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The Cindy Saga; Trouble @ The New Tartan
Topic Started: Jan 26 2015, 12:10 PM (17 Views)
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This is Cindy's attempt at explaining what happened at Tartan while Troy & I continued on Galloway. Intriguing!

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Why hello there, handsome. I see you have a new photo!

So as promised last night, here is the first part of the Saga of New Tartan. I'm going to tell a pretty long story, so I hope you and Troy don't mind if I copy-paste bits of it to both of you.

The best way I can think of to describe this to you is to hearken back to the family visit of Survivor: Amazon, when all the loved ones sit down for a picnic. The great Rob Cesternino sits down next to his mom and the first thing out of his mouth is, "I've been a bad boy, mom."

So...I've been a bad girl, guys. smile.gif

My first thought as soon as I landed on the new tribe: gotta get in the majority. You may recall that prior to the game I'd chatted a lot with Andrea and Penny. (I think when I was fearful of a swap right before we went into the dungeon, I told you guys to seek them out.) I'd chatted slightly less (but still enough) with Cochran and Lill, and I'd chatted pretty much not at all with Eliza and Dawn, so it seemed like the best plan was the one you guys started out with -- Ex-Galloways and Ex-Somerleds come together to take out everyone else. Rocky, Cochran, Lill, and I agreed that first morning that we needed to stick together for as long as we were in the clan together after I pointed out that there were four of us here and four of you over there, and we could just get rid of everyone else. (Yes, I understand that would put us in a minority at final 8, but a lot could happen between now and then, I figured...and indeed it has, but I'll get to that.)

We talked it over a bit and it was pretty clear to everyone that Kenny was playing the game really, really hard, so we decided to blindside him. No muss, no fuss.

And then Kenny pretty much confirmed we were making the right decision. Here's the other thing that was going on at this time -- while we were in the dungeon, I was running some really basic, really dumb experiments. I kept posting pictures of dungeons with pithy little comments about, like, bread and water. (Or like, Princess Vespa from Spaceballs singing in the dungeon.) And I kept not getting marked. Obviously if we could have private-messaged, I'd have had you guys to bounce this off of but I don't think anybody even even noticed or suspected that I was trying anything. No idea if I was right or not, but Brobst did say it was something really simple, and nobody else was doing what I was doing. And then Kenny posted a photo of a dungeon. I couldn't tell if he had caught on to what I was trying, so the VERY FIRST thing I wanted to know when I could message him was...well, had he?

I recognize now that I took this sort of cutesy conspiratorial tone that could be construed to mean I was trying to do that super-aggressive Matt-style gameplay, but instead of writing back, "wow, cool, what did you try?" Kenny's first response was to go to every single other member of the clan to tell them that I was being shady and keeping secrets and he wanted me out. I guess at this stage of the game you're just looking for reasons to target people, so I don't fault him that much. And anyway, I had, by that point, already made the connection with the Somerleds and they saw the logic in blindsiding Kenny (plus maintaining a majority up until -- and probably through -- the merge). It was also easy to fix my reputation for being a shady secret-keeper: I just told everyone I wanted to align with what he was on about, in great detail. (And eventually I told everyone the alleged secret EXCEPT him. That's what you get, Kenny!)

But Kenny, Eliza, and Dawn were so smug about their absolute certainty that I was getting unanimously voted out that they pretty much shut me out. None of them asked me who I was voting for, none of them even offered a bullshit decoy story. I sent Dawn a quick message a few hours before the vote saying, "I think I know how the vote's going down and I'm just going to say that if you consider not voting for me, I'd try to make it up to you." Just to see if she was willing to consider switching a vote, or if she even remotely cared what I was up to. She took this as scrambling and forwarded it around to everyone to giggle at...which kind of tells me something about her character, I guess. Now, in fairness, I was messaging Lill, Cochran, and Rocky with a lot more expediency than the other three, but that's because I was trying to play the game from an iPhone using public wifi. I can see why they thought I'd be an easy boot. They probably thought I was completely expendable -- if I wasn't trying to get something going with them, I obviously wasn't trying to get something going with anybody, I guess.

So the vote goes down without a hitch. 3 votes me, 4 votes Kenny. Eliza and Dawn are FURIOUS with everyone, though neither of them seem to be that upset with me. Both start coming to me with various complex plans. Eliza, to her credit, actually did consider that I might not just be tagging along, and asked ME what WE were thinking, and although things were a little contentious at first, we did clear the air. Dawn, on the other hand, came at me with 12 paragraphs of complicated planning. She said she could get a girls' alliance going with Kim and Andrea, and that I could tag along if I wanted. Gee, thanks. (She also continued to bash me to everyone else, telling them it was really shady that I kept "deleting messages," i.e., not quoting them back when I replied, mostly because it was really easy to screw up the formatting when I was doing it on my phone.)

(I have to admit I was kind of snarky when I rejected her plan. I regret this a little. It was uncalled for.)

Dawn was, most definitely, going to be the next one out if we went to Clan Council. None of the four of us trusted her and we were still trying to decide if it was useful to bring in Eliza. (Though we never got to that point, it was a useful conversation to have because it came up again after the swap.)

So that's chapter one. Coming next, probably this afternoon: Episode Two: Attack of the Fairplay.


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PART 2
And now for the sequel!!

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So where we left off...Dawn was definitely going to get voted out if we'd lost the second challenge. We didn't, though, and....Penny went home?!

Everyone was shocked. We'd sort of assumed the Double Date alliance was going to keep on cruising, and we all figured it'd be Spencer or Fairplay. So as soon as the swaps happened, we were peppering everyone for information.

(and honestly, you guys made the right call. I know that needed to happen to put us in a better position. We're in a really, really good spot right now and that is mostly down to the fact that we're 3 and 3 and not, you know, 5 and 3, which is all you and Troy. So thank you!)

We all knew Rocky was going to be in trouble after the swap. He was probably the hardest player in the bunch (if you asked him, he'd probably say he was the one who spearheaded Kenny's ouster, when really, I think he was the one who suggested Kenny but I was the one who suggested we vote as a group) and Lill and Cochran both thought he was probably going to be the first out of Somerled if they'd ever had to go to Clan Council. Plus, now he was on a tribe with Dawn and Eliza, who were both mad at him, and Kim, whom Dawn said she was close to, and you two, who are far too pragmatic to force a tie for a strategic threat. He was not long for the game. And again, you guys made the right call in getting him out so that we can go in 3 Galloway to 3 Somerled.

But I was happy to talk to Andrea again, and I think that was the best possible swap arrangement, to be honest. She wasn't sure you guys trusted her, but she trusted me and I her, and samesies for her old clanmates so we could talk to her and get her working with us. Fairplay may have played a major role in saving his own skin once, but he never had a chance on the new tribe. He targeted Andrea pretty much from the start, but she was so ready to work with all of us we weren't about to pick him over her.

Spencer voted with us, though, or at least he says he did. After talking to both Spencer and Fairplay a lot, I got the feeling that Fairplay still had friends somewhere but Spencer was kind of a lone wolf. I told him we intended to keep him for the time being, and then right after Brobst opened up our private messages during Clan Council we let him know we were voting for Fairplay and he could choose to join us. He did and he was glad to have been included, so I do think he could be convinced to work with us further.

Which brings us to now, and my impressions of everyone left in the game.

Lill and Cochran: They are smart, they're solid, and I am really glad to have had the opportunity to work with them. I trust them 100%. They can be relied on to take us deep into the game.
Andrea: She's a very level-headed player and super-sweet. I trust her only slightly less than I trust Lill and Cochran.
Spencer: Sort of a free agent at the moment. You guys know as well as I do that he's never online, so I think it'd suit him to have a plan to follow along with. He could prove useful as a swing vote. I don't think he has the resources or the cunning to totally screw us.
Eliza: Could also be a swing vote, though given that she's actively campaigned against me in the past, I don't know that I can trust her to get fully into any kind of plan with us. Still, if you guys liked her really well, and you think you can trust her, I wouldn't rule it out.
Kim: I have really honestly barely talked to her all game, and my impression was that she had some pre-clan ties to the big gamers like Ted and Kenny. That's about all I know.
Dawn: While we've smoothed things over a bit, I still don't trust her as far as I could throw her. My suggestion is that we get her out sooner rather than later. She's just going to stir things up the longer we keep her.

So it looks like we are at the point where we have 3 original Somerleds, 3 original Galloways, and 4 free agents. I think we need to bring in at least one free agent as well, just for insurance, but I'm curious about your thoughts on that.

And now that I've loaded you down with this massive info anvil, I'm very curious for your take on what was happening over on Galloway! Tell me everything!! Who's been cool, who's shady, how did the last vote go down?

Without giving away too much about the real world, let's just say I'm not going anywhere tonight or tomorrow. So I'll be ready with the popcorn to hear all about you! How are things?


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