Shoot, Throw, Hit, Miss, Vote, Crash and Burn
Devon was the only one who knew there was a challenge going on. The target- who had no idea- Aaron. And Devon had no idea it was Aaron.
Devon first took out John St. Croix, but a little controversially, as I told Devon not to do anything too blatant, and he entered into a game of Pyramid with John, along the lines of "I'm thinking of a word." I let it slide, but warned I wouldn't let it slide again. His next objective was Danny- bad move. Aaron was also on YIM at the time. But Danny didn't say 'shoot', so Devon tired Aaron. Bingo. Inoculation.
Oh, don't worry. I planned to hand out immunity to 5 more people through a nice game of dodgeball. ...or would I? When I went to check on the site I had picked out to hold a game of online dodgeball, it seemed to have ended the game. I freaked-- until I realized, hey. I can do this myself.
There was the small matter of team selection. Prior to announcing teams (decided by placement in the last round), I had this conversation with Colin.
mtvcdm: Anyone you hate, anyone you like?
Colin (Rhode Island): No-one I like...No-one I hate either, cept maybe Alex and the kid who called Collen Colon
Colin: Its kinda sad when your telling a sob story about you insulting someone else
mtvcdm: Well, you know what you do then.
Colin: No, I vowed not to do that again man
mtvcdm: How come?
Colin: Because it pissed off a lot of people for something that was pointless....If I am gonna piss someone off I want a better reason than an online game....Unless I am a host of course, then everything is different
Colin: Now, in the final 2 its a different story....But this early, Alex is gone anyways
mtvcdm: Never know.
mtvcdm: He could come up big pretty soon.
Colin: But with that personality...If he wins I pity the voters
mtvcdm: You know, there is a little thing we employ in that case. We call it a Safety Stone.
Colin: But you see, theres no way he can earn enough safety stones to stop a certain amount of hate of his ass-holishness
mtvcdm: You mean he's done stuff beyond that post?
Colin: No....But that post was enough in my opinion, it said who he is...And I get the colon thing a lot...Its enough to make me dis-like him already
mtvcdm: Ah.
Colin: And the person who says it is an ass and he is too a bet
And the Gods of Irony were watching, as Colin and Alex were slated to be on the same side, along with Danny, David and Aaron. The other team was Jon, John, Fernando, Valerie, and Andrew. Devon, immune already, was to ride the bench- but I let him predict the winning side for one stone.
GAME LOG
*Colin (Team 2) chooses to dodge balls (as opposed to trying to catch them), throws at Valerie (Team 1). Shot hits. Valerie out.
*Fernando (Team 1) chooses to dodge balls, throws at Danny (Team 2). Shot misses.
*Jon (Team 1) chooses to dodge balls, throws at David (Team 2). Shot hits. David out.
*Devon picks Team 1 to win.
*Danny (Team 2) throws at Fernando (Team 1). Shot misses.
*Everybody gets their second ball.
*Jon (Team 1) throws at Danny (Team 2). Shot misses.
*Fernando (Team 1) throws at Danny (Team 2). Shot misses.
*Alex (Team 2) throws at John (Team 1). Shot hits. John out.
*Colin (Team 2) throws at Fernando (Team 1). Shot misses.
*Danny (Team 2) throws at Fernando (Team 1). Shot misses.
*Aaron (Team 2) throws at Andrew (Team 1). Shot hits. Andrew out.
*Third ball for everybody.
*Colin (Team 2) throws at Fernando (Team 1). Shot misses.
Aaron (Team 2) throws at Jon (Team 1). Shot misses.
Jon (Team 1) throws at Andrew (Team 2). Shot hits. Andrew out.
Fernando (Team 1) throws at Danny (Team 2). Shot misses. (Note Danny never picked a mode of defense, so he has a 7-in-10 chance of being hit each time. 4 shots have missed him. This is called 'dumb luck', ladies and gentlemen.)
*Fourth and final balls recieved.
*Alex (Team 2) throws 2 balls- at Fernando and Jon. Shot at Fernando hits. Fernando out. Shot at Jon hits. Jon out. Game over.
So Colin, Alex, Danny, David and Aaron are inoculated. What of the other 5? Ever hear of a little show called Survivor? Where they go to Tribal Council and vote themselves off? Yea. Even though Devon wasn't going and would have no say in who did, he had his wishes...
Devon (Louisiana): Alex seems, quite frankly, psychotic! I don't know WHAT is with him. Him posing as Danny, trying to cheat by creating fake accounts. I don't like this guy one bit. I'm hoping the audience will be nice enough to boot him as soon as possible!
I've talked to Val about him, and she completly agrees. And I'm very sure Danny doesn't like him. Actually, I take that back: Danny is truly annoyed with him. After all, he posed as Danny "as a joke" to make it look like HE was fake voting. If we were allowed to vote, I'd KNOW who was going. But right now, it looks like Alex is staying.
I also believe there is a good side to every person, though. Alex seems like the kind of child who just has problems in life, based on his sob story. He should deal with them, and get out of this online reality game soon.
This combined is causing me to pray to GOD that he is eliminated from the game!
Well, it's not gonna be now. Alex is inoculated. So is David, which kinda negated this, at least this round:
David (New Jersey): I think Colin has mellowed out, and I doubt he'll try to get me kicked out this time. Although I trust him as far as I can throw him. Fernando and I are allies. And I know Devon from Reality TV Rules, so I may strike something up with him.
Of course he accidentally posted this on the 24/7 message board for all to see. Whoops. Valerie posted her confessional on the boards too.
Okay, Tribal Council time. Only Jon, John, Fernando, Andrew and Valerie attended. Well, only Jon, Andrew and Valerie actually made it. And Andrew quit, so there was no need to vote. Why did he quit, you may ask? Seems he remembered me as an opponent in Odds (I had forgotten completely about him), in which I, Aaron, was a player, and another Aaron, Aaron Doucet, was host. Apparently he didn't like me all that much, but thought it was Doucet hosting. Erik, my brother and host of Gimmick Survivor (which Andrew was also in), told him it was me. BEFORE the game. When he found out it was me, DURING the game, he wanted out. I dunno... but okay. (This was good news for Jon, as pre-Council votes had him going.) The reason for quitting as told to Jon was a bit different from what I heard from everyone else:
Andrew: i applied for it, thinking it would be
sweet but once i started to play it...really stupid
This was told to Andrew. Not me. The day of Tribal Council, I asked him if he felt like he was going. He told me he was safe and planned to vote Jon. I would have confronted him about the withdrawl issue, but I was informed via confessional, and those are supposed to be private. Ah, well. At least he quit during the Council, so I didn't have to figure out a contingency plan. I just exiled him and moved on with my life.
10 contestants, 9 rounds.