Lorelei

Lorelei is the sole visionary of Visionary Survivor: Ring of Fire.

## Ring of Fire Summary

Lorelei’s Ring of Fire game was the first ever perfect game in Visionary Survivor History. She always voted for the person who went home, never had a single vote cast against her and swept the jury in a 7-0 vote. Lorelei was the complete survivor package, forming genuine relationships, correctly timed strategic decisions and winning challenges when she needed to. Her winning game in the Ring of Fire was truly one of, if not THE most dominant performance in Visionary history.

Lorelei started out the game on the Nani tribe and quickly found herself bonding with Lillia, an ally that she would dominate the game with. The pair brought in Jonathan to create a trio that formed the core of Nani. Jonathan was seen as the biggest threat socially and strategically and led the charge on many of the early votes, a fact that Lorelei was well aware of. She was more than content to just follow him in the early portion of the game.

She was integral in the choice to vote out the more aggressive D Noah out first over the far more inactive Ducky. When Rocket initiated that plan to blindside D Noah, Lorelei knew she could use his help to blindside Jonathan later down the road. During that time, the alliance of Lillia, Jonathan and herself expanded to include Rocket and Nakul, thanks to Jonathan creating a second three person alliance with the pair of guys. Despite Jonathan clearly being at the top of the “Nani 5” as they would come to be known, Lorelei was comfortable in this solid majority. With Ducky’s quit, followed by the unanimous 5-1 vote of Piggy, the Nani 5 dominated their tribe. They then succeeded in winning the next two immunity challenges, meaning the 5 were able to make it into the merge united.

This unity was pivotal to the Nani tribe taking the advantage over the much more dysfunctional Pink tribe in the merge vote. The merge is when Lorelei truly began to dominate. It was in the early merge that Lorelei showed her skill as a social player. She slowly began to work on gaining Rocket's loyalty and soon supplanted Jonathan as the best positioned member of the Nani 5. Meanwhile the other members of Nani were working on gaining trust with the fractured Pink tribe.

Myth and Travis wanted to vote out Axis in a unanimous 9-1 vote but Nani had other plans. Lorelei and her tribe instead convinced Axis to vote with them to blindside Myth 6-4 with an idol in his pocket. While this was primarily Jonathan’s, Lorelei was working in the shadows, connecting with Starz and Axis and strengthening her bond with Rocket.

Travis, now completely alone, was taken out in a unanimous vote. Lorelei had now laid low and set the pieces in place for her big move. At this point, she completely had the loyalty of Rocket who was convinced that Jonathan was the biggest threat remaining in the game. He and Lorelei had confided in each other how much they were worried Jonathan would eventually take over this game with his incredible social skills and close bonds with everyone. He had played incredibly well and had an idol. Lorelei used her close relationship with Starz to pick up his vote, as well as convincing the easily convincible Clasper. This gave her the five votes needed to blindside her former ally Jonathan to take control of the game.

Nakul was clearly on the outs, having not been told about the blindside. However, Lorelei, Lillia and Rocket feared that if they eliminated Nakul, there would be three former Pink players and three former Nani players and did not want to risk it. Furthermore, Lorelei knew that Starz suddenly was far more dangerous after the Johnathan vote and in a great position to make an underdog run to the finish. She knew Starz would have the potential to gather up all the underdogs in the game to make a move against her, Lillia or Rocket. So despite Lorelei having Starz in her pocket, she decided to cut him.

Now at the final 6, Lorelei decided it was time to cut the unreliable Nakul. However, Axis was itching to make a move. She and Clasper did not want to go down without a fight. They went to Nakul in an attempt to tie the vote 3-3 against Lillia. However, Nakul became so frustrated with this news he went to Lorelei with this information to tell her off. Lorelei, not wanting to risk losing her number one ally in Lillia, quickly brought Nakul's information leak back to her. Lillia then pleaded her case to Axis to convince her to keep her. In the end, Axis decided she'd rather not keep around someone who she thought was too emotional to be in this game, and abandoned her own plan and joined Lorelei, Lillia and Rocket in voting out Nakul in a 4-2 vote.

Lorelei’s position was dominant at the final 5. She founded the Black Widow alliance with Axis, Lillia and herself and her three person alliance with herself, Lillia and Rocket was still rock solid. The only person she was not aligned with was Clasper. Lorelei was originally going to dump Rocket at the final 5 to get rid of a bigger threat. But after Axis attempted to make a move against her last vote, Lorelei had a change of plans. Furthermore, she knew that Rocket could still be used as a shield for her in the final 4. So she quickly sided with Rocket who wanted to eliminate Clasper. Axis and Clasper wanted to eliminate Rocket, leaving Lillia as the swing vote. However, Rocket attempted to make a move against Axis when he found out she was targeting him. He then went to Clasper and told him to vote Axis with him. But for some reason, Clasper went to Lorelei about how he wanted Rocket out next. Lorelei relayed this information back to Rocket, which caused him to back out of his own move and eliminate Clasper. Lillia eventually went with eliminating Clasper, also aware she, Rocket and Lorelei had to stick together this vote, eliminating Clasper in a 3-1-1 vote giving Lorelei the shield of Rocket in the final 4.

And that shield was needed. At first in the final 4, after losing the challenge, it seemed like Lorelei would be the biggest threat in the game with all of her challenge wins. She seemed completely vulnerable after losing, but as it turns out, that wasn't at all the case. When Axis won the immunity challenge, herself and Lillia were quick to target Rocket over Lorelei. Rocket came to Lorelei with a plea to try to pull a 2-1-1 or send him to fire, but she ultimately decided she didn't need him anymore, and eliminated Rocket in a 3-1 vote, thinking she could take on Axis and Lillia in the Final 3 challenge.

That was a rather risky decision. Axis and Lillia both were most likely going to take each other to the final two. In eliminating Clasper, Lorelei was betting on herself winning the final immunity. And she did, securing her spot in front of the final 2. Lorelei decided to take Axis with her to final 2, thinking she would be much easier to beat than Lillia. Lillia saw the writing on the wall and had no hard feelings as Lorelei took Axis to the final 2.

At the final tribal council, Lorelei pulled out an amazing speech, which explained her game very thoroughly, and she also answered the jury's questioning nearly flawlessly. The jurors, especially Rocket, were extremely impressed with how she played the game. Lorelei’s game and FTC performance spoke for itself, but Axis’ game was not shabby. However, the tide turned for Axis when the jury realized that she was contradicting herself. Axis struggled a lot with explaining her game, and was focusing on Lorelei's gameplay more than her own. She also set some of the jurors off when she said nobody tried to come and talk to her, when in actuality they started most of the conversations with her in the game. Axis then eventually threw in the towel and gave up entirely. Her defeatist attitude made it difficult for anyone to vote for her. Rocket had also made it his mission to make sure Lorelei got the perfect game she deserved, and she did. Lorelei’s solid performance swept the jury 7-0 to cap off a statistically perfect game and win.