The Diary of Two, Ace Gordon

[Ace Gordon]

The name of this makes no sense. There are not two Ace Gordons.

In any case, the merge is here and I am---

Mary Sartain (12:39:22 PM): hey ace!
Mary Sartain (12:39:28 PM): congratulations on making the merge

GO AWAY.

Ace Gordon (12:39:42 PM): Thank you, back atcha :-D
Mary Sartain (12:40:07 PM): :-D
Mary Sartain (12:40:20 PM): seems it was an easy vote after all for you guys
Mary Sartain (12:40:21 PM): 5-1
Ace Gordon (12:40:29 PM): indeed it was
Mary Sartain (12:40:40 PM): what made it so easy?
Ace Gordon (12:41:08 PM): Five people wanting to vote Wanda

Stop talking to me. You never talk game with me and when you do, you're always nosing in about stuff that's none of your fucking business. Get out.

Anyway... as I said in my merge questions thread - I want to continue my networking strategy. I'm going to have a chat with Ted & Jay when I can catch them both on and have a long talk with them about gameplans.

I had a short convo with Kourtney yesterday where I told her I absolutely do not want to Pagong the Outcasts. I told her to keep her mouth shut or I'll just go with the favorites the whole game. She said she will. I doubt it.

I want to have a talk with coach too. I want Eliza or Mike gone, but I don't want him discouraged thinking I'm going to be getting rid of the rest. I really, really want to clue him into my plan of keeping him around, but I don't want word to spread about that.

But yeah, that's the jist of it right now. I'll update more when convos start coming in.

[Ace Gordon]

Bob Dawg (1:25:13 PM): Mary is annoying
Ace Gordon (1:25:16 PM): d
Ace Gordon (1:25:23 PM): HEY ACE
Ace Gordon (1:25:25 PM): HOW'S IT GOING
Bob Dawg (1:25:31 PM): all she talks about is your last vote
Ace Gordon (1:25:32 PM): WHY WAS YOUR VOTE SO STRAIGHTFORWARD
Bob Dawg (1:25:35 PM): haha
Ace Gordon (1:25:38 PM): LOL THATS SO WEIRD, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN
Bob Dawg (1:25:39 PM): yea she told em about that
Ace Gordon (1:25:43 PM): what the fuck is her deal
Ace Gordon (1:26:05 PM): she kept asking and I just said "cause five people wanted to vote out Wanda" and ignored everything after
Bob Dawg (1:26:24 PM): hahaha
Ace Gordon (1:26:27 PM): and who is "em"?
Bob Dawg (1:26:52 PM): *me
Ace Gordon (1:26:55 PM): oh
Ace Gordon (1:26:57 PM): what'd she say
Bob Dawg (1:27:41 PM):
Mary Sartain 12:24 pm
I asked Ace if it was an easy vote
he says yes
I asked why
Bob Dawg 12:24 pm
hm
Mary Sartain 12:24 pm
Ace Gordon 4:41 pm
Five people wanting to vote Wanda

I've decided I want Mary out. What the fuck was the point of copying and pasting THAT of all things? Does she also run and tell everyone when I say hi to her?

Nosy and a rat. What a combination.

[Ace Gordon]

Wanted to record the convo, but I didn't think to until after it died. Oh well.

Ted & Jay acknowledge that we can't have a Gwad 5... and I didn't even have to bring it up. Excellent. Starting now, we work towards when we eventually do need to blindside Dawg and flush that idol.

The absolute crucial thing here is that we have numbers to make up for Dawg leaving and Judd being discouraged. Thus, we need to start making some potential allies out of our Outcast friends. Ted and Jay want Kourt out within the next few rounds... but we're really gonna need her for security when that time comes.

But... this is all in the future. For now, we're going to let Kourtney decide who she wants gone and we will target that person. This is to give her the impression she has some power and that we legitimately trust her.

[Host Lex]

Can you say Dawg for me one more time

[Ace Gordon]

clumbze13 (9:25:02 PM): congrats on merge Ace!

Nice to meet you!

Now I want Mike to leave to continue the trend of "people who decide to never talk to me until the round they go home".

[Ace Gordon]

Well... scratch that.

Talking to Eliza for the first time and I kind of like her to be honest. Of course, everyone has already agreed to vote her out. So hooray.

[Ace Gordon]

First of all... pleased with how the challenge went. It doesn't really bother me people see me as smartest or top sausage (I've told people I do a lot of stuff in here so that's not a surprise). I'm just pleased nobody sees me as a leader or the guy calling the shots. That means people will target Ted and Dawg over me anytime soon.

Also pleased Coach won Immunity. I let Kourt pick the target this round to try to solidify her stance with me and she picked Coach. Though, I don't want Coach to leave just yet. I'd like to keep him around because I feel like I can read him a lot easier than the rest of the Outcasts.

I wanted Mary gone when I read Mike won Immunity. She's nosy, uninteresting and copies convos to everyone else. I actually liked Eliza in our little chat and we had a talk about Pagonging. I feel like she's someone I can work when I need to cut loose someone outside the Outcasts... and certainly can trust to keep their mouth shut, unlike Mary.

Course last night there was a group chat that I was pretty much dead silent in. Kourtney and Kelly were both invited to it and from what we can tell, Kelly has completely flipped sides for uh... no obvious reason whatsoever. Everyone wants Eliza out since everyone still thinks Coach has the idol and he'll use it on Mary if she's the target. Ugh. This paranoia is going to continue until we blindside Coach... and even then, people are going to think he gave it away or some shit.

[Ace Gordon]

Came home to an offline from Judd... so I had a bad feeling something happened.

Bob Dawg (10:12:05 PM): Whats up
Ace Gordon (10:12:31 PM): Hi
Ace Gordon (10:12:56 PM): so uh
Ace Gordon (10:13:02 PM): did something happen
Bob Dawg (10:13:06 PM): yea
Bob Dawg (10:13:15 PM): we need to talk lol
Ace Gordon (10:13:16 PM): well fuck
Ace Gordon (10:13:21 PM): Judd was tryign to Im me
Ace Gordon (10:13:22 PM): what's up?
Bob Dawg (10:13:31 PM): well
Bob Dawg (10:13:32 PM): Kourtney
Ace Gordon (10:13:35 PM): shit
Bob Dawg (10:13:35 PM): wants to make a move
Ace Gordon (10:13:42 PM): yeah she's not hapy with Eliza being the target
Ace Gordon (10:13:44 PM): she wanted Eliza
Ace Gordon (10:13:45 PM): oops
Ace Gordon (10:13:46 PM): I mean Mary
Bob Dawg (10:13:47 PM): and that move includes what we have dubbed
Bob Dawg (10:13:51 PM): the outcast
Bob Dawg (10:13:53 PM): *outcasts
Bob Dawg (10:14:04 PM): those outcasts would be me, you, kourtney, kelly, mike and eliza
Ace Gordon (10:14:12 PM): let me guess
Ace Gordon (10:14:13 PM): she wants Ted out
Ace Gordon (10:14:14 PM): -_-
Bob Dawg (10:14:18 PM): not quite that bad
Bob Dawg (10:14:26 PM): someone that isn't as good as Desterado
Bob Dawg (10:14:29 PM): but is kind of loud
Ace Gordon (10:14:36 PM): Judd?
Bob Dawg (10:14:38 PM): yea
Ace Gordon (10:14:43 PM): idk...
Bob Dawg (10:14:47 PM): yea im not sure either
Ace Gordon (10:14:52 PM): what the fuck made her do this all the sudden?
Bob Dawg (10:14:55 PM): no idea
Bob Dawg (10:15:11 PM): tbh i think Jay, Ted, and Judd have a F3 but this seems
Bob Dawg (10:15:13 PM): way too early
Bob Dawg (10:15:16 PM): to do something about ti
Ace Gordon (10:15:22 PM): I think she has something up her sleeve
Bob Dawg (10:15:40 PM): the issue is i dunno if Coach and Mary are in
Bob Dawg (10:15:47 PM): because if they are voting Eliza just makes us look bad
Ace Gordon (10:15:51 PM): yeah

Hmm... it is something to think about. To be honest, this could be the perfect thing I need to get out Judd before knocking off the Outcasts. They don't need my vote so if it goes through, it goes through.

I've been on about 15 minutes and Kourt hasn't said a word to me so if they say nothing till the deadline... oh well. She knew I was voting Eliza.

Kourt is showing to have some pull in her though. Not a huge surprise. I'm debating if maybe Judd does go this round, we rat Kourtney out to Coach and pull in him and Mary with me, Ted and Jay. I don't think anyone suspects me of being in the final three with them. Dawg is nervous they have a final three with Judd and everyone else thinks the favs are just using me. So in that scenario, Coach and Mary may think they have a shot at using me as their third string.

Guess we'll see. This is going to be an eventful 40 minutes.

[Ace Gordon]

Ugh... this one of those HUGE risk or reward weeks. This move could pay off big time or it could completely blow up in my face.

Here's the plan - there only needs to be six votes to take out Judd. I told Dawg to do it and I'll vote Eliza. Plan being... Dawg sees what's next on the "Outcasts" agenda. Meanwhile I pretend nothing happened and still have Ted/Jay on my good side, a potential Judd jury vote if he plays bitter and tabs on Coach & Mary to see what they think of this situation.

If they want to target me, Ted or Jay -- we've been trapped. Nobody wants to go to a tie vote so they'll definitely tell someone. And when they do, we can kill Dawg's idol to get us untrapped with the greatest of ease.

There's a million risks in this thing but if this pays off, I'll be in an absolutely beautiful position.

[Ace Gordon]

Coach and Mary voted Kelly... perfect. Although... pretty curious they didn't really campaign for this.

Could still be a set-up but hey, I'm preparing for one. Like I said - I always prepare for the absolute worst case scenario. They cannot blindside me with whatever it is they're doing.

I told Ted about what happened before results were posted. He's not too happy but oh well, we can easily recover from this.

[Ace Gordon]

Ace Gordon (11:51:41 PM): for what it's worth
Ace Gordon (11:52:02 PM): I was told about the plan the minute I came home from work
Ace Gordon (11:52:07 PM): I knew the votes were already there for you to stay
Ace Gordon (11:52:20 PM): the reason I voted with the others is because I think completely alienating them at this point would be silly
Ace Gordon (11:52:24 PM): especially with two idols in play
Ace Gordon (11:52:34 PM): they're not going to tell you guys shit but if they think I wasn't in on it, they will tell me
Eliza Orlins (11:52:34 PM): I'm glad you said that to me
Eliza Orlins (11:52:41 PM): It really shows you're a honest person

Either my sarcasm detector is busted or that is the most inappropriate response ever to what I just said.

[Ace Gordon]

Judd didn't like his elimination too much and blocked Dawg. In the process, he decided to tell everyone about Dawg's idol and is going around mucking his name as his last hoorah....

Now who is everyone going to for the "OMG DID YOU HEAR" conversation? Me. People from both sides buy my loyalty and if I'm caught, it's very easy for me to make excuses to both sides. Both sides are under the impression I'm doing spy work for them. Nobody seems to expect a thing.

I'm kind of happy we did this split thing. It couldn't have worked better. As long as Dawg keeps his mouth shut about me doing this, I should be in a good position. I'm having a conversation with Coach right now and my belief is that this is not a ploy or a trap. This was a very real attempt to overthrow the game... unfortunately for them, it's one that won't work.

[Ace Gordon]

Reading Judd's post in TC, I'll just post this here if he ever decides to read this confessional:

My constantly having you as a target was nothing personal in the slightest. My goal at this point is to have a Jay/Ted final three. I don't want anyone at any moment thinking about taking me out. To do that, I need to cut one person from all sides. Bob has shown to be very malleable with falling for taking you to so easily, so that's why you were the odd man out. It's all about increasing my chances at safety in the later stages of the game. When I play these, I try to always think strategical and cut out personal feelings as much as I can. I guess I've just been playing these things too long and have no human feelings anymore

And as awkward as I was during our conversations, I enjoyed them and you seemed like a good guy. Sorry it ended this way, brudda.

Moving on....

[Ace Gordon]

Everyone seems to think Dawg is a gigantic rat right now due to him voting out Judd. He's not helping by lying about his parchment in saying he did a stencil/bootlist one to vote out Eliza. Not sure even why he's lying, he could just tell everyone I basically told him to vote out Judd, but he's not. Weird.

So, I talked extensively with Coach and he seems a little peeved about what occured. Apparently he campaigned with Mike, Eliza and Judd to vote out Kelly. Mike flat out said "Sir, yes sir!" only to tell everyone else about it, Eliza pretty much ignored him and Judd was down with it. Judd IMed both me and Dawg while we were offline presumably to gather votes for Kelly, so Coach's story matches up.

This couldn't have worked out any better. Nobody is mad at me and everyone is mad at Dawg. Coach & Mary now have to rely on me. Kourtney still trusts me and thinks I'm just a spy trying to help her. Ted & Jay are mad at Dawg but still cool with me. It's ridiculous... but I ain't complaining

[Ace Gordon]

I miss an auction and my good friends want to target Kourtney.

What a day to work. -_-