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Post by ROCKET on Dec 4, 2014 21:08:08 GMT 10
The jury is assembling, but you are yet to join their ranks... How long will it be before you join them? Or will you avoid their pasty yellow hue all together?
The vote went your way this round, do you expect that to continue? Were Huntress and Arkillo your ideal targets from the beginning or did you have to be convinced? You received a stray vote in the process though, was that a surprise to you? Who do you think was the perpetrator? Do you think this spells trouble for you or was it inconsequential?
How much paranoia is there regarding the last item? Do you think anyone suspects you of having it?
Where to from here? Who is the best next vote for you, and now that the jury is starting to form... What is your plan for the endgame? Is it formulating yet?
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 5, 2014 9:37:00 GMT 10
The jury is assembling, but you are yet to join their ranks... How long will it be before you join them? Or will you avoid their pasty yellow hue all together?Honestly how the hell did I make it to the Final 9? The way things are shaping up I'm in two main alliances, the DC Villains and the Thok 5. If those alliances stay true I expect to go out around 5th or 4th on the assumption that Scarlet Witch, Nightwing and Starfire go first and Batman and Wiccan become expendable. But that's a big assumption. But there is the potential that I could be taken to the end as a goat. Looking at a potential makeup of the jury if I make it: Huntress, Arkillo, Starfire, Nightwing, Scarlet Witch, Wiccan with 2 or 3 others. There are 6 votes already that I know I WON'T get even if I put in the best FTC showing ever (which I'm poor at). The vote went your way this round, do you expect that to continue? Were Huntress and Arkillo your ideal targets from the beginning or did you have to be convinced? You received a stray vote in the process though, was that a surprise to you? Who do you think was the perpetrator? Do you think this spells trouble for you or was it inconsequential?With only one person being safe in this battle it should go according to The Plan leaving one of the non-Thok trio exposed. Arkillo was definitely my target, Huntress was from an alliance perspective, but not so much a personal perspective. I originally thought the stray vote was from Arkillo, but looking at the vote between Batman, Wiccan and myself - the likely targets for Huntress and Arkillo - we got 6 votes in total, meaning 2 came from within the majority. We were ready to blow it off, but it's curious. How much paranoia is there regarding the last item? Do you think anyone suspects you of having it?There was paranoia about the idol yesterday to an extent, but that seemed to get diffused by Huntress yesterday. I won't know until the scramble for the next vote begins. I think people see me as being clueless in this game so I'm hoping that discounts us from being a suspect. Where to from here? Who is the best next vote for you, and now that the jury is starting to form... What is your plan for the endgame? Is it formulating yet?Starfire and Scarlet need to be broken up as the last pair outside of the alliance. Apart from the above alliances we seem to have a pairing with Ivy, we're not sure of Superwoman and Harley where they see us in their plans. Batman has hinted we're the outsiders in the alliance. Wiccan has asked for my future plans then vanished. So we're trying to tie that all in to benefit us. On the off chance that I do make it to the end jury management is always a factor, but sadly that is a lost cause in probably too many players right now. The coin could dictate it might be fun to blow shit up knowing we're not a chance to win, but we probably wouldn't want to do that to players who have laboured for 3 weeks to get to this point. End game plans are to just stay in the majority and try to stay unassuming at least until the Nightwing, Scarlet, Starfire trio goes. Things will change then, but we are planting seeds to help us know which direction to take.
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Post by WONDER WOMAN on Dec 5, 2014 9:39:55 GMT 10
I was lying when I said your FTC was weak! I was just trying to prevent troll-juror behaviour when you were the obvious winner I often pretend I'm considering other options so they don't think they can safely troll-vote the FTC.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 5, 2014 9:47:41 GMT 10
Versus: Life was also part of that statement, we got shown up big time in that FTC.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 5, 2014 11:37:33 GMT 10
The vote went your way this round, do you expect that to continue? Were Huntress and Arkillo your ideal targets from the beginning or did you have to be convinced? You received a stray vote in the process though, was that a surprise to you? Who do you think was the perpetrator? Do you think this spells trouble for you or was it inconsequential?With only one person being safe in this battle it should go according to The Plan leaving one of the non-Thok trio exposed. Arkillo was definitely my target, Huntress was from an alliance perspective, but not so much a personal perspective. I originally thought the stray vote was from Arkillo, but looking at the vote between Batman, Wiccan and myself - the likely targets for Huntress and Arkillo - we got 6 votes in total, meaning 2 came from within the majority. We were ready to blow it off, but it's curious. I didn't realise 2 of the Thok group voted for Batman, I thought it was only 1. Our vote was at least one of Arkillo or Huntress, I'm expecting the former. From the Thok 5 group PM Ok this is what we have now: HQ - Arkillo / Batman - Confirmed 2F - Arkillo / Huntress - Confirmed SW - Huntress/Arkillo x 2 W - Huntress / Batman Ark - 4 Huntress - 4 Batman - 2 Can we make it official? 2 votes on Batman should be good enough to counter a possible idol play. We can just revote him out if necessary to keep the 5 of us safe.
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Post by WONDER WOMAN on Dec 5, 2014 20:35:32 GMT 10
So tell me about the Nightwing save. Was he your favourite of the outsiders or was this a group decision?
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 5, 2014 20:46:02 GMT 10
For starters nobody should be complaining about encountering a drop down in a Versus game This is what I said to Ivy today when strategising about the safe lists This was my choice alone and made for strategic reasons. I wanted Starfire and Scarlet Witch to face the pit more than Nightwing - who is also dangerous for the fact the jury will love him if he made the end - to break up that pairing and also because they are the most devious of the three. Also, if shit gets messy like it did last round it would take 2 people to make a move against a majority that I'm in rather than 1 person, so while I'm not ruling it out as a possibility, it makes it harder to happen.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 6, 2014 21:50:27 GMT 10
From what I understand the vote tomorrow is going to be a split vote with 3 votes going to Starfire and 2 to Scarlet (votes coming from Superwoman, Ivy, Harley, Wiccan and Batman) with 2 other votes going towards whoever Starfire and Scarlet vote for, which I suspect will be Batman. There is the potential that somebody breaks from that split vote and sides with Starfire and Scarlet. It's probably not the best move in isolation, but for two Let's say Starfire does go home one would imagine Nightwing and Scarlet will follow. I'm happy for Scarlet to go as I know the pair of us won't be able to work together. It's similar to Nightwing in a way, but he's at least seeming more reasonable with his disinterest While it's in my best interest to see them go, the natives are getting restless and big moves are being entertained. From the 6 in the supposed Thok corner Ivy is communicating often, Superwoman is also, but that's her way of keeping control of things more than anything I feel, Harley has really cooled off which has caught my attention, Wiccan I feel is going to screw us over at the first chance and Batman and I seem to have a common bond, but he's hard to plan with. So my hands are a little bit tied and it's going to take some thinking, and work, to decide which way to go.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 6, 2014 22:17:47 GMT 10
One other thing that I need to be aware of is the "challenge threat" label that may be hovering over my head a bit after that last challenge. I've won an Arena battle and put up a noticeable time at the Dropdown, so that may need to be something I need to be mindful of moving forward.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 7, 2014 18:36:58 GMT 10
There's a sense of unease about this vote, but I guess what I sent to Harley Quinn just then sort of puts the situation in perspective a little bit (I hope )
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