Week 5- I'M BACK BITCHES!!!

[James Rhine]

I'm not wasting my 2nd chance here. Time to get mean.

Two operations:

1) Work with Kristen: This led to a 5 person alliance consisting of me, Kristen, Casey, Enzo, and Brian. I'll call this alliance "James, Kristen, and our children", until we come up with something official later I trust Kristen a lot, and told her a great deal of info, including KFC. If I didn't have an obvious f2 with Brian, I'd go with Kristen. And I like that we're all knowledgeable in our alliance that it's me and Brian, and Kristen, Enzo, and Casey. That were two entities working together as one.

2) Rebuild Trust in KFC (just to deteriorate it later): This more so applies to Justin than Jen. He confronted me about not voting for Annie to stay and placing Jason high on my priority list in the food comp. I told him enough info for him to give me a second chance for this alliance. Works for me.

And after talking to everyone, I finally have an idea of where everyone stands:

Jen and Justin: Targeting Kristen and Amanda
Jason and Amanda (and Amy categorized with them): Targeting Jen and Justin
James, Brian, Kristen, Enzo, and Casey: Targeting everyone but each other.
Rachel and Britney floating.

For our 5 person alliance, we need to go after BRITNEY and RACHEL. Getting them out is integral, to make Jen and Justin's group go after Amanda and Jason, and vice-versa, with us 5 standing in the middle. They'd take each other out, letting us coast to an easy win later. We'll see how it works out! But for me personally, I need to go after Amy. I think it's understood she's gunning for me. There's no potential with her, and so I need to get her out.

[James Rhine]

Just spoke with Amy, and we actually got along! I told her the whole time that I was going to nominate her, but it made me feel bad... oh well! She needs to make up for her actions, and that she was being a bitch to me when I was nice to her when I came back into the house before the HoH competition.

My plan now is to nominate Amy and Britney, and for noms to stay the same. If Brit or Amy miraculously wins veto, I'll backdoor Jen b/c of her cheating ways. I think she'll do ANYTHING to win. She already tried to fish answers for the HoH comp from me, so I wouldn't be surprised if she did that from anyone else. And from an ethical standpoint, I can't justify keeping her around. That could easily affect my game, case in point last week's veto comp. She answered everything less than a minute, and I did it by myself and got 2nd place. Jen got 1st place. So regardless if I'm "aligned" with her through KFC or not, her cheating can and will affect my game if she stays.

That's only if a backdoor is necessary, and who won veto and who they used it on. But if Amy or Brit won veto themselves, that would be my plan. It would screw me over allies-wise, and may not be the smartest move for me strategically. But ethics does take precedence over a lot of things in my book, so we'll see what happens when the time comes. Not to mention winners going after each other may not be a good look for me.

[James Rhine]

LOL @ me setting me and Brian up to straight up chill town this season. I set up alliances for the both of us in the following locations:

1) Kristen, Enzo and Casey: KFCWPP
2) Jason and Amanda: In my Week 5 HoH room
3) Jen and Justin: KFC

(of course, in order of importance)

Makes easy nominations for me. No more making assumptions. We have "firm" alliances in each of these, and we'll see if they can take us as far as they can!

Should be interesting. I'm definitely playing my cards out now for both me and Brian as a collaborative unit.

[James Rhine]

Conversation with Amy right before nomination ceremony:

James R.: hey
James R.: about to post nomination ceremony
James R.: dont take what i said about you seriously
James R.: the house needs to think we still hate each other
Amy Crews: kk
Amy Crews: *waits to be nommed*
Amy Crews: I'm going to be fighting like hell for POV
James R.: it's all good, but seriously try your hardest at veto, as will I
James R.: I'm hinting that I'm in your corner, but that doesn't mean to not try lol
James R.: go for it!
James R.: but if other people talk to you, still say we don't talk/ hate each other
James R.: this should be an interesting week
Amy Crews: yes I will

...

James R.: nom ceremony's up
James R.: tell me what you think!
James R.: lol remember that im not serious about what i said to you
Amy Crews: Yeah I saw.
Amy Crews: I liked it, even though it was kinda harsh at me . Yeah.
Amy Crews: I know beforehand so I'm fine.
Amy Crews: As long as I don't go this week I'm fine, LOL
James R.: but feel free to react on the board if you want
James R.: just know that our conversation recently helped
James R.: youre still making up for what you did
James R.: but if i can help it
James R.: youll be off the block before this weeks over
James R.: but dont tell a SOUL
Amy Crews: haha yeah. I don't have the votes right now I don't think.
Amy Crews: I won't tell anyone.
James R.: i think its our advantage to act like we hate each other but come back and talk to each other for now
Amy Crews: I agree.
James R.: welcome to the "secretive" game of james r.
James R.: but yeah seriously i find out you told people, all bets are off.
James R.: this needs to be extremely hush hush
Amy Crews: yeah I won't say anything.
James R.: just thought id emphasize it X 1000 so were on the same page
Amy Crews: If you saw my season, one of my strengths was this.
Amy Crews: I don't reveal what I am told not to reveal.
James R.: ok thats good to know

...

James R.: that is the plan! but i told you as much of the plan as you need to know
James R.: gl! and im glad you know what most of my intentions are!
James R.: i think we're beginning to rebuild that bridge
James R.: and im happy with it
Amy Crews: yeah, I mean I liked you as a person before the game started and even when I nommed. you and all that, so I'm glad for this

Well, she really has no choice but to be glad because she's nominated. But we are getting along better now.

Plan this week is to backdoor Jen. She wouldve been safe had she not come at me asking for answers to the HoH comp. I dislike cheaters, and there's no room for them in this house as long as I'm here. Winner or not (and I would usually let others take winners out b/c I'd be the one next), she needs to go. I've made up my mind. Jen's my target this week. End of story.

[James Rhine]

Also, my key order: LOL! I tried my hardest to make people pull people they dislike. I think i succeeded with everyone but brian rachel and jason. But man, lol how funny is that. I hope people read into it. It'd be hilarious! I'll deny everything of course.

[James Rhine]

But real talk, I trust you guys the most. I'm thinking about backdooring Jen. She approached me during the HoH comp and straight up asked me for answers. I don't like cheaters, so Jen's bd nomination would be made from (as a philosophy major) an ethical standpoint. I don't want to risk Jen cheating that could affect any of our games, and I know it sure as hell could've affected mine. Jen got 1st in last week's veto comp, and I got 2nd (which sealed my fate). I'd be fine if I knew for sure she didn't cheat in that one, but it's very possible she did esp. after seeing that she tried to get answers out of me myself this hoh comp.

Thoughts?

I posted this then deleted this from my HoH room. I decided it's not essential for them to know. All their last logins were before the time I posted this, so hopefully none of them saw it.

[James Rhine]

This is kind of like poetry. Pretty beautiful. And once again, I find myself having major pull in the house. I win HoH, Brian wins veto, and I get Casey to use his Veto Power (though I found it very unnecessary for him to do so, he prob did it to get that power target off his back, and to protect Justin, though he sat Justin out of the competition). Everything's lining up for Jen to leave. My only concern now is that Britney might just quit, which would fuck up everything for me this week. We'll see what Brian wants to do.

[James Rhine]

Can't wait to see reactions

[James Rhine]

I spoke with Jen, and it went over pretty well. didn't save the convo, but I definitely felt like I got my point across on how much I dislike cheating. She asked me if I would get rid of my f2 for cheating, and I responded "Hell yea. I don't play that." She said, "Oh ok" and left the conversation at that, probably thinking I was just using it as an excuse to backdoor her. Nope! She's seriously just nominated for asking me answers to the HoH comp. Simple as that.