The Syndicate

I know who I'm voting for at the end... they just have to get there

It was tails. Sorry elo. If there is ever any way I can help your thirst levels after now I will.

Never mind about btsc... I won't vote for you today.

LoRab and Elo, you both seem low on stuff, but I can only share with one of you.

So, I have predetermined whether heads or tails gets the food. One of you please call.

Me vs Sorsha then?

I did it in 14 minutes Sorsha. Good luck!

OK, so someone thinks they have elo when they don't. Is it me, opt or lorab?

Sorsha wrote:Sure. Anyone else?

It looks like we are getting down to so few people that planning is going out the window without noticing it...

I just realised - if I have Quin and Elo, and Opt has Quin and Elo, that means Sorsha and LoRab by definition only have each other.

Elohcin wrote:My water level s at 3. If it goes to zero, am I out?

Yes, lets not let that happen.

Sorsha wrote:What does color puzzle entail and can I do it on a phone?

I needed paper and a pen

I'm sitting here waiting for scotty to check his PMs....

I really need to get on to the puzzle soon.

Elohcin wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:I'll put myself and quin for strength and golden for puzzle- what else?
I should do the strength challenge. I'm not great with puzzles.

Also, opt, I'd like BTSC with you tonight. Golden too, but your booked, I believe. Maybe I can talk with you again,Lorab. Or possibly Sorsha. Have we even talked yet?

I'm not booked up, I'll go you if you're still free.

As far as puzzle solving goes - I would really appreciate if the reward was food/drink for that. You, Quin and X can fight out immunity.

If I was to win it, I will gladly share my food with whoever needs it as I do not. However, I do ask that whoever gets the drink would share it with me, as thats what I need most urgently.

Quin wrote:Alternatively we could do one thing per day, because I recall 2 not being enough for the fire. Could we put 4 on the shelter, and 2 sick people can go fishing or get water or something?

Water and fish are pointless without fire, but I think two was all we used.

If we go two on fire and four on shelter, we can attend to food and drink needs the following night. I really need water, other than that I'm ok.

Quin wrote:It's a bit of a punch in the face, but otherwise I can understand.

It's a big punch in the face, and I know it.

Quin wrote:I am confused as to how you managed to get BTSC last night, or that's what I'm assuming allowed this at least.

It was during the day not the night. The three of us took the fire to a safe place in the rain.

Quin wrote:I mean, looks like things are starting to happen, I suppose. Can you explain your decision, Golden?

I can, entirely. I'd like you to still take the btsc offer. But, in essence, it amounts to the fact that SVS's turn on LoRab combined with the DH vote made me feel I can't trust her.

I just hope that, if SVS was being genuine with me and not pulling one over on me, she understands later. It's been hurting inside to do it.

Opt... you know I'm one for the puzzle not one for the strength!

If everyone had just come in voting the way we had previously agreed it would have gone fine. I was being honest with everyone! It felt like the same wasn't coming back. I felt threatened by the change in plan.

Golden wrote:I'm follow SVS and vote LoRab

But for the purposes of the jury, I want it to be clear. If I had my way, the vote and discussion would have gone differently today. I feel like my hand has been forced, so to speak, and so I feel like I've made the decision I have to make rather than the one I want to make. I don't personally blame LoRab for voting DF, but it's because SVS does that I'm making the vote I am. SVS is right, this is a game, I have to play it like a game, and sometimes that means making the decision I don't want to make. In this case, a different vote (lets say I went with the idea of voting sorsha) does nothing to amend this tension going forward.

The only part of this that was a lie is who I voted for.

I really hate that I had to make that vote, but I felt like I had no choice. I did not want it to be that way. Not one bit.

Quin wrote:At the very least it beats saying nothing and just letting the host post speak for me. Even if I sound mean.

I feel guilty either way. I mean, I feel so guilty about today's vote. It's just that I felt I had no real option, you know? It's not what I would have done if I had a choice.

Quin - I'll grab you and SVS for btsc tomorrow?

Opt_Outside wrote:If I'm a captain tomorrow... pls forgive me for any challenging decisions I have to make! I will do my best!

Smash someone else's plate! Actually is it too late to vote for quin?

Quin wrote:I have to vote and I want to be open about my feelings.

I actually really appreciate that

Scotty wrote:
Golden wrote:Plus I think there is only you and me here, anyway.
Nah, I'm here.

And night will end at midnight PST, in a little over an hour. Should be on pacific until the end of the game.

I can't keep up.

Here's the thing...

I promised LoRab final 5, and I thought that it would be a done deal. It's a promise I did not make to Elo. I would have come in today and voted Elo, because I didn't make such a deal with her. That's what I was expecting to do, honestly.

But at this point, I'm not willing to suddenly turn it on Elo. She's not even here. And I'd like to keep working with her tomorrow.

Plus I think there is only you and me here, anyway.

Gah, this now gets into the territory of alienating people for tomorrow. If you turn things on Elo, is LoRab going to feel any better? If things stay LoRab, is elo going to feel any better?

If there was a genuine willingness to go another direction I think that needed to be raised ages ago. I think night was supposed to end half an hour ago (but I'm losing track of Scotty time).

Elohcin wrote:Who is this jury, I wonder? The dead, I guess. Is this how it works on the show? Those voted off pick the winner?

Correct. Notsawyer when voted out, it said he was the first member of the jury. So everyone since then.

Elohcin wrote:So at some point a jury begins to pick us off one by one?

No, but when we get down to 3 or maybe 2, they vote for which of us wins, most probably.

S~V~S wrote:so at this point, I think you should do what makes you most comfortable.

I agree, elo. Go with your conscience.

Go good grammar golden!

I'm follow SVS and vote LoRab

But for the purposes of the jury, I want it to be clear. If I had my way, the vote and discussion would have gone differently today. I feel like my hand has been forced, so to speak, and so I feel like I've made the decision I have to make rather than the one I want to make. I don't personally blame LoRab for voting DF, but it's because SVS does that I'm making the vote I am. SVS is right, this is a game, I have to play it like a game, and sometimes that means making the decision I don't want to make. In this case, a different vote (lets say I went with the idea of voting sorsha) does nothing to amend this tension going forward.

Opt_Outside wrote:I don't know, y'all... I'm about to flip a coin or something lol. But I'm not voting for sorsha.

Who will you flip a coin between?

S~V~S wrote:Alliances are going to be discarded eventually anyhow. And I feel how I feel about the actions of others, and I have never been one to pull punches.

You're completely right. And I knew it was coming. I even said something of the like to Elo when I last had btsc with her, that the time was coming when any vote was a betrayal.

It just doesn't make the vote fun. I admire that you've been willing to be up front about your vote and why. Funnily enough, you and LoRab seem to be less phased about things than the rest of us

Elohcin wrote:I hate that there is controversy going on. I see both sides as valid.

This is how I feel as well.

Opt and quin are both admirable captains. I'll make it a fair fight.

I don't really like the way today has gone down. I wish btsc was possible. As it isn't, I feel a bit hamstrung.

S~V~S wrote:Poison doesn't seem like a natural occurrence. Poison is something done to you. Even food poisoning is a sickness, not being poisoned as I think of it.

Maybe but it sounds intentional to me. Except it's two people.

In any case no doctor no medication oh well.

Yes. Nothing we can do but keep fingers crossed and maybe a reward challenge or some other treatment. That's three of us.

S~V~S wrote:...would do that?

(Sorry on phone in bed hit submit instead of full editor)

It was probably something to do with the rainstorm and the fire going out.

Quin wrote:Golden and LoRab, were you both told you were 'poisoned' specifically? Or could you just be sick from the rain?

I was poisoned. Not food poisoned. Like, inh poisoned.

Oh captain my captain

Quin wrote:Also, if it was raining, why the hell did we need to go to the well anyway? Surely we could have just stood in the rain with our mouths open.

Lol

Opt_Outside wrote:
Golden wrote:I've been poisoned.
What?? I don't think anyone left has that ability... could it have been a random game thing?

Probably. Maybe from going out in the rain. I hope I at least got some water from travelling to the well.

It could be something to do with the fire going out too, which might have been the rain.

I wonder who would have poisoned me?

I've been poisoned.

Well done Opt. The vote for you as a challenge beast was not misplaced lol.

I can't know everything, but I know LoRab has never petitioned me to get either DF or SVS out.

Love the avatar SVS!

Serious true story - there was a guy named Des back on RM that was so much fun and we all loved him. Then one day he just vanished. He'd been talking excitedly about what he was going to do the next day, he never showed back up ever. None of us had him on FB or anything yet. I'm still haunted by the thought that he died years later. I wish I knew!

Quin wrote:
Golden wrote:
Quin wrote:I had a terrible thought this morning that this had started while I was asleep (i didn't check for it) and I would wake up a dead man.
I forgot what thread this was for a moment. I'm glad you just mean in the game. And I'm glad that didn't happen too!
Yes, I am also glad I didn't die in real life. That would have set me pretty far back in this game, I think.

You might have won. We would have felt awful voting you out after you died.

Quin wrote:I had a terrible thought this morning that this had started while I was asleep (i didn't check for it) and I would wake up a dead man.

I forgot what thread this was for a moment. I'm glad you just mean in the game. And I'm glad that didn't happen too!

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