Hmm, If we do take out Mikan here, I think we want it to be unanimous with the tribe though, in which case, that might be difficult. Like we could probably get our partners from the previous tribe to vote for her, but that would alienate others if they weren't all in the know.

Let's bring up the possibility of an idol to other players to ease them into voting Mikan if we think it's necessary, and wait to see what Toko says to us. Surely she'll be online before the end.

I've also asked my clique about their read on the other new player.

Hmm, so I think Mikan is the easy boot, and I'm still leaning towards that, but if we think we're going to be here another tribal, there is another option...

I fell asleep in my chair And no I love your addendums, I'm all about those and anything else you want to write. If you're tired or overwhelmed and just want to say hi that's a-ok with me. If you need to brain dump I'm your landfill. ...?

Speaking of which, before I forget... I'm pretty sure there's something strong between Sonia and Mikan. Sonia came out the gate wanting Kirumi's head on a plate like a really hungry greyhound or something - actually no that's a bad visual let's move on. Uh. Oh. I was surprised, I thought everyone had lined up Toko->Mikan in their heads, and when I asked her why I got that "she's shady" answer but she couldn't really explain what that meant when I pressed. So that was weird, but now I just read Mikan's latest thing and she let slip that when she logged in she had a message saying she already had votes on her and Kirumi was the alternative. So that means someone's close enough to Mikan to warn her that she's in trouble right? So I noodled on that one and well it can't be the greens because they're the ones literally voting her right now, I really doubt you would because you seem pretty indifferent between them, so that leaves Ibuki and Mikan. Actually with both of them giving that "sketchy" line I'm wondering if they aren't a trio? ...........................but anyway uh oh yeah so we both know that Sonia is like politically active since she pushed for our 4 so it wouldn't surprise me if she also reached out to Mikan since Mikan had to be feeling super vulnerable and picked her up on the side y'know? It would explain why Sonia's so into seeing a green go, green's threatening an alliance member. I'm trying super hard here not to go conspiracy theorist on you again but I think these pieces fit.

So now I'm wondering what's the good play. Because if we boot Kirumi, then we're letting Mikan hang around and I think she's gonna be much tighter with Sonia than with us and that feels a little dangerous. I don't think Sonia would move on either of us any time soon but I also feel like if she's pocketing other people then we aren't really in her long-term plans? Also we're going to have a very angry Shuichi on our hands because there's like a 0% chance those two aren't allied, and if he's close with all the other two greens well happy birthday we've made three enemies. But then if we vote Mikan with the greens then we're going to make Ibuki and Sonia really really upset and give them a story to tell about how terrible we are and also I just like Sonia and Ibuki (particularly Ibuki) a lot more. I'm honestly not sure what to do here haha what are easy votes?

From a personal standpoint I'm trying really hard with all three of them (Shuichi/Kirumi/Mikan) but it's super difficult, nothing really flows. I'm not speaking their languages somehow or they've just got no interest or something but I don't feel like I've made any progress really since they joined and it's hard to see that changing. Kirumi just feels distant and cold, Shuichi is beep boop game bot and I need more than that (I'm needy?) and Mikan's really awkward and doesn't feel honest.  I'm the sort who wants to make one or two super strong individual alliances with people I genuinely click with and be true blue to those, I'm not really into Super Death Stars that wreck tribes, I dunno that's just now how I like to play. So it's hard to see them happening in any real way, I feel like I'd have hit that spark by now y'know?

I was going somewhere with this and completely lost it so I'm just going to stop here