Jury Questions

AURORA'S ANSWER:
1) Thanks Jennifer. I do admit that yes, I did fib to some people about my alliance with Will to get to the final 2.

2) I feel that the event's of September 11th are a horrific, non sensical tragedy. The war that has
since taken place, however, I feel is necessary. You can not negotiate with terrorists .. if the US did not declare war on these mad men then they would have attacked the US again and again. That would result in more innocent lives lost .. the ones that the US Soldiers are targeting are the cause of the problem .. they need to be stopped so that way the events of Sept 11 wont be repeated again. Any way other than war would result in these terrorists thinking that the US
tolerates terrorism and they need to be stopped so that way the next generation of Americans wont have to go to war for this same nonsense in another 15-20 years. So I feel that there is no choice but to fight this war even though more innocent lives of US soldiers and reporters occur, but that madman, Bin Laden, the terrorists and their supporters must be stopped.

WILL'S ANSWER:
1) Thanks Jenn, Fibbing is something I did one time, which stuck in my mind and has made me feel a bit bad. When Evan told Aurora about Joseph trying to get Linda off, and she then brought it to me, I felt shocked momentarily. Evan, Josh, Aurora and I had a chat and while in there they asked me to vote for Joseph. I was really..angry at that moment about Joseph doing that. So at that time I said yes. I did not vote immediately though, I slept on it. When I woke I realized that Evan COULD be doing this to save himself, if he was, whether he was or wasn't, I wasn't going to jeopardize our friendship over someone elses rumor. So I voted Evan, and technically, did lie.

2) Great question here Jen. I've been keeping up with this as much as my stomach can handle. I find this sick personally that a person could have the mind, and the soul to do this, none the less...I believe we are doing this in the most humane, most easy way we could possible do it. If we did go about this diplimatically, the Al Queda woudl still be operational and able to attack. So yes, we have to go to war with this. I don't think we are doing this out of revenge, we are doing this out of prevention for this happening again.

I would like to thank Zeb for being an amazing host and Maryjo for being a wonderful hostess. This has to be the best Survivor game online. To Will, you know what you mean to me and good luck. To the jury, my former tribe mates and friends, I feel so fortunate to have been a part of this game with you. I know that some of you feel completely betrayed by my "secret alliance" with Will and by our "plotting" against you. I don't consider myself a mean, cruel or hurtful person but it seems that during this game I have done some things that when looking back, I would have to admit that I suppose I can be. For those of you who feel betrayed by me, I am truly sorry. Winning shouldn't be that important to me or to anyone. I will say that I didn't "lie" to any of you about you being my friend or about how I feel about you. I just wasn't completely honest about my intentions in this game. I don't feel that I deserve to be here any more than any of you, and if you choose to vote for me then thank you but if not, then that is groovy too.

JOSEPH'S QUESTIONS:
First of all, I'd like to congratulate both of you to getting to the final 2. You both obviously deserve it. You made a promise to each other early, and you kept it. That takes a lot of dedication and friendship and trust..... or does it? On several occasions during this game, you two doubted each other. You each came to me and asked me if me and the other one of you was plotting against the other or something to the effect of "I can do this if he/she doesn't turn on me." So obviously, maybe you two aren't such a great duo after all. I'm gonna be straightforward today. Originally, I intended to send an e-mail to the jurors pleading to give their vote to one of you, and not the other. But I'm just gonna speak my views on each of you right now, and then ask you each a question.

The first person I talked to.... Aurora. Aurora, you can be very nice. At times, you were the nicest person in this game. However, I've gotten the impression at times that you are carefully plotting this entire time. Now, I may be wrong, but I believe that you have played the pity card this entire game. Many people have heard that this game has been set up for you as it comes down the stretch. That everybody is like "I don't mind if Aurora wins! She deserves it!" Well, I beg to differ. I don't know how your real life is, and I hope I'm wrong. I've tried to cheer you up at times, but you seem so down on yourself that you're almost happy that you are so sick and/or depressed, and you try to do nothing about this. These are the reasons that people want you to win. However, I believe a winner should have played the game the very best. And honestly, I don't think any of these 16 people did that. But anyways, I hope we can still talk and be friends. As for your questions.... Out of us 7 jurors, which one deserves to be in the final 2 the most, and which one deserves to be in the final 2 the least? Also, please explain how self-voting for yourself exemplifies you being the best player?

Will.... since the beginning, we were partners in crime. However, I think your good intentions got the best of you in time. For example, I do not believe that carrying a Kaldur member so far just to get their thank you vote in the final 2 was right. Also, you told me about being honest, and how the most deserving person in this game will win.... Mark and Linda are already gone. So there's no way they can win the game. However Will, you never betrayed me. And I thank you for that. You didn't vote for me when everyone else did. But you didn't warn me either. You just kind of let it happen. And if you were really with me in the game, you would have let me know. Aurora has even told me that you told her to vote for you, but you weren't going to. I honestly don't know the truth, and frankly, I don't care. But it does come down to who out of you and Aurora is the best player. And the best player will win. So... your questions.... Out of us 7 jurors, which one deserves to be in the final 2 the most, and which one deserves to be in the final 2 the least? Also, please explain exactly why you kept Josh so long and did you tell Aurora to vote for me?

In conclusion, I hold no grudges. What I just said may have made me sound like a sore loser or what have you, but I'm not. As I've said all along, I'm here to do two things.... win and have fun. I obviously didn't win, but as you will read in my own personal section of Jet Point E-Mails, I definitely had fun. I had fun with each of the players I met, and I don't hold grudges against anyone. What I said about Will and Aurora gave them something to think about and hopefully gave you as the jurors something to think about. Now that I've probably put you all to sleep, I'm signing off for the last time... or will I return with a final interview with the winner? Hmmm.... who knows! Thanks Zeb and Mary Jo for a great game! Good luck to each of you in the final 2 and congratulations for getting here! God Bless!

AURORA'S ANSWER:
1) If given the chance, I would definitely play this game differently. When Will and I were plotting our plans for the final 2, I thought that being here would be wonderful. Now that I am in fact here, however, I am not happy about the way I got here. I think that getting to the final 2 isn't as important as staying true to yourself and your friends. Nothing is that important.

2) I think that to win this game you need to have integrity, honesty, determination to be online for the challenges and help your tribe as much as possible and an alliance doesn't hurt, as long as you stick to it and don't screw anyone just to win.

JOSH'S QUESTIONS:
Ok, so Will and Aurora in the final two... its kind of the way I saw it since the merge. Will and Aurora approached me, we talked, and I guess we became pretty close. Then they asked me to join them in their alliance whose goal was to drag ME to the final three. They accomplished their goal and I made it. It is a little fishy and shady... I guess I'm also talking to the other jury members, there must have been a lot of backstabbing done to the old tribe... I don't know, but I've heard about all these things that maybe it was done to get my vote in the end... well neither of them suceeded because I don't know which one to vote for... which leads to my first question..

AURORA'S ANSWER:
1) Well Josh, to be perfectly honest, it wasn't me that wanted to keep you, it was Will. I wanted to vote you out right after Jennifer but both Will and I knew that you weren't as big a threat to either of us making the final two as the rest of the jury. I befriended you after the merge because I wanted to get to know you and I thought we would have a passion for horror movies in common. I already knew Sebastian andJennifer from another game but we had never spoken. Once it was only Will, Melanie, you and I left, I wanted Mel in the final 3 but knew that she was a far bigger threat than you. Sorry.

2) As I stated in answer to Mark's question, yes I suppose I backstabbed someone in this game by not telling them that they were about to be voted out but that person wasn't you. My current feelings on this would be regret. I regret alot of things I did in this game and although I am here in the final 2, if I had to do it all again, I would certainly NOT repeat some of the things I did in this game.

3) Well the motto of the Survivor Games is to "outplay", "outwit", "outlast". I don't necessarily agree with that motto. I certainly outlasted everyone but Will, I suppose I may have outwitted some of you, but i absolutely DID NOT outplay most of you. I am glad that I played this game for the fact that I made really good friends, but I am not proud of some of my actions during this game and winning is definitely not worth backstabbing friends, nothing in fact is that important. The true meaning of this game to me now is to make friends, have fun and be true to your tribe, your alliances, and stick to your morals and integrity.

1)Try to convince me that you weren't keeping me to get my vote...
I'm trying not to sway anyones vote by my speech but here it goes... a couple of thign have happened that made me think a little differently of both of you guys throughout the game. Something about Will voting for Evan instead of Joseph, and there was Aurora's self vote during the time that we were voting Linda. Also at one point one of you guys almost convinced me that the other was going to backstab me. 2) Did you ever backstab me or anyone else in the game? What are your current feelings on this? Finally, I got to know both of you so well throughout the game and one of the topics that came up a lot, a topic that brings a new depth to the game. We talked about the true meaning of the game... 3) what is the true meaning of this game? Is it worth backstabbing? How important is winning? Good luck, and you might just score points with the last question...
Have fun!

AURORA'S ANSWER:
1) Well i can honestly say that i have lied to alot of people in this game both directly and indirectly. I suppose every one of you from Svidandi feel now like you were all backstabbed by Will and I because we formed an "inner alliance alliance" with just the two of us, and I suppose looking back in retrospect that yes, I did in fact backstab people in this game.

2) Well your question can be taken one of two ways so i will answer both ways. I honestly feel that the 2 people who deserve to be here the most are Linda and Will. I think that they both played this game really well, helping with tribal challenges, winning the majority of singular challenges and also submitting the most jet points. No offense to Will (but you all know by now that he wasn't the most honest person in the game, nor was I but Linda too is the most kind,
loving, honest person I know and I don't think she was deceitful to anyone in this game so she definitely should be here. If you wanted me to name 2 others besides me and Will, I would have to say Linda and you, Mark because I think that you were a good player and could have gone far in this game if not for alliances and betrayal.

WILL'S ANSWER:
1) I never downright lied to anyone but Evan and Aurora and at the time it was true. The lie came later. I never DIRECTLY lied to you about the vote, however I did backstabbed you. In fact, I think I was very open with you about it after the vote was sent in. I think I went right to you and told you about it, and something I appreciate SOO much is that you were okay with it, and able to talk about this. Thank you so much for that Mark, I think it is a personality trait which I admire, ALOT. I realize that Aurora did not vote for you when you were voted out and I would like to say what I thought about that. The reason she gave me for not voting you out was one, not being able to since you were nice, and two You were in another game with her. This sorta upset me since well, she did vote for you when Jennifer was voted out so, what did that mean? She could vote for you then, but not now. I didn't understand that, and the other game reason, didn't it boil down that you could have control over how she did in that game, while
you coudlnt' in this game anymore. This is just something I"d like to get off my back, for Aurora and Mark.

2) MY spot..hmm. I would put Linda in my spot to go against Aurora in the final two. This is different that if I could change both final two spots, because it would still be Aurora in the other side if I understand the question correctly. I believe Linda and Aurora would have went to the final two had Aurora and I not bonded so much. I also think that LInda played just as strong and a better moral game than me. Seeing her in the final two, would be like what everyone wants out of a survivor game. The nice guy or girl :-), finishing first. Linda Linda. Now you know what it means friend. :-D.

WILL'S ANSWER:
Great comments Joseph, you gave me alot to think about. I believe that
Linda, as you said was very deserving, she does deserve to be in the final two. She played both ethically and strongly. Although I believe I played extremely ethical and strongly, I can see how some people's perception of that may not be true. You said "well Mark and Linda are gone" my next person is Evan. Gosh..I hate doing this but i'm going with truth here, despite from suggestions from others. I know something, about everyone in this game, a personal fact, at least one. Melanie has two children and loves star trek, she is in an RPG and plays the captain, and is kicking a Romulan's butt! Linda loves badmitton, and hates her boss :-P. Joseph
is hosting SOTN VI!!! And is gonna do a great job with me as a co-host, right ;-) Jennifer, loves dominos, and I had a great time playing with her. Mark is engaged!!! Good luck with that. Josh goes to school and has an job in the afternoons. And of course Aurora, oh the things I know about you ;-) But I only know that Evan is add, and I just learned that tonight. Nothing personal, I believe I attempted and was sucesseful with talking to everyone else, but Evan, I think this game requires person-person talk. Maybe I never was able to communicate with you EITHER. I'm sure it was a two sided thing, I just felt least compatible with him, therefore, I think he was
least deserving as maybe with others, but not with me, he didn't try to get to know me on a personal level.

Thanks for giving me this chance to explain about Josh. I feel that was the one thing you really thought was wrong with my game plan. Whether ANYONE believe me here, keeping josh in the game was soly becuase I felt he deserved it. He deserved it more than some people, but I have to agree not more than some others. Keeping Josh in the game was no my doing only, yes, I did petition for him to stay in. But let's consider this, without other votes he would have been gone. So, I don't think I did it on my own. I'm glad Josh got so far, he deserved it. Five Tribal councils guys. Imagine...(Darren, Linda, Mark, Evan, Joseph, Aurora, Melanie, William) Only 3 of those people would have merged. Think...then they would have had no chance then. What is that like..I have to put this in perspective, because I doubt no one would understand why I keep him around in the beginning (mark-Joseph) vote off area. I did it out of compassion and our of
realization of what he went though.And no, I did not tell Aurora to vote for you. In fact, Aurora brought the "rumors" to my intentions to begin with. They brought me in the chat, and Evan and Aurora asked ME to vote with them. Whether I did or not was up to me, and I didn't.

WILL'S ANSWER:
1) Okay, agian Linda and Mark. They are a member of the Jet Point Three :-D. They did alot of work, in tribal immunity, side by side, Mark and I did make a great team. I remember him saying that to me. You're a great player Mark, strong. That's why...Linda..same thing. Your amazing. You care about me! I know you do. Both of you, if It happened again, you two , final two. Rock on! :-D.

2) I learned the most from about myself, from Mark. Coming into this game I was determined not to get mad, not to get upset, and not to get angry at anyone. However, there were times, when I did. I did not do it on screen however. He sent the email about Sebastian and WOW it opened my eyes about HOW much this is a game. Thank you Mark. You had the attitude about
this game that's perfect. It is a GAME. People, don't cuss each other out, don't get mad about what someone says, they know you threw an online occurance, they know NOTHING about the real you..So, I learned about myself, that Ias much as I wanted to admit it, I WAS considering this game as something important. Something that showed something about people, but it doesn't. And I thanks mark for teaching me and everyone that. So, thanks Mark. I appreciate your attitude towards this game, and regret not knowing you more.

In conclusion..:-\ I think that this game has been a wonderful experience. I've learned things about many other people, and myself. But guys, it is a game. Please, PLEASE, do not let anything that happened, between me and you, or Aurora and you get in the way of your friendships. I backstabbed
and lied once. I was brutal more than once. But I was also compassionate, I was caring, and I wanted to know about you. I was determined, hard working, and...overall, a well rounded player. Maybe I was not the most deserving. Maybe Linda and Mark should be in the final two. But i'm here. With Aurora. And you guys have to choose between one of us. I hope you choose me, I'm not going to lie. I've done alot for this game, tried hard, worked hard, and I would love to win. I would like to thank all of you each of you for something. Thank you Jennifer, for showing me, to never ignore someone, because you aren't going to know them for long. Dominos after the jury meeting ;-) Mark, thank you so much, for showing me about the ideals of this game, that this is a game, and that this game is a game of real people, all of whom should be respected and get to known. Joseph, thank you for being trustworthy, and thank you for sticking by me. If i had to pick one person JUST to be in the final two with, friendship reasons, you know who it would be. Evan, thank you for showing me, that I can't be friends with everyone. I cannot be best friends with everyone, I cannot connect with everyone. But that does not mean we cannot be civil. More than that infact, I think we got along very well.Linda, Thank you for showing me, some people are filled with kindness. Some people just can't be mean. :-) Maybe you can get frustrated, but thank you so much for representing who you are amazingly, and very well. You are Linda Linda, the Malaysian Wild woman ;-) Melanie, thank you for showing me that, even when you are grown, and have responsibilities, life can be wonderful. :-) Go on with that, because that's how you die happy and old :-D Josh, you did it :-) You made final three. You got further than you though you did. Thank you for showing me...that having the compassion of others, no matter what others maythink about it, is more important that your own further life in the game. By trying and petitioning to get you further, I helped you with your goal. I got you to your goal, and that was important to me Thanks. And Aurora, thank you for your trust. :-) Nothing more I can say, because those words mean ALOT.

"At the end of the game, the queen, the king, the pawn, all pieces go back into the same box. Stop trying for checkmate"--Italian Proverb

WILL'S ANSWER: WThanks Melanie, my strategy, was to be myself, be as strong willed as I
could, and fulfill my alliance with Aurora. Aurora and I had probably the strongest alliance in the entire game :-) She did let alliance get to her. As did I of course, but it's necessary in your survival of this game. Everyone in Svidandi at one point except you Mel was in an alliance.
First..Mark, Aurora, Linda, and I, then Joseph took Mark's position because of his immunity strength. Then Joseph took his immunity position. Well, a rumor ended that very quickly, Aurora had told me later that she didn't like Joseph and didn't like him in the alliance, so whether or not that had anything to do with it, i'm not sure. However, Evan believe he was in an alliance at that point, I THINK. I'm not sure. I believe he wanted to go since his' computer was being put in the shop. After that it was Aurora and I 100%. Melanie, as I told you, friendship was important to me. You told me earlier that Aurora did NOT try to get to know you, and at one
point, when you were having problems finding an apartment, I was the only one to actively and constantly talk to you. Not for alliance reasons, not for voting reasons, but to know you. When did Aurora begin to talk to you..? I hate to ask that, but when you did give her immunity it was a slap in the face, almost as if you ignore the fact that our friendship was a psuedo one, where you and Aurora's friendship was a recent yet glorious thing.

WILL'S ANSWER:
Okay, time to convince the one person the whole "josh issue matters to." First off, I don't see any logic in keeping you around just for your vote, especially considering you never expected to get to the final three anyway. Secondly, I didn't "keep you around," you stayed in the game because I wanted you to, truthfully, Aurora did not agree about keeping you in this game. She did not see you as the Soul Kaldur survivor, she saw you as an outsider. I however did see otherwise. I don't believe it's actually logic to think that I would threaten Evan, Joseph, Mark, Linda, and Melanie's final vote for yours. Although it seems keeping you did do that. Had we
voted you off before Mark, I believe personally that our relationship was strong than Aurora and your relationship, AT THAT POINT. I voted the way I did to get to the final two. I would hope that my character and my morals I played the game with, would be what I won or lost by. I respected your survival in the game, so no, I never backstabbed you. I believe that we were honest with you each vote, with the exception of Joseph's vote, which I changed my mind on since I wasn't 100% sure if Evan was telling the truth or not. I also did not want to threaten Aurora and I's relationship by having josh and I both voting evan, where Joseph would then be in the game. I somewhat felt that my vote was not immoral against Aurora because she didn't vote Mark, for reasons of having him in another game. I felt that my vote was a bit immoral against Evan, however, I considered, if he's lying, then he's being immoral, and I was not going to believe him over Joseph, where we had both been friends. I did as I mentioned above, betray Mark, but everyone understands including him at that point, that the whole idea was composed because he was a threat. That's all, nothing about his character. I love this last question :-) Soon after the merge, Mark taught me the meaning of the game. Friendship. As I said 1,000,000 times during the game, "We don't walk away with 1,000,000 dollars, we walk away with
friendships." I truly beleive that's true. I believe I am walking away with 8 good internet friends, which I will keep in touch with. No amount of backstabbing was worth hurting friendships, but whatever happened in this game, did NOT hurt these friendships. I stay in touch with all of you
regularily. Whatever I did to Mark, doesn't matter to him, because he agrees with the concept of the game, Friendship. Thanks to all of you who agree with this.

WILL'S ANSWER:
1) If I had the chance to play this game again, with the same set of 16 people. I would do NOTHING different. It's really important to me to make this point crystal clear. I played this game for two people, myself, and Aurora. Despite what i've heard from the hosts, and the nemerous players, JOSH was not a person I personally "kept around' for a final vote. I kept Josh around, and petioned for him to stay, since that's what it was at one point, I couldn't have kept
him here by myself, because I felt he deserved it I don't think anyone, not even Aurora herself understood the way i felt about Josh. He was a VERY strong player to get through 5 set of voting that Svidandi didn't even go to. That's amazing. He was a survivor, and regardless of what people say, I believe Josh and I will always know why I kept him around. As for my
voting, I will kept it to the same. It was something I had to do, to get Aurora and I to the final two. No Linda. I would NOT change the way this game ended. It got Aurora and I to the final two, and at a point in the premerge era it was what I wanted. I got here, and to do it, everyone
had to leave. It's not as if the final two can hold 6 people, I wish guys. Maybe Aurora and I are not the two most deserving, maybe one or both of us have said something that we shouldn't. But I believe I played the game to the BEST of my ability getting to know everyone I could, being kind, hard working, never giving up and strong willed.

2) Wow...right into the next question. Kindness to everyone, who cares if you get to the final two if no one likes you. I believe I am very kind, but the person sitting next to me is nice to certain people as well. Very nice in fact. But I was NEVER snappy, to anyone in this game. I was truthful, serious, and hurt talking at times, NEVER snappy. Hard-working, IMMUNITY! It's important, whether you think it or not. Linda relied on it alot and because of her work ethic it got her far, and I admire that. I tried to take it away from her :-P But Linda linda, the malaysian wld woman got past me on many occasions. But I got ya on Jet points ;-). Never giving up is something else. I came into these jury questions considering...why? Then I thought...with the help of Linda who said then why bother, Why am I giving up? This game is NOT over for me. I have to oppurtunity to address everyone of you, to tell you something about me you may not have known, to explain my actions, and told you why I should be the winner. Never give up, Carpea Deum, Seize the day, seize the victory, and seize myself, my oppurtunity and my attempts in this game. Strong willed, you have to have a strong will be confident in yourself to get this far in games. Being timid will not get you into alliances. Being timid, being low on self esteem wont' get you anything, in this game or in life. I'm getting far in life, I count on that. I'm ready to win this game now, I believe I can do it. I believe that completely.