The Syndicate

I agree that the seven we have left need to be ready to stay strong. I really think we're at a tribe swap so we need to protect each other and hold our numbers or we'll get picked off

Oh lord. I left my phone at home while I was at work. Well this got busy! Just caught up. For the record no one has chosen charcoal at the beginning of the day so I selected that one as a choice, not because I was already there. We literally don't even know what the rocks do so taking any of them is a total gamble anyway- we have no information. Glad you guys worked it out...

DharmaHelper wrote:I'm just saying this so that "Drop Your Buffs" will be the next episode's title.

Jeff i swear to God if I hear you say "Drop your Buffs" I'm gonna lose it

I have a feeling that's what the rocks are going to be determining- new tribes.

All right- how about I give my fish to golden, wilgy gives his to speed, and insert gives his to DH? Unless Elo speaks up and needs one. Who said what isn't really important as long as everyone gets fed

I'm happy to give my fish to whoever needs it. Just give me a holler

Unfortunately, I thought it'd come down to luck of the dice

Sounds like long con is there strength guy, which could be good to know. Sorry I didn't win for the team, but we all fought well.

DharmaHelper wrote:
LoRab wrote:Also, can someone tell me what order to do my moves in. I don't have time to think through the strategy of it.
Here are some good ideas:
Balance: High, Block, Low, Block, Block, High, Block, Low
Balance 2: Low, Block, High, Block, High, Block, Low, Block
Aggro 1: High, Low, Block, High, Block, Low, Block, Block
Aggro 2: High, High, Block, Low, Block, Low, Block, Block
Full Aggro: High, High, Low, Low, Block, Block, Block, Block
Reserve: Low, High, Block, High, Block, Block, Block, Low

Chuck went with Balance #1 and I went with Reserve. If you want to follow Golden's view that we should diversify, I'd pick an Aggro option.

I already took aggro 2 as well

Golden wrote:Also, as much as I'm enjoying writing here about Survivor Mafia, I now have to go write about actual Survivor so that my blog is done during the weekend. I'll pop in when I get moments.

Hilarious that our tribe is called Mamana and one of theirs is Mana

I'll do aggro 2 and it looks like I'm up first. Jeff edited the challenge and there's an order already posted

My moves will be high, high, block, low, block, low, block

And sounds good, Golden. I'll stick with fishing.

Golden wrote:Cheers opt. I think two might be enough fishing for now. Although, actually, with your strength you might be a good fisher?

Should I slot in 7th for the challenge? I know that's the 'winner take all slot', but maybe we'll have it done before I have to compete?

Either that or maybe we want to put our strong players last? Not sure.

Well.. I thought Wilgy was fishing but now he's going to the water well instead? I don't really think we need three people there... so right now there are only two of us fishing and three at the well. If wilgy changes back to fishing I can go to the footbridge. I don't particularly think I'd get a strength advantage fishing, but I'm happy to stay and try if that's what you guys prefer!

I'm really not fussed either way- I'm happy to keep fishing or check out the footbridge. Whatever the tribe would like me to do.

Golden wrote:Maybe I should do the footbridge. It shouldn't take too much energy and if it's possible we could get 'treatment' there.

But I can't even understand the concept for how you 'treat' food poisoning... in the real world even.

Golden, if you want to nap I can check out the footbridge. Then we'd still have two fishing and two getting water

I moved off fire if it's a one man duty and will fish, unless we'd prefer I get water with two people already fishing

Also moved to help stoke the fire to make sure we can all eat

I've got 17 energy. My advantage could either be very helpful or the luck of the rolls could be bad (I get a d8 and d10). I'm happy to go first or toward the front. I like aggro 1 and 2.

Yup, I think I'd go offense rather than defense on this one

My first thought is that I'll use all four of my hits in a row and hope that I can knock him out right away

Let's talk about strategy of how we should order these hits/blocks

I'll definitely do this challenge. I've got an advantage that I'll roll d8 and d10 for more powerful hits

Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:Golden and DH- I think we were slated to do btsc tonight?
Correct. We must be effectively having a three way because I'm on with dh as well.

Wilgy, I'm glad you survived. You're still just fine in my book.

To wilgy and everyone else FTR- it's all game talk for me. No real life shade meant whatsoever and I'm sure you're lovely

Golden and DH- I think we were slated to do btsc tonight?

DharmaHelper wrote:The footbridge is new, I like new shit. I'm gonna do that.

Caught my eye too so I'll see you there!

I have a feeling that we're going to have to do this every other night when there isn't immunity unfortunately...

I feel like we should keep players around who want to be here and have a competitive edge...

DrWilgy wrote:I am not silenced nor exiled! I shall not cower in the face of my opposers!

...though how unlucky for me to receive these votes :^(

You call my loyalty a concern when I strafed from my own moral compass for the tribe?

All of you who question my loyalty are cowards running from the fact that we are forced to make choices that may be against what we want, but are for the sake of our tribe.

I have no fear in voting Boomslang. I feel that his opposition to DH is unwarranted, and I'm glad to have DH on my team.

Now... I go back to being unlucky :^)

Well I'm certainly not a coward, thanks. Just stating the facts of what you said and what it means. I think questioning authority is healthy. Not super helpful to not check in when you were in question and let the tribe think you'd been silenced.

speedchuck wrote:Wait, he's gone, right? Shoot.

He'll be back tonight before the vote ends

I definitely dont have a silencing ability and I don't really feel like that would be an aspect of this game. I've got no problem with Wilgy and I'm sorry that he's sick, but Boomslang feels like an intelligent player to me. I feel like he'll be an asset to our tribe so I'm not going to vote for him. I'm sorry we have to vote anyone out at all when there wasn't even an immunity challenge

Any ideas on what this night poll is going to do for us?

Hmm, a lot to think on here. I feel like good points were made about Wilgy. I'm sure he's a great guy but the hesitance for tribe loyalty does throw a big red flag for me, since cracks in a group alliance can be the biggest downfall in survivor.

DharmaHelper wrote:Coin flip be damned, I guess?

Wow. Well I guess we made the right choice with black rocks. Upon further reading, it was only if we tied in points that there would be a coin flip. Technically, neither of us scored a point so no one got the reward. He did say that, I just didn't read it carefully. At least they didn't get anything either and they didn't fool us. Even one yellow rock and we would have lost the challenge and still come out empty handed. So good job everyone for making the right decision!

We're making the right decision with all black rocks. If our team picks ALL black rocks and they do ANYTHING except pick all black rocks, we win. If both teams choose all black rocks, it's a coin flip. Even in that scenario, we'd still have made the right choice because if we took any yellow they would win and we wouldn't even get the food. It's the safest bet all the way around.

Okay, day 4 is still a ways away so tonight I've got Elo and insertname and I think let's just take it day at a time after that

DharmaHelper wrote:
Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:
Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:
Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:Elo I'll BTSC with you too!

Anyone else want to chat with me tonight?
Me! I already picked you last night.
Ah shoot! I committed to INH and Elo. Unless Elo made other plans, want to do night 3?
I'm now booked up for night three.
You mean you're booked including me or not including me?
Excluding, I have dh and speed. I wonder if someone else is ok bumping?
You can bump me if you'd like.

Opt_Outside, would you be willing to talk with me for Day 3? Seems like an amicable compromise.

Yeah that's great! So I've got INH and Elo tomorrow, DH and Golden day 3

Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:
Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:Elo I'll BTSC with you too!

Anyone else want to chat with me tonight?
Me! I already picked you last night.
Ah shoot! I committed to INH and Elo. Unless Elo made other plans, want to do night 3?
I'm now booked up for night three.

You mean you're booked including me or not including me?

DharmaHelper wrote:I'm reluctant to change, but I think I will with the caveat that *everyone* agrees to go black rocks. As it's been said, black rocks'll give us at worst 50% chance of winning.

I'm down to push it to a coin flip if everyone else is.

I'm down to do all black rocks if everyone is in.

Golden wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:Elo I'll BTSC with you too!

Anyone else want to chat with me tonight?
Me! I already picked you last night.

Ah shoot! I committed to INH and Elo. Unless Elo made other plans, want to do night 3?

DharmaHelper wrote:
Opt_Outside wrote:Okay so I'm here thinking- give a man a fish he eats for a day. Get some fishing gear we eat all game. So I kind of feel like we should do 5 black 4 yellow and push for a win. So maybe one of the yellow should switch? I can if no one else wants to/ everyone would be okay with that
I like your initiative. If you want to switch, go for it. I'm not comfortable with switching myself.

Okay I'll switch. If we win I'm happy to use the fishing gear the first time to fish for the tribe and not myself!

So then we just need to hear from Elo and Golden who would in theory take black rocks?

Updated Pick List:

YELLOW
- DharmaHelper
- speedchuck
- INH
- Wilgy

BLACK
- Boomslang
- Lorab
- Opt
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-

Okay so I'm here thinking- give a man a fish he eats for a day. Get some fishing gear we eat all game. So I kind of feel like we should do 5 black 4 yellow and push for a win. So maybe one of the yellow should switch? I can if no one else wants to/ everyone would be okay with that

DharmaHelper wrote:Can someone who is more familiar with Survivor than I please clarify why this isn't an immunity challenge/if we have Tribal tonight alongside the other tribe?

It's unusual but not unheard of for us to go to tribal without a challenge. Anything can happen in survivor

Guys it's okay to pick black! We won't think you're selfish. We need it for the sake of the team.

Also, Elo this is assuming you'll take my btsc offer?

DharmaHelper wrote:At LoRab's suggestion, please copy/paste this list with your decision.

YELLOW
- Opt
- DharmaHelper
-
-

BLACK
-
-
-
-
-

Sounds good. I'll wait until we finalize the list to make sure there are no mistakes and then I'll PM yellow, Elo, and insertname to scotty

I would propose 4 yellow and 5 black. I'm happy to take a yellow to show I genuinely think it's in tribe's best interest, not mine

DharmaHelper wrote:
Boomslang wrote:Man... with no chance to talk to the other team, this gets very difficult very quickly. Consider the following: they're probably angry at us for winning immunity yesterday, and picking black rocks would be a way for them to get revenge. On the other hand, they have fewer people to gather food, and so may hope to boost their chances by getting food from the challenge.

We have the numbers advantage now; we need food handouts less than they do. If they go all black, and we pick even one yellow rock, we get nothing. Given the lack of ability to establish trust, I'd vote to go all black.

But wait: Scotty, are picks revealed one by one in thread?
I'm gonna level with you. Picking all black is tempting, but not the way to go. As I said earlier, this is the prisoner's dilemma. The best way to solve the PD is to pick the that benefits both parties, rather than risking penalizing both parties.

If you're set on not doing all black rocks, I say we at least split it half and half. Then we'll still get food for the whole tribe but we'll also hopefully score some points
I say we all pick yellow rocks, if the pick black rocks so be it.

Linki:

If we decide to go half and half, I know Long Con well enough to know he'll pick yellow so I'll do the same for him.

If you're set on not doing all black, I say we at least do half and half. That way we'll get food for the tribe but also hopefully score some points

Okay I definitely dont think we should all do yellow. It's impossible for us to win that way. I agree that maybe half and half is the better way to go but I think it would be great to win that fishing gear. Then we won't have to rely on reward to get food.

Elo I'll BTSC with you too!

Anyone else want to chat with me tonight?

Elohcin wrote:So...Opt Out....is this your first Mafia game? Or first on this site maybe? I've not seen you around.

Yeah! I posted on the day 0 page but should have posted on this one too. It's my first mafia and first time on this site so I'm still getting the hang on things. But I'm a big fan of survivor!

Golden wrote:One thing DH has perhaps not seen enough Survivor to be aware of is that every season these days has a swap before the merge... that means we are likely to be split up. We just need to be ready and have a plan for whatever comes.

VERY true. Especially if we continue to win challenges because we'll be out numbering the other team. There could likely be a reshuffle and we might even split into three tribes. I don't think we need to worry about it for at least a couple challenges but if we do split, hopefully we'll still have a numbers advantage whatever team we're on.

And thanks for the support, guys!

OW OWW! Great work, team! Knew we had this one locked down. I don't know much about the other tribe so I guess we'll just see how things shake down over there. I think our focus right now should be keeping our tribe strong and winning immunity. Then we can think about the merge once we get closer. But having the numbers advantage going in is a big thing and sticking together can realy benefit us.

DharmaHelper wrote:I feel like we must have gotten uncannily lucky with some of our legs. Wilgy and the ladies definitely.

Actually... I'm pretty strong so I got a little boost that my heavy shots were a 100% success (wasn't told until I was almost done shooting or I would have mentioned it). And I don't tire as quickly so I'm not as worried about spending energy in the beginning of the game. It's only an early game advantage for me so that I can help my team out in group challenges. So I GOTCHU team. Ready to propel us through these big challenges and do work around camp!

Okay three baskets left. Since things are looking good I'd rather not use too much energy so

I'll shoot one more heavy ball right now

And then hopefully the other two shooting will be able to get the last two shots in?

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