Full PM logs

Hi! Sorry I didn't get in touch sooner, it's kinda hard when everyone is around!

I'm having a really good time with this tribe so far! How about you?

I am bit under distress, lol. Like, I know from research that this early period are really crucial for your social play, but I have to go really soon so my finger is basically cramming to type as many private messages as possible >.>

Don't worry, I'm in the exact same situation! Looks like some things are simply universal ^^

I will be honest with you. I spend a couple of minutes trying ot figure out what is your Pokemon is supposed to do but I am just stuck. Like, it seems like most humanoid pokemon, but there are two plants behind it so what is this creature?

Those aren't plants, it's just the tips of its two tails. It's really just a tiny flying humanoid, but with a lot of style.

Anyway, I'm off to sleep. Have a good day, and see you tomorrow!

Night night ^.^ Beware of the pokemons hiding under your bad.

Good Morning. You woke up rather early. [. ]=[. ]

Timezones

Did anything nice happen while I was away?

Not really. It's just me and Lele. I'm in a time zone disadvantage, methink ._.

Hey now, it's not unheard of for someone in a non-American timezone to win a game. Don't be so negative about it!

I mean, what are the chances that a newbie will take this down? I am at a bad timezone with poor skills. Sad.

It could be worse! At least we all get some help from veterans to make up for being new to this.

That is true.

Btw, we have never quite talk with each other in a more deeper level. So who are you behind your Pokemon mask?

I personally prefer not to talk too much about real life. Sorry about this! Besides, I don't really know what could be said that doesn't point pretty obviously to my identity.

What are your plans for the game so far?

I reckon I don't have any game plan so far ._. I'm just talk, talk, talk, establish relationship for future social play.

Oh come on. Just tell something that is inconsequential to reveal [^]-[^] For instance, beside being an academic slave, my hobby is playing Poker. What is yours?

I don't have a lot going on in my life. My most unusual hobby is probably the fact that I'm really into idle games. I'm very close to the endgame of Realm Grinder, and I'm playing through Antimatter Dimensions again after having already gotten to the end of its content before!

But hey, Poker is cool too. I could never get into it, but it's always looked fascinating to me.

I tell you what. You are officially the most idiosyncratic person I have ever met (in a good way)

Like, I have a hobby of trying to psycho-analyzing people. When you asked me about my game plan really early, I am like "This guy must be the most ambitious person on the game. He's already thinking about game tactics this early? Man, I bet he is the type of player who will play 4D Chess and proceeds to win the game with an unanimous vote," but when you told me you love idle games, I went "Wait. How? That's contradictive with my initial impression."

I like your swag. Others people are like wishy washy "Hey, how are you?" You are like, "Fuck you all. This is how I roll."

Speaking about game plan, are you interested to be part of my game plan? As in, shall we do a coalition with the two of us? ^.^

You know what? Sure! You seem like the kind of person that would be pretty nice to work with, and the fact that you seem to be in an European-ish timezone helps too!

I am from Brunei ._.

Oh. I guess I was a bit too quick to jump to conclusions there ^_^'

I have been wondering where do you come from? Like, I feel you are from the American, but if you are not online right now, then I imagine you are actually a European?

Yes, I'm from somewhere in western Europe. I won't say where exactly because that would narrow things down quite a bit.

I'm not looking forward to half a day of phone posting. I've always found it so much more annoying than with a real keyboard and a larger screen. I feel bad for those who are forced to do it frequently.

So I have been considering to download Realm Grinder and give it a run, and from the review it seems rather intimidating ._. Which one is more pleasent to play, the steam version or the android version?

It's hell to play on a phone past a certain point in the game, so the Steam version is better. The best version is still the Kongregate one since the chat window on the side can be absurdly helpful.

Apparently Mozilla Firefox is a pain in the ass to install Flash ._. I think I will do Steam then

Yes, Flash is pretty close to not being supported by browsers anymore, so it does tend to be a pain. But anyway, good luck with RG! It's really nothing like what the common subconscious thinks of idle games, despite what it can look like at first.

Does it feature intense period of stress in a surprising manner? Nothing like suddenly killed by Creeper or somebody on Fortnite??

I don't think there's a single idle game that does that, I'm pretty sure most people would see that as bad design for the genre

I decided to join the Evil faction. When I saw "Slave Pen," i instantly regret it ._.

Oh, come on! You're playing an idle game, why would moral choices ever matter?

Anyway, there was some talk yesterday with Tapu Lele of an alliance between the three of us, possibly joined by Uxie too. We haven't really talked about it between the two of us, but I suppose you're aware and OK with it?

Slow down dude. {Lele + Mesprit + Volcano} will be too op, it will boring from the spectator's perspective. Anything beside that, I am in!

Awesome to hear! Is there anyone else you'd be comfortable working with on our tribe?

Probably Regis. It's just unfortunate that our time doesn't quite intersects with each other.

I'll leave for now, this train doesn't have power outlets for whatever reason so I'll need to conserve my phone's battery. See ya!

So when is the recommended time to abdicate? Like, I am "Abdicate for 17 gems" right now

Somewhere around 1000 for the first abdication. It's generally recommended to do it when you're at a point where it's hard to earn more gems even with a spell combo.

You guys did awesome in Phase 1! I wouldn't have come up with the Tangela trick on my own, that's for sure.

Is there anything cool that you know but you haven't told me? ._. For a one heck of a mysterious person, you have a classy taste.

I've actually decided to cut the mystery part down a bit since earlier in the game. As my really wide availability suggests, I'm a student who's currently in a year-long break from studies for personal reasons. Those personal reasons also explain why I sometimes have days like yesterday, where I have to go out of town for a bit for an appointment.

What kind of cool thing are you asking for? Did you mean tips for Realm Grinder, or cool obscure stuff that I'm aware of?

That is still mysterious [.]=[.] Like, what do you majored on? My psycho-analysis says you majored on science-y stuff, but probably not Computer Science so Physic, Biology, Math, Engineering stuff?

The latter, cool obscure stuff ^>^

And unfortunately, I once again turn out to be unpredictable in my predictability, as I was indeed studying CS

I'm really glad we're not in a TC right now. There's really nobody on the tribe I felt distant from. I guess I still couldn't catch Mewtwo online for an extended period of time, but he seems like a nice guy!

OMG 6 PEOPLE DOING CS IN THIS TRIBE..

We should rename this tribe into CS PEOPLE just pagong the non-CS people.

Oh, wow. I don't ask too much about others' real life, so I had no idea we had so many of us here. Do you think Mystic is also full of CS people?

I think Mystic consists mostly of people who have no life therefore they excel at the talking part because they have so many free time to waste. Therefore, I don't think there are a lot of CS people.

I'm a bit worried by the fact that people don't talk to me a lot about the game. Is it just that there's not a lot happening yet, or do you think they're dodging me a bit?

I think it's just there's not a lot of happening yet. It's kinda the inherent problem of Survivor methink--it takes too long to get to the serious scheming part. Like I imagine you will only face serious scheming during The Merge and pre-merge is mostly about social play test.

I might be a bit paranoid since one of my only attempts at specing Survivor was Reverse the Curse, where the idol mechanics and the fact that there were TCs on both tribes for the first two challenges made the social scheming start very fast. I stopped following it before the second TC because it was just too much to keep track of as a spectator.

I think that's the consequence if you are the winner--it gets a bit boring since you don't get to go to Tribal Council. ^>^

The fact that everyone on our tribe gets some advice from a Survivor veteran and can avoid making obvious social mistakes also helps make the tribe a bit boring.

Woah, what? I'd never heard of this! When did it happen?

So I think during the first day, Mewtwo went to me and Uxie and like "Let's do F3 alliance!" Me and Uxie is like "Woah. Woah. You haven't talked to us. What's this is going." Now Mewtwo claimed it's just a joke...but dudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

That's... a bold move, for sure.

Also, My God. Reverse The Curse is hyper-aggressive as fuck. I just read it and it's fascinating. Now I understand why you were so "game mode" so early in this game.

Yes! This game will actually be my first real experience with a "normal" Survivor game, so I was mixing things up a bit so far.

Hey, I've finally heard someone say something about his preferred vote targets. I suppose you're interested?

Yes please ^>^

I was chatting with Buzzwole a bit, mentioning the possibility of a swap maybe a couple rounds from now. He said that he was more interested in "getting rid of the free weight" before thinking about the possible aftermath of a swap. I obviously wanted to know more about what he meant, so I asked for details. He eventually answered that he was mainly thinking of Mewtwo, and Lugia too to a lesser extent.

Since everyone in our little group likes Mewtwo quite a bit, I figured you might be interested. Do you think we should do something about that?

I feel like the vote will be naturally go against Buzzhole without us having to scheming. I know Regigas also liking Mewtwo, so that's 5 people wanting Mewtwo to stay.

IT"S TIME FOR SOME ACTION. WE WANT IT, NOW WE GOT IT.

I'm not even gonna try pretending Buzzwole isn't as good as dead right now. It won't feel like a big loss, since he's opposed to social play having a major role in the game.

Hey, how's it going!

I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed Meloetta got replaced, since it's one of my favorite Pokemon - it had a spot in my 5 picks for this game. But it does mean we have one more player to talk with, which i can't say no to

I just wanted to be a regibro.

Why mespirit? I know it's a lake thing, but what drew you to it?

I've always considered the lake trio to be my favorite legendaries, mainly because the game treated them as more than just a faceless pile of high stats, especially through the story. Their lore is pretty cool too!

How about you, what made you pick Buzzwole?

I wanted to quote action movies a lot.

Ooh, awesome! I'm not good at all at doing gimmicks for myself. I do incorporate a few fake verbal tics into my MS posts for the sake of flavor, but that's about it.

I'm not going as hard into the gimmick as I have in the past, just more of a treat to myself.

Fake writing tics seem really difficult to do. How do you go about that?

It's actually easier than it seems. It's just a conscious decision when you're making a post of "ok, I'll try to use this word at some point". I can't really give examples since it would probably let you find me on MS, but I hope you get the idea.

Anyway, see you in a bit!

So it's exactly like ending an idea with a dumb movie quote. I see. See ya later, dude.

Missing a train is one of the most shameful things ever

It feels kinda weird that we're already close to the first challenge! I haven't had a lot of opportunities to talk with some of our tribemates, but I imagine it's quite a bit worse for you since it's your first time meeting all of them.

Trains are the wurst.

I've been doing decent, i've gotten a hold of most the people. it's been going better than i've thought, to be honest.

Is there anyone that's completely ghosted you?

Actually, it was completely my fault for missing the train. Just the usual leaving home just a tiny bit too late thinking I had enough time.

I've been able to talk with pretty much everyone so far, except only for Mewtwo. He's only been online last night for me, so we only have 2 PMs in our thread. How does he seem to you?

No contact. with mewtwo, no contact with uh...Type Null, either. everyone else has been fun.

To be fair, Type: Null isn't a player yet

I'll go to bed soon since I'll have to take that train super-early tomorrow. Have fun with the game!

You did amazing in Phase 1! How did you come up with the Tangela trick?

Regibro brought up castforms body in the first post under his weird bodies section, so I was just clicking random faces to pair with it and it was a bunch of nonsense until tangela came up and castform was disappeared. So i started looking for other easily cover mons. He covers electrode but the head stretchs so it's kind of obvious that there's a big circle under there. Once I knew there was at least one head that could cover multiple bodies, I went on the look out for big heads. I got a few, but I did't do a good enough job writing some of my findings. I definitely had a *much* better honchkrow one but couldn't find it again. Regiice was promising but the only one he kinda worked on was voltorb and just the other voltorb options were better.

I'm pretty sure that unless Team Mystic has come up with an equivalent to this, we've already won this.

Even if they have, as long as you guys have read some of the research me and regi did, I think you'll have a better shot at guessing some of the cheesey stuff.

I'm currently looking through your fusions to try to remember some of the trickier faces. There are some that are extremely generic, like Corsola!

Thanks again for the game yesterday! I'm glad we could help turn the challenge around.

Have you been thinking about Meltan's proposal? It could give us a nice foothold after a merge or a swap.

Didn't see it, I'll go look

I'm fine with it but I'm not counting on it because an agreement wasn't reached before we lost communication.

Personally...I want to get rid of some of the dead weight on our time before I start getting too pumped about tribe swap.

That's... an interesting way to approach it. I don't think anyone on the team truly qualifies as dead weight, as everyone is pretty active. There are a handful that barely every talk about the game with me, but that's about it. Who were you thinking of?

Mewtwo and to a lesser extent lugia.

Really? I'm a bit curious about why. Is it because of their relatively small contributions to the challenges?

Very small communication, very small contribution. Mostly skating by.

I haven't broached the subject with anyone other than you, so this is really just seeing how you feel about that sort of thing and the team in general.

Really? I'm under the impression that Mewtwo was quite popular. Though that's mostly something I've heard, since I don't have a lot of opportunities to chat with him.

In my mind that's worse. He's slacking in the challenges but keeping up the private messege game and that's exactly the playstyle i'd want to jettison.

That's definitely an unconventional view of the game, as far as I know. Survivor has never really been about the challenges.

So, how are you feeling about tribal.

I'm not scared the slightest bit. From what I hear from the others, people like me enough that I'm not facing any risk of a boot yet.

Who are you thinking of for your vote? Is it still Mewtwo?

Mew two or lugia.

I don't know how people feel about me to be honest, but I'm not really that concerned cause I feel I've contributed to our successes and not to our failure.

Have you had any luck so far getting others to vote for them? It feels like a bit of an uphill battle to me.

I got started late. I haven't really gotten anything back yet.

Who were you thinking? Who do you feel the "downhill battle" is?

Ah, that doesn't sound good. Starting late puts you at a severe disadvantage, since people often start discussing TCs a bit before the challenge results just so they can have a bit of a lead in influence over the others. I think you'd be better off following someone else's vote here.

Am I right to assume the vote is me then, cause I haven't been told anything about who is voting whom.

What a perfect way to drop in on d1! I wish more people started off with Shrek 2 memes...

Yes! When I spectate games, I'm often amazed at the appropriate stuff some people manage to post d1 in the welcome thread, so I didn't expect to be able to get such an opportunity! I'm sure you can find something awesome to post on your own, though

Just so we're clear, this meme is the #1
reason I picked Lugia pm1.narvii.com/6524/b802ef5399a92df774ceb4aaa6e94fd8c3546967_hq.jpg

OK, that's an amazing one 

I personally only picked Mesprit for the boring, simple reason of liking it. I wonder how many of us were inspired by memes.

Pft. How lame. Now you gotta find some sick Mesprit memes so we can have a meme off!

Sorry, I was never really into Pokemon memes. I'm more into r/youtubehaiku stuff personally.

oh man. I gotta stay away from you in the meme war then. You've got all the freshest memes. I mostly stick to getting drunk and surfing the internet while I'm on vacation (like right now)!

By the way, I have a secret alternate win condition of finding an excellent way to link to this video in general discussion.

... Nah, of course I don't, but come on, I just had to share it, right?

ahahahahahahahahahahh

Please find a way to post that in general. I would be so happy.

Same here! Especially if it's as an answer to Cobalion, that guy is just asking to be owned with a good meme!

Anyway, it's a bit late here, so see you tomorrow!

Night! Cya!

Hey, how's it going? I remember I had quite a bit of fun talking with you yesterday!

One thing you might be amused to know is that I've made myself a small reserve of "Enough Reggie" videos to send to Reggie on a daily basis. I wonder what he'll think of it ^^

Oh man. I bet he'll love them. Did you find the "number one, but every time they say one it's enough reggae" video?

I didn't, thanks for the suggestion! I wonder what his confessional will look like, maybe he'll show them to the specs?

I hope so! You should share the memes you're sending with the spectators too!

I kind of wish our team would be more active in PMs right now. I could use some cheering up.

What for?

My day ended on a sour note yesterday. This is why I was hoping that this game could make up for it, but at least I was able to sleep it off and now I'm doing fine again.

Was your day better than mine?

By the way, for the record, this was today's Reggie. It's one of my favorites!

The internet is an amazing thing.

I'm sorry to hear about yesterday. I had to fly back from from vacation, but I think it was better than whatever happened with you . Wanna rant about it?

It's okay, I got better just by sleeping. And if I wanted to rant about it, the sad thread would have been a better place than a LSG, right?

I'm really looking forward to doing my part of the challenge! You guys did great.

Y'all are gonna kill it! Those experienced players won't know what hit them:)

Hey sick work on the first challenge! Getting 100% is pretty sweet

Thanks! I'm also pretty proud of how I did in this challenge, though there was basically nobody to see it.

You at least had one partner! Did you guys bond over it?

Wait, did something happen with Regigigas?

But yes, it was pretty great playing together! We also got a sneak peek at Meltan and Articuno, who both seem like cool guys! I'm looking forward to seeing them at merge.

Huh? Nothing in particular. Just the usual chats. Why do you ask?

Ohhhhh, I had read the "you had one partner" part wrong. Sorry!

I'm going to sleep, see you tomorrow!

Do you think you can convert the conversation with the other tribesmen into a nice friendship?
It'd be sweet to have the start of a cross tribe alliance so early.

That was the plan, but then the topic got locked

Seriously, I can't wait to see Meltan's MS Paint shenanigans on a daily basis.

Hope that time comes soon!

Ahjjj. We lost the challenge and are going to tribal. I've been hearing a whole lot of buzzwole going home because he doesn't message much.

Have you been hearing much else?

Yep, Buzzwole sounds like the general consensus here. I feel like he must really ignore his trainer a lot seeing how he's missing the point of a LSG.

Believe it or not, but Buzzwole mentioned you before TC as one of his preferred boots. He justified it based on challenge performance, so I'm pretty sure he hasn't convinced anyone of it though.

I've heard that from 2 other people as well. I guess my vote is being locked in. Who are we telling him we're voting out?

The general plan is to tell him we're voting Mewtwo, since that's who he's going for.

K sounds good.

A new game! Whoo, I'm so hyped! Are you excited too?

omg yusssss, very much so

I'm having a really good time chatting with everyone on the team. Tapu Lele is probably my favorite so far! Who's yours?

to be honest i havent really had a chance to chat to people yet so therefore youre my favourite haha, im only now getting round to replying to people but making friends is always fun, Tapu seems nice though

Tapu is my favorite too! It might help a bit that our timezones are pretty compatible, but they're easily the one I feel the most comfortable talking to.

i quite like uxie, they seem very friendly

i dont know about time zones, i think im in a bad spot because im in the uk

I'm also European! But it seems we're exact opposites in when we're available for this game, which kinda sucks

Are there days where you can be online at some other time than late at night? I'd love an opportunity to get more in contact with you!

lol im always terrible when it comes to when to be online, i work shift work so therefore some days i can be online early in the day and others i won’t be on until like 2am haha

where abouts in europe are you from??

I'm from a western Europe country, but I've decided not to say which one in this game because it would kind of give me away.

I'm glad I could finally catch you online! Unfortunately, our phase is just about to start so it's gonna be a short while until I can actually talk to you. Oh well.

Hey, good to see you online! I'm really proud of how we did in this challenge, though I find it a bit anticlimactic that we only won because Mystic didn't double-check their list before submitting.

I'm really glad we aren't in TC for now, I wouldn't have been ready for it at all! Everyone in this tribe is awesome, and even though you're the only one I haven't had a good opportunity to talk to yet, you seem like a good guy too!

yeah im so proud of the team, and sorry that we never seem to be here together, sometimes i’m online because i leave the page open on my ipad whilst i’m doing other things, i think i should probably talk more on here, im just shy sometimes and like loads of talking to loads of people can be scary and difficult to keep talking for ages and then it can be a little overwhelming when there’s so many messages to respond to and all the other stuff too, gah this game is scary xD

i just noticed you sent me 2 messages, im really sorry i didn’t reply

Since I'm currently taking a break from my studies, I have the forum open all day long on my laptop. Whenever I see someone popping up in the online list, I send them a PM, but sometimes they were just checking for new posts/PMs and leave before they can read mine.

I'm also a very shy person, I'm not used to socializing at all IRL, and while I'm pretty popular in some internet communities, this game is my first time spending a lot of effort on communicating with others. It turns out that it can be pretty fun in moments when I'm in the right mood for it, and my efforts seem to have paid off a bit seeing what the others say about me sometimes. I never thought I had any sort of social skills before!

Annoyingly I’m working shift work and so my times of being online are always changing, I always worry that like if I go online to check the challenge or say something in a thread and then don’t respond to every single message I have then someone will feel that I’m ignoring them or prioritising other peoples messages first

It’s strange because irl I have amazing social skills, like can talk all the time but online I seem to struggle, I think part of it is that I wanna write a lot and I’m usually using an iPad to do so and it’s harder to type on the iPad, I’ve now set up the game on my phone so that should help

Also yay for both being online xD although atm I’m on a coach so you’ll lose me when I get off it haha

I really suck at phone posting. Maybe I should train a bit at typing on a phone, but I never think of actually doing it.

Since we're down a game in the challenge, the possibility of a TC is looming over our heads a bit. Who do you think would be the most threatened on the tribe? I don't get a lot of game talk, so I wouldn't be able to tell.

Yeah I’m really sad that we lost that’s game, we had an issue on culture on something that is bit in uk but not in America but these things happen

I’m terms of who to boot I’m not sure, who are you close with? Maybe it might be good to try and form some sort of an alliance before we get to the possibility of TC

I personally only ever say culture-related clues in case of emergency in online games, since those are often lost on foreigners.

I'm closest to Volcanion and Tapu Lele. How about you?

Yeah see I had no idea that it wasn’t a thing in America and so that spoiled it slightly but oh well, we won the second game so that’s great, hopefully the third one will go great too

I’m getting close to Tapu and Volcanion so that’s good, I’m also really good with Uxíe and Reggie

Maybe the 6 of us could be an alliance

That could be a pretty good alliance! Did you discuss it with the others?

Of course, the fact that we're once again not in a TC makes it not as much of an emergency, but it's nice to be ready.

Ah Urm, not really gotten to that, idk haha

I’m still working out how to do things, all I know is that my trainer said that I should get into an alliance with people and so yeah, it’s tough when so many people have so many different views on things

I think a better way to look at things for the opening side of the game is looking at who would be a good first boot? Like if we came to the point of tribal, who would you want gone, or rather who wouldn’t you mind gone?

I honestly don't see anyone who's an obvious first boot. Everyone has been rather active, and I haven't seen any obvious social blunders. Of course, there are some people I'm less close to than others, especially those I haven't talked with about the game itself, but they're only tied for last in my perspective.

Might I ask who those people are? I’m just trying to piece together peoples thoughts because I have been hearing talk of first boot and obviously it’d be good to keep on top of that so that we keep ourselves safe (obviously if I heard your name I’d let you know) I’ve mainly been hearing Lugia and Buzz tbh

omg how did you guess

Buzzwole really strikes me as someone who refuses to acknowledge the importance of the social part of Survivor, he's been talking about the first boot being anyone who's not doing well in challenges. Lugia is a pretty chill guy, but I couldn't really get into game talk with him, and same with Victini, though V is still really friendly.

Nuuuuu we lost haha

Yeah I’ve mainly been hearing Buzz, I’m not sure if that’s still what people are thinking now that we’re actually going to tribal, you’re one of the first people I’ve replied to so yeah hi haha

What have you been hearing? Have you heard my name at all?

To tell the truth, I've heard your name once. But it was from Buzz, so... you get my point

In case you're wondering, he justified it solely with challenge performance, so you shouldn't be worried about it. That guy definitely misunderstands the focus of Survivor, if you want my 2 cents, so I'm perfectly fine with booting him.

Yeah I heard that too but oh well, as much as it’s scary hearing my name I heard but I heard enough people say even before tribal that they wasn’t keen on Buzz that I should be fine

Only issue is if he has an idol I’m screwed 😂

I'll be honest, I didn't even consider the possibility of Buzzwole having an idol. But looking at what he's telling me in PMs, he doesn't seem to think he's in danger, so he'd probably take it home if he had one.

I think I’m gonna act a bit panicked to him and say that people have been suggesting me and ask for him who he’s voting for

I think I've gone too far telling him I'm not voting for you, so he's gonna get mixed signals on that front. Apparently Reggie managed to make him think I'm clueless, but I don't know if that's gonna be enough.

But it's not like knowing he's getting voted out will help him at all. If anything, he's just gonna dig himself deeper with his campaigning.

Lol he really doesn’t understand much about survivor, he outwardly told me that he’s voting for me, like you never do that

I tried pleaing to him to help convince him that I’m on my own

God this’ll all be so embarrassing if for some reason this is all a massive blindside 😂😂😂

Same here, I'd probably be disgusted with Survivor forever if this was a blindside. Though there's a one-in-a-million chance of it, seeing the difference in playstyle between Buzzwole and us.

To be honest, it’d be some crazy blindside

Like vote 1 blindside really isn’t needed, nobody is ever that powerful for there to be a needdd blindside so early, unless it’s someone you absolutely hate as a tribe and you’re sure that they have an idol

Can't wait for the thrilling conclusion that we all knew was coming!

I’m still paranoid that he’ll pull out an idol

I totally had a crush on mespirit when I was younger

Did you choose her just to seduce poor fools like myself?

I also found the lake trio really awesome, though I wouldn't call it a crush. They're still some of my favorite Pokemon to this day!

Also, "her"?

woahwoah

are you about to tell me mespirit is a dude

you better elaborate on that??!??!?!

I thought Mesprit was genderless like the vast majority of legendaries. Is there something that says otherwise?

Okay I mean technically I'm a colossal construction robot but for all intents and purposes, I'm a dude named reggie.

And I mean you got the long hair (spirit hair?) and you're pink... OH wait this is pokemon what am I doing. How could I forget to ask.

Yes.

..okay i can take a hint..

.. i'll just confess to my backup uxie when she gets here..

.. i can accept just being your shrek 2 meme friend ..

[insert a long monologue by the Emotion Pokemon trying to violently brainwash Regigigas into being pansexual, that only ends when it falls asleep before finishing because it's just so late here]

ah wow what are these feelings...

as a pile of randomly assembeled materials I have never felt anything before...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[falls unconscious]

You're welcome

Anyway, I've looked up some things, and found out that in Mystery Dungeon, Mesprit is a she! Turns out you were right after all. Though Uxie and Azelf are he's.

Oh wow I guess your monolouge worked because uxie accepted my confession lmao

brb

Whoo! Go gettem, Reggie!

Preeeeeeeeeeeeety good. Doing some revitalizing reinvigorating herbal micro-chores around the house while listening to some music on loop. Super good for the skin and pores. Whatchu got going today?

It's a Sunday. Like every single Sunday ever, I just sit around doing nothing. Boring, I know, but it helps me wind down.

What kind of music do you like? I'm always curious to see what people are into!

Oh no I'm a music pleb I have no standards and I just unironically just listen to anything I think sounds good and I've been looping this video game music lol for the past... 8 hours I've been awake? yeah that sounds about right. I really loved playing in concert band in school though, and I got into some classical music too, so if you're into that let me know and i can hit you up with some sick ones.

Let's talk music, dude (female)! I was totally gonna slam dunk meloetta with that topic but she flaked.

What do you listen to?
What do instruments you play?
Ever written music?
Why do people make weird music with grains of rice draining out of a funnel and landing on a series of plates, bowls, and other things that make clangy noises?

Don't worry, I'm also a music pleb! I barely ever do any effort to discover things on my own, and I also often find myself listening to tracks I really liked from video games. Have you ever played a game by Falcom? They've got a pretty damn good sound team!

Anyway, when I listen to some "real" music, my favorite type is probably metal, but I'm always ready to listen to other stuff. I'm one of the only people I know who enjoy jazz, which is pretty sad. I used to play the piano some time ago, but I've stopped since I've started my studies because I simply didn't have any material for it outside of my original home. And no, I've never been much of a creative type, so I haven't written music myself.

Oh, and that rice thing? That sounds like the kind of thing where you shouldn't question why it exists, but just be amazed at the fact it does. I don't know why everybody doesn't act like this when they encounter weird stuff!

No I can't say I've played a game from falcom. But "Popful Mail" is really giving me a headache because I swear I've heard of that game before from somewhere... where on earth could that be.

How enlightened is your Jazz Listening Ability? I had a girlfriend who was big into jazz and wanted to be a performer of it one day. She was always disapointed when she showed me music because I just said "I don't get it", so she ended up just sending me some better sounding music which she called "pleb jazz"

I got into a bit of "electro swing" (wtf?) too. You know, those songs where they mix up some old music and overlay some old dances from movies where the copyright expired. Lone digger, bart/baker istanbul, libella swing, I think those are some of the more popular songs. What do you think of that stuff?

Ok, I'll admit I'm mostly into what hardcore jazz fans would call pleb jazz. Some of the weirder stuff kinda goes over my head.

I remember trying to listen to electro swing once! It was pretty nice, and I could enjoy listening to a bit of it once in a while, though it would probably get old pretty fast if I listened to too much of it.

Anyway, I'll have to go for a couple hours pretty soon, see you when I'm done!

Hope your train thing works out. Public transportation can be really ?? ?? ?? sometimes.

(turns out if you do 3 ?'s it turns into a which is super ugly wtf)

It's ok, the backup plan is simply to wake up extra-early tomorrow so I can catch an early train and hopefully get there in time. But that does kind of ruin my availability for this game...

Oh, and I'll make sure to use that ? ? ? emote all the time, I'm sure there are a lot of situations where it's gold!

I wouldn't worry too much about availability for a day. People have won LSG's while working 9 to 5 jobs, and there are people here who specifically name you as one of two/three they like in this game.

Come to think of it I'd probably put you there too but w/e

People like me? Awesome! It's a shame they didn't want to tell me though, mostly citing you and Lugia instead.

Yeah, I mean it's good to hear that people like me too but aren't telling me, it's not like someone is just going to come up to you and say "Hey I like you please go out with me ", they just continue the chillout convo.

Or are they. Is that how it works? Maybe.

Is that how you approached Uxie earlier? Judging from what you've said, it worked! So maybe we've found a way to change the Survivor meta?

I'll have to leave you for now since I must wake up earlier than usual tomorrow because of the train fail. Have a nice day!

lmao i pulled the classic

DO YOU LIKE ME

[YES] [NO]

on uxie. he just rolled with it. Good night, and for when you see this, good morning!

Heya! Sorry about being a bit inactive today.

Did you have a good day? Mine was a bit pitiful, but hey, that's life.

Pitiful huh? I challenge you to a

VICTIM CONTEST!!!!

My belt broke today, it snapped in half. And my email broke today at work.
And I stepped in a puddle.

Still think you had a pitiful day?

OK, from that point of view, my day was only pretty bad instead of pitiful. My bad.

Yo you guys better get on our momentum and rock the hell out of this next phase of the challenge because we came through and the wave is on. I got so much adrenaline right now from pressing buttons on a keyboard and looking at a screen. Take our energyyyyyyyyyyyyy

The Tangela thing was genius! I'm ready to bet Team Mystic's submissions will look half-assed by comparison.

Yeah let's just say it's usually a good thing when the mod is making new rules because of your tribe and not the other tribe. I'm really hoping we knock those pros down a notch

I may have been saying that to everyone, but the challenge is basically won in advance unless Mystic has some trick up their sleeves of the same kind as your Tangelas.

Yes good

Wow imagine typing two words then accidentally smashing that mf reply button. That's what I get for playing on hardcore mode mobile.

Yeah GOOD LUCK ON THAT PHASE TWO and I am going to be a bit busy today and on Tuesdays so if i go missing for like 12 hours sorry about that

Speaking of going missing tapu has not messaged me in several days is she still playing this game?

They're still playing, I guess they weren't online at the same time as you for the last couple days? Timezones can be annoying like that, I couldn't get a good occasion to talk to Mewtwo for the same reason.

Yo guess who just hashtag missed a train and is stuck in a station with free wifi??? Its yo boy.

Have you had a good day yet? So far you've seemed kind of down.

Now you know how I felt! Except I immediately came home because it was the last train in the evening, but, you know, details.

Actually, today was pretty good. I'll admit that since there's not a lot going on in my life I can seem a bit depressed when I talk about it, but I'm really not doing that bad.

wtf 50 out of 50 you guys are pretty good?!?!

Yeah no worries if you got a boring life, I do lots of commuting myself. Well if life is boring, let's just talk about something other then life. What's your #1 venue of escapism?

It honestly feels a bit anticlimactic that we only won because Team Mystic didn't properly double-check their list.

My main method of escapism is, as you might have guessed, the internet. I spend a lot of my time on MS and a couple other communities, either through forums or Discord. It really helps make the days feel shorter, and there are some really supportive communities where I know I can safely vent about the bad stuff that sometimes happens in my life. I wouldn't feel as good as I do to this day if I didn't have my laptop, though obviously my parents seem to think otherwise ^_^'

How about you?

Better anticlimactic then losing to a 50.50 time out I say.

It's good to have that network of people to talk to, I'm glad you have that. I used to use a few forums, but they all kinda died out. Seems to be a dying medium but for sure not on MS. Are you seeing that at all?

I like to watch video game streams to kill time. Usually small streamers with 10 viewers because I like their personality and silly things they do.

Well, aside from MS, most of the forums I'm on tend to focus more and more on Discord subcommunities, so I think MS is the only one where I frequently post on the forum itself.

Twitch streams used to be one of my favorite ways to kill time too! My favorite streamer is a relatively small one who's focused on one specific semi-obscure esports game. I remember I once tried to make a thread about that game on MS, but it didn't get a single post. 

Real talk theres some scary stuff on discord

Have you ever been invited to play a survivor game with 20+ ten to twelve year olds hosted by a twelve year old who abandoned the game when he ran out of challenge ideas? What a nightmare. I developed a fear of internet children and internet children memes that make absolutely no sense. You ever gone too Deep?

That's never happened to me, actually. I've only been to servers that are made for preexisting communities, so I never run into weird stuff like that.

There's something really special (uncomfortable and stressful) about pretending to be a twelve year old on the internet and making friends with people half your age. What no I don't work for the FBI why do you ask.

uhhh anyways TRAIN QUIZ

Do you think trains are romantic y/n
Do you get sick of the same view y/n
Do you like complicated or simple station layouts
Have you ever wanted to drive a train y/n
Does your train smell bad kind of like a paper mill when it's coming in from the country y/n

Trains are... really just a way to get from point A to point B. Nothing romantic about that.
Why would I ever get tired of the view from a train? It's moving!
I prefer functional stations when it's straightforward to go where you want, so simple designs are a big plus for me.
Driving a train sounds sooooo boring.
A train... doesn't have a smell?

Yeah in theory trains don't smell but when my train comes in it brings a smell of paper mill / burning plastic /gross toxic chemicals.

Trains might just be a way to get from point A to point B, but aren't relationships the same way? Obviously in a social game you use relationships to further yourself in the game, but in real life if your friend goes through a hard time you can rely on each other to get from point A to B. Same goes for romantic relationships too. Some can be bad, some can be good but just as a transitive thing, and for some point B is one of you dying. You said it would be boring to drive a train, but what you don't realize is you're driving a train right now. Theres something romantic about that.

You can tell a lot about a person from the answers they give to the train quiz. It's up to you to take that train.

Then is there some spiritual significance to me missing my train last Sunday?

Maybe. You ought to hop on the meditation train and deeply ponder that in your heart.

Just keep an eye on the time or you might miss another train.

okay wtf was that anyways good job on that challenge TY for carry

oh nice apparently you can do that

You're welcome! But we had a pretty easy board, so I'm pretty sure anyone on our team could have won this round, if it weren't for its time.

I was starting to brace myself for a TC, but I'm glad to see we'll be safe for a bit longer! It would be nice if we could keep this streak going on for even longer.

... Also, please don't use that picture again

Ok I promise I wont. And if it's any help to your spiritual journey, my train is running with 2 less cars today so it's very crowded.

I'm he btw reggie is a masculine name lol

Yes, you're one of the few where I had an idea for the pronoun.

Speaking of Reggie, I'm really sorry I broke the Reggie streak yesterday! I don't know how I can make up for it

Let me hit you with a cheat sheet real quick these are the answers I have been using.

Tapu she
Uxie he (weird)
Lugia volcanus victini mew2 buzz he

It's ok just send me an extra special reggie next time and I can forgive you

I'm a bit sad that I couldn't do more to help out this challenge. But at least this TC doesn't look like it's gonna be a divisive one!

Out of curiosity, what do you say to Buzzwole about the TC? I'd prefer being able to say stuff to him that's consistent with what everyone says.

You're the only one who has talked to buzz.

The reason I say that is because he said to me that you told him he has an uphill battle.

So congrats, you've set the narrative for him. I'm hesitant to tell him anything lest he spread it around with my name on it like he did with you. He is starting to piece together that he might be the downhill battle, but dismisses that as paranoia.

So basically I just ask him questions and let him write his own story to believe.

I'm sorry I blew it, I was just trying to be vague and say stuff that isn't about our votes but he's got it figured out now.

Why are you apologizing? It's not like anything he says really matters.

I'm telling him that its a bit up in the air but the majority will probably vote for mewtwo in the end, because he stated that mewtwo was the person he wanted to vote for the most, plus there's zero danger of that vote actually going through. I quite like post-challenge 2 mewtwo. What do you think of him?

Mewtwo's a really nice guy! It took a long while until I could finally catch him online, but since then he's been pretty open with me about game stuff. And yeah, you can only think he's in any danger if you're Buzzwole.

Yeahh, timezones be like that. I think I made buzz feel safe again by telling him you just don't know what's going on. You can be really clueless as to what's /really/ going on sometimes, mespirit

I'm also real happy to see uxie back, we're getting along well too. Sleepy boi is super chill and fun to talk to.

... That first line sounds ominous. Please tell me that's a joke

Uxie is awesome! He's been one of my favorites since day 1. I hope missing out on a couple days of the game won't hurt him too badly.

Oh if only you knew how much danger mewtwo is in... one vote is a lot of weight to bear, he might crack under the pressure.

Question: if the earth was flat would there still be timezones?

That's something I've never thought about! It depends if the other face of the Earth is also inhabited, and in that case there would be one timezone per face. Did I miss something?

hmmmm. so if the earth was coin shaped and still had the same tilt and axis, we would still have seasons because of the tilt/rotation, but then there would only be one time zone. Someone who lived on the edge of the coin would get the same daylight cycle as someone living in the center. Or at least pretty similar I think.

Extreme bonus round (Double Points): What would happen if the earth was both flat and round -- like a contact or a hollow half-sphere, and people lived on both sides?

I've gotta admit, living on the inner face of that earth you describe sounds trippy! There would be no "invisible" horizon, and instead you could see all the way to the edge of the world in the sky, which would become the new horizon instead. Also, time zones would be really weird in there. If you live right next to the edge, then a day lasts the maximum duration, and it would rise and set at the exact same time everywhere on the edge - while it would have a minimum duration somewhere in the middle of the world, because of the shadow cast by the edge of the world. The middle's day is entirely part of the edge's day, so there would actually be no timezones, so at least that's one garbage thing taken care of. The outside is boring by comparison, since it looks exactly like our earth.

Yeah that's pretty messed up. I still can't really wrap my head around what you would see for a horizon. During the short time the entire face is illuminated, could you just look around and see the WORLD? That is wack. Man geometry gets really scary once you leave grade school

Can you believe the volume of this infinitely long trumpet that they call Gabriel's Horn is pi? me neither >_<

Actually, I can believe it. Pi is every-fucking-where. It definitely doesn't beat this one in terms of unexpectedness.

wtf he turned two squares into a circle you can't do that

It really surprises me to hear that despite all the great math stuff that they came up with in really old times, no one could mathematically make sense of uncountable instants until the 18th century. So they were doing all these cool things but got stuck on how decimals could just keep getting smaller.

Hi! Seeing two new faces in this game is exciting! The old tribe was starting to feel... well, old.

Unfortunately I'll have to go to sleep almost immediately since I'm European, but I look forward to speaking with you tomorrow!

It's nice to have new faces too! I can imagine having the same people forever and not even seeing a Tribal Council can be rough. It's hard to really get a read on people ya know?

And no worries, I'm usually up late, so maybe I'll catch you in your morning

I'm back! Sorry if I took so long, I have this nasty habit of staying online when I'm AFK. So if I ever take hours to respond even though it shows I'm online, you know what to blame!

What can you tell me about Celebi's past in your tribe? I figured you'd be the best person to ask around here.

Hey no, it's okay! I kinda figured you'd be back and actually message once you were actively here. Sometimes people's phones stay logged into games and show them as online when they've been gone for ages, it's all good.

I mean Celebi is pretty cool. They're a funny person. Probably one of the more talkative people so far. Both of the TCs we had, they were part of both of the votes fairly early. I'm not really sure what you'd want to know about them that you couldn't just ask them?

What about you, what can you tell me about your game past?

It was a smooth ride for me so far. I could get some solid alliances going from close to the game's start, and I never really felt threatened. I was pretty popular, without imposing myself as a major social threat either.

One big issue I have is that I almost never stay up until rollover since it's at 3AM for me, so I'm pretty sure I miss out on the best time for social play. At least I could make up for it by staying semi-active all day long, and catching the others when they have a shorter period where they can be online.

Oh that's cool! I'm glad the tribe was a good place for you. How do you feel about the people you came over here with? I didn't have as smooth a journey as you did. The first TC was okay and the person who went was someone I wanted to go. But then the second TC someone who was a close friend of mine is who went home. And it was because he did something in a way that seemed so much shadier than anyone wanted to have to deal with, and I couldn't save him and instead had to vote him out with everyone else. Like the rest of the tribe are cool great people, but those TCs were fucking brutal.

Ah yeah, I can see where that would be a problem. That sucks. Poipole and Meltan were both in that same boat though, so really if you're around in the middle of the day then you can make it work really. And just leaving PMs for people to get back to is also a good way to keep up communication lines and the like.

Volcanion's a cool guy, he was one of the first guys I could talk to in the morning after the game's start. On the other hand, I can barely ever talk to Mewtwo, since his schedule usually keeps him busy until late at night.

Yeah, Volc seems like he's an interesting guy. I hope it works out that we can do well in the challenge so we can all have a longer time to get to know each other better and everything. Sounds rough about Mewtwo though. He seems like a guy that can be worth it to talk to if you can find the time that you're both around. What about other people on your tribe? I got to talk a bit with Tapu Lele and Victini during the Codenames challenge and they both seemed like really great people. I liked them a lot.

Tapu Lele was my closest ally before the swap! He's an awesome guy that I have a lot in common with, and who wasn't scared to talk game from early on. Victini was a bit more distant, and I only had casual conversations with him until TC, and even then we were both already convinced that we'd vote Buzzwole before we started.

Your turn! I was with Meltan and Articuno in challenge 2. How are they as tribemates? Is Meltan's gimmick still as cute when you see it everyday?

I honestly was hoping to be able to swap with the guy, he made that much of an impression on me. He's great. Yeah, I had the impression that the TC was super easy from the start and not all that much work really needed to happen to get that to be the vote.

Well, Meltan's drawings are great, they really are. But he does the very smart thing where during TCs or important times, he drops them entirely. That was something Jirachi didn't do, and it's hard to connect to a guy who is dropping poetry everywhere all the time no matter what. I think it helps that Meltan is more than just his gimmick, he's also a cute funny guy. Articuno is more of a slow burn. Like, he's an okay dude, but takes a little to grow on you. Also he has a penchant for going out with friends and coming back for some interesting drunk PMs if you're lucky. He's okay, just maybe not the easiest to regularly contact, ya know?