Survivor PD

Confessionals of the Fallen => Jake Peralta => Topic started by: Holly Short on January 01, 2020, 01:49:58 am

Title: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Holly Short on January 01, 2020, 01:49:58 am
Oh my! Who do we have here? A new officer joining the ranks?

Well thank the fairy heavens for that! The last new recruit we had was Sherly and he’s still bumbling about thinking of himself as a consulting detective. Pff!

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes!

Welcome! We’re excited to have you here.

This is your confessional, where you can post whatever you want. Your thoughts, your ideas, your deepest, darkest feelings! No evidence can be used against you here.

Please make a post in this thread to confirm that you’re still up for the task of joining the force. I wish you the best of luck!
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 27, 2020, 01:48:33 pm
I’ll be making individual player dossiers later  :)
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on June 27, 2020, 02:40:05 pm
Welcome to the game! I'm looking forward to your dossiers.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 27, 2020, 06:01:09 pm
Replies are a bit spotty. I'll give them until the morning and create my dossiers then, before the challenge. I'll try to give an update every day or two, but it'll have to track my interactions with them ofc.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on June 27, 2020, 06:05:19 pm
No worries, in the meantime, I'd love to see if you could do a dossier for yourself. How do you plan on playing this game? What do you think it'll take to be the top brass? And why won't you call Amy?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 27, 2020, 06:57:21 pm
Honestly I haven't the foggiest yet. I signed up as a spectator willing to replace and only got the heads-up from Haschel yesterday. I hadn't given it a lot of thought.

I think I'm going to try to stick with the Jake Peralta mindset. I'm not taking myself very seriously, and I'm going to focus on having fun and being my charming self. That said, Jake also has an ironclad moral and ethical compass, so I'm going to be above-board with my decision to play the game honorably - I'm going to lie as little as possible. That said again, Jake is a crafty sumbitch, so I'm going to try to work that in, too.

(https://i.giphy.com/media/hFROvOhBPQVRm/giphy.webp)
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 27, 2020, 06:57:59 pm
Also, I will be making liberal use of the many high-quality Jake Peralta imgs and gifs on the interwebs.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Scooby-Doo on June 28, 2020, 01:03:44 am
You can't solve this all by yourself, with out a raggy who would be your second in command?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 28, 2020, 09:02:04 am
Thus far, Scruff. Heading over to the challenge.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 28, 2020, 12:15:37 pm
Dossiers are up. I'll keep the first post updated with current information and provide static snapshots every couple of days. I'm also going to stop posting here and start a "27th Precinct" thread to document overall impressions of my time here.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on June 28, 2020, 01:28:47 pm
The dossiers are top tier. Can you tell me a bit about your methodology into determining the trust and how you positioned them as allies or enemies?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 28, 2020, 04:03:41 pm
Well, I don’t have enemies, per se. I’ve had good moments with the entire tribe, as I’ll attest to as I catch up on the dossiers. What I do have is a read on their position within the tribe relative to me. Scruff, Lennie, and I seem to be the core of the group, with Paul as a secondary hub and Leon trying to get along with everyone. Hannah’s communication has been patchy but pleasant. Ace, however, hasn’t even spoken to some tribe members, and has been vague or closed-off with others. He naturally seems the bottom, and Hannah has few allies. Scruff is worried that Lennie is playing us, and I’m worried that he’s a sleeper threat.

Overall, though, threats are a gut read. Scruff, for example, I think is earnest in wanting to pair with me, but if he’s playing me I’m screwed. You’ve got to trust someone if you want to be trustworthy yourself.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on June 28, 2020, 05:02:56 pm
It sounds like you're willing to go all in with Scruff, from that last statement. But what makes you so worried? Do you have experiences from previous games where you were tied to a sinking ship that caused your downfall? If so, what can you do to prevent that?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 28, 2020, 07:36:25 pm
For now let's just say that I have trusted too early and too easily to my eventual woe.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 28, 2020, 07:36:48 pm
I don't think that's the case here, but I didn't then either.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on June 29, 2020, 07:15:51 am
Quote from: Jake Peralta on June 28, 2020, 07:36:25 pm
For now let's just say that I have trusted too early and too easily to my eventual woe.

You don't have to go into specifics, since it's a sore subject. But there's always takeaways and improvements. What are you going to do differently this time so that you can become the ultimate Survivor?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Abby Sciuto on June 30, 2020, 05:43:35 pm
Going to give this question thing a try.

How big of a fan of survivor are you? How many seasons have you watched? And what player would you like to model you game after?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on June 30, 2020, 08:26:50 pm
Hi Abby! Thanks for your question. I've been an off-and-on fan since the first season, but I've been paying a lot more attention in the last couple of years. I try not to model myself after any one player. I prefer to draw inspiration from a number of different examples in an intuitive, freeform strategy.

I wouldn't usually call myself a social threat, but emulating Jake Peralta has really been working out for me, and I believe I am on at least friendly terms with everyone in the tribe, even poor Ace, who we just voted out. Everyone but Hannah has either sought an alliance with me or at least discussed coordinating our votes for now, and she's coming around too. It's a new feeling for me.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on July 01, 2020, 05:52:25 pm
Congratulations on immunity - you're now in the top x-teen! Your safe for another round and I figured I'd take your pulse. Did your ranking of your favorite tribemates change in the past couple of days?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on July 01, 2020, 07:43:22 pm
Hmmmm, maybe a little? I'm absolutely thrashed. The last two days have been my busiest all year by a wide margin. I want nothing more than to go curl up in bed and go to sleep. With us winning the challenge, I think I can take the night and sleep until I'm human again. My schedule for the rest of the week should be pretty wide open, however, so I hope to add a lot of detail to my dossiers over the next two days.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on July 02, 2020, 06:31:29 am
Get some rest - you deserve it. If you could just give me a ranked list of your tribemates by favorability, I would be much obliged.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on July 02, 2020, 07:35:09 am
1) Scruff
2) Leon
----- These two have my near-total trust. We've entered into an explicit three-way alliance, and have been availing ourselves of this game's authorization of three-way PMs.
3) Lennie - you asked for favorability, not trust. I quite like Lennie. We get along, have a number of cultural interest in common, and have a similar generational outlook. He's almost certainly playing to his own agenda, though, and likely views the loose "Good Old Boys" alliance we discussed but never formalized as temporary. That includes Scruff, Lennie, and I, and we have ad hoc added Leon into the mix.
4) Hannah - Again, we're talking about favorability. After some early disconnects, Hannah and I have found a rapport nerding out over strategy and tactical games, with a known compatibility for tabletop RPGs on deck. We have not, however, made collaborative overtures, and she appears to be on bottom for everyone else. As much as I'd like to get to know her better and would be interested in bringing her on board, she's definitely the path of least resistance should we go to TC with this tribe. I'm hoping we avoid that.
5) Paul - We haven't really found much to like one another yet, but there is definitely mutual respect. We've been exchanging more strategy than anything else, and he's solicited collaboration from me. I think what we respect about one another is the old chestnut about game recognizing game. I can tell he's got his own plans he's working, but he's giving away nothing about their content. I might be mirror reading a bit, but I think that's his position as well. He's a threat, but also an asset to the team. I'm torn about whether I want to risk making a move against him soon or risk letting him gain momentum.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on July 02, 2020, 04:16:30 pm
It sounds like you have a bit of a shakeup if we talk about trust. Would your rankings differ if you were talking about trust? Why would it move up or down?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on July 02, 2020, 06:36:59 pm
What's your thought process going into this challenge? Are you optimistic about your chances of doing well?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on July 02, 2020, 08:21:20 pm
Quote from: Heiji Hattori on July 02, 2020, 04:16:30 pm
It sounds like you have a bit of a shakeup if we talk about trust. Would your rankings differ if you were talking about trust? Why would it move up or down?
Oh absolutely.

Scruff I feel is a kindred soul. I think he, like myself, wants badly to have someone trustworthy and clever to go back to back with. I think he sees every incentive and advantage to lay all of his cards on the table with me, and I feel about the same.

Leon I’m in roughly the same place. He’s open, blunt, and enthusiastic. He seems to have stumbled a little with some people at first and is eager to have allies. My only reservation is whether he’s telling the truth about being a newbie. I think he is, but this could be a brilliant Xanatos gambit.

Hannah is next, actually. She seems to know she’s on bottom or near it. She hasn’t made any collaborative overtures, but she IS trying to make friends. That gives her a certain earnestness. She’s not in a place to make moves right now.

Lennie seems to be on board with my core group, but we have reservations about him. We are all getting strong vibes that he has his own agenda, and views his loose allegiance to us as temporary convenience. While he would likely rely on a P27 tribemate in a swap, I think he would jump ship if given a better offer.

Paul is a goddamn enigma to me. He has been willing to collaborate, but has expressed only vague platitudes for the future. I don’t know whether he’s just playing a conservative, opaque game, or if he’s trying to play all sides, or what. Maybe he’s playing straight, but I don’t know.
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on July 02, 2020, 08:24:11 pm
Quote from: Heiji Hattori on July 02, 2020, 06:36:59 pm
What's your thought process going into this challenge? Are you optimistic about your chances of doing well?
I haven’t the foggiest. This looks like a reverse Elite Sheep kind of thing and that complicates honesty. I’d rather if it were something like scoring points for guessing correctly which labels your tribe mates would give you, instead of what labels they’d give themselves. Wait, that’s how to do this...figure out what they’d say about themselves. Score. Thanks for effectively being a wall to bounce the idea off of!
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Heiji Hattori on July 04, 2020, 05:20:07 am
What are your thoughts going into this tribal council? What have you heard and what will you try to accomplish?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Tachikoma on July 05, 2020, 11:59:54 am
Hey! What's happening?
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on July 05, 2020, 12:06:10 pm
Oh my damn, I forgot to respond here! Sorry, guys. I just sent my vote in. I've been focused so much on PMs that until I saw the new post icon here I forgot all about my confessional. It's looking unanimous against Hannah, but with plenty of spicy drama along the way.

I'm going to update my dossiers, then try to summarize what's gone down. Stay tuned!
Title: Re: Welcome to your confessional!
Post by: Jake Peralta on July 05, 2020, 03:03:55 pm
Rolling out new dossier files