Roci

**Roci** (Roci#2552) placed 7th in Season 7.

A social butterfly fast on the Yalo Tribe, Roci was one to watch from the premiere. Insulating herself well into a majority alliance “Ghostbusters,” Roci would set her sights on Brett fast as a target due to being fairly annoying to the rest of the tribe. Roci was also able to secure an Extra Vote while on Yalo. Yalo was able to win all three preswap immunities, and during the swap Roci was separated form her closest allies and put onto Nu Bati with Aslan and nemesis Brett, the two people not in the “Ghostbusters” alliance. Roci immediately went to work socializing with the two OG Papukeni (Nehemiah and Fiya) as she was determined to send Brett packing the moment she saw his name randomized on the same tribe. Luckily for her in a way, the “Bati Curse” was strong and sent this tribe to Tribal Council, where she got her wish and Brett was completely blindsided with an idol in his pocket. Roci then had social control of the tribe with Nehemiah, but unfortunately now for her the “Bati Curse” was STRONG and they would end up losing the next two immunity challenges as well, much to her comedic frustration. At the second loss, Roci was ready to hand Nehemiah all of the power and vote out Aslan for reasons unknown; presumably to have more allies from another tribe at a merge. However, Nehemiah was also keen on nuking his own teammates and Roci’s third eye opened to realize that this actually puts her in a much better position on paper, thus the tribe booted an inactive Fiya. Surprisingly, this actually gave Nehemiah social control when Roci and Aslan immediately turned on each other to compete for Nehemiah’s vote. Roci won out in the end, as she had established a tight bond with Nehemiah and had a stronger social game overall, sending Aslan packing. At the merge, Roci was immediately fucked completely over by being able to meet the least amount of people in the game due to the “Bati Curse.” To make matters worse, her OG Yalo were not with her in the slightest and Nehemiah had also become instantly distant toward her, essentially leaving her as the island pariah. She would go on to be targeted and/or have her name thrown out every single Tribal Council until her departure, much to her frustration as she had a willingness to play hard with and for her allies. Due to no one trusting her, she was essentially left out of almost every plan, which slowly emboldened her to be more and more reckless in camp and alliance chats. At the auction, Roci was able to secure Safety Without Power, much to her pleasure as she was certain she would need it in a coming round. Sure enough, the next round Roci unknowingly played her SWOP successfully due to paranoia while the majority alliance was discussing flipping the vote onto her instead of Ron, who she led a public charge against due to nobody in the game trusting him. After this, her threat level increased drastically to Sage who was pulling the strings behind many of the players’ decisions. When she failed to win a clutch immunity, all hope was initially not lost when she was presented with not one but TWO ways to survive. Option 1: Jesse and Dylan, knowing Sage was gaining a resume, wanted to blindside him and vote Kiri out instead of Roci to nerf Sage’s game as well as get Roci onto their own side as a number. Roci was firmly against this as she felt Kiri was the only one who had her back at all, and shut this down to the point of not being able to happen. Option 2 then presented itself: Kiri had a Hidden Immunity Idol, which he was willing to play for Roci to take out Jesse or Dylan and shake up the game. Roci, however, gave up at this point and told Kiri to save his idol and even gave him her Extra Vote, stating she was ready to go home and that she nuked her game beyond repair, despite unknowingly being a jury threat. In the end, a 6-1-1 vote sent Roci to the jury as her fight was completely gone within the game. She is remembered for being the only player to definitively want Sage out of the game from the start of the merge, successfully seeing through his lies as the one pulling the strings.