Dark Moon

Dark Moon is a current alliance on Big Brother 17 that consists of  James Huling,  Jackie Ibarra, Meg Maley and  Jason Roy. The alliance was originally called  The High Rollers in Week 1 and managing regain power Week 5.

== Creation ==

=== Week 5 ===

During the fifth week, Vanessa won her second HOH alongside Jackie. Upon winning, Vanessa immediately made it known she did not want to stay as HOH. She and Jackie agreed on a plan to have Vanessa be dethroned so Jackie could remain the sole HOH. With this plan also game a deal between the two where they vowed to not backdoor or target each other. Jackie originally wanted Liz as the target due to the fact that her sister would begin playing the following week whereas Vanessa saw it as the perfect opportunity to get rid of Austin since he lied about the deal he made with Jason and exposing the twins. The two eventually settled on Austin and managed to get six others: Jason, Meg, James, Clay, Shelli and Becky to agree to the plan and the eight then established a top eight deal known as Dark Moon, excluding: John, Austin, Liz, Julia and Steve. Jackie decided to put up Liz and James, where James agreed to throw the BOB in order for Jackie to remain HOH. Vanessa put up Clay and Becky to guarantee them winning and have them be both safe for the week. However, the plan derailed after Liz managed to win the BOB by herself, thus dethroning Jackie, having Vanessa as the sole HOH and Clay and Becky remaining as nominees. Due to Liz's guaranteed safety for the week, the twins successfully accomplished their mission to survive the first five evictions. As a result, Julia officially entered the game as an individual houseguest at the following live eviction.

Even with Jackie's dethronement, the house agreed to still target Austin. Vanessa felt she has caught him in too many lies and was unable to work with him. As the POV competition grew near, the houseguests had to choose the players that would participate per Big Brother's standard rules. Vanessa eventually drew a houseguest choice and chose Shelli. Speculation ensued by the Sixth Sense that the others were not happy with this decision due to their supposed negative facial expressions. Ultimately Clay managed to win the power of veto, where the alliance again were under the impression Jason, Jackie, James and Meg were not pleased. Shelli and Vanessa grew suspicions that the others planned to win the veto, leave nominations the same and evict Clay. Upon this speculation they also realized Austin was a number for them despite his radical decisions. Once Vanessa told Liz about Austin throwing Julia under the bus, they agreed to confront Austin about his lies (including voting for Audrey to stay). Eventually Austin was outed and the alliance decided to give him another shot as long as he would stop making side deals that would put the alliance in jeopardy as well as lying to their faces. As the PoV ceremony grew closer, Vanessa struggled with the decision to save an ally (Austin) or to fulfill Dark Moon's wishes and backdoor him after giving them her word. Eventually, Clay and Shelli managed to convince Vanessa that Austin was a number for them that would never put them up over the other side. Clay and Shelli told Vanessa that Dark Moon would not last due to the fact that the three of them were on the low end of the totem pole and had she backdoored Austin the following targets would be Steve, Liz and Julia who were already important numbers on their side. The group agreed to spare Austin and struggled to target either Jackie or Jason. Eventually they felt Jason was the more strategic threat, calling him the "glue" of the other side and Vanessa had already made a deal with Jackie that she would not backdoor her. The trio managed to get Liz, Steve, Julia, Austin, Becky and John onboard to backdoor Jason. On Day 43, Jason was evicted.

=== Week 6 ===

Following Jason's eviction, it was revealed that the Battle of the Block would officially end. Therefore only one HOH would be crowned every week for the rest of the season. James and Shelli were the last remaining two in the HOH competition and Shelli vowed for a deal that would protect her and Clay for the week if she were to throw the competition to him. James agreed and he was crowned the new HOH, making it the first time since Week 1 that the Sixth Sense was not in power. Following his win, Austin, Liz, Julia and Vanessa were not happy that Shelli made a deal with James that would protect only herself and Clay. Also, the other side of the house had began to speculate if there was a majority alliance, consisting of the twins, Austin, Vanessa, and Clelli. As speculation about James' nominations grew, he told several people that he was going to split up a power couple that week. Many came to the conclusion that it would be Clay and Shelli. Upon hearing the news, Clay and Shelli began to scramble because they felt everyone was blaming them for Jason's eviction. They began to throw Liz, Julia and Austin under the bus to James in an effort to keep themselves safe. This eventually got back to Austin and the twins and they all agreed to support James in his decision to nominate Clay and Shelli, feeling betrayed. The following day, James nominated Clay and Shelli for eviction and explained he had to go back on his word due to the fact that they went back on their word by evicting Jason. After the nomination ceremony, Shelli made it clear to Vanessa that she was done with the Sixth Sense alliance and blamed Austin for them going up on the block. She also made it clear that she regretted having a hand in saving Austin and preferred Jason to still be in the house. After hearing the news about turning on the alliance, Vanessa felt betrayed by Shelli and later told James she was onboard to split up Clay and Shelli. James informed Vanessa that his plan was for nominations to stay the same to ensure one of them leaves. Vanessa, Liz, Julia and Austin later agreed that Clay and Shelli were disloyal and untrustworthy and felt better if one of them left the house.