Post by Rachel Plencner on Aug 27, 2013 23:10:16 GMT -6
God I suck at this game right now. I haven't been on AIM in like two days. Sorry but partying is taking serious priority right now. Utr strategy needs to be implemented this season.
I don't have much to really talk about other than I'm pissed bc I'm figuring out people's alias and I wasn't really coming in here with the intention of doing that like I have in other games. One of the reasons I agreed to play was because I did 3 AS this summer and they all got so fucking personal I wanted to play a game where I didn't know everyone, so even though I knew who all the Vets were I didn't have any relationship with half of them, plus we got 8 newbs so I didn't see it as a big deal.
Well fuck me with a stick because Porsche told me today Scott (Mikayla from Sausage) is playing and Sam/Alexis is to. Most people would be jumping up with joy that they have two of their friends in a game with them. Guess what? I'm not. I don't fucking care about them. I'm pissed.
Let give you guys a little backstory on these two. David is a guy named Scott. I met him this summer playing Sausage Island. We got really close and became a final two where he sided with me over someone he has been playing ORGs with for six years and had never voted out. I still can't believe he did that, but he did and he's one of my closest ORG friends. Right up there with Andii.
Next is Sam. (Jack) I've known him for like a year and a half through Cam (Wanda Sausage/Kristen Wiig Starz) and I adore him. He's a 17 year old canadian kid. We've always got along real well and he's kinda a younger brother to me so I look out for him a lot. He's somebody I'd yet again, have reservations voting out of a game.
Here is my rule of thumb in ORGs. Generally if I have somebody's phone number, I won't vote them out even if I'm tempted to. If I have someone's #, I have a very close relationship with that person that I tend to value over the game itself so loyalty takes priority. (shockingly I know because everyone thinks I'm a heartless bitch)
Now I don't have one, not two, but three people's phone numbers in this game. Three fucking people. Jack, David, and Porsche. It just sucks because I know at some point David and Jack will oust themselves to me, and that's not going to make me F2 with them. My final two will always be Porsche in this game and nothing is going to change that. It just sucks because both of them are people I'd normally only vote out if Andii was playing, but now I'm probably going to be in a scenario where I have to cast a vote against them and I really don't want to do that. Then I also have to worry about the possibility Kat is playing. She said she wanted to play (as Ivette) to me on my Colby account, and then the day the game started said I was going to do well in this game. I found the whole conversation odd. I know if Kat got in she wouldn't tell me either.
Ugh I just want to play a normal ORG. Fuck me with a wrench. Also Elissa is DD so if she knows who David and Jack are she'll probably group them with me which sucks even more because then I'll have to work with them, granted I'm already working with David, but I honestly didn't really like Jack even though he was giving me information.
Ugh I'm gonna do a cast analysis soon. Prob tomorrow after class. I'm so busy now that school is back in session. I'm sure I'd be even more of a journalist if I had been on AIM in the past 48 hours but OOPS @ me. I'm safe so idgaf.
Anyhoo, sorry about you knowing peeps. There were some Recycled Alumni that wanted to play as new characters so they didn't have to deal with that exact thing. :/ (some applications just sucked :l)
Post by Rachel Plencner on Aug 28, 2013 9:17:48 GMT -6
Lol Dustin I was talking about Alexis from Sausage (I don't think you know her) not Kristen lmao
And thanks Chenbot. <3 I don't see it being a factor in how I play this season. I'm just peeved about it I guess is all. I feel like it might force things as well but ill adapt. That's what this game is about anyways.
Post by Rachel Plencner on Aug 28, 2013 21:22:47 GMT -6
Rachel Plencner 11:02 pm haha ty but what made you ask about you benefiting my game it seemed off the wall to me haha
Rachel Plencner 11:02 pm I was like we're already working together wut haha
James Rhine 11:03 pm well if you know my style i like to pick one person to invest in but with your ranking in the first hoh comp it made me nervous that you may have more connections than just i and im a jealous bitch
Rachel Plencner 11:04 pm lol its all good. I was actually kinda surprised I did as well as I did in the comp
James Rhine 11:04 pm tbh my social games shit so i just go board crazy esp with my grad school
Rachel Plencner 11:04 pm I did campaign for it a lil bit just as a backup but I was just being friendly with everyone and it paid off I guess. lol I feel ya On Sunday
Rachel Plencner 11:05 pm I was stuck in the tent all day so I kinda just sat on my phone and talked to ppl which helped me a lot
James Rhine 11:05 pm nice! well if i hear anything which i doubt because most people i talk to we talk about surface stupid shit but if i hear deals alliances ima report to ya
Awk bc he didnt tell me about that PM or w/e between him McCrae Shane David Elissa Jack. I mean I didn't tell him bout 5 H, but this was exactly why. He prob doesn't consider it a real alliance/deal so that's his reasoning. Oh James. Love him all the same though.
Post by Rachel Plencner on Aug 30, 2013 9:38:49 GMT -6
So if there is one thing I have learned this week, it's that the general house population lacks an understanding of ticket distribution at football games. But honestly, I have been kind of going with the flow of the house this week. I have told a few white lies. I planted a seed when I talked to Jack that Elissa/Jessie called him creepy to create some distrust within the new players. I also keep blaming Elissa for things in conversations with people I trust (Porsche/Ian/David/Jun) as a way to paint the target on her back just a little bit more, but aside from that, nothing major for me aside from trying to sit back and watch the flow of information in the house as well as not really show my hand.
If anything, what perplexes me the most this week is that James seems to be showing his very feverishly. Maybe he is doing it because he puts stock in our relationship, but clearly he doesn't value it enough to tell me about certain happenings in the game. Otherwise I'd know about McCrae's alliance, and have a better understanding as to why Shane is so adamant about letting McCrae leave.
Of course, that is already something I was aware of but regardless.
Elissa/James/Shane probably are my points of interest in the house in terms of - people I like but severely mistrust.
Elissa I feel like is trying to create a house split in week 1, which imo I don't think is smart gameplay on her part. She should just be letting it happen, but instead is playing Shane and Porsche against one another and trying to turn their separate agendas into a war. It's something I'm not really a fan of. War is inevitable in this game, but I don't think she realizes that in doing this, she is just painting herself out to be a target and even if her plan comes into fruition, will be taken out swiftly at some point for her gameplay.
Shane is playing everyone, yet in resigned irony, I find James to be the head of the snake. James is acting like a troll while Shane is the likeable social butterfly that more likely than not is an information watchdog for James.
Porsche clued me in on her Pandora's box this week, saying I'm the only one she told. David swiftly came to me and let me know he was informed as well, however he told me Porsche speculated opening it would unleash a money twist into the game, which was my thought process. She also discussed the possibility of an Elissa backdoor had Shane won the Veto. If I wasn't fearful of a house split myself, the idea of trying to get Shane to use the Veto would have been tantalizing, but it's much to early to show my hand. I already feel like Shane/James/Ian/Jun are being too loosely goosey with how they have decided to play week 1.
Ironically as I write this Porsche informs me Elissa is scared of me. I wonder why? I've been attempting to keep good rapport with her, and I feel like instances where I have placed blame on her, haven't gotten back to her. Who knows? I know I'm a threat but I don't feel like I've done anything drastic to widen my target this week. I'll just have to stay high up in the PR so I'm not an option for a backdoor.
I guess I am semi annoyed - there is this point of inflection centered around McCrae in the house right now causing a pseudo divide between Porsche/Shane - which I expect to happen anyways but it's like throwing gasoline on a dimly lit forest fire. It's just speeding up a process and potentially making it all the more dangerous in the process. It does suck because McCrae is actually trying, but he is more threatening than Jean seems to be right now, and I do feel like he'd come after Vets - probably Porsche and I, so he does need to lick the dust.
Another thing of note is that people don't trust Ian since Ian is deemed as the rat for McCrae's nomination, and others question her as an information source. I'm not really sure why it's so questionable. Is it really that farfetched to believe a new player would come in and say that to the lowest ranking veteran, someone that he probably felt would be an outsider, that type of information? Ian has definitely been too vocal on the issue, but I don't find it something Ian would fudge out of thin air. That type of lie would be pretty pointless since keeping McCrae around would be beneficial to his game.
I know that Shane is going to make a push to keep McCrae in the game. I think I'm going to approach him and make him feel like I am with him explaining all the cons to keeping McCrae. It'll be a good way to build rapport with him and make him/James feel I am more in their corner than say Porsche or Adria. We'll see how that goes. I would also like to keep the house pretty unanimous as a way to prevent sides from forming this early. Lord knows if there are sides, Porsche and I will be perceived as the heads of one. I know in taking this to Shane, it might lessen people's perception of my relationship with Porsche. Changing people's perceptions is something very important to focus on early in a game like this, so hopefully I accomplish that goal.
I am going to be busy the next couple days - which will probably equate to social suicide but college football is taking priority this weekend. I feel like the next HoH will be eliminator so I should probably be abreast of thread counts/posts etc. As well as jot down the news fadar. I've been noticing the days on it. Porsche said she was going to put it in notepad but I think I will take a few notes myself when I get out of class today jic.
Overall, I'm not disappointed with how Week 1 went, but I need to remain on my toes.
It's okay. Jerri Manthey was a star in Austrailia. You don't have to be liked to have star power~ 
But honestly, I have been kind of going with the flow of the house this week. I have told a few white lies. I planted a seed when I talked to Jack that Elissa/Jessie called him creepy to create some distrust within the new players. I also keep blaming Elissa for things in conversations with people I trust (Porsche/Ian/David/Jun) as a way to paint the target on her back just a little bit more, but aside from that, nothing major for me aside from trying to sit back and watch the flow of information in the house as well as not really show my hand.