I haven't figured any of this out yet. This is all very new so I have a lot to think about.
So let's back up to the state of affairs as of last night, me not voting, and playing the idol. I know you think I'm a lunatic, but here's what happened:
People who have been ignoring me since the merge started PMing me. I heard from Kim, BJ, Tom, Jolanda even responded with more than one sentence containing 3 lies in it. Since I really thought a Pagonging was going to take place, my strategy was to be the loner out there and make both Chorotega "sides" think that they could use me as their fourth vote when they needed to start eating the other half. I talked about that last episode and what I was shooting for.
I think I went over the Jolanda PMs but basically she was fishing for info on the nuChorotega idol and telling me she was campaigning for me to stay really hard.

I also asked her to tell me who to vote for before the vote so I could vote with the majority which of course she never did. Good riddance Jolanda. You played a horrible game. You needed my vote tonight. But instead you were a raging bitch to me and completely ignored me and tried to play me. And you lost.
Now let's get to Bobby Jon now that I have figured out what was going on. So....... as a result of my "I'm all alone and I suck" strategy, Bobby Jon decided to take me under his wing. I already wrote about the strange PMs last night and how I didn't understand them. He basically said he wanted to work with me and he wanted to get Jolanda out and wanted to know if I would do it. I didn't get it because if he wanted to get Jo out, he had the votes. So this was all rather strange. Oh and he gave me the same story that the Jo/Ibe/Gregg side was trying to get me out and he was going to try to save me.

At this point it's pretty much confirmed I am not being voted out. So I gave the standard cookie cutter answer that if he had the votes I would do whatever he wanted, I have no one, etc. etc.
So tonight.... right before TC, he sends me a note that he managed to save me

, but he didn't have the votes to get Jo out and that he promised I was safe, but I should vote for Lisa. What? OK I knew this wasn't true based on what happened with Tom, which we will get to later. So... what? So now I'm panicking because I think Lisa is really leaving and he and Kim were voting Lisa out. I sent this all to Tom and Ami who was online right before TC, but Tom never showed up. He came in 25 minutes into TC, but the whole time I was sweating hoping he pre-voted and it would be a 5-5 tie at worst and I think Mia would break the tie because she had immunity. But it was a nail biter.
I couldn't figure out at the time what was happening, but then I realized afterwards. Luckily Jo went home. But what BJ was trying to do was pull a power move, get me to work with him, and flip on Tom. And that really backfired in his face because he has no idea what happened today. I really don't know what he was thinking though. Because Kim voted out Jo too, so even if I did, it was only 5 votes. Unless he thought Kim was voting out Lisa too, and she lied to him. I have no idea and Tom really seemed surprised when I sent him what I did. And worried.

I did have to scramble a bit because of course Mia assumed I voted out Lisa. I think they believe me after I sent them the PM BJ sent me. And he admitted it to me like what happened? I thought we were working together. I tried to get him to explain what he did and why, but he kinda glossed over that part saying he wasn't informed about the vote which I know was clearly bullshit. At this point... I think he thinks that I am still agreeing to work with him. I told him I was confused because Tom had told me Jo and he told me Lisa and I was panicking that I was getting tricked so I just left my vote for Jo and worst case it just looked like I voted with the Guatusos. I obviously just said that Tom told me to vote for Jolanda like he did last night, so I was confused. I also promised BJ I wouldn't vote for him and I would let him know if I heard his name. I'm not sure that's a promise I am going to keep. We'll also get to that later.
I have no idea what BJ tried to pull and why he thought it would work. But he's in deep shit right about now. I love it. I am no longer the one in deep shit. At least on the surface.
So let's get to Tom and our conversations. I posted what happened earlier today and how I was going to put a proposition out there that I would do whatever he wanted and I would act as a swing vote for him. Tom really seems like a good guy and to this point I have absolutely no reason not to trust him. He told me Chris was going last night. And he told me a lot of juicy details about the inner workings of both Chorotega and nuChorotega. And I really think he is serious about working with me. So pre-swap Ibe/Jo/Tom/BJ were an unofficial alliance, but clearly Tom and BJ were the two who were really together. This continued over to nuChorotega. It seems, however, that Mia and Chris formed a four person alliance with Tom and BJ. Chris had pretty much told me all about that without actually calling it an alliance. Which was why he was so sure that Jolanda was going last night. Tom ALSO told me that Ami was brought into the mix, HOWEVER she would have been the first Chorotega boot if they ever lost a challenge.
This one I'm having a hard time with. They were going to boot Ami over Caryn or Lisa? And really Chris and Mia were going to vote off Ami? I think they may have been bullshitting him. Mia and Ami still seem very tight... the same way they were on Guatuso. And I still to this day have the same suspicions about them working together. But who knows with Mia. She's all over the fucking place. One thing I do know for sure though, is that Mia is DEFINITELY working with Tom.
So what conflicts with this story a little bit was Chris approaching me after the merge and saying me, him, and Ami should work together. Then right after that sending me a "Fuck it.... let's get the whole tribe back together PM." I at least know that Chris was serious about that. At least he was really convincing about it. He told me a lot of stuff. He didn't need my vote at all. If that group was together, they could just pick the rest of us off. I mean Mia was saying the same stuff too that it was Guatuso five again and we'd try to make it to the end. I don't really get all this if they weren't serious, because like I said.... they didn't need that to happen. And from everything I could tell, Mia and Chris were DEFINITELY working towards the common goal of the five of us sticking together. And they didn't need to do it. I think what probably happened was they got scared that Tom and co. would band back together with Jolanda and co. And also.... they didn't want to be sitting next to one of them at the end with a jury that was predominantly Chorotega. I could be completely reading it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that they were serious about it. And Mia was definitely pissed off when they voted out Chris. However... Mia is all over the fucking place and she probably has eight things going on and it's impossible to really know what she is thinking or who she has decided to work with at the moment. One a positive note, she thinks she has me in her back pocket because Tom told me he asked her about my vote and she replied, "Don't worry about Chad. I have that covered." Oh Mia.... bless your heart. But what???

Like I have ever or will ever take instructions from Mia. But that is definitely good for me. At least for now. I obviously want her to think I will do what she wants in the short term.