Dan's Journal

Dan's Journal
09/06/02:		This team is quite a piece of work. They have managed to make my job easy over and over again. What kind of Traitor-hunters can put together a puzzle and find a secret web site within 12 hours, yet can't get everyone to post a simple picture or a database record? What kind of team can't communicate well enough to keep an E-chicken alive for a mere two hours, yet has the will and persistence to search out dozens of reality show contestant names? A team riddled with dissent, confusion, and chaos, that's what. A team with a few major players hauling the weight of all the other deadbeats around with them. It all surpasses my wildest dreams. And as I search out more opportunities to strike, it dawns on me that this is only the beginning. The real test will come when the finger pointing, the lies, the manipulation, all become just a bit too much. I will issue this one guarantee to these cretins. They will go down, they will go down hard, and they will not know what hit them.
09/07/02:		I've decided to begin keeping a sabotage journal, so that it can be easier to recap later should either of us want to post a summary of the Traitor's work at the end of the game. Also we can both use it to judge the quality of my work as we go and decide when the best times are to sabotage, as opposed to just holding back (e.g. when the team was in the hole after segment 1, it just would have been too painful to keep screwing them over...) Sabotages so far: One Does Not Belong - Voted for Lloyd in both original Fake Player poll and Tiebreaker. In both cases without that vote the team would have succeeded. Also pushed evidence to other players via chat that supported the choice of Lloyd as the fake, possibly influencing Dottie in particular. Apple Of My Application - Offered to exchange quotes with several players; Lloyd cooperated but was suspicious. Lied to Lloyd about which quote was said in attempt to raise own chances of taking the reward away from the team. Puzzling for Profiles - Locked own profile and attempted to unlock profile of one of the most active and intriguing players, Lloyd. E-Chicken - Had suspicions that maybe we hadn't killed the chicken (as Kristina touched on in a few posts, waiting for a ruling) because of time differences, but posted several times conceding that the chicken had exploded anyway, thus helping to make sure that it "stayed dead." The Demon - In exchange for the paltry dollar gained, eliminated an entire segment's worth of tasks, and thus the money earnable during that segment, by ensuring a Double Execution. The Hackers - Established a coalition with Adam, on his initiative, and have been sharing information, including faked quizzes and suspicions, with him ever since. From the start of the game he had immediately assumed that I could never be the Traitor. He is a smart kid and takes each task seriously; the plan is to eliminate that threat within the next few segments. So, after thinking about this a while, I have done more sabotage than I first realized. :-) MUAHAHAHAHAHA. The Traitor
09/11/02:		It appears that Joey may be on to me, or at least I'm high on his list. Not that we can do much about it, but I noticed how he answered several questions: 3) The letters on the Traitor's puzzle piece were: ZZL 4) How many marks has the Traitor allocated? 30-40 5) For the Trout Slapping Task the Traitor was: Online but did not play. 9) Did the Traitor post within messages 340-350? Yes In all of these I am in the distinct minority. Just an observation. shifts the sights on his Traitor-brand sniper rifle to the new execution target The Traitor
09/12/02:		You mailed me the letter 'M.' I will be telling the players I was mailed the letter 'N.' and if somehow they can prove otherwise my excuse is that I looked at the letter too quickly and then just deleted the e-mail, since I clean up my inbox regularly (which I don't, really...) I know you already know this, but don't be telling the players what you mailed other players even if they bribe you and beg for it 'cause right now that's my cover! Duh duh duh I know I should just shut up but I'm getting more and more paranoid about letting something small slip. And yes I recognized task #13 as the Hunting thing and I'm going to go chat with Tara right now and see how fast I go down. :-P The Traitor
09/16/02		On a couple of occasions, luck has simply not been on the side of the Traitor. Apple of my Application - Lied to Lloyd about which quote I said, and then found out that the one I told him I said was actually the exact one he said; a 15-to-1 coincidence. Therefore he automatically knew I was lying (Or at least his accidentally posted confessional indicates so...) Scramble - Lied to the group about which letter was mailed to me. The replacement letter, N, happened to be the exact same letter that Kristina received and later posted. Why is this bad? My "coalition" partner is convinced that the Traitor is Kristina, and on quiz #5 confessed to me that he had devoted all 10 quiz questions to Kristina. By a 25-to-1 coincidence he gained an additional correct answer, which may be enough to carry him into yet another round of play despite his incredible short-sightedness. The Traitor
09/19/02		Task 14 - Spent much time trying to figure out paths that don't make me look like an idiot, yet do count as "sabotage" in some form. Outright trying to prevent the team from reaching Lloyd was not necessarily the goal; making sure as many infiltrators go down as possible is another, much better one. Furthermore, the power to choose the order in which they infiltrate allowed me to generally give the power to choose the exemption to whoever I wanted to. Adam pointed out early that the blue button most likely indicates an exemption, since that is the color of the exemption fingerprint on the execution webpage. As it turns out, none of these ideas can be guaranteed, and so much depends on whether Mike keeps the clues to himself (or whether he's being fully forthcoming about what he has deduced using them) that I had no choice but to essentially help the team this time around. This Traitor has lost one battle, but he will be back, and at full power, and they shall feel his wrath. The Traitor
09/21/02		`These entries have been removed. I am extending an official public apology to Dan, my Traitor, for inadvertently breaking his trust in the matter of this journal.` `Thank-you.`
09/22/02
09/27/02		In-Character Confessional: This game is getting crazy, and people are dropping all around like flies; I keep wondering just how the hell I'm still here. What a horrible way to go on Tara's part; two dollars for the risk of two demerit points? She practically guaranteed herself execution. When Tara left, I felt like the group on Mole 2 after Elavia took the money and everyone had to think up a new game plan. It's getting almost to the point where it's everyone for themselves, and although this coalition has obviously been helpful, it could also have spelled my doom had I decided to take the quizzes in a similar fashion. It's crunch time, and some very important decisions have to be made. For now I'm refocusing on Mike and Joey, although I just can't find enough evidence to be really convinced about either possibility. Dan P.S. `I love being Dan and The Traitor at the same time. Gee, it's almost like I'm...two-faced! Imagine that! The Traitor`
10/05/02		I hope this doesn't upset you too much, but I've decided to give them the farm animal web-page thing; I still think it is a good idea not to attract too much attention, and I have cost the group $2 already from the Russian Roulette thing. Even Bill from Mole 2 sabotaged the small tasks while giving the group the big money in the later rounds; I'm thinking at this point that I also want to only do maybe one sabotage per segment. Of course, this means that I will continue to do at least one per segment if it's at all within my power. I considered doing both this time and then giving them something on purpose to throw them off my trail later, but I like doing it this way better. It's sneakier, and there's no guarantee I'll have as much direct power over the tasks later as I did in this segment. If you have any suggestions or advice (or orders, for that matter) about all this, don't hesitate to get in my face with them. The Traitor
10/05/02		Figuring out how to best sabotage tasks is a wonderful challenge. This segment my plans changed a multitude of times but I think it will really work out fantastic. Here's the scoop: Russian Roulette - Refused to pull the trigger, giving player-like reasons to do so. Loss: $2 Farm Animals - Created webpage with all required elements to throw others off path. By the way I hope you're on Windows 'cause on Mac after the cookie loads once the counter screws up. But it's still there, as is a guestbook, info, pictures, and links. Domesticated Animals - Went on neopets.com in the last few hours before the deadline and removed a trade to be made by Adam as well as a few valuable items from the account inventory. Potential Loss: $3 IF THESE CHANGES MADE TO THE ACCOUNT ARE IN ANY WAY TRACEABLE, THEN I AM DEAD IN THE WATER. You need to let me know if this is the case IMMEDIATELY. I looked everywhere and my general impression is that since it is under one user-name and password that there is no way to tell which player did which actions, although the item to traded was listed as being put up by SmartGamer (Adam.), so I can't be too careful. The Traitor
10/05/02		Adam put 50,000 NP into the Neopets account at approximately 6:11 CST, according to this clock. This Traitor promptly decided that his circumventing any real work warranted that I go beyond simply eliminating items and get rid of his NP altogether. Our wonderful Grarrg, or whatever its name is, then received a pet of his own that knocked out more than half the 50K by itself, a four-week vacation at a five-star hotel, two powerful weapons it couldn't use, several valuable medicinal items, and finally, a couple of tasty Kyrii snacks to finish the last bit off. Of course, being the evil Traitor I am, I then snatched everything out of the hands of our beloved pet and threw it away so it couldn't be resold. I enjoyed watching it crawl into a corner and bawl its eyes out over being abused and tortured. Of course, all this really was intended to keep the group from winning the $3 for the task; whether Adam was late is unclear, and depends upon who's looking at what clock and how well they're set, but I nevertheless enjoyed teaching the lesson. The Traitor
10/26/02		I don't know about you, but I am getting pretty damn pissed off about those two (Mike and Joey) and how they are dragging this game along. I have e-mailed them, I have posted on the board, I have done everything I can to try to make them wake up. At least Mike posted; I'm starting to think Joey thinks the game is over or something. Have you been in contact with them at all? If I were you I'd have done one of two things by now: either force them to play the game for the final task by a certain deadline or lose automatically, or simply call the segment off, send out the quizzes, and see who if anybody gets his in. If nobody does, nobody wins. It would suck for that to happen, but it's better than having no resolution at all! Do something about it! Thank you. Dan
10/28/02		Final Entry Dumb and Smart - Took full advantage of Mike's mistake of posting his score to the board by re-taking the test enough times to beat him by one point. Loss: Bonus Point Messages - Posted message that was sent to me and pretended that Joey was the Traitor trying to get us all to do the opposite. Attempted to persuade others to follow suit, but without success. Loss: $0.25 Games - Purposely lost a game of Pool against the host. With two out of three victories required, put the pressure on both Mike and Joey to win their games. After the task was an automatic failure, placed the blame on lazy Joey for not making contact with the Host. Loss: Task value Take care of yourself. Dan

04/06/03