Penny

**Penny** (pennywiser#7023) placed 9th in Season 6.

A very eccentric character, Penny established quickly on the Isasabai Tribe that it was ready to clown around. While having a net-good social game, Penny began rubbing its tribemates the wrong way as soon as the first challenge. This sentiment would grow, and by the fourth challenge Cherry in particular was hoping to make a move on Penny should they go to Tribal Council. Luckily for it, OG Isasabai was a challenge force and able to stomp the other tribes consistently, saving Penny and allowing it to make it to a swap unscathed. It was on this tribe that Penny strengthened its bond with Kev, who was perhaps the one person that would not have been keen to blindside it from their OG tribe. Penny quickly told Nu Isasabai that Tyler had an idol, ensuring he would go home if they lost any challenges. This sort of perceived “messiness” made Penny an ideal ally to the Dakai for the time being, as they felt they would be able to use this for cracks later versus the other Isasabai. Felipe in particular also took a strong liking to Penny, as both had a penchant for fun, blunt, and messy gameplay. However, this was oddly one sided, as Penny often confessionaled that it wanted Felipe out and that it could not trust them. At the merge, Penny was initially in a precarious spot when Danny rounded up all the non OG Isasabai to target the four remaining OG Isasabais. Felipe hated this idea, and quickly told Penny and its allies as it wished to flip the game and avoid a mega-majority alliance. Given that Penny did not trust Felipe, it immediately ran this to the rest of the game with Kev. This allowed Penny to survive the first vote with an easy vote, as well as have a sort of “in” with the mega majority. However, all was not as it seemed; on the outside, Penny felt like they were well integrated on both sides of the game. In reality, many in the majority found Penny to be quite annoying, a “gamebot” and a messy player, thus not actually trusting it as much as it was lead to believe. At the Dodge the Arrow challenge, Penny won immunity when up against its #1 ally Kev. This caused Kev to have a major fit and denounce Penny to the entire game, which it was surprised at as they were a bit of a duo. It is noted that despite saying it told Kev to RNG, Penny was plotting from the start to lie to Kev and steal an immunity win. During Touchy Subjects, Penny was slapped in the face with the others’ negative perceptions of it, garnering most of the “bad” answers. This made it happy, as it noted it actively wanted to be seen as a goat and disliked to be dragged to the end. Unsurprisingly, this strategy would greatly backfire. When Ives wanted to pull together a 5 person mixed tribal majority alliance to blindside Danny, Penny was initially set to be saved while the other 4 in the tribe targeted it for being annoying and untrustworthy. This plan had two flaws, however: Jazzy was not included in this new majority alliance formed by her #1 for unclear reasons, instead replaced by Reese, who would end up flopping and self-voting this round. Secondly, Penny was being very over the top about spreading a fake Tanner plan, as well as eventually leaking the Danny vote to someone outside of the alliance. This blatant overplaying got back to Ives, who then felt annoyed with Penny like the others and did not want to move forward with the Danny blindside, instead opting to silently vote for Penny with the majority. In the end, only the others on the blindside (OG Isasabai) had Penny’s back when a 5-3-1 vote sent a surprised Penny to the jury as it was counting the votes wrong, believing it would tie.