[Dean Kowalski]

Welcome to Stranded in Rhodes on the Mausolus tribe! Hopefully you're hitting it off with the rest of your tribe, because for the next few weeks, they'll determine your fate in this game.

We encourage you to share whatever you like with us in your confessionals. We want to know what's made you laugh, cry, and angered. This is YOUR space! Only hosts and lurkers (fellow alumni) can see this, none of the other castaways can see this.

Here are some questions to get you started.

1. How are you feeling, finally starting this game?
2. What are your first impressions of your fellow tribemates? Who are you connecting with most so far? Is there anyone on your tribe you could do without?
3. After getting to know your tribe for a little bit, how do you see your strategy over the next couple of days? Are you hoping to create alliances or go with the flow? Has something changed from your pre-season strategy, or do you still plan to try out what you've planned before?
4. The first tribal is Sunday night, and it is a doozy! Are there plans in place for elimination already? Are you leading the charge for someone to go, or are you taking a back seat?

[Will]

I am super excited, finally starting this game! I was very nervous before it started fast I connected with Shirin Lindsey and Mike very early Absolutely love Shirin and Mike and I mesh soo well!! one of them are my final 2 Myself Mike Shrin and Lindsey built an alliance!! We have multiple alliances we are working to control the votes! I get great Vibes from those 3... we are a core 4 but we are working Hali and Vince for now and Carolyn too but we will see how things progress... I am loving my day 1 so far. THE ONLY PERSON TO REALLY RUN ME WRONG IS RODNEY!! I absolutely do not like his Vibe gtfo I could Def do without him!! your whack sorry not sorry Def first boot unless Me and Mike decide a blindside instead!! We still got time.. I feel super solid with Mike But now that I built a foundation next is find an idol then lay low til BLINDSIDE TIME! I know majority of tribe is not feeling Rodney but I may blindside Tyler!

 

[Will]

So it was between myself and Shirin for immunity but my girl took it!! Shirin is amazing and I can't believe how well things are going!! WE DESTROYED THE OTHER TEAM IN THE FIRST CHALLENGE... IF THIS IS ANY INDICATOR OF THE SEASON SIGN MY CHECK NOW 

[Will]

So everything is going great so far!! MY TRIBE IS STACKED tribe mates personalities are Soooo Diverse I am realizing certain people you can do a quick chat like Mike and I or Shirin and I but then there is LINDSEY LOL SOME PEOPLE are very needy and paranoid I am almost certain my girl Lindsey is a Gemini she gives me CRAY CRAY PARANOIA VIBES but I think I will have to reassure her a lot which may get mentally draining and put a target on her!  Vince holds his cards super close but I will try to get close with him because I got a weird feeling we are going to be close! I absolutely know Nothing about Nina! TYLER IS LIKE A MIRROR HE RELATES TO WHATEVER YOU SAY! This is only good if your last in this type of persons ear... Carolyn seems very nice but quite so far just coasting but a challenge worry we will need to.watch as a possible weakness!! RODNEY IS STRAIGHT BLACK AND WHITE NO GREY JOCK GUYS GUY! He will be soo shocked and my first BLINDSIDE of the season and the start of my ALPHA MASSACRE THE FIRST OF MANY BLOOD BATHS ❤❤

[Will]

So as Day 2 winds down I have some solid allies so far I will break down all my alliances so far and hope they don't bite me in the butt! I feel super close with Shirin and Mike so far!! I have soo many alliances with Mike he and I are in an alliance with Shirin & Lindsey, Shirin & Vince and I believe tomorrow Shirin and Tyler too because Tyler made a solo alliance with me too...but mentions he gets great vibes from Shirin and Mike too OMG THESE ARE MY 2 FOR SURE LONG TERM!!! I JUST HOPE MY LOYALTY DOESNT COME BACK TO BITE ME Mike and I also have a nother alliance with Lindsey and Hali.... So I am going to just focus on these relationships I've already built try to low key idol search the next few days and watch as people eliminate themselves! I think I am good to coast until a blindside but Mike is very smart and my closest ally too but we have plans A. RODNEY easy vote who has rubbed alot of the girls wrong.... B. Nina another easy vote who isn't getting to know the tribe or C. SURPRISE BLINDSIDE OR AS MIKE SAID FRONTSIDE So we will see how solid we stay hopefully the beginning of a beautiful foundation and not some ghetto ass cracked foundation ..... But only time will tell tomorrow will probably be another chill day I doubt much scheming this early!

[Will]

OK so I wake up this morning to Mike telling me he will talk to me in a few but he has game changing information that could affect his game... AUTOMATICALLY THOUGHT HE FOUND THE IDOL...DAMN HES DANGEROUS!!! NO he tells me Vince hit him up in middle of the night to idol search.... YOU SNEAKY LITTLE WEASEL AND THROUGH ICING ON THE CAKE They found the IDOL but Vince was shady about how he found it Mike said... So I hear him out to me Mike sounds salty Vince found it first and told him the answe after BUT ... Mike proceeds to tell me we need to blindside Vince NOW which I'm down. Either way YOU GOT THE IDOL YOU GOT TO GET TO STEPPIN   So then Lindsey walks up tells me she wants to lock a 3 of Me her and Mike since we are in two final 4 together! ( one with Hali and one with Shirin) side note**** She made me paranoid today which I didn't like...this was my first taste of feeling paranoid she made a comment about her and Mike being like "Ricard and Shan" ..... SO WTF AM I JD??? WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT ENDED HELL NO!! IM CHANGING HISTORY they are both gamers so I'm going to keep them both close bc I don't want to play to hard to fast but Lindsey will.need to go sooner than later!! But back to my story since I get side tracked... Mike told Lindsey in front of me about Vince's IDOL and I had to get my acting chops on and play dumb like oooooo woooowww reeealllyyyy So then Linds wants Vince gone like YESTERDAY... So we come up with a blindside plan of another ALPHA  AKA VINCEINSTEAD OF RODNEY...... I SHALL BATHE IN VINCE'S BLOOD we are splitting the vote just incase Vince plays the idol Rodney will go and we are all just letting Rodney vote however like the little weird kid playing solo in the corner!!  he just doesn't vibe with our tribe... SO I'm building that relationship incase I need it later... but today we are going to focus on throwing Suttle shade out about Vince with our 3 other votes we need to lock in for this blindside so it should be 6 Vince 3 Rodney butbI do worry because Linds wants to leave Shirin out this vote and I feel sooo sorry because Linds is right  we will need to leave Shirin out this vote but that's not how yiu build trust sooo I'm sooo confused and 1 vote however Rod the Bod decides to vote so as of right now blindside with an idol in pocket but things change so who knows

[Will]

OMG WHAT A DAY!! SO I had a day full of acting and playing dumb um sooo good at playing dumb i almost believed it ... So I told yiu earlier about Oooo, whoooaaaa  and woooowww really with Linds AS Mike informed her of Vince's IDOL well later Linds comes and offers me a final2 and Mike comes over and tells us we need to now make a list of our goals for the day each split up and plant seeds of doubt and what not.... So we get with Hali all 3 of us... with out telling her about the idol and we tell her About how Vince has 25 confessionals we think a bunch of likes and also mentioned his favorite players as Aussies Golden God Dave and Luke King of the Jungle TWO TOP TIER RUTHLESS PLAYERS!! She sees red flags so we have 4 locked in on Vince and then one of my assignments was to see where Rodney's head was at and get intel Soooo I talk with him and this FOOL OFFERS ME AN ALLIANCE BUT GIVES ME NO INFORMATION OR ANYTHING But he does say he will tell me a name before the vote ....BUT DONT WORRY YOUR PRETTY LITTLE FACE ROD THE BOD 6 on Vince 3 on YOU and YOU vote however or for whoever .... So I then chat with Shirin who is my true number 1 and I tell her about the whole plan of Linds and Mike to build more trust with Shirin... She agrees to tell nobody and for the 3rd time I have to get my acting on but this time Shirin is in on it so it's hilarious af to me bc Mike and Linds are telling her bullshit and bragging about running  we just ran a masterclass of survivor and LITERALLY I RAN THE MASTERCLASS BY MYSELF SO now I am waiting for Vince to wake from his nap and secure the vote as Rod with him since he has an idol and make him feel secure of an easy vote TOMORROW..... BLINDSIDE BABY!!! BYE BYE VINCE SORRY NOT SORRY

[Will]

OK so today has been CRAAAAAAZZZZYYYY!!! First I had a beautiful moment with Nina I told her about my partner of 12yrs and she revealed she is Trans ❤❤ so we definitely bonded on our LGBTQ life experiences..... OK SO NOW ON TO THE TEA ABOUT TRIBAL.... Mike and Hali worked on Carolyn as our 6th vote while I solidified my bond with Lindsey and Shirin each.... I plotted seeds of doubt with both regarding Mike going forward.. Shirin spoke with Vince we came up with a sketch AF plan to save Vince and take out Mike during tribal but have decided Vince us a huge threat and it'll expose our cards so we are deciding to let Vince be the big blindside Idk how Tyler will Vote but I assume it will either be 6-3-1 vote 6 on Vince 3 on Rod 1 on Nina or 5-3-1-1 with Shirin throwing a hinky vote at Mike to spook him!! I swear Shirin is the player to watch but I absolutely am fanboying over MY NINJA 🥷 ....... LINDSEY Is my number two right now but I plan on keeping Mike close and comfy idk how far we will go but I'll keep him comfy for now and bye bye Vince tonight Sorry gotta send you packing like the Golden God lol we are gonna give you the FULL TRIBAL EXPERIENCE FEELING SAFE IDOL ALLIANCE BLINDSIDE   VOTED OUT IDOL IN POCKET YW BUDDY ENJOY LOSER LOUNGE ✌✌✌