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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 23, 2012 8:36:22 GMT -5
Alright, so I know only a few people read this thread (here's looking at you, Amanda), so I'm going to explain my absense for the better part of the challenge.
I will admit, the challenge did confuse me. I had no idea where I was supposed to /do/ it, let alone any of the finer details. But that's not the half of it.
A few hours after the challenge started, I got a call from school where I found out my kid brother was crossing the road during lunch and was grazed by a car. Not hit, mind you, but grazed. I know some people would be fine, but my brother is my life to me, I'm closer to him than I am to my parents - I've been at the hospital, intermittantly checking this site on my phone and still trying to figure out how the challenge worked.
I haven't gotten a good night's sleep or a real computer in ages (Mum brought in my brother's iPad and he's asleep at the moment), so yeah...I know it's not the best of excuses, and I have had worse happen while I was playing a Survivor game (like my pop dying right as I made the merge during my first one >_>), but I'll just ask if I can please be excused and given another chance in this game?
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Post by Amanda Kimmel on Mar 23, 2012 8:45:26 GMT -5
That's... awful. I hope your brother is okay! Don't worry - I understand the circumstances. I can take your self-vote away, but the rest is on you: You have to convince the others to keep you. I will post the announcement at Tribal  |
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 23, 2012 8:56:11 GMT -5
Thanks - he's doing fine, he should be out soon, hopefully.
I'll start some real in-depth confessionals (like I promised I would) once I get settled and/or if I survive the vote.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 24, 2012 1:17:19 GMT -5
Phew, well...I survived! I am so glad I have such great friends who know how to influence people. After I posted my reasoning and plea, I spoke to Anthony and Michael to explain my reasoning, and they were both super duper supportive. In fact, I think I got in pretty good with them, they seemed to like me. Michael told me that he didn't want to vote me out, that the vote was between Sash and Crystal. Sash I could understand, and Crystal I could definitely understand, I was getting some weird vibes off of her. She seemed pretty attention-whore-ish, if that's even a word. Anthony agreed with Michael, so we all did our part spreading the word - Crystal for the boot. In the process, I spoke with Ace and Hatch. They agreed. So...uh, yeah, once I start pulling my weight around here, I can save myself from getting voted out. |
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 27, 2012 0:40:26 GMT -5
So I kinda blew it at the immunity challenge today. I'm not very good at endurance challenge dealies now that I have university, but maybe once I withdraw from uni I'll have more time.
(Note: I am not withdrawing from university just to do good in a Survivor game. That would be silly. I'm withdrawing for other reasons, not related to this game. Not to do well in a Survivor ORG. That's just silly.)
So now to do some scrambling. I need to keep my head off the chopping block this round, and put someone else there. I want to at least make the jury here. I can do this, I know I can, I just have to work my magic with the people I know but aren't yet aligned with.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 27, 2012 7:10:53 GMT -5
So it turns out, I'm not on the chopping block. According to Anthony, Michael is.
On one hand, I'm glad that it's not me whose name is being thrown about. On the other, I can't let Michael go. Sure it's fine that I'm not the name being thrown around, but it's not fine that Michael's is. I'm indebted to him for keeping me past the first Tribal Council, and I'm not going to repay him by letting these people stab him in the back.
I'm gonna speak to as many people as possible, see who i can sway to keep him. Right now, Anthony and Jenn are on board, so that's four votes already. I don't need many more, I just need to find out who'll be willing to keep Michael.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 27, 2012 22:02:28 GMT -5
Well...haha, wow. I was completely out of the loop there.
I thought I'd saved Michael from the vote, but...well, I was completely blindsided. I thought I'd saved him, but then suddenly, his name starts coming up again and again, and then suddenly he's going home.
So...yeah, I kinda failed on my behalf. I just wanted to return the favour he payed to me, but I couldn't even do that. All I needed was to convince people that Shawna was worth losing over Michael, and I couldn't even do that. And now the one guy who was convincing everyone to keep me is gone, so...yeah, it doesn't look like my life is long for this game.
But I'm not gonna give up, y'know? I can work this out on my own. I may not be the best player in the world, or a master strategist, but I can scramble like nobody's business. Trust me, I can survive. It won't be for long, but I can survive.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 28, 2012 19:30:43 GMT -5
My only hope to stay alive today is to win immunity. I've got no other choice but that. If I don't, I'm gone, or at the very least I've got a heap of scrambling to do.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 29, 2012 8:18:05 GMT -5
So just when I needed it most, it turns out to be one of those challenges, where I can't even control my own fate. I knew live challenges would be my downfall, and it was. I was so busy today I couldn't even defend myself, and loe and behold I was ganged up on.
And the thing is I don't even know why. I mean, I all I tried to do was save someone who saved me, so am I automatically a bad person? Why did they gang up on me so fast like that? I didn't try to do anything to anyone, except save a friend, is that why? I don't understand why I'm public enemy number one here, it's really hurtful.
*sigh*
Well, there's not much I can do about it. If they wanted me out of the immunity challenge first, that speaks louder than words. I guess I'm gone. It was fun while it lasted, Kalahari.
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Post by Amanda Kimmel on Mar 29, 2012 8:53:16 GMT -5
Whatever happened to scrambling to save yourself? Aren't you going to try that?
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 31, 2012 22:51:02 GMT -5
Well...it looks like I didn't need to do anything that round, stuff was happening behind the scenes already. I thought I was the target, but instead I'm safe for three more days.
And I think this is a good thing, y'know? Its given me new life in this game, and I think this reprieve from being possibly voted out is the boost I need to try and get back into everyone's good graces. If people can forget that I was campaigning to save the vote a few rounds ago, they can let me back into their good graces.
Ugh, this game is not what I was expecting in any way, shape or form - the only way I'm ever going to feel truly safe in this game is if I end up on a tribe, and no other way will suffice. That's the only way.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Mar 31, 2012 22:57:55 GMT -5
The only thing I do enjoy about not being on a tribe is that nobody needs my vote, so as long as I'm not on the chopping block I just vote for whoever the hell I want. Pff, you've got 13 other people, don't tell me you need my vote at all. I'll vote for whoever the heck I want.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Apr 3, 2012 19:22:00 GMT -5
I am so glad I was able to show myself at the challenge. I wasn't, like, the reason we won, but at least I've shown people what I'm capable of. Not too much, though, that's good.
Argh, this game is so confusing and frustrating at the same time - I want to feel safe even though I'm immune, but I always feel like I have to look over my shoulder, making sure people aren't trying to get me voted out.
Also, I gave Yau the nullifiers. I felt it was better for me if I gave them to someone I know didn't want me out. I know I could have probably bargained with them, but in the end I decided on someone I trusted to help me over someone I knew had it in for me.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Apr 7, 2012 0:34:44 GMT -5
So I had the most insanely bad luck in this challenge today. If I'd been in the right Timezone, I might have been able to do it, but I got screwed out of that unfortunately.
But more importantly, it seems I'm up on the chopping block tonight, but unlike before I've got some support and a plan. If it comes to fruition, I'm the luckiest gal in this game.
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Post by BANNEDgie Jakusz on Apr 8, 2012 0:36:54 GMT -5
Yeah, that wasn't really classy to call me out like that at Tribal Council Amanda. I got mixed up with another game I'm playing and I thought there was an extension to the votes until Monday. If you're going to insult me like that in front of the other players at least ask why I didn't vote.
That's all.
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