The Place in Which Confessionals Shall Periodically Occur

[alexismaxwell]

Uh oh, I've messed up. LOL

So, my pitch to Fairplay went well, though he seems to be pretty wishy washy about voting Steph through his "oh yeah, totally makes sense, yeah" bullshit. Which is fine, because I've also managed to make it seem like a good move for Malcolm to actually follow through with using the idol on me, which is also good. The wishy washiness is to be expected, though, since he's aligned with Steph, and my pitch essetially forces him to vote her out, or be voted out.

But . . . if I use my Nullifier on Sean, then doesn't that give Fairplay/LJ/Steph the numbers to vote however they want, aside from me? Crap, I've literally just thought of that now, and I feel like an idiot for not seeing that sooner. I'm trying to think of a way around this, but my main hope right now is that Fairplay isn't smart enough to catch onto this loophole in time. Or maybe he calls my idol bluff and votes for me, which also wouldn't surprise me. Point is, I don't want to go down without a fight, and this is my fight, albeit a slightly handicapped one, considering that everyone either hates me, wants me out, or both. The only thing I've got going for me right now is that I know I'm being targeted, which motivates me somewhat.

Hmm. I don't think he'll fall for it if I tell him it's usable after a tie. I don't like chancing on him simply not realizing the loophole, either. Fuck, I just realized another issue -- if everyone is voting for me, then again, they can simply claim the majority after I use the idol on myself. Fuck shit crap, how did I not see these issues before?! Steph absolutely has to go for both Malcolm and I to make it to the end, but it seems almost impossible to come up with an airtight plan. Maybe we simply relax and let the cards fall where they may. No, not my style. Crap. There's got to be a way. Danielle isn't a viable option -- she's friggen inactive, and that'd . . . tie up the votes . . . between Steph and Erik/Sean. In that case, would Sean/Erik vote for the other to stay over Steph? Malcolm and I would most likely be the swing votes there. Hmm. That'd require Danielle actually getting on first, though. I haven't seen her in days. Lawd knows how she's even keeping up with who the vote is.

Okay, so there's one solution, Danielle. A crappy solution, but there it is. Another solution would be if I were to give the same exact pitch to Erik that I gave Fairplay in hopes that one or the other rats me out before the deadline. If they don't believe in the power of the Glorious Nullifier, then I have nothing to worry about. On the other hand, this would only work if everyone was voting for me, which I'm not positive that they are. Risky as fuck.

So, maybe I stay this round, Erik goes, and I'm left here with Malcolm, Danielle, Sean, Steph, LJ, and Fairplay. Steph would want me out, I know that. Danielle is probably closer to Malcolm. Sean knows who I am, and thus knows how dangerous I can be(when I put more thought into my plans, ick). Yeah, I'm probably dead in the water, idol or not. Steph has to go. But how? That question is going to be floating around in my head until the deadline.

Edit: SHIT, I SHOULD HAVE JUST SAID I HAD A DOUBLE VOTE. NOW I'M THE MORON. GOD DAMMIT. WHOOSH. (Would he believe me if I said I simply messed up and said the wrong item like three times? I feel sick.)

Edit 2: Yeup, so I ended up going with the double vote spiel. God damn, I'm actually horrified at how badly I just messed up. I've spent all night figuratively stroking myself off about how cool this was going to be, and then here I am, 3AM, and the loopholes are hitting me all at once. If I go now, I fucking deserve it. Bologna.

(This is pretty hilarious, though -- I've practically sabotaged myself. Gonna be hard to live this one down. LOL)

[alexismaxwell]

Okeydokey, so here's my pre-vote results confessional where I predict my demise, and then have the ability to feel somehow better when it comes true, 'cause at least I called it.

I can't tell if Fairplay is a horrible bullshitter, of if he's just bad at talking game. I don't trust him at all when he says he's going to flip on Steph. He isn't making me feel good about him at all. If he flips, then fine, good on Fairplay, but if he doesn't, then that's all the reason I need to vote his ass out if we have to re-vote, or if he gets the second most vote. No tears shall be shed.

I can see him plotting against Sean, Erik, or Danielle, though, if he caught onto my Nullifier/Double Vote shit. All he'd need is to put three votes on somebody besides him, and he'd be safe. Further, if he believes in the Double Vote, but still wants to make a play, he gathers everyone aside from someone like Danielle, and simply sacrifices her this round. I think that might be the most likely scenario. In that case, they'd need four votes, which could be attained by flipping one of Sean or Erik. Apparently somebody told Fairplay about our new group chat, so I can see it happening.

These people are playing so laughably bad, though, it's amusing. You can almost predict what they're going to do simply by looking at what the worst move for them would be, 'cause they'll friggen to do it 9 times out of 10. The sad part is, I'm only half joking.

Thus, based on the rule above, Fairplay most likely won't flip, or he'll even tell people about my plan, in which case I may go ahead and congratulate him on losing the game in advance. Playing to make it far vs Playing to win. A lot of Survivors tend to swing the wrong way on that pendulum at the wrong time. Hopefully not Fairplay, at least, not now, but I know better than to think positively in this game.

Malcolm has confirmed that the idol will be played on me tonight, and so that buys me another round. To be honest, I don't feel right using it, because it's one of those things where if you don't go this round, you'll go the next . . . especially if everyone tries voting for you. My only move then would be to screw Malcolm over, which is going to be the biggest assholey thing ever after he just finished playing his own idol to save me. But . . . there's a chance that people think I'm bluffing, and if the majority vote for me, that gives us a strong chance to take Steph out with perhaps even our two votes.

By the way, pre-reuinion shout out to Mike Borassi, who liked my TC posts this round! Hopefully that means the whole jury isn't full of people who hate me. LOL

[alexismaxwell]

Round Eleven - Pre-Challenge

Bahahahaha, it worked! Holy shitballs, I can't believe that worked! Wow! This is huge! I needed this!
Just kidding, I'm still in a not-so-good spot, but at least Steph is gone, so I've bested her. Even if I'm voted out this round, I can definitely take solitude in that.

The plan at the moment is to create a new voting block consisting of Fairplay, Malcolm, LJ, and myself. I'm not so sure that'll work out, though, because LJ voted for me this round, and another reason I'll get into a bit further down. Danielle also voted for me, even after she told Malcolm she was voting Steph, so she's out. Erik voted for me, and almost immediately after the results, he ran back to me scrambling, coughing up a dumb reason as to why he voted me. Hilarious. I don't trust his ass one bit, even if what he says is true. His claim is that they wanted to vote Malcolm out, but once he won immunity, he'd already made promises to LJ, Fairplay, and Steph. Bitch, are you telling me that A) You made deals with Fairplay behind my back, and B) You'll sacrifice me on a dime if it meant saving yourself a jury vote or two? Psht. Almost would have been better if he'd just said "Lol, whoops!".

Erik has obviously had something with Danielle this whole merge game . . . but maybe he also has something with LJ? Both of them, perhaps? That'd fit the tribe dynamics in regards to the vote. If that's true, then I'm most likely going to be voted out this round at the hands of incopetant players.

Could you friggen imagine a F2 of LJ and Danielle? My god, it would literally come down to which player was online for the largest amount of minutes over the course of a round. I say minutes because I doubt either of them have been on AIM for over 60 of them per round.

[alexismaxwell]

Round Eleven - Post-Challenge

Hmm, like I suspected -- I'm pretty screwed, unless Malcolm goes instead of me. I'm not so sure that'll happen, though. Malcolm was close to Danielle, at least at the beginning of this game, and so she might want to keep him around over me. I don't think any of the other players are necessarily game-savvy enough to go against her wishes this round. I regret taking Dave out, if only in that he might have been a capable ally. Sean, you can't ever tell where his head is at . . . and I'm not sure it bothers the others as much as it probably should, strategically. I wouldn't mind voting for him, to be honest. At least he's tried to make some moves that might have otherwise worked, so long as he didn't try them on me. I respect that, and as cheap as him knowing who I am is, I did that too earlier on with Dolly, so that won't sway my jury vote too much.

Danielle didn't just win the challenge today -- she fucking destroyed it. It was crazy. Two minutes on the Math Puzzle? That shit took me over half an hour. Major kudos to her, especially after watching her destroy the other puzzles, just the same. The best part is, I friggen warned Erik about this just last night! His response? "Danielle isn't that good at challenges. I can beat her in the final ones lol". If I go this round, and he's dumb enough to keep Danielle around, I sure hope she cuts his ass last minute, even if it means an LJ/Danielle/Sean F3. People never listen to me in these games. I guess it might have something to do with ego. You wouldn't want to admit your adversary is correct, would you? At least subconsciously.

There are still some moves I could make, such as pulling in LJ and Danielle, but I don't trust either of them to play smartly, so sucks to that. Plus, Erik hinted at doing this later on, which makes me want to do it even less. I'm focusing more on screaming subtleties. I want everybody to know why it's better to keep me over Malcolm without actually saying Malcolm's name. I owe him that much, at least. They may keep me, or they may not. It's their choice. Erik claims that he wants Malcolm over me, but he said the same shit last round, and we all saw how that went. It's like he thinks his word still carries value with me. Idiot.

It's so peculiar that I've yet again filled the "biggest threat" role in an ORG, this time while making it my goal coming into the game to NOT be that, LOL. I guess a lot did go wrong for me in regards to that, though, what with Penner screwing himself early, and being forced to make a big move to even make the merge in the first place. My allies have sucked this whole time, too, aside from Malcolm. Taj was a dud, Ami was strange, Penner played himself out the door . . . blech. I've still had a lot of fun on here, though. I kind of feel like the Young Lad himself, except for that my "Tony Vlachos" happens to be a lack of a Tony Vlachos! None that I'm seeing, anyway. Malcolm is probably the best here, aside from myself, if not my equal overall. Malcolm is a good man. I think I was meant to be his Tony Vlachos, but we wrongfully ended up as close allies, instead. 
If he stays, I hope he takes the game. If not, the first Ponderosan e-round is on me, and I'll tell him of all the times I contemplated screwing him over. LOL

I'm pretty proud of the game I've played this season (so far?), anyway. It's not really the game I wanted to play coming in, but pulling off epic #blindsides is pretty awesome, no matter how you slice it.

[alexismaxwell]

Ayy, so this might be my last in-game confessional! Heavy. I'm going to miss coming on here and bitching about people, calling 'em moronic idiots and what have you. I took one perhaps final shot at staying, which actually should have totally worked, but I was legitimately taken aback by how moronic this person is.

I'm talking, of course, about Sean.

Erik is a pretty big moron himself, too. He actually had, like, an almost cartoony moment, where the villain reveals their whole plan to the hero (which is ironic, since I'm the only real villain 'round here, and he was voted as the hero). He told me everything I needed to know in order to flip the vote on him. Or, so I thought.
The first thing he told me was that he planned on voting Fairplay out next round, followed by Sean at 5. He proceeded to even tell me about what he was going to say to people in order to get Sean voted out. This leaves Malcolm, Danielle, LJ, and himself as the F4 to which even if he loses, everyone will still cut Malcolm over him. As good a plan as any, right? Why reveal it to me out of the blue? Suspicious. Or he's just stupid, I don't even know or care. I brought it all to Sean, who finally got online at about 2AM because fuck me, right?

So, I told him about how Erik has F2s with LJ and Danielle. I told him about how the three of them are cutting him at 5 instead of Malcolm. I told him about how his only chance of winning is if the F4 consists of Malcolm/Fairplay/Me, and then Danielle, LJ, and himself. He seemed to understand all of this. However . . .  the idiot is still voting me out. He claims that if he votes Erik out, he'll "upset the jury", and that he's terrified of me staying in the game.

Well, congrats Sean, you're this season's Woo Hwang, minus the comp game. Kudos to you. I look forward to seeing you on Redemption Island, if I ever care enough to even watch that season.

[alexismaxwell]

Round Twelve - Pre-Challenge

Whaaaaaat, I'm still here?! Holy crap, LJ should totally have voted me out, and Sean should have voted me to stay! I'm uber gracious to LJ, and whatever Malcolm did to ensure that he doesn't vote for me, though.

I'm so fucking confused right now, however. I get online, completely forget that I can't vote, put a vote in for Erik, campaign to Sean a bit, and it's a good 10 minutes before I finally realize that Erik has been voted out already while I was sleeping. GG Alexis, gg.

I'm trying to figure out what Malcolm did to swing LJ, and if the messages I'd sent to LJ yesterday had anything to do with it. Basically, Erik brought up that LJ was probably going to self-vote in the group chat, and I jumped on the opportunity to lie and tell LJ that Erik has been trying to swing Malcolm and I to vote LJ out due to his penalty vote.

I've got these strange messages from Malcolm, though . . . "You need to trust me on this one. Do not message LJ,". Wut. Jesus, this is the first merge round where I don't know exactly what's going on. I don't like it. Time to get to the bottom of this.

Edit: Okay, so the talk of the town is that LJ wanted to vote for me because we hadn't formed a connection yet. Malcolm convinced him to keep me around for at least another round. Alright, not as intense and flashy as I thought it was going to be, but simple moves are sometimes the best ones. Kudos to Malcolm for catching LJ before he disappeared again!

[alexismaxwell]

Round Twelve - Post-Challenge

I'm in some deep doo-doo, LOL. I really wanted that immunity this time, and my computer decided to crash on me halfway through it. To make matters worse, I misinterpreted the rules, as well. Bollocks, I say! Bollocks!

I haven't really thought too much about this round yet. I had a pretty good backup plan ready to go, but that went out the window once Malcolm won immunity. Who is going to be voted out over me now? Fairplay? Why? I think even he might vote for me this round. Danielle might be an option, but I don't think I'd have the votes. The deal with LJ expires this round, and so who knows what he's going to do. If he's smart, he'd vote me off. Could I get him to vote Danielle off? That's probably the only person he wins against, and then maybe Sean. Nah, I guess Fairplay would have to go this round, which most likely won't happen. I'm pretty psyched to have fought my way to the top six, though! That's friggen awesome, man.

I wonder if LJ and Sean actually have an alliance? That'd be pretty interesting, and maybe in that scenario, Sean convinced LJ to vote Erik out after what I'd told Sean last night. I highly doubt it, though. Wishful thinking. Erik said he wasn't bitter on the TC Results thread, but the messages he left me on AIM convey otherwise. I was going to use that as part of my backup plan, showing Sean those messages in order to get Malcolm booted instead of me. Ah well. I feel strangely content.

[alexismaxwell]

"Malcolm has passed Individual Immunity to Fairplay."

So that happened, LOL. Literally this exact move has been bouncing around in my head all night, but I never thought Malcolm would actually be willing to give up the necklace, let alone voluntarily! I'm actually a little spooked, to be honest. Great minds do indeed think alike, it would seem. Our plan is that, if Fairplay has immunity, then he'll feel safer enough to go to rocks with us. I will likely get votes, which saves me, and the odds will be against LJ, Danielle, and Sean. Point being, Fairplay doesn't make it to the end without both Malcolm and I there with him next round, so it's logical for him to vote with us. This is also fantastic, because unless everyone puts all of the credit on me once again for some reason, Malcolm will be taking a lot of target-heat for this move! I suppose I trust Fairplay to make the logical decision at this point. I have a lot of respect for that guy after playing with him. Uh oh, have I just jinxed myself?

I also want to apologize to Kenny slightly, just 'cause I've been fairly busy with something else lately, and so my head hasn't really been as much in the game recently as it usually is. Malcolm is totally still going 110% right now, though, and I think that if it comes down to him or myself, I'll throw the game to him. Apparently this is his first time playing, outside of crappy Skype ORGs, so I think winning would mean wayyy more to him than it would to me. I've won before. I don't need to win again. It'd be nice, but on a human level, game aside, maybe it'd feel nicer making sure Malcolm does. Hmm. Dat bromance, tho.

We've got to make it past this round first, however, so fingers crossed that Fairplay doesn't dun goof!

[Host Kenny]

s'all good in the hood bae

[alexismaxwell]

Round Thirteen and Beyond - Jury

Ayyy literally just Kenny and his friend who sometimes posts things! Bet you didn't expect another one of these! Okay, Kenny did 'cause I told him to, but you get what I mean.

I'm really surprise that the jury liked and respected the game I played. I mean, the only one who I've sensed bitterness from so far was Erik, which is to be expected, I guess. It's his first time, supposedly. The first time always stings the most. I know the feeling. But yeah, it was really cool to see that people were fans of what I was doing. Especially Dave, who was a fan of me in a separate game, LOL. Steph probably surprised me the most. I was indeed right about her, that she'd faked the whole tantrum thing in order to rally votes to get me out. Props to her. Being able and willing to adapt to unfortunate situations that quickly is a trait you find in good players. It's really too bad we couldn't have worked together instead, though.

Another thing I was shocked about was how everyone is ready to vote Sean to win over Malcolm! Whuuuuuuttt?! I mean, sure, he played a good social game, but, like . . . what else? I guess he did try to make some moves earlier on, but by the end, he'd just become Erik's bitch in my eyes, and I definitely wouldn't vote for a Woo Hwang over a Malcolm Freburg, if ya' catch muh drift. I guess that's the point of juries, though, so a diverse group of players decides who deserves the win. My personal opinion is that Malcolm deserves it most, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.

He has indeed played a decent game, though, once you look past his dog-like loyalty to Erik. He and Malcolm are probably the only two I'd want to vote for, unless Jonny Badplay has some tricks up his sleeve.

Also shout-out to Kenny -- I've probably told you this already, but you did an awesome job this season, man, especially considering it's a one-point-five man show! You made this a lot of fun for me, and I'm sure everyone else holds those same sentiments. (Okay, maybe not Dolly . . . )

[alexismaxwell]

FTC Confessional

Holy crap, everyone is pissed at me 'cause of my FTC post, LOL. Sean and Erik are calling me cocky, and condescending and shit. Like, I mean, what the hell did they expect? For me to congratulate Danielle on a game hardly played? Kenny asked for this shit to be harsh, and so I was harsh. If they don't like it, that's just too friggen bad. We're jurors. We're supposed to be condescending. It's like they've never even seen a FTC before. I don't see Reed getting shit for calling Missy the wicked step-mother.

I mean, I get it. I really do. I don't take any joy in being an asshole. But as a juror, that's pretty much my job right now. Sean especially should understand that I play a character in these things, just as much as he did this season. People want to see shade being thrown. They want to see see betrayals. They want to see that confident villain either take the game, or get slain by the hero right at the height of their power. Nobody wants to see Mr. Fucking Rogers all up in this shit sitting at the bottom of an alliance, waiting for their time to go, all whilst writing sweet nothings about the other players. Honestly.

As for the game itself, it seems all too easy for them to forget that I downplayed my social game on purpose in attempt to make sure Malcolm was the bigger social threat. If I was both a big social threat, as well as a big strategic threat . . . who the hell takes me to FTC instead of Malcolm? LOL. It ultimately didn't work out, anyway, but it's a little frustrating how some of these people are holding it against me, even after I apologized for the abrasiveness, and explained how it was meant as strategy. That's fine, though. Let them throw their shade at me. I'll serve as a scapegoat if it makes them feel better about the games they've played.