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Post by JUDGE DREDD on Nov 17, 2014 21:51:47 GMT 10
You have survived the first round. I'd congratulate you if this were considered an achievement. Was this an easy vote? What are your thoughts regarding the combatants? Will you be attempting the duel yourself in search of reward? Do you betray The Law?
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Post by HUNTRESS on Nov 18, 2014 4:03:08 GMT 10
It was a really easy vote, to be honest. I was never not voting for Dinah in the first round out of character reasons as well as the fact that she's a mentally deranged unstable psychopath. Or at least, that's what I've been trying to push her to start showing herself as so that way she alienates herself from the rest of the tribe, and gives me a chance to easily take her out, set up my power grouping and take control once and for all. I mean, Dinah already called me the Queen Bee (:bz) of the tribe because of her failed assassination plans, but I feel like I've just been putting in so much more effort and time than she did. However, making her start to lose her shit was really important, because if she appeared sane and rational and people liked her, getting her out would have been harder, and the target could have easily fallen onto someone like myself, or one of the people I really care for, as in Bruce or Clark. Barry, however, was just never around until right before the tribal and the scrambling was more of a mad disguise to really just cover up for what I was trying to do and make Dinah come out rather poorly, which I feel like I did. I was, and still am, completely fine with Barry leaving, because even if he survived, the odds are that he would have left this round. It didn't matter which order they left, it just mattered that they made it easier for me to pull that off.
I have really no feelings on them yet, but I'm going to do my best in order to charm them and make them at least think of me favourably. I kind of need to bolster up some tribal numbers in order to have some more room to play around here, I really want to have a larger tribe and have more people willing to do some fun games with me. It's easier to play the middle between alliances when there's more people around, because right now, I'm situated between the Clark/Bruce pairing and the Kori/Oliver pairing. Dick and I both are, we're playing this game in the middle so far and I love it. I just have this sinking feeling in my stomach though that something is going to happen and blow that up, I've had some absolutely terrible luck in Arena formatted games where my tribe always gets decimated (Spartacus/Goosebumps), but I made it far regardless, so I'm hoping I have some of the same overall luck in getting far.
Obviously. I need to redeem myself from the horrid performance that Lady Jaina did in her winning appearance of Fans versus Favourites - Jainavivor.
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Post by HUNTRESS on Nov 18, 2014 8:50:05 GMT 10
- Once again, Nightwing has managed to keep himself at the top of the people I really enjoy. He's someone who I feel playing similarly to me, and that's something I appreciate. We've found ourselves in between two major alliances on this tribe, the Oliver/Kori/Us side and then the Bruce/Clark/Us side. Personally, I feel like my top allies are Clark and Dick, but after that I'm really enjoying Kori's company so far, so I just feel very conflicted on what to do here. I feel like whichever way that both Dick and I decide to go will be the correct one, and we're going to have a lot of power in this game. I'm personally going to try and usurp Nightwing's power slightly by having people closer to me of the pair, even though that means there's going to be far more blood on my hands, but I'm kind of completely fine with that. I think that Nightwing is someone that is going to do very well in this game, and I really hope so, because he's someone I find myself caring tremendously for. - Superman is still someone I really enjoy, but our conversations have kind of lessened as of right now. I'm still very protective of him, but I'm also trying to sew some very minor seeds of discord within him about some of the other people on this tribe, such as Kori and Oliver, because I need to have his trust fully in me and not with other people. I feel like I'm being super slow and careful about it, but you never know. I'm just dropping little hints here and there about things that have been "said" about him by some of the others, and I feel like that could possibly work on getting him closer to me than anyone else, you never know. - Starfire is still a strong player and my opinion of her has increased after finding out that she told Dick that she was also completely unwilling to let Dinah vote me out here, whereas I thought she was just not comfortable with it. So, that's always good. I mean, the more people who don't want to vote me out, the better it is for me, because that's the sort of style I wish to adopt here. I'm not here to challenge whore my way until the end, because the minute I slip up in a challenge, I'm screwed completely. So I'm trying to build bonds with people like Kori to try and establish some level of security for myself, and I feel like it's working, I'm not 100% solid on it yet. - Bruce is in danger this round. Which sucks, because I really like Bruce, but a lot of people seem to not care for him? It's a rather good thing that this alliance of four that includes him would be willing to keep him here - but it's going to come to a point where I'm going to have to choose between someone like him and Oliver, and for the style of game that I'm trying to play here to work, I need some more numbers to kind of hide in the majority and keep floating around between whomever I want, so I really just kind of want him to step it up with some of the others, because I feel like if he's still terrible socially with some, and I make a push to save him, it's going to show my cards pretty quickly. - Oliver is to me like what Bruce is to Kori though. He's really not that good with me yet, and I'm surprised, because he has moments of absolute brilliance socially, but then at other times, I just can't be bothered to even care about him. He's not putting a lot of stock into our relationship, and it's pretty clear. I don't know how much more abuse from him I can take before I just snap and do something I might regret. - Dinah still sucks, but she's trying at least. I still want her out, even though I'm telling her I'm not. <3
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Post by HUNTRESS on Nov 18, 2014 11:15:39 GMT 10
Trying to work Deathstroke over hard to get some fresh blood on this tribe. I mean, it's going to just make my game that much more complicated and messy, because I'll be playing with even more angles and dangling myself in the middle, but the more people on this tribe, the better. It's easier to float and sit in the middle that way. If Dick and I can attract people to come to this tribe, we could feasibly just float along playing all sides until the merge/swap/whatever hits, putting us in a pretty powerful position moving forward, which is kind of what I want to do here. I'm fighting hard for my game here, even though it's only the second round, I'm coming out swinging with that CP5-CP5 edit.
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Post by HUNTRESS on Nov 18, 2014 15:21:28 GMT 10
Things on this tribe never stay the same for long - we're flipping everything once more on it's head, and it's just getting hilarious, at least for me, to be a part of. We can never stay united on a target for more than a few hours, so this is the crucial scrambling time that seems to occur frequently, and I would love for this tribe to get it's shit together, but at the same time, this level of complete batshit strategy is...great.
Kori is slipping fast for me though, and I'm just about done with Oliver. He's apparently even brought my name up as a potential target this round, and that's absolutely not okay. How dare he use and betray me? I'm SO not done with this asshole. He will regret fucking with Helena Bertinelli, I promise you that.
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