Post by Dark Rey on Mar 2, 2021 0:22:54 GMT
hi. i'm dark rey, but you can just call me rey if you like. fun fact about me: i am a returnee. some people[who?] believe that that is a disadvantage. i disagree. it is in fact an advantage! or at least, it is for the way it happened with me. i was eliminated at the start of the game. this sounds bad, but this game was unique with its 4 player initial tribes. i didn't have a wolf like t&h, or a beef jerky like avocado. i was in a tribe where all of us were active. where my status as a returnee becomes an advantage lies in the shipwreck. because of having been in the hole for ages, i hardly knew anyone. all of you had your pre-existing relationships that i knew very little about. that combined with the fact that we had used up almost ait was very easy for you all to just let one of us be the vote. that is in fact what happened. yet, i was able to build relationships and find safety. i even eventually worked my way into a position where i was able to seize control of the game for three rounds. unfortunately, i did not arrive here with the endgame i was hoping with, but still, i made it here even after having made such moves.
ok. time to go into more detail.
Shipwreck
Here, I made such an effort to reach out and connect with people that, even though everyone was settling on taking out a someone from the Hole, it was between Cleric and Monk and not me. Here, I formed an alliance with Maggie and Grogu.
merge
at the first round of the merge, it came into focus that there were two “sides”. at this point, my intended approach to the game would be to play these sides off of each other trying to ensure there were always other targets that loomed larger than i. there was an idea developing of taking avocado out, but i did not want that. he would make for a perfect target in the future. that was my opinion even though i had heard that he wanted to take me out. so, when avocado mentioned that ranger was an idea out there, i ran with that and tried to make sure that happened instead. ranger was a nice consensus vote that left all targets intact.
F10
Before the auction, Avocado came to me trying to repair our relationship which I was happy to do. I had never intended to be his enemy (yet). He then pushed the idea that as returnees, Grogu and I needed each other, and he pitched himself as the best option to go to the end with. I didn't buy that argument, but I thought it would be convenient to go along with this for now as he was someone i still wanted in the game. He ended up with the Prime Idol, so there wasn't much I could have done against him anyway. In the previous round, I had also made an alliance with Maggie and Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy's, so I hoped to utilize these alliances to continue to stay safe, and avoid being a target. Then, something happened that changed EVERYTHING.
actually, it's f11
cleric came back! thank you for that, avocado <3
with this, my whole strategy shifted. i knew i could rely on cleric. using the concept of 'us returnees need to stick together; we can only win with each other' me/cleric/grogu formed our group. i didn't agree with that idea, but it was an useful basis to form this new group, and i especially did want to ensure i made it to the end with cleric. another new development was all these new items. i now had pieces of two idols, and cleric had brought two vote nullifiers out of flatland. additionally, grogu got an extra vote. furthermore, i knew where the other pieces of the idols were. dave thomas, founder of wendy's had revealed his piece of the indiana jones idol to me, and had even temporarily passed it to me as a sign of trust and so we could see if there were still pieces out there. i had handed it back, and also had handed one to maggie (i also had the one from the rip snow leopard tribe (rip snow leopard)). and, bard came forward to tell me that he had the last piece. he also told me about his piece of the OTHER idol. the bts one. (and, cleric had the third piece of that from flatland). this meant that if bard was gone, then i (theoretically) could gain access to both idols.
now, to the actual vote. i wanted to turn it onto bard so that i could have idols, and dave thomas, founder of wendy's was my friend. but, it was more important to me to work with cleric, and so while i told cleric that i felt like bard was the better option, i let them make the decision to give up on dave thomas, founder of wendy's. next round i could get rid of bard. right?
The Real F10
This is where Bard was SUPPOSED to go. The tide was shifting, people were getting very nervous about the group of four that was the droids, Bard, Avocado, and T&H. I was initially annoyed by the fact that it seemed like people wanted to get the droids out, but that was revealed to be an exaggeration when I talked to Bees. The numbers were there for finally getting Bard out. I also preferred Bard going out because I felt like the droids were more trustworthy, and I was worried about Maggie and Bard working together. I was also concerned about the fact that T&H always seemed to be unmentioned in all of this. I was worried about them slipping by UTR. But, I had something up my sleeve for that! Unfortunately, that was dependent on Bard going out here, but there was that idol...
space horror
this was me. i split the tribes. if i had known that bard wasn't going to be voted out, i would have saved my merge splitter. but, i had to use it within the first half of the tribal council. the intention was to be in a tribe with cleric, grogu, and t&h so as to throw the challenge, and take out t&h. it seemed like it would be difficult to take them out otherwise. and, they were the player i had the least connection to. but with it locked it, we got what we got instead. i put maggie in exile because i wanted to keep her away from other players with less opportunity to work with them.
F8
Here's where I made my move. I still wanted Bard gone, but it seemed like everyone wanted to keep them as a shield. But, I had an idea. I proposed to Cleric and Grogu that we vote for Bard the three of us. An outline for the next rounds came into my mind. use a vote nullifier and extra vote to get out Bard here. Use idols the next round. And then, at F6, we break the tie with the remaining vote nullifier. At this point, Maggie still trusted me, and gave me back her piece of the Indiana Jones idol.
f7
i still liked maggie, and didn't want to take her out, but it was necessary to deal with her extra vote. at this point, people had caught on to what was going on. this became obvious when they coordinated for the prime idol. i believed that i wasn't the target because they knew i had an idol, so i had them played on the other two. i figured that avocado would play the prime idol on himself. grogu wanted to give up on cleric here, but i really really very much wanted cleric still in, so i insisted on staying the course.
F6
Bees was because both him and Avocado had been good at challenges, and I considered Bees to have played a very good UTR game, and so he was the player I least wanted to go up against here.
the rest
but, of course, bees has passed on that javelin thing to t&h, and everything came undone. i decided to tie things up in the last round because i had stuck with grogu for so long, and because i believed i could contrast my game with grogu's with how i had been the main driver of our strategic decisions.
that's it. while i didn't get the ending i wanted, i made my mark on those three rounds where we controlled the game. in a game distinguished by its impactful returnees, maybe you should vote for one! just a little idea for your consideration.
ok. time to go into more detail.
Shipwreck
Here, I made such an effort to reach out and connect with people that, even though everyone was settling on taking out a someone from the Hole, it was between Cleric and Monk and not me. Here, I formed an alliance with Maggie and Grogu.
merge
at the first round of the merge, it came into focus that there were two “sides”. at this point, my intended approach to the game would be to play these sides off of each other trying to ensure there were always other targets that loomed larger than i. there was an idea developing of taking avocado out, but i did not want that. he would make for a perfect target in the future. that was my opinion even though i had heard that he wanted to take me out. so, when avocado mentioned that ranger was an idea out there, i ran with that and tried to make sure that happened instead. ranger was a nice consensus vote that left all targets intact.
F10
Before the auction, Avocado came to me trying to repair our relationship which I was happy to do. I had never intended to be his enemy (yet). He then pushed the idea that as returnees, Grogu and I needed each other, and he pitched himself as the best option to go to the end with. I didn't buy that argument, but I thought it would be convenient to go along with this for now as he was someone i still wanted in the game. He ended up with the Prime Idol, so there wasn't much I could have done against him anyway. In the previous round, I had also made an alliance with Maggie and Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy's, so I hoped to utilize these alliances to continue to stay safe, and avoid being a target. Then, something happened that changed EVERYTHING.
actually, it's f11
cleric came back! thank you for that, avocado <3
with this, my whole strategy shifted. i knew i could rely on cleric. using the concept of 'us returnees need to stick together; we can only win with each other' me/cleric/grogu formed our group. i didn't agree with that idea, but it was an useful basis to form this new group, and i especially did want to ensure i made it to the end with cleric. another new development was all these new items. i now had pieces of two idols, and cleric had brought two vote nullifiers out of flatland. additionally, grogu got an extra vote. furthermore, i knew where the other pieces of the idols were. dave thomas, founder of wendy's had revealed his piece of the indiana jones idol to me, and had even temporarily passed it to me as a sign of trust and so we could see if there were still pieces out there. i had handed it back, and also had handed one to maggie (i also had the one from the rip snow leopard tribe (rip snow leopard)). and, bard came forward to tell me that he had the last piece. he also told me about his piece of the OTHER idol. the bts one. (and, cleric had the third piece of that from flatland). this meant that if bard was gone, then i (theoretically) could gain access to both idols.
now, to the actual vote. i wanted to turn it onto bard so that i could have idols, and dave thomas, founder of wendy's was my friend. but, it was more important to me to work with cleric, and so while i told cleric that i felt like bard was the better option, i let them make the decision to give up on dave thomas, founder of wendy's. next round i could get rid of bard. right?
The Real F10
This is where Bard was SUPPOSED to go. The tide was shifting, people were getting very nervous about the group of four that was the droids, Bard, Avocado, and T&H. I was initially annoyed by the fact that it seemed like people wanted to get the droids out, but that was revealed to be an exaggeration when I talked to Bees. The numbers were there for finally getting Bard out. I also preferred Bard going out because I felt like the droids were more trustworthy, and I was worried about Maggie and Bard working together. I was also concerned about the fact that T&H always seemed to be unmentioned in all of this. I was worried about them slipping by UTR. But, I had something up my sleeve for that! Unfortunately, that was dependent on Bard going out here, but there was that idol...
space horror
this was me. i split the tribes. if i had known that bard wasn't going to be voted out, i would have saved my merge splitter. but, i had to use it within the first half of the tribal council. the intention was to be in a tribe with cleric, grogu, and t&h so as to throw the challenge, and take out t&h. it seemed like it would be difficult to take them out otherwise. and, they were the player i had the least connection to. but with it locked it, we got what we got instead. i put maggie in exile because i wanted to keep her away from other players with less opportunity to work with them.
F8
Here's where I made my move. I still wanted Bard gone, but it seemed like everyone wanted to keep them as a shield. But, I had an idea. I proposed to Cleric and Grogu that we vote for Bard the three of us. An outline for the next rounds came into my mind. use a vote nullifier and extra vote to get out Bard here. Use idols the next round. And then, at F6, we break the tie with the remaining vote nullifier. At this point, Maggie still trusted me, and gave me back her piece of the Indiana Jones idol.
f7
i still liked maggie, and didn't want to take her out, but it was necessary to deal with her extra vote. at this point, people had caught on to what was going on. this became obvious when they coordinated for the prime idol. i believed that i wasn't the target because they knew i had an idol, so i had them played on the other two. i figured that avocado would play the prime idol on himself. grogu wanted to give up on cleric here, but i really really very much wanted cleric still in, so i insisted on staying the course.
F6
Bees was because both him and Avocado had been good at challenges, and I considered Bees to have played a very good UTR game, and so he was the player I least wanted to go up against here.
the rest
but, of course, bees has passed on that javelin thing to t&h, and everything came undone. i decided to tie things up in the last round because i had stuck with grogu for so long, and because i believed i could contrast my game with grogu's with how i had been the main driver of our strategic decisions.
that's it. while i didn't get the ending i wanted, i made my mark on those three rounds where we controlled the game. in a game distinguished by its impactful returnees, maybe you should vote for one! just a little idea for your consideration.
