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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 1:11:24 GMT
What the heck is up with me why am I only making like 20 post episodes!? And it's not like I'm talking much game with Ted lately, lol. Maybe I can speed things up this episode!
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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 1:17:13 GMT
Again!? Welp, looks like my last prediction was off! We're going to hit merge like the very next round, that's crazy. I think my skill at this depends on which type of puzzle it is. If it's like Sudoku and stuff I'll probably be alright. If it's like sliding type of puzzles I'd probably pull my antennas out.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 1:25:03 GMT
Yay, my PM group is up! I'm going to go by district this time.
Shuichi - Cool. Sounds like we're just switching off between him and River, which is convinent! Fenrir - Fine, I need some more time to talk to him anyhow. Gilly - Sweet! 12 - Eh, I'm a bit hesitant to meeting new people this late when I'm not even in an alliance with him, but we'll see what happens. Ulysses - Yesss!! About time, haha. Tracer - Fine. Wenya - ...Uh oh. I'll wait to see if she has anything to say first. Also, why does her avatar color always keep changing!? I thought I was going crazy before because I knew it wasn't always yellow but now I know for sure it's just changing each time she comes back, haha.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 1:28:34 GMT
So, some immediate thoughts this round... There's just no way around it, there's going to be some bloodshed this round. Even if Wenya gets sent to the Eliminator and even if I could get 8 nominated I'll be forced to blindside a district in one of my alliances or just feign innocence, which... is fairly scary to think about, actually! And that's only assuming me & Ted avoid getting last place this round. I'm just so nervous because I know I can't get first place but getting last place would be even worse. Ugggh why did this have to come up so soon.
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Post by Peeta Mellark on Mar 10, 2020 1:37:37 GMT
Another round, another set of questions!
1) So district 12 made it out of the eliminator still as a whole district, is this good or bad for your gameplay? Would you have preferred a different district, or maybe a combination of people from different districts? 2) Another double elimination round, does this change your plans at all? If you win in this round, what's your first pick for sending to the eliminator? 3) Now that most of the inactives/quiet players are gone, how safe are you feeling, how do you ensure you're not voted into the eliminator this round, which districts do you feel wouldn't send you in automatically? 4) Last round I did a bunch of personalised questions, tbh it took a long time to come up with a question for each of you and I'll probably do it again in a future round when there's less players but for now, I want you to come up with a question. Each round my 4th question has always been a silly question in the hopes of getting funny and entertaining answers, could you please provide a non-game related question that could provide a set of funny answers for me to use in future rounds. 5) Answer your own funny question.
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Post by Kat on Mar 10, 2020 1:49:22 GMT
Again!? Welp, looks like my last prediction was off! We're going to hit merge like the very next round, that's crazy. I think my skill at this depends on which type of puzzle it is. If it's like Sudoku and stuff I'll probably be alright. If it's like sliding type of puzzles I'd probably pull my antennas out. What do you mean by merge?
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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 1:57:17 GMT
I'm basically interpreting this as the "merge" given there's no more PM restrictions at this point.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 2:09:32 GMT
1)I think this was probably the worst set of people to come back? Tetra is fine but I'm pretty wary of Wenya and can't gauge where her head's at. I probably would've preferred Coco/Shadow tbh. Actually on the flip side Wenya and Tetra don't seem to be gelling well so I doubt they'd win the challenge. They might even get last actually. However, I have been thinking about the lack of advantages lately and realized I hadn't even seen what the Eliminator looks like. I think it's plausible to see a sponsor or advantage emerge from there some time, though the only district who could possibly have it right now would be 12, so yeah I just got to make sure I'm not at the top of anyone's hit list!
2)Yeah, this changes quite a bit actually! Ideally I'd want to send in D12 if I win, though I feel everyone would just want to vote them out and there's this unspoken rule to not nominate whoever's going to be the primary vote, so I'd probably end up nominating 8. Maybe. I'd definitely have to talk to Ted about it, and maybe River too.
3)I'm feeling fairly safe? I'm kind of slowly declining into the inactive stage which makes me a bit worried, but I still have Ted to lean on at least, and I have alliances with 1/10 plus a major alliance with 3/4/9 which should hopefully keep me alive. I'd be fine with any of those winning immunity plus 8. 12 is definitely worse case scenario since even if I'm not nominated one of my allies probably will, and if they do end up nominating 8 things could get ugly fast.
4)Oh god. First I had to wrack up every cell in my brain to think of something remotely creative to answer your questions, but now you're forcing me to make the questions too!? What baloney! Errr.... If you could swap characters with anyone still alive, who would you choose?
5)Kirby!! Kirby's cool. I think Kirby would suit me pretty well since he's a pretty chipper little pink ball. Would Stitch fit whoever's playing Kirby, though? I guess so. Stitch is also a little tiny creature, but I guess he does have a bit of bite in him, and I can definitely see him making some cold-hearted moves sooner or later.
(OK, I know that's not technically a funny question, but I couldn't come up with any better. Oh and btw Peeta I looked through your posts for inspiration and like there's at least three #4 questions that don't even remotely classify as "silly" or "non-game related", you liar!)
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Post by Stitch on Mar 10, 2020 17:51:03 GMT
You know what, I don't really want to wait until the challenge is over to start discussing names, especially given how laid back everything has been these last couple of days. I think it's about time for me to draw out an actual game plan of where I want to be heading and be a bit more proactive in getting it done. At first I was just thinking about cutting off all of my not-as-close allies first and then move down the list, but then I realized I should probably be taking out challenge threats sooner or later to give myself the best possible match-up in the finale. I feel it's going to be a juggling act between making the best optimal moves for me to win at the end and making sure I keep enough allies close to me to even make it to the end.
I feel the safest bet would be to take out the districts I know are going to be super beast at the challenges so that I can hopefully have at least an even match up. For reference to myself, I'm going to compile the placements of every district in each challenge that's taken place so far, minus the first one since that's more individual and is more/less represented by the actual district number anyways. (Districts 2/12 are interchangeable, I've also included myself for reference.)
D01 - 03 | 09 | 05 D02 - 12 | 07 | 10 D03 - 01 | 05 | 01 D04 - 11 | 06 | 04 D07 - 06 | 08 | 02 D08 - 04 | 01 | 09 D09 - 09 | 10 | 03 D10 - 02 | 02 | 07
Tbh I don't think it's really representative of too much, but I feel with further challenges I'll see a noticeable trend. For starters, it doesn't look like anyone magically put in a ton more effort during the last challenge because of the stakes, except for potentially 9, though it looks like my district did as well but I haven't thrown any challenges yet on my end. District 10 is a lot better at challenges than a remember, 8 too, which I guess is convenient given I'm looking to take them out sooner than later. 3 is obviously a challenge beast and will most certainly be targeted, but I'm hoping it's just someone outside of my alliance winning immunity and taking the first shot instead of leaving me to do the dirty work. 2 looks to be the most obvious challenge goat but I'm conflicted because I feel working with them would just get me in hot water down the line.
I think how I ultimately want to see this round play out is that someone in my alliance (that's not me) manages to win immunity, some ~random~ district ends up getting last place, though hopefully it's like 3 or 10, then we collectively vote out 12 and the immunity winner nominates 8, maybe even 10. Of course, I'd actually have to talk to my alliance about that to see what's going on in their head and hope they haven't started talking about plans to back stab each other yet. Basically if I can avoid getting sent to the Eliminator, vote out only 12, and not have any of 1/4/9 die I'll probably come out the next round with little blood on my hands and hopefully keep most of my allies intact. I don't even want to see 3 go at this point but they probably need to be broken up sooner or later anyhow and if it's during this challenge I'd probably be OK with it, though I don't think that's especially likely anyways.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 12, 2020 18:14:17 GMT
This is like the second time Tracer hasn't messaged me for three days straight, what the heck. Did she really forget she replied to me again or something?
In other news, there's not really much to talk about until deadline comes around. I got kind of tired of waiting around and doing nothing and asked Gilly what her thoughts were about nominating 8 if we got the chance. I also abstained from mentioning 10 since I'd rather not target them and that'll only leave 1 as the only name I haven't mentioned vote-wise, which might tip Gilly off but I kind of doubt it. I'm kind of double thinking whether or not I actually want 8 gone since Tracer isn't getting back to me very often, and I'm worried about what River and Shuichi would think about it.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 1:23:11 GMT
...This is kind of actually perfect. 10 was someone who I was going to cut sooner or later anyhow, and I just sent 4 a message about the vote prior deadline as I mentioned earlier, so that's cool. The only choices they really have without getting their hands dirty are 12 and 8, and I'd imagine they'd nominate 8 given the trend of nominating outside of the unanimous vote, or at least hopefully its unanimous. I feel very safe either way unless 12 happens to have a sponsor, but even then they'd kind of be crazy to nominate me over 3 given how bomb they've been at challenges.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 2:30:16 GMT
Anyhow, I guess it's finally time for the vote! I haven't talked to Ted yet since the vote began, but I'm pretty certain we're going to be voting in 12 as our primary unless you're thinking anything different or the tides end up shifting. I feel it's still too soon to try to go for any big moves, and I think a lot of players are set on that already. That does leave the question of where we want to head moving forward, though. I'm thinking soon enough we're going to have to shift our attention towards the challenge beasts. The sample size is fairly limited, but there's still some really obvious trends. I mean ffs 3 almost won two immunities in a row, that's really scary to think about. I've also noticed that 8 has been placing really highly as well on most challenge outside of the drawing challenge, and I feel that's the easiest threat to go after since from what I've heard from Ted, player 12's social game has dropped substantially, and given that I haven't heard from 12 at all yet I'd say that's probably pretty accurate. I wouldn't really like to see Susan go, but I can say the same about like half the players so like at some point I have to play a bit more with my head than my heart, if that makes any sense. From there I don't think the differences are all that drastic, although I have noticed a steady upward trend in 4's performance as well. I'm not entirely sure about boot order per say, except maybe 8 first since that's probably the "easiest", but I feel like getting rid of those districts would help even the playing field a lot as we head towards the end game. Alright, so I just sent Shuichi a giant wall (spoilered above) which may or may not end up coming back to haunt me. Basically I'm just trying to settle down the base to backstab my alliance down the line, because I especially don't feel comfortable leaving district 3 until F4 if our alliance manages to stay completely intact. I also sort of threw 4 under the bus a little, but I don't think it's that substantial and kind of works given I'd want to target 9 last anyhow. I think my worry is that either Shuichi/River are so turned off by the idea of targeting 8 that they go against me, or that they leak the information one way or another and crumble my alliance. And uh... also that I'm thinking there's going to be some type of swap next round that might make this talk not worth anything. But like my alliance will only last two more rounds after this one anyways by default, and I'd probably be more fine with this blowing up my game and losing a pretty easy F4 spot than not doing anything and end up getting a terrible match-up at the end, plus that's pretty boring anyways.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 13:29:19 GMT
Will respond to other stuff right now but gonna update you on the vote. It appears that instead of District 8 being a likely vote it'll be on 9, since if 12 does want to medevac they can just, do that next round (likely would mean only one other team goes to eliminator) and not worry about bringing Susan down with them and we like Susie quite a bit. Going with 9 also gives any of us a good chance of survival if Gilly doesn't go with 12 for their vote. Also, 4 is pretty tight with 9, so they probably should not know about the counterwagon. Obviously confer with Ted about what you think is best, but that's what is what I am hearing, babe. Help meeeeee.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 13:31:53 GMT
F19ur3d 7h15 w45 7h3 6357 pl4c3 70 p047 7h15. 8u7 du3 70 p3r50n4l c1rcum574nc35 4nd 7h3 n47ur3 0f 7h3 94m3, 1 h4v3 d3c1d3d 7h47 1 w1ll n07 63 p4r71c1p471n9 4nym0r3 4f73r 7h15 v073. H0w3v3r, 1 w1ll 571ll 63 4 p4r7 0f 7h15 v073. 50 y34h. OK, so Shuichi told me that player 12 was likely to medevac, so I kin of saw this coming. Sadly I don't think this will actually deter 1 from wanting 9 this round, it seems.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 13:53:17 GMT
So after rereading Shuichi's message it seems like his plan is to just let player 12 "medevac" next round (ie just auto lose to Susan) in order to make sure Susan stays alive. Obviously that's not going to happen since 4's going to nominate 8 this round, or at least hopefully they will, because if they don't things could get messy fast. I'm not sure whether or not I should leak the nominations to him, which is what I'm conferring with Ted about rn on top of other stuff.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 15:03:02 GMT
I've sent Ted a message about it, though I don't think he wakes up until a couple of hours so it'll be a bit until I hear back. This is the first time I've heard 9's name thrown out, though I haven't checked up with anyone after I went to sleep for the night. Honestly I'm kind of torn about that since I like Ulysses a lot and don't really view his district as a threat. But like I also don't care enough to really fight it since they'll have to go sooner or later anyways, so if it comes down to it I'll be fine with that as the secondary. I do agree that we have to be really careful about who we tell though, since things could get ugly if it leaks to Ulysses or Gilly. I'd need to concur with Ted when he gets on, but that's where my head's at. I wish there was a compromise, but I feel it's a bad time to go after 3 right now, and ultimately I've accepted that I'll have to be making hard boots soon enough anyhow. I am a bit worried though since 9's a riskier vote than 8 considering I don't think 8 and 4 are very close at all. This is what I ended up telling Shuichi. I do want to kind of nudge him towards the direction of 8, but I think sooner or later I'm going to have to break it to him that trying to go after 9 will likely only get him nominated instead. I sent this before I ended up reading the message from Gilly saying she's considering 1. I'm conflicted as to whether or not to tell Shuichi, because I really don't want it end up leaking back to him. I don't think I'm playing this round optimally at all, and I might even find myself in the hot seat because of it, but if I go down at least this'll be a valuable learning experience, which I couldn't really learn if I just auto-piloted 'till F5.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 15:31:25 GMT
Tracer still hasn't messaged me back, or Wenyu for that matter. I'm really curious what's running through their mind right now.
I'm really hoping Shuichi doesn't try too hard to save 8 but I haven't really swayed him away from doing that much admittedly. I'm actually kind of not seeing how this doesn't get ugly, really.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 16:18:33 GMT
Yeah, Gilly told me that they were considering District 1 as a nomination as well, since apparently River and Shuichi have 'tons of side deals and alliances' going on. Hmm... who would these side deals be? Probably 8 and me at least, though I don't know how much Gilly knows about that. But if they do have other alliances I'm not aware of I'd be more likely to cut them, though I don't know if that's actually the case or if Gilly's just exaggerating. I'm definitely taking note that Gilly told Ulysses in detail but not me, though. It could be a clue as to where I stand on the hierarchy in terms of our alliance when things get really down to the numbers.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 22:41:27 GMT
Jeeez this round is a lot more intense than I anticipated it being. OK so basically I've learned 1's pretty good with both 8 and 10, and those are most likely the "tons of side deals" that Gilly's talking about. I have no clue what I want to do regarding blindsiding / not blindsiding 9. Like the smart part of my brain is leaning towards the latter, but there's also a little tinge of excitement when I think about 9 possibly getting voted out. This could mess with my game plan big time either way depending on who we vote out and who comes out of the Eliminator alive.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 23:50:38 GMT
I think it just struck me that Gilly has to find out about this one way or another, right? Literally everyone but her and Ulysses know about it. Actually I really don't think we needed to end up telling 12 about it.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 23:51:14 GMT
Like there's no way this round doesn't end in complete disaster. Just literally no way.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 23:55:00 GMT
I'm worried Shuichi's not going to take the confession well. It's just so conveniently timed. He could easily just tell Gilly and convince her to nominate me and Ted instead.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 13, 2020 23:56:25 GMT
I'm also sad Peeta didn't ask any questions this phase.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 14, 2020 1:00:14 GMT
Alright, this time I literally have no idea what's going to happen. If everyone's telling the truth about the vote then it'll be like 5-2 between 9 and 12, but how can I really know that's true? Apparently me & Ted's names were being tossed around not too long ago, so who's to say we aren't the ones being blindsided? And I kind of doubt Ulysses or Gilly haven't heard about it yet, because receiving this: I'll put on District 8 as a backup as well in case 4 changes their minds for some reason and decides to nominate 12. After this: Right now my vote is planted on District 12 with 8 as the secondary, as that's what I think most people will go for. Reads pretty "I know you're blinsiding me" to me! And of course if that is the case Gilly will likely target me & Ted before Zod & Fenrir. And who's to say there aren't still any super hidden sponsors, which I really doubt but hey, you never know! I feel incredibly nervous about this round, not only the result of it but the aftermath of it all. Will Shuichi and River end up hating me after they get some juicy secrets from Ulysses? Will Ulysses & Beetlejuice just end up coming back instead, or swap one of them out for Tracer? Who's to say, really. All I know is that the rest of the game is going to be one heck of a ride, and I'm really not prepared for it, unless I do end up getting nominated this round, of course.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 14, 2020 1:03:08 GMT
Anyhow, jeez, I ended up spending pretty much my entire day on this game. I definitely need to take a break after this.
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