Survivor: Immunity Challenge 4 Clues

[USC MissingLink]

wildamerica
poland
buddy
bloodymary
ripcord
pothead
caveman
taxfree
highspeed
pasture

[NonEcdicus]

ATCQ Clues:

warpspeed
mir
sunset
entrance
needle

Uber Clues:

hoolahoop
security
felony
robinhood
telephone
pleather
pimple
paperjam
driver
electron


ZeHo Clues:

piracy
layout
tower
zippo
crucify
monkey
falling
riptide
watermelon
lazy

[NonEcdicus]

1. pimplebloodymary:

"Classic WaiWai:More moms going down, to ensure grades go up!"

2. driverripcord:

"Chilling Mistake: Plaque for King Celebration Honors Assassin"

3. pasturesecurity:

"Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of"

4. highspeedcrucify:

"Harry Potter released unprotected"

5. taxfreetelephone:

"File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty"

6. cavemanpiracy:

"Astronomers hail planetary discovery"

7. electronlayout:

"Groom Killed By Stripper's Boobs"

8. lazyhoolahoop:

"Self Circumcision Made Easy"

9. watermelonfelony:

"Lawyer: Pranksters will likely not see jail, record"

10. riptidebuddy:

"Rancho Bernardo High official suspended over underwear inspection"

11. potheadwarpspeed:

"Nice Headline"

12. pleathermir:

"Couple Fights to Name Baby What They Want"

13. sunsetzippo:

"Young, male, wired, music rippers: A digitized demographic that’s turning the music industry on its head"

14. entrancewildamerica:

"Accountants Pack Times Square for Fiscal New Year"

15. needletower:

"Blast Mapper: Map a Blast"

[Kurtis Blow]

taxfreetelephone
cavemanpiracy
electronlayout

[Kurtis Blow]

watermelonfelony
riptidebuddy

[NonEcdicus]

Here's a possible list of words to offer atcq, the first four are ours, the last six are zeho. That should be OK if we move before ZeHo does so that they don't know the difference. The thing is that all ten match up with ninja or uber words, so ATCQ won't make any matches with any of them:

bloodymary
taxfree
pasture
ripcord
crucify
piracy
riptide
layout
lazy
watermelon


Zack is gonna try to contact Sam (and Sam tells Zack he'd be up for a trade later). I could try Liz also. At this point, indirectly, ZeHo, Uber, and Ninja for sure all three have all of each others' words.

[NonEcdicus]

Done some sharing . . . so they could catch on. We're pretty much stuck at this point. Everyone's gonna end up with everything. Unless anyone has some good ideas.

[Kurtis Blow]

well, we could see if we could make a deal with uber and zeho to get all 3 of us immunity.

[exploder101]

Hey all:

John Rhabe e-mailed me to backchannel him. Since we don't normally chat I am guessing it is to trade info. So when he gets a hold of me I'll let you all know. I am not sure what to do at this point so I will need your input.

Later~CBJ

[Kurtis Blow]

me and brian have been throwing around a plan to try and see what we can do about ATCQ, but it involves some research. We want to see if we can give them words that we know will not match with their words, but to do that, we need to know what words they already have. So, i'm gonna try to work my connection in ZeHo, and i'll IM Brian when he becomes available to see what info we can garner from Uber.

So, hold tight, if you can. My AIM, if you need it, is KurtisBlow21.

[NonEcdicus]

Chatted with Sam a bit around 2AM (uggh!) gave him some words from us and uber, though it was silly because he was trying to give me both zeho and uber words as if they were atcq words in exchange. When I called him on it I got atcq words out of him. So, we got three more until he was getting sleepy because he has summer school in the morning. He says he'll give us more tomorrow. But at least we know that they have at least some words from both other tribes, so the goal may as well be for us to get as many from everyone as possible. Sounds like this game is gonna be just dumb. I've not looked for possible combinations for the latest three atcq words above yet. So, let me know if anyone comes up with anything and I'll add the article titles to our list. And, if anyone wants to contact Sam, go for it. Unless KB or I update differently according to his message above, which we might. (By the way, there is still a possibility that all three tribes are ahead of Uber, which I've explained I think to just Zack so far, but we'll see)

-Brian

[Kurtis Blow]

pleathermir
sunsetzippo
entrancewildamerica

[NonEcdicus]

Cori, have you had any further contact with John Hrabe?

Rumor is that Gavin from ZeHo has exchanged five ZeHo words (the top five on our list) for five ATCQ words (the four on our list plus one that starts with an "n". Also, Gavin tells his ZeHo buddies that ATCQ has agreed that only those magic five words are tradeable with other tribes. If true, then at this point that would mean that ZeHo is in the lead, or that ZeHo and and ATCQ are tied in the lead. I'm gonna hook up with Sam again in a little while and try to at least get that fifth word from him which will get us even with ZeHo at 15 combinations. Sam said last night that he would give me more today. And, maybe we can get more from him beyond that without giving up too much. I don't believe that Uber has any ATCQ words at all. Also, apparently, Sam is the only ATCQ'er "authorized" to trade beyond the magic five words. (Must be their recognition of his solid ninja training :) ). And, Justin repeatedly refuses to deal with Amy or Dan or me or Zack, repeating the line that "Sam is the one authorized to do trading."

-Brian

[exploder101]

Brian:

So if I tell John that we have some words that we held back from the other tribes, and told him that we know what the 5 are that they are distributing....I could try and strike a bargain with him to get some of the remaining words that they are trying to guard...whew...did that make sense?

Lemme know what you want me to do....also, this is what John wrote me...I think you will find it interesting.

"Cori, i am supposed to warn you about brian shipley. they say he is evil and you should not trust him. they say vote against him. anyway, just NB survivor crap.
John"

:rollin: he he...is he telling me the truth? and I'd like to know who "they" are.

CBJ

[NonEcdicus]

Cori,

That's rad! Sure, I'm evil, I guess. And, I guess "they," whoever "they" are are trying to tell all of the ninjas that individually for whatever it's worth. They seem so bitter about messing up the last challenge, which they pretty much threw instead of trying to win after we messed with them early on. Oh well. If we were really so evil, we probably could have won last time.

On dealing with John . . . My hunch is that you won't get anywhere, but it may be worth a try. He will know from Sam that we the other tribes have our words. Sam has promised to trade their's for ours plus what we have from the other tribes with us tomorrow (Thursday) night. We'll see if it works out. Probably anything you can do to just be friendly and convince them that we are trustworthy (that we won't give away their words to the other two tribes) would be good. Zack is doing the same with Sam.

-Brian

[exploder101]

Cool~ I'll tell him that we haven't given their words away, nor do we plan on it. <img src=http://www-scf.usc.edu/~link/netbenefits/emoticons/angel.gif ALT=":angel"> I'll tell him that us LBC folks have to stick together, see what he says to that.

CBJ

[DreinCali]

Thanks you guys for doing such a good job! I have small amounts of free time but I guess I just wasn't that interested by this challenge...sorry...

And Cori, Brian is not particularly evil, just hardworking. He's good to have on your team :)

Andrea

[NonEcdicus]

Sam did eventually show up. Again, (like three explicit times last night) he promised to do an exchange tonight. Then delayed. Then renigged by condescendingly saying "goodnight." Of course within moments, Amy was reporting that Sam had started chatting her up (although between us and her, she's at least as fed up with how he is treating her as I am with how over-the-top he is most of the time with me). Oh well, we've had a few pleasant interractions, but whatever. My guess is that Dan has the words (but not the rest of zeho yet) and that either uber or we will get them tomorrow. But, just a hunch. And, I think that Zack working Sam will be key. But, who knows?

-Brian

[NonEcdicus]

So, Sam IM'd me at about 3:30 to do some more taunting. He offered us the 20 links (not the words mind you, so we'd have no guarantee that they were even the correct headlines), in exchange for the words he needs and for a personal promise that I would convince everyone else to vote off Andrea. Hmmm. So, I called him an "asshole." :) Sorry (though he seemed more proud than offended). And, it's not like he was gonna do it anyway. Later as soon as we'd shifted into chatting about more interesting things like music and real life, he quickly diverted back into game mode ranting about how evil ninjas are for voting him off and how he needs to pay us back. Then he metioned that he was plotting to use pictures he'd found of me on the web, and then asked me how old I am. So I accused him of trying to pick up on me. That shut him up pretty quickly. :) He signed off saying he was late for something and would be back later. I still have a hunch that there is a chance he could give Zack or me the words at the very last minute tonight. So, if anyone is around and on AIM, we should probably be ready to search for the combinations just in case. Kurtis, do you have a list of the words that are left for making possible combo's just in case?

-Brian

[Kurtis Blow]

yup, got them right here. words that still need buddies:

robinhood
paperjam
falling
monkey
poland