12 - RAINBOW ROAD

[Captain Falcon]

 RAINBOW ROAD 



Psychedelic experience indeed. It's RAINBOW ROAD- things are gonna get funky, and I'm gonna have to paint with all colours here if I plan to survive. Everything is on the table.

This ain't my final lap! I believe it. 3… 2… 1… GO!!!

ON THAT VOTE

I always counted on the fact that Squirt would be taken down over me, and it happened, so small victories I guess. But, this is too soon. Now I am in some serious hot water and I'm gonna have to have my eyes clean on the road to make it through. Really, should have seen that coming. Call it lethargy. I miscalculated, and figured Falc and Dedede would see the benefit in one of Wario or Robin getting the boot here. Squirt going out seems like kind of a waste, but getting some insight into Dedede tonight, it makes more sense. He's got his own agenda to support the... funnest people, I guess? He's counting on getting to the end with 0 duels I bet, same as Kaz. Falc on the other hand- maybe wants to stay in Robbie's good graces, and maybe take her out at the final hurdle and end up with Yosh or Dedede or Wario. Makes sense, but it's a risk, cos she has to go down or he loses. If he was the only challenge threat left, he has his pick of the litter basically.

ON SURVIVING

Assuming Squirt dies, I gotta do whatever I can to stay alive and at least hit weekend, I ain't keen to follow Squirt out the door. Maybe I wouldn't vote for Kaz. That's it. But idunno, could be trusting him too much here. Maybe Dedede, Robbie, Falco will settle on Kazuya regardless, and the other four of us send in his opponent. Dunno who that would be. Maybe Falc has it out for me, he is so freaking annoying to talk with sometimes and he won't give you a clear answer. There is a way out here, but I'm the easy vote. People like easy votes right before the weekend. So that's what I gotta push up against.

C'MON! No race is without a few bumps in the road. But now I gotta restore some energy in a pit zone...

[Captain Falcon]

It's time to do what I do best. ANYTHING!

[Captain Falcon]

Ugh this is rough, I've got so many spinning plates here and so little time to spin them.

[Captain Falcon]

Sad realisation here, is that Kaz going up and out, would be good for me. I really don't wanna go in here, cos even if I win, it doesn't look good if I follow Squirt right into THE RING. Gotta show that I recovered well from that set-back.

Problem with Wario going in, is that if he leaves, I no longer have sway over Yosh. It's 1-1 with me and Rob, and Yosh breaks ties, and he'd help her out. Especially if I vote him in with Wario, he'd no longer have loyalty.

So I need Wario, and I'd need Dedede and Robbie to both not get SHEILD next round. Then, I leak Dedede's master plan to the other 3 in the hopes that they'd be on the split. Falc will be VERY hesitant, but if he knows there's two more rounds to send me in... there's a chance he bites if I make it clear that whichever of Dedede/Robin makes the end, wins.

Then, I use by secret 39 bid on F5 immunity. Will I win? Probably not. But worth a shot. Then at F4, I hope that two players both have their max 43 bids on the table and immunity defaults to me.

It's not going to work but at least I have something to aim for I guess?

[Captain Falcon]

I really do just wanna survive this cos it'd be hot to place 6th and have a full circle moment from my first Arena game.

I am definitely circling the drain at this point. But it's fun nonetheless.

[Captain Falcon]

WOWZA!

I'm still in hot water here though.

[Captain Falcon]

This is gonna be a frenzy now, AYOOO! Did not expect this. And don't know what I wanna do here.

[Captain Falcon]

This plan is fuckin' HOT and it makes so much sense.

If Kaz and Wario go in, I am a total sitting duck. After me, it'd be Squirt. This gives us PADDING.

Falc is setting up a FTC of him/Yosh/Wario. THE CAPTAIN ain't gonna let that happen.

Squirt... bite, Squirt. BITE!

[Captain Falcon]

This could be a missed opportunity for Squirt and it could be the end of my game now, but I am just done. Ready to meet my fate etc

[Captain Falcon]

I feel like the biggest asshole of all time.

[Captain Falcon]

Final six? Last to duel?

But I don't feel like celebrating right now.

[Captain Falcon]

I'm excited for my game to get blown up over the weekend.

[Captain Falcon]

Actually, I will celebrate this a bit. It's freakin' cool that I'm the last person to duel. I have never achieved that before, and whatever happens from here, I can add that to my ARENA accomplishments. I worked hard for it! C'MON!

[Captain Falcon]

Mar 3, 2022 19:51:15 GMT 10 Captain Falcon said:

I'm excited for my game to get blown up over the weekend.

Or over the next hour, either/or.

[Captain Falcon]

Wario is a legend. Such a trip.

But uh... that was one of the most horrible ORG situations I've been in, in quite some time?

I was all set for the Yosh/Wario plan. Looking back maybe that was kinda dumb to begin with. Seems like Wario genuinely does wanna make the end here with me. Maybe he is lying, but just the way he acts and talks about FTC threats and such, I feel like it's actually genuine? Squirt is gonna try and pip me at the post, and in that sense, this was never gonna go ahead, cos he has other plans that don't involve me making FTC without duelling. But for me, it really made sense in the moment. But the idea of Squirtle surviving was just... it did not seem in the realm of possibility lol. So I was already neck deep in planning with Dedede, expecting to have to hustle to save my ass. I guess it felt natural to keep some kinda plan rolling.

So then Squirt shows up and shuts it down. With an hour to go. And suddenly the decision we had never discussed- basically, TRD vs the Goldies, was right in front of us with an hour to decide it. Everything in my body told me TRD, and stick with Kaz, but Squirt was not into it. But the way it shook out, I was basically in a position where it was impossible to save both of us. (I could have forced Squirt into it maybe? But that would have just been beyond messy).

So with Dedede and Falco voting for me, it was basically tell Kaz the truth, he'd probably vote for me, and then we'd both be in. Or tell him Dedede and it's him and Dedede. Maybe had I given him the full story, he'd have gone this direction anyway. That's why I'm so cut up right now. This was just an impossible scenario. And one that hit me like a ton of bricks, I wasn't ever expecting to have to make it. Had Squirt lost the duel, it would have been me and Kaz against the world. I think at the end of the day, Kaz was my number one. But I felt like at the end there, I had to just try and save myself.

If I had been assigned to vote for Kaz and not Dedede, I would not have done it. I just would not have been able to do it. But because I was assigned Dedede, an arbitrary difference, I just let things happen. Suddenly I have a lot more empathy for Richter. This game is complicated.

I'm trying not to feel like total crap, cos it's, at the end of the day, a fun e-game and we're all pretending to be smash brothers characters and also, it's designed for us to turn on each other and manipulate and outplay and all that jazz. But at the same time, you can't help but to emotionally invest sometimes, and things can sting. And I inadvertently stung someone who I have grown really fond of and who I felt a friendship with, and who trusted me. I didn't directly betray him, but I lied by omission, and really it's all the same shit. A betrayal is a betrayal no matter the reasons, so that's what I did.

And now it's final 6.