Chapter 14: Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Um… well, I might have to get back to you on that. I miss Cerberus, and I think I mostly got over whatever tiny amount of distrust I had in him for a while there, but I’m also not too upset that he’s gone. It’s weird. I guess that’s because Hades and Maat/Hathor became such strong favorites for me. They are who I want to stand with at the final.

Well, during the last round, I had my percentage at 92%. Facing this challenge, I'm a little nervous. But I feel a little better now that I've researched the puzzles a bit. So let's say... 89%.

I will put together a list of guesses for the rest of the players.

Also going to copy and paste Jael's message to me for easy access while I think about things:

So my question is, Popsalot, do I feature in any of your plans going forward, and if so, would you like to target somebody else to make some of that actually happen? Tbh, I could totally see people try to tell me that my best bet for a new target is you, and like, maybe it is, but I'd like it not to be. All we need is 5. I do know there are vote related shenanigan items with both Jesus and Hades. So that's problematic, but like, I think we're out of idols? But anyways, I was like composing a PM to you in my head as I was making food that largely consisted of "hey Poppy, I think if you don't try to do something active, you absolutely will be a sacrifice to the gods that are some big group alliance. I don't know what you have with anybody officially, but I think you're in the spot I'm in but less visibly so, but if I leave, I think we both know immunity isn't your strong suit so you aren't likely to be able to save yourself. Would you like a chance to try?" Something like that anyways.

! ! ! ! NEWSFLASH ! ! ! !

I heard from Phobos again!!!

The key is to actually ask about him. That's twice now that I've asked him to chime in and he actually did. Which means I've received 4 messages total from him. 😂 Does that solidify my desire to keep P/D around? Absolutely.

Okay, I love Hades. But he's dead-set on voting out Jael no matter what Maat/Hathy and I say. And I was all for it before... but now I'm actually trying to help out Jael because they've opened up about hating being targeted so much and having no control over any of it, and since I know who they are, I feel bad for not helping them out more when they've definitely been helping me and being honest to me this whole time. They suggested that we try to vote out Jesus instead, so I brought that up to Life & Death (as well as the point that if Jael gets sent to the jury, she'll be a bitter juror and will NOT benefit any of us, and isn't that an important thing to consider??) but Hades was like, NOPE, doesn't matter. It'd be a mistake not to boot Jael. Maat/Hathy were presenting reasons to vote out PD instead, but I can't do that. I already betrayed him once, and I doubt he'd be as forgiving the second time. So that would also = a bitter juror who would probably not nominate me. Plus, Jael and Persephone really like PD, and I need Persephone to stay on my side because our relationship is shaky at best.

I am taking a risk and going along with Jael's suggestion of voting out Jesus. I'm trying to get Persephone and P/D on board with that. Hades and MH have been extremely loyal to me, and I think they will stay loyal to me as long as they understand that I did what I thought was best.