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Post by Vucub Caquix on Aug 2, 2019 18:38:53 GMT
Amaterasu, Fenrir, and Heimdall
You have reached the end of the game. Now is the part where the jury will decide who wins.
You have 24 hours to write your final speeches. These will be the first thing posted here for the jurors to read. All 3 will be posted at once, after all three have finished writing.
Post /finished to let me know when you are satisfied with your speech.
Then questioning will begin.
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Post by Vucub Caquix on Aug 2, 2019 20:08:43 GMT
Post opening statements in confessional
Remember that ID rules are still in effect during Final Tribal Council~
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Post by Vucub Caquix on Aug 3, 2019 3:13:07 GMT
Fenrir's speech
Alright, where do I even begin? I suppose chronologically would make the most sense.
In the start of the game, I was in Asgard, and I worked closely with the rest of the tribe to ensure that we wouldn't reach tribal council. As all of this was happening, I suggested to my clan to form 3 member alliances in their tribes to ensure that we all were prepared for TC long enough to be able to reunite with each other. Now, while this plan had certainly worked, this had an...ulterior motive, let's say, but more on that later. As per the plan, I made an alliance with Chronos and Osiris. Fortunately, I never had to utilize it.
After poor Utgard got repeatedly and systematically destroyed, the gods merged into Titans and Olympians. Not only that, but all of my clan members were with me this time! It was great that they were there too because Olympians as a whole weren't nearly as successful as Asgard was. Of course, I tried my best at the 4th challenge, which was the labyrinth. Long story short, the maze construction wasn't going too well, so I volunteered to make it for our team. Here is the result, for anyone wondering: i.imgur.com/3Nw4Dsm.png (this was a bit of a pain to upload because the colors kept changing when I had to reformat it, but it worked out). The intention of the maze was to waste as much time as possible (it was a 10x10 grid, so there wasn't much to work with), and I believe it succeeded in doing that. I was also the fastest to complete the Titan's maze, at 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Unfortunately, we lost anyway, as 4 of our 7 members didn't submit a correct solution. This is when I had an epiphany. If I keep trying my hardest in every challenge, I'll be in the spotlight, which is not very good. I'm sure Heimdall and Amaterasu can attest to this.
Remember the original suggestion I made for my clan? Well, the true purpose of that was to create an environment where me creating an alliance wouldn't lead to me being singled out for being a threat, but if people thought I was really good at challenges, nothing would help me stay under the radar. At that point, I decided to try to look as average as possible in challenges. I couldn't just throw challenges, as my tribe would burn me at the stake for that. However, I didn't need the tribe to win challenges, as I wasn't in any real danger during the tribal council because Amaterasu allied with Pele back in Vanaheim, so we could form a majority alliance if we needed it. We didn't mention to Pele that we were in a tribe before this for obvious reasons, and acted like we just met.
So for challenge 5, I took "initiative" by finding 15 of the really popular songs (which I knew they would find regardless) in Apollo's Lyre, while letting some of the more obscure ones slip under the cracks. In challenge 6, Words of Power, I
was given adhesive. I gave hints that would make sense after the answer is revealed but were otherwise vague. Adhesive is generally a difficult word to guess, so nobody would give it much thought. I didn't mess around with the other word I got (Mundane) because it was relatively easy.
Eventually, we ended up with a 4p alliance consisting of Zeus/Amaterasu/Typhon/me. This was partly because we considered Pele to be a threat, but Typhon and I were also worried that Pele's good relations with Amaterasu would lead to conflicts of interest.
When the merge finally came around I was relieved, because now I had much more freedom to throw challenges however I want with no consequences. I did make sure that I did well in the river puzzle though because it was very similar to the maze one. In challenge 8 I helped Amaterasu get exiled as we were worried that she would be targeted after Typhon got axed (I didn't foresee that, unfortunately). Our suspicions were proven true because Zeus was eliminated shortly after.
Sensing impending doom, I started intentionally doing poorly on challenges (even more so than before), or just simply not submitting them. I didn't really need the immunity if nobody thought I was a threat. At the same time, Amaterasu started weaving a web of alliances which is too convoluted to talk about here. Essentially the final 4 were picking off the rest one by one, starting with the more social players. Eventually, we reached f4, where Amaterasu and I created two f3 groups with the remaining players to cover our bases (Amaterasu insisted on this to try to eliminate Heimdall). While the f4 was occurring, I didn't worry all that much because I was considered the underdog at that point.
I didn't receive a single vote against me prior to the last TC, and I think that does warrant some merit, even if it isn't flashy.
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Post by Vucub Caquix on Aug 3, 2019 3:15:04 GMT
Amaterasu's speech
Hello, my name is Amaterasu. I am honored to be here and I did not expect to get this far.
I'll try to make this speech as truthful and fully detailed as possible, if you have any questions, please do ask.
I got my God Name by random. I did not pick it, but now I'm so bonded to it, as if I was the one who chose the name.
Firstly I got into Vanaheim. I had to get used to the Forums first, because I never used forums like these before, so first few moments I was slightly inactive.
When I understood everything, I started talking to some of the Vanaheim people. Well, they were the ones who started the chats with me, I just started actually responding.
I saw my Clanmates - Typhon and Fenrir. We immediatly agreed to keep this clan secret and have it as a hidden alliance.
At first everything was smooth, Vanaheim was winning and we just chilled. I was worrying about Typhon, as he was saying that his situation in Utgard was pretty intense.
This led me to trying to throw a challenge just to keep Typhon safer - during the puzzle challenge. I didn't have motivation to solve the puzzle anyway, I just gave my puzzle pieces and was done with it.
I knew it would be fine to throw because at the time I was a part of a 4p alliance - Dionysus, Izanami, me and Pele.
After that, Zeus got accidentally added to the chat. This will be slightly important later.
We won that challenge anyway, so my plan failed. I was still happy to not go to Tribal Council though.
Then we actually lost a challenge, so we just eliminated Hecate - the person who wasn't in our "5p but actually 4p" alliance.
After this, I became an Olympian, along with Fenrir and Typhon!
I was very happy to be with my clanmates in the same tribe, because I knew we'd start controlling the vote after 1 person is out.
We also got Pele and Zeus from Vanaheim and Aeolus and Anubis from Asgard. I was already teammates with Pele, so I had her trust. Zeus I haven't tried to contact, alongside Aeolus and Anubis.
Then we got to the first Tribal Council, and we got rid of Aeolus because he was AFK.
Then we got to the second Tribal Council, and this is when the Auction happened. I invested all my money on the Helm, which could be bought by both teams, Typhon invested into the Olympian part, and Fenrir gave Typhon 1 coin and me 499 coins. This way, we got both of the Idol pieces.
Pele got the Library and I felt like she was starting to control the game - the first Tribal Council we first wanted to get rid of Anubis because he was AFK too, but then Pele told us "No, vote Aeolus, not Anubis! He's active now!". I didn't want to keep a player like this post-merge, so I asked my clanmates if we should eliminate her, and everybody agreed.
This way we saved Zeus, who was Pele's elimination target.
This is when Zeus started to become our 4th teammate - he got our trust after we saved him from Pele.
Then we lost, again... And eliminated Anubis.
And then the Merge happened.
I feel very guilty about this part of the game.
Very. Guilty.
Remember that big alliance in Vanaheim? I was naive enough to think "Hey, maybe Dio and Izanami are up to being teammates again? We'll secure a 6p and have majority in the tribe!"
Dio told us that Heimdall is the big evil in this game who is trying to eliminate all the Olympians, but as far as I know, he got tricked into thinking so by Chronos? Or Erebus? Not sure.
I believed the story and made a chat called "6p alliance against the evil team Heimdall.". Yup. Very ironic, considering what will happen next. So I vote Heimdall and expect him to get voted out by our 6p.
AND THEN TYPHON GOT VOTED OUT. (and got the idol part from Typhon, I assume. I got an idol at that time, but wasn't sure if it was from Exile or Typhon)
He had high doubts about this big alliance and didn't trust Dio and Izanami. So he decided to tell Heimdall, his old tribe teammate, what was going on. And appareantly the word somehow spread and Dio and Iza thought Typhon was a snitch.
This started the downfall of that alliance. I knew it wouldn't work and started distancing from it.
Then I won Exile by forgetting to do the challenge. Those were some boring 24 hours, I'll admit.
And somehow Zeus got eliminated??? I still don't know the full story on this.
Around this time Heimdall wrote to me because he was bored.
Imagine this - one person getting bored changed the whole game.
At that point, Heimdall was still a "Destroy all Olympians!" killing machine, so I talked to him about non-game related stuff only.
So, the 24 hours were up, and I knew I had to do something to keep me and Fenrir alive. This started the "Last Hope" alliance, consisting of me, Fenrir, Heimdall, Loki and Izanami.
This alliance was basically 2 underdog duos combining. At first the alliance was a 4p. The amount of players was 9, so we desperately needed a 5th player.
So Heimdall recommended Izanami because all the other options were bad.
I still had insanely high doubts after the failed 6p alliance. I didn't want to get Fenrir killed too, and myself in the process. I started having trust issues, but I knew there is no backing out out of this.
So I rolled with it.
BOY did it pay back well.
First thing we did was get rid of Erebus, because from Heimdall's and Loki's words, he was stacked on double votes and was a threat. Me and Fenrir didn't have contact with him anyway, so we just got rid of him before he could use his double vote to his advantage.
The voting phase did show that Erebus had a double vote, so I started trusting Heimdall more.
Next we were preparing to vote out Chronos (or maybe Osiris, I don't remember), but then Chronos messaged me and Heimdall about Dio/Loki/Izanami being close.
Heimdall said that Loki was indeed quiet and that was unusual, so we should vote him out because he also has an idol from the Pyramid. I was weirded out by this - why does Heimdall want to get rid of his teammate so quickly? Is this a bait?
We settled on voting out Dio and wrote it in the Last Hope alliance. And then Dio told me and Izanami in a separate chat that he has the idol now, about 2-3 hours before TC end.
I started panicking and immediatly asked a lot of people to switch to Loki, because this pretty much confirmed Loki and Dio being close.
Because of this, me, Fenrir and Heimdall started getting slightly worried about Izanami, but we knew how to test her loyalty.
Voting out Loki wasn't a big deal - without him the alliance would still stay as a majority (4v3)
In the Last Hope alliance chat I wrote that we're voting out Osiris and secretly we were voting Loki.
The idol was played on Osiris.
Dio was MAD. Well, not angry, but he definetely seemed very annoyed by us voting out Loki and not Heimdall. He told me and Izanami there is no way we win this now.
Then we voted out Chronos, because Osiris had immunity. He helped us find out about Dio and Loki, but it was time for him to go.
Oh, and remember me having the idol? I used in on Heimdall, to gain his trust. Before this I never told him I had an idol, so I was scared he'd accuse me of lying to him previously, but after talking to Fenrir we concluded that I should still use it and tell Heimdall.
He loved it. He surely trusted me now.
The next voting phase is when we tested Izanami's loyalty - we checked if she would vote Dio with us.
And yes, she did. We knew we could trust Izanami now.
-The next part of this story I feel guilty about, too. But the game rules state "You must try to win."-
The people who were left:
me, Heimdall, Izanami, Fenrir and Osiris.
At this point it was pretty obvious that either me or Heimdall is getting chosen in F3. No offense to the other three, but you weren't really vocal and eventful enough for the jurors probably.
So I knew that to maximize my chances of winning I had to get rid of Heimdall.
At this point our alliance chat was about 20 pages. It felt terrible going against him.
Now, I wanted to vote him out during TC 13. But, if he was voted out, I was scared that Fenrir, Izanami and Osiris would gang up on me to maximize their chances of winning. So we voted out Osiris.
So the Big 4 from the Last Hope alliance was left.
I made an alliance chat called "F3." including Fenrir and Izanami.
I incentivized them to try to win the challenge as hard as possible.
...And then I did the worst out of everyone. Such a noob, lol.
And Heimdall won immunity. That ruined my plan, but I wasn't that sad or annoyed by it. He was my friend. It felt awful going against him anyway, so it was fine.
I had to vote out Izanami, sadly. She was always not trusted fully by us when she was always on our side and voting with us. So it felt terrible, but I didn't want to get rid of my game-long partner Fenrir. I had no choice.
And finally, I have an imgur album containing all the memes I made related to this game: imgur.com/a/oB018LA
So, that is all. This is how my game went. Thank you for reading,
~ Amaterasu, the unofficial professional meme maker.
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Post by Vucub Caquix on Aug 3, 2019 3:20:38 GMT
Heimdalls speech
Hello, peanut gallery. How's it been in Valhalla? Doing alright?
Okay, we're not here for pleasantries, although that's what I would've preferred. Not one for speeches, lol.
If I am being frank with you all, I don't have a lot to say right now, so here's a penny for my thoughts:
SPOILER: Click to hide
I've played a little differently than the usual, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of the results. What I'm proud of most of all, though, is being able to change on the fly. From the outskirts of Utgard after an attempt on Loki's life, to standing before you all with people that I hadn't even talked to - let alone called my friends - at final ten... Bit of a wild ride, eh? Not to mention surviving every attempt on my life - thanks, Dio. I love you. /s
Most of you know what's gone down, so I won't waste my breath. If you have any questions, well, now's the time.
Come at me.
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