Torchwalk Thread: Red Panda

Gecko

I never got to know you. There was a consensus vote on a inactive player and that ended up being you. It could have easily been slow loris instead and that changed the complexion of the whole game. I hope next time you get to connect more with people and stick around.

HumanChild

I feel like I don't understand you this game. You signed up for a role which was at a significant disadvantage if you didn't use it to make connections in both tribes, but as far as I can tell you didn't do that, so you just ended up with disadvantages. You just didn't have anyone who wanted to fight for you when it came elimination time.

Quokka

We talked a little in the beginning and you sent me cute quokka vids as well as taught me that Quokka expel their young to avoid predators. If this seems superficial its because I think we never really developed past this point in our relationship. There's only so far quokka juggling can take you.

GiantPanda

Probably the player I've heard the most about in the game who I've never actually talked to. To hear sugar and jerboa tell it, you were the center of all the drama swirling at Aviary. To hear others tell it, that wasn't as true as it's been said to me. Given my relationship with Jerboa I'm inclined to believe he was the cause of much more of the drama than he let on about. 

ElephantShrew

Awwww elephant shrew. I have regrets. I liked you on animal pen and if we had been swapped into the same tribe likely we would have ended up on merge together and who knows. 

SugarGlider

Sugar, you got beat by jerboa more than anything else, though you gave him the ammunition he needed when you sent me the "truth" about what was going on at old aviary. There's definitely a world where you don't send that and I end up trusting you more than jerboa at the end and wouldn't that have shaken up the whole complexion of the game. 

WhetOwl

The player who got most shafted this whole game, I think. I wonder if you were actually willing to go to rocks on aquarium. I know for a fact sugar and jerboa weren't. I think our relationship was filtered through jerboa and that made it hard for either of us to actually trust the other. Also I just wish you had talked to me just a bit more. 

Meerkat

I was interested in working with you pretty much constantly after the merge but it seemed like you were never interested. Idk, maybe a flaw in my social game for sure. 

Pika

Pika was a great ally and a good friend, willing to work through problems and differences. Your vote shook up the entire game and then led to all the other moves that have happened since. Even if you didn't make it to the end you were a factor and a body around which all the rest of the game orbited your gravitational pull. I think you played a beautiful game, and you were taken out because no one else was playing quite as hard as you were.

Jerboa

Ah, my dear frienemy. We were at odds with each other pretty much the whole game post merge. I'm happy I got to play with you even though you genuinely frustrated me at times this game, and I will always cherish being part of the late night crew with you and me on an otherwise completely dead site. 

Ermine

I am so happy to have gotten to spend this time getting to know you and talking to you and working together. I know you took me out, but I know why too. I would have done the same. In the future I just wish you would put slightly more effort into your social game because if you did that and just messaged people more I know you would be an absolute force.

Fennec Fox

Hello old friend. I think you played a inspired game. I think taking me out when you did was the right play and I'm happy to call you my friend. I think people are going to underrate you because you werent loud and brash but I think you did an excellent job of building social connections, keeping your threat level down and making moves when you needed to. Aquarium forever!

Sand Cat

Sand cat has played an incredible game. There's no other way to describe it in my mind. Her social game is so powerful, that at the TC where I was voted out I was really hoping that it was my alliance that had stabbed me in the back instead of her. Besides that, she's been the driving force behind almost all of the post merge blindsides and moves. You might be able to question some of her strategic choices for those moves, but you can't question her ability to bring a vote together and to keep it quiet. 

Dolphin

I think you're very good at staying alive and not seeming like a threat, and I think you've played a pretty incredible strategic game. Your name was suggested to me by one person or another for literally every vote post merge, yet here you are, still in the game. That speaks to your incredible resourcefulness, social game and the ability to quietly help those votes go in another direction.