I have a question for both of you: At any point during this game, did you ever try to purposefully do worse in a challenge to manage your threat level on that front? Did you ever sit out for similar reasons?

Hercule, this is something we talked about a little, but I want you to elaborate a little more on how you felt the swaps helped or hurt you. You were with Judy basically the entire game, how did this effect the way you played with her? Additionally, you were part of the tiger idol finders, and it was widely known that you found it first and let Judy keep while the target was on her. Was that a good move on your part or not?

Luci, I don't think there's any particular things I want to ask you about how you used this game to your advantage, because I think that's exactly what you did, you took the hand the game dealt you, and you used it as best as you possibly could and you are here. So, instead, what I will ask you is, is there something about the structure of the game that you used for your benefit that maybe we as the jury don't know about, or something you want to highlight about your play that you don't think we'd ask about and was vital to your journey this game?

Luci, you made it!!! I'm so proud of you my bestest friend. But, oof, that speech buddy. It's very vague, and I'll address more of it over in the strategy thread, but the part I want to get at here is different. At no point in your opening speech do you name anybody specific with any thing. And I would really like you to go through what sort of connections you had to each of the jurors and what they meant to you. You had to do a lot to get here, and had to do with with people, so tell us about it. What are the social highlights of your path to the end here?

Hercule, mon ami, I have a similar yet different task for you. You did talk a lot about how you connected to people int his merge, but a lot of how you spoke made it sound like you were forced into making certain social decisions, and you distanced yourself from them and glossed over other bits. And that's not good enough for me. You betrayed me super hard and brutally, and while that doesn't mean you have lost my vote because of it, you have a whole lot more justifying of it, and distancing from it won't do you any favours. I don't want you to apologize and wring your hands over how bad a person/player you were for making those moves, I want you to own them. One of your biggest strengths is your social game, no? So I want you to elaborate on how you best used that to your advantage, as well as where you misjudged and messed up. And do it where you talk about people as people, not just people chess. I want to know how you connected to people as themselves and how you played on that front.

@mods: are we limited in the amount of questions/responses we're allowed to have? Also are you going to be strict about where we ask questions? Like do they have to fit whatever overarching category or can we ask whatever we want to ask wherever as long as an attempt to fit the preferred threads is made?

He's absolutely all of them. It was so satisfying.

*shrugs* I don't think it's so cut and dry. Maybe for you it is, and that's your metric for voting, which is fine. But I've seen some amazing games not win because their FTC was trash, and other games that nobody even considered a possibility knock it out of the park. So I suppose it's a difference of opinion on that front, I always wait until closing speeches before I even consider saying whether or not the person who got to choose their FTC partner(s) chose incorrectly or not.

Is he though? I think either path Lucifer takes is a particularly hard one depending on how he sells his game. I can see reasonings for going either way. Also, I don't think us as a whole jury is 100% set on voting for anybody not Lucifer or all in on Rust. FTC can make or break all of them depending on what it is that we ask them and what information we already have. I think it's a little naive to call it now should Luci choose Rust to sit next to him.

I thought I'd have more actual questions for you about stuff, but nah, I don't really. You did really really well for your first game especially being in a different time zone, so kudos.