Michel Lotito Question Thread

I wanted to vote for someone from Stability because it looked like they were working together, and I knew it would be close, so I needed your vote. I don't remember exactly what went through my head, but when you told me about Maria, it certainly made me consider them as a vote a lot more. I wasn't sure wether Maria actually said that or if you made it up, but regardless, at first I had expected you to not want to go for Maria, but when it turned out that you did, the opportunity was too good to pass up. I liked them because they were really friendly - but that also meant that other people liked them too, and those other people had spent a lot more time with Maria than I did, so those other connections were likely stronger. And your message also provided a good reason that I could tell to other people.

Oh, HtS was very different from Gebura. I know that they're a nice person, and I didn't *not* like them, but I didn't like them either because there simply wasn't much talk between us. I wasn't the only one who took long to respond there, but the caps certainly didn't make me very keen on our convo going somewhere. I'm aware that some people may like it - but I'm not one of those, and I can't help but find it irritating.

I think Janet and I are in a really good place, all things considering. She sent me a message close to the deadline for the firemaking TC and said that she would save me, and I was floored. I legitimately thought I was being sent to the firemaking challenge, and that I would lose and become a juror. But she really liked our narrative, and so do I. We've been nothing but cordial and congratulatory with each other. After upsetting each other several times and breaking each other's trust since merge, it feels amazing to be on good terms. 

In my group chat with Gideon and Gebura, this is how we started out with our preferences: Me: Janet, Gebura: Michel, Gideon: Janet.  In my PMs with Gumshoe, he told me that he was fine with either, or even Furiosa (since our goal was to break up the alliance we suspected between you, Furiosa, and Janet), but both Gideon and Gebura were told that he preferred you. Now, in the beginning of this plan, we were hoping to swing the numbers our way, rather than just hoping for a tie, so we were trying to get Wendy on board with something. There was no way that she was going to vote for Janet, so we shifted to voting for you... and I straight-up asked Wendy if she was willing to vote you. She said that it was something she could consider next round, but she just wanted to vote for Gumshoe... So that threw a wrench into things. In my PMs with Gideon, we concluded that Janet was the bigger threat, and I also leaked that Janet had a challenge advantage to Gebura--Gideon already knew (because if Janet leaked my advantage, why should I keep hers secret?) and suggested that I tell Gebura--because Gebura had started to give up on the idea of a blindside, and we really wanted to try *something*. So we switched to voting Janet. And I was very happy about that at the time, for reasons you already know. 

I do want to say that I didn't have any ill will towards you or a specific reason to come after you. You were just an option to do something different other than Gumshoe, and Gebura believed that you had lied about some things (the vote on Maria Pita and your relationship with Furiosa and Janet), and we had all gotten a slightly paranoid vibe from you at one point or another, and I had known you for a much smaller amount of time than anyone else... I'm glad that we did keep connecting and that we were able to make something unexpected happen together, even if I am still sad about it and wonder if it was the right choice (or at least how I didn't say anything about it to Furiosa... )