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Post by zach on Jun 17, 2017 7:02:56 GMT
how have I ever done well in an ORG
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Post by zach on Jun 17, 2017 9:16:52 GMT
My goal was to win this round's HoH, and I'm fairly sure it's going to happen given I don't think a lot of people will be trying and also I think I broke the record by a landside if I did it right plus it is actually 300. If no one gets higher than that this time except me I'm going to laugh and then nervously slink away into the darkness never to be heard from again until my evicition. But yeah, I wanted to win and I feel like I have a pretty good reason for it. It'll help me not only solidify allies I want to keep long term like Porsche, Becky, Jun, Michael, Howard etc, but it'll show them that I am willing to win a comp for them and that I'm not going to be throwing just in case that's ever suspected. PLUS there are plenty of people I can nom without it being too big an issue. Tiff, Jackie, and Cody are all people I've hardly talked to and I cannot imagine people would be upset seeing them on the block. Jenn also I GUESS is a possibility but I don't really want to open that bag of worms rn even though she was repeatedly """joking""" about targeting me when I was her DT for a little bit. My sig is because of her, I was on reddit just browsing randomly as she was trying to intimidate me (again not like I took it seriously even tho I probably should I'm just used to Nav doing this by now) and I saw this and wasn't really sure what to say or do so I just sent it as an immediate response. I like it.  I helped figure out the cycles for the DTs so that was fun. Becky and Jun were the ones who initially figured out there was a pattern (or well they were the ones that told me) and then with the help of Shelli we found the new pattern after the cliques switched around. Fun stuff aye? But yeah that's really it for now, hope all of you are having a lovely day/night. The people I've been liking a lot that I feel like wouldn't be a COMMON answer amongst most of the cast would include Erika and Arlie. I've actually had a bunch of fun talking to them and maybe with Arlie it does zone out every so often, it's still overall fun and I feel like connecting with them is gonna help me a lot gamewise in the future when I need protection from the social goliaths like Jun, Shelli, etc. We'll see tho!!!! |
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Post by zach on Jun 17, 2017 22:28:12 GMT
*wins HoH by over 100 posts*
Yeah that won't be a future problem or anything.
Cody winning is gonna make this interesting too but we talked a bit last night and I would have probably felt bad nomming him after that so may be for the best tbh. Probably nomming tiff just not 100% sure about the 2nd, I'll figure thst out once I get home and talk to everyone |
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Post by zach on Jun 18, 2017 1:51:31 GMT
So with that, I'm HoH! Woo, first time this has happened where it actually matters who I nom. Exciting change of pace and I plan on trying to use it to my advantage as far as solidifying bonds I've been trying to make and MAYBE even making some new ones. I know there is always the fact that I can come up as a threat given I won an HoH, and specifically in this case it was by a lot, but I don't think my threat status is exactly going away so I might as well use it to my advantage. If I need to I can probably slink back into the background again if I play my cards right but worst case I'm at least having some fun given it's also been a while since I've won any individual challenge tbh.   I was thinking about noms and like I said I thought I had some pretty easy choices. I hadn't spoken a ton with Tiffany at all and she's my Direct Target. PLUS she's pretty bad at comps as far as I can tell so I feel like it'd ultimately end well. I wasn't so sure about the 2nd nom but figured Jackie and I hadn't talked a ton this game and we hadn't really talked about our rocky history with rnf12 so didn't think nomming her would really hurt me that much.  So that was the plan, although was still not 100% sold on Jackie being the other nom cuz I didn't think Ika would love it. It then JUST SO HAPPENED that Jen messages me and......asks to be nommed? She initially told me that I should post soon to nom her because she "assumed" I would. I had no intentions and I told her that but then she told me the real reason why she was saying that. She figured that Cody would nominate her anyway and put her next to Porsche because she literally hasn't messaged Cody this game and Porsche nominated him last week. In order to avoid risking being next to Porsche, he wanted to be against her in the Botb. Makes sense and tbh I understand where he's coming from. He said he probably won't win Botb with Tiff and he won't be mad about nomming me so like, it seems like a total win win. He DID say that he didn't want me to tell anyone that he wanted to be nommed. :porshe:  MINOR issue was that I told Porsche and Shelli right before he said that lmao. I was probably going to do it anyway but I did still feel bad. I was filling them both in on the talks I was having with Jen and then later on with what I was talking about with Cody.  So not like I spoke to Cody much before this but the conversation planning everything out went extraordinarily well for me. I told him that I wanted to nominate Tiff because we don't talk and Jen because of a bit of rocky history plus not talking a ton. He said he was going to nom Porsche and Jen but that he didn't care about picking a different 2nd nom. Clutch move, and he wanted to put up one of Jackie, Shelli, or Michael in her place. He asked me if I had any preference and considering I plan on working p closely with Shelli and Michael I figured it'd be super brownie points telling them I was preventing them from being nommed, plus I wanted to nom Jackie anyway before so it worked out.  Ika wasn't pleased about Jackie going up and she seemed surprised so I was that much happier that I wasn't the one who nommed her. As long as Cody was ACTUALLY ok with the noms I think this went perfect for me, because I don't think Jen is going to try very hard to win if it puts Porsche at risk. Worst case Jen does carry and win the Botb, I'm dethroned, but now Jackie goes instead.     Most importantly I got to solidify some stuff with basically all of the above people. If they compare notes I'm totally effed but I essentially said that I wanted to win HoH and talk to them about noms to prove that I wanted to work with them in the future and solidify stuff. I would like to do that with Howard too but idk if he's going to be on in time. I didn't actually say those exact words to Becky (Pretty sure I came close to copy-pasting them with the other 4 lmao) and I think I want to make a 3 person thing with her and Jun cuz I know they're close and I want to jump aboard the train. Bringing in Natalie can be fun too but I don't want to get too ambitious because when I'm inevitably caught with my pants down I'd rather not be laughed at TOO much. But yeah, things seem to be going well and I hope this remains to be the case. |
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Post by zach on Jun 18, 2017 3:56:23 GMT
  Z A C H
WELCOME TO THE SECOND NOMINATION CEREMONY OF RNF AS3! Just here to commemorate an old friend's nomination style so shout out to Aisha for using this in the first place and it's a shame we don't get to play together again 
But let's get into this shin-dig! As HoH I have to choose two of you as nominees. Not like I have a ton of options with the cliques twist in place but I was happy to talk to most of you before getting around to posting this.
That being said, I need to go through this key reveal ceremony and reveal who is safe and who is not. Then my counterpart will get to steal the show with his own ceremony (still love ya Cody  )
So without further ado, the first key.........
{1st key....}  David! You're safe
{2nd key....}  Shelli! You're safe
{3rd key....}  Jackie! You're safe
{4th key....}  Porsche! You're safe
{5th key....}  Arlie! You're safe
{6th key....}  Michael! You're safe
{7th key....}  Steve! You're safe
{Final key....}  Natalie! You're safe
{Final Nominees} This means I have nominated Tiff and Jen for eviction this round. Tiff, like we discussed we just haven't talked very much and I felt like that was the case for you and the rest of the cast so I figured it would produce the least blood. Jen, we haven't talked all that much and pretty much the same of what I said for Tiff goes for you. Hopefully no hard feelings to either of you but I'll understand if there are.
This nomination ceremony is adjourned. Good luck to my nominations in the Battle of the Block and the Power of Veto, and good luck to Cody for his ceremony shortly enough.
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Post by austin on Jun 18, 2017 5:48:47 GMT
That was a nice update! Keep those up, very insightful!  |
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Post by zach on Jun 18, 2017 9:41:20 GMT
Lol porsche we aint goin anywhere bisch. Understandable agent cody banks but you nevah nominate one of michaels girls and get away with it Stuff like this is why I'm nervous about aligning with Porsche. You know its bad when you know someone is known for being able to play a lot of people with once and stellar social game and are still pretty close to letting it happen. Jen wants to essentially throw for her, Michael says that, someone else is probably going to offer up an unborn child soon, it's gonna be a lot. Right now it only helps me to fill in Porsche about stuff going down and prove worth and stuff. This means if it comes down to me and another one of her allies she will hopefully at least pick me. Idk tho, we'll need to see. I plan on making enough connections where I won't need to rely on her anyway, but that's easier said than done and emotionally and egotistically it feels a bit lame that you can't trust someone you really like. |
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Post by zach on Jun 18, 2017 21:36:36 GMT
Totally could have won this PoV because I'm pretty good at mazes but I spent too long trying to avoid hitting the walls and then I still did and I was too cautious. Rip, hopefully someone random wins it and not Jen/Tiff.
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Post by Kat on Jun 19, 2017 17:24:25 GMT
Just so you know, you accidentally went through the wall at the start lol It was kinda tricky to see bc of the green square but yeah Also you will need to start thinking of a replacement as the entire veto ceremony will only take 24 hours! 1:21 PM EST is the deadline Attachments:
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Post by zach on Jun 19, 2017 17:43:30 GMT
Fml
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Post by zach on Jun 20, 2017 1:01:27 GMT
OK YEAH I SHOULD PROBABLY UPDATE THIS BEING HOH AND DECIDING NOMS RIGHT ok i'll write up something now and then probably make my normal nom shortly after that.
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Post by zach on Jun 20, 2017 1:21:38 GMT
I'm so annoyed with myself because I had that veto won if I wasn't a blind bat. If I won veto it made everything easy and I wouldn't need to worry about getting anyone mad. Alas, here we are an Jen wins so now she gets to take herself off. Good for her ofc given she asked to be on the block in the first place and now we're here, but it was kinda annoying that she was taking so long to "Decide" to use it on herself or not. Had the situation been different she might have even used it on Tiff and screwed me after I helped her and that would have been pretty awful. However we talked it out and she said that despite how fun it is to annoy me I did her a solid so she'll remember that. HOPING i can cash in on that favor eventually but we'll see if I even make it that far. So this means I need to make a replacement nom. I had been talking to my allies who I would maybe do all of the last few days and I had pretty consistently said Jackie because we hadn't talked very much. Here is the issue: I don't want her to leave. If I nom her and she leaves I just wasted my HoH on someone leaving who I didn't want and DT gets to walk away free. Not like the DT played a huge roll in me making that nom, but I was already on the path of voting off Tiff from the get-go and if she heard about that then her staying around would be NO bueno. This means that I needed to make SURE that I would have the votes to keep her. So this brings us here where I finally made that alliance I was intending on doing. I went to both of them telling them pretty outright I wanted an alliance with them and they were down. Becky asked if I was interested in adding a 4th and I suggested Natalie (which I figured is what she was trying to get at) so I THINK the plan was to talk about that with her but idk if they did yet and if they did it's probably bad that I didn't so I'm trying to get that sorted. Its a fun alliance tho and I feel like we're a pretty powerful group. This means I have them and then SUPER strong individual relationships with Shelli and Porsche seperately, while also kinda having a winners-ish allinace that we aren't really sure is real because Ika hardly talks to us. Worst case we get to be a thing but that might be a later thing to worry about. Either way I feel about as confident as I can cuz I know both are excellent players and can easily play me if they choose to, but I'm hoping they do not lol. I basically told Porsche she was my closest ally (a classification I'm not even sure is a lie or not) so I'm hoping that helps. All of those 5 above will more than likely help me out and evict Tiff over Jackie. This means I just need a few more to be 100% sure that she'll be ok because I just need 8 votes and me as a TB to have the numbers.  Funnily enough before I talked to him I was actually intending on asking if he would VOLUNTEER to be a pawn lmao. Very glad I didn't do that because not only is that dumb but the convo we had was really good and he gave me his opinion on the Tiff vs Jackie thing. He said that he would vote Tiff out there because he has a good relationship with me and I'm essentially asking, rather than feeling close to Jackie. That's cool and I appreciated him telling me his thoughts about the situation. I also wanted to talk to Ika because I knew she loved Jackie. I essentially asked her her blessing and to see if she'd have a better alternative and she said that it would be ok and Jackie would probably understand once I made it clear I've been working hard to keep her safe. Michael and I have tried to rekindle our bond from the previous season and while I doubt it's quite so strong he said taht he would vote Tiff out the other night. That makes 8 and I'm hoping everyone else basically follows suit. I know Jen is going to make things difficult and campaign for Tiff but I can't imagine enough people getting on board to do that. If they do I'm literally EFFED next week. So this brings us to the moment we've all been waiting for; telling Jackie I'm nominating her. COULD HAVE STARTED OUT BETTER. I was pretty awkward with the delivery because I wasn't quite sure what to say. She was obviously very pissed and it was especially awkward given I thought she hadn't messaged me in a few days, where in fact it was the other way around and I forgot to respond to her. Oopsie-daisy. She said she didn't know why she was going up and she trusted me and didn't want to come off to a bad start again AND how she was nominated week 2 the other seasons she was here (a hilarious fact I did not know about until now). I had no idea what to say other than repeatedly saying I'm sorry, I'm working my butt off to keep her safe, and I understand her being mad because she should and I'm glad we were talking about it. Eventually everything cooled off but I think that was more Jackie not wanting to dig a hole too deep than me working any sort of social magic. She has accepted she's going up and so that is the plan barring something crazy. I think that's everything important? I'm weaving myself a very dangerous web but there is no point in doing anything other than going all out so like eh, it is what it is. I can't see my relationships having conflicts of interest too extreme until a few rounds into the game.  Also I wish Howard was around more cuz he's fun and I don't want him targetted/eliminated. My clique is probably the weakest one at comps so I'm a little worried someone takes the archaic approach of targetting cliques. 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Post by zach on Jun 20, 2017 3:44:51 GMT
I can't believe me saying something without a comma and having someone misinterpret something I said is getting me in trouble AGAIN in this series!!!!! I think I'm still targetting Tiff but GEEZ Jackie is being so whiney about it. I understand not wanting to be nominated but why on EARTH would you call out the HoH publicly when you're on the block?  ?? Did she not learn from last time when she was messy or the time before that!!!! ?? Ughhhhh whatever this is my fault for not winning the STUPID maze. |
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Post by zach on Jun 20, 2017 4:06:28 GMT
Very different start to my season this time around. I think I have the same-ish sorts of interweaving webs of groups and alliances but I think it's different this time because I'm way more visible off the bat. Hoping that means I'm at least used as a shield or something.
I feel bad but this was one way to kickstart the game. Def got my head in it 10000%
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Post by zach on Jun 20, 2017 4:37:17 GMT
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?? Did she not learn from last time when she was messy or the time before that!!!!
