Josiah

Josiah is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti.

## Haiti Summary

Cool, calm, collected, and most importantly in control. As part of the original Vodou tribe Josiah was quickly faced with the hurdle of losing three out of the four pre-swap challenges. While attending so many tribals in the early game did bring the threat of elimination, it also provided a means of reassuring allies to move forward with.

At the start of the game Josiah bonded easily with Dwight, Matthew, Maxx, and Mink to form a tight five, in addition he soon after formed another tight three with himself, Matthew and Robby after informing Robby that he had been left on the outs of an unstable majority alliance. Josiah used his connections well before the swap as they easily eliminated Essix and Ryan while also blindsiding Maxx due to his inactivity just before the tribes got mixed up. While the alliance was strong, everyone included knew that the people they were aligned with were all capable players who would have to be turned on eventually.

As a result of the swap Josiah remained in a fairly decent position. While original Vodou was now victim to a 4-3 minority on both tribes, Josiah was swapped with his two closest allies. Despite the obvious number disadvantage, Josiah, Matthew, and Mink had an extra vote, an idol, and an idol nullifier respectively that they were prepared to use in order to swing the tide in their favor. To make things even better, the original Egzagòn members who had swapped to their tribe wanted nothing to do with Ry and had begun to talk about blindsiding him the first chance they got.

While a majority of the tribe desperately wanted to lose some challenges before the merge, the new Vodou tribe ironically won the first two post swap challenges and only lost the third by three seconds after trying to throw it. Now that they were finally headed to tribal, their plan to blindside Ry was in motion. Initially it was going to be a straight forward vote, but after Giully, Matthew, and Mink all lost their votes to curses and pins Josiah saw a door open. With only four people voting, he saw the opportunity to help Ry and flip the vote onto Giully who was a massive challenge threat. With the merge looming, the plan was enticing. Josiah approached Ry about the possibility, but with Ry being in the scramble state that he was in, he immediately jumped at Josiah’s proposal and leaked the plan to numerous tribemates. Unhappy with Ry’s leak, Josiah backed out of the plan. But ultimately Ry still got his way and executed the plan anyway by getting Greg to flip and force a tie after Ry played his idol and Vaeril blocked it. Josiah was met with a bittersweet outcome as Giully was eliminated by the wheel and Ry was saved.

As the tribes merged Josiah was in a great position as he was reunited with his entire alliance, had connections with some of the original Egzagòn members, and some of the original Egzagòn members were feuding which caused Ry to quickly become public enemy number one. With everything going so smoothly Josiah was in a position to ride things out while also keeping a steady grip on the game. After Mink won the first post-merge immunity challenge, a majority of the tribe was ready to take a second shot at Ry. But things became a little more complex when Izaak’s legacy advantage was leaked to the entire tribe. Still wanting Ry out but also wanting the legacy advantage flushed, Josiah came up with a plan to split the votes between Ry and Gregory. Most were on board, but when Ry found an idol on the day of tribal he was able to shake things up at the last minute.

After finding the idol doors opened up for Ry to make a move but he knew he wouldn’t be able to do much alone. So he told Gregory and Jacob about his idol with the intention of blindsiding Robby. But because Jacob was working closely with Robby, he quickly changed the target to Josiah, someone he felt was a big strategical threat and hindrance to his own game. On top of Ry’s idol and Jacob flipping, Ephraim didn’t pull through with the split vote due to thinking that Ry wouldn’t have another idol. As a result, Josiah was idol’d out of the game in a \*4-3-1 vote.