Volume VI: Venatus Exorsus, Chapter 2: Battles

[Randy Bailey]

Been a quiet round but a few battles have occured. Such as in my thread, status wars, karma wars. Us winning the Immunity (yah) and perhaps winning Mick over... Also finding out Todd voted Rob :/

[Randy Bailey]

:/ Running late again on this.

Well I think my thread has worked quite well. I hope it has managed to reaffirm people on my side and make them solid. I don't like the drama but I think it's needed. I believe they are already making mistakes and I think that alliance is faulty.

Right now I considered my main alliance beyond Rob and Nat to be with Cirie and Tom. I think thats a solid F5. Cirie, one of my most affective "assets" I have ever used in a game. She is great at executing my cross-tribal plans and I owe her alot. So at the moment, I can see her with a nice 4th place. I sometimes worry about her loyality to me, I have heard stories about her and I fear if she thinks she doesn't have a good chance of going far, she might flip. But I think right now, everyone must realise the greater threat and not worry about minor alliances right now. Tom, my first ally ever in an ORG, I trust alot. However we had earlier problems where Frosti lied to him saying I was saying all this stuff about him, which was not even true. So I hope we can get back to solid. I told Nat to tell him who she was, as he played in previous seasons in order to gain his full trust. Also so that Tom didn't feel he was 5th on an alliance, he may feel that with Nat he could indeed get higher. Atleast this is if he doesn't think he will get far with me personally. So I am mircomanaging making sure everyone feels safe. As for Rob and Nat. I trust them 100%. In a game this big, I have often complained I know, but the trust you develop is so much bigger. You have to virtually. I think Rob truly showed how commited he was when he used his double vote for me. I had told Nat that if it looks like Corrine will self vote (I got her to make a bootlist! and she is back from holiday now) to get Rob to use his double vote. She of course did this and he didn't even ask a question. Sadly it turned out we didn't need it so I felt bad for wasting it but it was all good. Nat hasn't told Rob about the HII I believe which is a good move at this stage. Rob it seems let it slip about the double vote and I don't want that happening with one of our biggest weapons.

I have considered the use of the HII recently. First with potentially saving Ash (So glad I didn't!) although that was nothing serious. I have considered using it for the potential Aras vote which may be happening if they get down to 7. Or atleast Aras is worried. I am not sure now however incase they split the vote again so that is something to think about. The other obvious option is at the merge where we can pull a "Russell" and take one of Yul or Taj out. It all depends on whether they target me or not, if Aras is in the game, we will know for sure who they are targeting so it is crucial he survives. The only problem is whether he can survive F7 (if it gets to that point) and we still have a HII and they believe he is with them. It will be interesting for sure.

We won immunity really quick which I suppose was lucky. Had Todd or Mick been online I think we may of gone to TC instead. However I think Amanda took the prize because Yul told her to so like a good dog, she did his dirty work once again. It is really sad how these people have no brains and don't seem to realise they will not make the F3 or whatever with Yul. ZERO chance. Ethan and Terry are going there now I took Paloma out. But whatever, if they are that blind they can continue doing that.

Nat believes she has won Mick back to our side. She's been talking to him a fair bit recently which is good. My concern is he may flip at the merge, which is the last thing we need. If we have got him, thats good. But Corrine is a safer option. I just hope she sticks around for the challenges. If she does it will complicate by F5 even further but we will come to that bridge when we cross it.

I also discovered Todd voted for Rob. How? It was quite clever. Together with Nat, we each got a copy of Todd's and Micks votes. Todd's was taken using imageshack and oddly made at 8:08AM that day... Which I found really odd. Mick's was taking after the votes were in (I think about 3AM) using tinypic. So after a while of arguing back and forth over who's was real (my argument was that Todd's was at 8:08AM which would be impossible, she said that it would be easy to edit that in), I thought of checking past votes and seeing who used what image hoster. I think this is a fairly unique thing and as they had both used different image hosters we could check. After checking the vote they both claimed was theirs, we then checked previous votes of theirs. Todd's were all from imageshack and Mick's were all from tinypic. And the vote? The vote was from tinypic...So It must of been Micks vote. I still have doubts because of Todd's time and I doubt he would of thought to edit the time to check me. I will check the Rob vote and see if thats from imageshack (which I only just thought of now!!!) but we have decided that Todd will go next for going against the tribe/us/me. The jury found him guilty of treason

Any questions ask