My alliance is more content with sitting back and hoping the mighty Rob saves us than putting their fete in their own hands. Its very frustrating.

So im thinking of just going behind Helen and Brian's back regardless and doing some major scrambling for myself.

Going to have a chat to Daniel and Joanna about aligning with myself and Erin in an alliance of 4. Ill point out all the strategic advantages by going down this road and then ill contemplate honouring it, although only to a degree.

If it got down to 6, with Helios and Daniel + Joanna and Helen was vulnerable, then I would eliminate Helen.

So ive gone ahead and put fate into my own hands. Ive sent Daniel a very detailed strategic plan of what we can do if we team up together with Erin and one of his Asteria friends. Sitting back and doing nothing is not my style, and I wont be dictated to by Rob or even by my alliance members. Im taking the driver's seat now that the merge is here, and its game on.

Hopefully Daniel is interested, I really think it would be a beneficial alliance.

So I told Erin about our alliance deal with Daniel + another Asteria and she's sent him a PM with the subject: "Flipping" and been all ultra aggressive basically saying: "FLIP NOW OR DIE MOTHER FUCKAAAAAA YEOOOOWWWWWWWW"

Son of a bitch. This will probably scare him off now, the PM really was very aggressive. Just completely unnecessary when I had the whole thing under control.

If we can get Daniel and a friend to vote with us at the first vote, Ill hopefully be able to swing it against Rob. I'd love to be able to go Christy next, but it might have to be Ted to stick with our story. That would leave the numbers at;

Christy, Daniel, Joanna, Shawna vs Penny, Helen, Erin, Brian.

At that point I think the best bit would be to convince Daniel to vote out Christy as a physical threat with the proviso we voted out Helen at the next Tribal Council for the same reasons. Then we just vote out Daniel and leave it with a 4-2 Helios numbers advantage. At that point, it should give me enough time to either beat Helen at a challenge myself, or have somebody else beat her. After this, if Helen loses Immunity at any time after Daniel is voted out, then Helen goes home.

Just messaged Helen and Brian about the details of the plan with Daniel. Also threw in that Erin wanted to flip on Helen much later down the track when we have control. This should ensure that in a Helios Final 4, Erin goes home if Helen wins Immunity.

Daniel is online!!!

Just have to sit back now and see what he says.

Hes basically said yes! Yay!!!!

Now obviously people tell you stuff in the game just to shut you up. But a few factors lead me to believe hes being genuine with me;

1) One thing you learn when you teach kids pretty much straight away is how to pick who's paying attention and who isnt. Ive always found that kids who sit there and say "Yes, yes, yes..." to everything you say means they arent paying attention. The kids who ask questions and want to double check are the ones who were listening. By the same token, if Daniel had said yes straight away to my offer then I wouldnt have believed him. However Daniel has asked very specific questions and wanted to ensure his position was safe. Why would you bother with question asking if you werent at the very least contemplating it.

2) I think Daniel does feel insecure about his position in Asteria, and probably believes me that Helios are divided since Rob has no doubt told everybody what he observed over on Helios, and this confirms that story as well. So this has been terrific play acting by my tribe to lull Asteria into a false sense of security.

I dont think the fake Idol trick is going to be necessary at this stage, and I may keep it in my bag of tricks for later on down the track. But its there if Daniel needs an extra thing to consider.

I need to know about transferring the Immunity Idol now mods. Ive offered it up to Daniel if he wants it.

Let me attract Jeff's attention.