I'm going to send Judy this with like one minute to go just to make her have a heart attack if I am actually going home

HITCHCOCK: Thank you so much for saving Mable.
SCULLY: Mable is what he calls his favorite toilet seat.  Thank you so much for rescuing Gloria.
HITCHCOCK: Gloria is Scully's girl.  And by girl I mean toilet seat.  She's in the stall right next door to Mable.
SCULLY: Anyway, sorry you haven't seen us lately.  We've been getting... reacquainted.
HITCHCOCK: We're here now though!  So can you please catch us up on your game so far?  Give us the full debriefing!
SCULLY: Well, maybe not the full debriefing.  Maybe just a few sentences.
HITCHCOCK: Three sentences or less, please!

My friends! It appears you started paying attention to this game at the same time I did.

Long story short:
I attempted to rally the 4 BAUs against the 3 SVUs, voting for Judy (SVU)
Jake (BAU) wanted to go after Lucifer (also BAU) so I tried to continue to push Judy but make allowances for it being Lucifer by making it clear to people that I wouldn't be entirely against voting for him.
I went to sleep for the night and someone tipped off Lucifer that I'd put his name out there. And suddenly it's 4-3 at best, with me going home. Jake and Penelope are allies but I don't get the feeling that Jake at the very least (and probably Penelope too) are so locked into being my friend that they'd risk their games to save me.
So I tried to go to Judy and tell her I was being forced to Tiger her out, but it turned out she already had the tiger. But we had an open discussion about options and she seemed willing to go after Jake or Penelope. I tried to make out that I was this extremely loyal person by standing by Penelope and going after Jake.
Then I talked to Poirot and it was pretty clear he was after a unanimous vote. Lucifer wouldn't talk to me. And Lennie told me my messages were terrible and that it didn't make sense for him to keep me.

So then I made a fake idol and told Jake I was idolling out Lennie, because Jake/Lennie were (I thought) super close and he'd leak it and they'd change the target. But Jake was on board and didn't leak >.>
So then I had to fill in Penelope too because otherwise that looks suspicious and suddenly they're both in for a 6*-1 on me. Which obviously is just going to be a 6-1 on me but I can't tell them that because this fake idol is my last chance.
So then I overact to get the paranoia to set in everywhere in the hope that that will make people split votes, and hopefully *that* will make my team split votes. But now I've got to sign off for a bit for the whole overacting bit. I also can't message anyone on the other side because then they'll know I'm looking for options and that doesn't look like I have an idol.


So yeah I'm going home. But maybe not! Please paranoia god do your work

I need to overact in the opposite direction. I need to act like I'm going home so hard that it gets suspicious.

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck what would make people think I had the idol

really bad acting?

oh my god why do my allies like me I need them not to like me fuck

Welcome to the Nick Brainstorming thread, where you get a million things thrown at you in the one TC Nick has before he probably dies. But maybe for once he doesn't! Tune in later to hear more.

Important live thinking stuff.

Where did I find the form? This is important. It has to have been somewhere that has since been removed. It has to have been somewhere that wouldn't show up as edited, which gets rid of basically all of this forum. It has to have been somewhere nobody would look.

Application Form is the reasonable one, but Application Form is not a good option because it's already been used. I can't exactly say they hid the idol in the same place twice. Same goes for basically anything in the rules thread.

Start of game, start of game... It has to be start of game, because that's probably where there wasn't really an idol. If I claim to have found an idol at the same time as someone else found one but via a different method, nobody would believe me.

Haschel's MS profile. Good start. Unlikely to have been checked, if it was I'm screwed but ah well. Can't be anything that shows in thread so location is out. Wiki page maybe?
No, wiki page shows when it was last edited.

Interests field. Bingo. It was edited to the form link and then edited back after. Nobody would ever have checked that.
But then why did I? I guess I was searching more? There's no clue anywhere. How would that ever happen without a clue somewhere. I guess maybe I stumbled on it without a clue? Agh.


My thinking for how exactly the form works is that you submit, get given a message at tribeswap telling you that you've been promoted and have a chance for an idol *and* advantage if you find something important. Is that overkill? It's a hard thing to find though. The way to get it was to complete the sergeant's exam completely backwards, and it excludes you from going for the normal idol for that. I think that works. Police Chief promotion.

What's the advantage though? Extra vote? Can't be anything too OTT because standard game. Extra vote works I guess.

Ooooooor

Option 2: Idol Lennie out of the game

Well not really. But give the impression that I'm going to!

Fake idols are a really hard thing to pull off. I've tried and failed a lot before. The real problem is that you have no reason to tell your opponents that you're idolling, and if you do, they're less likely to think you have one. If you're trying to convincingly fake an idol play, the only people you can tell are your allies.

Which is a bad thing, because then said allies think you have an idol and are safe. Hence, any attempts to save you grind to a halt.

BUT

What if one of those allies had a friend on the other side? Someone they might tip off to ensure that the vote was split, or moved onto someone else?

Lennie just told me to my face that he doesn't think I PM enough and wants me to go home. That sounds like a perfect reason to idol him out to me! And I might just share that with Jake...

I'm not willing to target Penelope. I know she'd probably be the person I should be shifting it to if I want the best chance of living but... if you start being willing to do absolutely anything to survive in the game, you might go the distance but you're going to hate yourself when the game is over. At least for me. I have to have a line somewhere and right now, that's mine.
That's not even because I liked her much on 12th. She was someone I felt like would be amazing if she talked, but who didn't talk, to the extent that I might have wanted to vote her out before Chan even (although that was because I liked him). But she's opened up massively since we swapped to this tribe, and given Chase is gone that's the beacon of trust I have in this game right now. I'm not willing to betray that and I hope you can understand that; if that sends me home, so be it =/

Okay so, things are getting interesting.

I just had possibly the most frank conversation I've ever had with someone leading a vote on me. Judy is an interesting character indeed. She was straightforward about what she was doing and why and the fact that I was likely going home.

So it seems to be 4-3 right now, SVU+Lucifer vs Jake/Penelope/myself. In addition it seems that the tiger is likely being used on Judy. Going after her is a non-starter even if we can get Lucifer on board.

Lennie would easily easily be my choice if I had one, but Jake doesn't want to do that because he's tight with Lennie. SVU won't vote for each other either so Lennie's completely out as a target. Poirot, nobody would ever bite.

That leaves my fellow BAU players, Penelope, Jake, and Lucifer. Lucifer is potentially an option but it's clear that Lennie is pushing for me, and Lucifer just made it clear to SVU he'd vote with them, so why would they cut him loose? Jake is an option and someone Judy actually wants out, so that looks promising, but then I have to figure out how to make my way around Lennie considering SVU probably don't want to alienate him.

That leaves Penelope. But Penelope is amazing and probably my closest ally here. Sure, she's not the most connected, but would I really stab my friend in the back like that?

...

MUAHAHAHA of course I would