A New Life Awaits You/Confessionals

"catarina"

- John has a gun to my head to make a confessional, please send help

"catarina"

- So to speed thing up, I'll try to explain the last MM in a paragraph:

Pory and Hunter are working together with me, trying to target phoenix. Pory finds that Phoenix is tanner, and that he tried to get people to rally to kill him. We disagreed at first, and I rallied to counter that. Phoenix says he trusted me and promised to give me the ToL if I were not to use my bodyguard ability on him, which I denied since pory might think that we're secretly working. Then Tyler told some info in the group, which made Pory and Hunter thinks that the best move is to kill phoenix anyways. I hesitantly rallied people to vote phoenix, Devin tried to pull some strings on me to use the tanner on phoenix, and the rest lies in the results of the MM. Also I told phoenix to pick Gevonte to go the the DM since he less likely to pick me than Devin, which kinda shitty of my part since we kinda work together in the first MM... But hey, he survived lol :v

And from that point, these are the relationship I have with the other cast:

Pory and Hunter - They're the only two people I'm in a group chat with. Both seems loyal, but I knew I have to break away from them at some point. Guess my idea is to keep working with them until one of them gets eliminated while keeping close with the other guys, and then I jump ship.

Phoenix - I genuinely think he trusts me. He's energetic, eager to work with me although a bit frantic. He genuinely felt like that younger cousin who latch on to you after he finds out you also like Pokemon. I want to keep him as long as I can, but I want him out. If he have to be out, I don't want to be the one who did it, as in picking him to be the DMO if I were the EC.

Gevonte - We work together on the first MM. I feel like he's open to me and I don't mind to be open with me. If it's time to jump ship, then he's my first pick.

Tyler, Devin and Rhi - A bit of the same from above. We talked a decent amount and I'm trying to keep close to them. All three are level headed, I don't mind forming a second group with them.

Nathaniel, Ryan and Rhys - We talked... I'm still trying to be in their saving grace, and we might work together at some match as numbers, but I don't mind any of them losing...

Emma - We don't talk. At all. Probably just a few greetings, I tried to say hi to her again a couple of times, she never responded. Glad she's out.

"catarina"

- So I have an idea of the strategy for this main match. The way that I see it, A New Life Awaits You is all about knowing what the majority is gonna do, then do the opposite. Every card play rewards you if you're doing it alone. So the trick of the game is to think of a few basic strategies, then think about how your opponents might implement those strategies. Then you gauge how people might formulate their own plans and anticipate that.

I've separated the groups of people into "Risk Averse", "Risky" and "Unknown", in anticipation of how they might play. The game seems to have a built in punishment mechanic in the form of the Relationship number. Players can gain points in all over categories, but they can only LOSE points through relationship. Some people are more wary of that sort of thing and might be classified as "risk averse." People who might push through the disadvantage and use it as a strategy are classified as "risky." If we have no idea what they'd do, they go as "Unknown."

Once we figure out where people are on that spectrum, we can gauge what their potential actions might be. Then we counter our strategy to theirs, and voila! Possible victory! Right now I've been talking to Hunter and Phoenix about it the most, but it's far from a fully realized plan yet. It's gonna need some time to implement.

Updates to follow.

"catarina"

- WHAT IS THIS CHALLENGE! Like....hat ACTUALLY IS IT?!?!? I've been staring at this challenge for two days and I've got NOTHING!!!! I know I'm smarter than this! What's happening??!! This is not what they taught us about the old west in hish school HAAALP!

"catarina"

- Honestly Phoenix thinks he’s entitled to win. I know he won over last week. But right now are you fucking kidding me.

He’s asking me to change my decisions for the main match. To help HIM he’s trying to make it seems as if it helps us. But no it doesn’t. If you want to help US change your own fucking ones. I don’t care if you seem sketchy to other people. You’ve won 2 weeks in a row and it’s not the Phoenix show, so he can fuck off if he thinks I’m gonna roll over and hand him another win.

Like he is just coming across as so fake, only talking to me when a match is going on. Like maybe if you took the time of day to get to know me a little more maybe I’d be slightly more inclined to put a win in your hands but no. Not today. I’m not someone who you can manipulate into your lapdog to hand you wins left right and center. This could be dumb and it could be blowing up what game I have but I don’t care, I’d rather him not win at all.

"catarina"

- Okay slight change, I’m gonna try to manipulate this in my favour to keep phoneix on my side. As I figured I can change it to please him while it not changing the outcome I want? Still can’t stand him, but if I make him feel bad he might give me a token of life (given he wins)

"catarina"

- So I collected almost all of the info on what the other players were doing and I came up with what I think is a good, albeit risky plan. My plan is to not avoid the relationship penalty at all. In fact, I’m steering in to it by building and developing on turns one and two, a play that I’m almost certain no one else will make. This will not only undoubtedly give me the largest city, but net me an extra bonus point for playing a unique card. My apologies to the indigenous people of the land. I’m so sorry.

"catarina"

- My original confession was gonna be about my plans for the Main Match but...yeah this happened.

Short version, I was willing to take a risk and hope it planned out. Sadly it didn’t.

Oh please let my alliance with Nathaniel pan out, if I end up EC Imma break shit down

"catarina"

- The most frustrating thing about this is I'm in the Death Match because Ryan was one of two people I struggled to talk to. So trust my luck he's the one to win, I put all this effort into these other people, but because it wasn't working with one guy, I could leave.

Like fuck me my luck is the fucking worst sometimes, and I'm really frustrated, and if I lose this Death Match...it's just so fucked right now. I knew I could in early but I wanted it to be because I fucked someone over, not because a connection didn't work.

It's just so fucking stupid...

"catarina"

- I am writing this while the Death Match is going on.

They suck, I hate them, they cause so much stress and I cannot handle this. I hope I never have to do something like this again until finale