Parvati's Penetration

[Parvati Shallow]

Get your mind out of the gutter.

Definition: an attack that penetrates into enemy territory

Which is precisely what I will be doing. You guys were my enemies so I am ready to attack and hopefully know who I'll be voting for!



Anyways, onto my comments & questions.

To Both:
Congrats on final 2! I am really annoyed to find out you guys are B.F.F. in real life. I'm having Shii-Ann and Edgardo flashbacks. [Season1joke] Although it's good to know you both voted eachother off at points in the game. Still, it's a bit upsetting. I feel like you guys got to final 2 because Kenny and I had a beauty and the geek lover's quarrel at the merge x.x and it became a power struggle. Regardless, you got there so you deserve to be there.

To Jessica:

Personally, I think we get along fine outside of the game. So I hope you don't get offended by my confessional and vice versa. Inside the game was a different story. To me, you were like Taj from Survivor Tocantins. Pre-Merge, you were very active and playing the game by creating a big alliance at the start. I viewed you as the leader of Dani in the beginning. But then like Taj, after the merge, you basically went invisible. You did absolutely nothing and you practically gave up after Michelle was gone. I think you made a great move at the end and scored some Jury points by working hard in the final immunity and getting rid of Ken, who neither of you had a shot against.

To Todd:

We got along great as well outside of the game. In the game, you were just the opposite of Jessica. Pre-Merge you were last in your alliance and barely noticeable. After the merge, I noticed you more as a player. Part of the reason you were never the vote over Jessica was because of that alliance made between you, myself, Heidi, and Ken. I obviously regret not voting for you twice, but I still credit you for having a back up plan.


Questions to Jessica:

-What alliances did you make in the game that were with people you never aligned with before? If any?

-Why did you stop talking to me after the merge? Todd at least kept communication with me despite the fact we were enemies. convince me why I should vote for you if you are as social as people say? (And I was the one to initiate convos with you post merge. Also I'd like a different reason than enemies if there is one)

-Why didn't you try to stay in the game before Kenny told you he had an idol?

-Why didn't you pick me in the beginning of the game? I thought we talked the most of anyone and had a good connection? (Curiosity)


Questions to Todd:

-I think you have a bit of work to do as Jessica has quite a few friends on the Jury. (Or people who she was closer with) How was your social game better than Jessica's? Not just with me, but with all the players in the game? Who were you more social with than she was?

-Did Jessica convince you to give her the idol at final 8? How did that go down?

-Were you always "Pro-Dani" to the end? Tribal lines, to me, weren't a big thing. Why did you want to go to the end with all Dani people when you were at the bottom of it to begin with? I understand sticking with them at the merge, but when it got down to the wire did you ever consider flipping things?

-When you and I had that excruciating decision at the merge meeting, did you ever consider picking foe? (Curiosity)



Questions to both:

-Alliances are a huge part in Survivor. Without other people you can't win. Name all the alliances you had in the game and how each of them helped you progress. Whether it was a group alliance or a pair, mention it. If you made an alliance that didn't help you, don't list it.

-List all of the Jurors and predict how they will cast their votes. This basically will show who you think will win, but give a statement next to each name saying why you think they will vote that way.



Thanks and good luck! I've leaned both ways at points and I'm currently undecided.

[Todd]

Hey Parv, its great to see you again !!

-I think you have a bit of work to do as Jessica has quite a few friends on the Jury. (Or people who she was closer with) How was your social game better than Jessica's? Not just with me, but with all the players in the game? Who were you more social with than she was?
I believe my social game was better than Jessica's because I always tried to keep an open line of communication with each player in the game, and this mostly came into effect post-merge. Like you said, when I was on Dani I relied on my alliance to carry me through but once I was on Kolana I tried talking to everybody. And I say try because it didn't always work. I was more social than Jessica with you and Heidi. I really enjoyed the conversations we had because we both cared a lot about the game. Unfortunately I didn't succeed in being social with Natalie. When I did, we got in a huge fight and didn't talk for the rest of the game. I believe that I was social with Judd and JT as well but due to previous relationships Jess had the upper hand when it came to those two.

-Did Jessica convince you to give her the idol at final 8? How did that go down?
Yes, she did. Originally I did not want to give it to her because I put a lot of faith in the alliance I had with you, Kenny, and Heidi. And I believed that part of our deal was to vote Natalie off first, and then Jess the next round. So we all cast our votes for Natalie and I was content to leave it like that but Jess kept insisting that I give her the idol. I told her that I wanted to save it for the next round because I felt that was when she was really in danger, but she didn't see my logic in that because I hadn't told her about the Final Four alliance of me/you/Kenny/Heidi. I was keeping my options open because I wanted to keep that deal a secret in case I needed to fall back on it, but I also planned on giving my idol to Jess the next round to save her. She basically told me I was crazy for trusting you so in the end I agreed to give her my idol because I could understand where she was coming from and I trusted her more than I trusted you.

-Were you always "Pro-Dani" to the end? Tribal lines, to me, weren't a big thing. Why did you want to go to the end with all Dani people when you were at the bottom of it to begin with? I understand sticking with them at the merge, but when it got down to the wire did you ever consider flipping things?
Yeah, I really was Pro-Dani to the end. Although my alliance agreed to split the votes between Steph and I in case the idol was played, it never really clicked that I was on the bottom of the alliance. Since Jess and I are so close I didn't think she would throw me under the bus that early, plus we had a Final Three deal with Michelle so despite being on the bottom of my alliance, I didn't really think I was. By making a deal with you, Heidi, and Kenny that was my attempt at flipping things, but that was always my backup plan and not what I really intended to do. I felt pretty secure where I was, even though I wasn't because I almost went home again at Final Four. Had I known I was in thaat much danger, I probably would have given more thought to voting against Dani.

-When you and I had that excruciating decision at the merge meeting, did you ever consider picking foe? (Curiosity)
Ohh yeah. I was actually in Jessica's kitchen when that whole thing went down. At first I wanted to pick foe because an idol on our side would have been a huge help, but when I realized that possibly meant having to go against you in a head to head competition I nearly shit my pants because I was so scared. There was no way I would have been able to beat you in a challenge, and even though it would have been awesome to do that and send you home I had like a 1/1,000,000 chance at doing that. Jess was telling me OMG you cannot let her get an idol, but I had no other choice because I didn't want to risk my safety in the game over an idol, so that is why I picked friend.

-Alliances are a huge part in Survivor. Without other people you can't win. Name all the alliances you had in the game and how each of them helped you progress. Whether it was a group alliance or a pair, mention it. If you made an alliance that didn't help you, don't list it.

Dani alliance of me/Kenny/Jess/Erin/Colby/Michelle. That one helped me survive the first couple boots. Erin became inactive and thats why we had to vote her out when we did, and Natalie kinda stepped in to fill her shoes.

I also had an alliance with Silas and Kenny. Kenny and I were really close with him but since he was never online from living in another time zone Kenny and I weren't able to rally the votes to save him past the second Dani tribal.

I also had an alliance with Colby outside of the main alliance. It never could have carried over to the merge though because if he wasn't voted out when he was it would have been me, but if circumstances had been different and nuDani had won that last pre-merge immunity I would have loved to work with Colby and go far with him.

I came into this game with a Final Three alliance with Jess and Michelle. If Michelle had lasted longer I probably wouldn't have stuck with that alliance to the top three because Jess and Michelle are suuper close and I definitely would have been out third had I not won the final immunity.

Final Four alliance I made with you/Kenny/Heidi. As I have said that was my backup plan but it was definitely a good idea and part of the reason I survived as long as I did.

Dani alliance with Jess and Kenny. My main alliance, the one I was most loyal to, and the one I took to the end against all odds. Never thought it woulda happened but it did and that is amazing.

-List all of the Jurors and predict how they will cast their votes. This basically will show who you think will win, but give a statement next to each name saying why you think they will vote that way.
Colby- Todd. Hopefully Colby will realize that I was sincere in the alliance I made with him and will vote for me because I didn't actively campaign for him to get voted off.
Michelle- Jess hands down, because they are super duper close.
Aras- Todd. He already said he was gonna vote for me because I gave him $1 at the Survivor Auction.
Natalie- Jess. Me and Natalie got into a huge fight and it caused us to stop talking, I don't think she'll vote for me because of that.
Heidi- Todd. Will appreciate my gameplay over Jess' and making the Final Four with her, Parv and Kenny.
Parv- Todd. We were both extremely dedicated to this game and I think she will appreciate that fact when casting her vote.
Judd- Jess. The pointless lie I told him will probably lead him to vote for Jess.
JT- Jess, for sure. They are super close and I don't think my answers did anything for JT.
Kenny- Todd. See Kenny's jury thread.

I may be being optimistic here, but nonetheless I think this is going to be a close vote. I'm pretty sure of where Michelle, Aras, JT and Kenny's votes will fall and that will leave us at a 2-2 tie. I'm hoping to get yours Parv, but who knows, its a toss up and the rest could honestly go either way. Its going to be very interesting/intense to see what happens but needless to say I'm veryyyy excited to find out who the winner is.

Awesome questions, Parv !! I honestly enjoyed playing this game with you, and talking to you, and I respect your game play and your dedication to the game

[jessica]

I'm working on your questions now Parv, and Todd really was freaking out at the friend or foe thing. He was petrified of going up against you in a challenge.

[jessica]

-What alliances did you make in the game that were with people you never aligned with before? If any?
On original Dani I was at one point aligned with Colby, Natalie and Erin. Of course throughout the game I think we all know how this ended up working out due to other questions that I have answered. Colby we voted out because we were afraid of him flipping. Natalie flipped sides at merge. And Erin we voted out in order to try and keep our tribe strong. While I was aligned with other people throughout the game, these three people are all people that I had never aligned with before in any game.

-Why did you stop talking to me after the merge? Todd at least kept communication with me despite the fact we were enemies. convince me why I should vote for you if you are as social as people say? (And I was the one to initiate convos with you post merge. Also I'd like a different reason than enemies if there is one)
I don’t really think it was because I saw you as my enemy, I did try and talk to you occasionally after merge. For example the time where I asked you if my kidneys were dying because of drinking too much water. I’m pretty sure that convo happened after merge. I feel that once merge came I was so focused on trying to figure out a way to keep myself in this game, especially after Michelle got voted out. I didn’t come to you when I thought I was going to be voted out the way that Todd came to you and made deals cuz I knew that both of us would be lying through our teeth and why waste the energy later trying to figure out if the other person was being honest. I think another part of the reason I never came to talk to you much after merge is that I felt a lot of the previous convos were all ones that I had initiated. I felt that you didn’t want to talk to me much because I didn’t know if you didn’t like me in the game only or outside of it too. Not to mention I guess at times I had a sort of the same mentality that Aras had where he would only talk to those in his alliance.

-Why didn't you try to stay in the game before Kenny told you he had an idol?
The first round that I used an idol was the one that Aras was sent home. That whole entire weekend I was out of town at my Aunt’s house. (Something I fought but in the end had to go) She didn’t have internet I could use and I had very little cell service so it’s not like I could get online with my phone. I had gotten a text message from Todd saying that you had won the challenge, which I honestly had figured you would. So I knew that by the time I got home Sunday, I would have enough time to vote and that would be it. I’d have no time to scramble, no time to figure out who to switch their votes etc. and had just accepted my fate of being voted out and becoming the third juror. When I came on when I got home the first person I talked to was Kenny and I asked him who our side was voting for and more or less told him how I knew I had no chance in the world of staying the game cuz I was away. That’s when Kenny told me how he knew everybody was voting for me, even Todd in order to save his ass because he thought I was being voted out but that he had the idol and was going to give it to me. So up until the day that those votes were due, I had no idea that he had the idol. I guess I should have figured that he’d have it since he’s such a good player in those senses but I really didn’t know.

-Why didn't you pick me in the beginning of the game? I thought we talked the most of anyone and had a good connection? (Curiosity)
I was going to pick you for my tribe. At the time my main goal was to have Michelle and Todd on my tribe and you were going to be picked shortly after that but Steph got you before I could pick you. I did want you on my tribe, I even wrote in my confessional at the beginning of the game that I really wanted to work with you. And then later on when I found out that part of the reason that you didn’t like me in the game was because I didn’t pick you for my tribe I wrote again in there on why I wanted to pick you but you got picked before I could. Out of everybody that I didn’t know before coming into this game you were the one that I had talked to the most and we had an amazing connection. I was truly honest and real with you in all those conversations. Our twilight team Edward alliance should have worked if the game had worked out differently.
-Alliances are a huge part in Survivor. Without other people you can't win. Name all the alliances you had in the game and how each of them helped you progress. Whether it was a group alliance or a pair, mention it. If you made an alliance that didn't help you, don't list it.
Kenny & Todd: Without both of these amazing boys and their idols I would not be sitting here right now. Throughout the game all three of us were there for each other and when somebody needed help the other two were there for that person.
Colby: I regret voting him out. For the most part like I said in an answer to one of his questions I do feel that he was being sincere with me when he said that he would never write down the name of myself or Michelle and if we hadn’t voted him out that Michelle would have been able to make it farther in this game.
JT: Without JT I feel I would have lost an ally at the vote where Heidi was voted out. Mainly due to the fact that since I got him to vote with us, Kenny didn’t get voted out. And it would show that at times later in the game I would need Kenny.
Michelle: she was there just to listen to me bitch about people in this game. And sometimes that’s all you ever need.

-List all of the Jurors and predict how they will cast their votes. This basically will show who you think will win, but give a statement next to each name saying why you think they will vote that way.
Now these are the exact types of questions that I don’t really like. I’m not an arrogant person, and I have made it a point not to come into this finale as an arrogant contestant because it’s always a turn off to the jury. There are some people that I don’t know how they’ll vote, like I really have no idea. They could go either way and I wish them the best of luck with their decision. But as far as the question goes, I’ll list the people that I think I pretty much know their vote rather than mention every juror. I hope this is acceptable but I don’t like trying to make up people’s minds for them due or assume that they’re going to vote me when they weren’t going to all along.
Kenny: Todd. Kenny will vote Todd hands down. I thought that even before Kenny and I got into our fight.
Heidi & Aras: Todd. Aras made it apparent in his jury statements that he’s voting for Todd, and as far as Heidi goes, Todd actually talked to her at times while I didn’t.
JT: Jessica. I do feel that Jt will vote for me just based on the fact that while I was tricked into voting him out, he understands how it happened and why I did what I did.
Michelle: Jessica. I feel that based on the relationship I have with her that she will vote for me not to mention the way that she questioned Todd in her jury questioning.
Judd: Jessica. I feel he’s leaning toward me but that it’s not necessarily a definite. He has told me that he’s always respected my gameplay in the few games that we have played together in the past.
Colby & Parvati: I feel that both of you could go either way. I’m not sure who you’re leaning toward voting and nor am I going to assume that either of you are going to vote for me just because in my heart I want you to.


Thanks so much for the questions Parv, I really did enjoy answering them (No, I haven't just been saying that. I really do like answering them.) Good luck with your decision! Team Edward <3

[natalie]

May 8, 2010 22:48:09 GMT -5 jessica said:

-What alliances did you make in the game that were with people you never aligned with before? If any?
On original Dani I was at one point aligned with Colby, Natalie and Erin.

Um...hate to interrupt but WHEN DID THIS FUCKING HAPPEN?

[jessica]

when we were on original Dani. if i have to il'l go back through our aim conversations and find it. it was in the first days of the game.

[natalie]

We never had an alliance. Ever.