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Jul 28, 2002, 5:49pm

!!!!BE WARNED, THIS POST WILL BE MONSTROUSLY HUGE, PLEASE SNIP IN ALL
REPLIES!!!!


Well, I'm back from summer camp, if you call it that, and it's time to get
back into the fold of Survivor. The month of August is going to be some of
the most intense Survivor gameplay, so be prepared, everyone. :)

Now, just for good karma, I'm going to do things in a weird order. Let's
start off with production notes. Over the course of this week, the website
will be humongously updated with news and such. Some diary entires might
possibly be lost or not put up if written between the two weeks that I was
gone. Expect the Tribal Council results, and updated Survivor profiles as
well as this huge summary. I am also begining very early the official
Survivor movie, which would be the opening theme. It will be finished after
the game is over (maybe a few weeks earlier, I don't know). If any of you
survivors want to send in random candid shots of yourself in NGS2002, please
feel free to email me. I can also take avi, mpeg, and other movies you make
with Camtasia or Snagit also, so feel free to get out those programs if you
have them. I'm not a good cameraman, and my computer isn't a good camera.
lol. For those who want to relive Season 1, I'll scrounge up the original
movie and upload it also. :) NGS2002 has also been sorta updated with a new
OP. You'll notice the textures on the ground are now different, we're still
working on that and getting NGS objects and avatars back in there. :) Bear
with us, the building crew only consists of one norn and a coffee mug the
size of Alaska. And the norn has been taking a lot of lunch breaks lately.

Done with production meeting, let's get to recapping.

For those who have lost track of NG Survivor timetable, we are in the middle
of Week 3 still. :) I COULD give you a giant recap with discriminating chat
logs that I don't have right now, but I'll leave a lot of it to the
contestants to write about. For once, I'll let them use their own summaries
to their advantage. But first, let's finish Week Two.

As you know, Robego tribe, still eight members strong, controversially won
the Relay Telephone Challenge. Mongo was mad, Eric was blamed. Robego
rejoices, Nebewi falls apart, torn by anger and sensitivity. Threats of camp
sabotage spill out almost immediately as a war of words ensues shortly after
my verdict. I blame this sort of on my awful production skills, but hey, if
the first cast lived, why not this one? Nebewi learns a new lesson on
cheating, while Robego members question the dirty play they are accused of
doing. Even more trivial, camp problems arrive shortly after Robego's
victory. Lioness and maki get mad at the fact the the contestants are not
living under one roof, but eight. After a heated debate, the camp gets
joined together and now Robego members sleep side by smelly-avatar side.
Whatever works, I guess.

Nebewi thinks of their actions, and leave to their usual post-losing
solitude, as they ponder who to go next. Gandalf is set on who he wants to
go, the others express little concern also. So it's up to tribal council
plateau, live. :) Mongo, JerMe, Gandalf, Ambient, and Maka were online to
make the trip. Joeman and Shorah are absent. Since they didn't submit a
vote, if a majority is not reached between the five, their votes will be
random.

When asked how the tribe is doing, Ambient feels that everyone's getting
along fine, but it's a pity some members are not as active as others. JerMe
doesn't feel his first week's absence affected his standing in the tribe
much. When asked if there was any alliances, Gandalf admits "That's between
me and my alliances."
Now, let's tally the votes.


First vote Shorah...






Shorah...






Shorah...3 votes Shorah





Shorah....



Shorah, if you'll hand me your torch. The tribe has spoken. *extinguishes
fire as tense council music climaxes* Please exit off the cliff and leave us
with your FINAL WORDS!!! PLEASE!!! :) I'm still waiting on pixelot's too
btw.




The next day, Robego's night of campbuilding is for nothing when they wake
up to missing objects and porn on their flag. Mod is especially angered and
sets a new level of rivalry, also vandalizing Nebewi camp. To my knowledge,
all this object tossing has been going on constantly while I was gone,
although I don't have the chat logs to prove it. However, rest assured that
this is not a production stunt, the objects and their destruction have only
been caused by the remaining 14 contestants.

Next up on the list, the Reward Challenge. :) Survivors are playing for a
special package of signs and pict objects for communication. And here are
the results of the Snail Eating Contest. I am counting how many snails you
got IN THE JAR. gross...

Maka ate 25 snails while maki ate 26. maki wins, 1 point Robego.

Ambient ate 27 snails while Lioness refused to eat any. Ambie wins, 1 point
Nebewi.

BinaryBud ate 28, JerMe ate none. Binary wins, 2 points Robego.

Mod and Gandalf both ate no snails. No points awarded. It's still 2-1
Robego.

Gamecube ate NO snails also, but Mongo ate 24. Mongo wins, the score is
tied.

Joeman ate a whopping 29 snails, while D a n ate no snails. 3 points Nebewi.

Eric ate no snails, Maka ate 25. 4 points Nebewi.

Finally, Builderz ate 25 snails, while Mongo ate 24. Builderz win and get a
point for Robego.

Unfortunately, Robego still loses the reward challenge, and Nebewi finally
wins their first web challenge. :) Yay!! You will be receiving your signs
soon. Also, Joeman submitted the highest score, and also wins a free AW
Tee-shirt. :) I'll talk to you later about that, Joe. :)

Okay, just as victory is announced, another surprise occurs for Nebewi, and
a tragic one at that. Maka has resigned from the game, and from AW. Maka,
you're welcome to share one last diary, but here are Maka's Final Words:

"Well, it was a good game...fun, fights, sabotage...heck it was all ina days
work for Nornny ;O)...but both Tribes, watch for Joeman...he's trying to
double time both tribes...trust me"

What will these new revelations and quiet exit mean for Nebewi AND Robego?
Will tribes fall apart in distrust or fall apart in extreme discomfort? Will
new alliances have to form as the game moves ahead one week faster?We'll
see. For the contestants in the game, 5 from Nebewi (Ambient Spirit, Joeman,
Gandalf, JerMe, and Mongo) and 8 in Robego (BinaryBud, Mod, Eric, D a n,
Lioness, maki, Builderz, and Gamecube), chances of winning The Million
Dollar Prize has gone from 1 in 14 to 1 in 13.

And a new Immunity Challenge awaits all survivors on Wednesday, time TBA. :)
On the 1st of August at 5pm VRT (tenative), Tribal Council will occur for
one unfortunate tribe. And then, on Week 4, a twist, and don't think you're
going to find out what it is by watching Seasons 3 and 4 of CBS' Survivor.
:) Will Nebewi finally pull through and take out a Robego member? If so,
which one of the 8 will it be? Or will Robego bounce back into their streak
and shrink Nebewi into 4? Is Joeman in danger now? Are the AWTeeners getting
too lazy? In two and a half weeks of gameplay, a lot has already happened,
but there's PLENTY more to come as August heats up your newsgroup reader.
Stay tuned.

--
From the Newbie's Guide to the AW NG:

"Nornny11 - The original wishy-washy man, this one can actually insult you
and compliment you in the same breath, and in the end say absolutely
nothing! What a talent!"

Jul 29, 2002, 2:07pm

Shoot! well my highest score was actually 34 i have a pic of it too....but it was my third attempt so i could not enter this
one cause i already had sent in my "image"....:( Joe....i hope yours is on the "up & up"...:) hehe man those things sure were
slimmy...hehehe

Leo :) aka BinaryBud






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Jul 30, 2002, 1:05am

I've given up on being productive in camp, hopefully whoever it is who keeps
vandalising will get bored and give up, though I've got a few theories as to
who it might be.


Until next time.. when I'm more interested,
Eric

Jul 30, 2002, 11:29pm

Dear Diary,
My, my, my.....a long way we have come in the past few weeks. Amazing how
much the landscape has changed since we first settled into our camp. I can
still remember planting the trees, wading in my lake, admiring the trees on
the horizon and enjoying the thrill of building a shelter with palm.rwx
wood. I can still smell the smoke from the campfire as it not only lit our
surroundings with its golden glow, but it kept us warm as well as we worked
feverishly into the night making sure we had a weather proof place to put
our crates and supplies. I kept looking at our Robego flag flying proudly
above us, representing a collective group of hardy campers, eager to push
ourselves beyond endurance, striving to survive the hardships that we knew
we'd have to face, and working together as a team. The prize was beckoning
to be won, calling out to us, if you will. Nobody expected our little world
would become a deserted wasteland. Nobody expected deliberate foul play. And
still we've clung to the believe that we will get through these challenges.
I can still remember during our second week, I found a neat little roosting
spot on a tree branch that overlooked most of our camp. It was a perfect to
lounge in while I wrote my diary entries. I could see people come and go.
And the view was spectacular. Sure I was dismayed to find that some of our
tribe mates had chosen to build shelters of their own. But I harbored no ill
feelings towards them in any way. I figured they liked their privacy. I
figured they probably didn't realize the large shelter in our camp was for
everybody. To symbolize unison. Oh well. Que sera sera. One evening maki and
I were in our camp and a couple of our tribe mates joined us. We wanted them
to know that the large shelter was for everyone and anyone and to protect
our supplies. My guess was correct, they didn't realize that, they thought
it was mine. When they realized it was Robego's shelter, they dismantled
theirs. There was no argument or disagreement like the website insinuates. I
have the saved chatlog to prove it. Funny how when that situation was
summarized it made Maki and I look like we started some kind of "heated
debate" among our fellow Robego members.
I feel awful that I wasn't able to do the reward challenge. I clicked on
the url that was given us. I searched that website for hours, trying to find
the Mancala Snails game. But my search was in vain. It simply wasn't showing
up for me. ;-"< I don't understand how the others could find it, but I
couldn't. I did manage however to play numerous other games on that site.
But after searching for a game that didn't exist on that url for 3 days, I
simply gave up and took the loss. I wonder if anybody else had difficulty
finding Mancala Snails on that website.
When I read Ambie's account of the mysterious visitor and the trouble that
person caused for her, it deeply disturbed me. It was un-nerving that our
objects were being deleted. Our trees all disappeared. Somebody vandalized
our shelter by removing one wall and moving the leaning palms around. Our
crates disappeared. Somebody even stole the fish that Eric was cooking over
the fire and the very campfire it was cooking over. They even went so far as
to take all our fire and wood. Soon after that happened, the textures on
everything changed. The Av choices were reduced. The water ran brown. Some
of our luxury items were reduced to triangles. A couple of us decided to
hide our luxury items to keep them safe. Not just in Robego but also in
Newebi. Just in case somebody would think of deleting them. Ambie took pity
on our situation and moved her flame over to our camp so we could have some
light and warmth. Why is it every time I come to visit our camp, I dread
another change for the worst??? Its depressing sitting there looking around
at what appears to be a moonscape and being the only one there. ;-"<
As for our supplies, we are reduced to scavenging coconuts from our only
remaining palm tree and eating vine.rwx salad. This evening when I came for
a visit, I noticed our flag is gone. I haven't looked at our flag for nearly
a week. I wonder when it was taken? I looked very carefully around for a
small black triangle where it was hanging, but found none to indicate it was
even there. Sad what has happened since Nornny went away to camp. I do hope
our Op gets fixed soon so we can see how much of our supplies are left.
~ Lioness ;-")




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Jul 31, 2002, 11:13am

Deleting your own shelter is one thing but someone deliberately deleting MY shelter without disscusion with me was outright rude.
No one said a word before nor after the destruction of my shelter ....so....i am to assume i have no say in anything around the
camp.....well so be it. I can play this game as well as the rest click or not.

Jul 31, 2002, 11:15am

oh and about the snails a simple google search for "Mancala Snails" brought the site right up.


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Jul 31, 2002, 12:45pm

Dear Diary,
Been to the campsite everyday this week... and not seen any one of my tribe
members :( I'm hoping its just the time difference and nothing else.
With Maka gone, I feel a bit empty. he was a real mate and we had lots of
chats together. If you are reading this Maka... we miss you! You always
had a smile ready.
Now, standing at the campsite, I look around and see total devastation...
scorched earth. Where there used to be verdant grass we now have
semi-desert, trees are dead and gone, no water and very weak looking
flames. It is cold and more unwelcome than it was before. I even find
myself missing
'The Survivor' with his little bits of advice and cryptic messages. In
less that 8 hours we have another Immunity Challenge and I wonder what that
will hold for all of us... will we lose yet another tribe member.. bringing
our numbers down to half of Robegos?


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