Tetratory II/Confessionals

"catarina"

- So after the last round where Devin is the Mole worked out perfectly, Ryan got the axe in the death match after a decisive victory by Tyler. That worried me a little bit because Tyler is becoming a death match aficionado, and someone who I don't want to see at the end of a dark death match.

But who cares about that, we have a new main match! Named after one of my favourite Star Trek race's guiding life principles, this round we are playing Rules of Acquisition! The point of the game is simple (get the most points) but getting there is gonna be very difficult. Like A New Life Awaits You, there are multiple ways to earn points, and you can chose to focus on one or the other to maximize your points. The difficult part of the game is gonna be figuring out what price to put all of our tiles at, because that will dictate how much money we have to spend on other tiles.

Trying to work out some strategies with Phoenix and Pory (separately of course) and I'll update you when something comes up.

"catarina"

- Ok so I have a lot of time at my mentorship to type, so I’m just gonna write this out now to pass the time.

Main Match 7, was, well, a fucking disaster. I was probably in some sort of bad mood and I just went off the damn hinges due to the ending of MM6. So, I did the only thing that I thought was logical: make a group of 5 to stomp out Phoenix once and for all, hopefully resulting in both of us facing off in the DM.

First round, things were a bit difficult, Devin got points all 3 rounds but Phoenix ofc got 2 more points, and made it 3-2-who cares.

I quickly learned the best way to manipulate the rankings, with the major trick being that the rankings begin from the top and go down. Meaning that through the use of ties and just piling coins on people, I could make reality whatever I want.

Day 2, I thought things were going pretty well. I had a plan that guaranteed Devin gets at least 2 and Phoenix can at max get 1. Then Phoenix gets 2? Yeah, I was quite pissed. I knew there was a mole. I suspected that there was one at the end of Day 1 but I had no proof and I refused to let suspicion destroy the alliance. However, it became clear, that end the end of Day 2, someone was a mole/rat/snake/giraffe.

I looked at the sheet again and realized that the only people who could have screwed something up are the people who were supposed to give me all of their chips. That left Nat and Devin. Devin was the one that I was making win, and he had zero reason to betray me. Therefore, the mole is Nat.

So I made the alliance of me Devin Rhi Tyler in order to try and thwart the plans of Phoenix without letting Nathaniel knew that he was found out. I made a really weird plan, that had it worked, would have been bloody amazing and I would be laughing about it to this day. Sadly, that didn’t work. I guess Phoenix figured I found him out. Oh well.

Towards the end of the MM, I was losing it more and more. Phoenix and I were never able to get a decisive victory over the other, and it was a total deadlock. The results backed that up. A joint win between Phoenix and Devin. God. Damnit.

So yeah, I won’t lie, I lost it. My plans were so well done, and hell, Nat would have been in no danger. If he went with us, Ryan would probably have been EC. It would have been better for Nat to have sided with us! But well, he’s an idiot, and a mole, and he’s dead to me.

So, Phoenix had planned to make me EC. Round 12’s condition was that you receive the same amount of coins as you did in the first round. It’s very hard to score points, but very easy to lock someone out. I saw Tyler was lagging behind in points, and I had a brief moment of my gut telling me “give him a chip and screw him” and me being pissed ab him not picking ryan in round 5? I think. Plus, if I can’t take down Phoenix in the DM, why bother going to the DM?

Anyways, by some sort of voodoo wizard sorcery, I make up with Phoenix and they pick Tyler for the DM, and not me, and Tyler picks Ryan. What the hell. Like, after that whole main match, neither me nor phoenix end up in the DM. Wow.

Then the failed MM happened. Honestly, didn’t do much until Devin pms me like an hour before Black Friday. “Set your prices to 4 and buy each other’s land” he said “then buy all the fields like a greedy pig” he said. It was a clever plan, and it was really good! But then Phoenix, who I said I wanted to work with this round, came up to me (he messaged me about a plan the night before but didn’t get back to me until after I spoke to Devin) and wanted me to work with him. He and Nat had very similar plans. Shit was going to hit the fan. In the end, I stuck with Devin because he talked to me first, and I didn’t want to screw him.

Then Black Friday happened. OH LORD. I bought Devin’s stuff immediately, then bought enough for another 5 bonus when i had the coins from Devin buying my stuff. I realized that if you’re going to buy something, it has to be worth its point value in coins. Why use 30 coins to get 5 points when keeping the coins will get you 6?

So I used that principle, and in the chaos of Black Friday, I could not determine any more reasonable purchases. Meanwhile, Devin and Phoenix became more gluttonous than King Daddledingo and ate up the land, which meant Rhi and Tyler got nothing.

However, since I was the only one to keep my damn cool, I would have easily won, with like 7 points higher than 2nd place. It felt good tbh. Sadly, it didn’t count, but in my mind, it’s a victory.

MM8 recap after it happens ig.

P.s. the change to edgeworth as my pfp was to reference me going against phoenix (and AAI2 is amazing)

"catarina"

- So round 1 of Teritory was a complete gong show. I share my info with Nathaniel and he completely covers up my tiles. Rude. I've done some sleuthing since then and it seems like Tyler and him were working together to boost Tyler's score.

So Pory suggests that Nath, Tyler and Rhi are all working together, and wants to put together a team of Me, Pho and himself to fight back and make sure that Pory wins. So we put the team together and we're trying to come up with a plan of attack. Tyler has given me a screenshot of what his "placements" are gonna be, but after the fiasco that was last round, how much can we trust what he's telling us?

My plan currently is to coordinate with Pho and Pory to try and block as much of Tyler's supposed placements as possible and then cover as much of the rest of the board as possible. If we can just boost Pory's score up to win than he can give me the token of life and we can make Nathaniel or Rhi the elimination candidate. Fingers crossed.

"catarina"

- So I'm going to the deathmatch. It sucks, but it's life. I did get some practice for the death match in though; Pory and Phoenix set up a practice round for me where I got to give Seven Blooms a test run and figure out what the game is all about. So I feel confident in my chances in the death match, but there is a little bit of luck involved so who knows what could happen.