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Topic Started: Jul 14 2015, 08:36:00 AM (314 Views)
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~ Episode 1 ~
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I've been looking forward to play another survivor for a while now, so I am quite excited for this game. The last Arkham was a disappointment for me, so doing better than that will be my first goal here.

But really, time travel? I went through the game-related rules and didn't find any explanation about time travelling, so I'm just going to assume that the time travelling is a joke from the mods. After Doctor Who, the only way I would want to use time travel is to travel back in time and undo my application.

Onto the more serious stuff, my tribe. My tribe is ridiculous. I have played a couple of Survivor games by now, and this tribe is something I've never seen before. Two hours into the game everyone had already signed in, which immediately eliminated the chance of having any inactives. By now I've spoken with everyone, and I can only say the following: we will have no easy first boots. Normally there are always a couple of people who don't know how to hold a conversation and send oneliners, but not this time. Every single message I received was at least four or five lines. And while it's nice to have an active, strong tribe, it also makes me nervous. At this point I can't see what the power structure will be like, and if we end up losing the first challenge, we will have a difficult tribal council right away. Which means that I will have to start playing the game early on.

So, am I happy about my first 12 hours in this game? Yes and no. After a couple of hours in the game, Mad Hatter approached me asking for an alliance. I obviously accepted, so it does make me feel a bit more comfortable to know that I already have an ally. Off course, the question is whether or not I can trust an alliance offer three hours into the game? He does seem genuine about his intentions, so we'll see how things go. Hatter suggested to make a bigger alliance, but I'm not a big fan of that. Majority alliances are doomed to fail. Bringing too many people together in an alliance means that you can't keep things hidden, and the alliance will be destroyed from the inside. I prefer a lot of small deals, partnerships. That way no one knows who you're really working with, and it's always nice to keep others in the dark.

I could do a write-up about my tribemembers, but it's too early for that. At this point, my opinion about everyone would be the same: 'can hold a conversation, seems to know what he's doing'. I'm hoping that by the start of the challenge, I'll have spoken a bit more with them and who knows, maybe I'll have some more deals by then.
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It makes me believe there's going to be a swap after this tribal council. There's no challenge announced either..
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This is absolutely and without a single doubt the worst tribe swap ever for me. Ibam put with no one from my original cell block, and no one from my previous tribe. 8 out of 15 players I'd be happy to be on a tribe with, I got 0 of those 8.
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Gotham police department has four people from cell block c plus Alfred. I'm jealous.
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At first I was pretty concerned about my position. No one from my original holding cell in my tribe and no one from my former tribe. I didn't really know any of my tribemates, which scared me. Now, I feel a bit safer. I've grown closer to Arrow, numbers and Ivy, and from what they're telling me they all want to target either Two-Face or Arm-Fall-Off-Boy. Numbers is the person I like the most at the moment, he sends long and nice messages. I've heard a couple of people say they'd like to vote Two-Face, and I don't have any problem with that as he barely talks and took some strange decisions in the challenge.
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From what I've heard, the vote is going to be between Red Arrow and Arms-Fall-Off-Boy. As long as it's not me I'm happy, but I'm trying to get Arms guy voted out. He seems more well-liked than Red Arrow, and I feel like Arrow is more on my side than Arms guy is.
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Hello! Have some questions from the chimp.

1) What is the heirarchy of the merge? (aka, rank the power each player has)
2) You're locked in a room with Beyonce for about an hour. What do you do?
3) Who is your favourite player still in the merge that is not yourself, and why?
4) Who is your favourite player not in the merge and why?
5) Pizza topping. Favourite and least favourite. Go.
6) Biggest accomplishment so far?
7) Biggest screwup so far?
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1. Hmm, that's interesting. I'll go through all the players and try to judge how many power they have, and give my own relationship with them.

Alfred is probably one of my closest allies at this point, if not my closest. He gives me a lot of information, and everything he does (and he does a lot), he asks my opinion first. But unfortunately, he's not going to last very long. He likes to stand in the spotlight and take an active role in tribal council, and that's going to become his downfall very soon. He might have a couple of solid connections with people like Krypto, but he has made a whole lot of enemies as well. I'm going to try to keep him around as long as possible, since he is one of the people I trust the most, and he's also a wonderful shield for me.

Arm-Fall-Off-Boy I was in a tribe with him, but I still don't know where he stands and what connections he has. I feel like numbers is probably one of the people who he is closest to, but besides that I don't really now. It'll be interesting to see which side he chooses once things heat up. He'll probably survive quite a while, but I don't feel like he holds any real power at the moment.

Bane Not sure what to think about Bane. We were together in the holding cell and in Wonder City and grew quite close, but things have changed. Bane made new friends in his previous tribe, and I feel like we've become a lot more distant. Bane is a pretty powerful player, he has connections with me and Alfred, but also deals with people from his previous tribe like Rorschach, Rabbit and probably Freeze. I want to keep him on my side, but I don't trust him as much as I used to trust him anymore.

Batwoman is very hard to judge. She claims she was at the bottom of the previous tribe, but then suddenly she refuses to vote for MEL. Then she wants to target Rorschach and says there are enough votes, but when I listen to what others say it's obvious that wasn't true at all. I don't know what she is trying to do at this point, and I also don't know what people she's supposed to be close to. I wouldn't say she's a power player in this merge.

Beast Boy Where is he? I got along with him well in our holding cells and he seemed like a strong competitor, but he turned completely inactive and people are starting to target him. I feel like he could be a key component in my game, if he gets active again and I can manage to get him on my side that'd be amazing. I don't think he has many connections at this point and would be open to work with me. For what I know, he doesn't have any power at this point and if he doesn't pick it up, he will be voted out very, very soon.

Krypto is someone I liked a lot when we first met. We've been away for a very, very long time though and that definitely hurt our relationship. I'd love to work with him, but I don't know how much that is possible at this point. I am going to try to get as close to him as possible though, since it'd be very useful if he'd work with me. Probably one of the players in the middle of the pack who is going to slip by unnoticed, and can be dangerous later on, but he doesn't have that much people as far as I know.

Mr Freeze I have never been in a tribe with him, but I do feel like he is a smart person who knows what he is doing. He claims he was on the bottom of his previous tribe, but Bane also told me Freeze was one of the people he liked the most. I feel like he has quite a few connections and quite a few options. Definitely someone to watch out for.

Poison Ivy somehow ends up being close to a lot of people, but I don't get it. Her messages are short and she seems so naive. I made a deal with her not to vote each other in our previous tribe, and I have no idea how much she thinks of me at the moment. I don't think she is strong enough to make any plays and hold any real power, but she has quite a few connections with could help her.

Rorschach is someone I'm going to target soon enough. He seems well-liked by quite a few people, is active, and seems smart enough. I'm sure that if I ever were to target him, there'd be a lot of opposition. But it will be necessary to take him out soon to weaken White Rabbit and Bane's position.

White Rabbit is a very, very strong player, probably the best player in this game. We have never been in a tribe together, but I like her a lot, grew close to her and she offered me an alliance. But she is so likeable everyone must like her. She has connections everywhere. Right now, I want to find out how much she actually honors our alliance to see how I have to proceed. She obviously has a whole lot of power, and is going to be a strong competitor.

Numbers is one of my favorites. I started talking to her in our previous tribe, and we grew quite close. I consider her as one of my primary allies, and I hope she feels the same way. Although she missed the holding cell stuff, she seems to have enough friends and connections in this game to hold some power. So it'll be important for me to keep her as close as possible.

2) I... uh... That's the toughest question on this list. Yeah.. I don't know actually.

3) Alfred is the one I trust the most, White Rabbit is the one I like the most. White Rabbit's messages are the best, but Alfred is the person I'm working with the closest.

4) HATTER HATTER HATTER I hope he gets brought back by a returnee twist.

5) Favourite is bananas and least favourites is everything else.

6) Reaching the merge is not a bad thing in my opinion, so that's something I'm already proud of!

7) My pre-merge challenge play.
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Next tribal council, I'm going to try and see if it's possible to get Rorschach out. I'm not close to him, and I feel like he has many others friends (Bane, Rabbit). I feel like it should be possible, but I'm not sure about it so I'm going to make sure I'm not the one pushing it. I suggested the idea to Alfred and he wants to vote out Rorschach as well, so I'm going to make sure to let him do most of the talking here, so I won't take the blame if things go wrong.
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Hmm, this is interesting. So there's an Ivy vs Alfred showdown, but at the same time Numbers is trying to get the votes on Rorschach. I said before tribal council I'd be happy to see Rorschach leave, but in this situation, I actually prefer to get Ivy out so I'm not going to give Numbers too much support. It shouldn't be hard normally to take Rorschach out next round, and without Rorschach and Ivy in this game things look a lot better for me. It takes away a lot of Rabbit's power, drawing her closer to me, and also weakens people like Bane, drawing them closer to me as well. Ivy and Rorschach are two people I'm not very close to anyway, so it doesn't hurt voting them out.
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no No NO NOOOO NOT NUMBERS CHESSKID she was so important for me and one of my primary allies. I seriously hope she didn't quit because we didn't want to take the vote off Ivy, she seemed quite mad and disappointed in her last message to me, I guess that's what it was about. I think cursing is cool because I have no imagination., this is really bad
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