Am I doing this right? Pre-Game Thoughts?

[fei]

Testing 1, 2, 3...

[fei]

Oh sweet! It worked!

[Sandy]

*waves*

[Deleted]

*flashes peen*

[fei]

OMG SICK!OMG YOU GUYS I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS.

BRIAN JUST OFFERED ME A CORE 4 OF 5 PEOPLE. WHAT IS MY LIFE?

[adrian]

Sept 12, 2013 9:15:28 GMT -5 @tucker said:

*flashes peen*

#Jacob

[fei]

Aight y'all. 

So I think eventually I'm going to end up with one of those Journal-type confessionals (aka all in one thread) as opposed to episodic confessionals (all different threads)--sorry if you hate that but it's just more fun for me to read after the game is over! Since this is here, though, I might as well write in it and let you know my thoughts so far.

My thoughts when the cast was revealed, in no particular order:

Omg someone is 14!
Omg someone is 48! 
Omg someone is named ANIMAL!?
Omg someone is named HONEY!?
Is this real life? 
WHAT. IS. THIS. GAME?

Then! Of course, 14 year old Burger King BK PM's (do you still call it PM on Proboards?) me right away and asks for an alliance. Literally? 10 minutes into the cast reveal. I can't even. And apparently there's Survivor games on Instagram, who knew? And why didn't they tell me. I said "Sounds intriguing" aka no way in hell, and to hit me up on skype or AIM. 2 seconds later he's added me. LIKE DAMNN! I immediately, messaged Sandy and was all, "I need a confessional. Right. Now." 

My next course of action was, of course, to see if there were any familiar faces, so I could A) Run to them for comfort or B) Run away and hide. As luck would have it, there was one of each. In category A, we have my friend Greg Gee. Gee and I are RL friends. Well, as RL as someone you met online and have gone on several vacations with can be. I think you even cropped me out of that leaderboard pic. I've never played with Gee, but I know a bit about how he plays and he's a crafty sucker. Luckily, I feel like we won't have the need to go after each other cause LOL this cast. Gee and I spent most of last night WTFing: "OMG We're on SKYPE!" "HOW DO WE USE PROBOARDS" "OMG BK OFFERED ME AN ALLIANCE TOO" "LOLOL." Clearly a match made in heaven. 

In pseudo-category B we have Aaron. Now, I wouldn't exactly say that Aaron makes me want to run away and hide. However, him being in a game with me does cause me some amount of trepidation. I know what he's capable of and I think he's the only one of these people who would know the full-extent of my relationship with Gee. Since he's been around the block a bit, he's less likely to give a shit about that relationship but I have to keep it in the back of my mind. Unlike Gee, I HAVE played in 2 games with Aaron (which, he didn't give a shit about and was voted out like 1st or 2nd) but still he intimidates me.  I can tell Aaron is actually trying a bit this time around. He im'ed me first an struck up one of the more interesting convos of my night. 

I already alluded to BK. To relate to him I felt like I had to use text-speak from someone with no thumbs. Where did you find this kid? Last night he offers me an alliance, talks to me for two minutes. THEN, I get to work this morning and he's Im'ed Me, Jedda, Ricky, and Nicole, to say "We should be the core 4." How a Core 4 can consist of 5 people I have no fucking idea. As far as I can tell, Ricky is trashed and I haven't talked to him at all. Jedda said one word. Nicole wasn't even online at the time. LOL.

I had some ok-good conversations with Brooke, Lexi, and David Nex. Brooke seemed interested in talking, until a lot of the boys signed on. So I hope her strategy isn't the flirting cause LOL these are ORGS--barking up the wrong tree.

Lexie intrigued me, which means she probably drew other people's attention as well. Shes normal(!) and somewhat awkward. Sort of your Zooey Deschanelesque Manic Pixie Dreamgirl. Aka she will probably get to the end of this game. I can already tell she's smart, as she looked up the meanings of the prospective tribe names, and didn't fall for my typical pregame question, "Have you met everyone yet?" aka who's cool and who are you thinking about working with. I'd like her on my side but she and Brooke both know Sassy so I'm feeling like if there is a Black Widow partnership going on, they may already be it. 

I only talked to Nex a little bit. For a 48 year old, though he was actually ok. Not what I was expecting. I kept being reminded of one of my friends (who's my age) and the fact that shes dating a guy who's nearly 50. So I kept trying to act like her and think about what a 48 year old might want to talk about. Apparently he's a party animal though, since this morning Aaron and I both received a Skype call from him and Ricky who I don't think had gone to bed yet. 

I had some more boring/forced convos with Brenda, who seems like your typical overbearing lady Facebook gamer and some very brief interactions with Jedda and Ricky this morning, via our Core 4 (5?) "alliance." 

This morning I got a chance to talk to a few more people. First I headed for Nicole, since I figured I better, y'know, actually talk to the people in my alliance. She seems sweet and not sneaky in the same way that I saw Lexie. Might be too soon to tell, though. 

Also had a brief interaction with "Honey" aka some alias white guy who asked me who I was on Tengaged. To which I replied, "isurvivor is on proboards" and she said "cool i gotchu". Girl. Please. 

Just now I'm getting to talk to Zack. And, just as his avatar pick would have me believe, he's a smart and funny goofball. Again, because I feel this way, probably lots of other people do too, so I'll have to be careful. For now though, I'm enjoying shooting the shit with him...as much as I can at work. 

Cody Animal is the crazy one in the Blast Chat Base camp chat. But I haven't had a chance to talk to him one-on-one. I also got a PM from Woody, but without a Skype I think he's pretty much done in this game. 

I haven't had a chance to talk to any of the returnees yet. But, Joe is someone who is one of my ORGing "Missed Connections." We've played in two games together and the first time he had to vote me out very early on. I got 16th and he ended up winning the game--Jermaine was also in that game and voted me out -_-. Second time around I had to vote him off in the early merge without ever having been on a tribe together. Joe kind of reminds me of Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh, a little blue but also still lovable in his own way. I'm excited to HOPEFULLY actually get to play on the same tribe as him for more than 2 seconds. Then again, I have never seen Joe lose a F2, so I'd be silly to go with him that far. 

My strategy for now is to kind of sit back, make nice with people and just watch things unfold. There are, CLEARLY, some people who came to play hard, and fast. And I can do that too if I have to. It seems to me though that a lot of these crazies will bring each other down so I just have to be myself and see what happens! 

[fei]

OMG I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID! HONEY IS EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW!

I ALSO LOVE JEDDA AKA KIERAN 2.0

[fei]

Since our group managed to break the Skype I suppose now is a good time as any to give a little update.

First off, let me iterate that this is the part of games that I loathe! I hate juggling 21 convos. I hate pretending that I'm going to act on all of these fake "deals" when I know full well I'm just biding my time until we get our tribe assignments.

Mostly, I hate the feeling that I cant know whats going on at all corners of the tribe at once. In smaller tribes of 7-8, you can kinda catch wind of rumblings. In a cast of 21 its like I have no idea who could be playing me. In the 20 minutes that I forget I'm talking to someone are they talking to someone else? Or just chillaxing? Too much room for the paranoia to set in. The images of people having separate skype chats (one's where I'm not included) haunt my thoughts. Not enough time resources to make sure I know what's going on or to read people in the way that I would like.

We had some huge group Skyping this evening. Ricky is clearly playing the OTT Drunkie gay, aka the type of gay that I normally hate. If he's able to reign it in I'd probably adore him buttttt. Nothing really much else to note except: David/Nex is just a little creepy, Quanz is a bitty baby, Brookie is a fucking lunatic and Honey is a goddess.

I also briefly talked to Jedda, and we were actually hitting it off great. Then, all of a sudden, he goes away. So it makes me wonder if that's his game--to start convos w/people and then get them to reveal stuff. We'll see. As Joe said, "I'm wary of the cute gays."

After Jedda, and Gee and I talked, I got to talk with Zack. I'm really gravitating to the more MORish players right now and think that Zack would be a good person to work with. Again, I think probably lots of people are thinking that. I'm trying to get a bit closer to David/Nex and Nicole, I think they might be having more trouble getting into the swing than others, so I want them on my side. Also, let it be known that I never want to be on a tribe with Honey because I'm pretty sure voting her off would mean an auto-hatred from the entire cast as well as the Viewers Lounge.

I haven't really spoken with Jeff, Jordan, Tabatha, Woody, or Brenda. Good thing is Joe has...so maybe/hopefully we can do some divide and conquer action.

For the love of god please give me a tribe

[fei]

Wait. Are we technically in Episode 1?

[Deleted]

Yes