So you're in the Arena? Expected that? We didn't discount that once the trio, that were in the minority after the shuffle, got the numbers advantage that they might play something like this. We knew Starfire would be working against us and suspected Scarlet Witch might be up to mischief again, but Morbius did surprise us. We felt there was less than even chance of it happening, but we haven't really had our eyes on the game the past few days.
Is this fate punishing you for turning on Catwoman/Ivy? I'm sure all the women of the DC Villain tribe were ecstatic at that result, so maybe
Where to now? Have any other tribes spoken to you? Hope our battle time was fast enough for starters. Not really. Tigra. Only Joker from the Green. Only Huntress from Blue and only Superwoman and Ivy (rubbing it in) from Red. Tigra didn't give too much except that blue may be facing a war soon. Which tells me to stay away from there. Joker thinks he is toast and is getting playing the you're the next boot dance with the trio over there. Huntress only wanted the goss and nothing else. Superwoman offered to let bygones be bygones and said she may find a place for me at Thok if she can convince the other girls to work with me. She's good like that But it also may be my only option as at least that's something even if it means getting slaughtered which is my current destiny anyway.
A recap of today. We asked Scarlet and Morbius what went down at the last vote. Scarlet continued her apathy towards me and didn't reply. Morbius, despite being the one who stitched us up most, admitted something I said yesterday "We know we don't bring a lot to the table at this point so it could be written off as a risk free boot." whereas Starfire brought more connections and they decided to keep her around. That made sense and I appreciate when people take the time to admit things like that - not that Dent is a super example of doing that.
We weren't going back to the green tribe. Joker was a certainty to go home (despite Morbius self voting - self voters should go home if they're part of a vote tie ) and we'd be next.
Blue never made a push to bring me over. We felt we weren't required for any strategic move and Flash said as much.
I don't think Whamm would work for you because we're pretty well set here and you'd likely be gone in a flash... get it... flash... anyway
That left Red and a big push by Superwoman to let the past slide. She somehow convinced Ivy to cool her jets and get Harley onside with the idea and we are talking civilly now Even stranger, compared to 48 hours ago, we are now in a 4-way (alliance?) with the three old DC villains. I feel they need the numbers at this point, but if this is some elaborate way to slit my throat for screwing their games up then more power to them.
But we suspect vote numbers are their intention. We have no position of leverage right now, and they know it, we will see how it develops.
I'm sure right now in the TV edit for this game this confessional will be subtitled : TWO FACE - Goat.
Facing the prospect of the three tribes, we were toast no matter where we went at this vote. If I stayed on Kapow we would have been going tonight without a doubt, so it's good to see the three remaining turn on them. Whamm would have been the same, well at least according to Flash so the 4 there can turn on each other.
And Thok, despite being sweet talked that we're OK with the old DC Villains I'm certain I'm going home as there is NOTHING that makes sense for them to keep me. Batman has old ties with players still in the game, voting him out now runs the risk of him going back to those old ties to work against the Thok group. We have no ties, so my boot is lower risk as I have nobody to go back to. The same would also apply to Wiccan, but we feel he's closer to Superwoman/Harley than Batman is.
Strategically if they keep me it tips their hand. Everybody in this game would be expecting me to go after the Catwoman/Ivy boots. To not do so would make it clearer that there may be an old DC Villains alliance, making a bigger target for the other tribes, and also making it harder to maybe bring in an extra one or two people to make the majority.
And finally it would be a pisser for them to get payback on someone who hurt their chances of winning.
I'm just cruising along at the moment, sadly, and we're a definite candidate for Versus: All Blahs.
Superwoman told us that Batman is going to be the vote, but be super duper secret about it and don't say a word.
The coin determined this response to her.
We're not going to blow shit up, but we admit we are curious about the vote.
Looking at the makeup of this tribe from the outside Thok originally had 2 DC villains, plus one who had just come from the arena to DC Villains - due to your sway - also two DC Heroes and two Marvel Heroes. The dislike of Batman and Black Canary was well known, so if the three of you stuck together you could get one of Batman/Canary to give you a group of 4. As Canary went first we suspected you got Batman on side and had the majority, meaning we expected Beast and Madrox to follow. Which they did.
So we would imagine that you'd all be pretty grateful to Batman for giving you the advantage in this tribe, and also Wiccan. Despite all the dancing around that happens with each vote it sort of went to plan over here. So you'd sort of be indebted to him, and him to you.
The coin determined we inform the group of DC Villains at Thok of an idea to throw a random vote to show there may not be a united front.
Can we get confirmation of the next vote? We're thinking of voting differently to try and keep up appearances.
After a mention of Batman, and a question of our intentions, we followed with But if you're voting Batman we were thinking of voting for Wiccan just for the reason we haven't heard anything from him - we know he's had issues but it's a convenient vote excuse - which makes us appear (more) clueless and having no idea of the dynamic here
For a group that has a few outspoken members the response, from Superwoman, was underwhelming to say the least
I'm ok with that if that's what you boys want to do.
We still can't shake that this is a massive setup.
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This is what we sent to the Joker last night which sums up where I'm at right now.
We cannot see anyway that them siding with you and Harvey Dent is going to improve their situation. If the lady villains are to be believed how does turfing out Batman and/or Wiccan - who stuck with them at Thok - in favour of us improve their situation? We fucked over their games and we're suspecting, as they have the numbers, that it's a massive troll. Or with a potential merge/jury they are buttering us up. They keep Batman and Wiccan they could get people to join them in their numbers and lose some admittedly, but we, like you said, are friendless.
It doesn't make sense to us and moreso nobody has mentioned any thing about the vote despite the schmoozing.
We made the last 14 which was far from our expectations at the start of this game, so anything from here is a bonus and I'll be geniunely surprised if I survive this next vote.
The obvious questions is if it's a setup why aren't we doing anything about it?
Well we're getting the "we're voting for you" silence from the Dark Knight and Wiccan has his issues and is only replying to his chums. They're the two most likely to make a move, but there is no window to do anything with them. Not even shooting the shit about the weather! Approaching the women to make a move is suicide.
My hands are tied, our best option is to roll with it and hope for the slim chance that the ladies are genuine, the only other option is blow shit up and lock our boot in - Dent can't be bothered weathering more shit just yet.