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Post #1: 24th Aug 2015 9:39:52 AM 
I dunno guys! what a bizarre F3! like not necessarily in a bad way, but bizarre nonetheless. ummm where to start... congratulations on making it to the end of a season with a cast of 3,930,403 people and a bunch of super strong players. y'all did well for yourselves.

Jerri - we were never on the same side and this lead to us barely talking, so I know very little about you and your game. I have no doubt you're going to get a million questions about your gameplay and strategies, so I'll try not to ask too much about that stuff. I do have to say that the more I hear about this "pre-game" shit, the less I want to vote for you. The pre-game was massively overblown by SOME PEOPLE who wanted to rally an army against a few players that were well-known to each other outside of the game. I am honestly very surprised that so many people fell for it and have preached it up until the bitter end, even when I for example had clearly jumped ship to Amanda and Sierra, and completely by choice. The proliferation of the "pre-game" shit actually brought everyone else in the game together in a massive counter-alliance, so any benefits the "pre-game" may have given those in it were outweighed by the overwhelming negative stigma surrounding all of us and the resulting united front that formed against us. For a lot of the game, people I tried to make connections with were openly wary of me or actively rebuffed my attempts at conversation because of the pre-game rumour, even when I was being completely genuine. This was discouraging and annoying, and Yul can get fucked for starting the whole thing, because it's a very dirty way to try and tank people's games. Anyway, on to my questions for you:

1. Before everyone else asks, I wanna get in with this: why exactly did you choose to take Kmanda to the end when she was your only competition for the win left in the F4? Did you feel like it was the honourable thing to do or something?
2. Tell me why you play ORGs. What about them attracts you? What's the most enjoyable aspect for you?
3. What was the hardest decision you had to make in this game? Take me through your thought process behind it and how you reached the conclusion you did.

Erik - on a personal level I have no hard feelings towards you. I may well have turned on you eventually too, so I can't fault you for taking part in my elimination, however indirectly. I mostly take issue with the way you handled the whole thing. I found it ridiculous and kind of embarrassing that you could not sack up and tell me the truth even when I directly confronted you about it. I think the worst part was you making up some BS about thinking the deadline was at 8:15 (CRINGE). I appreciate the statement you made to me in Michelle's thread, though, so I won't beat that dead horse.

1. To me, it seemed like no one ever really came to you with anything in this game. I got the impression that people would pull you in for votes at the last minute, or include you in plans without divulging all of the details because they either did not trust you or didn't care enough to tell you. This is a bit of a weird question, but what's the biggest secret you kept this game? Is there a single piece of information that someone entrusted you with that had the power to turn things upside down had you revealed it?
2. Which two players on the jury do you think you would have the best shot to win against? Why?
3. How much control do you think you had over your fate in this game? Let's put it on a scale of 1 - 10.

Amanda - not much I haven't already said to you elsewhere, but like I discussed in the jury chat today, I feel like your game was pretty weak, all things considered. I totally appreciate that you tried to play hard to make up for your absence early on, but it unfortunately just doesn't mean much to me.

Let's make this about me for a bit. All other things aside, I feel as if (post-merge especially) you benefited from relationships that I made with other people. I included you in these relationships and you received all of the information that I received, because I trusted you implicitly, and you knew that. I began bridging the gap to the "other side" before the merge even hit because I expected the Twisted ship to sink eventually, and I pretty much held your hand and took you with me. I know you made a separate relationship with Jeremiah, but I'm not really convinced that was hugely relevant (until the point where you both decided to flip on me). You getting rid of me was a quality move strategically (although it may not have been the best time for it), and I would see this all completely differently if we had just met in this game. If you had built a relationship with me within the confines of this season and used it to your advantage, I'd see your move as certainly villainous, but also strategically necessary. However, we as a duo are much more than that, and I feel like you abused what we have - I think you manipulated our relationship as two humans for your benefit (even if not intentionally) and then casually knifed me when you felt that the pros of keeping me no longer outweighed the cons. There are a lot of very shady things about the way you handled my elimination and I will probably never be comfortable with how it went down, but like... whatever I guess? I love you more than anything, and I will defend you to the death as a person, but I cannot defend you as a player in this game. You became someone I couldn't recognize over the course of my last couple of rounds in this game and it was a pretty unpleasant experience, to say the least.

1. Let's get everything about my boot out of the way first: when did you actually make the decision to vote me out? How long were you considering it for? You were uncharacteristically awkward and quiet with me for like, a week before my boot. Was this because you couldn't work up the courage to tell me you wanted to get rid of me/couldn't see the point in talking game with me when you were going to get rid of me anyway? What was the tipping point that made you seriously consider getting rid of me? Was it Zmanda putting Eric up? Did you really take me seriously when I asked you to vote me out before Zmanda, or did you just use that as a scapegoat because you knew Zmanda would be easier to get rid of later? I require 100% honesty plz.
2. If I had not returned to the game through Los Muertos, what would your post-merge game have looked like? What would you have done to ensure your safety if the Twisted ship had sunk?
3. If you win this game, will it truly make everything that happened over the course of this season "worth it"?

Questions for all of you:
1. Rank your most important social relationships (at least 3) in this game and explain how they helped you get here.
2. Assign yourselves and everyone on the jury to an alignment (like, the D&D kind), and explain why you put each person there. Brief descriptions of each can be found in the spoiler tag below, but they aren't exactly customized for ORGs, so feel free to use Google if you need to.

Thanks team

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Post #2: 24th Aug 2015 11:13:13 AM 
Kim- Holy fuck this is embarrassing, but I actually did think the deadline was 8:15. I don't know why I thought that, possibly just me misremembering, but when I said that, I was unfortunately bring serious. But I said that I would try changing my vote anyways in hopes that Abi accepts it. Truth is, I didn't. If you looked through my voting history, you'll see that after I put down Jerri, I didn't change it. That whole vote was a colossal fuck though, and I should have just told you that I was voting for you, put your name down, and let that be that. So many mistakes during that part of the game. Anyways, the questions!

1.) To me, it seemed like no one ever really came to you with anything in this game. I got the impression that people would pull you in for votes at the last minute, or include you in plans without divulging all of the details because they either did not trust you or didn't care enough to tell you. This is a bit of a weird question, but what's the biggest secret you kept this game? Is there a single piece of information that someone entrusted you with that had the power to turn things upside down had you revealed it?

Well, when the Mike boot was coming around, Eric told me that Mike didn't have an idol and that he was bluffing to get the target off of his back and that he had been doing that for some time. Had I told Jerri or Heather that, the vote might had gone as planned. But maybe not. Also, did you know that Kelly was Jenna from Twisted? Because I didn't know until after I voted for you. She wanted me not to tell anyone, and I obliged. There's probably more than that, and if there are, I'll add them, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment.

2.) Which two players on the jury do you think you would have the best shot to win against? Why?

Yul is probably one. He's kind of like Russell but without the massively inflated ego. He shoots first and asks questions later. He lets his paranoia get the best of him, more often than not. If he was sitting up here, I would be his game partner and he would have been a shield from most of the flak. Kind of like Natalie W. The next one is probably Heather. Last round, after Jerri won immunity, I was certain that Jerri was voting Kmanda with Heather. I told Heather that I would do the same too if Jerri won. So when I talked a bit with Kmanda about it, I offered a deal. If I voted Heather with her, she would vote for me at FTC if she loses the tiebreaker and lobby a bit for me. So, as all of you saw in the last tribal thread, Jerri was leaving people in suspense on who she takes, and in my mind, I thought it was obvious that she votes for Kmanda. I thought she was super playing to win and didn't want any competition in her way. So I call her out, and she reveals that she's voting Heather. By that point, I had already made my deal with Kmanda, and I didn't want to go back on it. Plus I thought it would make the FTC more interesting and more of a bite-your-nails kind of FTC.

3.) How much control do you think you had over your fate in this game? Let's put it on a scale of 1 - 10.

I'd like to think it was a five, but realistically, it was probably lower than that, like a four. There were, admittedly, a lot of moments that relied on luck and other people to get me to the next round, and every time I tried to make a bold move, it tended to not work out. Had I had a better grasp on the game, they should have worked out.

Thanks for the questions! I really liked the first one.
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Post #3: 24th Aug 2015 11:23:46 AM 
Hello Kim, I know you hate hearing the word "Pre-Game" constantly cause it stigmatized your entire game. I believe we all know there wasn't some EVIL PRE-GAME GROUPCHAT MUAHAHAHHA where you all had evil plans and petted little white kittens. I just don't know what else to Refer to that as. It is obvious that since you made alternate plans with Zamanda and Sierra the whole Pre-Game thing was not as tight as everyone feared. The whole Pre-Game propaganda was a strategy employed by Yul to target the players he wanted, and coincidently it was also the people I had connected with the least during the game and never ended up on the same tribe with until much later.

Frankly, pushing that was the ONLY weapon I really had against you, since I wasn't working with you I had to make some type of reasonable argument to get you out. I will try to not refer to it as a pre-game anymore ( I may slip) since that part of the game is over now.



1. Before everyone else asks, I wanna get in with this: why exactly did you choose to take Kmanda to the end when she was your only competition for the win left in the F4? Did you feel like it was the honourable thing to do or something?


I just did this in Michelle's question, so I'm going to move it here. I don't there is much more I can say about it:


So let's be real, if I went Final 3 with Heather and Erik I would have won this game EASILY. I chose a much harder route for myself. Many of you are thinking why? I owe you more of an explanation.

This was a massive ordeal, a nearly 2 month brutal battle and I think it was hardest thing I have ever done in the online realm. I know Abi, the jury and myself did not want the game to end with a boring tribal council and a predictable winner. Beating Heather and Erik would feel like being in gym class as a 6th grader playing football with 1st graders and just whooping their butts. I know this sounds harsh, and Heather won't appreciate this comment, but the round Kim went home just how clueless both of them were at the game. Heather is really a sweet girl and a nice person, but she has a lot to learn when it comes to playing survivor.


Winning in a situation like that would not make me feel good, especially since it would involve backstabbing Kamanda, someone who spent hours upon hours writing a fanfic all day that was an incredible read, someone who had been final juror multiple times and wanted so badly to JUST make the final tribal council. Fucking over someone I made a truthful and heartfelt Final 2 who so badly wants to be here to win the game against 2 goats does not make me feel so proud, and there is no money involved here. Only pride. If Kamanda wins and I get runner up, I'd feel prouder about that, and that I kept my word then if I took the coward's way out and won being backstabbing cunt.


And although it's not strategic, I also won multiple challenges, including an HoH and all the challenges from F6 through to the Final 4.

2. Tell me why you play ORGs. What about them attracts you? What's the most enjoyable aspect for you?


It's the game itself and the people. I love the teamwork aspect of survivor, the coniving, the backstabbing and the idea that at any time you can be eliminated. Your life is ALWAYS on the line and it's thrilling. The friendships and connections made are mostly genuine. It provides me with some excitement during my boring job too. There is a tremendous sense of accomplishment when your team wins an immunity, when you successfully vote off your target. There is also a sense of unknowing and randomness, you can never know what twist may happen, who may go against you, what could happen in the game. There is nothing more exciting to me than Survivor, and I wish I wasn't Canadian so I could actually apply.


3. What was the hardest decision you had to make in this game? Take me through your thought process behind it and how you reached the conclusion you did.


Jeremiah leaving, it was a decision I wavered back and forth on. It was terrifying because I had given up both my necklace and an idol to make it happen (which is a testament to how good of a position he was in). I knew it was the smartest decision for me at the Final 5 strictly for survival, and it was a move I could cite on the jury as something big that I accomplished. I feel I really needed to make it happen since I was committed to bringing Kamanda to the end, I had to show I took the game into my own hands and I was more deserving a winner than her.
 
   
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Post #4: 24th Aug 2015 12:38:43 PM 
1. Rank your most important social relationships (at least 3) in this game and explain how they helped you get here.


1. Mike- It is funny how close Mike and I were. He literally told me everything about his side and I gave him information about my side. Mike was the reason I knew as much information as I did and wasn't so out of the loop. The funny thing is, Mike and shared info and were very close but we were NEVER on the same page about anything, and at some point that was going to come to a head, and it did in a big way.

2. Ronnie- It is somewhat IRONIC..get it I..RON...IC...nevermind. I would not be here were it not for Ronnie and our relationship was personal and not just game. I would have placed him above Mike but it seemed odd to put him at Number 1 when he was the first person to leave at the merge

3. Kamanda- Clearly Kamanda and I got very close late in the game. Her dedication and passion to ORGs is astounding, much like my own! That really attracted to her and made me want to work with her. Her decision to cut you changed my game and set everything in motion for me from then onto the finish

2. Assign yourselves and everyone on the jury to an alignment (like, the D&D kind), and explain why you put each person there. Brief descriptions of each can be found in the spoiler tag below, but they aren't exactly customized for ORGs, so feel free to use Google if you need to.

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CHAOTIC EVIL

Shontayla and I were close since we found ourselves both on the bottom of an alliance with Sierra, Michelle Heather and Sundra. We woul scheme for hours on and end and this girl was absolutely merciless and only cared about humiliating and destroying everyone and anything. She caught her in lies during her ouster round and barely missed the merge yet again!

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Lawful Good


Ronnie was like the epitome of good. He was trusting, perhaps too much so and he saved me purely because he enjoyed my company. He was one of the sweetest people in the game and always does what he felt was right.

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Lawful Neutral

As you may have noticed in Michelle's question, despite a bunch of effort on my end I did not get to know Michelle as well as I could. Michelle's devotion to jesus and religion was more important than playing in a game with a basis in lying and deception, so she is Lawful Good.




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Chaotic Neutral

This description just had Yul written all over it for me. I don't see Yul as specifically evil or good, as he had shown qualities of both, in general Yul does whatever he wants. His methods though are chaotic and at often times, overly complicated. Over strategizing and thinking ended up messing up Yul's game.

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Lawful Evil


Sierra is someone who has her limits and follows the rules but everything she does is for her own personal or self-gain, hence being evil. She loves the blindside and making those big moves.

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Neutral Evil

It's difficult to distinguish between a lawful evil or a neutral evil in the context of this game. Eric is willing to do anything to get ahead in the game.

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Lawful Neutral

For a more game related reason than Michelle, Kim wants to follow rules and protect those loyal to her, but not at her own expense.

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True Neutral

Jeremiah embodies this, he has no loyalty to anyone and does not concern himself with Good or Bad, he simply focuses on what will get him further

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Chaotic Evil


Amanda Z loves chaos and is malcious in her desires to destroy everyone

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Chaotic Neutral


Heather has a chaotic neutral style like Yul, she tended to overthink things both to her detriment and to her benefit and her chaotic actions would annoy people in the game.

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True Neutral

I think he actually played this game very similarly to Jeremiah, but Jeremiah did it quite a lot better

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Lawful Evil


Amanda follows a sense of morality, but uses that to justify evil moves, such as blindsiding Kim.

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Neutral Good


I don't believe in screwing over people who are with me and on my side, in that I consider myself Good. I like to have my cake and eat it too, I want to make it to the end at all costs without breaking my word or destroying friendships along the way.




 
   
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Post #5: 25th Aug 2015 2:23:18 AM 
erik you missed 2 questions 0:)
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Post #6: 25th Aug 2015 2:50:03 AM 
Yeah, there's a few questions from your thread and I think Michelle's that I haven't gotten to yet. I'll make sure to answer them tomorrow before I even look at the new posts <3
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Post #7: 25th Aug 2015 8:27:51 PM 
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1. Rank your most important social relationships (at least 3) in this game and explain how they helped you get here.


Number one has to be Kim. I was grouped into the pregame alliance of all of the Twisted players and we were all basically right on the same alliance. I was able to ride with them until the switch, where I voted Kim out, only to then have her come back in, on my tribe. After I was saved by the idol, she approached me for an alliance and I accepted after getting to know her better. We kept targets off of each other for a pretty good amount of time and I may not be here without her. Then again, idk how hard she was trying to keep the target off of me, but she was definitely an important person to make a connection with, even if it wasn't my initial idea.

Next one is probably Yul. Through him, we exchanged a bit of info between our tribes, and when we were put onto a tribe together with Zmanda, I didn't know Zmanda too well, and Yul was kind of the fury road that connected Zmanda's metropolis with running water and badass vehicles and my once thriving oasis that has since been abandoned and is unmanly (God I need to see Mad Max again). He is the captain who put essentially put together the last tribes with the ambassador and the challenge throw. My relationship with him dictated my Intel on his initial tribe and how most of the premerge went for me.

Another one has to be Zmanda. Even though she claims that one of the reasons why she saved me twice was because she had different targets in mind, but you still used things that could have bought you two extra rounds just to get rid of people that you wanted out more than me, even though you could have sat on it and made a move after I was gone (at least in the second instance). I can literally say that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her, and even though we butted heads a bit towards the end, that doesn't undo all of the shit that happened between us.

I obviously have to also give shout outs to Michelle to having to deal with my bickering, which admittedly, can get overbearing, and for trading candies that led to an idol that ultimately saved my ass. Same with Sierra, who also supplied candies, whom I had a decent relationship with before hand. Last one has to be my girl Heather, even though you probably hate me, but some of the candies ultimately came from you, and we had a fairly good relationship with each other throughout most of the game. Plus you were my midnight shift buddy, and you helped pass the time at my work more times than I can count.

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2. Assign yourselves and everyone on the jury to an alignment (like, the D&D kind), and explain why you put each person there. Brief descriptions of each.


Erik- Chaotic neutral. I tried to keep promises that I made and be myself when talking to people, but I'm incredibly unorganized (didn't even have a boot order to save myself in case I didn't vote), I pissed quite a few people off with impulsive decisions (Eric, Kim, Heather), and I played more emotionally. I was aiming for true neutral or lawful neutral, but I aimed at that area of the character chart and the wind curved the bullet more to the far side.

Kmanda- Lawful neutral. She seemed to have her own relative set of rules that she followed, and while I did initially think of her as neutral good or lawful good, there was that whole Kim boot, and although that was a smart move for her and clearly difficult for her to do, she still voted one of her closest friends put of the game, and that took her down a notch morally for me.

Jerri- True neutral. Although she clearly had a sense of right and wrong, and she did bring Kmanda to the end mainly out of respect, she still made deals and broke deals out of her own self interest, she definitely put some spice into the game but had some sort of code, and made some moves that, in her mind made sense, but seemed questionable at best at the time (publicly calling Kim out and then using her exile to get Zmanda's idol isolated. It makes sense, but at the tome, everyone thought her mind was being covered by aluminum foil and seemed to make a lot of moves that isolated a lot of people out of impulse (Mike).

Heather- Chaotic neutral. Me and her were in the same boat almost the entire game. We sometimes made irrational decisions off of impulse. People didn't trust us very much with information because they were afraid of what we would do with it. Plus, like me, we were one of the people who let the slippery fish slide out of our hands. Posted Image

Zmanda- Chaotic evil. She said extremely rude things and stirred up trouble mainly because she enjoyed it. Calling people cunts and impulsively discussing the distribution of currency to the Mexican hwritage. She was all over the place. And she loved every second of it.

Jeremiah- True neutral. He was a nice and genuine dude to talk to. He was fairly loyal and usually kept promises. That being said, he backstabbed people plenty of times. He almost always got away with it. And he was always in the middle of everytuing. Makes sense that he would be in the middle of the chart as well.

Kim- Neutral good. Maybe she still has me cast under her spell, but she was always the coolest motherfucker and super nice. Gameplay wise, she was able to get everyone to defend her until the day that they died, including me, and she usually rewarded them for it. Granted, she probably would have eventually cut me out of the game, but she would have enough social grace that I probably wouldn't even care.

Eric- Neutral evil. You put yourself first and did anything to get ahead, whether that was lying about Mike giving you his candy, initially lying about Mike's idol, and generally just speaking for other people. Part of this also comes from Twisted too.

Sierra- Lawful evil. Was ruthless and disregarded anything she had done to get her to that point and voted based off of strategy, rather than loyalty and emotion. She seemed to have guidelines, but there was clearly a dictator who put those in order, rather than a Congress or a Monarch.

Yul- Chaotic neutral. He is pretty disorganized and can be pretty paranoid, but he does try to help other people as long as he is completely safe in doing so. Tends to overthink and go all in and a pair of 4s. But can occasionally pull off a successful round to rake in the chips and will lend some people aces out of his pocket.

Michelle- Neutral good. From what I was able to gather from your game, you were insanely loyal, low key, made promises you intended on keeping, and offered a hand when people were on the edge of a cliff, rather than watch in horror or jump on their arms.

Ronnie- Lawful good. You were definitely like this in Twisted and from what Jerri has said, it definitely seems you played similarly in this game, but just had more luck and more power in Twisted. You put the needs of others before you.

Shontayla- Before the merge, I always though you were like a neutral or neutral good. But after hearing a bit more from other people and the other two wonderful people I am up against, it's clear that you're not what I thought. So I'll split this one up, just in case I'm far off. My perception- True neutral. Everyone else's- Chaotic evil.

Hope this answers your questions, Kim! Sorry it took so long, I was walking around my college campus :P hahaha just messing around.
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Post #8: 25th Aug 2015 8:43:02 PM 
in flip flops?
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Post #9: 25th Aug 2015 9:06:15 PM 
it's my fault Eric lied about the candy :(
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Post #10: 25th Aug 2015 9:23:37 PM 
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Post #11: 25th Aug 2015 9:37:23 PM 
Duh I was in flip flops. You think I would wear tennis shoes on the first day of school? Pathetic.
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Post #12: 26th Aug 2015 2:59:35 AM 
Ok Kim, few things before answering your questions.

Yes I am fully aware that your relationships with Zmanda and Sierra helped me hugely, especially at the merge. I understand that you were trying to help us stay safe from when the Twisted alliance was inevitably going to crumble. I remember bringing up with you how I felt bad I was basically relying on your relationships with others and relationships by proxy. I wanted to try relying on myself a bit more which lead me to talk a lot more to Jeremiah, and even to an EXTENT Jerri and Heather. I wasn't making finals deals with them or anything but I just wanted to be on good terms so I wasn't going to be their first target, and also hopefully not their second.

But I think the term "casually knifed" isn't even close to fair. I didn't just wake up one day and figure "oh, Kim is doing super well and I'm not. Maybe it's a good time to vote her out." I'll get to the details of what I was thinking in your questions and probably some others, but it wasn't exactly an easy decision after everything you've done for me in this game and outside of it, and I'm sure you know that. This game had been a weird one for me to say the least, definately not my usual play style. However, my usual play style results in me getting final juror or worse. Not saying I came into this game thinking I needed to be a hardcore stratbot to win, but I still remember something you said about me in your pregame Good and Evil 9 confessional that has stuck with me since.

(Would quote this but on an iPad/mobile so um no lol)
I have all the tools of being a good player, but I don't have that cutthroat instinct of a winner.

So that thought has always been in my mind in any game I've played since. It sucks a lot that the first game I decide to act upon that is this one, in this series which tends to make me do weird things and react in weird ways, and against you of all people. My confessionals started to look like a mess in the later rounds which EVERYONE will get to see. I DO also think the timing was as good as I could have done it, because I made the move with the goal of a F3 with some combo of Jerri, Erik, and Heather, which I achieved. If we voted out Erik that round instead of me voting you, that was one less beatable person I could have in the end.

But enough of that, time to answer your actual questions.

1. The thought of voting you out probably first came the round BEFORE Sierra was eliminated (so when Mike was?). There wasn't anything specifically that happened that round to make me think of it, it was just me thinking and coming to that realization. However that was just me being concerned, I wasn't LEGITIMATELY considering voting you out until the Eric getting eliminated night, which I'll get to address more in Zamanda's question. I finally settled on the idea of voting you out literally the day it happened, after talking to Jeremiah that afternoon. I told you when I finished dinner and saw that you were awake. As far as the not talking to you part, that didn't actually have anything to do game wise (at least I don't think?). At first it was me just being a bit awkward because the night Eric getting eliminated I was concerned with some of the stuff you were telling me about being threatened into joining an F3, how if I said no Zamanda would vote me and guilt you into voting me (right after I told you I wasn't sure about sticking with you to the end). However I never stopped talking because I figured I would vote you out and there was no point, I just assumed it was a lull period and you were doing other stuff and were too busy to talk or something, swear. And yeah the tipping point was 100% Eric going up and the events leading up to it with Zamanda. And as awful as it probably sounds yes, I took you seriously when you said to vote you out first over Zamanda. I wrote about it in my confessional being mad this was the way it was going to go because I promised you it would if this situation ever came up. I would have MUCH rather voted out Zamanda first because it meant I wasn't going to be attacked for the round after (which I assumed would happen) and then obviously you would still be in the game. Jerri and Heather had asked initially if I would vote Zamanda because they didnt think I would vote you, and I literally told them I was ok with voting for you instead which caused the vote to switch. It would have been incredibly crappy of me to lie about that initially and honestly pretty cowardly, which I hoped you didn't think I was. I think it would have been just as easy to vote you out later, if not easier, than Zamanda, because you were extremly social and not prickly, PLUS Heather and Jerri still would have been trying to get rid of you, and I'm sure Jeremiah still would have.

2. This is actually a pretty interesting question because you not coming back into the game would probably have affected the pre-merge pretty heavily too, changing what the merge landscape would be like. However, for this scenario I'll say everything is mostly the same with the people left, except instead of you coming back it was the person who came in 3rd in Los Muertos. Julie. I 100% would have tried getting back together with Julie again after Epic 3. She knows I can be a great ally to have and (usually) am pretty honest about her with stuff. She had great relationships (to my knowledge) with people like Sierra, Jerri, and Eric. So I think it could have helped me hugely to align with her. As far as everything else, I for sure still would have tried making bonds of some sort with Zmanda and Sierra, although I don't think they would have been quite as strong. I know at least Zmanda liked me to a degree so it probably wouldn't have been the hardest thing in the world. I don't think it would be ridiculous to replace you with Julie in a lot of the situations that happened throughout the merge. I still would have tried branching out because inevitably the twisted alliance was going to fall. I MAY also have tried harder aligning with Jerri and Heather? If the Zmanda and Sierra plan was not going to work then I think I had a legit shot to infiltrate that grouping with Jeremiah, who was already a part of it.

3. No.

Like legit no. I want to win and it'll be great if I do, but still no. Forever I will still have at least a little bit of doubt in my mind that you will never trust me again, whether it be in a game or just as a person. I tend to be pretty insecure relationship wise and even still now I'm worried that we aren't/never will be 100% ok between the 2 of us. Next time we play together and all the times after that I'm going to be worried. If you want to vote me out because I'm a threat, that's fine (well "fine") and I would understand. I'm more worried that the relationship we had before the game, which was great and involved me trying to talk to you during my 10 random minutes of wifi every few hours while on vacation, may not be the same. Even now that I've been away doing stuff for uni it's been weird not talking as much. 

OTHER QUESTIONS

1. Relationships (I do find it funny btw that the question I tend to default to when being a juror is being asked to me rn)

1. Kim (you)

Shouldn't be a giant suprise. Like I have said I recognize that you helped me a lot in the beginning of the merge by having those initial relationships with Zamanda and Sierra. Strategically we talked about pretty much everything up until your boot round. We were a pair and we work together well in basically every situation I have seen thus far (that doesn't involve a blockbuster F11 vote). You were a giant part of my game which was one of the reasons why it was so hard to eliminate you.

2. Jeremiah

Probably one of the best decisions I made early on in a merge was to come and try aligning with someone I had hardly talked to earlier. Cut-throat yet still loyal to allies up until he sees they can hurt his own game. He had relationships with Jerri, Heather, and Sierra and kept me in the loop to whatever they were doing. I'm sure he would have tried voting me out EVENTUALLY, because like me I'm sure he saw the easiest way to win was with some combo of Jerri, Erik, and Heather in the end. Despite that he was still really important to my game.

3. Jerri

Probably one of the weirder relationships I've had because of how quickly it formed. I had talked to her a bit leading up until F7 so we did have a pre-existing relationship, but after I wrote my Fan Fiction and decided to vote Kim we got really close. She gave me her immunity necklace and obviously brought me here to the FTC by voting out 2 allies she has had the entire merge, Jeremiah and Heather, because she didn't want me to get Final juror again (although I'm sure she had other reason for doing it).

4. Eric

I can't not include Eric on this list because we are also extremly close and talk a TON of game together. We were pretty much 100% open with eachother about everything game wise and he also had relationships with Mike and to an extent Heather. Just out of everyone else listed he didn't have as GREAT of relationships, especially because he ended up looking like a giant threat after round 1.

Yul: Chaotic Evil

Tends to do whatever is best for himself in games and does whatever he can in order to put himself in as good of a spot as possible. Generally when that happens it is Yul calling the shots, making himself the leader of a group like earlier in the season. Even though it seemed like a stretch round 1, he tried getting out Eric because he was a huge threat and bad for Yul's own game. 

Michelle: True Neutral

I probably talked to you the most out of the people in the FTC and I'm STILL not 100% sure. I feel like you are a player who makes the decisions she feels like she needs to make to win, but often times you do try to uphold some of code of conduct. You pick whatever side helps you the most but still tries your best to stay true to whatever alliances you have made. 

Shontayla: Chaotic Evil?

One of the bigger regrets I have in games in general, especially towards the end, is that I don't talk to people nearly enough. Shontayla is certainly one of these such examples because we were hardly able to talk. This rating is based on the public stuff I have seen so far (with the artis question making. *cringes*) and also the fact Shont went for SO long on that Los Muertos endurance comp. She was watching out for persona numera uno, herself, and did some unorthodox stuff to make it that way.

Ronnie: Lawful Good

Makes alliance and will rid or die with them. Definitely has a strong moral code and I don't see Ronnie turning on any friends or allies any time soon. He definitely is a team player and while like any good player watches out for himself, he tries to look out for the group as well and as much as he can. 

Sierra: Lawful Evil

Sierra is another example of someone I wished I talked with more, but just didn't get the chance to. Sierra is very cunning and is going to do what she can do make herself win the game. She had her many alliances and wasn't afraid to lie to allies when she needed to. At the same time, everything she did was calculated and carefully considered. 

Eric: Chaotic Good

Now USUALLY this is not Eric's play style, but in THIS game he was ride or die with a group and did whatever he could to make what he wanted to happen happen. In this game he didn't really have the opportunity to practice orthodox moves and was very much just trying to make it by round by round. Rarely did he do anything for solely his own benefit and often times he was trying to make big moves to help his entire team.

Kim: True Neutral

Yeah, the same as Ivy (although I think it works better here). Kim was never just stuck on one side of the house/game. At all times she was trying to navigate her way to the end while still trying to avoid doing anything super crazy. While everything was calculated, the moves Kim made were also driven by emotion. She wants to help whoever she can and however she can as long as it doesn't hurt her game too much. 

Jeremiah: Neutral Evil

Jeremiah was always looking out for himself whenever he had the chance to flip. He would try aligning with people and when the time was right flip on them. Everything he did was calculated but he isn't lawful per day because there was no one in particular he tried to stay loyal to the entire time. I'm sure even me he would have tried eliminating in the end if he had the chance to do it, but he was never going to make a major spectacle, hence being neutral.

Zamanda: Up until the Kim boot round: Lawful Evil. AFTER Kim got eliminated: Chaotic Evil

While Zamanda was looking out for herself, she did try to remain calculated and try to stay loyal to people when she felt like she could, such as Kim, Sierra, and myself. When she realized Sierra may not want to work with Kim and I, she made the decision to cut an ally. Once I betrayed that trust and voted Kim out, the gloves came off and Zamanda did some unorthodox strategies to try and get all the votes aimed at her so she could idol and get rid of Jeremiah. As a player I don't think Zamanda was chaotic, but as the person she certainly ended up being chaotic. 

Heather: Chaotic Netural

I think Heather had the goal to remain loyal to Mike for a lot of the game, but then circumstances came up where she felt like she simply could not do that anymore. Without playing truly for just herself or just for the group for the entire game, Heather is neutral and she did moves she felt like were necessary to put her in a good spot, like throwing her vote, even if it didn't seem like the most strategically sound thing to do.

Erik: Chaotic Neutral

Erik never really had a side to choose because he seemed like such an outcast. At first he tried to do what was best for his game, but even that became hard when he started to lose confidence in it. His gameplay was certainly sporadic not staying true to any specific person and doing weird moves like trying to throw his vote.

Jerri: Chaotic Good

Jerri tried to stay true to allies when they would stay true to her, and she still made the moves necessary to help herself and her allies, even if they didn't seem like the best strategic move (taking me to the end) or the move itself was very over the top (voting out Jeremiah).

Kamanda: Chaotic Neutral

Up until I voted out Kim I think I had been rocking my Neutral Good game, staying true to allies and not doing anything super crazy but still keep my options open. When I voted Kim out, that was obviously a super big move and one that was not in line with a good alignment because it involved voting out an ally and someone who trusted me. The reason why it isn't listed as evil is because I didn't spend the entire game just looking out for myself and that was it, I really did try to look out for allies and do what I could to help. It wasn't until later where I started making moves that would benefit my game more than most others, so I tried to average the 2 out. 
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