Helen wrote:
Sidenotes, for if this round succeeds as planned:
We should explain to the girls that we need to put a mechanism in place to make sure we go to the F4, ie. if we turn on them or they turn on us with one or two of the Asteria's (even they the Asteria wins F4 immunity, if they survived F5 on a 3-2 betrayal), we WILL NOT vote for them in finals and WILL vote for the Asteria (which along with the 4 other jury votes from Asteria, will be a blowout), so that none of us can possibly win if we let an Asteria infiltrate the group. But we'd need to pick the right time to do this to make sure we aren't shooting ourselves in the foot in case we still need to leave our options open, and I don't think we do, but I probably change my mind about that every time I have a conversation with Rob/Christy.
Assuming we do go to F4, we need to do whatever it takes to avoid a 2-2, so that means we need F3 agreements with both Erin and Penny, IMO.
For Penny, we just continue the whole "we've been together since the beginning" shit.
For Erin, we explain how Penny is batshit and shouldn't go to finals. Maybe we even sellout that Penny was in an alliance with us since Day 01 (although I'm not sure when the right time to do this is, but much later). And appeal to her sense of reason that it's in her best interests to go to finals with us so that the jurors that <3 Erin/Penny aren't split between the two of them, but instead, all line-up in Erin's box, while the jurors that <3 us (after we're blindsiding over half of them by the time we get there... I really didn't expect it to happen this way) will then be split up, increasing her chances of winning. But this approach needs to come at an opportune time, and preferably late, so as to not sour things for the Helios 4.
If you can't tell, I'd rather bring Erin to finals at this point, simply out of principle that I don't want Penny there to sell her shit that doesn't smell. Erin will get Penny/Daniel and most, and maybe, on a very, very chance day, Shawna. Penny campaigning for Erin on the jury should actually build sentiment against her, and the rest of the votes should be split between us, meaning that one of us would take it in a 4-3-0, 4-2-1, 3-3-1 (where the other of us tiebreaks), and our only risk is Erin getting Shawna and pulling ahead in a 3-2-2. Really, the same situation is true of Penny being beside us, except Erin wouldn't campaign and there's only a 90% chance she'd give her vote to Erin instead of 100%.
This isn't important for the time being, at all, but just wanted to put it on the agenda for discussing at some point.
Monstrous messages like that from Helen that aren't even relevant until at least, like, the weekend are driving me crazy to a degree where I've officially decided to make Erin a fake final 2 alliance and tell her everything immediately following tonight's vote if we get Ted out. But I'll stress we need to keep the Helios 4 together at final 7 and that she shouldn't try to set it up to get Helen out until final 6 and shouldn't warn Penny about it because of the original alliance we made wit her and how she's telling Helen (and I) everything, including how Erin wanted Helen out at final 8 when they were siding with Daniel.
Tonight will be fun.
Congrats.