It was a pretty easy vote, Deathstroke being inactive made it easy for all of us and even if he came online and tried a bit of a scramble it was a bit late for him. The fact that he went head to head with another inactive I think made his scrambling a little bit less intense. He's supposed to win and come back here but you never know in this game.
I will never volunteer for the Arena. The risk is too high compared to the reward. Even if I knew I could gain straight access to one of the super power forums, it wouldn't be worth it. Even if I consider myself quite ok in challenges, today's performance proved otherwise. Sure I wasn't really focused since the stake wasn't as high for me but still it was lame.
And considering that two days and a half have passed I feel like I can finally make some sort of an assessment of my tribe mates even though there is still chaos here and I'm not 100% sure of anyone:
1. Poison Ivy. She was the first that agreed to break character with me so obivously the first that I could feel confortable with. I expected she'd be my no 1 throughout the game but her being offline a lot of time made it hard for me to wait and she was replaced by Superwoman. Now I have a 1 on 1 alliance with her and she things I'm closest to her but she kinda felt on the 2nd spot.
2. Superwoman. The second to break character and with Ivy's absence she claimed no 1 spot in my loyalty list. She's had the luck to be very active at the point I was trying to charm Two Face so I mentioned her to him I ended up in a three way alliance with her and Two Face and a three way conversation to seal that. I'm very undecided between her and Ivy to tell you the truth but so far she has the advantage.
3. Two Face. He's a quiet one and not bound to break character too much yet I've been really pushy and I ended up into an alliance with him that I further extended into an alliance with him and Superwoman. From what I've talked to him, it seems that I'm his only option at this point which is weird and makes me wonder. Arkillo claimed that more than one people was upset witk lack of communication with Two Face so maybe the guy really doesn't have any other close friend but still I find it suspicious to say the least.
4. Catwoman. I got to the point of talking about watching our backs for each other but that's about it. She said this morning that she doesn't believe any alliance were made because the tribe decided to sit back and focus on voting Deathstroke. This means she's either very naive or she has some hidden alliance as well and she doesn't look all that naive. She did mention that she'd be inclined to vote Arkillo which is fine for me and if I can make it look like it was her idea it's even better.
5. HQ. I've only talked in character with her and it's tiresome and it doesn't help me one bit connect with her. Arkillo claims he's in an aliance with her since day 1. Ivy claims she said she didn't like Two Face or myself a lot. Everything points to me not really working with her.
6. Arkillo. He's so in character that he's annoying especially considering that his character is an idiot. Him trying to target Two Face and having a tight alliance with HQ is enough of a reason to want him gone even though we are friendly to each other and he actually invited me in that alliance.
7. Deathstroke. He didn't show up untill some hours before the vote and by that time nobody was willing to change their vote. Everyone kept blaming everyone or the timezone for not changing the decision even if he did try to scramble a bit. I feel like I'm up to a good start with him since I tried to explain to him that it's a shame but there is nothing I could have done to save him at that point but he'll go against an inactive and I hope he'll come back and we can form something good. At least he claimed I was the friendliest of us all to him but he might eat crap. The way he scrambled today proves he's a true player so if he'd really be loyal, he might become an asset.
That being said, what I really hope to happen would be for my three people alliance with Two Face and Superwoman to include Ivy as well. In a perfect world both Ivy and Superwoman would pretend to have a suballiance within it while still being loyal to me while Two Face would pe bart of the other sub-alliance with me even though I consider him no 4 in my list. Sure it's a bit much to ask but it doesn't hurt to have ambitious plans