Episode 6 -- F13

So after reading everything that happened lateish last round what and who do you believe/trust the most?

Who is your #1, do they think you're their #1?

Do you feel like you appeared way too scattered to people? If yes, do you believe anybody has taken issue with that?

Ffs, Instinct. Why do y'all have to be sooo good?

*BIG LOUD GROWL* IM A NEW SPEC TELL ME WHY I SHOULD ROOT FOR YOU!

FAIR POINT BUT I SUPER SRS AND WANTS TO KNOW WHAT ARE YOU ARE DOING TO TRY TO WIN *BELLOWS LOUDLY FOR ALL THE FIREFLIES TO SEE*

THANK YOU FOR THE REASONINGS. I CAN NOW BETTER ASSESS YOU FOR THE ROOTING. *SCREAMS TO SHOW ROOTING* CARRY ON MY WAYWARD VICTINI!!!

Good luck with your decision today.

From my POV looks like you might be at a possible divisive point.

What are the chances of a 2-2 vote split?

Are you willing to go to rocks for Uxie? Are they willing to go to rocks for you?

What's the absolute best/worst results for you and how can you achieve or avoid them?



Mostly you keep doing you and working towards living another day.

Alright, so I'm just going to ramble on about my thought process and hopefully end up with something cohesive.

So with Poipole, it's like at first I didn't feel a very strong connection to them but after talking to them a bit I've grown to like them quite a bit. They were also super helpful and understanding through all the Lugia drama. They seem like a really enjoying and down to earth person, and while I don't have the best connections with them I really do like them a lot.

Cobalion... he just seems eager to please, for the most part. He's always throwing compliments at me and hyping me up, and there's a lot of times where he comes off as super desperate. But he is very honest and truthful -- he was just as helpful as helpful as Poipole when dealing with the whole Lugia drama, and I don't think he was lying about anything. He was also super-upfront about Lugia's plan to vote out Uxie, which I appreciate. But at the same time, it seems like he always sees himself at the bottom and is almost paranoid about being the next voted out when he really shouldn't be... expect during this TC, I guess. He's also admitted he doesn't have that much experience with Survivor and that he usually gets booted early, which doesn't seem too far off base, honestly. He doesn't come off as genuine as Poipole, and it feels like he has an agenda behind him, but I'm wondering whether that agenda is just "make it as far in the game as possible". He's spoken highly of me to Poipole, which I honestly believe, and I think there's a good chance he'd stay loyal to be for a while. He doesn't sound like this mastermind manipulator who'd do anything to make it to the merge and throw me to the wayside -- he just feels like a lost puppy who'd be grateful for anyone who takes him under his wing. But I don't know his true intentions, and he makes it very obvious he has intentions, and whether those intentions are good/bad for my game it does worry me a bit.

I also have to consider Uxie's position too, and right now he's leaning towards voting out Cobalion, though it doesn't seem like that strong of a pull. I'd hate to put both of our games in jeopardy if I steer us in the wrong direction, and I feel keeping Poipole would be the safest play overall. But I can see them getting along well with everyone, and if it is just a guise then they'd be much more dangerous a threat in the long run compared to someone like Cob who pretty much reads like an open book. I also have to consider how the other Mystics would feel about me voting off Cobalion/Poipole. If I voted off someone's top ally then they might not think too highly of me. Cobalion's behavior in General Discussion seems... rather controversial, or at least I can see how it rubs people off the wrong way. It feels like Poipole has a lot more connections than Cobalion does -- the only thing I can sort of use to gauge this is that Solgaleo said he could namedrop him with Poipole in the Codenames forum, which makes me suspect he's getting along decently with Mystics. Whether or not I'd want to actually bring along someone with good connections is questionable -- sure, it can connect me better with some of the Mystics, but at the same time they could end up being a big threat later on.

Sorry if this sounds really rambley -- turns out I had a lot more to say about Cobalion than Poipole, haha. I just don't know what to make of this all, really. Poipole seems like the obvious choice to take along to merge, but I wonder if cutting out Cobalion means I'd lose powerful ally -- or potentially a powerful enemy. It's just really hard to read people's true intentions, and though my paranoia wants me to think the worst about everyone I feel like maybe I'd be stabbing myself in the foot down the road. But what's most important to me is that Uxie is alright with the vote, because I trust him the most out of everyone in new Valor, and if he wants to vote out Cobalion then I'd be willing to make it happen for him. I'd be fine with keeping either of them around, though I'm definitely uncertain about how much I can trust Cobalion.

So after talking with Uxie about my gripes with Cobalion and such we both agree that voting him out would be the best move for us. I don't really know what I'm going to tell Cobalion, or even Poipole for that moment. What I've been telling Cobalion is that me, him, and Uxie are going to vote out Poipole, and then Cobalion suggested we use Uxie as a decoy vote. But then when I talk to Poipole I'm going to have to tell him that Cobalion told me to tell him I'm voting Uxie, when in reality I told him to vote Poipole out. Ugh, I feel it's going to get really messy really fast.

Alright, so me and Uxie told Poipole that Cobalion was going to vote her out, but I'm a bit anxious about this TC. There's a decent chance Poipole runs to Cobalion and he insists that I told him to vote for Poipole, and suddenly neither of them trust me anymore. But since both of us told her I think she'd be a little more likely to believe us, and technically she should be mistrustful of Cobalion, since he was willing to flip on her fairly easily. I think I potentially fucked up big time this TC, because while Cobalion was willing to flip on her in a snap Poipole was much more hesistant to do the same, which means she could be talking to him right now about my plan to vote him out. Maybe I should've taken the easy route and just shun him or something like I did the with Buzzwole the first TC, lol.

Actually, would Cobalion be the type of Pokemon to risk rocks? Maybe he just hears out Poipole's word and think he's lying, so he votes for Poipole, Poipole vote for me most likely, and me/Uxie vote out Cobalion. In that case it'd actually be best to vote out Poipole since he'd likely hate us anyway, but like I have no idea what's going through Cobalion's mind. Maybe Poipole just doesn't want to talk right now and has already cast her vote for Cobalion -- that's a possible scenario too.

The last I've heard from Cobalion is that he's good for the vote, and that was earlier this hour. I'd think he'd trust me enough to tell me any rumors that I spilled the beans of the Poipole vote like I did with him, so maybe that's a good sign? At least there might be something to fall back on.