The Syndicate

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:45 am**

Part of the problem is also the BTS, we have no idea what people actually did since most of it happened BTSC. So who knows how much subtle treachery happened that we will never know about? Like Sorsha probably was verycr afty in BTSC, but we have no way of knowing that.

It's unfortunate.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:21 am**

Yes, I read that we can ask questions. I agree that we ought to talk about what we might want to ask.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:26 am**

S~V~S wrote:Part of the problem is also the BTS, we have no idea what people actually did since most of it happened BTSC. So who knows how much subtle treachery happened that we will never know about? Like Sorsha probably was verycr afty in BTSC, but we have no way of knowing that.

It's unfortunate.

Quin has been crocheting a blanket to keep himself warm.

Sorsha and LoRab have been playing cards.

Opt_Outside has been swimming with the dolphins.

Hope that helps.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:41 am**

Well.. I'm an open book and will answer anything I know if you want to ask. I never had BTSC with sorsha. Only the other three

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:13 pm**

S~V~S wrote:Part of the problem is also the BTS, we have no idea what people actually did since most of it happened BTSC. So who knows how much subtle treachery happened that we will never know about? Like Sorsha probably was verycr afty in BTSC, but we have no way of knowing that.

It's unfortunate.

This is what our questions at final tribal council are for! It's true in real Survivor too. It all happens somewhere you aren't and you only have scraps and the stories of people who get booted to go on.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:16 pm**

At the moment my expected question for each of opt and quin is why should I vote for someone whose role gave them such a big advantage that neither could be voted out until final 4.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:43 pm**

About what time do we need our questions ready?

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:09 pm**

speedchuck wrote:About what time do we need our questions ready?

At the end of night 12, one more player will be headed here to Ponderosa. Instead of a Day 13, I will be locking the thread and starting a new one called "Final Tribal Council." I will have further instructions there, but you will be able to post any time during the 24 hour period with one question/comment directed at each of the remaining castaways. These questions will be broadcast to everyone so there shouldn't be repeat questions. The castaways may post all they wish, but you as a jury member are limited to up to 3 posts: either one post with all questions/comments you wish all/some/one player to answer, or one post directed to each of the remaining castaways. That make sense?

You will have only 24 hours to then send me a PM with a vote for who you wish to WIN the game.

Posted: **Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:39 am**

I extended the day phase today, so Final tribal council will not start until Friday. Sorry for the delay. I swear I'm not just milking this thing- it's gone on long enough for a speed game lol

Posted: **Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:48 am**

It's been great scotty. Can't wait for season 2.

Posted: **Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:09 pm**

No worries, I don't know that I will have all of my questions formulated until I know who the final 3 are.

Posted: **Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:23 pm**

I intend to ask the following question: "Who have you voted for each night since the merger and why?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:56 am**

Good work sorsha! Interesting to see who ends up back here. If I were them I'd vote opt out, but I'm guessing it will be quin. Both are big threats.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:00 am**

Yeah I was expecting Sorsha back so that win was big for her.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:06 am**

LoRab wrote:Quin, based on several different factors, you seem the most likely candidate to have poisoned Golden and me. Did you do this? And if so, why? If not, then who do you think did it?

This is the exact same type of thing she tried to do to Sorsha the day I was lynched before I started in on LoRab myself. It actually is WHY I decided to call her out about Faraday. I hope Sorsha calls her on it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:43 am**

If Lorab took being poisoned less personally, the game would be radically different.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:02 pm**

She also feels she needs a baddie reason to "suspect" people. Like when she came out trying to imply Sorsha wasn't giving fish to people. I had told her that Sorsha was in fact giving fish to people, and that Scotty had said that she could still share, just everyone else couldn't when the food sharing was stopped. But she still felt the need to try to make a "case" that Sorsha was "bad".

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:27 pm**

insertnamehere wrote:If Lorab took being poisoned less personally, the game would be radically different.

I feel like I may have ruined my good girl reputation by poisoning her and golden. But I really thought nwebwouldbhave this in the bag and that we would be the last three. I thought...If they were poisoned, they may be eliminated due to lack of food/water and it would help me win.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:31 pm**

I don't take any offence elo. I never guessed it was you!

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:35 pm**

Perhaps a question I can use:
Of all the players, which one do you feel did you the most wrong?

...

Nah, I don't want people focusing on that negative stuff.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:47 pm**

Elohcin wrote:
insertnamehere wrote:If Lorab took being poisoned less personally, the game would be radically different.
I feel like I may have ruined my good girl reputation by poisoning her and golden. But I really thought nwebwouldbhave this in the bag and that we would be the last three. I thought...If they were poisoned, they may be eliminated due to lack of food/water and it would help me win.

Not at all. You were playing to win. Just like them. We play a game where you have to let the dark side out at times. You haven't tarnished your good girl image.

speedchuck wrote:Perhaps a question I can use:
Of all the players, which one do you feel did you the most wrong?

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Nah, I don't want people focusing on that negative stuff.

Well, I might ask a question or so like that.

So far I am going to ask all of them:

What percentage of your success do you attribute to skill, and what percentage to luck?

The others not so sure yet. It will depend on who the three are.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:33 pm**

I don't think LoRab is doing herself any favors with Sorsha or Opt with this going after Quin like she is.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:44 pm**

S~V~S wrote:I don't think LoRab is doing herself any favors with Sorsha or Opt with this going after Quin like she is.

Why not? Quin is not them. Sorsha is right that they should vote for the biggest threat to win (and that is Quin in my opinion, I'll probably vote for him if he makes it through this vote, although I do think his role helping him find idols all the time gave him a big advantage, so I have to think about that...) LoRab is doing a fine job of painting a target the three might be able to agree on, I think.

Honestly, my expectation is that Quin will end up back here. He would have been better off with me. I intended to tie it two all at this point to help Quin even if that meant I voted for Opt! But he had no way of knowing that. But if he makes it through, good on him!

I also think LoRab has been deliberately going after people she can paint as 'baddies' because you should vote out people who aren't acting in your interests. LoRab spent most of her time in btsc trying to argue why particular people weren't on your side and why you should vote them. I see that as sound strategy.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:49 pm**

I disagree.She is playing traditional Mafia here, like other people care about that. There are no "baddies". She is trying to get him lynched like in a mafia game, but the others may actually (especially Opt) admire a move like that, not think it needs to be punished by voting him out.

Unless Sorsha changed her focus ALOT I think she is more likely to vote for Lorab than Quin, but I have never even pretended to know how Sorsha thinks.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:55 pm**

S~V~S wrote:I disagree.She is playing traditional Mafia here, like other people care about that. There are no "baddies". She is trying to get him lynched like in a mafia game, but the others may actually (especially Opt) admire a move like that, not think it needs to be punished by voting him out.

Unless Sorsha changed her focus ALOT I think she is more likely to vote for Lorab than Quin, but I have never even pretended to know how Sorsha thinks.

If you admire what someone does, that's why you vote them out. The jury will admire them too.

I think they'd be foolish to vote for LoRab. Opt and Quin are the obvious threats to win here.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:57 pm**

You're talking as a Survivor expert who writes a blog about it. So this would apply to Opt, but not so much to Sorsha or LoRab. We'll see.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:12 pm**

Golden wrote:
S~V~S wrote:I disagree.She is playing traditional Mafia here, like other people care about that. There are no "baddies". She is trying to get him lynched like in a mafia game, but the others may actually (especially Opt) admire a move like that, not think it needs to be punished by voting him out.

Unless Sorsha changed her focus ALOT I think she is more likely to vote for Lorab than Quin, but I have never even pretended to know how Sorsha thinks.
If you admire what someone does, that's why you vote them out. The jury will admire them too.

I think they'd be foolish to vote for LoRab. Opt and Quin are the obvious threats to win here.

I am with golden even in death.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:21 pm**

Why did you choose me to poison as opposed to someone else, Elo?

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:46 pm**

Boy, quin and opt both have terrible public arguments for why they shouldn't be voted out. "Who you'd have more satisfaction beating?" - c'mon quin, that's a pretty bad read of LoRab's game.

I'm having more and more trouble figuring out who to vote for here. Opt and Quin should be voting each other, and I can't and won't buy any 'loyalty' talk from either of them. Frankly I'm beginning to think Sorsha deserves to win.

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:49 pm**

Epignosis wrote:Four straight immunity challenges tho

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:00 am**

Sure, but her role card had a large part to do with that. Actually, I see winning immunities as making a claim less strong... who is to say she wouldn't have been voted out if there was a chance?

LoRab asked Quin what I hoped she did. I don't like that Quin implied LoRab didn't deserve to win. She's there without the rolecard that Quin has (finding idols easily) or opt has (winning challenges easily). LoRab's done it socially alone.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:04 am**

Golden wrote:Sure, but her role card had a large part to do with that. Actually, I see winning immunities as making a claim less strong... who is to say she wouldn't have been voted out if there was a chance?

LoRab asked Quin what I hoped she did. I don't like that Quin implied LoRab didn't deserve to win. She's there without the rolecard that Quin has (finding idols easily) or opt has (winning challenges easily). LoRab's done it socially alone.

I missed this business about winning challenges and idols with ease. Please enlighten me.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:07 am**

Epignosis wrote:
Golden wrote:Sure, but her role card had a large part to do with that. Actually, I see winning immunities as making a claim less strong... who is to say she wouldn't have been voted out if there was a chance?

LoRab asked Quin what I hoped she did. I don't like that Quin implied LoRab didn't deserve to win. She's there without the rolecard that Quin has (finding idols easily) or opt has (winning challenges easily). LoRab's done it socially alone.
I missed this business about winning challenges and idols with ease. Please enlighten me.

Opt's role gave her advantages in the challenges. Quin's role told him where idols were so he could just go find them every time they came back out.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:33 am**

Golden wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Golden wrote:Sure, but her role card had a large part to do with that. Actually, I see winning immunities as making a claim less strong... who is to say she wouldn't have been voted out if there was a chance?

LoRab asked Quin what I hoped she did. I don't like that Quin implied LoRab didn't deserve to win. She's there without the rolecard that Quin has (finding idols easily) or opt has (winning challenges easily). LoRab's done it socially alone.
I missed this business about winning challenges and idols with ease. Please enlighten me.
Opt's role gave her advantages in the challenges. Quin's role told him where idols were so he could just go find them every time they came back out.

Told him where the idols were? Just like that? Pffff.

Opt's role gave her advantages...okay fine. What manner of advantages?

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:12 am**

Epignosis wrote:Opt's role gave her advantages...okay fine. What manner of advantages?

I don't know exactly how it advantaged her in each challenge... take the willpower one, though... noone else participated because Opt and Quin were so much better than the rest of us in such challenges that clearly we could not beat them.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:10 am**

I can't wait to hear your stories lorab! Sorry to see you go.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:03 am**

Quin made the move on DH ,not me. That was as big a move as hers on you.

That post sounded kinda braggy and it surprises me a bit.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:12 am**

And yeah LoRabs insights should be interesting.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:19 am**

S~V~S wrote:Quin made the move on DH ,not me. That was as big a move as hers on you.

That post sounded kinda braggy and it surprises me a bit.

Quins the one who had to lie to my face too. Opt didn't have btsc with me that day. But no doubt it was her idea, I'm just not sure I would have won (like, for example, I don't believe I could have gotten your vote svs).

Where I think opt has gone wrong is, she understood the need to be cutthroat with me, but I always felt quin was playing better than me. Why didn't she vote quin out?

I'll probably vote opt. She did play well and she answered my question well and I do think she has earned the win. But I think quin has earned it too. In the end my guess is that quin gets more votes but that opt might have beaten lorab... might have, although I really have huge respect for the game lorab played here. But I think the last vote could cost opt the game.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:30 am**

Hey!

This thread was an interesting read...

Golden: I wasn't trying to play you. But apparently you were playing me. I actually. Relieved you when you said you intended to take me to the final 3.

SVS: It was never my intention to come into BTSC and squelch conversation and I apologize having come off that way.

Elo: I forgive you for poisoning me. Well played. I wish you could have gone to the end.

In the end, I wasn't trying to paint Quin as bad, but I had already asked everyone else about the poison,-'d wanted to ask him the same. And he came back defensively. Which I responded to. Also. I still don't think that twice as fast and 1 extra point are the same thing.

Also, I already knew that sorsha and I were both voting Quin. And I didn't think anything in the thread was going to convince opt. She was making choices for her own reasons.

And I didn't take being poisoned personally, I just wanted to know who did it. but it was a serious pain in the ass for the end of the game and determined pretty much every choice I made in challenges and day polls.

Also, it's why I ate the damn chicken.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:32 am**

I knew you ate the chicken lol!

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:11 am**

I am beginning to think Sorsha is the greatest online thread based game player of all time.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:15 am**

Golden wrote:Why did you choose me to poison as opposed to someone else, Elo?

I thought you, lorab, and me would make it to final three for sure. If it weren't for quins immunity and opts betrayal, we probably would have. And I thought with us three in the end, if both of you were poisoned and losing health bfast, maybe it would take you out and make it easier for me to win. I needed to poison you sooner than later so it would affect you guys enough. I don't think I knew about the jury at that point and if I did...It had slipped my mind.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:27 am**

I don't think I need to ask any questions.

Opt totally lied in the thread about voting me out because I'm the only one she wasn't in an alliance with. Could've fooled me. She said she'd be loyal to me on night 1 BTSC. Im not the only one she betrayed early on before she really needed to. So I'm not voting for opt.

Quin had all those idols. In my opinion, his role is his reward.

I'm voting Sorsha. I didn't have BTSC with her at all. I was not in an alliance with her whatsoever. But...She gets my vote for winner by process of elimination. Those other two clowns don't deserve it.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:03 am**

See, I was truthful in my dealings, and I wound up here. Deception is how you get to the end (that or having a role that lets you find all the idols). I can't fault Opt for telling lies. That's not clownish- that's gamesmanship.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 11:26 am**

Eh. She didn't have to start so soon.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:22 pm**

Epignosis wrote:See, I was truthful in my dealings, and I wound up here. Deception is how you get to the end (that or having a role that lets you find all the idols). I can't fault Opt for telling lies. That's not clownish- that's gamesmanship.

But Opt is lying now. And that's just not wise. Or, she's been lying in the game so much that she doesn't remember what the truth actually is.

Deception while the game is going on is one thing. Deception after the fact is just poorly thought out.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:29 pm**

I commend deception of every stripe.

This is Survivor, peeps.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:07 pm**

insertnamehere wrote:I commend deception of every stripe.

This is Survivor, peeps.

Yeah, I don't get what the big deal is. If you came into this expecting everyone to honor their word...well...I don't know what to tell you.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:15 pm**

Jurors bringing their own personal feelings into the vote, and not voting for the better players simply because they got outplayed by them is a common problem in the show too.

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