Post by patrick on Nov 14, 2017 16:54:04 GMT
Evolution of the idol hunt:
9:00 - Ryan and I get on call to look at past seasons' idol hunts and develop a strategy. We had previously agreed that we were finding the idol together because we boyz.
9:30 - Idol board opens, Ryan and I split up the board and go ham finding all the images
10:00 - We use an online program to generate all 720 possible permutations of the 6 items
10:02 - Amos tells Ryan that he's found all the items
10:03 - Amos tells me that he's overwhelmed and isn't trying (LOL bitch it's a 5 person tribe people talk)
10:05 - Ryan and I split up the list of permutations and each start entering our 360 into the locked board
10:10 - Amos tells Ryan that he's trying "GUY" in his passwords instead of "DRAKE" LOL
10:45 - Stupid Carlos tells everyone that if any of the images are a person, they need to identify the person
11:00 - I unlock the idol board, Ryan and I have a party, woot - of course we were gonna find it. We discuss what to do with it, and he asks if he can hold it because he thinks he'll be in trouble at a swap as a returnee, which is fair. I tell him yes because I don't need that target on my back - knowledge of an idol is just as powerful, if not more, than having it.
11:30 - Nathan asks me to go on call so that we can hunt together. We compare lists of items.
11:35 - We use an online program to generate all 720 possible permutations of the 6 items (de ja vu?)
11:40 - Nathan and I "split up the list of permutations" and each start entering our 360 into the locked board (aka I make sure to give him the half of the list that has the actual password, and I play around on Facebook and every few minutes give a fake update of how many I've tried)
12:00 - Nathan gets into the board and yells really loud, then realizes it's already claimed. He thinks Emily found it because she had been on the board the whole time and then all of the sudden wasn't.
*MEANWHILE - Ryan is on call with Amos who is manually trying to make all of the password combinations with paper and pencil
12:05 - Ryan and I call to fill each other in on our call with Nathan and Amos, but at the same time Nathan tells Ryan that he hasn't even tried to access it. Poor soul.
12:20 - Amos calls me to "talk about the idol hunt" and then proceeds to tell me nothing about his idol hunt that I've been getting updates about for hours
12:30 - Emily asks me if there's a way to create all of the possible combos so we can split them up and try them all. I cry inside because I want to go to bed and not do this for a 3rd time.
12:35 - I send Emily the Excel doc with all of the combos and we split them up and agree to each try 360. I cry harder
1:30 - I tell Emily that none of my combos worked and that I have to go to bed.
2:30 - Emily messages me telling me that she got in, the idol is gone, and that these games are more addicting than heroine. I see this when I wake up and say a prayer for her.
TL;DR: It was a long night. I do genuinely trust and like Emily and Nate a lot so I feel bad that I just played along with the idol hunt, but I can't say that I got in or blow up Ryan's game so it was really my only option. I'm certainly not trying to fuck them over and I want to play with both of them long-term. At the end of the day though, I'm not trying to be everyone's number 1. Ryan and I clicked from the minute we met and agreed we wanted to try to run this game together as much as possible, and I'm committed to that until he gives me a reason not to be.
As for Amos?
9:00 - Ryan and I get on call to look at past seasons' idol hunts and develop a strategy. We had previously agreed that we were finding the idol together because we boyz.
9:30 - Idol board opens, Ryan and I split up the board and go ham finding all the images
10:00 - We use an online program to generate all 720 possible permutations of the 6 items
10:02 - Amos tells Ryan that he's found all the items
10:03 - Amos tells me that he's overwhelmed and isn't trying (LOL bitch it's a 5 person tribe people talk)
10:05 - Ryan and I split up the list of permutations and each start entering our 360 into the locked board
10:10 - Amos tells Ryan that he's trying "GUY" in his passwords instead of "DRAKE" LOL
10:45 - Stupid Carlos tells everyone that if any of the images are a person, they need to identify the person
11:00 - I unlock the idol board, Ryan and I have a party, woot - of course we were gonna find it. We discuss what to do with it, and he asks if he can hold it because he thinks he'll be in trouble at a swap as a returnee, which is fair. I tell him yes because I don't need that target on my back - knowledge of an idol is just as powerful, if not more, than having it.
11:30 - Nathan asks me to go on call so that we can hunt together. We compare lists of items.
11:35 - We use an online program to generate all 720 possible permutations of the 6 items (de ja vu?)
11:40 - Nathan and I "split up the list of permutations" and each start entering our 360 into the locked board (aka I make sure to give him the half of the list that has the actual password, and I play around on Facebook and every few minutes give a fake update of how many I've tried)
12:00 - Nathan gets into the board and yells really loud, then realizes it's already claimed. He thinks Emily found it because she had been on the board the whole time and then all of the sudden wasn't.
*MEANWHILE - Ryan is on call with Amos who is manually trying to make all of the password combinations with paper and pencil
12:05 - Ryan and I call to fill each other in on our call with Nathan and Amos, but at the same time Nathan tells Ryan that he hasn't even tried to access it. Poor soul.
12:20 - Amos calls me to "talk about the idol hunt" and then proceeds to tell me nothing about his idol hunt that I've been getting updates about for hours
12:30 - Emily asks me if there's a way to create all of the possible combos so we can split them up and try them all. I cry inside because I want to go to bed and not do this for a 3rd time.
12:35 - I send Emily the Excel doc with all of the combos and we split them up and agree to each try 360. I cry harder
1:30 - I tell Emily that none of my combos worked and that I have to go to bed.
2:30 - Emily messages me telling me that she got in, the idol is gone, and that these games are more addicting than heroine. I see this when I wake up and say a prayer for her.
TL;DR: It was a long night. I do genuinely trust and like Emily and Nate a lot so I feel bad that I just played along with the idol hunt, but I can't say that I got in or blow up Ryan's game so it was really my only option. I'm certainly not trying to fuck them over and I want to play with both of them long-term. At the end of the day though, I'm not trying to be everyone's number 1. Ryan and I clicked from the minute we met and agreed we wanted to try to run this game together as much as possible, and I'm committed to that until he gives me a reason not to be.
As for Amos?