(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

[orcinus_theoriginal]

I think mine are 0-4-1-3-2

[yabbaguy]

I think mine are 0-4-1-3-2

Third time lucky?

orcinus_theoriginal

*buzzer, laughter from everyone*

Nope, nobody had 0-4-1-3-2 today! By the looks of it, Xalxe will remain our next contender! Once I get done with this bastard essay, I'll send him the details.

[yabbaguy]

PMing Xalxe now. Geez what a week. x_x

[yabbaguy]

Sorry, just didn't want to start filming on April Fool's Day. You never know with you lot...

---

$500,000 is on the line.



But this isn't just luck.

This... is Optimize!

*Intro Theme, camera spins around with a quick glance at 20 virtual sets of spheres. It zooms in one set which spontaneously opens to show the innards of the spheres. A golden sphere flies in, spins around while it's opening, and shows a red $0 sign inside. It shuts, spins and opens again, and this time shows an ultraviolet $500,000 (where 0,01 euro and 1 000 000 euros are shown). The sphere closes and opens again, now showing all sorts of game components flying around on screen, with amounts of money on different colored backgrounds flying into the monitor and all the spheres are flying about. An ultraviolet sphere then flies in where it should be in the logo as its button turns red and the other letters fly in as the theme concludes.*

*main theme, out I come from under the monitor, which lifts up "magically" so that I can come through the walkway onto the stage*

Hiiiiiii everyone!!! Hello audience!

*audience applauds, players are seen clapping as I come on out, theme dies down after I make my long walk out to the center of the Arena*

Welcome all to another game of our new season of Optimize. Well, 6 games down and we've seen 2 each of red, blue, and most recently green results. Unfortunately, for CJ, he learned the hard way just how fickle those golden spheres can be. After green had been dwindled down to $400 after just round 12, the green golden spheres, as per their tradition, just did not want to go anywhere. He had a glimmer of hope with $10K, which would've been our first UV win of the new season, but alas, $400 it would be.

Now, our next contender - our lucky seventh and coming to us from Italy nowadays, it's Xalxe!!!

*everyone cheers, the lift platform ascends and brings Xalxe up with it. Spotlights swirl around, as do chase lights as the lift platform completes its ascent all the way to the top, bringing all the lighting back to normal*

Hi Xalxe. Still remember that day you taught me it was pronounced zal-ZAY.

Well, there you are, the 100 colorful spheres and the 20 golden spheres surround you at last. How do you plan to overcome them?

[Cheery Dog]

It's still april, who says the fooling stops on the first?

[Xalxe]

How do I plan to overcome them? Well, that's going to be very difficult, as they've not been very kind lately, have they? But I'm sure that using my powers of deduction

(as well as modly powers)

(wait what)

I'll come out a big winner!

[Nobody Special]

*fidgets nervously*

[yabbaguy]

If I update any slower, he'll use his

secret mod powers

*cough cough* against me, I bet. xD

Xalxe, you've got four sectors to make money on. You, like it seems with a bunch of contenders, picked a 3 to start your game off from our silver sphere drawing backstage. Find someone who can pick a colorful sphere from 0-4 that's higher than that target, and that same color money ladder moves up one space. However, you only get the money on one of those ladders at the end, and that's determined by the color of golden sphere you pick at the end. Keep your eyes open - those odds are gonna shift as we go.

Let's go!

*monitor loads in, camera swoops around to show Xalxe's intimidating view of all the spheres that lie before him*

Kcdaspot
JerryArr
Drench
Mist7676
animorpherv1

JDGA
orcinus_theoriginal
xtopherusD
bird1111
JasonWazza

NoWhammies11
Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
Tragedy
StrangerCoug

DiplomatDC
puzzledan
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

First time I get to host while on this shiny black set. At least

I

set my forum this way.

Right, whoever you pick only can win you money if they find that 4 sphere, so I'd suggest picking the color you don't really want to build up today. Buono fortuna!

[Xalxe]

Green has really been a bitch these last few games. I'm gonna break its spirits.

orcinus

, don't fuck this up for me.

[Nobody Special]

*fidgets nervously*

[Xalxe]

[secret mod powers intensify]

[yabbaguy]

orcinus_theoriginal

Indeed an interesting choice, orcinus has yet to find his 4, but he's also yet to be in the sector that paid off at the end of the game. Let's see!

orcinus, you're first. Good luck! Those five spheres have numbers 0-4, find the only sphere that's higher than a 3 and you've got green up to $400.

[Kcdaspot]

[breathing intensifies]

[Xalxe]

[secret mod powers intensify]

[yabbaguy]

Original Roll String: 5d5

5 5-Sided Dice: (3, 2, 3, 3, 3) = 14

[yabbaguy]

Spheres 4 and 1 selected.

orcinus_theoriginal

*lid bends back on its hinge, revealing the contents inside the lid*

orcinus_theoriginal

*audience cheers explosively, set turns green*

Oh hey! Green is spared as it advances to $400 instead! Brilliant!

Now in every round we open two spheres. However, since you opened a 4, we're gonna take this time to open another one of orcinus' spheres. Otherwise you'd have a 4 for your next target. Annnnnnd...that'd suck.

So, here we go. This sphere can't affect the cash, but it becomes your next target whatever it is. Hope it's a 0...

orcinus_theoriginal

*here it comes!*

orcinus_theoriginal

*oohs, applause*

Nearly! That's a great start to the game!

orcinus_theoriginal

Kcdaspot
JerryArr
Drench
Mist7676
animorpherv1

JDGA
xtopherusD
bird1111
JasonWazza

NoWhammies11
Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
Tragedy
StrangerCoug

DiplomatDC
puzzledan
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

If one tries to fail and succeeds, what did they do? I have a feeling I've done that joke before on this show. I can never remember. xD

So, that went swimmingly. Target of 1 should

supposedly

be simpler.

[Xalxe]

Woohoo!

NoWhammies11

, don't Whammy out.

*mild polite chuckles*

[yabbaguy]

NoWhammies11

The only player who struck big bucks yesterday for the green sector! Let's see if 11 can beat his first target of 1.

[NoWhammies11]

Let's do it, then.

2-4-3-0-1

[yabbaguy]

NoWhammies11

*flip*

NoWhammies11

*applause, everything flashes blue momentarily*

Two in a row! We could still have our first perfect 20 out of 20!

...okay, I think the eventual heat death or collision with the Andromeda galaxy would statistically be more likely to happen first. xD

NoWhammies11

You had a couple of them right!

Now for this second sphere of the round, it's gonna be a golden sphere:

*spotlights all focus on the golden spheres as the surroundings go dark, I walk over*

(8)

(6)

(4)

(2)

At the end of the game, you only get one of those amounts of money you've been building up in each of our 4 sectors. Which sector's cash you actually win is determined by the golden sphere you select, or are stuck with, at the end of the game.

But every time we don't waste our time fixing a target of 4, we drop a golden sphere instead. That's gonna mess with the odds of each amount paying off, so be careful!

*counts off the first one, unlocks the second one*

That first one is the one you saved by picking that 4.

*lid comes up to reveal...*

[gasping intensifies]

From whence you came! Blue takes a big knock and it's down to 3 golden spheres!

Kcdaspot
JerryArr
Drench
Mist7676
animorpherv1

JDGA
xtopherusD
bird1111
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
Tragedy
StrangerCoug

DiplomatDC
puzzledan
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

Back to that pesky target of 3, but you knocked the last one over. If you can find a 4 or a 0 here, perfect.

[Xalxe]

Ugh, dicks.

puzzledan

...meh, do whatever.

[yabbaguy]

puzzledan

I'm realizing there's a lot of flukes considering how this queue got a lot of names jammed in edgewise as we went. For instance, this is only dan's first time opening an ultraviolet sphere.

This time we're not terribly interested in the $500K. Although, puzzledan, if you come over the top of THIS 3, that'll be a 3-bagger to start the game.

[puzzledan]

Ultraviolet I like it here more money but more pressure
Last time I think I had a 3 I pulled a 4 out let's do the same here

3 and 5

[yabbaguy]

You last pulled a 4 in Feirei's game I believe. Well, what the heck, let's see indeed!

puzzledan

*puzzledan raises the hatch*

puzzledan

*awws, set flashes grayscale*

Xalxe, I'm afraid math finally caught up to you. In fact, dan actually needed the easiest target in fact to pay off there.

puzzledan

*spotlights light up golden spheres, I step over to them*

(8)

(6)

(3)

(2)

You did send a 3 to ultraviolet. I wonder if the golden spheres will vindicate that decision in the end. In every game of the new edition so far, they have.

*flip*

*oohs*

That's now a hit to both of the colors you've got money on already. Uh oh!

Kcdaspot
JerryArr
Drench
Mist7676
animorpherv1

JDGA
xtopherusD
bird1111
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
Tragedy
StrangerCoug

DiplomatDC
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

Started with a 3, then a 1, then a 3, now your target's on 1. The seesaw is in motion.

Who to?

[Xalxe]

Shit. Well...

JasonWazza

, why not.