Survivor: Summertime (The End!)

[Cephrir]

We're hoping for some newbies to join in on the fun, so if you have any questions or are unsure about wether or not this is the right kind of game for you, feel free to PM me about it, I don't bite.

hard

If any other newbies are considering joining the game, but are too scared they'll be in it alone, I just want to assure you that I'm completely new to these games, so don't worry, it's gonna be lots of fun regardless. <3

That is actually quite a relief >.>

[Cephrir]

grrr stop giving more people a chance to out-apply me

i'm too poor for bribes

[Cephrir]

Oh man that is so cool

I guess I'll have to start using AIM again D:

[Cephrir]

I would like that very much. Mostly because today is roughly the one day in the entire history of mankind that I won't be available 2 hours from now.

[Cephrir]

I'm not very good at reaching out and talking to people but will respond with gratitude to any who would consider extending that courtesy to me~~

Also my AIM is now correct and I'll be on site chat too~~

[Cephrir]

I think I can divulge this: Yes, well, semi-live. But the first post will be an announcement of what it is, and then it'll start a few hours later.

So it's going to start at, like, 3 in the morning for me? =/

The disturbing thing is that I would consider not sleeping for this

[Cephrir]

I need to know whether I need to stay up all night~~

[Cephrir]

*refreshes madly*

[Cephrir]

[Cephrir]

boom.

roasted.

[Cephrir]

No wonder I only found one word after I started at the bottom. There weren't any dang words on the bottom.

[Cephrir]

Pfff, excuses.

[Cephrir]

I suppose your list was worse. Beachinitupinmyspeedoyeahgirl was certainly an advantage, though if you somehow discovered it you would've gotten a two for one.

[Cephrir]

Yeah, see, that never happened. Ask your tribe, try to figure out who started that campsite. Hint, it was us.

[Cephrir]

I made the volcano before I even saw yalls stuff, lol.

[Cephrir]

Yes, obviously the game is biased because the favorites aren't winning every challenge

yawn

[Cephrir]

Also, I just read Mario Bros survivor and comparing that game to this one is pretty rude

Like the mods are here, only 50% of the challenges have been live, and none of them have been based on impossible trivia, that's literally already a million times better

[Cephrir]

SleepyKrew is more feared than Keybladewielder

[Cephrir]

Candillan is more feared than Keybladewielder and less feared than Lord Mhork

[Cephrir]

Cephrir claims the word rouse

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Cephrir claims the word ruers

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Cephrir claims the word ruer

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Cephrir claims the word ovum

[Cephrir]

meh, oh well.

Cephrir claims the word rem

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Cephrir claims the word ria

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Cephrir claims the word vas

'cause I'm pretty sure KK couldn't do so

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Cephrir claims the word ser

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Cephrir claims the word res

[Cephrir]

Uh we won right

assuming you didn't make up words, yes

[Cephrir]

This one might actually be worth discussing in public

[Cephrir]

I don't know what to do~

Someone tell me~

[Cephrir]

Marquis, you are a true hero

Perhaps an insane one as well

[Cephrir]

Cephrir claims the white ball

Sadly my favorite color is unavailable, so this will have to do.

[Cephrir]

C'mon, step it up! C'mon, step it up! C'mon, step it up!

[Cephrir]

Cephrir dodges orcinus' tackle.

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles orcinus in want of his green ball

I miss you too candi ;-;

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles Candillan in want of his orange ball

HUGS!

[Cephrir]

Why don't you want my hugs Candi

I thought we had was something special

something REAL

;-;

[Cephrir]

Cephrir allows himself to be tackled

YAY!

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles CuddlyCaucasian in want of his white ball!

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Cephrir tackles kloud in want of his green ball

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Cephrir tackles kloud in want of his orange ball

if I'm allowed to change... >.<

[Cephrir]

Cephrir is beginning to get tired of tackling air and landing on his face!

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles CC in want of his white ball!

[Cephrir]

Well I'm never going to so you might as well go to sleep

<.<

>.>

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles orcinus in want of his green ball!

[Cephrir]

Yes.

Cinccino is my favorite. You are the best.

[Cephrir]

Cephrir dodges Candi's tackle

[Cephrir]

It was more for the

entire minute he spends repeatedly saying nope

audio?

[Cephrir]

Cephrir dodges orci's tackle

somestupidgif.gif

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles CC in want of his white ball!

[Cephrir]

Ceph dodges Candi's tackle

Doesn't matter brah

[Cephrir]

Sorry CC D:

Blame orci for stealing my green ball while I was at work, ignoring the fact that I stole it from him first.

[Cephrir]

Cephrir dodges orci's tackle

I think not

[Cephrir]

Cephrir passes the red ball to Snakes!

[Cephrir]

Cephrir tackles orci in want of the green ball!

[Cephrir]

GG WP

[Cephrir]

<3

[Cephrir]

lolnvm

[Cephrir]

Cephrir dances with the blue ball and gives it one last kiss

Cephrir retreats sadly into the fog

[Cephrir]

VOTE: Ron Paul

It's not like my vote counts anyway, so I might as well vote on principle!

Wait, what do you mean I'm on mafiascum and it's not 2012?

Wait, what do you mean Ron Paul wasn't running?

[Cephrir]

Ron Paul, Third Party Jester

, recieved enough votes to win and left the game TC6!

[Cephrir]

*merge dance*

[Cephrir]

Do you lose your money from bidding even if you don't win?

[Cephrir]

Maybe you only got 2 bucks

XD

[Cephrir]

Perhaps we could end this a bit early via all of us saying we aren't going to contest that? I'm certainly not going to.

[Cephrir]

Sorry, I was bored. Won't do it again.

AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS

Dagnabbit now I get it

It's just a weird shot of her

Cephrir bids 20 sand dollars on lot 8

I guess...

[Cephrir]

I feel like it's probably a punishment but no reason not to I guess

[Cephrir]

Derp I'm a moron

Yes, please go ahead and move on

[Cephrir]

Is that really necessary? It's not like we're racing anymore, given that we have different amounts of money. So why not just post them?

[Cephrir]

Well. That's... scary.

But I'm going to keep it. I hope I don't regret this.

[Cephrir]

Yes

[Cephrir]

Not gonna lie I almost died when I saw Candi's picture.

[Cephrir]

<.<

>.>

Robin sucks.

[Cephrir]

VOTE: orcinus_theoriginal

Sorry bro.

[Cephrir]

We still need a Gizmo, people.

Get it together.

[Cephrir]

VOTE: External Judges

I refuse to imply the mods are partial

[Cephrir]

Original Roll String: 1d6

1 6-Sided Dice: (6) = 6

[Cephrir]

Oh, balls. Am I allowed to keep trying to roll a 6?

[Cephrir]

In case the answer to my question was yes

Original Roll String: 1d6

1 6-Sided Dice: (3) = 3

[Cephrir]

o_o;;
welp guess I'm not winning this one

wait that was literally me when I saw the challenge
what even is fashion

[Cephrir]

Does TS get points for a stylish submission? 'Cause he so deserves them.

[Cephrir]

V/LA through and including the 18th. But I'll be able to check in tomorrow around (3 hours from this post) o'clock.

[Cephrir]

Needs moar Terra & Gizmo.

>.>

[Cephrir]

I could be wrong, but shouldn't kloud be able to play in this challenge? Unless the punishments were reset.

[Cephrir]

I can think of several reasons you might want to do that.

[Cephrir]

Wait, so he couldn't possibly have been right? D:

[Cephrir]

...*poke*

[Cephrir]

Oh, I like Scattergories! I'm not good at it, but I like it!

Please, please tell me we can't use more than one adjective per answer.

[Cephrir]

Roger.

[Cephrir]

Wow, seriously? I didn't think I did that well! Awesome!

[Cephrir]

Get at me.

[Cephrir]

I feel like impartiality would be easier if the submissions were anonymous =S

[Cephrir]

True, I suppose. I'm just biased because it seems more likely to work against me now than before. Oh well.

[Cephrir]

Footprints on a Beach

Child and dog, happy just to be
Patterns soon traceless save I see
Wash away, wash away.

A woman, cold feet upon warm sand
An old friend, for one last time, and...
Wash away, wash away.

Great rock monoliths, proud and high
I fill their pores over and over as I
Wash away, wash away.

And someday I, at a slower pace
On sands of time, in empty space
Wash away, wash away.

[Cephrir]

3: Hmmm....I think this could use a few more lines.

Funny you mention that, it initially had another stanza- the first was broken into an introductory stanza and the child-and-dog example- but it was too long! It's too bad, because the buildup to the old woman stanza (when you're supposed to figure out what I'm actually saying) was better that way.

Also, thanks judges! I'm glad you liked it. ^.^

[Cephrir]

And now?

[Cephrir]

I will shorten it to 48 hours upon request, but that is it in terms of deadlines.

+1

[Cephrir]

SUCH EFFORT

[Cephrir]

Look we just don't like ascii mmk

[Cephrir]

I think we would have tried harder if that was the whole challenge... >.>

[Cephrir]

Also the game dragging on for so long might be causing some apathy

[Cephrir]

(random question, but do people prefer the theme for 'Pokemon Advanced Battle' (season 8) or 'Battle Frontier' (season 9)?)

This can be shortened to

24 hours

, but only if both parties agree in-thread. Get to it!

I am good with this

This please

[Cephrir]

Oof.

[Cephrir]

are you fucking kidding me

well i guess by that logic i haven't started but

fuck my life

[Cephrir]

uh maybe i can edit.... well, i know what i''l do it guess

[Cephrir]

nope missed the fucking minute

fuck me

i hate everything

[Cephrir]

I already sent an explanatory PM, but I'll summarize here. Both of you are great and I've been allied with both of you for quite a while. From a listen-to-my-head perspective, I view both of you as about equal in terms of jury threat. But I'm become very close to one of you over the course of this game, and I probably would have done this even if it wasn't the intelligent decision. I hope there aren't any hard feelings, bro.





































VOTE: Snakes

[Cephrir]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. In the interest of sparing your eyes a little, I shall probably opt for more brevity than my counterpart. I don't have quite the way with words that he does, but I hope you won't let that cloud your decision too strongly.

Needless to say, I entered this game with no clue what I was doing. Sure, Survivor is my favorite TV show, but that counts for roughly nothing. Even if the games were the same, theory and practice are not close friends. I was confronted with 7 other players about as clueless as I was, facing down 8 players who actually knew what they were doing. And I think it speaks volumes that I (and some of my fellow fans) actually made it deep in this game despite our inexperience and coming into merge looking very pagongable.

I'll address the elephant in the room, if you will. Yes, I won a damn lot of immunity challenges. I think it's a testament to the effort I was willing to go to in this game that I was able to go on such a run. Challenges aren't all that important in terms of deserving-ness, but I think it's worth mentioning that even in challenges that seemed silly, I was out to win. In the auction, I didn't even consider budging until I saw something that could be immunity. In the Coin Game challenge, I looked up past Coin Games to determine a round 1 strategy, and moved from there thinking carefully about what my competitors were likely to do. I don't think you can argue it's a coincidence I won so many of those.

The most important thing I want to speak to here, though, is that I rarely felt like I actually needed to win immunity. There were a few times I might have been in trouble if some particular player won immunity, and I did everything in my power to prevent such scenarios. If I won zero immunities, would I be here? Maybe, maybe not, but I think I played well enough socially that I could have done without the majority. Once I got comfortable in the merged tribe, though, I didn't feel as though my life was usually on the line or anything. I was not a Troyzan or a Peih-Gee that happened to get lucky. I think I recall feeling that I had to win at F6. I certainly didn't find a lot of purchase probing about for possible plans that round until after I won immunity. After that though I wasn't terribly worried.

I came in playing a cautious social game. I didn't know what was generally accepted around here, how much open scheming is expected, to what extent information tends to get around. I think this decision paid off for me, because the second the tribes merged players began placing their feet in their mouths, and I steered clear of the mess by pretending, at least at first, not to be terribly strategic except for loyalty to my allies. I think I proved to have a better social game than the favorites would expect, and I managed to make friends better than I do IRL. I was perceived as disconnected, but I didn't need to risk myself in the thick of things when I was getting all the important information via TS. I'll admit up and down that he was more connected than I was. I also don't think it's remotely reasonable to expect the level of connectedness out of me that you can of him, given that he had pre-existing relationships with the other players to build on and I was the new kid on the block.

It's true that I voted the way TS wanted me to after the ani vote. It's also true that he voted the way I wanted him to at every non-Candi vote, and at that point I felt about equally loyal to both of them. So what reason did I have to break away from that when things were playing out precisely the way I wanted them to? I recognized that kloud was a huge jury threat, for instance, and wanted to vote him out. I only chose not to do so in an attempt to hide my alliance with TS from Snakes. Apparently this effort was less than successful, but the point remains that I was not caught with my pants down there, despite a certain someone's attempt to make me look like an idiot for reasons that still don't make any sense.

As TS has alluded to, both of us played fairly loyal games, I think himself moreso than I (I leave it to you to judge whether that's actually a virtue), though I also think I was thrust into circumstances that didn't allow me to be completely loyal without shooting myself in the foot. For instance, I could have protest-not-voted-for-Candi, but it would have been a pointless gesture. There are several other examples of this I can provide if asked but I don't see a reason to bog this down with the list. I'm not a realist, but I played like one. When I got separated from my closest allies in the shuffle, knowing KBW would probably vote me out in a heartbeat given the chance, I immediately knew I had to align with the favorites. So I did. You might even call me a survivor. Imagine that.

I'm not one for boasting but it's hard to argue with the statement that I was underestimated in this game seeing as, you know, I'm here, and I don't think anyone expected me to be, least of all myself.

I'll agree with TS wholeheartedly in saying that I won't be crushed if I lose here. He played a very solid game as well, I'll be happy to see a friend win, and both of us are deserving. Thank you.

[Cephrir]

Cephrir: Talk me through exactly how my elimination happened, from your point of view.

Okay. I'll start with the likely irrelevant details. While ani was in the game, I was highly aware that he was the glue holding us together and knew he probably wouldn't make it through the whole game. Sure enough, when he left, you basically stopped talking strategy to me. So I figured you were probably gunning for me, though I wasn't sure. When I was asked what I wanted to do that round, I started floating your name around because I thought you'd be the easiest vote for me to make happen other than myself. Given that the responses I got were lukewarm until I won immunity, I can only assume I was supposed to go that round. Someone (I think kloud but could be wrong) at some point confirmed my suspicion that you'd been trying to get me out, and that was all I needed to hear. After that, everyone I talked to pretty much told me that was happening, and I didn't complain.

Cephrir:

What would you say if I asked you and TS to have a Pokemon battle for my vote?

Honestly, since it seems apparent that you weren't always as aware of what was going on as TS was, how would this game have gone if everything went exactly the way you wanted it to?

I won't deny that I wasn't as aware of what was going on as TS was. If each individual decision went as I wanted it to, I would not have voted ani out when he did go, so I probably would never have gotten the chance to get close to TS. If we assume that relationship never happens, I would have taken Candi all the way to the end and voted out Snakes relatively early. Once Candi was voted out, though, everything essentially went the way I wanted it to, with the exception of you getting voted out over Snakes. I didn't think you were connected to any of the three of us at that point, and I think going through with my desire to tie the vote and make you play a challenge against Snakes would have been a better move. Your heart wasn't in it anymore, though, so I suspect you would have lost. Although you not voting for Snakes would have made this rather unfortunate for me, as I would have antagonized TS (the only reason I didn't go through with it) without accomplishing anything.

Ceph: You didn't put up much resistance to the idea of voting me out, and I definitely was hurt when you decided to vote me out in the end. Why should you receive my vote when you clearly had other plans for F2, therefore betraying our deal?

I resisted, but it had been made clear to me for quite some time that at some point you and I were supposed to be sent packing. I truly wanted to rally votes to keep you, but there was nothing I could do to get anyone on board apart from CC (kloud never had any intention of keeping you). You were the only Final 2 deal I had until ani was voted out, at which point I basically panicked, allied with Snakes because he was online, and then my apology to TS for voting him developed into a beautiful butterfly. At that point, I was still convinced that I was likely toast if I didn't win immunity, and it would definitely be one of the two of us going out that round, because everyone basically knew that I was your only ally- it would be me or a move to weaken me for sure. I had to pull you out of your shell at the beginning of the game, and postmerge no one else was willing to go to the effort to be friendly with you, which really sucks. I didn't want to vote for you, but a protest vote only would have made it more obvious that I was on the outs. I'm sorry bro, for reals, you'll see in my confessional that I didn't want to, and I think it's pretty evident from our final Skype conversation.

Cephrir: I don't have much to say here - you won enough challenges for most people to immediately deem you as a threat, social game or no social game, but when you didn't win a challenges you weren't really gaining many votes. This speaks wonders to your social game, I believe. While winning challenges may not be a crucial part of the game in many scenarios, the aftermath of the challenges certainly can be, especially after an Immunity run. I think you handled it really well, all in all. My question to you is very simple - explain to me who, aside from you and TS, deserves to win the most, and why. And no, picking me because I asked will not get you bonus points.

Kloud, not close. His social game was light years ahead of everyone else's and we all knew it. If I don't win immunity at F5, I think he probably still gets booted simply because everyone knew we had no chance against him whatsoever in final tribal. Even if that's not the case, it really should have been. It was perfectly intelligent for him to target me and I don't hold that against him; I was his only remote chance of losing FTC (and even then he would still have thrashed me). I know I would have voted in his favor over any F6 player other than TS, including myself, and in that scenario I'm probably the only vote TS gets. Kloud was the only player in the game to ever be voted out for being too good.

[Cephrir]

Cephrir

, I think that you played a good game, and you would have survived even without your challenge wins. You got to the Finals in your first game, which is something not a lot of people can say. But at the same time, I don't feel like you

did

that much in this game. I can't think of any vote that you orchestrated, which is shown in your answer to JDGA. Tell me that I'm wrong.

I realize you probably mean recently, but I instigated the SleepyKrew vote as well as the Keybladewielder vote (yes, she went kinda inactive, but that was my ultimate goal from the moment the tribes shuffled and it would've happened if she was active). Postmerge, no, I didn't have much influence. Coming in down in numbers and having to scramble every round just to try to survive will do that. I tried to push for a JDGA vote, but I don't believe my efforts were ultimately relevant. Oh, and I also voted you out, in case you've forgotten.

That said, I am not expecting your vote, nor did I think there was any chance of me getting it in any F2 whatsoever. You can keep it.

[Cephrir]

Oh, shoot, I forgot about this.

Well, if you're going over deadline...

Klick: Try to exist more next time?
xofelf: Seemed strong; not sure what happened.
SK: Strong start, strong finish, weak middle.
KK: Don't give up so darn easily!
Mhork: Wish we got to reunite, bro.
KBW: You didn't like me, good riddance.
orci: Still unsure why this blew up.
Marquis: What happened? Where did you go?
ani: Major power player; deserved longer stay.
Candi: <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
JDGA: Wish you kept talking to me.
kloud: Game's best player; rather entertaining too!
CC: Come back! We all miss you!
Snakes: I'm not mad, enjoy voting TS.
TS: Truly a wonderful guy and ally.

[Cephrir]

I think I've basically said my piece at this point. If what you've seen so far isn't enough to convince you one way or the other, you are just not decisive enough and you should probably get that checked out.

I won't criticize my opponent's game, but mine was perfectly valid. I did my best, and things didn't always work out exactly right, but Survivor is a messy game. Thank you all for playing, it's been fantastic.

[Cephrir]

I started writing one, but I wasn't really saying anything I hadn't already said, so I kinda stopped.

[Cephrir]

I may not have a great torchwalk, but I *do* have a great confessional, so, yes.

[Cephrir]

This is why torchwalks should be mandatory

I'm sure I would have written a decent one if the pace hadn't removed all the thrill of the game for me like 4 weeks ago

[Cephrir]

Survivor: Broken Promises Time

Survivor: Next Summertime

Survivor: Termina

[Cephrir]

I was referring to the mod's promises >.>

[Cephrir]

Woo hoo! Thanks, Daji. This game was so much fun even when I didn't think I had a snowball's chance in hell, so sincerely, thank you all for playing.

Here's my confessional.

[Cephrir]

Aw, the spectators liked me! Outside of my trash FTC performance anyway. Yeah, I knew it was trash, but I also knew TS was always going to outargue me at FTC so I guess I was subconsciously just hoping my actions would speak louder. I definitely did suffer somewhat from assuming I was going to win.

[Cephrir]

lel

[Cephrir]

You messed up, my ^^ faces have dots not underscores