Week II -- In Review
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Week II -- In Review
Ocean_Islands | Friday, October 20, 2000 - 10:24 pm  . . . . . Week II -- In Review . . . . . The Virtual House. The game continued with a flurry of excitement and activity when on Friday evening it was revealed that one of the players was actually not who they said they were. While interpretation of exactly what she was doing in the game was varied, the accepted understanding, by the end of the week, was that Talisker had been a 'mole'. The discussion board was agog. But they got over it. The overall surprise of the week was an outburst of creative writing, much of it excellent. Among the remarkable posts were missives from Xenia's padded cell and assorted scattered posts from Zebulon and Vykin. Writing highlight fluff piece: Challenge # 7 song lyrics. The week ended with the banishment of Xenia and Zebulon who returned to the site and their normal names of Wendy and Tukuul. However, their personalities remained open to question. Challenges. The Game hit a dry spot this week as regards challenges. Only three challenges took place this week. Challenge 5: A man buys a book that is boring but he's glad. Why? Group won and as a reward, they were given Challenge 6. Challenge 6: Choose who to enter the discussion site to look around for ten minutes. Roger got it and did it. Challenge 7: Write lyrics to the song "Stayin' Alive" about being in the Game. The group met the challenge very well with some excellent lyrics. The Red Room. Xenia has the highest number of Red Room visits, she liked to do a run down of her feelings on all game players. Vykin was a close second. HiMay did not enter the Red Room the entire week. Nominations. Nominations took place on Wednesday and were revealed to the players. As was to be expected, the players did not expand on their choices, since they knew their choices would be read by their fellow players. Nominated for banishment: Xenia, Luke, Zebulon, Roger. Banishments Talisker was banished on Monday in a belated vote carried over from Friday. Xenia and Zebulon were banished on Friday. Discussions: Official discussions marked themselves by a concerted lack of participation on the part of the BGs. Discussion 6: Domestic Abuse. Recommended (bear with it). Discussion 7: Banished players. Skip. Discussion 8: Fly on the wall. Skip. Unofficial Discussions (major ones only [>15] ): Two unofficial discussions demonstrated remarkable longevity: Homosexuality and The Improv. Homo was the unofficial discussion #2 was begun on October 7 and by October 20 had grown to over 100 postings. The Improv was unofficial #5, begun on October 9 and achieved over 65 postings by Friday 10/20. The Improv: Recommended. Five stars. See 'quote of the week' below. Spontaneous discussion #11: Death. By Luke. Do not read if you feel queasy. Spontaneous discussion #12: What is your favorite material possession? By Moon. Highlights: Talisker's $15,000 videotape collection and Moondance's collection of tiaras. Spontaneous discussion #13: What is your favorite website? By Vykin. Threatened to degenerate into a masturbatory exploration of game player adoration sites. Highlights: http://www.hampsterdance2.com/hampsterdance2.html Spontaneous discussion #14: Bankruptcy rates are surpassing 1929 levels. By Zebulon. Warnings on credit card debt and insurance scams. Spontaneous discussion #15: Zebulon's Limericks. By Vykin. A Jumble. Spontaneous discussion #16: If. by HiMay. What people would have wanted, "if". Recommended. Spontaneous discussion # 17: False accusations of abuse. By Zebulon. Zeb defends himself against Xenia's accusations. Xenia's final meltdown as she attacks everyone, denies being abusive herself, and everyone honestly tells her what they think. Recommended. Life Issues in the Virtual House. Struggles: Xenia's only response to the domestic abuse thread is that Zebulon is an abuser. The Game Players do not defend each other. Talisker attempted to make amends by being involved and relational, and pleaded to stay in the game. HiMay believes Xenia is "sweet". Xenia was not banished Monday and had to endure involvement in the game until Friday merely to avoid the fear of being considered a quitter. ArReal was having tech issues. HiMay was having family issues. Luke and Roger were having no issues. Revelations: Roger is a closet "Man from U.N.C.L.E." fanatic and wishes his parents had named him "Opus". Xenia is legally blind. HiMay10ns's real name is "Lucy Jean" and her cat is terminally ill from male breast cancer. ArReal's family was sexually, verbally and physically abusive. Both Vykin and HiMay smoke. Moondance wants to be on the cover of "Esquire" and open a rescue ranch for animals. Luke cannot stop his left big toe from twitching continuously, which wears his shoes out every three months. Vykin dreams of drowning Barney and bringing back the CabbagePatch kids. Host will not do "Game II". Roger drank a urine specimen. Vykin accepted a male rape fantasy. Actions: Talisker reappeared in the game after being raked up and down the coals by the players, before being banished on Monday. Xenia professed to wanting to rape Vykin with a strap-on dildo and bash his head in with a frying pan, and she wants to force Zeb to lick a dirty toilet bowl. Talisker was banished and rejoined the main page but refused to apologize or take responsibility and was going around saying, "I've seen this hatred before, you just have to wait it out." Later Xenia and Vykin attempted reconciliation, but they always seemed to teeter on the edge of a bash-fest. Suspicions: ArReal might be getting insider info from an unknown Game Spectator. Vykin might be another moderator. The name Talisker was taken over by someone else [compare Internet Camera post 11:02 a.m. 10/14 with same thread post 9:18 p.m. 10/14] demonstrating personality change. Luke is feeling amorous towards Roger. ArReal's tech issues might be fake to keep her from participating in the live chats. Here are the evaluations of the player's game from this week: ArReal: Shrinking personality and ballooning computer issues spell a troublesome week for last week's erstwhile "Star of the Real". HiMay: Fugitive appearances signal lack of confidence despite regularity of postings while home issues dominate. Luke: Creator of Death thread claims innocence while handling organ for audience. Moondance: Forward moving shimmergirl cut to the quick by Xenia ageism doubletake betrayal. Roger Ramjet: Jet runs out of gas as conventional wisdom pegs Roger a Cassandra double, confirmed by BGs in perplexing outside-contact BB parallel. Talisker: Tardy reappearance dooms furtive moderator/mole to promotion as honorable first banishee. Vykin: Shockjock wannabe stuns observers with cruel website based on real ugly strange people. Also a major hoot. Has corner on personal idiosyncracies market. Xenia: Live witch act wears ultra-sensitive thin as viewers tire of jawboning contradictions. Voters redrocket sassy chick out of padded cell onto hiney. Ouch! Zebulon: Would-be werewolf howls lyrics at Moondance, turns to human as Xenia accusations eclipse logic. The Game Periphery. Activity on the game periphery continued to center on website construction and banner posting; at times conversation drifted from the BGs to inspired topics such as strange happenings and bankruptcies, which mirror game player doings. Banners: The players were treated to 13 additional banners. Both Roger and Xenia were tied with three banner mentions apiece. No action was taken on banner polls. _________________________________ Blooper of the week: Luke: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 10:52 ... Well, he [a friend who just died] has suffered from diabetes..... I believe his leg was also amputated. . . . . [he declined precipitously and ] spent all yesterday at the hospital, and, together with some friends ... and other family members, they decided to remove him from life support. It took 20 minutes. .... It will be quite a Filipino funeral, which means that there will be services for the next nine days following the funeral at my friend's house. There are a lot of cultural traditions that we follow after the death of a loved one. HiMay10ns Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 10:53 Luke, you are a hoot! ____________________________________________ Quote of the week: Moondance (in chinese mode) "Virginity like bubble. One prick, all gone." Encore: "Foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ." ____________________________________________ Typo of the week: Roger Ramjet Friday, October 20, 2000 - 03:26 pm Hell with being Marketing Manager---I want to be Dave Thomas! Notice the old commercials said "owner of Wendy's" under his name--now it say "Founder of Wendy's". He sold the business--- ya think he made much? Whoa Doggy---He can afford one of his own bugers now!! ____________________________________________ Websites: Fansites continue to appear to the continued surprise of some game spectators. Apparently fansite builders hope that sites will keep their favorite player from getting banished. Some were amused by a Zebulon supportor (perhaps 'straggler' might be a better term) emploring fans for site assistance to save Zeb late Thursday, 24 hours before the banishment voting deadline. Hope springs eternal! FanMail: Moondance continues to lead in total fanmail. Live Feeds: Updated regularly. Discussion Board News: Dry spots appeared on the spectator/discussion side as the Game Players set posting records. The players now lead the spectators in posting by a lead of nearly 800 postings. The BGs are currently averaging over 500 messages each. Dry spots on the spectator/discussion side may be due to a slower challenge schedule. In addition, there were some challenges which were decidedly not challenging or engaging for the spectators. More bashers are appearing, and some troublesome harassers appeared during the live banishment show on Friday evening. See you next week! The continuing players: ArReal. Female. Shrinking violet issues. HiMay. Female. Contradictory. Luke: Male. gay. Level-headed. Moondance: Female. Californian angel. Roger Ramjet: Male. Always plays by the rules. Vykin: Male. By turns funny, cruel, intelligent. |
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, October 21, 2000 - 08:32 am  The above game player evaluations are tongue in cheek, so here's a more serious version: ArReal: Cautious player hints at game playing confusion. HiMay: Personal crises jeopardize player involvement. Luke: Attempts to cut through aloofness meets with some success. Moondance: Strategic mistress dances circles around reactionaries. Roger Ramjet: Borderline smarm threatens masculine image but may hide strategic genius. Talisker: A little too little, a little too late. Vykin: Idiosyncratic -- is he coming or going? Xenia: Play for ouster gets out of hand. This rough diamond's sparkling facets lack polish, degrade to violence. Zebulon: Rubberband boy can't resist Xenia's elastic snap and punishes the viewers by letting Xenia take him down with her. And here's the game player capsule commentaries: ArReal Female. HiMay10ns Female. Luke Male. Moondance Female. Roger Male. Vykin Male. Banishees: Mantastic: Talisker: Xenia: Zebulon:  |
Jenhavins | Sunday, October 22, 2000 - 04:09 am  Great Update Ocean. Thanks for all of your continuous hard work.  |
Adven39 | Sunday, October 22, 2000 - 06:41 am  Fantastic, Ocean. Your ability to slog through this stuff and pull it all together with humor, intelligence and accuracy amazes me. |
Elisa | Sunday, October 22, 2000 - 09:17 pm  There is no way I could follow this game without you. I'm sorry but if there is another game I don't think you should be allowed to play. I need you on the outside. |
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