Rite of Passage Thread

sorry Rachi but we never met and i don't have a whole lot to say to you
personally i thought your self imposed posting restriction was quite cute!! but i can see why it caused communication problems. i'm sorry you didn't get a chance to shine.

not much this game has made me crap myself but your elimination made me crap myself
like what the fuuuuck
after we met during the challenge it was pretty clear to me that you were super badass and i was so keen to work with you. and i remember you being like "hey if i'm voted out shit went down" and when i saw you got voted out i was like "AH OK SHIT WENT DOWN"
amazing stuff
i hope we get to play something together soon!

i felt kinda bad for this swoley. but not all that bad.
firstly i really appreciate you replacing in like real early on, that was super kind. but you had like 3 challenges and two TCs' time to make an impression and it didn't feel like you had a lot of Social Presence. i wasn't really sure what you were about or how trustable you were. then (from what i can gather) when we went to our first TC you PM'd everyone in the tribe suggesting we should vote out the weakest link from a challenge pov

that's.....understandable, fair but those people are still valuable in endgame when individual challenges go down. in essence it's not a reason to vote someone out. particularly like mewtwo or lugia, who you floated, who i had social connections with & was starting to understand as players. if those dudes had made it to merge they both would have been valued allies to me so i was not gonna backstab them early on.

idrk what i'm doing here either but some feedback for what it's worth... just chat and hang out more. i know you were going for the buzz-SWOLE gimmick which was pretty cute at first but after that wore off i'm not sure i felt a lot of depth from you until you were suddenly all strategic game talk at the TC. you were already low hanging fruit and stuff but the whiplash in that experience had a few people like "yeah let's vote buzzwole". hopefully this makes sense and doesn't just sound nasty.

mewtwo...how dare you get yourself voted out... we were gonna open a cafe together damnit!!!!!
i really enjoyed chatting to you in Valor1.0 and definitely felt some real loyalty here. but i got the impression you weren't too tight with a lot of the others - as soon as i saw your tribe going to TC i was like "ah crap bye mewtwo..." because it felt to me like you didn't seize an opportunity: team valor1.0 was hilariously harmonious. like ridiculously harmonious. idk survivor meta from a bar of soap but i could feel it was a pretty uniquely positive environment. it was a great opportunity to make bonds with more people, rather than focusing on firmer bonds with a handful of people.

might be projecting but i feel like if you'd spread your wings a little more in valor1.0 and let others see your charm, you might not have been exposed to a panicked situation in your second tribe where your hand was forced into trying to outplay like {mesprit, hoopa, celebi} all of whom were pretty badass players. i think your charms worked a little on volc but i'll probably talk about him a bit more later on.

but on a really positive note - i enjoyed getting to know you a lot. you're a pretty sweet dude.

similar to mewtwo, when your tribe went to TC i had this bad feeling you were going home.
i'm not totally sure what happened in your TC so sorry this is gonna be pretty short. i have a feeling your social game might have dropped off a bit after valor1.0..? this game takes a lot of social capacity/energy so that's pretty understandable but if i had to take a punt i have a feeling that's probably why you were booted out, idrk. (i think if another valor1.0 TC happened you would have been on the block for the same reason, fwiw)

i totally enjoyed talking skiing and coffee and my inability to keep up with memes with you. when you were around at the start, you were really chilled. <3

asdfghjkl;' i'm going to hell for this one
this was entirely tactical and i lied and i'm sorry
you guys had majority in a technical sense but meltan wanted to snipe you before we merged to weaken the hold that the original mystics had on the game (since so many OG-valors were being wiped out). i went along with this and i was fine with it. we didn't really connect a whole lot, but you were definitely nice to talk to and stuff.

i don't have a lot to talk about tbh. i feel kinda bad for snaking you here but we had roughly 0 options.

this was the first knockout that made me like, sad. you were a solid bud back in the original valor, and like if you are really bored and feel like reading my confessional for some reason or whatever
you were in my top list of people i wanted to get to know better and work more with in later tribes!

i'm not sure what happened exactly in your second tribe but yeah, know i thought you were awesome.

you are the biggest enigma of the game to me
in valor1.0 you were like pulling all the strings. if we had a game of survivor with just valor1.0 you'd probably hit FTC. you were a machine.
i'm really sad we didn't really reconnect in harmony - i wasn't part of the votes against you (i was on coba) but i knew they were coming. i didn't expect you to be booted out but also it wasn't a massive surprise y'know?

but yeah.. i guess i can say you were brilliant while you lasted.

<3
you were my favourite in team valor1.0 and you had massive endgame potential. i hope we can play LSGs again soon.

the blindside on you STUNK man! i get you had an idol so something kinda had to happen but i would've gladly gone the whole way through with you.
i guess i'm sorry i didn't speak out and warn you that you might be eating some votes. that probably would have been like a less-dicky version of what people were trying to accomplish with voting you to the jury. whatever bygones and all that

i don't have tonnes to say except shower you with compliments. c: you're great.

When I got to your name I wandered AFK
made a (very nice) cup of coffee
wandered around outside for a bit
I'm not sure exactly what words to use here but I'll try my best.

firstly the easy one: I'm sorry for the way this game went down. after the first conspiracy against you when we actually got down to business and talked game i realised i had a massive amount of respect for you and i was actually happy you were still around.

secondly and way more importantly, thank you for your pointed words to me. it's not something that occurred to me to chat with my mentor about before it was too late, but you're dead right that i was basically just smiling and nodding and coasting through the game--how boring my play was from a FTC pov isn't something i'd properly considered, and this slap around the ears was a pretty substantial point for me in the game.

i legitimately didn't want the second conspiracy against you to go down. it was such a sticky situation. i wanted to see if a third person's name could be slipped in there at the 11th hour, but frankly i didn't have the clout without it appearing downright bizarre and no one else was volunteering. plus.. it was you vs. Regi, and since everyone will only see this postgame, you should know Regi was like my #1 closest ally the entire way through (including when working with you/Celi, which I think you guys knew about).

it was a seriously sucky TC. i didn't want you to go home but i legit was in a situation where a supermajority was forming and the counterwagon was on my in-game bro.

but yeah the thanks here are the important part. that conversation really put the game in perspective for me, and i appreciated it a lot.

ilu for reals meltan.
i'm sorry that your time came but when i sent you that pm, i meant every word of it. you were straight-up a massive endgame threat, and it was such a "do or die" moment. frankly, a few of us had kinda coasted through the game by being "pieces" in the conflicts you you were pushing against coba/hoops/celi, rather than the masterminds. self included, likely regi included, to a lesser extent probably deo include (tho he played a sneakier both-sides-ey game). if we hit FTC and the supreme ultimate mastermind who overcame ALL OF HIS ENEMIES was still there, that would be a ridiculously solid story. and you would have to achieve that narrative to get there - there's no way at this point that we could let you get to endgame.

genuinely, i enjoyed our chats a lot. your posting gimmick was insanely cute, and the way you played this game was powerful, empowering (as a minion) and yet somehow really fun and bizarrely lovable.

you're the kind of person that i'm really glad i got to experience my first survivor game with. the way you navigated through this was stunning, and immensely entertaining, and i enjoyed being around you a lot. so there's a possibility your downfall was overplaying and being TOO impressive? which you weren't able to downplay? so possibly that flaw is part of what i really admired about you here. but it's whatever y'know. you were sensational, nutto.

sigh...so this sucked.
i suppose on a technicality you were a level of endgame social threat so i wasn't 100% keen on reaching endgame with you. but i feel like we hadn't quite worked each other out yet if that makes sense. like our time together totally wasn't over and i didn't get to say goodbye and it drove me wild.

i didn't vote for you, and wouldn't have. the tic tac toe game was the kind of joke i wouldn't make if i was working against you. now that the numbers have fallen i think you probably know this but...like...it feels appropriate to say here. i'm just odd like that. i said i had your back, and i did have your back.

i hope the rest of your trip is going (or went!) awesomefully<3

this was the dirtiest i played all game, and i felt horrific for it. turns out it was a sweep anyway so i probably could have been more upfront with you (and i fucking should have been) but i still just didn't have the words for that shit fam.

for what it's worth, the reason i try not to lie in these games is for pivotal substantial moments like this. working on getting an ingame reputation for honesty makes discreet lies infinitely more effective and for what it's worth, you were a massive enough threat that you were the person i saved my bold-faced lie for. i know it's not great but that's how much i admired and respected your game.

you were gorgeous to talk to, and i know i'm not the only one who felt that way by a long shot. you were a tremendous social threat, and the way you worked through this game (especially while sitting on an idol) was just sensational. i think on the balance of probabilities you knew you weren't going to reach endgame (or it'd be a hell of a challenge sweep to get there?) but that didn't make me feel any better for outright lying to your face.

so i apologise for my vote. it wasn't pivotal, but it wasn't nice to make. i genuinely meant that i'm gonna track you down and pester you so i hope you're ready for that.