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"

- Here's my round 2 recap ig:

So, going into this round, I kinda figured that I wanted Phoenix's head on a silver platter. But, in the end, it was hard to kinda tell the guy to fuck himself to his face, so I couldn't keep the grudge going. We did make Kill-Phoenix-Crew with me Rexxy Hunter, which was cool

Being the revealer was... interesting. At first I didn't think it was much of anything useful, and I kinda wanted to be a wolf lol but turns out the revealer was the most crucial part of the final plan that went into action. I think going through the game again, it shows that the revealer is one of the only good town cards. several other town cards don't seem to even be that worth it. It feels like people will be discovered if not through incredible luck on the part of the town but through someone pulling a culprit in DR 1-2 and making a slip up verbally. Or, in the case of Devin, just acting really fucking suspicious.

Which leads me to the next major point: Phoenix's plan. Phoenix's plan was not what I expected to happen. But, Devin only really exposed himself as super suspicious towards the very end. And, not being able to take back votes, made it so that it was too hard for me to get the numbers against him. So in the end, I rolled with Phoenix's plan.

The way it was revealed to me though, was quite odd. Devin phrased it like Phoenix just wanted the win to himself, but Phoenix had a more rational POV. "If we can't make the town win, then let's make the wolves lose". Kinda like the quote from the "Pretty good" episode on 24: "I don't want to die, I want *everyone else* to die." And so it was put into motion.

Where Devin went wrong, IMO, is that he was wayyyyyy too pissed off about Phoenix's plan. I didn't realize it until Phoenix was like "from a werewolf [referring to the game, not the role] perspective, the plan makes no sense". But to me, it meant that no werewolf would logically want to go with the plan, as they were likely heading towards a win with Rhi being voted on. But Devin massively overreacted. If he was town, he would be a lot less opposed to the plan, or so I thought. And so, my suspicions of Devin became firm.

As for getting the ToL, I was shocked Phoenix gave it to me, but I guess he wanted to re-establish trust, and hey, I won't complain about free immunity. Again, this was not how I expected it to go at all, but I got through, and so did Rexxy and Hunter. So, why should I complain?

Overall feelings about the MM: it's an interesting game of "who can lie the best", but the issue is, the game is very largely dependent on the luck of the town in the first night. If I were to reveal a werewolf, the whole thing would be over. But the town could swap roles and then completely fuck over the plan/current intel, and make it so the wolves win. The tanner might be one of the best roles, given how easy it is to slip up. Hell, Nathaniel had the best spot, if he pushed hard enough he could have been axed. It feels like for some roles, you're almost better off not doing anything. which is odd, but the truth, i guess.

"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