The Syndicate

I for sure sent it in this time

Scotty wrote:

speedchuck wrote:I don't need to know what it is, but has anyone else found an 8 letter word? I'm sitting here with 66 shorter words.

I found a 9-letter word and like 63 8-letter-words that aren't in the Merriam Webster Dictionary or any dictionary for that matter

Similarly, I have found a 15-letter word.

Marmot wrote:

Scotty wrote:

speedchuck wrote:I don't need to know what it is, but has anyone else found an 8 letter word? I'm sitting here with 66 shorter words.

I found a 9-letter word and like 63 8-letter-words that aren't in the Merriam Webster Dictionary or any dictionary for that matter

Similarly, I have found a 15-letter word.

Amateur. Come back to me when you've found the elusive 17-letter word.

insertnamehere wrote:Whoops.

Speed, do you wish to converse during this witching hour?

Aye

Sorsha wrote:

S~V~S wrote:For BTSC I have Opt, can i try for Sorsha again?

And glad to hear everything should be OK, Sorsha.

I'm up for trying with you again tonight as long as you can send my name in again.

Quin are you still interested too?

I've already got Opt and LoRab tonight, hb tomorrow?

Quin wrote:

Sorsha wrote:

S~V~S wrote:For BTSC I have Opt, can i try for Sorsha again?

And glad to hear everything should be OK, Sorsha.

I'm up for trying with you again tonight as long as you can send my name in again.

Quin are you still interested too?

I've already got Opt and LoRab tonight, hb tomorrow?

Okay.

LoRab do you have a second chatter tonight?

Sorsha wrote:

Quin wrote:

Sorsha wrote:

S~V~S wrote:For BTSC I have Opt, can i try for Sorsha again?

And glad to hear everything should be OK, Sorsha.

I'm up for trying with you again tonight as long as you can send my name in again.

Quin are you still interested too?

I've already got Opt and LoRab tonight, hb tomorrow?

Okay.

LoRab do you have a second chatter tonight?

Quin and chuck.

Golden wrote:Elo and inh, up for btsc?

I'll send in for you golden. I have lots of catching up to do. RLs been crazy.

Opt_Outside wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:

Golden wrote:Elo and inh, up for btsc?

Sure.

Opt, you mentioned wanting to have BTSC with me tonight as well, so I'll pencil you in too.

Oh no sorry I have quin and svs tonight- I meant tomorrow!

INH, wnaa try it again with me?

Elohcin wrote:

Opt_Outside wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:

Golden wrote:Elo and inh, up for btsc?

Sure.

Opt, you mentioned wanting to have BTSC with me tonight as well, so I'll pencil you in too.

Oh no sorry I have quin and svs tonight- I meant tomorrow!

INH, wnaa try it again with me?

Sorry, I'm booked up. Tomorrow, I can talk to you + Opt.

Looking through posting histories, the only other unbooked person looks to be DFaraday, who hasn't said anything today. Maybe try him?

K

Sorry I haven't been around much. I will stoke the fire.

Elohcin, I will put in for BTSC. Everyone else is off together, so I'll leave my second spot open.

DFaraday wrote:Sorry I haven't been around much. I will stoke the fire.

Elohcin, I will put in for BTSC. Everyone else is off together, so I'll leave my second spot open.

If you see this in time I'll have bts with you DF

I can totally stay up for 15 more minutes. Really I can.

FYI, I'm at a convention starting in the morning (well, really I got here tonight, but the convention doesn't start until tomorrow), so my schedule will not be whatever passes as normal during my usual schedule. In other words, differently wonky. I'll still have time to play--it just might be at different hours than the ones I'm normally on. Just so you all know ahead of time if you notice the schedule change.

Not a peep.

It was quiet around camp: no one wanted to talk about Epi's recent vote off, and with 4 different people attracting votes, it would seem not talking about things confused some people.

DF tried his hand at the fire and kept it burning.
LoRab, Golden and OptOut teamed up to retrieve the water. The tribe was once again quenched of thirst.
Resting in the nice shelter was Quin, speed and Elo.
INH, Sorsha and SVS went on pleasant strolls. Because they're worth it.
Doodle performed his namesake and doodled a self portrait like the natural Rembrandt he is.

At the Individual Immunity Challenge, players competed to find unique words from a letter grid.
On the surface, players figured just finding the longest words would suffice. But they soon found that many of them went that route, canceling each other out.
The final score is as follows:
OptOut: 23
DF: 21
speedchuck: 20
LoRab: 20
Golden: 17
Quin: 16
Sorsha: 14

Opt_Outside has won the challenge!
(5/7 of you found the secret Survivor-related word, 'Ponderosa')

Opt-Outside has won Individual Immunity. You may not vote for OptOut tonight at Tribal Council.
For the rest of you, one of you will be going home and will be the 9th person voted out of Survivor: Mafia.

Heads up that BTSC will be slightly delayed tonight. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Apparently plenty of people had no trouble finding eight letter words, since I would have scored more if you didn't

Night 7:
Whatcha up to today?

You may select 1 option

Stoke the fire
1
DFaraday (11) 8%
Go to water well
3
LoRab (4), Golden (6), Opt_Outside (13) 23%
Attempt to fish
0
No votes
Walk by the weeds near the camp
0
No votes
Walk in the tall grass beyond the hill
1
insertnamehere (8) 8%
Walk out on the sandbar in the ocean
1
Sorsha (12) 8%
Walk between the triangular rock formation
1
S~V~S (5) 8%
Walk beyond the shallow pond near treemail
0
No votes
Walk to the top of the nearby ridge
0
No votes
Take a nap
3
Quin (2), speedchuck (7), Elohcin (10) 23%
Buy a Sprint Phone (Host/Non-player Option)
3
Scotty (1), notsawyer540 (3), juliets (9) 23%
Total votes : 13

Golden wrote:Apparently plenty of people had no trouble finding eight letter words, since I would have scored more if you didn't

Right? I think I figured out I had a potential of 141 points. I briefly considered skipping all, or at least some, of the 8 letter words...alas.

LoRab wrote:

Golden wrote:Apparently plenty of people had no trouble finding eight letter words, since I would have scored more if you didn't

Right? I think I figured out I had a potential of 141 points. I briefly considered skipping all, or at least some, of the 8 letter words...alas.

I considered going for a bunch of 5 letter words and forgetting the longer ones too. It's hard to know, though.

It would be good to see which words we each had that were unique, scotty

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! I guess only being able to find short words somehow worked out. This is a personal victory for me because I get so stressed out by timed boggle in real life lolol

Aha! That was the winning strategy after all! Congrats opt.

And here I was thinking it'd be a good strategy to use all the 8 letter words to make sure nobody got them.

TELL ME WHAT THE 8 LETTER WORDS WERE

I forgot to send mine in, I had a busier Saturday than usual. I had to take care of my brothers pets, and his don't get along with mine, so I had to drive back and forth to his house in the morning, afternoon and evening. Only 11 miles away, but this is Long Island so it takes over half an hour even on the weekends, grr.

speedchuck wrote:TELL ME WHAT THE 8 LETTER WORDS WERE

The only one I found was "prisoner"

speedchuck wrote:TELL ME WHAT THE 8 LETTER WORDS WERE

You were actually winning with 26 points 15 minutes before the deadline, and then DF added his list and removed about 4 of your words, propelling Opt to the win.

Notable 8-letter words that people found:
Reinsert, Kerosine, portends, prisoner, prisoned, poorish. All were canceled out.

Well, that's sad.

Are we all trying to put off the talk of voting someone out? I even hate to bring it up. But I don't stay up as late as y'all and I think we ought to give ourselves enough time to discuss.

Elohcin wrote:Are we all trying to put off the talk of voting someone out? I even hate to bring it up. But I don't stay up as late as y'all and I think we ought to give ourselves enough time to discuss.

Looks like it.

And when it comes to the tribal, it looks like OptOut... opted out.

speedchuck wrote:And when it comes to the tribal, it looks like OptOut... opted out.

good on her.

I still wish we knew what words we each had that were unique. I thought I'd be in with Portends, but I think the letter P was probably difficult to protect full stop.

speedchuck wrote:And when it comes to the tribal, it looks like OptOut... opted out.

Oh but I'll be there. Moral support, ya know

Golden wrote:

speedchuck wrote:And when it comes to the tribal, it looks like OptOut... opted out.

good on her.

I still wish we knew what words we each had that were unique. I thought I'd be in with Portends, but I think the letter P was probably difficult to protect full stop.

I put Portend and Portends. I mainly tried to go for obscure words regardless of length, like Kine, Tern, and Tensor.

I think everyone will be pretty quiet from here on out. We've reached the point where alliances are probably mostly breaking down and a lot of people are just trying to stay alive.

This is when a jerkass instigating Scotty Probst would come in handy.

Night 7:
What's better? (Pick 2!)

You may select up to 2 options


A night out drinking with friends
3
LoRab (1), insertnamehere (3), Quin (6) 14%
Having a lazy day off without responsibility
6
S~V~S (10), Golden (11), speedchuck (13), Sorsha (18), Opt_Outside (20), DFaraday (22) 27%
Trying tasty food you've been craving for weeks
9
LoRab (2), insertnamehere (4), Quin (5), S~V~S (9), speedchuck (14), Elohcin (15), Sorsha (17), Opt_Outside (19), DFaraday (21) 41%
Earning top ratings (Host/Non-player Option)
4
Scotty (7), Marmot (8), juliets (12), sprityo (16) 18%
Total votes : 22
Submit vote

After a successful win, OptOut felt on the top of the world.

"I'm on top of the world!" screamed Opt.

At the camp, awaiting them, was a nice feast. With candles and all! Every player will receive +1 Hunger tonight!
However, they were horrified to learn that they also suffered from a tainted water well for the night and lost 2 thirst as well. Bummer.

Like usual, everyone was quiet leading up to tribal.

Then came tribal.

Scotty eyed everyone as they walked in, and without saying anything, pointed towards the voting dias. Players immediately went to vote.

"I'll get the votes," said Probst.

Probst made several bird calls and a brief flash of feathers flurried into the tribal area. Players began swatting and covering their faces. When the storm settled, Jeff stood holding a jar of votes.

"Wow! That was amazing!" chirped Sorsha.

"If anyone has the hidden immunity idol and you wish to play it, now would be the time to do so."

The tribe all looked in INH's direction, but INH just shrugged.

“Ok. Once the votes are read, the decision will be made and the person will be asked to leave the tribal council area immediately. I’ll read the votes.

1st vote:
2nd vote:
3rd vote:
4th vote
5th vote:
6th vote:
7th vote:
8th vote:


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Break your opponents' plates before they break yours! Each player has 3 plates. When all 3 of a player's plates are smashed, that person is eliminated from the challenge, and they may not break any more plates. The last 2 people remaining will be awarded immunity!

That's right, there are 2 immunities to give out today.

Game moves in 3 rounds...You are to make three different lists:
Your first list is your honest answer to each question.
Your second list is how you think the majority of the group answered.
Your third list is a hitlist of the other castaways from 1-8. '1' being whose plate you want to smash first. Your answers to the questions must only include players still in the game (Jury members are not considered "in the game")

Players that guess correctly in their second list what the majority answered answered in their first lists will be eligible to break a target. If multiple people guess correctly for each question, the order will be randomized. Questions will resolve in the order presented.

Here are your questions:

1. Which castaway is the most dishonest?
2. Which castaway is the biggest villain?
3. Which castaway is under the false impression that people like them?
4. Which castaway probably possesses a hidden immunity idol?
5. Which castaway is the funniest?
6. Which castaway should've been voted off a long time ago?
7. Which castaway is socially inept?
8. Which castaway is a genuinely good person?
9. Which castaway has too many alliances?
10. Which castaway has the best chance of winning?
11. Which castaway has no chance of winning?
12. Which castaway will go on an Immunity run?
13. Which castaway has been riding coattails?
14. Which castaway shouldn't have been allowed to play?
15. Which castaway is most likely to hold grudges?
16. Which castaway has worked the hardest so far?
17. Which castaway has been flying under the radar?
18. Which castaway would bring entertainment on the real show?
19. Which castaway would get your Jury vote?
20. Which castaway will win this Challenge?

Send in your 3 lists by 11pm PST (2am EST). I will post the results at End of Day.

Guess y'all don't want a doctor.

I'd like to reconnect with some people I haven't for a while. Sorsha and one of SVS/quin, if you guys are up for it?

Also, congrats everyone on making the top half!

DFaraday wrote:Guess y'all don't want a doctor.

I'm guessing the guy poisoning people didn't much want the doctor around...

Speaking of which, I'm suuper thirsty.

LoRab wrote:

DFaraday wrote:Guess y'all don't want a doctor.

I'm guessing the guy poisoning people didn't much want the doctor around...

And yeah, we all made it halfway through and we all made jury. we all should feel proud of our achievement.

linki: yuh, me too.

Damn. Somehow my thirst levels went down two since yesterday despite collecting water. I'm not sure what I should be doing about it though. Collecting water is the only thing that makes sense. Do other people know how to get thirst levels back up? Has anyone else got thirst issues?

linkie - I guess we all do... is it possible that the fire went out?

Golden wrote:Damn. Somehow my thirst levels went down two since yesterday despite collecting water. I'm not sure what I should be doing about it though. Collecting water is the only thing that makes sense. Do other people know how to get thirst levels back up? Has anyone else got thirst issues?

linkie - I guess we all do... is it possible that the fire went out?

It's in the host post. That water got dirrrrrtyyyyyyyy

OK. Is anyone super-low? If we have some water-gatherers today we might get it back up again.

I'm at 6. But I also would prefer to fish today.

Well this should be interesting! I'd like to meet DF finally if I can for btsc! And do some reconnecting too- Elo? Or speed?

Golden wrote:I'd like to reconnect with some people I haven't for a while. Sorsha and one of SVS/quin, if you guys are up for it?

I'm up for it. I also want to try Sorsha again because I failed last time. I also want to talk to Eloh because I haven't had a chance yet.

So I'll submit Golden and either Sorsha or Eloh. First come first serve?