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Post by T4 Bacteriophage on Apr 9, 2021 20:17:20 GMT
I am willing to accept minutes in your confessional, in a pinch
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 9, 2021 20:22:30 GMT
I've been better about communicating with the mods in my Discord channel, Fen should be posting some things on my behalf in Specland. After TC tonight I'm going to try to set some time aside.
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Post by Gray Wolf on Apr 13, 2021 17:33:20 GMT
Congrats on surviving 1 tribal council on your tribe!
1. Did it go how you wanted?
2. What do you think happens if you go to tribal again?
3. Have items affected the game at all?
4. How would you rank your current tribemates?
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 13, 2021 20:12:23 GMT
Thanks! This one was kind of dicey. Things were highly divided, with lots of different camps and competing cliques. I’ll try to break them down before answering questions:
1. Hedgehog and Lion - I am ride-or-die for Lion at this point, and have no secrets from him. I think he feels the same. I’m hoping to use him as a shield later on, and I’m sure he’s feeling the same. We have agreed on bringing each other to the end, but I’d rather lose him before endgame. It will be too difficult to divide our games. 2. OTTER (Old Team Terrestria Excellence Regiment) - Lion, Hedgehog, Mongoose, Sloth - I’m going to be perfectly honest with you, specs, I have absolutely zero attachment to Mongoose and Sloth. Mongoose is friendlier and more useful, but is dangerous. Sloth blunders and isn’t terribly social, but makes a great shield. I’ve been ready to drop Sloth since like Day 3, but others keep imploding. Sloth told us that he found the idol hunt idol early on and Leopard Seal saw him do it. He assumed that Aquatica knew all about it and was eager to use it. More on that later. 3. Butterfly, Lion, Hedgehog - Lion and I both got on well with Butterfly right away, and reached out early to form an alliance. We even told them “bring someone of your choice,” assuming it would be Moth or Owl. They chose Frog, which led to... 4. FAST (Friendship and Survival Team) - Lion, Hedgehog, Butterfly, Frog. I think Frog is a canny and sneaky player, and trust him about as far as I can throw him. He does, however, seem invested in FAST as at least a temporary cross-tribal alliance. B+L seem in for real. 5. Capybara + Frog - Capybara was the obvious boot here, but Frog really pulled out all the stops to defend him. I assume the Frog has him down as a personal goat or something. 6. Frog + Moth - I think this was Frog’s real game. Moth was cold and distant to (I think) all of Terrestria. The alarm over the “Terrestria Takeover” seems to have been coming from this quarter. With Moth gone and Lion and I on the record voting for Sloth, I don't think it's as much on peoples' minds. Will they want to go for Mongoose or Sloth again? I kind of hope so, but we'll see. 7. Snowy Owl - I can't get a good read on where he's at. He seems to be quietly forming some kind of "bottom of the tribe" alliance out of himself, Capybara, and Sloth, but was willing to vote either of them last TC. He's repeatedly stressed how much he likes Sloth. He seems to get along with everyone but not really be anyone else's ally. 8. Moth - Moth seems to have been running the show on Aeria. I kept hearing how good he was socially, then not seeing it, and others (like Butterfly and Owl) were referring to what Moth wanted.
I'm sure I missed a few things here and there, but that's the general rundown. Now, what happened...
1. Mongoose and Sloth started out TC in the OTTER chat wanting to leverage our numerical advantage and take a "big swing" for Moth or Frog. Lion and I were apprehensive, and tried to move the conversation towards an easier vote, like Capybara or (briefly) Owl.
2. I was ready to take the "easy" route of voting off Capybara, as was pretty much everyone I talked to. Lacking a Terrestria Takeover panic, that's what probably ought to have happened. Frog was the only one openly against it, Moth was being vague. This is why I think they were the ones really pushing an anti-Terrestria agenda.
3. There seems to have been an aborted push for Mongoose that I heard only from Capybara and then Moth - my guess is that someone stuck up for him, which deserves to be noted for if I try to sway things his way.
4. I put a quiet word into Capybara's ear that I wasn't a fan of Sloth, intending that Capy picked it up and ran with it. I started vaguely telling others that I was open to other options and wasn't interested in sticking to some of my old tribemates. I don't know whether that is what got the Sloth push going or if it was rolling already, but moving into the final phase of TC, we were solidly in a Capybara vs Sloth vote.
5. Lion and I were heavily investing in cross-tribal ties at this point, and took stock of what was happening. We would have bailed on Sloth "for real" if he didn't have an idol.
6. Instead, we coordinated to "warn" Sloth that the vote was coming down on him "5 to 4" and we would be "defecting" in full knowledge of his idol, and told Mongoose to vote with Sloth for appearances. We made it look organic. That locked the idol play in. He assured us he understood. In the OTTER chat I asked him to spare Butterfly.
7. Privately, I discussed the merits of various idol play options with Sloth, but played up the benefits of bringing down an "untouchable" Moth.
8. After the vote, Lion went with shock and I went with indignation. After all, if I wasn't privy to the plan to idol but Mongoose was, well, that shows me how valued I am, doesn't it? We are portraying a catastrophic rift between the Terrestrial Herbivores.
9. Which, let's face it, it probably real. We never liked one another anyway.
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 13, 2021 20:22:31 GMT
See this is why I often don't confessionalize appropriately. I can't get it out succinctly. Congrats on surviving 1 tribal council on your tribe! 1. Did it go how you wanted? 2. What do you think happens if you go to tribal again? 3. Have items affected the game at all? 4. How would you rank your current tribemates? 1. I think I just spent a long post explaining how it went exactly, precisely how I wanted!
2. That's what I'm worried about. Lion and I are in a cushy position as members of two major alliances - OTTER and FAST - but those alliances want different things. OTTER + Owl will probably want to target Capybara or Frog, and FAST + Capybara will want to follow through and take out Mongoose or Sloth. We're going to have to disappoint someone. I am also concerned about Owl/Capybara/Sloth/Mongoose congealing into a true alliance and perhaps picking up Frog. I have been trying to work on relationships with everyone, but will likely have to betray someone next TC. I am also worried about my complicity in the idol play getting out.
3. Items? Whaaaaaat? We're only just coming off an idol play, Wolf! With publicly-alluded-to "temptation" items. Yeah, it's on my mind.
4.
BEST Lion (actual trust)
Butterfly (firm ally)
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Frog? (Useful, with drawbacks)
Owl? (Useful, with drawbacks)
Capybara (I actually kinda like the guy now, but he's expendable) Sloth (Cannon fodder who may or may not trust me)
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Mongoose (I really don't trust him at all. Allied out of convenience and necessity) WORST
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 13, 2021 20:30:25 GMT
@specs please feel free to ask more questions. I think I can be better about responding to them, but freeform confessionalizing is difficult for me. Every block of time I spend summarizing in here is one I could spend developing relationships in PMs. I am an objective-oriented person.
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Post by Pineapple on Apr 13, 2021 20:31:48 GMT
See this is why I often don't confessionalize appropriately. I can't get it out succinctly. I thought you painted a very clear picture of what was a complicated and wild round, so thank you!
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 13, 2021 20:37:59 GMT
Sure, but it was far from concise. That's an hour I'm not getting back. Meanwhile, my inbox looks like this: There's a little slack during this time of day - I am portraying someone who lives and works in Arizona, which is on Mountain Time. I was prepared for a two hour lag, but I forgot that Arizona doesn't observe daylight savings and it's actually three hours' difference this time of year. This early afternoon time when "Hedgehog" is still at work and I am not lets me unwind, get some things done, and answer a couple of "quick messages while I'm at work" (those make people feel special and prioritized). If I do this masquerade again, it will not be with someone with such a different timezone.
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 13, 2021 20:39:15 GMT
And thank you for the compliment, Pineapple
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 14, 2021 3:10:27 GMT
Prompting other players to post pictures of their animals swimming in bathtubs might be the single best thing I've done this month.
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Post by Poison Ivy on Apr 14, 2021 3:17:41 GMT
How much of the person you're portraying is completely made up, and how much is based on yourself?
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 14, 2021 4:53:56 GMT
It’s almost entirely made up. Or rather, very little of it is based on me.
I’m talking with Lion right now about tabletop RPGs, and I’m drawing on friends’ experiences with other games that I haven’t played to put separation between Hedgehog and myself. D&D? Never got into it. Have you ever heard of Iron Kingdoms?
I’ve referenced being a whitewater rafting guide in college to many people. I’ve enjoyed rafting, but never was a guide - but a coworker of mine was. We bonded over our shared appreciation for it, and I am outright stealing her stories to build my character.
A few stories are my own, but always with substantial differences and only those I know I’ve never told on MS. I was stranded in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in upstate New York while visiting an ex-girlfriend and had to crash at my aunt’s house. Hedgehog? Hurricane Harvey while on a road trip to Galveston with her boyfriend, we dropped in on her cousin near Houston to wait it out.
Stuff like that.
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 15, 2021 4:27:11 GMT
This is a bald-faced lie. I love Star Wars. It pains me to malign it even so slightly for the sake of this gimmick.
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 15, 2021 4:30:11 GMT
This tribe looks great. There's even some room for error, I think.
From what I can gather, Dog barely managed to not get voted out in both of Carnivora's TCs. Rat is on good terms with Eagle, and I've hit it off with the big bird. Capybara is actually picking things up a bit and being a lot more engaging, but if need be, he can be a secondary buffer.
I'd love to come out of this tribe with an arrangement with Rat and Eagle.
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Post by Hedgehog on Apr 18, 2021 0:54:10 GMT
1. I'm assuming Dog spent heavily on advantages and some of the others did too. Not too worried about it.
2. Eh, a little, but we're not there yet. We're at 15 going into 14, so mostly it's just speculation on whether it'll happen at 13, 12, 11 or later. I'm inclined to think 12 or 11.
3. I would have given Dog an opportunity to lobby for a different boot, but he's sent me exactly three messages in three days, none of which exceeded three sentences. Bye!
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