Was he joking? I'm not sure. I still do want to work with him but I trust Louise more.
3. 
Jen was someone else who I wasn't sure how I felt about her at the board. She would send lots of messages but they were all pretty short and fillery. On AIM she's been like that too but now that we can have a conversation I'm getting a much better sense of her personality and it's very fun and lighthearted. I'm having fun talking to her (though I haven't talked with her in a while). She also told me she talked with me the most by far. I'd like to believe it's true but even if it isn't, we have talked a lot and if she won HOH I would feel safe. One thing, though, was that as soon as we got to talk on AIM we started talking about the votes and I was saying I was happy it worked out so well and she was like, "please, you were so chatty." I'll have to look out for her thinking I'm a threat.
4. 
I didn't talk to Sarah too much at first and I didn't vote for her because I wasn't completely comfortable if she did win but now that I've gotten a chance to talk to her I really like her. She's a lot different from the other players. She takes forever to reply on AIM but when she does she gives a very thought out and long reply. I really do feel like PM games are more her speed and it's a little weird how she says she hasn't played them before but whatever. She's also so bitchy and I love it. I'm coming from a background where I'm used to people writing essay PMs and AIM messages are a big change, and Sarah is someone who is very wordy and dislikes all of the short messages people write, so it was very easy to bond with her. We're making fun of the IMs people give us. At first she just said she got a message from "someone" and then made fun of it but now she's showing me all of her PMs from Austin and we're laughing at them together so I feel like she's trusting me more.
5. 
A lot of the people above her are people I wasn't too sure about just from PMing them but I moved them up once I got to talk to them on AIM. With Amy it's sort of the opposite. I probably felt the best about her from PMs but I'm not really sure what to think of her now. I like her and I've talked with her a lot but I also don't really know how she feels about me. The people on the top half of this list have all given signs that I'm good with them, whether it's telling me that outright or just telling me info about the other players they wouldn't give to just anyone. I've talked a lot with Amy but almost none of it has been gametalk. I assume I'm good with her but she hasn't given me any reassurances. Even when I talked about her getting nominated and said I would vote to keep her, she kind of brushed that aside. Not going to lie, I have thought about voting her out this round but with everyone saying they would lean towards Clay I don't think it's worth it. I do like Amy though which is why she ranks this high.
6. 
Austin was somebody I was looking forward to talking more to when we were PMing but wasn't at the top of my list, and I feel the same way now. Sarah's been making fun of his IMs and she does have a point. In my experiences with him a lot of his messages have been much shorter than my messages and I feel like I'm doing most of the work in this conversation. I could go either way on him, I've had better chats with a lot of other people but we do talk. And best of all he told me I was the one he talked with the most. I'm not sure if I am, he seems like someone who is social and I know he's been flirting with David, but it is good that he is at least telling me that and going out of his way to make me like him. And if he really has talked with me the most, then I definitely want him around.
7. 
I was starting to feel a little uncomfortable by the end of our board chats. He kept hitting on me and while it was fun I was wanting to move onto another topic. I didn't go out of my way to talk with him on AIM because I didn't want more of the same. But then we talked yesterday and he was a completely different person. He wasn't goofy at all, he was much more serious and talked about the ins and outs of big brother and went into a lot of depth. I was like, where did this guy come from? But I like him. I haven't talked with him as much as I have with the others but I've talked with him enough. Kind of fitting he gets the middle spot on this ranking lol. I was talking with Louise though and she said Marvin was hitting on her too Not cool, Marvin!
8. 
I'm not sure what to make of him. He's friendly and funny and I like him. He also posts a lot of gifs and as someone who really likes gifs, that's a plus. I can also clearly see his personality which isn't something I can say of the people below him. But on the other hand, I haven't talked with him since the night before last. And David did bring up a good point about him: he's very paranoid. On the board there was the whole awkward thing with him saying I must think he was a schmoozer and then him convinced he was getting nominated by Kaitlin. It's small but it's something to remember. I want to talk with him more but it always says he's busy on AIM.
9. 
Mark is verrry vanilla. I've talked with him and he's nice, but I just don't really get a sense of who this guy is. I feel a bit bad putting him this low. I get the feeling if he did a ranking, I would be higher on his than he is on mine. He's said he hopes we're both safe and even asked me to put in a good word for him with Kaitlin. But he's just sort of boring. Like, these are some of his responses:

onthemarkymark (14:25:05): Lol
onthemarkymark (14:25:35): For sure what else can you do
onthemarkymark (15:10:30): Ah so it works
onthemarkymark (15:18:40): Lolol yup
onthemarkymark (15:21:34): Mmhm
onthemarkymark (15:30:48): For now lol
onthemarkymark (15:33:37): Prolly yeah

These are his entire replies, it's not like he writes that and then there are any extra lines where he elaborates, that's it. Come on Mark, I don't want to be the one carrying the weight of this conversation!
10. 
I really wasn't sure what to expect from Kaitlin when she won but she kept me safe and I am even in her top half according to Louise! I didn't see her online much at all but then a couple hours ago we started talking and she really surprised me. She's successful irl and gave me a lot of great advice. She's very well spoken and I do want to get to know her more but she's also very busy and I see her being the one evicted this round if it was a normal week. If I won next week, I wouldn't put her up though. From the little I've talked with her I do like her. There are a lot of people who I'm not sure what they would do if they won, and Kaitlin is someone who already one and showed me I was safe with her, so it would be a waste of my HOH to target her especially because I can see people coming after her soon. I would like to keep her in the game, especially if she keeps talking to me, but I also wouldn't go out of my way to keep her.
11. 
I have barely had a chance to talk with Janelle. Every time I try I get anywhere from 5-15 minutes into a conversation and then she just stops replying and I have no idea where she went. I can see her becoming a good pawn.
12. 
Will scares me a little bit. I've heard people say good things about him and I haven't heard anything negative about him but I barely got a chance to know him at all. I got two messages from him on the board and it was going pretty good and then he stopped replying. I talked with him yesterday morning for a little bit, but I just don't know where I stand with him and I don't know what would happen if he would win HOH.

13. 

Thinking this over, he probably shouldn't be so low. I've actually had a chance to talk to him, and he's alright if a little boring. I just haven't talked with him for that long and the vote he cast on me makes me a little worried. I don't see him being that strategic of a player to vote for me assuming it was for HOH. I don't know what would happen if he won HOH. Well he would obviously put up Kaitlin but I don't know how safe I would be with him.

[porsche]

Clay is telling me he wants me to keep him because "we're so close" and that he voted for me because he knew it was for HOH. Do I believe him? Not particularly, we just started talking the day of the vote and he awkwardly dropped the convo when we were talking about voting for each other. It does bring up an interesting point though, should I be considering keeping Clay? As soon as the noms were announced I planned on voting him out, but it's good to explore all possibilities. Amy hasn't even asked for my vote.

Clay is telling me he can get the votes though. He says he's counting on Mark, Austin, Cody, Janelle, Louise, jen and me. I believe he can get the first four if Janelle votes. Louise doesn't like him and said she would vote for him and Jen already voted for him. I suppose it's possible if Sarah was on board or I convinced Louise but I don't want to campaign for him if I'm pretty sure I'd vote for Amy anyway. I don't think the votes are there, and I feel better about Amy. She is more of a threat but I'd like to think she likes me, even if she isn't the best at showing it.