Board Thread:Season 13 - Anarchy/@comment-24188267-20140214020441/@comment-24251579-20140214025253

First of all, thanks for the kind words about my gameplay. I really appreciate it man.

'''Q1. if you where an animal what animal would you be in the whole game and what animal would you be from how you treated me. '''

For the entire game, I would pretty easily characterize myself as the lion. Silent in approach, quick to pounce, and quick to return back to my safety. The deadly assassin. The king of the Anarchy jungle.

For my relationship with you, Nokomis, I would characterize myself as the Silverback Gorilla. Caring and thoughtful when the time was appropriate, assertively alpha and able to enforce my will when the time called for it, and viciously vengeful and vindictive when harm was apparent to me.

'''Q2. map out my whole elimination step by step '''

This is actually one of my favorite eliminations of the game. Basically, Jerby and I knew that it had to be one of you or Noah to leave the game.. because both of your were just too strong to keep around until f4 because of the threat of you winning final immunity. Coincidentally, it was around this time that Jerby and I went to work together on discovering the 2nd half of the idol. I had been holding the first half for nearly the entire time since Ahad played his, and the second half had recently been rehidden because of Tyler's elimination. As luck (moreso hard work and determination, actually) would have it, we discovered the 2nd half! Now the question became... how in the world do we use this thing in an exciting manner? I knew that I would probably be getting a vote or two at the next tribal.. but that isn't a true "idoling out" of a player. I wanted it to be special.

So I devised a scenario wherein Jerby and I would coax you into flipping on me. I would first make you believe that I was willing to flip on Jerby... because I knew that you would never do that, and you would go to him concerned about me. Then, Jerby would plant the idea about voting me. Next, Jon would act as though he was ready to flip so as to convince you even further that you had the numbers locked up. Finally, Jerby would actually vote for me so as to make it a majority of votes that I was nullifying with the idol.... thus making it an exciting play!

The next step was to throw the immunity challenge, which I did successfully. This ensured that I would be getting the majority of the votes. It was around this time that I learned you had flipped Noah as well. So as it stood, Noah, You, Sam, and Jerby would be voting for me while myself and Jon would vote for you.. thus making it a 2-0 vote after the idol play. However, concerns began to arise when I considered the fact that you may try to split your votes, in case I did play an idol. You see, at this time you had instructed Jerby to vote Noah, while the rest of you vote for me. The throwaway vote for Noah was to force a tie in case I played the idol (you assumed you had Jons vote and that it would have been a 1-1 tie after the idol).

To mitigate this concern, I told Jerby to vote for Noah instead of Me. This way, if one of you or Sam voted for Noah as well it would result in a 2-2 tie after the idol play, wherein we would revote and it would be a clean 4-0 vote out.. locking you and Noah out of the revote. This would make for an even more exciting elimination!

As you obviously know, you didn't decide to split your vote and the results were a 2-You, 1-Noah vote out. This is how the votes fell:

Me - You

Jon - You

Jerby - Noah

Sam - Me

Noah - Me

You - Me

Blake's Cursed idol - Me

The entire play was designed to excite the fans and make a good time out of an otherwise straightforward vote out. I hope you find some entertainment from it now that it's all said and done. Thanks for the questions Nokomis.