Squirtlestory 4: SquirtYelling Right Back

[Squirtle]

Feb 22, 2022 0:01:20 GMT 10 Squirtle said:

Welcome to the middle of the week! In which Squirlte throws himself into last-minute messiness, and then probably needs to star a new confesisonal thread about squirting out the dramafires.

Prettymuch isthis. Smashgame tone isbe feeldifferent again bynow somerit newthread! Yeswould havebeen nice hadhad easyweek nodramas noyelling nobridgeburning (is Malazan shoutout fornobody toever get but ifanydoes pleasedo yellback) nodoubts noparanoia. But squirtlespringoptimism was for lastthread! Evenwas ending lastthread with 'cannotcomplain' sentiment. Squirtlescrethat. Here we YELL!

Squirtaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh!

Squirtlewhooooooops isbe muchtomuch toocute toyell. Butsee! Squirtlesenseofhumour still intact! So Squirtle squirtlswear isnot(yet) nearasbad as blueteamhellweek checkedout wantendnow... butis notbe finepeachy either.


YELLING ATFOR WARIO AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Wariomanguy justhasto go win ringuel. Justhasto comeback yellowteam. Justhasto keepconspiring withyellowteam even fromring even frombackwithin yellowteamcamp. Ismean. Squirtle really not enjoy warioman tone which seembe stuck on SUCKITSQUIRTLE overandoverandover. Havebeentold others findit grating aswell but notsure ifbelieve it - or ifbelieve itmeans wouldbe makeothers take Squirtleside.

Part of squirtleFRUSTRATION isthat wasnot only Squirtle beraying warioman. Whynot captain getheat? Whynot marthman? Much of what Squirtle forced say/do later is squirtleselfadmitted selfrigheousbullshit sure but thispart of it isbe true: Squirtle couldnot NOT jab bittbit at Warioman about squirtleswaplistlie. And now... THIS. Wariomanguy deserve yell.

Come votetime. Isbe not long after announcement wariomanARGH comeback yellowteam. Ifknow isbedoomed on eitherside, then waspicking yellowteam outof both hope and spite and squirtle YELL atfor both!

Squirlte isbe tinybitthankful wasnot a votefor Squirtle. Carrying some of that teenytinybit into hope nextround for still notbe numbers votefor Squirtle. But doesseem Wario/Kazuya/Kingcruel didget quick onsamepage: voteplant. Or atleast notwilling switch lastminute when Squirtle propose: votewario. (Note squirtle noactually makethis proposal to warioman. Hate that atthispoint soomuchvitriol mustneedclarify.)


YELLING ATFOR PLANT AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Whywhywhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyy cannot Squirtle just ENJOY voteout teethplant! Was squirtleplan! Was squirtledesire! But incircumstnces couldn't both haveit and enjoyit and for that we YELL at plant some. Just small some. But still some.


YELLING ATFOR MARTH AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Squirtle showup catchup YELL at warioman return. Andbethink: is easy. Vote Wario. Had numbers last time, is marvelousmiracle canrepeat and gain onemore round before need makemess, lesslikely needbe cullkazuya cullyoshi, dealwith anoyofthat so yay. (Spoiler noyay inend isall YELL.)

Meanwhile Marth not comeonline. Notsureyet howmuch intetntional. Doeseem warioman was expecting tievote so mayhave gotcontact gotpromise from Marthman before Squirtle showup to keepvote on teethplant... or may have just notbothered showup readmessages THINK and left prevote on Teethplant from before was warioreturn wariobesoption blueteamchatCLEARLYmakeingCLEAR shouldmust voting wario.

Either marthman nolonger willing blueteam puppet. Or nolonger reliable blueteam puppet. Unsquirtain which isbe worse. And still couldbe either at timeofYELLing as still notwant comestayonline answermessages let Squirtle YELL. Yes, isdobe earn marthman squirtYELL.

So fivevotes on wario becoming fourvotes. Not quite so marvellous. Squirtleselfonemight squirtlesay, Marth-vel-less.


YELLING ATFOR YOSHI AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Still isbehope of tie! Which Squirtle notwant desperatelynotwant but hey isknow can facedown. Is goodchance marth late showup intime switchvote, or kingcruel kazuya getting coldfeet notwant dying for wariomanARGH.

But Yoshi also offline for hours longer then duelresult tovoting period. Not even prevote. Not even asking eggshareholder Squirtle howcanbe service thisdayround. And thisbe smasher Squirtle squirtlescrambled with hopeof saving as CLEAR always reliable vote. Earn nother squirtYELL!

Also aftervote onlydid tellsquirtleself tellcaptainblue that wasdid selfvote. Like was nobigdeal. Like was notsomething goodfor allyellowteam knowing. Like isbe Squirtle foreshadowing much...

In waiting for revealtime Squirlte know is goodchance notbe Wariovote again. Hoping oneof marthman dinosaur maybe did leave decent prevote, maybe get tie. But knew notsuuuuuuuper likely. Worry of splittingvotes ifhad Wario wanted squirtle out. But also preparing defensiveline of insisting Squirtle knew pleas for please votewario fell deafears, wanted vote Wario anyway onprinciple expecting wouldbe losevote and happy with loseplant outcome (which Squirtle truly was, until all messymess).

Also Wario notjustspared but spared with immunitysandbag because ofcourse ARGH. Did actively choose notmakebid as was expecting highigh bids from bothof wario teethplant and possible also dino andor kazuya. And likely wouldnot havebeenbid highenough catchwario inanycase. Still sucks. Still worth a goodhard AAAAARRRGGGGHHH!


YEP BACK YELLING ATFOR WARIO AGAIN AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Then Wario mustneed gloat. Whatever, candeal. But also Wario immediately assume was Squirtle voting Yoshi! Squirtle flipped! Squirtle afraid of tie! Squirtle worstevil in smashgame! Telling yellowteamfriends! Telling ringduelfriends! Telling Yoshi! Who not contradict Wario but atleast betell Squirtle whatsaying Wario. Halfoff YEll?

Meanwhile Wario isbe berating Squirtle still asking whatwas wariomanlies? whatwas wariomanlies? whywas notcomeask warioman before jumpconclusions votewarioman? whatwas warioman lies? Even while jumpingconclusions SPREADING jumpedconclusions all squirtleslander YEEEELLLLLLLLLLIINNNNNNNG!

And then Squirtle spend much of nextfewhours in damagecontrolmode.

MINI YELLING ATFOR CAPTAIN NEEDBEOFFLINE THISNIGHT AT THISTIME AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!

Was another annoying thing.

YELLING FOR COMPLULSIVE SQUIRTLENEED CONTROLNARRATIVE DO DAMAGECONTROL AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Damagecontrol on two fronts. One - everyone else. Quickquick messageall maintaining didvote Warioman as had planned, not knowing/expecting ifwould work but happy if overrules solong as Squirtle stillget to YELL protestvote at Wario. Choose notsay straightup was dinoidiot selfvote as sounds absurd and washoping letthem askdino findout for ownselves, is more effective then squirtlesimple yellback NONOTME! Wanted them to prove squirtleselfinnocence so feltmore impact of undoing antisquirtleprejudices when truth hit. Which maynot happen atall, but is morelikely bestronger if on them to findout theyall suck and deserve YELLS! Even Kazuyafriend who disbeleive when Squirtle finally juststart tellanyway because yoshisucks was slow so YELL atfor Kazuya too.

Two - wariomanhimselfARGH! Hadto make assessment: isbe possible revive relationship ever? Ifno, wasteoftime to engage atall. Ifyes... smashgamegodshelpsquirtleself, mustneeds try. Took much angryYELL back and forth (more back than forthe in Squirtle unbiased opinion) but eventually wasable send fullrationale for flipping similar to kazuyaessay yesterday. Wasgot inspired to add extra detail of earlywarning from speactatorstands that Warioman sneaky lying promising etcetera and wouldbe claim credit for thinking of this... except this onlynecessary because Squirtle look back through messgaes to quoteback earlier warioman lie... and Squirrtlewhooooooooops did neverexist. Squirtleshocker!

Nowdoes squirlteseem that eventhough Wario in ring firsttime wasdid tell Squirtle twogreen powerplayers incontrol... wasdid say Darkpit/Dedede not bothkings, which isbe what Squirtle remembered. And told captain. And told kingcruel. And kazuya. And wrote here. Guess was reminder of innocenttimes when squirtleself notyetneed learn names properly of allsmashgamesmashers not on ownhellscapeteam. So ummmm.... small YELL AT SQUIRTLESELF. But nottime for regrets! (On balance can affirm that wouldnot havemade norealdifference, though was still one cog in squirtlethinking.) Quickly attributed confusing statements of greenteampowerstructure to other dead people who cannotsay wasnot them suchashame. And now was link get YELL and Mario get YELL and probably couldhave YELLED at plant more butnot superrealistic and ooooooooooooh remembertime Darkpit gaveaway warioboot in spectatorstands beforeit happened? Yeah so Squirlte put that.

Didit work? Well smashhosts can nowgo read warioconfessional pleasedo letsquirtleknow howgoes. Did atleast defuse. Got followupquestions on the spectatorstands darkpit-richter-squirtle chain (also Richter dying sososooooostupidly deserves more belated YELLing) and no taunts for fewmessages running beforebed. Hoping radicalhonesty can eventually mean ifwhen interests aligning, can trust oneanother justenough, just oneroundatatime. Maybe dull vendetta enough somake Squirtle not immediate target or easy name forgather minorityvotes when postmerge twohighest votereceivers go ringduel. Maybe start use squirtestatus of personanongrate forto seem likebe lessurgent threat not moreurgent needstabbitystab. Maybe. As well... well may need this workable down the line. Whichiswas wholereason didbother. Soooomuch bother. YELLLLLLLLLLL! AAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGHHH!

Andwhy beneeding even maybetolerance fromof warioman?

EVEN YELLING AT PINKTEAM SOCALLED ONCEFRIENDS AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

Marioman didwas ohsokindly inform Squirtle nowhasgot bigsquirtlescary reputationforflipping, onboth blueteam yellowteam. Which... notwrong necessarily from outsideperspective. If anything moreannoying for blueteamrevisionism because there Squirlte trulydid have nochoice butto flipping on somebody. And reallywas in samespot on yellowteam, or atleast wouldhavebeen eventually nomatterwhat, evenif did pulltriger earlier than strictlynecessary.

So one last YEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLL for needto climb yet anothermountain even when struggling to conqurer thisonenext valley havebeen shovedinto offcliff. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Squirtlesigh.

Inconclusion: everyone suckshere. Except strangelyenough just one.

Lesson: Kingcruel now somehow squirtlesafespaces?

(Yes isbe hint for next Squirlteconfessionyell!)

[Squirtle]

Heard back from Marth and it's exactly what I expected. Exactly what he'd have said if he was too late and/or lazy to catch up on the voting plan. Exactly what he'd have said if he just didn't want to vote with us for Wario. Exactly. You see the problem? At least he apparently told captain there was an active aversion to voting Wario... isn't it just wonderful I'm on the outs there too! AAAAARRRRRGGGH!

Most of the yellow has been online for a few hours now, not messaging Squirtle. I get that I'd be the last priority for some of them, but for the rest... AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! Fairly sure there are deliberations over the vote that I'll be clued in on right at the end. But at this stage, so long as it isn't me, I'll find a way to manage. By only YELLing here in private.

This next vote is a tricky one. I don't think the numbers are there to vote me out. Yet. They almost certainly will be tomorrow, especially if marth is inclined to flinch toward the warioside rather than the squirlteside when the pressure mounts. So this should be a yoshi vote, and as much I know he deserves it for the selfvote ARGH! I also know it's not even nearly the best move for Squirtle... but also that Squirtle has no capital to push anything else right now, and will be in far more danger far sooner if seen resisting. The rub is that no Yoshi means it's 3-3 between green and blue, though even that is very generous seeing as Marth is the third for us. Gaining mario is at best a tossup, but I've already heard how he's primed against me. Gaining any other pinkteam member who gets booted this round is similarly a tossup at best, though if pyramythra is actively smearing Squirtle, it's probably worse.

And so now IRONYARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHH my best hope actually lies in the bloody plant. If they come back to yellow now, they're either an easy consensus target (this time orth next time) to avoid destroying the barely-even-peaceful-status-quo (sound familiar?) or a swingvote primed in my favour for a change (sound familiar?). I'm also throwing out a mad scheme (yes, despite understanding I'm safer in the short-term staying out of all that) to send the plant back in if we can, even over Yoshi. That's frankly the ideal for me, as then Yoshi remains upsleeve for a consensus not-team-breaking boot next round. And I'm presenting it as a way to make the plant a useful tool, reliably knocking out our ohsofearsome pinkteam enemies even if onefalco decides to volunteer again. Is it transparent? Probably. Is it opaque enough that it's worth considering anyway? I hope so. And I hope that the narrowish scope of possibility (i.e. requires plant to both win and come back, potentially twice lol) and the actual practical upside outweigh the 'ooooh yuck Squirtle suggested it mustavoid mustvotesquirtleinstead' of it all.

And so now I'll sleep. And wake up to meet whatever fate Wario has decreed. Yes I know I owe y'all something about kingcruel, the future direction of the game, and potentially stripping wario of his selfdeclard power... but I'm too tired and the vote is more urgent, so it'll wait a bit longer. Guess that's a self-AAAAAAAAAARRRGGGH?

Finally. Damn you Chain Chomp making me think both duelists had played already! You get a squirtlespecialshoutoutYELL: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! And a headsup to @smashmanhost incase he hasn't noticed a lurker joining a challenge group yet Oh look now you hae a reason to hate me too!

[Squirtle]

Genuinely disappointed that doesn't trigger-correct to Masahiro Sakurai yet.

[Squirtle]

Oh and also, if/when it's a Yoshi vote. Even if I place my vote for Yoshi along with everyone else. I'll still get blamed for whoever Yoshi's eggs tell him to vote for. So that'll be AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Masahiro Sakurai]

We hijacked the lurker account for a last-minute permissions test but ty for the heads up

[Squirtle]

Can't even dob in lurkers properly now? AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

[Squirtle]

Squirtwell that wengone betterthen had anyright togo. Andnow Squirle beguaranteed makemerge! Squirtlesqueeeeeeeeee!

It's been antoher looooooong week but now that the worst is behind me and the tunnel is lit up ahead, I'm no longer quite in the yelling mood. But 'tis the thread, as they say, so do brace yourselves.

(Tried starting this a few time between messages, hence the language switches. It's basically just whatever mood or headspace I'm in when I start typing, and usually if I've been on the board for a while already the squirtlespeak comes easier. Now that I've corrupted this subboard with English a time or three I have no qualms about essentially just doing whatever I feel like.)


Roundnine squirtlesummary!

There isn't too much to add here really. Woke up, saw the consensus was not going to move away from Yoshi, and hopped right on board. Had a bit of guilt about stringing Yoshi along about how exciting the plant's return was for earning us a free round of safety (and I was truly excited about how it should have been that way), so I was the first to break the news to him once the voting deadline had passed.

The real strategic intrigue here was about the sandbags bidding. I'd been eyeing the safety one for a few rounds now, because of *gestures at entire confessional thread* AAAAARRRRRGH! And convinced myself instead of sleeping that this was a good time to go for it. Somebody needed to outbid the plant (a free round of safety for most requires that the free target not be safe), and I was on shaky enough ground that I knew I'd feel more comfortable with it in my own flippers. There was a real risk of the newly minted faux peace being broken in the coming round to my own demise, especially if the plant were safe, or not existing at all such that I'd have found myself in the ring, and wanting safety if/when I returned shortly before a vote. And even if I didn't need it, I'd benefit from Wario et al not even being able to think about a Squirtle vote before the merge, and not yet having the full knowledge required to plan one for after the merge. By which point I hope they'll have left it to the side for long enough that other concerns take priority.

Another factor is that I've been sitting pretty on a nearly full deck of cards for far too long. Somebody's going to be gathering all the stats (like I have for blue and yellow and would love to consolidate if only anyone else would spill me their own spreadsheets which is an awkward thing to ask for so hasn't happened yet) and noticing who hasn't been using their cards. Maybe not immediately at the merge, but that will probably be a reason to blindside smashers somewhere down the line. So I thought it would not be a bad idea to burn a few and decrease any threat level on that front, while also being able to gain some goodwill for 'sacrificing' my own cards to remove plant's protection instead of forcing Captain or Wario etc to burn through theirs. Obviously it's a fundamentally selfish gesture, but it also contains an element of 'taking one for the team' which could help tip the oh-so-dangerously-balanced scales in my favour eventually. Every little bit counts, right? For this to work I really needed to win the bid, hence pushing myself a bit higher than I was going to otherwise - seeing somebody try to win safety but fail makes it look more like they had a reason for needing it, and should be reminded of that that in the upcoming vote.

Finally, there was greater emphasis than I'd like to admit on simply gaining some breath back by knowing I was secured the merge. The last few days haven't been nearly as draining as the last few days on blueteam, nor nearly as emotionally scarring as I've been playing up to my teammates. (Cute squirtle has a heart, guys! Meanmanbullywairio is torturing innoncent turtles! Personal attacks make squirtle squirtlesad IRL! - Though those feelings are certainly real if not as extreme/overwhelming as they are for the character of Squirlte.) Nor to I have an all-consuming urge to get out of here and reset, as I did this time last week. But putting an end to any doubt and bother has put me in a far healthier state of mind. You know, all the better to have that torn to shreds again once merge hits.

I announced my intend to make the bid, wario withdrew his, captain shifted to grab, a number of people told me yoshi was on attack, and while kincruel also bid too late to withdraw once I insisted I'd already done so - that was that.


Meeting the Results

Feb 23, 2022 11:49:01 GMT 10 Squirtle said:

Oh and also, if/when it's a Yoshi vote. Even if I place my vote for Yoshi along with everyone else. I'll still get blamed for whoever Yoshi's eggs tell him to vote for. So that'll be AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

Even worse (not objectively; mostly for irony) that it wasn't even necessarily Yoshi's vote! I spent the whole scramble period not scrambling to shift the vote away from Yoshi, but to persuade anyone who wanted a lick of power over me that I was humbling myself and ascending to their every whim. Which could have been backed up by a really nice clean 7-1 vote.

To the best of my knowledge (still very much a work in progress) the best theory going around is that Marth pre-voted plant ahead of Yoshi. Which if true would be wonderfully, deliciously AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! because the only real communication we had since the last Marthvote debacle a whole 24 hours prior was my *revelation* to him that prevote lists exist. Which he took not as sarcasm but as a genuine, sorely-needed lesson. So if he deployed one here and muddled the vote count (so that it's possible Squirtle didn't do as told - to be clear, that's the problem here) it was because he listened to Squirlte and left a list for all possibilities... and then listened to Squirle and wanted plant out ahead of Yoshi. I'd presented that argument to him but he hadn't stuck around to talk through the clarification that nobody else agreed and I was switching to Yoshi first.

Yoshi voted for the plant, which was more of a guilty conscience issue than a true problem. And then the plant seemingly voted Kazuya, which is what Yoshi (and only Yoshi) had been arguing for up until the plant showed up again with its redemptive healing freeroundofsafety properties or whatever. Anyhow, if all this is true, it would really help if Marth just rocked back up eventually and fessed up so as to acquit Squirtle of doing something sneaky with Squirtle's vote, many hours later. Again. AAAAAARRGGGGHH!

Looking a few more hours ahead, a plant vote here is hopefully a foregone conclusion, though I expect that if Yoshi wins the duel and returns to yellow (his intent, if we all promise him safety which I have no doubt Wario at least shall happily make the promise without considering it self-binding) there will be some discussion, likely held beyoned my earshot. Yoshi has a good chance of winning too, as even though he bid for safety rather than the attack bag, thankfully the plant switched to attack and was able to get him his desired Genius duel. Ideally, Yoshi knocks out Samus here (who hasn't sent me a message from the ring yet, nor anyone else to my knowledge), pink is forced to eat their own again only to see them knocked out by the plant. (But also a side helping of AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGH! because I was dumb enough to say that I think things should be smooth and simple... there's probably a universe in which we blindside Kazuya here or something... but it's probably not one I should spend too much time ruminating over, right... right?)

And then we merge! Which I can say with full confidence because Squirtle is safe and Squirtle is officially going to be dateable! Awww how cute!


Squirtlefriendship Ranking because I don't think I've done one of these since the swap?:

Captain - My rideordie. Kind of can't believe that we've been working so well together after not really feeling him while we warmed up on blue. I'm definitely the more visible member of a very visible pair which is not ideal, but can't be helped. Certainly not be ditching him any time soon. Which I don't intend to do, to be clear. We've compared notes on as much as we can all through yellow and had some fun while at it too. Really happy that I stuck by him during tietierocks, even though my intentions in doing so were not at all pure, and that we survived it. I want to say I always knew we'd survive yellow, but it was spottier than I'd hoped in the middle there for a bit. And the worst part about having safety this round is the slim chance that if the others cobble together a move, he'll take the hit for me.

King K Rool - This guy's been a fun find. We've had a lot of surprisingly honest back-and-forth bouncybounce, and while he has little patience for the character play and is intensely focused on one thought per short message, we've got a lot of overlap in online times after the rounds, and click in terms of game positioning/ideals. He's in with the green power for now but knows he's at best thirdwheeling there. And is the most vocal about sculpting something function out of the yellowteam wounds, having suffered most directly at the hands of whatever ungodly Christmas has taken hold over on pink. His last message to me today was essentially begging me to join forces and ride with him to the end, even though he presumes I can't because I already have the Captain. (Am I procrastinating a balanced response to that by writing this at the moment? Obviously yes.) He sees things very practically, and I'm hoping circumstances align for us to work together and do some damage post-merge. It will take circumstances aligning though, as he'll be going wherever best suits him (as would I instinctually, were I not playing as cute friendly Squirtle and bearing all kinds of contradictory reputations already).

Yoshi - I trust yoshi's motives and honesty, pure and simple. People are doubting that he self-voted accidentally and wasn't bigbraining everything to throw a vote and avoid a tie, and I'm like: guys, have you met Yoshi? He's not going to abandon his experimental madness (read: eggstrategy) for so ignoble a reason, at so inauspicious a moment, over a tie he doesn't have the knowledge to predict could be happening. Dealing with the pink/red hold over his eggs may be tricky, but I think would be worth it so I'm hoping he sticks around for a while yet. He doesn't need to be an extra vote for me to be a valuable ally for sharing what information he has. Plus I'd really love to have at least one ally with reasons to get targeted ahead of me.

Falco - Haven't heard a peep from him in a week and we split on patchy terms, but here he is ahead of some yellows. I don't know whether we'll end up working together at the merge, but I'd love to try. And if it's as chaotic and dynamic as I'm anticipating me, every extra smasher even slightly closer to my corner is an asset which could save my hide at one point. Happy for him that he's survived pink, though I never really doubted it. And if he shows up in the duel tomorrow I'll still presume it's a voluntary thing until I hear otherwise.

Marth - Still working out whether he's unreliable for not reading messages before it's time to vote, or for not wanting to stick by me. We're mismatched in active hours here even though we shouldn't be, he could be hanging about during his daytime/evening (i.e. now) but is either too busy or just presumes the board is asleep because there are no other non-Australians. I know he's telling the Captain more than me, but again am not sure whether that's because there's a tighter bond there, or because he simply has more time to exchange more messages with the captain... forming a tighter bond. He's about to become as much a liability as a help, regardless, because nobody is wasting a vote on getting Marth out once merge hits. And Squirtle still has a mighty shiny rounded squirtleshell.

Pianha Plant - Yes he's this far above the bottom. Yes that makes me AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH. But yes, I've also built up some of whatever substance comes closest to their trust. We've worked together now a bit, by which I mean exchanged next to nothing and yet inadvertedly voted together now a bit, so I don't think I'm a target for him. And the good news is he's apparently not the type to vote anywhere other than right where he wants to vote. Will that survive my voting him out again again? Well guess what there's no way to tell because is't the teethplant. AND I'M YELLING ABOUT THAT!

Wario - I want to say that the guy's on overplaying overpersonalising idiot, but I'm fairly sure those are just momentary impulses with a more rational player beneath when they're calm (squirtlewhoooooooops did putting that into words just make me stumble onto their ID?) because for all the anger when things blew up, they've played the part of a cooldown reasonably well. I say 'played the part' because I've done most of the talking in this repair phase of our relationship, and I know that's expected when I'm the one who voted against him (twice). But right now I feel that I've given him everything he needs to understand where I was coming from, where I'm coming from now, why I did what I did, and why it would work to his benefit to keep me close and use my vote for a while. I just don't now whether he's accepted that, and I don't think I ever will until the game is done and I can read his confessional. My read of him is that he's not actively seeking revenge until/unless he can suffer no negative consequences for it. But I could very well be wrong, and be facing an anger too hot for even a temporary, practical-strategic, half-false forgiveness, in which case I should never treat anything but suspiciously. If it's the latter, he'll also feel that way about most players still in the game though, so at lest there's that.

Kazuya - Even though we're getting along swimmingly, he's below Wario because I've seen more of Wario's cards and think the radical honesty apology has at least helped me find a measure of him. Kazuya is super smooth. We're still wildly roleplaying unlike anyone else on at least the yellow tribe, and both loving it. Strategically though he's not showing me much, and it seems like we have opposite times for quick back-and-forth messaging, so what we have instead are longer chunks, mostly not strategic, with gaps of many many hours between each response. It's really fun and I think we have a good deal of respect for one another... but it's the kind of respect that you're not gaining much from strategically, and have no problem cutting immediately, then trusting will result in a jury vote for you two weeks from now. That's not necessarily my intention, as I tend to keep open as many options as possible and he is an option for me, we have built something, but it could very well be his. He also is the only one on yellow who I consider likely to fall back in with the pinks due to his bond with darkpit - about which he himself has told me absolutely nothing. So I like him, but cannot trust him.

Darkpit/Redrobin - Were strong socially in the few hours we had on day 1, and lived up to that by forging whatever it is they have going on pink. I've never expected to see either of them show up as boots from any of their teams. And kind of wish (like on that first day) that I'd ended up with them because I'm sure (well at least I like to hope) we'd click easily and run things together. But now they're the opposition. Part of the fun of the merge will be seeing them in action, even if it's probably action against me and mine.

Samus/Dedede - Who?

Pyramythra - They're coming for me, aren't they? I'm low-key hoping they're the last pink boot and can get knocked out by the plant tomorrow. But this game has never made things easy for me. So this is going to be a terrible reunion. Even worse because we'll both be pretending to be happy about it and willing to work together and poor Falco may even be trying to make that real.



Hopefully that's all I'll need to write in this thread before the merge.

... See you back here in a few hours. When I'll YELL about it some more.

[Squirtle]

Aaaaaandnow marthmanfriend fallof twentyfourhouronlinelist. AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Marthmanfriend returnbecome inactiveagain notbe squirtlesurfacing good squirtlememories. Bracing squirtleself for mustneed dealagain with allblueteamfriends and allassociated frustrations allovergain fromtomorrow. UUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

Canhave angrybearattack allweekend mergesunday? Squirtlepleeeeeeease?

[Squirtle]

Feb 24, 2022 3:56:55 GMT 10 Squirtle said:

Hopefully that's all I'll need to write in this thread before the merge.

... See you back here in a few hours. When I'll YELL about it some more.

Toldselfso.

[Squirtle]

Last update premakemerge!

- Squirtle somuch happycelebreate makemerge forgot happycelebarate makejury. Isbe also milestone ofsort!

- Havedonemake squirtlesolid dealto goend with kingcruel! Notbe kindofthing saynoto, evenwhen notbeen explicitlyasked but wasbeen putontable ifwant squirtleself pickup. And squirtleself wanting! Liking bouncybouncestrategy gotgoing, liking comefrom differentsidesteams canbe useful joining informations, liking kingcruel bitwas inactiveearly pinkteamboot so fornow couldbe couldstay lesspopular thanbe squirtleself ifwen makefinals. Isbe gooddeal!

- Squirtleself didwas honestmeaning whensay nomake dealspromises with noothersmasher asyet, think richbluefriendrip wascome closest, know isbe implicit with captainfriend but truehave neversay finalthree. Then comeback search squirtleconfessional for squirtlestory1 discussion of ifwantmake explicitdeals... then remember whenwas monthsago makepromise forto falcofriend. Squirtlewhooooooops!

- Teethplantvote almostbe simplestyet? Easyconsensus soeasy notevenmuch talkedabout. Dohope canbeat redrobin. But beokay ifnot, isbe goodthing knockout teethplant beforemust squirtleself duel teethplant!

- Muchmuchfun getwatch grabbag mergesmashball shenannigans. Squirlte help talkup captainfriend, did makethread getfree! Now allyellowteam waiting waiting waiting getclue, impatientenough ruin sneakysquirtlescheme forlet captainfriend delaybit getheadstart with squirtleself. Isbelike yelloweamfriends nevertried hostinggame changingpersmissions makingposts allatonce allonown! Patience, people! Extralayer muchmuchfun isbe knowing squirtleself noteligible ashavealready supersmashball upsleeve! Still dowant helpget for captainfriend ifcan.

- Allyellowteam think thinkknow kazuyaman havehold yellowteamsupersmashball, is alsobe funnyfun! Warioman tell squirtleself was password forto post onin confessional, gothad actall squirtleshocked! But warioman 'confirm' noget smashhostconfrimation ifwhen alreadygone, and kazuyaman tell warioman didget confirmation. So now isbecome genius human/person wordingtrick and warioman squirtain kazuyman lying. Isgood keepmake wedge tween thosetwo.

- Passednow thaw withfor warioman. Still squirtleself thinking isas needoneanother. But isall partof smashgame whenwhere couldanyone blindside squirtleself anytime, so ifcanbe speak, comparenotes, shade even kazuyaman - isbe in decentspot together.

- Marthman selfvote, away forevers... isnotgood. Especial ifas squirtleseem was just showup makebe pocketvote for squirtlesef captainfriend... albeit unreliable one, notwant losingit! Havebe pickup yoshi atleast solong as warioman tell same eggvote asdo squirtleself captainfriend. Ifall clues havegot bereliable, isbe threeeggsitters from yellowteam to oneegsitter pinkteam, maybe two.

- Redrobin boot either fitperfect or playinto story fed captainfriend by darkpit in spectatorstands isbeen greendomination on pinkteam not widerpinkteamchristmasnightmarepact. Willsee. Squirtle notmind assuch solong as willsee isthere clearside for ease of planning swinging betraying killing winning.

- Isbe mergetime!

[Squirtle]

Masahiro Sakurai Sorry if toobusy for tag but figure iftrue won't comehere anyway!

Messaging allsmashers allowed yet? No official post but gotmessage already from dededede.

[Masahiro Sakurai]

Feb 24, 2022 21:32:02 GMT 10 Squirtle said:

Masahiro Sakurai Sorry if toobusy for tag but figure iftrue won't comehere anyway!

Messaging allsmashers allowed yet? No official post but gotmessage already from dededede.

You're all merged, go for it! I'll change the avatars shortly