Episode 2 -- F17

Alright, so nothing too much has happened since a couple of days ago, but I thought I'd organize my thoughts and talk about where I'm hoping to take my game over the next couple of days, which is especially important considering we lost the first game of the challenge, meaning it's possible we'd be facing our first TC soon enough.

First and foremost, I want to be allied with Regi for as long as possible. I only sent him one message today, and I feel terrible about not keeping him up to date. I think he might understand just because there's been a lot of challenges going on recently and we've shifted more into game talk, but I definitely don't want to give him the impression that I'm just completely neglecting him or just using him for numbers, because that's entirely not true.

My plan for today was to pitch an alliance to Uxie, but he hasn't been responding to any messages today, which is understandable considering he's out of town but it's not ideal. I really want to bond closer with Tapu and Mesprit, but Mesprit's especially hard since he hardly ever messages back, and I'm not sure if it's just inactivity or lack of interest, or maybe a mix of both. Mesprit actually messaged me recently saying that he thought he'd be an early boot, which is crazy considering how many loafers there are in this tribe and how much work he's been putting into challenges and how likeable he is overall, but it gives me hope that he's not as unapproachable as I imagine.

I really don't know how much of the blame is on me, but I'm not having meaningful conversations with like half the tribe. I think I had something going with Volc for a while, but then after a while it just kind of died. With Lugia it's like half his posts are just short follow up questions and I have to like pick up a lot of the talking, and then when I try to get him to talk about his interests he just gives really short replies and it's really boring. Buzz/Mewtwo are just not that engaging to talk to, though I guess Mewtwo is trying to improve.

So like, the dream alliance for me would be me/Regi/Uxie/Tapu/Mesprit, but I think that's too much to ask for, haha. Or maybe just not an out-right alliance, just some people who I'm close enough with to talk to and trust that they'd vote my way and not like for me, lol. Regi should still have Volc as a fail-safe, so even if we only manage to align with like me/him/Uxie we'd only need like one more vote to maintain majority, and I really don't think voting out either Mewtwo or Buzz should be a hard sell, lol, so I think I'm solid even if we lose this challenge.

Prophet point Jirachi Victini

I'd say yes to some extent. The most notable distinction seems to be with Volcanion -- most everyone else seems to be getting along with him fine, but personally I don't have that strong of a connection with him. However, according to Regi it seems like Volc himself finds himself struggling with everyone equally, so it seems there's a disconnect between how he's perceiving everyone and how everyone's perceiving him. That aside, I feel our perceptions of each other are fairly similar. Me and Regi largely agree with who's the best to align to (we both like Uxie, and agree that we can work with Mesprit/Tapu as well). From recent conversations with Tapu I've seen the same group of players crop up to the top -- Regi, Volc, Mesprit, and Uxie -- and Uxie also agreed that Regi/Tapu/Mesprit were all great to talk too, so that's almost half the tribe who gravitate towards the same core group of people, so I'd say that the interactions I'm having with others is largely widespread over the rest of the tribe as well.

Hmm... I definetly feel that winning the first round gave us a lot more time to talk to each other, but I think it more solidified our feelings for each other rather than breaking any new ground. I'd say I'm getting along with some players a bit more than I was prior to the first TC, but I wouldn't say nothing major happened. However, I will say that I'm starting to get more meaningful conversation going with Mewtwo -- whether that transpires into something more is yet to be seen, but if it does then that'd be pretty significant, considering it was looking like he'd be an early first boot if we lost the first challenge.

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