Out Of Character Notes

[leah]

This is the thread where I'll put all of my out-of-character thoughts and junk.

So, let's see, thoughts on this challenge.

Well, looks like we have at least two liars in our midst. One of them is me, because, let's face it, 29?? I'm telling people that I'm 27, and even then it totally sounds like BS. In fact, I'm apologizing for how stupid I feel for saying 27, because I totally look younger than that. Ahaahhaa.

The other one is Ellen. Here's a hint, galpal. If you've already said in the chat that you're 39, maybe don't go around telling everybody that you're 45 afterwards.

Either she lied then, or she's lying now, and I have no idea which. I think it's more likely that she lied now, but who knows? She's an alternate, so my guess is that she's a veteran. She's certainly clever enough to be a good liar, so I wouldn't put anything past her at this point.

Unfortunately for her, she's a liar who decided to lie to someone with a nigh-on photographic memory, so that's gonna get her kicked outta here sooner rather than later.

Also, Dominic and Liam are both claiming to be construction workers. I told both of them that the other one was claiming that, then decided to suggest to both of them that the host had probably put two of the same thing in the game to make us mistrust each other. This might actually be true, but I was actually pulling a Solomon Gambit*, because I wanted to see how quickly they'd jump on that excuse. Liam was pretty quick to agree that that was totally the reason, while Dominic was like, "Well, that sucks for me, then."

*A Solomon Gambit is when you have two people, one of whom is obviously lying, and you give them a statement which they will respond to differently according to whether or not they're lying. In the original Biblical example, two people both claimed to be the mother of the same baby. Solomon told them to split the baby in half. One mother was cool with it, the other freaked out. Obviously the freakout one was the actual mother, so Solomon gave it to her. So, in my example, Liam was willing to accept the first excuse I offered him, to get the heat off his back. That means that it's much more likely that he's lying to me. Dominic didn't really care about protesting his innocence as much, which means that he's either a fantastic liar or he's actually telling the truth.

I also have data from Colleen and Yuri, so that brings my total up to six, and I should have more coming in from Carly and Leo tomorrow.

Liam is 23, construction worker, black russian, and Slumdog Millionaire

Yuri is 31, motivational speaker, Yuengling, and Speed.

Chase is 28, gym teacher, whiskey sour, Dark Night.

Still need to get: Austin, Leo

EDIT: Nvm just got all this from Liam. I'm going to have to double-check it for validity myself, just to be on the safe side, but it certainly makes my life easier.

AJ 24 Graduate Student Pinot Grigio The Princess Bride
Carly 26 Dance Instructor Texas Margarita 13 Going on 30
Jonah 30 Computer Engineer Blue Moon Goodfellas
Kendell 32 Legal Writer Brooklyn Lager Moonstruck
Ryan 27 Freelance Journalist Screwdriver The Italian Job
Sawyer 25 Store Manager White Russian Dances With Wolves
Tina 22 Waitress Highball The Hills Have Eyes
Paige 20 College Student Sangria Babel
Ben 29 Actuary Makers Mark Memento

[wendy]

[leah]

I'm sorry? Am I boring you or something? Because I'd really hate to waste the valuable time of someone who's important enough to post bored gifs in the confessionals of a pretend reality game.

[Emily]

Idk about Wendy, but I'm really enjoying your confessional!

[ingrid]

I agree! Both In and out of character , your confessionals are a great read Leah!
Her name is Cunty for a reason, please don't let her stop you

[Faith]

Yeah, Wendy is just like this.

[leah]

Thanks, guys.

H'okay, let's take a look at round one. I wasn't sorry to see the back of Austin and Leo. Leo was a pretty decent fellow, but he was socially inactive and I'd have had to cut him loose sooner or later, so better for me that he bit it early.

I actually have no idea whether I won that or not. If I did, I totally picked second, because there's no other conceivable way that Paige wound up on my team. She was dead last on my list.

Right now, we've got AJ, Chase, Jonah, Kendell, myself, Liam, Paige, and Sawyer.

Jonah and I got off to an early start and roped Kendell in.

I find that Jonah's a great partner, because I can literally tell him exactly how to plot moves, and he'll go out and do them, and still feel like he's in control because he's the one actually making moves - even though they're coming outta my brain.

Case in point, here's how our alliance started:

[Jonah] Should we propose an alliance to Kendell
[Jonah] ?
[Leah] I think one of us should
[Leah] And then be like, "Oh, we should think about bringing in a third person?"
[Leah] "Any ideas?"
[Leah] See who she says
[Leah] If she says me, great
[Leah] If not, you can be like, "What do you think about Leah?"
[Jonah] ok i'll go talk to her
[Leah] Okay!
[Jonah] she's in

I literally gave him the script, and he acted it out. The end result is that we have a threesome (lol <3) that Jonah is effectively the leader of, but I have a better relationship with Jonah and with Kendell than they have with each other - which is exactly how I want it.

We're looking at pulling in AJ later, because I could see her being a decent midline ally - someone to keep around for the first while, but boot around the final seven or six.

Sawyer and Paige are persona non grata at this point - they're both marginally active, and their only hope will be to become someone's bitch.

Good thing Paige bitched at me earlier, so now I won't have to hem and haw about which of them to send home first.

Chase is a floater, and he pretty literally thinks with his dick. Luckily, he's bisexual, so Jonah and I can both seduce him at the same time.

Liam is going to be the proverbial fly in the ointment. He's obviously a smart player. and if anybody's gonna pose a threat to me and Jonah, it'll be him. I'm very glad that he's on my tribe, because if anybody has the capability to ruin everything, it's him. If he was on Ellis, then he'd probably be strategically dominating that tribe, and would totally ruin my life come the merge. Luckily, I think he thinks he has me in his pocket, so if he's running around and strategizing, I'll know exactly what he's up to.

Thus far, things are looking good, but I'm definitely gonna keep my nose to the grindstone and make sure that things don't go screwy on me.

[ingrid]

Loved reading your Thoughts! Keep it up:)

[leah]

OMG first episode title!! <3333

I feel so loved.

[leah]

Well, looks like we have a good ol' fashioned shuffle.

Chase and Jonah are probably completely screwed, which just goes to show that my strategy of building backup alliances was a pretty good idea. Liam, AJ, and Kendell all trust me, and they're probably gonna follow my lead and help us boot one of the three original Elliseans if we lose.

And, yeah, that's probably a bit of poor sportsmanship on my part. After all, Ryan, Carly, and Ben have pretty much been the reason why we've been effectual in this challenge at all. But you know what? I would've figured out a bunch of those animals myself. We don't need them. And anyway, at this point, Ellis has been beating us repeatedly because the rules keep bending in their favor, and when you've got a happy-go-lucky bunch of kids from Sesame Street beating you down with their Quaker Oats wholesomeness, you can't get hung up on the "fair" thing to do. It's like communism: class means nothing.

I highly doubt those guys are gonna be willing to help out Jonah and Chase anyway, so we might as well beat 'em to the punch. After all, that's mah man over there, and I don't intend to lose him to some cockamamie twist.

[leah]

OH. Yeah, let's talk about Liam, too.

He somehow guessed the password for the only board we haven't gotten into, and that I spent four hours last night trying to crack.

But now he doesn't want us to use that password, because he didn't get it "the right way."

...WHAT?

Are you kidding me, Liam? Our team blatantly dickslapped the other team with a rule loophole last round, not to mention the fact that that entire freakin' challenge was a little bit like spending twenty-five years in prison and then discovering that the door was unlocked the entire time. After all that, now you're suddenly all for adhering to the rules?

I'm sorry, but I ain't no reverend. I'd have bruteforced that password myself if I didn't have better things to do with my time.

Either way, things are looking interesting for the forseeable future. I'm out of town until at least the 30th, which is going to make the next challenge or two quite... er... challenging, but hopefully I'll be able to survive and then barnstorm the next few. As I see it, even if they burn Jonah and Chase, that means that no matter how the two Immunities after that one go, Liberty's losing two members.

...and as a final note, WTF @ the clues. "Mount Men" is the nickname of a basketball team from Los Angeles, which is also a "City," but losangeles, LosAngeles, los angeles, and Los Angeles all don't work, so I'm currently a tad stumped.

[Selena]

Hey Leah! You look fab, girl! Good luck :*