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birdlady wrote:

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Since she won't have the benefit of Marisa's suspicions, and might not gravitate instinctively towards Betsy, she wouldn't have any particular reason to be leery of Russell.

lol - Other than, he's, um, himself?

Russell may be transparent to us (even without the benefit of his confessionals, it's obvious in one-on-one conversations that he's completely untrustworthy). But Marisa didn't become suspicious of him until she spied him cozying up to a bunch of people. And Ashley and Natalie are still with him. So without additional context, and Russell in her face, Yasmin might just take what's being offered to her.

Seems like it's way too early to make a cross-tribe alliance. You'd want to be cordial, and start having some exploratory conversations, but potentially giving away an immunity idol seems premature.

But given the setup, how can Yasmin know when she'll have another opportunity to search for the idol? If you had the beginning of a thread to find the idol at the enemy camp, but you had to go back to your own camp indefinitely, would you sit on the information, knowing that someone else might be sent/taken to the enemy camp next time with you out of the loop? Or would you want to get something started with someone in the enemy camp, knowing they have plenty of time to follow the thread -- obviously you pick someone you think will stick around for a while, someone who's a physical asset to their tribe -- and hoping they'll share the rewards with you down the line?

It's not an easy call either way, but I don't see a cross-tribe alliance as premature under these circumstances. One could argue that it's better to share the information with someone in your own camp, but the problem still is, how can you know this person will ever be sent/taken to the enemy camp?