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Aug 7, 2002, 9:51pm

I told you things would heat up in the newsgroup. ;) And for our 12 Survivor
contestants, they're being burnt to a crisp! So, take some time out from
flaming all the stupid people out there (including yourself) for a maelstrom
of Survivor surprises. The game has changed, and so have our castaways.

First, let's recap the first month in NG Survivor, with never-before-seen
footage. :) The game started off with QUITE a bang. The players congregrated
on the "Landing Pad" of the tropically barren world of NGS2002. Few knew
each other really well, most were complete strangers to each other, some
were even past enemies in flame wars. Others were quiet lurkers, who knew
the big posters in and out, at least in the newsgroup. There were AW oldies
and AW newbies. And with this distinctively different and overly eclectic
cast of 16, they would have to build together, commune together, and then
backstab each other to get to the top. As the discs changed colored, and the
six people on each tribe were determined, four were left out in the open. D
a n didn't hesitate to take maki under Robego's wings. The girls were left
to be last pickings. Was it because of their supposed weakness or supposed
strengths? Joeman from Nebewi was left with the final decision, and chose a
bright-eyed Ambient Spirit as opposed to an absent Lioness.

The game was officially underway, and the tribes at first got along well.
The girls made their strengths known in the tribe, and things were slow, but
cheery. A small pact turned into a full blown alliance between Ambient
Spirit, Gandalf, Maka, and Mongo in the darkest depths of night. And then
came the first challenge, the traditional Light The Torch. It took one unlit
torch to send Nebewi to unlight another one of their torches at Tribal
Council. It would set off a string of visits to come that would end three
lives to the Nebewi Alliance. Quiet and vanished pixelot was the first to
go.

And it was the second week that the game blew up. Robego came to dominate
all challenges, reward or immunity. A confusing, tense, and laggy relay race
took all the energy out of the survivors, and things got desperate. Eric
from Robego, and Mongo from Nebewi were neck and neck, when Mongo flew up
too far, too forward. Eric wasted no time in getting his message, but
deleted the sign Mongo needed to see, leaving Nebewi helpless, incapable of
winning the race. maki climbed up to the waterfall and won Robego's third
consecutive challenge.

Eruption soon followed, as Nebewi tried to deal with the harsh reality of NG
Survivor, that cheating is neccessary to survive. An angry Mongo exclaimed
he was finished with the game, and begged his tribe to vote against him.
Robego fared well through all of Nebewi's insults, but they couldn't hold
together back at camp. Disputes started on how camp should be laid out.
Things looked bleak for both tribes, but the five Nebewi alliance members,
including Mongo, held their heads high and marched up to a live Tribal
Council. Gandalf admitted an alliance had formed, Ambient explained it was
the absent she would gun for, and in the end, pixelot's pick back at the
discs, Shorah, would join pixelot in the castoff circle.

At the break of day, Robego was aghast at their campsite. It was destroyed,
items deleted, and things moved around and changed. A just renovated
campsite the night before had become a dump. And Nebewi was the prime
suspect. Nebewi came back later that day of hunting and gardening to an
equally destroyed camp, and the game was on. This war of objects benefited
no one, but continued on through the week, until both camps were barren, and
the few personal belongings tribes had left, were hidden and scattered
throughout.

Maka, tired with his tribe, the game, and Activeworlds, resigned suddenly
from the game. Morale in Nebewi dropped of the cliff of Council Plateau.

With survivors already exhausted on the third week, an almost worthless
immunity challenge came up, and Ambient and maki were there to represent
their tribes. maki took another lucky and close win for Robego, and Nebewi
made the familiar steps to vote off another member. Joeman was dealt a cruel
blow, after winning Nebewi's first challenge just a few days before was
voted off unanimously. Even Ambient Spirit, who owed her position in the
tribe to Joeman picking her the first day couldn't vote against the
alliance.

With that said, 12 survivors remained. Robego's tribe of 8 continued to have
major problems, camp-wise. BinaryBud, thoroughly frustrated, said "well i
quit building cause everyone was in charge and deleteing everything i built
so i just said screw it......i am in here most every day in the daytime and
no one is here....but yet when they show up they take over and make it what
they want" Lioness and maki continued to be the harshest subjects of my
updates, while the other 5 members were barely present for me to make fun
of.

Nebewi, as it grows smaller, began to grow stronger. The four strongest and
most active players remained in the game.



But, all of that changed, as my scheduled Twist shook the tribes apart. It
was a switch like none others. The survivors gathered all back to where they
first landed a month before. They were instructed that they would have two
minutes to gather any belongings back at camp and drag them over to gz. A
small Nebewi, with only two members (mongo and ambi), brought back two
torches and a tent. A larger Robego also brought back torches, a crate, a
pot, and Builderz hard drive among others. Everything else at camp would be
deleted. Mod and Ambient panicked when they realized they would lose their
luxury items that they had hidden underground and weren't able to salvage
because of no flying or shifting. But, in my niceness, I offered to save
anything underground. This is because after the switch, the campsites would
be moved to different areas inworld. Why you ask? Read on.

The tribe was asked to select one person to stay on their mats. maki
selfishly chose himself to stay. Ambient and Mongo came to the conclusion
that Mongo would stay. Both would remain in their tribe. At the Landing Area
is a man-made room, with 10 doors. The remaining 10 contestants each picked
a door and entered.

maki was asked to pick three numbers between one and ten. He picked 1, 3,
and 6. Those numbers corresponded to the numbered doors inside the room.
Doors 1, 3, and 6 opened and out came Builderz, Binary, and JerMe. Robego,
once a tribe of 8, whittled down to 4, and got one new member, JerMe. Is
JerMe odd man out? Was he safe in Nebewi in the first place? Whether this is
good for JerMe is still unknown. Does Builderz, Binary, and maki have much
in common? maki is most likely the one changing Binary's builds, and
Builderz only shows up to challenges, and contributes little then. Can
Robego last until the merge?

And then there were 7. Mongo was asked to pick 3 more numbers. He chose 2,
4, and 8, and out came Eric, Mod, and Lioness. This is the new Nebewi Tribe,
still the same in numbers, just different personalities. Mongo is also
automatically outcasted as the only original Nebewi member in the new
Nebewi. Lioness is also separated from her confidante and closest Survivor
friend, maki. Will Mod and Eric, the two AWTeeners pick out Mongo and
Lioness? Or will Mongo and Lioness join together and fight back? Who will
win this power struggle? Will there even be a power struggle?

Once again, Ambient is discouraged she is last to be picked. Gandalf,
Gamecube, and D a n also are left behind. But this time, they're not going
to get picked. The doors opened from behind and they stepped onto a grey
mat. I told them they would form a third tribe, Tiveac. The tribe is named
after the word Active, since I ran out of degrading tribal names. It's
represented by a crazy loose guy who can't dance, much like Rick or JP. :)
Their camp will be the future merger camp, and comes pre-equipped with many
camp supplies, since they lost all their belongings. Robego and Nebewi will
only get the handful of items that the old tribe managed to salvage in two
minutes to bring with them. Nebewi gets a pack of signs and pictures that
they won in last week's reward challenge. Mod is happy he didn't have to do
anything to get those. Everyone else is quite disappointed, especially
Ambient, who worked hard to help Nebewi win. However, she hopes her new
Tiveac camp objects will make up for it.

And so, until the merge (which won't occur at 10), these three tribes will
live isolated from their opponents, and compete for ONE immunity. For the
tribe that finishes first, they are safe for one more week. For the tribe
that comes in last, they will face a Tribal Council to diminish their
already tiny tribe. What about the second place tribe? They don't get away
scotch free. They'll have to log onto the website and fill out one of my
nasty surveys. :) Questions range from "Who do you hate the most" to "Who
are you in an alliance with". Although survivors don't have to answer
honestly, they HAVE to answer. :) Those answers will be published in future
overly long newsgroup updates. :))

But there's something more devastating in my nasty survey. The last question
will always be "Who would you vote for right now to leave the tribe?"
Whoever the castaways pick, the victim will receive a vote. Although no one
on the tribe will leave the game from this, at future Tribal Councils, the
votes they receive from the surveys count as previous votes cast toward them
and could ultimately seal their fate later on.


REWARD CHALLENGE TIME! :)

While everyone is getting acquanted, let's throw in a reward challenge and
see how these three tribes handle the new pressure. With only 4 members
each, participation is crucial to win much needed supplies and least
importantly, a tee-shirt. :)

But to get the supplies, they'll have to cross Survivor River and make it
there alive. How? Log onto http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor2/ and get
to the Games section. :) When you're there, find River Cross, and as usual,
get the highest score possible and email it to me as an attachment or url.
Scores are due by Saturday, and you only get one chance, remember. :) The
tribe with the highest cumulative score will win supplies for camp. And what
are these supplies? Well, the winning tribe gets to pick. :) They'll be
given 30, that's right, 30 items, and they can choose whatever they want in
the OP. If they choose right, they'll have a huge advantage over the other
tribes, if not, they'll have diddlysquat. So get into those Object Yards. :)
Anyone can play, btw, not just the contestants, and the highest scorer
submitted to me at nornny1 at attbi.com will receive a free AW tee-shirt,
compliments of Flagg and the fine folks at AWI. :)

Exciting eh? Well, you'll have to keep a lookout on these newsgroups then,
because the flames of NG Survivor 2 never die down. :) There's more twists
around the corner for August, especially in the merger, so keep a lookout.
And let's see what these Survivors have to say now as I foil their plans
once again. This game doesn't let up, does it?

Check the website in the coming days for updates, new contestant pages, and
so forth. :) http://www.myactiveworlds.com/~ngsurvivor

--
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!"

Aug 7, 2002, 11:43pm

Please see my comments below:

[View Quote] Let me clarify a few things. It is not a hard drive, it is a computer.
During the Twist, D a n mistook it as being a hard drive for some
reason, and now you are doing the same thing, Nornny. Before the NGS2002
OP was changed, it looked like the comp1.rwx object on the AW path (it
had a monitor and a keyboard). Now it just looks like a computer case,
since you are using objects from the MegaPath. People used to use it as
a sign at the Robego camp.

From Nornny's instructions, I thought you were only allowed to bring
back your luxury objects to the circles near GZ. My computer was
underground (so it wouldn't get deleted), and since you turned off fly,
it was a pain in the at $$ to try and move it--but I finally did. I
thought that it might be of some help. When Mod and Eric built the hydro
power plant at the Robego camp (before the Twist), they needed a laptop
object to power it. Since no one brought back the laptop, I brought back
a computer. I'm sure the new Robego tribe can find a good use for it.

> Does Builderz, Binary, and maki have much
> in common? maki is most likely the one changing Binary's builds, and
> Builderz only shows up to challenges, and contributes little then. Can
> Robego last until the merge?

BinaryBud, maki, and I are all from the original Robego tribe. I don't
think we will have any major problems getting along at this point in the
game. As for me "contributing little," at least I show up to the
challenges and do the Web challenges almost every week. Some don't even
do that. I have good intentions. It is just kind of hard to contribute
when no one else that belongs to your tribe is on-line when you are (and
signs are being changed when you try to leave a message at camp).

-Builderz

Aug 8, 2002, 1:50am

[View Quote] Sorry about that, I'll try to find the correct object and upload it. I'll
upload the aw comp1 right now.

>
> From Nornny's instructions, I thought you were only allowed to bring
> back your luxury objects to the circles near GZ. My computer was
> underground (so it wouldn't get deleted), and since you turned off fly,
> it was a pain in the at $$ to try and move it--but I finally did. I
> thought that it might be of some help. When Mod and Eric built the hydro
> power plant at the Robego camp (before the Twist), they needed a laptop
> object to power it. Since no one brought back the laptop, I brought back
> a computer. I'm sure the new Robego tribe can find a good use for it.
>
>
> BinaryBud, maki, and I are all from the original Robego tribe. I don't
> think we will have any major problems getting along at this point in the
> game. As for me "contributing little," at least I show up to the
> challenges and do the Web challenges almost every week. Some don't even
> do that. I have good intentions. It is just kind of hard to contribute
> when no one else that belongs to your tribe is on-line when you are (and
> signs are being changed when you try to leave a message at camp).
>
> -Builderz

Aug 8, 2002, 4:30am

[NG Survivor 2 - Diary entry #3]

Dear Diary....

Yea, this makes it entry #3. Why so few entries? Because not much has been
going on since the last time I wrote. With this big "switch" thing, maybe I
can find some stuff to say now.

Since last time I wrote, the camps have only gotten worse. All of our
objects were gone, there was alomst *nothing* in our camp. The only thing
that kept it from becoming totally baron was the makeshift table and chairs
made from rotated palm trees. When the OP died on us all of Ambi's hard work
on that was turned into black triangles. Along with most of the other
greenery around our camp.

Our tribe was widdled down to a mere 4. We lost 2 more to fudged immunity
challenges, and maka resigned.... Not a cool deal. We're making it though.
Doesn't matter much anyways, as our tribe has been completly split.

I must say nornny, interestig twist.... It seems I'm now with Builderz,
Binary Bud, and Maki. Thats fair enough... I don't like the doubt nornny
shows about my place in the tribe. I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime
too soon.

-Jeremy



--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeremy Booker - Owner
JTech Web Systems
www.JTechWebSystems.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5-34
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Aug 9, 2002, 3:09pm

BB logs a high score of 2033 anyone got that beat?

ps; did it on my lunch break....ehehehe

Aug 9, 2002, 5:08pm

Hey, Binary. I got a score of 2230. I played for about 30-45 minutes. I
wonder what Maki and JerMe got for our tribe. Oh, I put up some trees
around the new Robego camp. The OP doesn't display the textures for me,
but oh well. If you want to expand the barrier or move it back, go
ahead. If you don't like it, please tgram me if you decide to delete it.

-Builderz

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Aug 9, 2002, 5:20pm

Hey guys... I haven't played that much.. maybe for 10 mins... But I'm gunna
hit it hard tonight. I'll let you know....

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeremy Booker - Owner
JTech Web Systems
www.JTechWebSystems.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5-34
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Aug 9, 2002, 5:46pm

WTG!!! excellent!!! chaa ching :)

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Aug 9, 2002, 8:11pm

Looks like I got ya all beat boys, but not telling ya'll what I got! Na Na
Na ;-"p



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Aug 11, 2002, 4:28am

Dearest Diary,
What an interesting week this has been. On Monday I sent Nornny an email
telling him I would probably be there for "the Twist", but on Tuesday I
recieved a call at work telling me a good friend of my family died
unexpectantly. The last thing on my mind was anything online except to try
to get a hold of some people via email to let them know of the funeral
arrangements, etc. Needless to say I missed "the Twist" and didn't get back
online again until Thursday evening after the funeral.
Imagine my surprise at being picked for Newebi!! LOL. Although I was a
bit shocked at having to switch tribes, I thought of it as a new challenge
and a good chance to get to know Mongo. We didn't really get much of a
chance to talk before, when we were on opposing teams.
Even though my heart just wasn't into competing, I tried the River Cross
game. The first time I played I got no farther than the 5th level and scored
1460. The second time I played I got over 4000 and made it to the 7th level.
The third time I played I thought to myself, "why am I going past the second
level? That's the easiest one." I stayed in the second level and managed to
score 5328. I tried about 6 more times and couldn't get any farther than
3000. So I sent my saved screen shot to Nornny with the 5328. Then Saturday
morning TheLion (my husband) was playing and scored over 6000. Figures.
hahahaha.
When I entered NGS2002 on Thursday evening I found our new camp easily.
It was very bare, except for a lot of signs, Ambie's pillow (?), a tent,
some flames and torches, our flagpole, and some circular wire.rwx thing that
I'm told was on the ground for my tribemates to put their luxury items on.
Somebody had also found my lake and placed it nearby. We had plenty of water
since our camp was just over a hill from the river.rwx. I noticed our camp
was also right up against the tribal plateau. We could certainly use that as
part of our shelter.
I explored a little bit to see what the other tribes looked like. I
easily found what was left of Robego, but it looked stripped bare, and was
deserted. I also found the other camp of Tiveac which was surrounded by
trees. Ambie sure was busy trying to organize things for their tribe, and
she did a great job of keeping it safe from predators and trouble making
birds. It looks wonderful ;-"D
Yesterday I went back to our camp a few times to look things over and
try to get some ideas on what to do and how to do it. I figured we could
have a garden with all that water nearby. And since the ground there is
damp, trees would have no problem growing either. Before I set to work, I
grammed Eric and Mongo to see if they minded me building our camp shelter. I
certainly didn't want to create any ill feelings this time around. Mod
wasn't logged on, so I couldn't ask him. I set to work immediately after
getting the ok from 2 of my tribe mates. I planted trees, and lashed
together some palm trees to form 2 walls for our shelter. The only thing
that wire.rwx thing is good for is a gate. I planted some cattails around my
lake to keep the bugs away, and they're good eating too ;-"). I found a
couple of apple trees, which will come in handy for snacks. And of course
some grapevines to provide us with fresh fruit and also raisins ;-"D.
I placed the signs on the outter walls of our shelter for us to use for
messages and whatnot. We also have 4 picture objects. Hmmmmmm......maybe we
can use those to post our pics? Will have to discuss that with my tribe
mates. All we need now is a roof, which somebody else can do sometime or i
can do tomorrow. I'm pooped now. Time to get some sleep. I found a cozy
little niche tween one of the trees and the tribal plateau cliff wall.
hehehe. Nitey nite everyone. ~ ;-"D







> 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!"
>
>

Aug 11, 2002, 2:16pm

WOW! BB bows his head in shame hehehehe technique.....it'sall in the
technique lol

Well done Lioness :)


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Aug 11, 2002, 2:41pm

ROFL!!! ty ty ;-"D


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Aug 11, 2002, 3:41pm

*joins BB in his head hangning....*

I thought I was doin good... lol


--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeremy Booker - Owner
JTech Web Systems
www.JTechWebSystems.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5-34
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Aug 11, 2002, 6:56pm

LOL I like yer little whiskers :)

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Aug 11, 2002, 7:42pm

bet you say that to all the Lionesses out there ;-"D



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