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Aug 29, 2002, 6:42pm

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Well, sorry guys for a late update. :) I just received the last of the
Tribal Council votes this morning, right before the first day of school
here. Rather than leave early, I thought I'd write out this post and let my
white blood cells fight my senioritus. It doesn't seem to be working, but ah
well.

Okay, we're going to high tail this game, we're sorta running behind
schedule. By Labor Day folks, someone else WILL be voted off and a merge
will occur late at night. That's all the information I can give y'all, but
you are still three separate entities at this point. Sorry. :(

Now, let's go to Council and Reckoning. Eeni meeni mini mo...it's off to
Reckoning we go. Well, for a second time, we're going to examine our lovely
Nebewi tribe, still with all four members intact, sorta.

First question, how has the tribe individually performed this week?

Eric -

Lioness said: Eric helped to improve our campsite with our new objects.
Mod said: Is he still on the tribe?
Mongo said: my views on him have mellowed slightly from last week. You don't
need to avoid me, tribesmate - :)And I gotta vote for someone as the
weakest - don't take it personally.

Obviously, views on Eric is mixed. Is his mysterious way part of the
strategy or coincidence?

Mod-
Mongo said: Haven't seen too much of him, although someone followed up
behind and did some work on the challange. Might have been him
Eric said:Mod was sly as ever while I was away.
Lioness said Mod helped improve our campsite with our new objects.
Mod is keeping a good relationship with Lioness, but jeopordizing his
relationship with the other two.
Mongo-

Lioness said: Mongo helped to improve our camp with our new objects and
helped me build our SOS.
Eric said: Mongo.. I have no idea.
Mongo said: I don't know if he helped out with the challange...

Mongo's reviews are mixed.

Lioness-

Mod said: very well, shows effort
Mongo said: we worked together on the SOS - fine worker, good team spirit.
Eric said: Lioness was good I assume, I was gone.

Lioness seems to be the strongest member of this tribe.


How about their own position intribe?

Eric said: The bunnies is coming. No, don't say it, I already know.
Mongo said: We're working together pretty well, and holding up fine.
Lioness said: Not sure what my position is in the tribe right now. I try to
be present for challenges, but it's difficult when we receive last minute
notification and I'm physically still at work in real life, not able to get
home in time. I try to participate in the "game" challenges to the best of
my ability. I also consider myself a terrific cook and give great backrubs.
;-"D
Mod said: Personally. I think I am safe. I helped with the immunity
challange, which I still think was rigged


Who's the weakest member?

Mod said Eric. Lioness said Mod. Mongo said Eric. Eric said Mod. It's pretty
much a split. The AWTeeners are poorly performing.


What'd they think of the immunity challenge?

Mod said: I think we shouldve won, I mean come on Glowing coronas and bright
red objects with a HUGE sos signal would catch someones eye more then a
little sos signal
Lioness said: I think our tribe did the best we could despite the fact that
we couldn't use any plants or trees. If I could have foreseen the
expectations of this challenge, I would have chosen more posts or some
columns from the mega path when we won last week's reward challenge. Oh
well. ;-"D
Mongo said: We did well with what we had.
Eric said: I wasnt there, but if I was, I would have done excellent until
the bunnies showed up.


Wackos...Anywho, the merge is coming up, so let's see how our survivors have
planned up their sleeves.

Eric: Make sure the bunnies don't get me.
Lioness: Formulate a plan and drink more caffeine.
Mod: Same thing I am doing now...
Mongo: Get along well, form new alliances, get more creative - who knows?

These guys are flying by the seat of their coffee, it seems. :)


Here's a good question, once everyone is merged, who will our players place
their loyalties to? We like to call this Tribal Lines.

Mod and Eric are sticking to their surviving Robego members (so far, it's
Lioness, Builderz, BinaryBud, maki, and Gamecube). This means they places no
special loyalties to Lioness, she's still equal target.

Lioness is breaking out of both her tribes and is hoping to make new
alliances with other tribemates (JerMe, Ambient Spirit, Gandalf). How will
her tribemates feel about this, and is it a good move to move to the
minority? Will anyone join her?

Mongo, meanwhile, seems to want to leave his old Nebewi Alliance for his new
Nebewi tribe (Lioness, Mod, Eric). Is he safe with three ex-Robego? Will
they accept him, or will they part ways and go free-for-all?

And lastly, the dreaded unofficial vote. Let's see how the tribe voted.

Mongo voted for Eric.
Eric voted for Mod.
Mod voted for Mongo.
Lioness voted for all three, meaning she actually voted for herself for not
picking one. :/

And added to last week's tally, Mongo has 2 votes, Eric has 3 votes, Lioness
has 2, and Mod has 1.



And speaking of voting, let's head on over to Tribal Council, where our
Robego members are on hands and knees in fright. This council was actually
live, with maki and JerMe showing up, but they do not know the full results
until now. Let's get straight to the vote. Remember, the public also had a
vote in this. The person with the most public votes in the poll would have a
vote casted against him.

first vote...BinaryBud.



second vote...JerMe.





JerMe.




BinaryBud. That's two and two.





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The 6th person voted off NG Survivor 2...



JerMe. Please hand me your torch. *extinguishes flame* The tribe has spoken.
Please grace us with your Final Words on the game. You can talk about your
tribe, other tribes, the game, it doesn't matter. :)) Say whatever you want.

And there you have it. It's now down to 10 people. How will one more week
affect the tribes? Are there new lines? New alliances? Old problems? We'll
all have to see. Please come to this exciting week. :)


Reward Challenge: Reward challenges now are solely for bragging rights, as
it's almost useless to have more objects now. :) There's no more immunity
challenges that involve it. However, this week's last reward challenge has a
GREAT reward, or so I think. MUAHAHA. Here's a clue, survival. :)


Anyways, this week, the monkey's are at it again. And i don't mean the
survivors. Log onto http://www.orisinal.org/games/3monkeys.htm and try to
catch as many bananas and coconuts as possible with your monkeys. Email me a
screenshot of your highest score. :) In each tribe, i will only accept the
highest and lowest scorers. I will subtract the highest from the lowest, and
whichever tribe that has the least difference ABOVE 0 between their two
mates will win the Reward Challenge. Highest scorer in general will receive
a tee-shirt. This is a game of teamwork, and you might not know it, getting
a really high score will hurt you if your tribemates cannot equal your
score, or worse, not do the challenge. The scores must be submitted by
Saturday August 31st! :)) Also on August 31st at 3pm VRT (tenative) will be
an Immunity Challenge for all those who can make it. Tribal Council will be
on Sunday, and then on US Labor Day (Monday the 2nd), the merging ceremony
will take place. So it's a jam packed week, with little notice. So be
prepared! :)

And if you think this is easy for me, let me tell YOU! I just started my
last year of high school today, and am a total mess with work. lol. The
website will be updated by the weekend, hopefully.


--
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!"

Sep 1, 2002, 3:08pm

I just wanted to sincerely apologize to all of my tribemates. I have
been absent from the game for two weeks. However, I *do* have several
good reasons as to why I was not at the challenges. Read below, and have
a good laugh at my expense.

Last week I wasn't there because I was moving into a dorm (well, it is
really a townhouse) for college. The move was on August 25th (Sunday).
If memory serves, that was when Robego had to go to council because of
their first lost. Well, I thought everything would be fine and dandy
after moving in. Boy, was I ever wrong.

When I got there, nothing worked (literally). There was no dial-tone on
the phone, no cable connection, and the high-speed Internet connection
(RJ-45 jack in my room) provided by the college was dead. I didn't have
a cell phone with me, either. In essence, I had no contact with the
outside world until the next day, when the phone lines started to work.

Now I got a dial-tone, but whenever I tried to dial a number, the phone
made a weird beeping noise. After some fairly long trial and error, it
seems I had to dial an '8' prefix (usually it is a '9' prefix on most
phone systems) to reach an outside line. So I called someone to make
sure the phone was working (and it was) and hung up. Then I tried my
RJ-45 jack again. Nope, didn't work. Not even a light on my NIC card was
lit. I thought that was odd, because it worked fine at home just a day
or two before. So I swapped out cables, fiddled with the jack, and
rechecked my networking settings. Nope, still no Internet, no e-mail, no
AW.

Out of boredom, I turned on the TV to see if the cable had been
activated yet. What do I see? Three lousy channels that are all full of
static. I tried again later in the day and finally I got more than three
channels. But it wasn't much better. Most of the channels had a "double
image" to them or were blurry. Sign. Then I tried to use the only "ISP"
software I had installed on my computer at the time, AOL dial-up. Yes,
it is unbearable slow. I have DSL at home and the college was *supposed*
to provide high-speed access to my housing unit, but it still isn't
working. So I pick two local numbers and start dialing (with the dumb
prefix number). No dial-tone again.

I scratch my head, unplug the line from my comp's modem and plug it back
into the phone. Now I *do* hear a dial-tone. To make a long story short,
it seems, for some very odd reason, I could only call numbers that were
from one city. So I finally got AOL working, slow as ever, on dial-up
speeds. I checked my e-mail (had over 100 spam messages), tgrams in AW,
etc. If I even could attend any challenges, it would be far too slow to
even be a use to my tribe.

I was a bit irritated that my RJ-45 jack still did not work (since
everyone else's did in my housing unit) so I called the Computer Lab. No
help. Then I called the Housing Office. Their tech will call me back. So
I waited. Tech finally called back and said he had "more important"
things to work on and someone on the morning shift the next day will take up
my problem. Great.

So the next day, after my classes, I walk over to the Housing Office and
go find a tech. He is just sitting on this nice, soft chair eating ice
cream. I tell him my problem and he walks up to my room with me to see
if he can fix the problem (still holding and eating his ice cream). He
checks everything I already checked the day before, tried to jam the
RJ-45 cable into the wall (it was already in as far as it could go), and
gives up. I asked him if there was any other place I could call or what
to do about the situation. His reply: "I don't know." Wonderful! So
then, just as he was about to leave, he spots an icon on my Windows
desktop of a certain game (which I installed, but hadn't yet played). He
then goes on (for literally thirty minutes) giving me a speech about the
game; how he was a beta tester of it, how the company took a year to
patch this or that, how everyone hated him because he was so good,
explained these dumb tactics and tricks, and bragged about having such
high "level" points or something. Obviously, I was new to the campus and
didn't want to insult anyone, but come on...this guy just would not shut
the heck up. I was polite, but wished he would just leave. Finally, he
left. And me, with *still* no RJ-45 jack.

If that wasn't bad enough, it just got worse. On Wednesday, I was just
about ready to go to a class, when "it" happened. It seems that some
maintenance worker was using a blow torch somewhere in our unit a little
too close to a fire alarm sensor. So the fire alarm went off. My
roommates and I all went outside and were greeted by someone that told us
it was just a drill, there was no fire. Okay, so we all go back inside.
Suddenly, I hear water running (as if someone was taking a shower). I
glance at both bathrooms in the hallway, but the doors are open and no
one is in them. Then I look at this locked door at the end of the hall
(which is *directly* across from my room). It appears the water is
coming from behind that door. I look down, and I see that the carpet is
damp. Sh*t!

To make a long story short, half of my room, half of another person's
room in my unit, half of the hallway, and half of one of the bathroom's
there were flooded. I was the first one to find the leak. Luckily, I
moved anything with a plug (all electric devices) to higher ground (my
desk, chair, bed, and tables) before it could get wet. The last thing I
was thinking about was missing my next class. But, the others in my unit
had nothing better to do, and in their great wisdom, unanimously thought
we should all go to class. So off we went, leaving the damp floor the
way it was.

The leak was fixed twenty minutes after it started and wet vacs and
commercial dryers were brought in to help (that should give you an idea
just how bad the leak really was). Since I have certain allergies (I'll
spare you the details), I went through literally half a box of tissues
because of the incident. I called my parents and they came to pick me
up. We had a long talk, and decided (for various reasons) that on-campus
life at my particular college was not right for me. I tried it, and it
didn't work out. Besides, a good deal of people commute to the college
anyway, so I'm not missing much. And who knows what else might happen or
break if I do stay there. Yesterday, we finally moved the rest of my
items back home. We are now seeking a refund for the housing.

So there you have it. After moving *twice* in one week, I'm finally back
home with my trusty DSL connection (which, might I add, worked perfectly
when I plugged the CAT5 cable into my comp's NIC card). I couldn't have
made this up if I tried. I'll try my best to attend the next meetings
for NGS. I hope you all had a better week than me.

-Builderz

Sep 1, 2002, 3:25pm

Trust me, they didn't. MUAHAHA! Glad to have you back, great story. :)

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--
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!"

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Sep 1, 2002, 7:10pm

Wow builderz, I thought I was having a bad week, glad to hear that you had
worse, errrm I mean So sorry to hear that :P

-Mod
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Sep 1, 2002, 8:01pm

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-"D


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