Board Thread:Season 12 - All-Stars/@comment-5073714-20140217100140/@comment-4062486-20140217103510

Hey Zac!

First of all let me apologize for that. Yes, I lied to you but I never meant to hurt you, so if I did I am really sorry.

Survivor in it's core is a game where you can't sometimes even trust your own family members, let alone friends. Like for example, in the most recent season of Survivor (called Blood vs Water), a girl named Ciera voted her own mother out of the game. And not just once, twice!

Why did she do that? Because she wanted to get ahead of the game and her alliance wanted to vote out her mother.

In my case I knew I couldn't keep you around for long because you had worked together with people who were quite dangerous. By that I mean mainly Uli, who was at the time really messing with people's heads and emerging more as a social threat.

You were working with him, as had Gerard. Since Uli was immune at that point and Lloyd wasn't prepared to vote for Ben (which meant we didn't really have the majority of the votes against him), I suggested to Andrei and Taylor to vote you. And I told Lloyd to vote you as well.

I am sorry that I couldn't keep you around in this game for longer. I know you were still loyal to me and didn't do anything against me. But since you were working with Uli and I knew the more allies he had, the more powerful he would get. Since Ben was willing to vote for you as well (which clearly proves that he only saved you to get Adam out of the game), I knew that voting you was the right move for that round.

I know that in the end I lied to you and I betrayed you, and it wasn't something I did with a smile on my face. I thought you should go because Ben seemed to be willing to work with us and at the time I wasn't so sure about  you anymore. I mean, last round you had told me that you were going to vote out Taylor, and then it ended up being Adam. That really was the thing that changed my heart.

Since I already saw how Uli was trying to turn Lloyd as well, I knew that voting you would make this game safer for me and would make eliminating Uli easier, because it didn't seem you were willing to vote him off at that point.

Again, sorry that I hurt you. It wasn't my intention. I hope you can forgive me.

As for those abilities, I think I would press the gray button. Sure, there were some other good choices there such as the ability to read minds and the ability to fly, but I feel that telekinesis aka the ability to move objects with your mind would be the most useful ability. Then I wouldn't even need the ability to fly, because I could just take a large piece of rock, sit on it and fly with it to the other side of the world! Telekinesis really would make my life a lot easier: I could clean my room pretty much on a whim, I could easily attack opponents and if I competed on Survivor, I could also pretty easily win the immunity challenges. I think this ability in general would make my life the best out of all the other options. Yes, it would be great to read people's thoughts but then again, it would also be an ability that would emotionally burden, which is why on a long run I think telekinesis would benefit me more.