If you crossed Artis Silvester, you stayed crossed. The gruff computer engineer carried his Tandang loyalty like a grudge file — grumbling, suspicious of everyone outside his core, locked in tight with Abi-Maria Gomes and Pete Yurkowski. In a season this knotty, that kind of trust-or-nothing wiring is a comfort right up until the day it isn't.
Post-merge in Dangrayne, the old Tandang and Kalabaw lines went to war in a run of razor-thin votes, and the numbers just kept seesawing. RC and Jeff Kent fell first; then it was Artis, picked off in another close one and sent to the jury as the third juror — going out ninth, one vote before his own bloc finally cracked and Pete went home on a revote that handed Malcolm and Denise the whole game. A loyal soldier shipped out a beat too early to see his side collapse without him.
