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Post by Red Panda on Jun 1, 2022 15:00:22 GMT -5
So I have played a fuck ton of this game so I was incredibly lucky this was the challenge. At the same time, I'm not sure I actually needed it at all and I don't want to be perceived as some sort of huge challenge threat especially because I definitely am not, as my puzzle and maze scores demonstrate.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 1, 2022 17:16:43 GMT -5
A meerkat vote seems extremely easy here unless I'm missing something major. Loris seems pretty set on it and I just don't think there's any resistance. I don't think jerboa is playing an "old aviary" game at all and whet owl seems like he's not interested in doing that as well. That leaves dolphin and dolphin has sent me a grand total of 3 nothing burger messages since I've gotten here. I know Sand Cat says they're solid and I will for now trust her on that because she hasn't given me any reason to doubt her, but there's only so far I can go with proxy relationships so I hope that dolphin gets their butt in gear at some point and starts talking to me.
I think this is incredibly good for my game because it means we don't have to in any way reveal that we have a voting bloc of 4 with me ermine jerboa and fennec and the vote ties back into slow loris in case theres any backlash even though I don't think there will be. Kind of feels like maybe this is a bit of a waste of a TC because meerkat just seems like such an easy vote anyway but honestly after the last tc I'm down for an easy vote.
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Post by Kreilxieds on Jun 1, 2022 21:01:45 GMT -5
 Hi there, I'm Kreilxieds, photographer for the Critter Chronicle. Ever since Ferret went AWOL from the job, the editor's been hopping mad that we're slacking off in our coverage of adorable animals! If you could just answer a few questions it'd really help keep him off my back. 1. Now that the tribes have merged, how do you see your role in this tribe? Are you at the top of the pecking order or on the chopping block? 2. Is there anyone you met first at the merge or reconnected with who you think will be important to you moving forward? 3. How do you see your path to the end? Do you have a specific idea of how you get there or are you looking to play it round by round? 4. Who do you think will be eliminated at this tribal council? Who would you most like to see eliminated? Thanks so much for your help, print media needs exactly this type of premium critter content to stay afloat in the digital age! |
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 1, 2022 21:12:36 GMT -5
1) At the risk of looking very foolish I think I have successfully put myself in a truly incredible position. I feel like I've got very strong bonds with most of the people in the tribe. I feel like my social game has been incredible. I feel clued in to what I think is the biggest voting block right now and I also feel like I have a bunch of 2 person relationships that are really under the radar as to how strong they are. Basically, I'm perfectly set up to get blindsided.
2) Sand Cat! Honestly I love sand cat. She's incredible. I hope she feels the same way but I still really hope we can go to final 3 together.
3) I'm playing it round by round. I was talking with pika and she made a pretty reasonable point to me that we have to do something about slackers or they'll eventually outnumber the people who are actually trying and then they'll pick us off as threats one by one. I don't know if its as dire as she thinks it is but I do think its a reasonable thing to think about. I've joked with fennec about a final 3 which includes just the three people trying the least and we would vote based off of which one of them tried absolutely the least.
4) It's going to be meerkat unless something drastically changes. Slow loris is pushing it and I just don't think there's any resistance to it at all. I personally (see previous comments) don't care about a person who has not really made any effort to reach out to me going and it seems to advance my game as well. If it does change it will be because meerkat decided to push something and was successful but unfortunately for him I think the only thing that will actually gain any traction would be capybara.
I don't really have anyone who I especially want to see go, maybe dolphin because they've basically messaged me zero times since the merge. But it doesnt matter too much to me yet.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 9:43:41 GMT -5
I don't know what meerkat expects to happen here. His name is out there. He knows that. He needs to try to give people other options.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 12:11:31 GMT -5
Things moving extremely quickly now. We're worried about a potential idol from meerkat so we're swapping over to capy and continuing to let meerkat think he's the vote. He's pushing slow loris now because I signaled I might be open to it even though I'm not, but he's out there saying I'm part of the "interested group" which is just not really true and kind of annoying that hes using my name to try to grab votes.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 13:08:57 GMT -5
Weird to be going to tc and not worried about myself. I think this play is good but it could definitely backfire and hit someone that matters to me, so I'm still worried in that sense. Worse case would be taking out pika fennec or sand cat if there's idol play gone wrong.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 13:13:18 GMT -5
Also I know I've said this before but this game brings out the obsessive in me. I suspect I'm going to need to have an actual concerted effort to recover after its over. I'm having a blast but I'm also pouring so much of myself into this.
I know I said going in that I wasn't necessarily trying to win but the closer it gets the more I think about it and I think we've crossed the threshold to where I will be upset when I'm voted out no matter the circumstances.
I think I'll still be incredibly proud of the game I played but at the same time, sadness.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 13:19:19 GMT -5
It takes a lot of effort for me, being this ON all the time. I'm not by nature this social a person. I am incredibly introverted and I'm missing my recharge time because usually when I'd be turning everything off and watching TV or something I'm talking to people because I have to keep up the game. Like I said, I'm enjoying myself but I want to be pretty open about the fact that this is not easy for me. I hope that more introverted people who think about playing survivor but are worried that they wouldn't be able to do it and this isn't a game for introverts can maybe see my confessional and see me have success in my first game and realize they can do this too and take the plunge because it really is fucking awesome.
I've always wondered if, because of the anonymous nature of these games, anyone ever comes out of it and feels like they've made real genuine friends through the process. I really feel that way about sand cat and fennec. I feel like we're going to come out of this and still talk and be friends. Maybe this is me being naive because obviously they have incentives to be nice to me and relate to me and for lack of a better term vibe. Maybe I'll come out of this and it will be like it has never happened. I don't know. But for right now it feels real. Maybe that's the danger of survivor. All of your emotions feel real but many of them are built on lies.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 13:26:49 GMT -5
Things moving extremely quickly now. We're worried about a potential idol from meerkat so we're swapping over to capy and continuing to let meerkat think he's the vote. He's pushing slow loris now because I signaled I might be open to it even though I'm not, but he's out there saying I'm part of the "interested group" which is just not really true and kind of annoying that hes using my name to try to grab votes. I should also be more clear on this. Jerboa has an idol, so he personally is not worried about the possibility of meerkat having one. I'm the only person who knows he has an idol (I think, hes told me that but who knows what's real) So his plan was to split the votes and then if there's an idol play from meerkat he is assuming it will be on him and his idol will nullify and then we'll get capy. I think this play is way too fancy and has way too many assumptions. At 11 left if we assume the potential voting block which he is assuming in meerkat capy dolphin and whet owl splitting the votes doesn't actually beat an idol play unless he is correct in his assumption that the votes will be on him. I don't think he is. Or, rather, I don't think I am willing to bet the farm that they will be. I am not willing to lose fennec if the votes split 4-4-3 and theres an idol played on meerkat. Swapping the vote was my plan to play around this. We've done a pretty good job of letting meerkat know his name is out there, so I don't think they'll be expecting a capy vote at this point. The upside is that MK might still play his idol if we do a good enough job letting him think he's still in danger without overselling it. I feel pretty bad about keeping whet owl out of the votes again but jerboa seems pretty adamant that its correct and whet owl is not to be trusted. I'm going to be pretty sad if I get to the end of this game and find out that whet owl was actually willing to work with me the whole time but I never actualized that because jerboa was paranoid or was trying to manage my relationships. |
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 15:03:58 GMT -5
Wild stuff flying around right now. I've been told that Dolphin is approaching a group of whet owl themselves meerkat capybara and sandcat about possibly trying to vote together to get one of the old aquarium tribe. Something doesn't ring quite true about it to me, so I don't know what to think.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 15:10:31 GMT -5
Whet owl came to be directly with a different story, which is somewhat similar which is that they're trying to work together to get out someone on old aquarium. It matches up enough but its just a slight bit different.
Sand cat told me about being approached though so that's good.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 15:44:12 GMT -5
This all feels like theatre. It's incredibly bizarre that if there was actually being a group put together by dolphin that it would be whet owl that approached sand cat about it while simultaneously telling jerboa about it.
It feels like deliberate chaos, and the direction it feels like its coming from is Jerboa and whet owl.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 15:45:40 GMT -5
I'm beginning to worry that something I'm not going to like at all is about to happen tonight.
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Post by Red Panda on Jun 2, 2022 15:50:00 GMT -5
Sand cat continues to insist she hasn't even heard directly from dolphin.
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