Volcanion's Questions

Here's my question to all three of you:

Please help me compare why you are better than the other three lots. I think I have a good idea why you lot are good, but I struggle on how to connect the dots and figure out who is better.

Also Regi and Tupa Lele, I am sorry that I have lied to you back in Valor 1.0

Truthfully, I have been lying about my identity .-. I am a boring person so I have to pretend to be somebody more exciting.

I am not a Brunei High School boi who is depressed due to A Levels. I am neither a Brunei nor a high schooler.

I was not glad when my sister committed suicide, because I don't have a sister. Although Dear Evan Hansen is fucking awesome.

I also do not grind poker. Although I certainly plan to ^>^.

hahaah i thought that was her name

I'm better because I acted with more agency, I had more information, and I leveraged that information to be able to control the game the way I wanted it to go.

Your vote was a great example of that. You made it clear to me that you didn't have any bond or relationship with me and had given up on trying. So I leaked what you said to a few people, let it simmer, then told a few more. Then Coba started telling people for me, and so I was able to both distance myself from your wagon and also use it to build up Coba as a threat by talking to the Valor+Meltan side about how I hadn't meant anything by telling Coba and he was blowing it out of proportion, etc. That let me (a) lead the Mystics to vote out the one person I knew I didn't have a relationship with; (b) ensure Coba took the heat for it and was the Valor target - which I knew was the absolute safest target for the Valor+Meltan votes to be on since I had helped Coba find the idol I knew he still had. I had formed a wagon on you, I had Coba built up as both taking the heat for it and also the start to the target on his back that I would later use, I downplayed my relationship with Coba (again, despite the fact we were very close and I helped him find an idol) with the Valors by throwing shade on him and with the Mystics by freaking out about the fact we didn't have numbers despite knowing the idol was coming.

There's other examples as well I can expand on if you want. There's the fact Regi thought I believed him over Hoopa/Celebi and didn't trust the two of them when they told me he was throwing me under the bus, the fact that Regi (and this is hard for me to say with a straight face) thought he was a bigger target than Poipole at F6 and that she was a goat when she was playing a game that would have schooled any of the three of us by a country mile, the fact that I had to talk Tapu into keeping Regi and getting rid of Celebi at F4 who had also played a very strong social game, and frankly just the fact that Regi and Tapu thought I was with them the whole postmerge when my absolute loyalty was to Poipole and by design I was playing both sides against one another until we got to a point where the Mystic side a bunch of big endgame threats and the Valor side had...Regi and Tapu.

I'm happy to expand more or clarify anything if needed.

Firstly: no hard feelings re. lies. Not being identifiable is part of the game, and I think personally doing that by inventing an alias is probably fine?
if it's any value as feedback, there was a certain ~point~ I think I could reach in getting to know you where there was kind of a social block. that's probably partially attributable to the fact you were wearing a mask. obviously not a big drama (and there's no real reason to go into it a whole lot here) but thought you might find it interesting.

Regi, Deo and I are all really different people. I think the values that we have as Survivor players, and the reasons why we're proud of our respective achievements of reading Final 3, are different enough that there's a really interesting trichotomy for your role as a juror.

Personally, I am proud of the way I was able to work both with and against people whilst remaining largely off their radars. I knew who my allies were, and I had their backs as far as I possibly could. Yet on the flipside, I had no reason to disrespect or treat those who weren't allies poorly. For almost every TC in Harmony, I was able to quite boldly tell the person I was voting for that I was voting for them; and even when the vote didn't go through, it was never something that was held against me and I was never moved against.

I think I played a broad enough social game that I would have survived virtually everything. There may have been some players who played bigger bolder or even broader social games (e.g. Celi, Hoopa, Poipole) but I have outlasted all of them and am here floating at the end.



Hopefully this post helps a little. I'm interpreting your question as basically asking for a "tl;dr" of what we see our "points of difference" as. I certainly believe this is mine.

Actually, I played better, because I had more information!

I'll concede that my blindspot was on poipole this game. She was a good UTR player for a reason -- she wasn't on my radar.

But deoxys had a much worse blind spot in this game: Me.

I won't make you read all 9000 words in our speeches, but tl;dr, Deoxys and I have identical voting records, and flipped back and forth between sides. We had a good degree of influence over the game despite having a mostly functional relationship.

What deoxys doesn't know is that I was actually playing both sides better then he was, especially past F7. He had no idea that I was close with Celebi (and a bit hoopa), and he also had no idea I was pushing him as a target to them to the point where they were ACTUALLY targeting him, even when they leaked it back to his face. He burned that bridge and thought they were just lying to him when hoopa leaked it back to him.

I didn't burn bridges this game, period. Deoxys came into this merge with an advantage because he had connections with mystic 2.0 and mystic 1.0 - the same mystic 1.0 that ended up taking up a very quick majority of the game.

I somehow ended up in the same position as him despite having zero connection with most mystic 1.0 members coming into merge. I worked hard and aggressively played to get where I was when merge came. Deoxys just naturally found himself between both sides because he had better luck in swaps then I did. I think that's a better game played.


Also if you want to know what I did better then tapu lele, go to her speech, and open up the spoiler with my name on it. She does a good job of describing it there.

Did you have an F3 deal with Celebi and an F4 with hoopa?

Then no, you didn't have better relations with them.

Funny that you assume I was the one making those deals -- no, they came from the other person. Hoopa said she would be happy to go to F4 with me, and Celebi laid out a plan to F3 (F2 even, but that part is pretty hard to believe lmao) with a full boot order and everything. Neither of which included you making it past F5 or F6.

You're right that those were fantastic deals for them, why do you think they came to me them? And why didn't they come to you with them, if you had a better relationship with them?

If you want to sit here and tell me that you had a better relationship with people who were planning on voting you out and keeping me, I can't really take that seriously.

(man this is exhausting)

Remember that I am the merge boot, so it is in your interest to proactively spoon-feed me with your narrative since I have no clue of the game.

that's a joke by the way. If you want to know the narrative of the game have you considered reading the speeches? I think I did a pretty good job in mine.

.. something tells me it was a very good idea to bring someone who underestimates me to the end ...