Post by Sierra Reed on Oct 23, 2010 11:06:21 GMT -5
Episode #1 -
"It's Harder than I thought it would be"
Sierra
As we unloaded off the truck in the middle of Niue, I was completely excited to start my new adventure. I wanted to prove myself, and I was ready to do so. When they announced that we would have to compete to stay in the game, my heart sank. I've never been that great at challenges, and I really didn't want a challenge to decide my fate here.
"When deciding what challenge I would sign up for, I went back and forth between the story writing and the endurance challenge. I eliminated the puzzle-making one right away. I am absolutely awful at puzzles. Then I eliminated the flag-making challenge. I am somewhat good at editing photos and such, but I know there are a lot of people that play these things that are like amazing, and I thought that was too risky. Then I chose the endurance challenge because I figured I could keep an eye on other people's post counts and kind of post as much as I could with keeping track of the other players to make sure I wouldn't get last place.
After a little over 1,700 posts, I was exhausted. It was like 12:30 AM where I live, and I just wanted to go to bed. Praying that Jenn wouldn't get back on, I gave up and went to bed. I guess staying up late just isn't really my thing. When I woke up, there were four inactives on the other three challenges, so no one from the endurance challenge was eliminated. Yay! I would live to actually play the game.
I was split into my tribe, and I am on Tom's favorites with Corinne, Eliza, Jonathan, Peih-Gee, Shane, Stephen, and Yau-Man. I haven't gotten a good chance to talk with everyone yet, but i will work on that this afternoon.
The only real first impression I have is of Stephen. First of all, anyone who chooses to play as Stephen usually is like a strategic mastermind. You can tell a lot about a person by just seeing who they choose to play as. However, it could be different for this game since we couldn't just sign up as whoever we wanted and we had a list of people we could choose from. But still, the fact that he got over 2,000 posts and then posted in the challenge thread trying to be all noble, bragging about his post count, really rubbed me the wrong way. "2,001 posts later, I need to go because of ACTs." Okay, shut the fuck up. Like, seriously, I don't care that you have ACTs tomorrow. I don't need to hear about why you can't get over 2,001 posts when you got first place in the endurance challenge.
I can already tell Stephen will be a huge threat, and he is gonna be the type of guy that will try to get things done his way. I'm really not the type of person to be told what to do, so hopefully he proves my first impression wrong. He could definitely try to hide that he wants to be the leader. Then, it will be even harder to get rid of him. Especially at this stage of the game, I doubt I will be able to get rid of Stephen. He did extremely well in the first challenge, so he will probably be a challenge whore in the tribal challenges as well. That could totally help us, but I definitely don't want to be competing against him when the challenges turn individual.
I'm not sure what my strategy will be yet. I'm going to try my best to pull my weight in the challenges and make as many friends as possible. I obviously want into some sort of majority alliance, but I'm not sure if I want to create that alliance. The person who pulls out in front in a white horse gets shot at.
It's harder than I thought it would be. That first challenge was tough, and it actually did take willpower to keep going. The people here are definitely active, and they will be tough competitors. I will just have to try as hard as I can and go as far as I can go."
