Post by Maat & Hathor on Aug 18, 2021 9:46:14 GMT
My internet is back! But I am very very tired. To entertain me, I would like to ask you(and this will be towards the other finalist as well) to tell me two things about each juror: First, what about their gameplay did you admire most and wish you could have emulated in your own play? And second, what is the best positive interaction you had with them? I want to see if you had awareness of who each juror was and what they brought to the game. Also do this for the other finalist while you're at it <3
I absolutely loved hearing stories about Hermes’ kid and all the splash pads he would go to. Can you believe Hermes took his kid to like TWO DIFFERENT SPLASH PADS IN A MONTH? I barely even know about one in a fifty mile radius. Oh and practicing the Dragon boardgame on BGA. I’ll be honest, I smoked you like 3 rounds in a row when you were first learning the game and I was SOOOO worried you wouldn’t be able to pull it off for us. But then that cockiness was turned right back around and I lost my game and you brought home the victory. I was on the edge of my seat for HOURS waiting for the results and you brought home the win during such an intense match.
Eloritu: I admired Elo’s straightforwardness. I never felt like I was confused about what he wanted or intended. I feel like I tend to waffle or distract from my intentions in order to avoid too much conflict, especially with people I don’t consider my allies. Elo did the opposite of that. He told us he felt good about us. He gave us info for the Zodiac Race that was helpful. He jumped right into tribal and got us to say a target right off the bat. He gets the game moving.
My favorite moment with Elo was passing along a really silly meme for Chaos during the second Hito tribal. Elo’s response was hilarious “tell chaos he’s dead to me, wait wait no we’re at a tribal that probably shouldn’t be said.” This told me that Elo was going to be a funny character to be around also… didn’t catch the foreshadowing there…
Cerberus: I really really really appreciated Cerberus’ kindness. I do mean that in a game sense. I feel like he had friends in the game and stuck with that group. I feel like that’s a trait I do genuinely want to emulate more in games. I get paranoid about every relationship I have and worried about protecting someone too much and that lends to being willing to cut people to move onto the next thing. Cerberus was confident in his friends and stuck with them and made that clear. He made it really clear how he felt about Hades on Taotie and we trusted them both because of that. That friendship stuck out because of how strong it was for Cerberus. When we swapped onto Rakshasa, he helped pull us into the group with Perse and Hermes. Cerberus extended the friendly hand, and that’s a noble trait to have in Survivor.
My favorite moment by far with Cerberus was messing with him in the general discussion forums. I was the one throwing balls around different threads trying to coax the different heads out of their shell. Someone had mentioned they didn’t like the head gimmick and I was so angry about that because I loved seeing all sides of Ceebee. I did everything in my power to bring them out more.
Phobos and Desmos: What I loved about Deimos was their ability to spin any situation and get out of sticky messes. It seemed like every time we chatted you were unsticking yourself from another situation and leaving it flawlessly. You played a great game, bouncing back from intense tribals and being the scapegoat far too many times than I would ever be comfortable with. Not that you ever enjoyed it But you handled that role so impressively and is truthfully something I wish I could learn.
This is less of a positive interaction and more something that had a much bigger impact than Deimos probably realizes, but randomly, pretty early in the morning, he shared a song with me. I don’t know what it was about that day, but it was just a pretty terrible morning and I had hours of a long drive ahead of me to just sit and listen to whatever I wanted to listen to. Having this song on repeat for like… a good HOUR was amazing. It got me out of my mood and had me jamming to each instrument, bopping my head back and forth, probably not good for driving but it was the best car ride I’ve had in a while. So thank you for that <3.
Jael: My favorite skill you held was the ability to remain calm under pressure. You were put through the fucking wringer for your first few tribals of the game. I know how stressful that must have been, constantly being a target but not really having the payoff of the majority being honest about it for rounds. But you remained calm. You didn’t lash out even though I definitely would in that position. I would have made everyone’s lives a living hell for rounds if I had that kind of information.
My favorite interaction with you was during the Tower of Babel round when I encouraged you to change your status to the translated version of what it said. I was really happy when you kept it up . I thought it was funny that we were still able to chat and bond during a dumb twist like that and find the fun in it.
Persephone: Perse, my favorite part of your gameplay was your genuineness. I feel like you spoke with your heart and you kept no cards close to your chest it seemed. You confronted us when we threw out your name, twice. You called us out, and you were valid for doing so. We were scrambling and wanted the target off of us so we picked you. You shared your frustration with us and told us how that made you feel and that was such a gut wrenching message to get. Very rarely are you forced to reckon with your mistakes in the middle of a Survivor game (usually people just take you out and you have to deal with it on the jury). But you made us confront those feelings and that allowed us to form a better relationship.
I absolutely loved playing the first game with you. Like that board game was sooooo fun. I loved that we kept on trying to target each other and learn the game together, because damn that was a confusing one. It was a really fun moment and it made me want to talk to you more because I could already feel the genuineness in your play.
Athena: I really appreciated your ability to create a bond with us despite us meeting so late. I feel like it happens too often in this game where people stay super strong in their original tribes or first swapped tribes and don’t remain open to new options. You were willing to give us info and strategize right on Rakshasa. We discussed voting Jael for the Moirai vote and both of us were afraid to bring it up to the other. Broaching that conversation made me comfortable knowing that you were open to working with us.
My favorite moment has less to do with a specific interaction that we personally had, but more so your entire person… let me explain. At some point, I don’t remember exactly when, but Hathor and I came up with this bit that my partner was secretly playing the game and was playing as you and it was super weird whenever you said or did something that proved that to us. My partner’s italian, you spoke italian for a round. You were a beast at challenges and I’d bring the challenges to try out and they’d know exactly what to do and smoked me every time. anytime something happened or you said something that i felt sounded familiar, Hathor and I would run to our chat and have a fun laugh about that. So…. is it true... be honest…… o-o…
Papatuanuku: Poppy, you were sooooo confident in this game and I absolutely loved that about you. You owned your gameplay and knew you freaking great you played and how amazing of a position you were in. You literally voted in the minority and had such great reads on the game. When we told you we planned to vote you and you said, “Yeah, I did play great. I understand why you’re doing this.” like pardon my french but that was so fucking hot. Owning your wonderful gameplay was the cherry on top for me.
I think a fun moment we shared was that few minutes of post tribal panic when we realized the arrow would be revealed publicaly. I guess we didn’t expect that and we clearly showed how close we were. But then she somehow bounced back and got Bilious to trust her with his plan?? I love her for that.
Hades: Straight up your passion for strategy is enthralling. I loved opening one of your PMs after you were back from work to just this info dump of plans, thoughts, and strategies. It was my favorite gift to receive in this game and I’m so happy that you blessed us with that.
My favorite Hades moment has to be just watching Hathor connect and bond with you about all the things that I LIKED and feeding information to Hathor about how to respond. Like “oh say you like this wine… see what he says.” “Oh he likes art? ask him his opinion on this.”
I’ll also give you a least favorite moment: every single time you said evoke just to spite me. Evoke was such a dumb term that Hathy came up with because she thought I said that?? And in trying to be me, incorporated that, but I never said that and don’t even know what she’s trying to get across? ? ? And you threw it in my face every time >_>
Jesus: My favorite piece of gameplay that we shared was when you sent us the Steal a Vote as an engagement ring to our alliance. I was so shocked because I straight up never expected to have formed an alliance with someone that was so close that we’d share possession of items. I remember thinking if I should hand over my Double Vote to show a certain reciprocity but couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was too afraid you’d use it against us if given the chance. But then, when the second merge tribal came around, and we had heard our name, we took that as the opportunity to send our gift back and show you that we meant what we said when we told you you were our F2. We trusted you fully and having that trust reciprocated was a wonderful feeling.
I’ll let Hathor’s answer speak for itself. You provided a lot of comedy and fun for both of us. You dipped into role play and created elaborate worlds and stories out of the PMs that we shared and that was so fun to read through. I’ll admit, Hathor was a bit territorial over your PMs so we didn’t have a lot of fun moments personally 1-on-1 but reading through how happy you made Hathor was the positive experience I needed from you.
Hathor: I’ll write one up for you, because why not? Spread the love, right? I really appreciated your ability to turn any conversation into one that suits you and your needs while also keeping the other person engaged. I typically struggle in shifting discussion or bringing up new topics when PMs start to get stale, but that never happens with you. You have a great talent in keeping a conversation flowing and getting the other person to talk about things they want to talk about. Such as tennis with Perse, Debate with Jesus, Writing with Poppy. SOOOO many times, I’d enter a pM chain and just go, what the hell is going on here, because you genuinely made each PM thread a small microcosm of topics you were great at talking at length about and had a clear passion for. I kept on having to interrupt things and go, “hello! tribal time! let’s chat, we can get back to that fun conversation later.”
If I were to pick a single positive interaction with you, I’d simply explode; there are too many over the course of this game. I can choose a bunch of negative ones when we constantly fought about decisions or even pms or even answers for these questions
-Maat