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Temple of the Shrine of the Silver Monkey
6th Banishment Ceremony
Flaming Spyros
The Flaming Spyros marched into the central chamber, all of them still quite angry over the fiasco that had just transpired. HIR was standing there, with the Urn of Anguish in his hands. "Welcome back. It seems you guys got a bit comfortable with not coming here. But now you're back. And I fear you face a difficult decision."
"We shouldn't HAVE to make a difficult decision. We were cheated." Pika protested once again.
"Yes. But as I recall, your team has the Head Start. Why didn't you use it for this challenge? It's power would have given you the win." HIR retorted.
"I-I..." Pika stammered, a nervous sweatdrop appearing on his head, "I figured we had enough momentum, with the prank and everything, to steamroll the ECs."
"Ah, overconfidence." HIR stated with a wry grin. "The key to winning a game like this is to be extremely paranoid. Don't trust anyone... least of all your teammates."
"What do you mean?" Sparxis questioned.
"Well, for starters... you could barely come to a decision on who to vote off." HIR explained. "Two of you were so spineless, you voted for yourselves. And that... may have turned out to be a costly mistake." HIR snapped his fingers and CommanderGame's pedestal lit up. "Strangely enough, the only one not to get a vote tossed in his direction."
"Sweet." CommanderGame whistled.
"But... interestingly enough... he was the deciding vote." HIR continued, causing the smile to disappear from CommanderGame's face.
"Ah... heh... heh... you sure about that?" HIR nodded.
"Like I said, you really can't rely on anyone."
"Well, I figured that, with Pika's poor decision making, he would be gone... but he welcomed me to the team with open arms, I couldn't just vote him off." CommanderGame explained with a frown. HIR sighed and clapped his hands. Pika's pedestal lit up.
"That was not the case." HIR turned to face Sparxis, DummyZ, and HDAZ. "Two of you voted for yourselves instead of having the guts to banish a fellow teammate. One of you, whether bad luck or karma or who knows, cast a vote toward Pika, and nailed your coffin shut." The three of them looked at each other. HIR pressed a button on his wristwatch, and HDAZ shrieked as she was flung into the pit of mud. Pika bit his lower lip as HDAZ popped out, coughing and sputtering.
"B-But I was sitting out!" She sobbed.
"It was your negative attitude that did it for me." Pika explained. "Constantly demeaning yourself. That's no way for a winner to talk. Just didn't want you around."
"Interesting..." HIR muttered as HDAZ sloshed out of the pit, hiked up her mud-soaked pants, and plodded out of the temple. "The first part of the game can be difficult. You need to find the right balance between doing what's best for the team, and doing what's best for yourself." He explained. "HDAZ is a perfect example. Some of you found her performance... lacking. You chose to eliminate her to make the team stronger. But ask yourself this... would you rather face someone strong like Seiki in the final round, or someone you perceive as weak like HDAZ?" He asked, smiling inquisitively. "Just some food for thought. Have a good night." His smile turned pleasant as he dismissed them.
*~*~*~*~*
Competition Beach
"Who do you think they voted off?" Crystalhero wondered aloud as she kicked up some sand. "They had grown to become rather tight knit."
"Who would you have voted for?" BrutalBash asked.
"Probably HDAZ. She hasn't been that big a help. DummyZ and CommanderGame have each had a turn to shoulder the team's weight and Pika's done well coordinating them." Crystalhero elaborated.
"What about Sparxis?" BrutalBash added.
"I'd want him around for the merge. I think I could take him down pretty easy." She boasted.
"Top of the morning, players!" HIR greeted enthusiastically, catching them all by surprise. "I hope you're ready for another exciting installment of Know Your Users!"
"Oh man, don't tell me you've run out of ideas." Seiki and DragonCamo groaned simultaneously.
"On the contrary," HIR pleasantly responded, "I've taken an old idea, and spiced it up!" He turned to face the other side of the beach. "But first, why don't you welcome your friends on Team FS, now with 100% lest HDAZ."
"Told ya." Crystalhero boasted with a confident smirk. BrutalBash rolled his eyes.
"Welcome, to the final team competition!" HIR announced, drawing shocked silence from the players. "If you thought the stakes were high yesterday... boy you have no idea. Not only does the winner get a distinct 4-on-3 advantage going into the merge, the top performer on the winning team will earn... THE TIME TUNNELER!" HIR gestured to the left of him, where a light blue jackhammer with a clock on it rested. "So I don't think I need to tell you that this is pretty much a must-win."
"Uh... you kind of just did tell us." Sparxis noted.
"Whatever. Let's get started!" HIR responded, ignoring Sparxis.
HotDogAndZap has been banished!
Votals:
HotDogAndZap (2): King_Pika, CommanderGame
DummyZ (1): DummyZ
SPARXisAWESOME (1): SPARXisAWESOME
King_Pika (1): HotDogAndZap
Flaming Spyros:
King_Pika
SPARXisAWESOME
DummyZ
CommanderGame (joined Day 4)
Electrifying Cynders:
Seiki
DragonCamo
crystalhero37
BrutalBash101
RIP in peace:
prextail202 (Banished Night 1)
Hot Dog 542 (Mod-Banished, now DummyZ)
Vincentkoopa (Banished Night 2)
Eevee88 (Banished Night 3)
Skylanders fan (Banished Night 4)
Bravo101 (Pranked Night 5)
HotDogAndZap (Banished Night 6)
It is now Day 7!
Today's game mode is Know Your User, Round 2!
We're switching it up a bit for this second installment. Each team will pick 5 users that HAVE NOT PARTICIPATED IN THE GAME and are active users of the Stuff & Nonsense section. They will each send a fact about themselves to me via PM. It can be common knowledge, or extremely obscure. I'm sure you're aware of the strategy behind this. Your teams will have until
4:30 pm EDT tomorrow (about 18 hours) to find their 5 users to send their personal facts. If you fail to do this, I will fill the void with made-up facts about your own team and deduct 5 points from your team.
More instructions to come when we start tomorrow! ^.^b
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