Going into the game at the beginning was a matter of luck; thankfully Tribe Darkshade didn't lose enough times for there to be any chance of being booted.
After that, it was a matter of laying low and letting others approach me, but still voting in the rounds. This way I wasn't viewed as a threat by others, but not too little of one to be voted off as a non-player.
The situation turned a little hairy when I agreed to an alliance with archer_007 and his comrades along with allying with Superevie.

I knew I had painted myself into a corner. If I voted for Superevie, as archer and WildFire wanted, I would have betrayed her and risk letting her get others to vote me off. On the other hand, if I voted for WildFire, as Superevie wanted, he and his allies would be alerted to a new enemy. To continue to remain non-threatening, I voted for Inter32, a player that was not being persecuted at the moment. This apparently was when Inter32 allied with Superevie, if I am not mistaken.
I ended up allying with Inter32 as well, after he requested one in a PM. It was relatively quiet after that, with archer_007's group voting off those who were not voting, and eventually voting off each other. As it came down to four people, though....
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Re: Our Mutual Protection Pact goes into effect!
CivCube wrote on Oct 23, 2003 08:42 PM:
Archer wants to vote you out.
He wants to vote YOU out."
We then agreed to both declare immunity and vote out archer_007. Little did we know how valuable this actually was, as Mojo revealed the result to be a stalemate, with archer_007 voted out on a technicality.
Last was sysyphus. His strategy was unknown, so I had to be careful. Inter32 and I agreed to vote him out. However, one issue still had to addressed: were either of these two trustworthy enough to go on with the alliance with Inter? Looking back at previous PMs, I deduced that Inter32 truly wanted me to go with him to the final round. Still, there was the possibility of sysyphus still having an immunity. If he voted with it, the chance of me going out was high.
The time had come for some dirty work. I didn't like it, but the nature of the game is backstabbing. I offered sysyphus an alliance to vote out Inter32 while at the same time voting for sysyphus. This way he would vote Inter32 out if he had an immunity. Luckily, it didn't appear that sysyphus had an immunity. Overall a very interesting game, albeit with decisions that I am not proud of.