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{Mutiny}

Welcome to your first twist of Survivor: Season Finale!

In past games, you are usually confined to your own tribe, and if you find yourself in a precarious position, you are stuck waiting for an inevitable merge or tribe swap. Here, we are enabling you to take matters into your own hands.

If you like, you have the ability to switch to the other tribe. You may do this any time you want, simply by making a post in your confessional regarding this. Keep in mind, though, there is no going back. Once you have made the post, there is no deleting it or changing your mind. And once you have switched tribes, you may not choose to mutiny back to your original tribe.

Also, you must note the mutiny will not take place immediately. Instead, each tribe will have their own secret "mutiny list." When you make the post in your confessional, you will be added to the bottom of the list. This is first come, first serve.

After every Immunity Challenge, we will examine the mutiny list of the winning tribe. If there is anybody on the list, then the first player will be switched to the other tribe at that time. They will attend their new tribe's Tribal Council; however, they will have individual immunity, because they did rightfully win the challenge.

If you are on the mutiny list and your tribe loses, you will simply remain on the list. The same goes if you were on the winning tribe, but you were not at the top of the list. Put simply: Once you are on a list, you cannot come off. So be ready to commit.
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{Immunity Idol}

Congratulations! Since the two of you held the Holy Grail at the end of the previous challenge, you have won an Immunity Idol!

This Immunity Idol must be played at TC, before the votes are revealed. It will nullify the votes of any one player, and the player with the next highest amount of votes will be eliminated. For example, if Alice receives 5 votes, and Bob receives 3 votes, but Alice plays an Immunity Idol, then Bob would be eliminated. The last time you may play this idol is at the Final 5.

Yes, that is "idol" in the singular form. Unfortunately, for now, you will have to share just one idol between the two of you. How will that work? Simply, for it to be used, you both must agree, in this forum, when and how to use the idol. If both of you do not agree, then the idol will not be used.

If one of you is voted off, then the idol will then completely belong to the other player.

If both of you make to the Final 9, then you will receive another idol. If you still have the original idol, then that means you will both have your own, and permission from the other player will not be required. If the original idol has been used by the Final 9, but both of you are still around, then you will have to share the new idol as well.

You also have this forum. Use it to communicate as you please, even though you are on separate tribes for now.
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{Merge Time!}

Congratulations! The ten of you have made it to the merge. Well, almost. You must do one more thing as a tribe. Please select one member of your tribe to serve as an ambassador. The ambassadors from each tribe will work together to make some decisions about the future of the merged tribe.

{Ambassadors}

{Player} and {Player}, you have been selected as ambassadors for your tribes. You have two decisions to make right now:

1. You must choose a name for the merged tribe.

2. You must choose a color for the merged tribe. The border of your avatars will change to this color. You may choose a specific hex code. We would also advise you not to choose a color that is overly similar to the colors used by the mods and spectators.

You will make these decisions by yourself, and you will be isolated from the rest of the players while you do this. Meanwhile, the eight other players have been merged and are now competing in their first Individual Immunity challenge. The two of you will be immune regardless, don't worry.

You have {24 hours} to make your decisions. After this time, you will join the rest of your new tribe.

There is also one more decision that the two of you must make. You will not learn what this is until later.

{Tribal Council 7 - Merged Tribe}

Welcome to your first Tribal Council as a merged tribe. I'm sure you are all ready to vote, but we will be doing things a little different this time.

As you know, the ambassadors, {Player} and {Player}, chose your new tribe name and color. However, they now must make a third decision.

The first player eliminated post-merge will be determined solely by the two ambassadors. The rest of you may talk to them, persuade them, and beg your own cases, but you will have no official say in this elimination.

The ambassadors will make their decision in their own private subforum. For this special Tribal Council, they will have {48 hours}.

I'm sure you're asking, what if the ambassadors don't agree? Well, we have something planned if that happens, and that outcome is very very bad for the ambassadors. We won't tell you any more than that, but trust us. Reaching an agreement is definitely in your best interest.
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Challenge 08: An Innocent Chore

Before we post the next challenge, you must rank the other 8 players from who is most likely to win (#1) to who is least likely to win. (#8)

You have {24 hours} to post this list in your confessional. You must not discuss your list with anybody else. If you do not submit, you will be penalized.

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The lists you have just submitted have been combined and tallied. You may have expected that they were for this episode's immunity challenge. They were not. Instead, the results will be important much later in the game.

When this game has reached the Final 4, we will reveal the sum of the lists; that is, the 9 of you ranked from most trustworthy to least trustworthy, overall. At that point, the "most trusted" player remaining in the game will receive a special ability - they will be the only vote for the Final 4 Tribal Council, meaning they will singlehandedly decide who is eliminated. Also, there will be no immunity challenge at the Final 4, due to this.

None of you have been notified about your placement on the overall ranking. However, you may now choose to discuss your lists with the other players.

Now, on to the actual immunity challenge:
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Cosima Niehaus
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{Challenge 01}

Welcome to Starfleet Academy. I understand that you are to be administered your entrance exam to the game here. I, Captain Picard, will be here to guide you in your first adventure.

For everything, there is a first time. Today, you will be engaging in a war simulation, and it will be the first time many of you will be exposed to such an environment. Of course, you have already been assigned to two groups, a fact we will make use of. Your two groups will fight in a war simulation, each person being given command of a single Federation attack fighter. Your goal is to eliminate all ships on the enemy team.

Each fighter starts with 5 hit points, and is equipped with a single gun that does 1 damage to a chosen target. You will also be given upgrade points to customize your ship--5 at the start, then 3 for every round. The simulation will proceed in 24 hour rounds--each round, you will choose your upgrades and then fire on your targets, through orders given in your Confessionals. You may upgrade in Offense, Defense, or Speed. Each 3 points in Offense allow your shots to deal 1 additional damage. Each 3 points in defense gives 1 hit point. Each 4 points in speed allow you to fire one extra shot each round (which may be aimed at a different target). Your unused upgrade points will be retained through rounds. When your fighter runs out of hit points, you will be removed from the simulation. Each round, we will post publicly only the ships that have fallen in combat--you will know not the stats of any ship other than your own. Where action resolution is concerned, all attacks will occur simultaneously until round 3, at which time actions will take place in turns, based on when you submit your action.

Now, this is a simulation. There are no repercussions or pressures, no planet depending on your success, no stakes on the line. But at the same time, we wish not to make this too easy on you. As a result, there will be no public communication of this challenge. All communication must take place through individual PM. Through this manner, we will show you how chaotic war is. Which of you will become leaders? And which of you will add confusion with your ineptitude?

There is one more thing I must inform you. To test your resolve and your loyalty to the team, you will each be given an individual goal that diverges from the goal of your team. You are all given a private target on the enemy side. If this target suffers, in 1 round, 2 damage more than their current HP, then they will have been overkilled, and you will receive a small benefit in the game. However, I must warn you that this action will cost your team in how much effective damage is dealt.

I do not believe in idle time, and so we will start the simulation now. 24 hours to submit your orders, gentlemen. Best of luck.
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{Challenge 03}

Hello, my dearest admirers, and welcome to the cool, hip, webshow, "Get Fit With Sheldon!" Now, some research of mine has recently uncovered that muscle mass has a strong (r>0.97) curvilinear relationship with life expectancy in developing countries. And since the greatest shame our generation could possibly suffer is allowing the death of such a brilliant mind as myself, I have decided to host this series to lead you all in exercising.

Now, to lessen some of the boredom that comes with exercising, I've created a competition between your two tribes for the entertainment value. So to start, each of you needs to go get a 10 kilogram barbell and a lot of weights. Stop listening to me and go get them now. And then continue listening to me again.

Got the materials? Good. So to simulate this exercise, you must privately assign 100 hit points across your competing members. The challenge progresses in 4 hour rounds--each round, your hit points decrease by the weight that you are carrying: hit points=-2^(weight/10 -1). Additionally, every round, each tribe will add 10 kilograms of weight to one survivor on the opposing tribe. You can tell us which challenger your tribe is adding weight to in your group forum, but you must do this every round--if you do not, then you don't get to add weight that round! When your hit points drop below half, I will announce publicly that you are beginning to show strain. When you run out of hit points, you are out of the challenge. Last survivor standing wins immunity for your tribe!

You have 24 hours to assign hit points in your tribe. Once that is finished, we will start the challenge. A member of your tribe must announce within every 4 hour block which survivor your tribe wishes to add weight to by posting: {Tribe} adds weight to {Survivor}'s barbell! I will post current hit points for your tribe's survivors in your tribal forum, and strain will be posted in the challenge thread.

Well, off you go. And make sure you actually do the challenge in real life!
Edited by Philo T Farnsworth, Apr 9 2014, 09:07 AM.
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{Challenge 04}

Jesse.

Jesse! Stop cooking, stop, stop everything. Listen to me. The DEA are on their way, I just found out.

Well, the DEA doesn't tell me their every move, do they? ...no, shut up Jesse, we need to act now. Are your men here?

All right. Listen to me. We're going to split up now. You take half the money, I'll take half the money, and we're going to try and get it all out of here, all right? They know we've been using this place, they're going to raid it. Our only chance right now is just to have our people try to drive past them.

Each tribe must assign equal numbers of blockers and rushers. The rushers are trying to smuggle money past the enclosing DEA, while the blockers try to stop the other team's smuggling. Each rusher can run to any blocker of the opposing team of their choice, and the time the blocker takes to block the attack is recorded onto the rusher's team score. Each rusher must attack a different blocker, and each rusher may only rush one time. The tribe with the higher score wins immunity.

For the {Leading Ladies}:

Rushers: {Player}, {Player}, and {Player}
Blockers: {Player}, {Player}, and {Player}

For {Purple Reign}:

Rushers: {Player}, {Player}, and {Player}
Blockers: {Player}, {Player}, and {Player}

To rush towards a blocker from the opposing tribe, post this in your tribe color:

{Rusher} runs towards {Blocker}

To block someone that is rushing towards you, post this in your tribe color:

{Blocker} blocks {Rusher} from advancing any further.

There will be a 10-minute question period. After that, all Rushers have 24 hours to make their moves. The challenge will end once everyone has been blocked, or if it is impossible for one tribe to win.
Edited by Gaius Baltar, Apr 8 2014, 01:00 AM.
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{Challenge 09}

John. It has just crossed my mind that I've never thanked you. In all my cases, you have been beside me as a loyal companion, and very rarely, as a trustworthy advisor.

Oh, I'm sorry for misleading you. Your useful insights are excessively rare. You do valiantly attempt to explain my reasoning to Lestrange, or whoever happens to be around. Most of the time I really just regard you as a lapdog. Oh, don't look so despondent, you're good at what you do.

Why would you be insulted? You don't imagine yourself to be actually deductive, do you? Ha. John, you don't even know yourself. Look at you. Marrying "Mary", craving stability, when really the roads you choose to walk on are filled with danger and uncertainty. You don't even know yourself, much less a crime scene or a dead body.

Hah. I'll put you up to a test then.

There are three portions to this test. Your goal is to perform each portion as best as you can, and also give an adequate assessment of your performance in relation to the other players.

The first portion is this puzzle. Complete it as quickly as you can and post a screenshot of your result in your confessional. Feel free to attempt the puzzle as many times as you like in order to get the best time possible.

The second portion is this flash game. Attempt as many times as you like to get the best score you can. Post the result in your confessional, and please include either a tab open either to MS or this forum. Do not click on "Submit Best." Just take a screenshot of the game and we will score you based on the number listed by "Your Best."

The third portion is outlined in more detail in a special subforum in your confessional. You will be given access to it shortly.

After you perform each of these, you must rank yourself based on how well you think you did, in comparison to the other players. Do this for each portion individually. You will receive points based on (1) your rank in each portion, and (2) how far off you were in ranking yourself for that portion. For example, if you had the 5th best time on the puzzle, and predicted that you got the 3rd best time, then you would receive 7 points for that portion. (5 for your rank, plus 2 for being off by 2 ranks.) The player with the lowest total score will win immunity.

In case of a tie, estimate how many total points you will score in this challenge. The player that gets the closest without going over will win immunity.

You have {48 hours} for this challenge, because you have a lot to do.

You must not discuss your scores with any of the other players until this challenge is over.



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Part 3:

For this portion of the challenge, we have a list of 5-letter words that you must guess in as few tries as possible. For each word, we will start by telling you the first letter, after which you will make a guess.

After each guess, we will help you by telling you which (if any) of the letters in your word are in the correct place, and which are in the wrong place. For example, if the word is "aimed" and you guessed "alien" we would tell you that the E was in the correct place and the I was in the wrong place. Each guess you make does not have to match all the clues we have given you so far, but you do have to match the first letter, and you do have to give an actual English word, not counting proper nouns.

Your final score will be your total number of attempts in guessing all 10 words. If you do not guess a word within 10 attempts, then you will score "10" for that word and we will move on to the next word. Obviously, the lower your score, the better.

You are not to use a dictionary or any other form of help for this challenge. You also must not reveal any of these words to the other players.

Words:

1. PIZZA
2. WORLD
3. CLONE
4. STEAM
5. GUILT
6. BOOTS
7. SCOUT
8. LLAMA
9. STICK
10. COOKS
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{Challenge 10}

It was an old favorite of the time lords. When Gallifrey was younger, before it was burdened with politics and ambition and desire, Time Lords would find an "empty" timestream--time in an uninhabited place, at the bottom of the ocean, in the recesses of vast and empty space. Today, you'll play this same game for immunity.

Starting at X, you will be attempting to collect time. Each time you post, you collect all the time between your post and the previous post. You must then add that time (in minutes, rounded up) to your total count, which you will include in every post you make. You may not double post, so if you find yourself the only one online, it may benefit you to wait to collect a bigger amount of time. Each person only has 20 posts to make, and the challenge lasts 24 hours.

It was not a game of reaction, nor a game of patience. It was, for all intents and purposes, a game of timing. Such a fitting pastime to the custodians of time…
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{Challenge 08}

Welcome, everypony, to the 2014 Equestria Games, a phenomenon so popular that it even acquired a large audience outside of its target demographic!

Tonight is a simple race event between six ponies. Not all of these ponies are particularly well-known racers, but that doesn't matter, because you can use your money to influence them!

Yes, that's right. Each pony has a starting energy level, and each player has 100 gold bits to spend on feeding the ponies, which will increase their energy. For 5 bits, you can increase a pony's energy level by 1 point. For 10 bits, 3 points, and for 20 bits, 7 points. You may spend as much or as little money as you wish, on multiple ponies, one pony, or no ponies at all. After everyone has spent their money, we will reveal how much money each player has remaining. You have {24 hours} for the spending portion of this challenge. Feel free to discuss this challenge publicly or privately with anyone you wish. The ponies will START with these energy levels:

Rainbow Dash: 20 points
Applejack: 15 points
Pinkie Pie: 10 points
Twilight Sparkle: 6 points
Fluttershy: 3 points
Rarity: 1 point

The second phase will be a betting phase, where each player may bet as much money as they wish on one or multiple ponies. Here is how your bet will be affected, depending on how well your pony does:

1st place: Your bet will be doubled
2nd place: Your bet will remain the same.
3rd place: You will receive 1/2 of your bet.
4th place: You will receive 1/4 of your bet.
5th place: You will receive 1/8 of your bet.
6th place: You will receive 1/16 of your bet.

Your prize will be rounded to the nearest bit, if necessary.

The ponies' performance will be determined by their final energy levels. If a pony's energy level is 50 or under, then that will be her score. However, due to the effects of ponybesity, if her energy level is OVER 50, then her performance score will be calculated as (100 - her energy level). The pony with the highest performance score will win the race.

The player that has the most bits will win immunity.
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{Challenge 11}

Welcome, everyone, and please keep your voices down. As I'm sure you've noticed, Farnsworth has placed us all in this absurd sadistic experiment. It is time for that to end. I realize you may have hesitations about trusting me, but rest assured that any cooperation I seemed to have with Farnsworth was purely feigned on my part. I have been planning this all along and I finally have the means to do it.

The hex grid below represents the circuit board of Philo's television, the device he has been using to trap us all here. Each of you six is represented by a different color hex at each corner of the board. You will be moving around the board, destroying it in the process. If we succeed, then this nightmare will be over, and we can all go back to our separate lives in our separate canonical universes.

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This will be turn-based. On your turn, you must move one space in any direction. You can define directions as Northwest, Northeast, West, East, Southwest, and Southeast, although you can say whatever you want as long as it's clear where you want to move. After you move, the space you were on previously will turn black and nobody will be able to walk over that space again. You have {5 minutes} for each turn, though we would prefer if you make each of your moves as quickly as you possibly can. We will post an updated image of the board regularly.

If, at the start of your turn, you cannot make a move, then you are eliminated from the challenge. The last player left standing will win immunity.

The red hexes near the center of the board can take you to another, smaller board that is pictured below. If at the start of your turn, you are adjacent to a red hex, you can jump to any space adjacent to a red hex on the other board. You can jump back and forth as many times as you like, and red hexes will never turn black.

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Please note - betraying Farnsworth like this is extremely unselfish on my part. I can only wish you show me the gratitude that I deserve, and do your part to take this motherfrakker down.
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{Challenge 12 - Confessional Quotes}

After Baltar's recent betrayal, I have decided to investigate your private confessionals for further acts of treason. Unfortunately for me, you all have been rather innocent of crimes other than stupidity, so there will be no more public executions at this time.

However, this gave me a wonderful idea for the next challenge, something to both simultaneously humiliate you and send a message. I am the omniscient, omnipresent, Lord Farnsworth! You cannot hide from me!

I have selected a few choice quotes from each of your confessionals, 26 in all. Some are from eliminated players; some are from the five of you. For each quote, you must give the 3 most likely writers of that quote, in order. If your #1 choice said it, you will get 5 points. If your #2 choice said it, you will get 2 points. If your #3 choice said it, you will get 1 point. If you stumble upon a quote that you made yourself, then I seriously hope you do not get it wrong.

You must not discuss this challenge with the other players. You have {24 hours} to perform this challenge in your confessional.

In case of a tie, please estimate how many total points will be won by all players in this challenge, combined. The player that gets the closest without going over will win immunity.
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I have some solid connections to {Player} and {Player}, so at this point, I don't think I should worry. Off course as always I'm a bit paranoid, so I'm still afraid they'll all side against me and vote me out. Still, that seems to be very, very unlikely.

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Now, I never intended to share, but I had hoped someone would steal it, so I could steal it back and have no one really sure who had it.

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I too am awful. People should play anyway since it's easy to tag questions on to chess moves.

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I'm sober now and you look really pretty :$ . I'm not sure why you thought that.

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What really baffles me is that they haven't realized they can make me autolose whenever they want to. Maybe they'll do it now.

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How we get there... I don't know but I would figure out a way to make that a reality because... THEY WILL NEVER EXPECT THE (PLAYER) MOVES. By the end of this game I will become a real boy.

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I'm stepping up my game so I don't look like a dork come Final Tribal.

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I'm asking her about relationship advice and hoping my constant attempts to reach out will make more of an impression on her. I'm trying to make us bffs and whatnot.

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Hahahahahaha.... .BWAHAHAHAH



HAHAHAH WAAHAHAH BWAHA BWH HAHDFU UERWBFN IUWBEFEWF NK


Thats me saying that wasn't worth it.

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Is trust even existent in this game? Is it like Santa Claus? Everyone says it exists to make you seem happy. Make you believe in them for a second for one two rounds or months. But it hits you, it isn't real. And I'm so conflicted. Do I pretend Santa Claus does exist for the promise of my wish list? Or do I spit in the plate of promises and cookies set out for him?

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I like to think after her challenge 3 no-show and her recent Green tribe drama, she was a Purple Reign secret agent all along

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NO!

I REFUSE TO BE ALLIED WITH EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THIS GAME

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If I were IRL Sruvivor these guys wouldn't have the gall to be this stupid to me.

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I actually had to look up what that word meant. But I'd rather it be a pagonging. I've been aiming for this the entire game.

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(Player) has been telling people to vote me. With me, once that starts happening it happens every single round until I get voted out.

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So I guess I play the bad guy.

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very middle of the pack, i think: i'm not disliked by anyone as far as i can tell, so i'll probably dodge a tc or two

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I claimed scum in my private QT with my scum buddies.

Sup.

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(PLAYER)


*doesn't glomp because I kinda want to hit on his character but he doesn't feel like the type of person to not think that was weird*

(Next post:)

Lol nevermind he's totally into it

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Yesterday, she wrote 400 words to me and that was her longest reply. 6 hours and 23 minutes later, she replied with a 102 word response. This means that the half life of her replies is 3 hours 11 minutes and 30 seconds.

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It looks like I am going to be getting the reward in this challenge... I really hope that it isn't a HII. I mean that would great and all... But I wouldn't want to think of other people having such a strong advantage this early on in this game.

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As expected no one mutinied, I would've been really surprised if someone did. I don't think anyone in our tribe feels really in danger, and we all know switching to the girls would be very, very difficult.

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If you're being genuine, I'm sorry, but you had this coming to you. I have no reason to trust that you'd stay on my side after already turning your back on me. You agreed to an alliance with me, and you didn't mean it. So, even if you're telling the truth, you're a little late.

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I was friendly with the first four to come online. Everyone else, I've kind of jumped in with challenge discussion. So far, everyone is collaborating well.

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Now I know I suck at names, so I'm not going to be much help there. But, I'm definitely going to find some awesome color choices.

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omg (player) doesn't trust me i'm so sad.

the girl is literally the least dependable thing out there. talks with literally everyone and everyone knows it. we never tell her anything that isn't worth it, because she can't keep her mouth shut.
Edited by Cosima Niehaus, May 3 2014, 10:15 PM.
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Answer key:

1. Thomas
2. Harmony
3. Holly
4. Jesse
5. Carmen
6. Glenn
7. Yzma
8. Holly
9. Nappa
10. Yzma
11. Danny
12. Danny
13. Nagisa
14. Donna
15. Homer
16. Hawkeye
17. Myrtle
18. Nappa
19. Carmen
20. Jesse
21. Glenn
22. Thomas
23. Dora
24. Barney
25. Dora
26. Harmony
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