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Post by Ellis on Jun 3, 2009 0:47:15 GMT -5
Soooo... a few things to say.
I've just voted for a citizen for the first time in this game. Unfortunately there wasn't a solid bloc to vote off Levi, so I couldn't risk voting on my own on this one - it's completely against my strategy. I might also say that this is the first time in the game I've really thought it likely I was voting off a citizen. Alma and Paris I both thought were spies, and ok, I was technically wrong about Paris, but he was scummy.
Did I think Yvette was a citizen? I thought it was likely, but not certain. My gut said Levi was the spy out of those two (it'll be pretty bad now if he's not) and I thought certain facts about the early challenges made him look guilty. Unfortunately, Levi wasn't on the table, and Yvette was... for the first time I think the spies were working together more effectively than the citizens in this game. I don't think we were going to exile a spy this time, whatever happened.
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 8:25:38 GMT -5
It's been a while since I've done a big beefy confessional so here goes. First off, sorry again about the whole task thing. I can't emphasize enough that even though I'm playing unconventionally (even for me) I'm not trying to be disrespectful or to not give it my all. Part of my strategy here is obviously to appear as though I don't have a strategy, and that ties into it. It doesn't mean that I'm not taking the game seriously. I meant to do something relevant that the other guys would laugh at when I was gone (and I do expect to be gone by then). Obviously I missed the mark. Having said that, I still want to vote for "Lizard People" this exile.  Who WILL I be voting for this exile? Well, let me see... I'd have to guess... . . . Everyone but myself. Yay! (Oh wait, we have to decide an order in which to vote for them? Well that's harder then.) A few days I would have said it was 90% certain that Levi's a spy. Now, I just don't know. I can't tell if this is a frame-up or whether he's just making a last-ditch effort to look like he's spyhunting by accusing people like Mirela. Making a big list of suspects like he's done is not what I'd expect a spy to do, but an unconventional one might try it, and Levi's not the conventional sort. Damn, he needs to be investigated and fast. He's like a giant elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge, and because of that he's going to last a long time. It's happened before in Spies games - spies have been suspected by a lot of people, but nobody's sure or trusts each other enough and so they last a long time. (For vets, Alison in Spies 2 was a prime example.) Then again, the same has happened with citizens (Rodney in the same game.) What worries me is that I cannot for the life of me work out which Levi is. Is he a spy or a citizen? I don't know. My gut says spy. A lot of the facts from early on suggest he's a spy. But recently, he's been making a huge effort. Self-preservation or wants to help? I can't tell.  Meanwhile we've got all the other players like Ed, William, Amelia, Oswald... big suspects, yet I really don't have enough information about them to isolate a single one of them. When that happens, what tends to happen instead is that the citizens pick on the more obvious target, like Yvette. Who subsequently turns out to be a citizen and everyone looks foolish as hell. So let's say that one of Donald and Oswald is a spy, the other one is perfectly innocent. The spies know which, the citizens don't. In an atmosphere where the citizens aren't in any kind of agreement, which one do you think is the more likely to be exiled, the citizen or the spy? I know which one I'd put my money on. Kirsten's one of my fave players right now, which is difficult because since I've started doubting about Levi, I've also started doubting her. If she's a spy she's very, very dangerous. And she voted Gretchen, not Jaya, which is a big black mark against her. She can explain it very well, but what have I said before in my confessional about giving the spies a chance to excuse their actions? Never ends well. What I think I'm going to do is to just go right back to the beginning, take people's first posts (when they were uninformed about how the game would go) and contrast them to what I know now. See if anything jumps out. Maybe I can get another spy read from that. |
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 8:28:30 GMT -5
I will give you one definite thing: I think that, following Alma and Jaya, the spies are probably lurking like mad and trying to work undercover. And it's working for them.
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 18:30:31 GMT -5
I've gone to a good deal of trouble to try and appear as harmless as possible. Should this ever be translated to mean that I'm not giving this 100%, I'd ask the accuser to take a look at these two pictures. The first is a shot of what ONE of my two browser windows looks like now (there's a maximum number of firefox tabs my computer can take before it gives up and crashes):  And this is what I'm trying to do in the run-up to exile:  As usual, it's driving me slightly mad. |
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 18:33:48 GMT -5
Also - if you want 180 browser windows (two instances of firefox, ninety tabs each, count 'em) open at one time, it is rather helpful if you get a 24" monitor like mine. I'm trying to work the numbers here, since going on evidence so far is leading me nowhere. I still think Levi's a live suspect but the wrong people seem to be suspecting him. Maybe he's not a spy, maybe they're not, I don't know. Trying to chart exactly who's suspecting who and when should help me work things out in my own head. |
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 20:08:20 GMT -5
Just time for a quick confessional. I think Donald is a spy and I've been trying to gather support to get him out.
I doubt I've got enough, but let's see what happens.
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 20:38:18 GMT -5
Ariel is doing another quiz while Sam counts the votes.
It's actually painful to see everyone struggling over answers like the names of Agamemnon's wife and children. Not because I think everyone else is thick (we can't all have a degree in classics, after all) but because the urge to show just how intellectually superior I am to everyone else is overwhelming to someone of my temperament and character (socially-inept classics geek).
I've answered a small part of one question so far...
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 21:05:39 GMT -5
DONALD IS AN EVIL DIRTY SPU! And if I'd actually managed to get my vote right, I'd be celebrating an epic win right now...  Seriously, this has not been a good round for me, activity-wise. Oh well, I'll try and make up for it in episode five. |
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Post by Ellis on Jun 7, 2009 21:16:24 GMT -5
Final thoughts: it's ironic that the fact that I was completely incompetent when it came to voting might be the one thing that saves me from getting imprisoned this coming round... it's hard to see how the spies could know much I was behind this one, unless someone blabs. All I basically did was try to finish off what Kirsten had started. She'll be the public face of Donald's exile, but not necessarily to people like Ed and Ariel.
This should be an interesting imprisonment... and by interesting I mean "terrifying"...
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Post by sluticia on Aug 16, 2009 10:20:15 GMT -5
What in the world would you need 180 browser tabs for?!?  |
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Post by Ellis on Aug 16, 2009 14:15:48 GMT -5
What in the world would you need 180 browser tabs for?!? If you want to go through every single conversation, confessional and burg post you've ever had with five separate people, then trust me it helps. |
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