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| Post #46: 23rd Feb 2018 8:52:30 AM | |
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Fred Weasley
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| Post #47: 23rd Feb 2018 9:13:09 AM | |
No personal anecdote to share for this round :(
At least not really. I've just been really busy the last few days and the way this challenge was formatted with not being able to talk to anyone on Slack for almost a day, it was hard to really find much to talk about here too. Life is good I guess! Our tribe came up with a really great idea for how to go about the challenge where we all had codes we were going to say as soon as we started talking so that way we would be able to tell we were us. Then, when I logged on and had a few people message me, when they figured out I was legit they put me in a group chat where we knew that everyone was good, making it easier to organize. I think it was mostly headed by Angelina and Maxime but Lily was one of the first people online despite being in the same timezone as me so bravo to her. Team effort as far as winning was concerned! (Well, minus me maybe but I tried whenever I could like pre-slack closing I tried contributing to the strategy chatter in the tribe chat).
Won the challenge, don't need to worry about getting voted out when it seems like we are close to a merge, and now hopefully someone who I have no relationship with is going to end up going on the other tribe. Ideally that would be Amos, Newt, or Sev. Like I said in past confessionals though, a part of me is just really interested by Sev and I do kinda want to work with him if the opportunity comes up. If it doesn't, I won't be losing any sleep.
Lily did talk to me about specifically wanting to work together though so that was extremely exciting and amazing. The honeymoon effect from round 1 definitely wore off a bit where I'm not just blinded by her but I feel like we would work well together? I may try talking to her about idol stuff tomorrow. Cedric hasn't been super present the last few days (for me anyway) so I think that means I'm going to need to try harder to branch out especially if we go to tribal again because I want to be considered more valuable in case it comes down to the two of us, which I feel like is pretty possible with the people we have on our tribe. Hope not, but just trying to be realistic.
Also I think people should like, short sell my stock or something. I have no idea how I've managed to get 0 digits correct on so many number code guesses and still have found nothing for the Slytherin idol and it's almost time for the merge. Those things have to be gone (or well the Hufflepuff one probably is, the Slytherin one may still be there if we are getting a system rework like Cedric said when I asked him about my guesses). I just need to assume the worst that everyone has a magical mysterious idol except for me and I just need to not give anyone any reasons to want to idol me out :) | | |
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| Post #48: 23rd Feb 2018 9:38:15 AM | |
Ok actually I do have a small personal anecdote that I just realized this could be fun but isn't related to the game at all so sorry about that.
Have you ever gone looking for music and came across something that reminds you of a time in your past and it just sorta all comes rushing over you? Emotion and all? I personally go through phases of music depending on what is going on in my head. If I am feeling really busy or stressed, I go to something fast paced and bouncy like Eurobeat or something from electronica. That's because it helps distract my brain when I'm doing something else and the beat is something small that won't distract me too much to the point where I won't get work done. If I am feeling more at peace, then I'd listen to something like alternative rock or punk or something just because of how that kind of music is able to take over my brain with waves of emotion. I don't need to be thinking of anything else because it's just me listening to the melody and the lyrics of the artist. It's an amazing feeling and I highly recommend periods where you just sit there, and listen.
It really does clear your mind and is probably the closest we are ever going to get to time travel. Like for me, I was going through some music playlists on youtube and I was directed to Death Cab for Cutie and I immediately put it on and just sat back and listened. I've had a lot of stress taking up a lot of parts of my brain the last week or so and I feel like by doing this I'm getting a sort of cleansing where I'll have a fresh mind and be ready for anything in the near future. I was flashed back to an admittedly edgier time in my life, but one that I can look back on pretty happily. That's why I can't imagine going for so long on Survivor or Big Brother where not only can you not listen to music, but you can't even sing it because of copyright issues on camera, I'd go nuts without any sort of music.
But for now, I am here, and for now, I feel at peace and ready for a new tomorrow. | | |
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| Post #49: 24th Feb 2018 5:08:47 AM | |
This tie is crazy and if Mira gets eliminated without playing her idol I'll be devastated.
And if she did play her idol but it was for someone else I'd feel even more devastated :(
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| Post #51: 24th Feb 2018 8:06:42 AM | |
I wanted to add this in ASAP but the second the merge hit, both Gilderoy and Mira instantly began hitting me up with Slack messages about what happened at their voted and my god does it sure sound like something. 3 idols at once TC with one of them gone by Snape being voted out (maybe) and the other being played by Amos. Mira still has hers after a null was played and just.......wow.
I'm taking in all the info from both sides and then I'm going to need to sift through it to see which one I ultimately go with. Now this is what I signed up for. I just thought it was funny that I'm close with both and they both spilled their opposing tribal stories at the same time to me when I saw they messaged me. | | |
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| Post #52: 24th Feb 2018 10:46:42 PM | |
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| Post #53: 24th Feb 2018 10:53:32 PM | |
Not like anything is going to be there anyway but Ron just told me about it existing. Also that Lily and Snape found it together!
I hate that I was right and Lily was close with Snape and has been leaving me out of the loop. She keeps acting like she's completely oblivious, like when I was talking about the Hufflepuff idol being in his possession she seemed so surprised.
Supposedly, at least from the various stories I received from Lockhart, Mira, and Ron, Amos had the Ravenclaw idol and played it on himself. The plan was to split the vote 2-2 on him and Snape and then Lockhart lied to Ron about voting for Amos and instead voted with him for Mira, somehow expecting Ron to make the flip with him during the revote to get Mira out for still having an idol. Because Ron isn't braindead he of course did not go with that plan and instead voted against the people who just lied to him.
Meanwhile, through all of this, Snape supposedly had the Hufflepuff idol. Why did he not play it, who knows, but I'm assuming that either something happened to it or because he was frozen he wasn't allowed to play or pass it. The thing is he passed an idol null to Lockhart at some point that ended up being played on Mira so I'm likely going to get to the bottom of that eventually. But yeah, so Lily probably helped Snape find the idol in the first place, plus now with this room of requirement thing that came out of seemingly nowhere, I'm trying to decide whether or not I should confront her. I want to work with her and now with Snape being gone and Lockhart probably next then I'll have to be her go to (well and Amos I guess). The thing is, is it worth her knowing I know that I'm on to her or do I just let her go on pretending she knows way less than she does. She's definitely good, I'll give her that. | | |
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| Post #54: 26th Feb 2018 8:35:54 AM | |
This is a bit of a weird spot I'm finding myself in. I think it's............good? But also not? Idk, and here's why.
Like I said, at the start of the round I began getting info from both Mira and Lockhart about what had been going down. Idols, death-matches, all that jazz. As the round has moved on, this has translated from Mira's side and Lockhart's side. I'm not sure if I have 100% of the story of what's going on, but I'm getting enough to where I can still try and make the bigger picture.
As far as I can tell, Mira, Newt, Ron, Draco, and Maxime are almost definitely voting together for Lockhart and/or Amos or something. Lockhart is pretty sure that he has Lily, Amos, which I feel like isn't a hard thing to assume, and also Angelina, Cormac, and Pomfrey, which I don't think comes off as expected for the Mira side. I say "think," but should say "know for sure because I asked and brought up the concern and no one seemed to say anything.' Even before Lockhart said anything I realized this may be closer than at first glance. I was looking at the memory wall and noticed that sure, on the other tribe, Lockhart was in huge amounts of tribal if he went to another tribal. Mira is a social beast and I think usually she would be able to talk circles around him, given the right crowd.
Her problem now is being on a new tribe with people she either hasn't talked to in a while or at all. She never shared a tribe with Cormac or Pomfrey, Lily was literally saved by Lockhart, and Angelina was probably working with Snape for a while now (but more on that later). Those 5 plus Amos and Lockhart make 7 and, here at 12, that is obviously a majority. Now, Mira is clearly not in any danger anyway because she can just use her idol, but one of her allies can, and honestly I think at this point will, be in a lot of trouble.
See though, for me, I don't want either of Lockhart or Mira to go. Not only do I think that I can work with either of them if it comes down to it, but I like talking to the both of them and have pretty great conversations. The problem with choosing a side is getting the other side mad, which means that I need to find a way to minimize the damage caused for this round no matter what I do. My "problem" is that I've already been pretty vocal with both sides. For me, it really comes down to one thing.
Who leaving is best for me.
I feel like that should be a roundly motto. I'm worried about going into this merge leaning back and just seeing people leave and having me float along to the end. I guess that does work in survivor, but I don't know if that's going to translate well here, and even if it does, I'm not sure if I've prepared myself to be able to do that. If, hypothetically, I pick a side, for argument's sake lets just saw Mira's because I have the official alliance there with Maxime and Draco too, I don't know if I'll be able to float all that well. Even if the side sticks together a couple votes, picks people off, Lockhart, Amos, maybe Lily? Then what? I feel like Ron or Newt or someone would be willing to flip by then assuming there is something going on not including him, or maybe it'll be me actually who was left out from the beginning and now I've just waited until my alliance could pick me off. In a really long winded way, I think that if I'm not aggressive enough I'm going to end up being eliminated early to mid merge.
But what does that mean? Especially for this round, what does that mean? I think it means that I just need to try my best keeping people in the game who I think will work with ME. That means trying to keep someone like Lockhart around, Lily, Mira, etc. That means that this round, I need one of Amos or Newt to go. Right now, I think it's pretty possible that we'll see Newt go if nothing changes with the Lockhart side. Because that's the name myself and Pomfrey has brought up, I feel like they'd be most willing to stick to that in an effort to appeal to us (and Cormac) as the potential swings for this round. The fact that Pomfrey, Cormac, and I see ourselves in such a similar position, along with the fact that I talk to Pomfrey probably most of anyone in the game along with Cormac and I being close after exchanging game info like idol stuff, makes me want to make something official with them. The only problem is that I feel like I'm getting my hands in too many pockets and I feel like I'm going to get caught sooner rather than later. I'll sleep on it but especially if this Newt vote happens this is the way I'm leaning.
However, if we do this, a really big part of me wants to make sure that we flip and vote out Amos the next round. Now the problem with that, obviously, is that we'll make it painfully obvious that we are flip flopping in the middle and we'll get targeted or whatever. That's why i think it's important to feed the fire of hatred between Lockhart and the other side. For example, Lily probably would want Ron gone if she had the option because she supposedly doesn't like him very much after the round he tried to vote her out. If we keep people around who definitely do not like each other, then it'll be far easier to play the middle.
Still a tricky position though and realistically I'm not sure if I'm skilled enough to be able to navigate it. I wouldn't be able to rely on idols or challenges because I've blown in the process of finding and trying in both. That means I need to rely on my social game which.......yeah. I mean it's fine but I'll be the first to admit that the fact I have to reply to almost 90% of conversations saying "yeah hi I've just been doing some work that I should have done already this weekend what about you????" is not a good sign. That will be an especially bad time when I need to start betraying people so, *shrug*.
Oh and the thing about Angelina, well Mira was saying that she lied to her about the hufflepuff guesses she was making. That old tribe had apparently basically known everyone's guesses thanks to Snape and Angelina going around asking and spreading them around. Not sure how this didn't put up a red flag and how this is only now coming up, but probably because everyone else who I've talked to from that old tribe (Lily) have been in the core of that probable alliance. I also asked Lily about the room of requirement and she essentially said that its what saved her and where she got the double vote from which made sense. I'm sure she purposefully never talked about it but not like it's the biggest deal in the world. She of course talked about wanting to work together and said that she had been talking to Angelina and wanted to know what I thought of her, to which I told her the truth in that I like talking to her but just isn't exactly happening a ton. So again, pretty clear sign that Angelina is locked in that side despite Maxime wanting to add her to some sort of group/alliance a couple days ago.
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So yeah, I'm sorry for the wall of text, but I'm not really sure how to break that up into pictures haha. It's a lot of strategy talk without me even saying who I'm probably voting for which I recognize, but I'm honestly going to need to sleep on it and wait throughout the day. I need to talk to Cormac, because if he is voting Newt then he will probably be going regardless and then it becomes a matter of do I tell Mira and then have her idol him and we vote out Amos or something, or do I say nothing and maybe try to swing something to where I still get to vote with them as an informant/spy or something. IDK, I'll figure it out.
God, I feel like I've been saying that so much the last week.
To try ending this off on a better note than just a wall of me talking about strategy. The last several days IRL I've been distracted by a lot of things. This game, stupid stuff online, fortunately nothing bad personally despite finding myself in what I call "depression naps." I've just felt very overwhelmed with hopping into this and having to worry about the home stretch of this year school wise and sometimes it makes me break down on the inside and just decide to do none of it and sleep (hence the "depression nap"). It's not healthy, and certainly not good for my upcoming GPA, but whenever it happens and whenever I talk about it, I seem to always have the same canned response.
"I'll figure it out."
And like, idk if I actually will? I probably will, and I've managed this far. I think regardless of this game I would be having trouble with motivation and doing my work and not getting distracted by something else random, so it's a matter of me needing to just put the pedal to the metal and trying the best that I can. It's just hard. I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well in school and in almost anything that I do and because of that when something like this happens, it does not go well. I'm not really sure where this is going now because it's turned into a bit of a stream of consciousness and kind of depressing lol, so I would like to try fixing that.
I do think that while on one hand "I'll figure it out" is a bit of a cop out, trying to push something off from the moment, it also acts as an opportunity. I have the luxury of not needing to know exactly what I am doing at this very second. I do have the luxury of dealing with it later, and as long as I have the confidence in myself where I can figure it out later, then that's what I'm going to keep saying. And I do, btw, have that confidence in myself. I hate sitting around moping about life, I feel like if I do that then nothing productive happens. I just have to shrug it off best I can and move on to solve the problem or if I do fail, I need to shrug that off and move onto the next thing so I can redeem myself. Whether it's doing badly on a test or always arriving late to an advantage or idol, I know that I just need to shrug it off and move on to the next thing. As long as I can come in the clutch in the moment that I need it most, everything leading up to then is just a beginners trial for the final test. That is what round 6 means to me right now; it's the first beginners trial of the final test that I will be facing at some point here in the Enchanted 2 merge. | | |
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| Post #55: 27th Feb 2018 10:30:59 PM | |
Just to wrap things up in a bit of a bow after last one, not a lot changed over the course of the day. Mira and Maxime and Draco all seemed pretty sure that there was nothing to worry about with Cormac and Pomfrey even though I was voicing that maybe there was a reason to worry (which there clearly was but I didn't want to tell them directly). I was really busy around the dead line which made everything very awkward, but getting added to a 7 person chat saying they were voting newt made my choice pretty easy even if I hadn't already decided. The only decision left to make was whether or not to tell Mira to play her idol on Newt or not. I didn't want to risk them changing the vote on me and then making it obvious that I leaked and then I'd be in a lot of trouble which I didn't want to risk for Newt of all people so I decided to just keep quiet.
I got added to two chats though like 5 minutes after the other which made it all even more awkward that I wasn't around. I was not only not talking to the side I wasn't voting with and seeming sketchy, but I was also not responding to and seeming sketchy to the side I was actually with! Angelina was also in both chats which is a thing in it of itself because not like I told anyone that I was lying about voting Amos/Lockhart and not like Cormac or Pomfrey were in the chat. So that meant that in order to cover my bases I went to Angelina individually to "check in" to make sure the plan was still Newt. I was voting Newt regardless but I figured it minimized the potential sketchiness that would have been emitted by me.
Round 8
Immediately after everything happened (I guess I'll include that here)......well actually I didn't do anything.I had to wait until I got home about an hour or so later to check in with everyone. The newt side seemed fine but I was confused anyway with the Mira side because they all agreed to vote Amos and there were three votes Lockhart, with Ron throwing his vote and Draco sticking to the plan. Ron I knew was throwing his vote because he said he was going to (how he doesn't think this makes him look bad is beyond me given he won't just pick a side [he says having been playing the middle all of last round]) but I didn't know about the switching so I asked Mira after it happened. Apparently they didn't get to me because I wasn't around but she decided to vote Lockhart with Maxime and Newt last minute. Why? I have no idea, I can't really think of any way that would have worked unless they were trying a last minute split in case Amos had an idol or something, but it was just very strange. She seemed to be outwardly understanding of what I did and she said she was glad she had someone on the other side she could trust, but then immediately removed Angelina and I from the chat she made and made another one with her, Draco and Ron (that Ron leaked immediately after happening to probably everyone else in the game, or at least me and Angelina). Yeah.......so idk if I still have a chance with Mira anymore. I would like to! In an ideal world I would, but I understandably do not right now and that just means I'm going to need to adapt.
Angelina also said something about Maxime accidentally spilling that she was in a batman named alliance which made me facepalm. At first I was going to play it cool, but then I figured that knowing Maxime and now with Mira trying to disconnect more, that alliance might get leaked and I'll get in trouble for denying it so I just told her what it actually was where it was Draco, Mira, Maxime and I from the first swap where we were agreeing to vote Dudley and then nothing came of it (which wasn't really a lie given I obviously just voted against them). Was that dumb? Hope not!
So now I think my plan is to ride the wave a bit and see what everyone is saying because if I did truly lose everyone on that side who I just lied to (which again, would be sorta called for honestly) then I guess I should want them out and I would be ok with being complacent. One thing I'm making sure to avoid is being too complacent though so I'm going to try talking to Pomfrey and Cormac about if they think there is an old tribe alliance with Lily, Amos, and Angelina that Lockhart also got to become a part of (it's not really debating whether it exists and more just trying to say that it actually does and if it doesn't then well at least that makes a target out of them). Hoping that'll be enough to convince them to not vote me out if that crew decides they want us out and also gives us time to flip with Ron and Draco or something when the time comes. Not sure how long Ron will last if he keeps voting Lily given he may be higher on the hitlist, but I'm hoping that he survives long enough because even though he is the literal definition of a floater right now I'm going to need to find a way to reign in my baby bro for a chance to not be eliminated in the next couple rounds. | | |
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| Post #56: 1st Mar 2018 12:41:00 AM | |
So Maxime wants to vote for me, which is interesting.......
But that's not the most interesting part about the whole situation. I actually was told on 3 separate occasions over the last 24 hours that Maxime wanted to vote for me!
First, and probably most surprising to be first, was Angelina. In the group chat Lockhart made she said that Maxime was trying to get my name to be the one that was pushed. Now I want that to sink in for a second because while yes, I did definitely betray her and my alliance by not voting with them and not telling them about the vote, Angelina did the literal EXACT SAME THING. So despite that, and despite the fact that Angelina has way deeper connections to the people who voted Newt than I did, she is not getting any of the blame from Maxime and she's going as far as to go to her to vote me out. That's kind of annoying!!! I guess Angelina's mist with Maxime is just that good (and probably with others too if it came down to it). Regardless, I think her saying what Maxime wanted made me think that she probably won't vote for me.
I say "probably" in response to what Mira said when she told me that Maxime wanted to vote for me. I think she talked to Draco and Ron too and probably Pomfrey (who is literally everywhere moreso than I ever was probably) but it seemed like Draco and Ron were even going as far as to say that they just wanted to vote in a majority. Plus, I feel like my relationships with both of them should be enough to prevent them from wanting me out. But back to the Mira and Angelina thing, because she said that Maxime's angle with Angelina is that I did well in a challenge at some point in this game? I don't remember when that was! (well except majority rules where I tied with a whole bunch of other people). But Angelina seemed to agree with her about that fact and then they watched a horror movie together the other night on rabbit so I doubt Angelina is exactly itching to be sending Maxime home vs me where she more has a relationship out of convenience. I just have to hope that she isn't helping Maxime with all the potion prizes she won to get me out, which I feel like would only be happening if she was legitimately threatened by me which would be flattering but also kind of ridiculous because I don't think I've shown any reason why she should be threatened by me. If she did help Maxime get the other idol then I feel like it's almost fate that I'm leaving this round anyway.
That leaves Ron who was the last person to tell me about how Maxime wants me out. He said he was never into it anyway and especially hated the fact that Maxime is telling people that he is willing to vote with her and he doesn't want to be put in a "box" or something. Totally fair! And I definitely appreciated him saying something to me so at least I know that I can maybe rely on him down the road (or he figured I would get told anyway and was covering his bases which is a very me thing to do).
So yeah I'll probably be voting Maxime tonight, but Mira still wanted me to talk to her so that I wouldn't be targeted by her so I did try doing that in an effort to feel like she isn't being ignored. Idk how well that's going to go but might as well try because I don't exactly want to be voted out by something crazy if I can help it. I also finally talked to Pomfrey about sticking together for more of the long haul post everything probably going to hell after next vote or the vote after so I think that's going to be a really important ally to have down the road. Granted, she probably has like a million deals by now, but I think that mine may still prove to be one of the more beneficial ones because I'm don't have any super set connections that she would need to worry about, and she'll probably think she could beat me if we get to the end (which is probably fair but beside the point). I'm not exactly a goat, but I've definitely made some enemies and am not the most outspoken so I think that'll make her wait until at least like, F7 to want to seriously consider me gone haha.
I think the best possible additional allies to be making would be Cormac for sure, who I just haven't had the chance to talk to that much recently because he's been on and off, because I feel like he isn't being taken too seriously in the game yet but he can be an important number down the road, plus even on a personal level I've liked the guy for a while and would love to finally have that something solid we talked about ages ago. Draco would be a good fit too but I'm similarly worried about him not being around as much recently. I didn't even realize it really until after majority rules when they got a bunch of the negative answers. But I do think that if it comes down to it and the four of us work together, they're more likely to stick with me than Pomfrey come and end game because of her threat level. IDK tho guess we'll see.
Final thoughts about majority rules I guess but I don't have a ton? It was hilarious that me answering myself for most likely to change the way they're playing is what gave me the point for that round (I'm guessing someone else put that like Maxime or something and didn't want to seem obvious). Probably should have realized Pomfrey is probably being seen as the protagonist and main character for this game instead of Mira with all the connections she's been making. But I think that's why it's so important to be working with her. If she actually wants to work with me back and isn't relying on another plan, then I think it's going to be huge to have someone like that on your side. Hoping for the best this round though and hoping to have a personal anecdote sometime later when I don't have a stupid amount of stuff to be doing. | | |
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| Post #57: 1st Mar 2018 3:59:40 AM | |
That awkward moment when you're saved by your little brother and a fish.
I HATE IDOLS!!!!!!!
But I love Ron and Mira. And I owe a lot to Maxime too. Thank god this worked out given I was none the wiser and then Ron told me after the deadline about literally everything.
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| Post #58: 1st Mar 2018 4:00:45 AM | |
Ok "none the wiser." I was definitely sketched out last minute and felt a lump in my stomach but I felt that if something bad was going to happen there was nothing I could have done. You won't be seeing that complacency in the future.
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| Post #59: 1st Mar 2018 9:35:22 AM | |
I still can't quite believe that I made it, although I'm super worried for other reasons.
Ron told me the whole story after the deadline. Lockhart coming to Maxime with the Hufflepuff idol that he lied about not having saying that she should play it and they should vote me out to split up me and Pomfrey. He also made a chat with Ron and Draco to do the same thing, tell them the plan and how they are an F3 and how they should vote me out. Fortunately, because of my relationships with Ron and Mira, fairly active player who don't like Lockhart, they decided that was dumb and after Lockhart gave up immunity decided that they were going to try blindsiding him instead. I'm guessing they convinced Maxime and now we are here where someone gave up their immunity necklace and idol in the same round they were voted out. Absolutely insane.
The only even minor hint I got was in the middle of the day where Mira told me that I should make nice with Maxime. She didn't say why, and I was wondering what was going on but I tried to just have a normal conversation with her that I guess was enough to have her convinced by Ron and Mira. They tried to get Draco in on it too but he was nowhere to be found and assumed everyone was voting me too so that was what he had done. Now, it doesn't feel amazing that he wasn't giving me a heads up, but I can't really blame him after what I did last round. That is the one relationship i want to make extra sure that I can fix and see what's going on because I feel like Draco is going to be important late in the game.
What baffled me was the fact that Pomfrey and I were seen as together? Literally today is the first time I made any attempt to talk to Pomfrey about having a group together, and now it looks like we were almost put in one and I think Ron would make an excellent addition too given he seems to keep talking about how he wants to stay together and is worried that Mira and Maxime are going to have their own agendas.
So now here is the rough part; after that it's going to be very, very hard to win this game. Not like it was easy to begin with, but I recognize that I knew practically nothing and I mean sure, I guess I had the social relationships intact to save me where I didn't need to know anything, but there was more to it than that and now I'm either going to be seen as saved by the skin of my teeth or if I need to vote out the people who saved me I'm going to be burning them hardcore. I owe Ron, Maxime, and Mira my life and if I vote any of them out they're going to be livid with me, on top of the lividity that will already exist with certain people I'll need to vote out. It's making me question my approach and I'm not really sure how to go about changing it to where that won't be a problem. I think I need to accept it as a necessary evil and if God allows it I'll make it to FTC and just have to explain that this is all about survival and that's what I did and yes I needed to cut some friends along the way who saved me, but I didn't have a choice if my goal was ultimately to win. Just need to keep trying.
I have a massive amount of respect for BB player Dan Gheesling. I don't care what you think about his methods or his personality. you have to admit that as a gameplayer he is probably the best in any reality show competition ever. He did everything he could to survive in BB14 and while he didn't win, he made it to the end despite coming in being already known as one of the most dominating winners in BB history. I'm by no means ever going to be able to compare myself to him, but I will try my best to approach every round as me needing to be in survival mode even if I'm up to my elbows in blood. Don't want to do it because it's not a winning game, but I'd rather do that and fail in the end than be too cautious and end up not having a chance to win anyway. | | |
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Fred Weasley
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