Marcus' Confessional

[Marcus Lehman]

---Round One---

Hi! ;D

I figured I should probably do one of these since the game is officially under way. I don't have a whole lot of say, but I'm sure I'll be able to add more in the coming few days.

I was placed on the Saayazu tribe (also known as the Penis tribe) along with Boo, Boston Rob, Eddie, Matt, Shawn and Zane. Our tribe camp appears to be in the middle of the sky which should make things interesting. At least we aren't in the nasty looking desert like Team Vagina. Though the forest looks nice, but the Transgender tribe got that place. Ok, enough rambling.

I wasn't really expecting to be divided by gender, but it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. The guys on my tribe seem to be really cool and motivated, but here are some individual thoughts on them all:

Shawn: He was the first person I spoke to on an individual level on my tribe and I learned that he was in another game I'm playing but got voted out early because he refused to do puzzles. Interesting. Yesterday he was running around saying he should be our MVP for the challenge because he would be on 24/7 but now that we are nearly three hours into the challenge he's done like two parts and keeps having seizures or something by logging on and off. Let's just say that I don't see him sticking around too long this game either. He's nice enough though.

Boston Rob: He is the second person I spoke to and he's easily the most intense person on my tribe. He's a little too robotic and brusque for my tastes, but overall he seems very motivated in this game. He also is among the most active on AIM which means he'll probably be at the center of the tribe in terms of alliances. He's someone I really don't see going in anywhere.

Boo: From here on out I've only spoken to these people in a group challenge chat. Boo is our tribe MVP and he's definitely turning out to be the tribe goofball. I like him a lot and he's a dedicated member but....he's not all that fast at the posting. I probably should have been MVP over him but I didn't really want the Fire Crystal and I wasn't sure I'd be around enough tomorrow. Still, positive vibes off this guy.

Matt: It's hard to really get a read off Matt in a group conversation, but he's definitely the most chill and relaxed of the tribe so far. My guess is that everyone will want to align with, myself included. He's just that cool and easygoing.

Eddie: Eddie doesn't seem to understand how the game works, and is a little....naive? I don't know maybe he was just flabbergasted but I got a weird vibe from him. He sort of just started randomly jumping into the posting order we had established and we had to like force him to come on AIM and get with the program. Oh, and his AIM letters are like this big which makes me think he's like 3 years old.

Zane: Nowhere to be found.

Brenda: Wait, she's not on my tribe. She looks like she's going to be the cross tribal suck up which is annoying. I sort of shut our conversation down quick lol.

So I guess I did have a lot to say haha. Oh well. I think this challenge will be a nailbiter, and it's really all going to come down to the MVPs. If for some reason Boo loses it for us I still don't see him going, any of us could have been MVP with our busy schedules and lost it. Back to grabbing some batons, I guess

[Marcus Lehman]

I'm probably not first, but you never know.

[Ted Rogers]

LOL wow!

[Ted Rogers]

Well good news for you, you ARE the rightful owner of the first WIND CRYSTAL of the game, I will be adding it in a Crystal thread later. Since you found it so quickly and only a few people are online I am going to wait to update the thread so as not to give you away.



Very well done!

[Marcus Lehman]

Wow, really? That's insane! I feel like such a dork for finding it so fast lmao

[Marcus Lehman]

---Round Two---

Well, I was hoping I'd get a chance to use that gifs....and this week definitely gave me the opportunity to do that. So, after using my knowledge of history and an extreme amount of luck in entering 6 letter combos....I got the Wind Crystal! Yay me! I feel like a complete and total dork but....History Dorks FTW! This is probably the least least helpful crystal but I'll take it. At this point I don't seem myself mutinying (is that how you spell that?), but I'll gladly take away that opportunity from everyone else.



I suppose I should also post about the going-ons in my tribe. I thought we did fantastic in that last challenge, ad it says something about the level of competitiveness of these tribes that we only got second. We had a nice late night crew going consisting of myself, Boo, Boston Rob, and Matt that just killed it. We all have sort of decided to stick together and become the core group of our tribe. The other three have all been pretty flighty so far, so this feels like a positive.

However, after making this alliance with the guys, I learned a few things about some of these guys that made me a little less enthusiastic about it. So I'm going to go a little Corinne right now and talk about these mutants I call alliance-mates.

Boston Rob: It's cute how into this game he is. He's relatively new to ORGs so he's very enthusiastic and over the top about EVERYTHING. We've had a least 10 thousands conversations about worrying about swaps and merges and he's always panicking and over thinking things. He's also a little insane, as you can see by that "Test" thread. At times it can feel like babysitting a small child who drank too much caffeine.

Matt: I should preface this by saying that Matt is actually really nice and cool. But he is also deceptively dull. On the boards he is constantly cracking jokes and posting ridiculous pictures of things. But in an AIM conversation it is like talking to a robot. And believe me, I tried really really hard. Maybe he's just being shy, but I don't know I couldn't stand talking to him. He needs a personality transplant stat.

Boo: He is easily my favorite of the three guys simply for the reason that he is easy to talk to, and I enjoyed speaking with him. I get the feeling that he is also annoyed with Rob too, which is funny. I also found it adorable that he has church worship rehearsals. So cute. Easily the person I want to get closest with. But I do worry that he could have cross-tribal alliances. He's very charismatic and probably knows a couple of the people on the other tribes.

I should say that I am not perfect either. I've been a little too unintentionally douchey these past few days, especially to Rob. And I do trust these guys for now because we are the only ones even attempting the challenges at this point and they are all like a billion times better than like, Shawn. Who I'm not even going to get started on.

Sorry for my essay of a confessional, I like to info dump all at one time. It's a bad habit.

[Amanda Kimmel]

I like long confessionals. You don't have to worry about the length

Do you plan on being loyal to this group if there's a swap or merge or something?

[Marcus Lehman]

At this point I do plan on being loyal to this group in the event of a merge or swap. I probably sounded a little harsh, it's mostly me being sarcastic but I do trust them for this original tribe portion of the game and see myself moving forward with them. Hopefully I'll just continue to bond with them as the rounds go by. With Shawn, Eddie, and Zane we don't really have any other options other than each other.

[Ted Rogers]

Mar 29, 2013 21:42:58 GMT -5 Marcus Lehman said:

At this point I do plan on being loyal to this group in the event of a merge or swap. I probably sounded a little harsh, it's mostly me being sarcastic but I do trust them for this original tribe portion of the game and see myself moving forward with them. Hopefully I'll just continue to bond with them as the rounds go by. With Shawn, Eddie, and Zane we don't really have any other options other than each other.

Have you spoken to anyone on the other tribes at all?

[Marcus Lehman]

No, but I probably should. I always feel awkward talking to people that aren't on my tribe but in a game like this that is probably key. I spoke to Brenda for a little bit, but that's all. Put this down on my to do list

[Ted Rogers]

Thas cool, also do you have any plans to tell anyone about your crystal or will you keep it a secret for now?

[Marcus Lehman]

I'm keeping it a secret for now. I'm not opposed to telling someone in my alliance later down the line, but I'll keep it a secret until I feel like I can really trust them. I won't need to use it as long as things stick to the status quo.

[Marcus Lehman]

---Round Three---

I figured I might as well make another confessional since tonight is Earth Crystal night and I have a few more things that should probably be said.

Since my last confessional we won the challenge after a long and hard fought day. A few things annoyed me about this challenge, because I'm slowly learning more and more things that are bothering me about my tribe.

There are approximately 2 people on my tribe that I have no problems with in any form. I'm aligned with one of them, and that is Boo. He's cool, he's easy to talk to, and we get along fine. We haven't talked as much as I would like and he's like 1,000 times more game savvy than I am but whatever. The other is Eddie, who I've briefly spoken to a few times and is always really cool. If he was on more often, I'd love to pull something together with him.

Now for the ones I'm either slightly or majorly annoyed with. The least of these is Matt, who is just dull plain and simple. It's like talking to a bearded corpse. He's just offers nothing in the terms of conversations. And it's hard to tell where he is at. But he doesn't worry me, what worries me more is that his blandness will put me into a Matt-induced coma.

Next comes Zane. I finally got to speak with him, and of all the tribe mates he goes up and down the most. He's from like Sweden or something (Finland? idk) so in this last challenge he did a lot of points when it was like four in the morning for the rest of us. This gave him this inflating ego where he would go on for hours about how he had this challenge down way better than any of us and I just wanted to punch him. Especially because I got like half of our points by myself. He also is a little weird with some of the things he feels the need to post.

Shawn doesn't even count. He's an absolute non-entity and a 100% guaranteed first boot when and if we do lose. I sometimes forget he's even in this game. He scored a grand total of like four points in that last challenge, and then had the gall to make fun of Eddie for sitting out. STFU, you did nothing.

Last comes Rob. Oh, Rob. He's like a baby deer falling a thousand times as he tries to stand. In the challenges he is a total control freak who like drills everyone and basically tells everyone what to do. And then he absolutely sucks at them. The element challenge he scored about the same as Shawn, and would get so mad that I beat him about a thousand times. Then at this puzzle challenge he is absolute T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E. His score after like 7 plays of the puzzle is the same as mine on the first try. He probably should sit out, but he basically told everyone what to do. He's an ally and I think he'll be loyal (and annoying, which makes him good to keep around sort of) but I honestly sometimes can't stand him.

Wow was this a douchey confessional. Oh, well. They pretty much all have been. I have a few more things to say but don't feel like posting them atm. I'll post another one later this round.

[Marcus Lehman]

---Round Four---

I know that I said that I had a few more thing to say, but recent developments have made that sort of irrelevant. Why? Because we had a tribe swap!

I am now a member of the Nyonni tribe wearing green (formerly Team Transgender) along with: Brenda, Corinne, Natalie, Rob, and Zane.

First the good: I ended up on this tribe with two of my fellow Penis tribe members, Rob and Zane.

I know I've said a lot of mean things about Rob in my past few confessionals and for the most part I stick by what I said but he is someone I do think will remain loyal to me. He's a little too much sometimes and that can get on my nerves but I'm slowly learning that that might make him a good alliance mate. We are sort of opposites in that way. He's the Goliath to my David. He's big and loud and unsubtle and I'm sort of quieter and harder to notice. I decided that as soon as there was a swap that I would tell whichever of the Core 4 I was with that I had the wind crystal just to keep them close to me and so they'd trust me and that's what I did. He was legit shocked, but I think it was effective in building trust. He also told me that he has the Earth one, which is awesome even though these two are sort of the least helpful.

In conclusion, Rob is by far and away my #1 all at this point. God help me. My other former Penis tribe mate is Zane, which is a bit of a different case. Obviously I would have preferred Boo or Matt (stranded with 2 fire crystal and 4 Trannies), but I actually think that Zane is a fine alternative. He knows that Rob and I are really his only hope because the girls on our tribe already have it out for him. He's got weird times that he is logged on and has had conflicts with the women before. So I think he'll stay loyal to us, at least as long as we are on this tribe. We are on at literally disparate times, but I'm going to try and work on getting closer to him.

The three ladies on my tribe could not have given my different feelings about them. The first one I spoke to was Corinne, who was so difficult to speak with and utterly dull in comparison to her character. I don't get the vibe that's she's close to either Brenda or Natalie but the fact that she never speaks means that I could be completely right or wrong and never really know it.

I then spoke with Brenda again and somehow got the same response. The girl is working it. Hard. She's easy to talk with without being very engaging or ever really offering anything interesting in discussion. But she is easily the #1 most social player in this game, and I know for a fact that she's spoken to at least every guy on former Penis tribe. Rob and I decided that she is our #1 target when our tribe does have to go to tribal council. I'm not sure we'll be able to get her our first, but we sure can try.

The third person I spoke with was Natalie, who is just awesome. She's probably equally as threatening as Brenda but the fact that I like her makes me not want to vote her out. Great strategy, I know. I think that she is our best hope in turning her against the other three girls, so I'm just going to work to get close to her. I think Rob is closer to Zane than I am, so I may or may not need another person on my side if we do actually get down to it.

We won the first immunity challenge after a rocky start, but Rob and I are still super nervous for when we do come to tribal. If Boo or Matt gets voted out at the other tribal, we may have to give my crystal to one of those guys to give us a 4-3 lead over these ladies.

[Marcus Lehman]

---Round Five---

Sorry my round five confessional is coming a little late in the round but so much shit has gone down that whenever I've tried to sit down and write one something big happens and I postpone it longer. A lot has happened.

Let's go in order obviously.

The first thing that happened was that the desert tribe voted out Matt at tribal. Which was sort of sad. I know I said some less than positive things about the guy, but even those were sort of tame. We never really clicked in a huge way, but he was a nice guy and I think he would have stuck with the "Core 4" until the end. Bye, Matt!

That left me and Rob in an interesting position. We were still stuck on the 3 vs. 3 tribe with Boys against Girls. And we knew that Boo was in a bad position over on his tribe. So we decided that in order to solve both of our problems we should use my Wind Crystal to pull Boo over to our tribe. It both strengths our places on our tribe and weakens that foursome that voted out Matt.

I'll defend my decision by saying this:

1) It's the fucking Wind Crystal. It's not like I'm going to use it myself, because mutinying to either tribe would put me in a similarly bad position. And there's no way I'm getting all four together at any rate, especially since I absolutely suck at all the water things so far.

2) I don't have many allies. I'm not the type to be super fake and go over to people on the other tribe and be like "How are you?" I don't have what I'll call the Bullshit factor. It's just not in me. I know that means I'll probably not win the game but whatever. So I needed to keep someone around that I knew would be loyal to me, and that person was Boo. Plus, having him use the crystal draws the line in the sand for him and hopefully those other people will use the chance to take him out over me.

3) I'm sort of fostering a bit of a dummy persona right now. Either that or a non-threatening persona. Rob is the attack dog going hardcore at the girls, Boo is the traitor, and Zane is the quirky recluse. I'm sort of the nice but not so game savvy one. I'm not sure I'm good enough of an actor, but that's what I'm attempting to do. I want to be perceived as someone dumb who's only good at challenges.

After Boo mutinied from his former tribe, we got some interesting reactions from the girls. Corinne has yet to once attempt to start a conversation with me, so she will not be included in this. I've tried 3 times btw, but she's as boring as sand and uses a type of smiley face for literally every answer. But Brenda was pissed. She already was going hardcore trying to get our tribe to vote out Zane (not happening) because she was "scared of the boys". Did she really think we were going to do the same thing and let the girls get majority? Fuck no. But after Boo joined she literally became insufferable with her "I'm scared of the boys! Poor me!" every five seconds.

Here's the thing about Brenda: I hate her. I'm not even quite sure why I hate her, but every conversation I have with her makes me like her less. She's clearly very social and I always feel like she's borderline grilling me for information and threatening me. It's weird. We all know that she has connections with Rafe and the other girls on her former tribe, and she's a huge social threat. Rob is the one that is dealing mostly with her, simply because of the fact that he can't go four seconds without talking game. I still know nothing about the guy.

The other reaction we got was Natalie's, and when I started talking to her more (she was apparently on vacation) I actually began to really like her. She was easy to talk to, and not so clearly playing the game. So when Boo told me that he had a strong bond with her and he thought he could get her, Rafe, and maybe even Pete to come with us I was excited. I like all of those people exponentially better than Corinne/Brenda and that would give us a strong six/seven going into a merge scenario. So I went to bed last night happy and hopeful of this possibility.

And then shit hit the fan. I started noticing her awkwardness a little bit last night because I was trying to dodge her questions (purposefully poorly) and not commit to anything with her. But then when I spoke with her today she was even more awkward and monosyllabic. I just thought she was busy or something, but it turns out that it was probably a mix of guilt that made her act like that. She shared a conversation that she had with Boo in which he openly said that myself, Rob, and Boo wanted to vote out Boo. I'm sure you've seen the picture in Rob's confessional lol.

Is it true? Hell yes. We were hoping to get Brenda out in favor of Natalie. But now obviously things change. What puzzles me more than why Natalie would betray Boo like this is why she would do it so openly, and with photographic evidence. It just makes an immediate enemy of three people who were not necessarily against her. Now Boo will obviously have nothing to do with her, and Rob and I sure as hell don't have any plans on working with her anymore. It's just a stupid move for her game also. What if there is a swap next tribal and she ends up in an even worse position than before? Dumb move Natty.

So now we have damage control to do. Since whatsherface won the Fire crystal we are back in a tie scenario if we can't pull over Brenda/whatsherface. So basically Rob and I are going with plausible deniability in which we swear that we are not going after them, and that Boo was simply saying things to Nat because he wasn't going to tell her to her face that he wanted her voted out. I'm not sure that it's going to work, but the argument is that why should they waste a fire crystal in order to be put back in the 3/3 scenario when they can be guaranteed safety for one more tribal. I don't think it will work, but I'm a inherently negative person. I sort of think Brenda/Rafe/Nat are working together but that's just a hunch.

Did I forget anything? Oh yeah, this challenge was ridiculous but at least I got to sit out. Yay me! Btw, this is totally Douchey confessional #5. They pretty much all are.