The Syndicate

Sorry for the multiple posts....I kept getting errors...so started trying doing line by line...then finally figured out that it just didn't like smilies. So...MP, the site doesn't like smilies right now.

And what you said earlier about games like this is totally true--we say horrible things, stab people in the back, savagely murder them, but then are totally friends after. Mafia: make great friends and then murder them in cold blood. Also, I never had any actual hard feelings. Any anything I said in Ponderosa was still in game. As a player, I didn't want you to win because your vote cost me the game. So I was saying what I could do try to sway votes against you (unsuccessfully). As a person, I didn't feel that way at all. And I'm really looking forward to playing games with you!

Scotty: Great game!!!!! I felt bad pointing out errors, but thank you for letting me know I wasn't seeing things that weren't there or misremembering. Especially in the final picture challenge, where I spent way too much time trying to figure out what word that could be before realizing that a letter was off. And thanks for fixing mistakes, letting me also have a shower despite the 14 seconds off that I was since I had no way of knowing that it was more than a minute, and being generally patient with me.

As for INH, yeah--we figured out your role. I don't remember who or when, exactly, but in discussing in BTSC, we figured out that had to be your role, so that's probably how Golden knew. It's how I figured it out. And, yeah--had you told me, I would have felt very different about the whole thing.

@Quin: Another factor is that because of your role, I think people also stayed away from even consider voting for you because there was an assumption you might have more idols. Not a direct result of the role, but a factor in why people left you alone, I think. At least a factor in why I left you alone. I can't speak for anyone else. I do think you totally deserved to be there in the end, though.

Congrats, Opt!! Well won. I did consider voting you in the end, for what it's worth. You played well and deserved the win.

OK....I wrote a post this morning on my phone, but I keep getting an error message (like, all day) so not finally typing it on computer.

EBWOP: Oh, and by the way, Lucille was delicious.

Opt: I'm not mad at you for voting for me. Nor do I feel particularly betrayed. However, I wish you'd stop saying that you did it to keep things fair--you did it because you chose Quin over me, and I really wish you'd just admit that. It's ok--I understand. We all make choices. I stopped trusting you a long time ago. Before the final vote. Before Golden, even. I haven't trusted you since the plate challenge, when you took those you claimed to be your closest allies and took us out before anyone else. At the time, you lied and said you didn't understand how the game worked. But you've now admitted that you knew exactly what you were doing. You wanted to take us out, and you did not want us to have a chance at immunity. Also, you underestimate folks. You say you had to take Golden out because he was such a threat because everyone trusted him. I'm not sure how true that is. Not everyone who says they trust someone actually does--and people ask for BTSC for all kinds of reasons--not just because they trust someone. Often, quite the opposite. I'm also not sure that Golden would have won against you in the end. But we'll never know that.

So, my question for you is, when did you actually decide to take Quin to the end with you?

Quin: You've admitted that you were intentionally unpleasant when we joined your tribe way back when. And you take a lot of credit for taking DH out, because of the perceived threat of his play. I don't think he was actually that threatening. Also, I think you could have easily made that whole thing work without bringing an air of meanness to the thread that didn't need to be there, and I'm not sure ever really went away. Just yesterday, you implied that I didn't really deserve to be there--I know you claim that you didn't mean that, but if you put your posts together, that's exactly what you were implying in your plea to Sorsha to not vote for you.

So, my question for you is, why should I vote for you?

Sorsha: I honestly never thought I'd end up partnering with you at all this game, and I appreciate that you were willing to do so at the end of the game. I know that we were unlikely partners and that had things been different, we'd have never worked toether. And, in the end, had the coin toss been different, I'd be sitting there with you and I fully appreciate that you'd have helped me get there. I also think that your play in this game has been underestimated--I think you did a lot behind the scenes and played a subtle, but strong game.

So, my question for you is, if you could be up there in the final three with any 2 other players, from throughout the entire game, who would they be and why?