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Post by ROCKET on Dec 2, 2014 20:28:53 GMT 10
Congratulations! You survived the first round of the merge! What do you make of the heroes' choices for sidekicks? Any surprises? The vote went your way this time, do you anticipate that to continue? For how long? How are you feeling sans vote nullifier? Do you feel your move paid off? Will your trio of three desperate heroes be triumphant? Draw me a picture of your fav ally if you're feeling crafty
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 12:56:11 GMT 10
WE PULLED IT OFF! That was the most exciting blindside I've ever been a part of, and the best part was, we didn't waste a single item. That was do-or-die, and we DID! It was tempered a little by the fact that it went off when so few people were online, but still worth it. I got my jury spot. I GOT. MY JURY SPOT. That was such a big deal for me in this game, and I think by now I've met all of my major goals. THANK YOU AGAIN, MYSTIQUE, I am only here because of you. I feel so bad for Flash, what a lousy way to go for someone who fought so hard. 27 votes. Daaaaaaaaaaang. Even though I treated him like garbage in this game, I still admired the heck out of him - I've been win-challenges-to-survive situations so many times, I can totally sympathize with his plight, and he did it so well. Him leaving was a fluke, but nobody is allowed to get in the way of my jury spot. Turns out it was really Hunt's jury spot on the line, but since nobody talked to me last round, I had no way of knowing that. I'm still glad I did it. I'm feeling antsy about my chances tonight, so I'm going to make sure to update the Ep 11 thread tonight with a summary of all of our PMs from last round's epic vote, just in case it's my last chance to leave a legacy.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 13:15:45 GMT 10
Congratulations! You survived the first round of the merge! What do you make of the heroes' choices for sidekicks? Any surprises? The vote went your way this time, do you anticipate that to continue? For how long? How are you feeling sans vote nullifier? Do you feel your move paid off? Will your trio of three desperate heroes be triumphant? Draw me a picture of your fav ally if you're feeling crafty Thanks, little fuzzbucket! Glad to be here! Knowing Ivy, she picked whoever was most likely to screw up Hunt and I, that was not a friendly face to have in the Hero box. Not surprised at all that she picked Scarlet (who would potentially vote with us, but could also be potentially swayed to Ivy's side by, I don't know, maybe a gift of immunity? ) Was a little surprised about Nightwing, but I think it makes sense. Nobody dislikes Nightwing as far as I can tell, so break up the threesome of Ark/Night/Hunt by removing someone harmless and likeable, and let the two other disgusting remnants fend for themselves in the council. This is basically just another arena. A social arena instead of puzzles. The vote will never go our way again as far as I can tell. We took our shot when we had it. We got a ton of Whams at that one challenge, I'm starting to piss off all the unnattacheds by being friendly but never helping them, and the DCV alliance needs us gone. My only chance to be on the right side of a vote ever again is to shack up with Superwoman and HQ, which they'd like to have me believe is a possibility, I'm sure. I'm playing nice, just in case they're serious. As you could tell by my previous post, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself, sans-nullifier. First time in a long time my item wasn't wasted, and it was hella fun. Pretty sure me saving Hunt means I have Stockholm Syndrome. An interesting piece of news, Hunt has been trying password combos and tells me somebody else already found the idol. So it has to be Batman, because he was the only other one who got to place a password piece. Once there were 5 blue pieces on the forums, I started considering brute-forcing it. 720x62 possible combinations, so that's really not practical, but I thought I could be clever and narrow it down a little. Since the pieces mysteriously used TWO DIFFERENT FONTS, I figured that meant there was a duplicate character somewhere in the password. In other words, the font had to be different for each of the duplicate pieces so the recipient wouldn't be confused, but then WW would probably have changed a couple of other pieces just so it didn't make it obvious WHICH one was the repeat. That was my THEORY anyway. I tried all of the combos assuming piece 6 was a duplicate (which took more time than I'm proud of) and sadly struck out. With just one hint of any kind, I think I could have stuck it out and brute-forced it, but alas, didn't get any. I actually considered that Nightwing might have snagged it, since Hunt was posting all of her auction clues in our group forum. That would be hilarious, if I was home when she told us, I might have tried it myself, since apparently it hasn't occurred to her at ALL that me or Night could have stolen it. I'm actually glad she doesn't have it, I'm pretty sure if she played it to save herself, I would be idoled out with the third most votes. It's also possible she DID find it, and is just lying to me and Night, because...? Not sure what the point of that would be, but she's always prioritized herself above everything else, so it wouldn't be a huge shock. But again, I really hope it doesn't happen, because I'm pretty sure I'll take the fall for it. I'd love to draw you a picture. After this round, for better or worse, I should have a lot more free time to do so.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 14:08:12 GMT 10
Nobody's really PMing me right now, I sent out a lot of PMs that I think were pretty well done and are pretty safe, so I don't think anyone's decision tonight is going to be based on me screwing up the PMs.
Wiccan said he'll give me some dirt after he watches Survivor if I promise not to tell anyone. Suits me just fine, I'd love some juicy intel, and I have to reason to tell anyone. I've got no reason to share good info with Hunt, I'm quite happy to see her leave this game, I'd just prefer not to leave with her.
It's all up to Superwoman and HQ as usual, and the last time I spoke to them, they were acting like they wanted to work with me, and I gave them the usual yeah yeah, sounds good, I won't vote for you, we're all friends stuff that's obligatory in these situations. And since then it's been a very VERY long stretch of silence, especially from HQ. I expect it from Superwoman, so I'm not too concerned by that delay.
Of course Hunt could be trashing me right now in a desperate attempt to save herself, but w/e I'm used to it, nothing I can really do about it if I don't know what she's saying. I'm guessing Batman and Wiccan aren't my fans, probably because Hunt spent last round telling everyone we were going to target Two-Face, Wiccan, and Batman after we were done with Flash. I mean seriously. Me being honest probably isn't going to repair that.
I'm pretty dang content right now, I just have to wait for people to get back to me so I understand the situation.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 14:15:41 GMT 10
Lol, now Hunt is mad at me because I've been telling everyone to let me know if it's a lost cause trying to save her. OOOOOOOOOO I'm so SORRY, Hunt, how DARE I say things you don't like. One of the reasons I was so happy I made the merge is that I could finally get to do things like this and not have to worry about the consequences. I was totally hamstrung over on Whamm by Hunt lying about me all the time, there was no way I could say anything against her. I was actually kind of bashing her last round, too, but she was so busy scrambling I guess she didn't notice. Also I pretty much handed her her jury spot. Guess the period of "being grateful" extended to all of 18 hours, good job Hunt. This probably isn't good for me, because I kind of needed her to vote with me so we could maintain a majority on Two-Face, and maybe she'll agree to flip and vote me out now, but again, I'm content. And once again, if people want to solve this Night/Hunt problem, they really need to get rid of Night or Hunt. Keeping Hunt over me wouldn't really make any sense. But maybe she has more friends than I realize, idk.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 14:27:31 GMT 10
Lol, I'm pretty sure Hunt is doing her best to guarantee we BOTH go down tonight. That's the kind of selfless ally I love to have. Always supporting her teammates. Going out with a smile on her face knowing she has someone to root for.
If I'm gonna talk about people I'm rooting for at this point, I'd have to say Batman and Wiccan. That's about it, I guess, they seem like nice guys.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 14:33:41 GMT 10
Hunt seems to be NOT mad at me now, and is of the opinion that everyone else is dumb. I am taking this as a BAD sign, because if she is happy, that probably means she is not going home, and everyone else booting me would indeed be dumb. Hmmmmmm.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 14:39:32 GMT 10
Maybe if I log off for a half hour, everyone will PM me? Testing now.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 15:10:44 GMT 10
TWO PMs! I'VE CRACKED THE CODE!
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 15:24:06 GMT 10
Um, well, one was from Hunt saying that she will be "the biggest c**t on the jury". Reach for the stars, I guess.
The other was from Superwoman saying absolutely nothing. And not her usual absolutely nothing, where it's about 4 pages and somehow sounds cool and nice. But the absolutely nothing where someone just does NOT know where the time went and oh my goodness I have no idea what's going on silly me, no you must be imagining things if you saw me online for the last 4 hours.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 15:26:39 GMT 10
Oh lolololol is Hunt trying to idol bluff?
Just a heads up to you hosts, I'm going to get my votes in really close to the deadline, might as well use all the time I've got.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 17:30:52 GMT 10
Hahaha, everything is going bonkers. It is so much fun having nothing to lose.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 17:43:19 GMT 10
Aw man, I think we would have pulled this off if it wasn't for the vote doubler. Totally forgot about it. I don't really think there's anything I can do at this point. But at least I go down swinging! Once I hit the jury, I get all the power.
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Post by ARKILLO on Dec 4, 2014 20:15:22 GMT 10
Hunt told me, two hours ago, that we'll both be ok if we vote Batman/Wiccan. I'm 99% sure that is false, and I hate to give Superwoman/HQ the satisfaction of falling for it, but I guess I'll do it so I end on a high note with Hunt. Not sure why she thinks it'll help but ok.
Still glad I tried to shake things up a little tonight, the end result's the same, but at least they'll remember me. Good luck to everyone.
I never got to finish typing up the blindside story for round 11, but I'm assuming WW will be nice and let me back in to my PMs at some point for the purpose of documentation.
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Post by WONDER WOMAN on Dec 4, 2014 20:16:47 GMT 10
If you get voted out I will leave them on for a little while as long as you don't use them!
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