01: Ex Cineribus Resurgam

[Dominic]

I shall rise from the ashes...


Well hello Good and Evil, it's been a while. Words cannot describe how excited I am to be in this game right now. Being with this series from Day One has added a huge sentimental value to this series for me, and I'm really hoping I don't disappoint. My main goal for this season is to correct the mistakes I made the last two times I've played. For those just entering the chronicles of this series, I played as Gregory in Season 1 and Dominic in Season 3. My collective placements are 7th and 6th. I feel like I played well both times, and I was definitely a very versatile player, delivering different personalities and strategies both times. My first post of this confessional will be a walk down memory lane, highlighting my Good and Evil experience to this point and walking through my strategies to search for areas of improvement. Let's begin, shall we?


Angel // 7th Place // Individual Immunity Wins: 2 // "Devious Powerhouse" // Edgic: MORN
Season One seems like so long ago, yet I can still remember every detail about it. My gameplay pretty much revolved around my physicality and relationships with John/Selena. I was so confident in the Angels sticking together that I pretty much alienated the demons and even angels that I didn't see fit to be in our finale alliance (Michael). I thought I was running the game and I got too cocky, always reveling in my competition wins. It was an ongoing battle with my own ego throughout the season, and I ended up being blindsided by Cassie/Michael after they flipped to the demons. I don't exactly blame them for flipping though. I was straight-up cruel to Michael all season long, teasing him and even calling him names. It was a mob-mentality against him and I'm not proud of myself for feeding into it. With Cassie, I just shrugged her off pretty much the entire game because I was confident that John could control her. It was a pretty sad moment for me and I should have done a lot better, but it was overall my own fault for not looking at the bigger picture. Looking back, Gregory was mean-spirited, awful, and arrogant. All I worried about was winning competitions and being a powerhouse all the way to the finale, but that's not how you win games. From that season, I learned that there's more to gameplay than winning competitions and being an asshole. It made me see the value in social gameplay and showed me just how weak I was with little to no connections in the game. A correction I implemented when I played again in Season 3.


Ellis // 6th Place // Individual Immunity Wins: 0 // "Snarky Loyalist" // Edgic: OTTCPN
Season Three was definitely a better game for me in my eyes. Strategically and socially, I feel like a played a very sound game.My main goal was to stray away from being a powerhouse in competitions and try out being a likable socialite, a role I've never played before. I found an amazing ally in Ellen and my pre-merge tribe was wonderful. Drawing from my mistakes the first time I played, I took the time to actually get to know the people I was playing with, and to my surprise, I actually adored them. It was this friendship that blossomed into the alliance known as The Ellis Six. I honestly loved these people and they made the game so much more enjoyable. The teamwork was amazing and we won challenge, threw challenges, blindsided people, and fought our way to the end together. The only goal I had all season was to get Ben-Carly-Colleen-Dominic-Ellen-Ryan to the final 6 and due to everyone's trust and dedication, we achieved that. Unfortunately, there's a flip side to every coin. I put so much trust in the group of people that I was working with that I stopped looking out for myself... After an entire game of putting 100% of my faith into her, I ended up being blindsided by Ellen, who was just out for blood to win the game. This hurt so much. We talked every single day about every little detail surrounding the game. I even gave her an idol, for God's sake. I'm still not sure what lead her to turn on me, but regardless it happened and I still haven't fully bounced back from that. It definitely hurt more than the first season because I actually did invest some personal feelings into my game. From season three I learned that while social connections are important and friendships can be made through ORGs, we are all still playing a game. I got too soft and let my guard down. I swear that won't be happening again.

The irony of my story arc is not lost on me.

This time around, I plan to be well-rounded and aware of my surroundings. I plan on implementing everything I've learned from this season to ascend to the top of this game. I hope to bring together the lessons I've learned from Gregory and Dominic to create an unstoppable hybrid of perfection. I'm aware that this game is going to be a huge uphill battle for me based on my reputation, but I'm definitely up for the challenge and excited to see where this game takes me. Get ready, because this is going to be one hell of a trip.

[Dominic]

they call us Proelia...

So there it is, I am officially a member of the Proelia tribe. Sounds like a medication for schizophrenics honestly, and also apparently means "battle." Both are very fitting for the dynamics of this tribe. I'm definitely excited to get this game started, but I am currently baffled as to why this group of people is even a thing. We are honestly probably going to be an over-the-top mess that are only good at challenges. Also, the fact that I have history will almost all of them (good and bad) will probably spell doom for me. Absolutely no idea about the direction my game will go based on this so I might as well start with my much-anticipated tribal assessment. Hopefully by the end of this, I'll catch something and start to figure out the direction I want to take myself.


ANNIE // Season 2 - Winner // "A Double-Edged Sword"
My current Final 2 deal. Or at least that's what I'm going with right now. The winner of Season 2 and she definitely seems to be overplaying to try and secure a high placement in this game as to not embarrass herself. I love Annie as a person, but I've heard from like four people already that she wants to be final 2 with them, so how can I even trust her fully in this game? Regardless, I'll be loyal to her for now because she definitely seems really secure in the game. My history with Annie is pretty complicated. I managed to beat her in a season of Survivor States, and she's kind of been bitter about it ever since. She claims that she is the rightful winner and the host messed up and blah blah blah. Constant drama over a completely irrelevant series, to be honest. Regardless, she was bitter enough about it blindside me at final 9 in another game after she found out who I was, so I definitely think the grudge is still there. I'm actually hopeful that we can see past our differences and work together in this game though, because absolutely no one would see it coming. Plus, Annie is a socialite and getting loads of information from all corners of the game would prove to be extremely useful for me. As far as the series goes, she was kinda notorious for making many alliances and pretty much sailing to the end behind larger targets. This time however, she's seen as a winner so there's really nowhere to hide. Hopefully that does her in without me having to turn on her and such. My trust for Annie is secure for now, but I'll definitely have to keep my eye on her.


BEN // Season 3 - 5th Place // Season 5 - 6th Place // "The Lovable Sociopath"
Ben, honestly my best social connection as of this moment because we're great friends, although we're currently kind of feuding in another game. Our friendship currently exist and we generally work well together in games. We were close in Surviving Big Brother 11 and GvsE3, and we're currently in the Final 4 of Survivor Cinema and Final 12 of Big Brother Starz 9: All Starz together. I'm definitely worried about all of the inter-lapping games, but hopefully that will only strengthen our bond.The thing about Ben is that everybody loves him and he's such a force any game he plays. He's the kind of guy that can be the biggest threat in the game, yet no one will vote him out because they don't wanna have to be the one to make a move against him. Our relationship in Season 3 was favorable, but we both had priority with our allies. He had Colleen, I had Ellen. We both ended up being burned by Ellen though, so hopefully we can use that as a bro-bonding moment. He is definitely loyal to whoever he's working with so I definitely plan on starting something with him early. As far as trusting him long-term goes though, I don't really know. We'll just have to see where his loyalties will lie this time around. We kind of saw a darker side of Ben (lol cause he's black) in Season 5. It was a total flip from the sweetheart we saw in Season 3. Which Ben will he be this time? Only time will tell.


GLORIA // Season 4 - 9th Place // Season 5 - 8th Place // "Opportunist with a Side of Cray-Cray"
Oh Glory-hole aka BFFLZ. I absolutely adore her in all aspects of life and we actually have a pretty stable friendship going on right now. Unfortunately, I also just evicted her from Big Brother Starz: All Starz a week or two ago so I'm not exactly sure if she's going to be out for vengeance. On her way out, she pretty much threw our alliance under the bus, so hopefully that makes us even. She's doing a great job of making me feel like nothing is wrong though, so I guess I'm just going to have to trust that she's being sincere with me. Honestly, she's probably the person I'm going to be the most loyal to in the game. We both believe it would be insane to go against each other, since we're kinda part of a group that could potential connect later in the game (for the sake of being mysterious, I won't say who the other players we're close with are yet). I feel like we're both kind of the same when it comes to being portrayed in a negative light, and we could honestly work well together. The problem with us is that we're both a little bit crazy and definitely emotional so we'll need to keep each other in check. The big thing I need to watch out for is what I observed that season... she's an opportunist and very leaky with information. She's very trusting of people and isn't afraid to divulge loads of info, expose people, and flip to whatever side she thinks will work better for her. I guess I'll just have to do my best to always keep her thinking that the grass is greener on my side.


MARK // Season 5 - 2nd Place // "The Father Figure"
I have yet to speak with Mark, but he seems like a nice guy from what I've seen. It was definitely enjoyable watching him dominate last season strategically, but playing with him is definitely going to be dangerous. He's very cool and calculated and he's always thinking. My goal with him is to just try to step into the same kind of working relationship he had with Thiago last season. He seems to be a great team player and someone that I could see myself working with for the long haul. Because I have yet to speak with him, I'm not going to rely on this and it's really just pure speculation on my part. Maybe we'll talk and I'll absolutely loathe him. Incompatibility is a common trend that I find myself having with some people that play ORGs. The only thing I know about him is that he's pretty close with Chase, which so am I. So hopefully I can try to get Chase to put in a good word for me and we can get this alliance going! Love me, plz.


MICHAEL // Season 1 - 6th Place // "The Example of Obvious Lack-of-All-Star Casting Options"
Ugh Michael. I still have such a sour taste in my mouth from Season 1 revolving around this guy. I'm not saying I hate him, but our personalities are so incompatible that it's almost disgusting. We can just never get along. For those who don't know, this guy is the reason I got blindsided in Season 1. John, Selena, and I pretty much tormented him the entire game, and it was our goal to get him out before merge. Unfortunately, I messed up on an endurance competition, resulting in him winning immunity and having the opportunity to flip the vote on me when merge finally came. Such a sly individual and I'll never be able to trust him in this game. We have a fake little working relationship going on right now (well...fake on my part at least) and we're apparently going to try and create a secret alliance? Please... if he's buying this shit I'm throwing that I would EVER work with him, then he's absolutely delusional. Sorry, my OTT is starting to show. My goal with Michael is to evict him first so he can't flip on me. He's already being shady and telling everyone he's searching for the idol, so I'm not about to let him find it. Game on.


WENDY // Season 2 - 5th Place // "Who?"
I have few words to say about Wendy because I don't really know her that well. She's not really online that much, and when she is she's horridly boring to chat with. She tries to be such a smooth operator, but it comes across as fake and awkward. I would try to talk about her performance in Season 2, but all she really did was be weird and annoying? I haven't really heard one good thing about her and she's definite first boot material if I have anything to do with it.



So that's my tribe for you. I obviously still have a lot of work to do and some people to get to know, but right now it's looking like I'll be working with Annie, Ben, and Gloria. I would hope for a strong foursome with us, but unfortunately I don't think Annie and Gloria care for each other. We'll just have to see. Also, I hope to catch Mark online after Father's Day and try to start a little bromance alliance because I'm honestly extremely interested in working with him. Michael and Wendy are looking to be the expendable boots in my opinion, but things may change. I just need to make sure I'm not the first boot of this game because that would be horrendous.

[Starr]

Hi there. <33 Excited to read all your stuffs.

ILY and GL!

[Dominic]

Today was honestly wonderful. So much conversation and so much substance already and it's only the first day! Of course there's already a bit of drama as well, but that's to be expected in an All Star game, right? So much too say, so little energy left in me. Ugh here we go:

So the challenge tonight went extremely well! We may be a bunch of unstable crazy people, but at least we're super competent in the challenges. We completely owned and I'm very proud at hour amazingly we all worked together. I think our best move in this challenge today was not letting Michael touch anything, just saying. Oh, that was actually the wonderful part. The fact that we managed to demolish both of the other tribes with only three people playing. It was Gloria, Annie, and myself absolutely rocking it. It was actually a wonderful Skype call until Michael showed up. He honestly tried to help, but no...just no. Some people just aren't made to help out... he's one of them.

Speaking of Michael, he's quite the little snake this time around. I guess he's trying to ~play the game~ and try to make a name for him self, but the way he's approaching it is so lolzy. During the Skype call after we won immunity, Annie decided to ask "so who do you guys want to see voted off Eduro?" just to see if anyone took the bait... To our absolute amazement and shock, Michael and Wendy just starting going this massive rant about who they like/don't like and start talking about all their connections in the game... like wut? He throws out there that he has no connections with Knox/Perry and that he wants Emily to hardcore stay in the game. He also messaged me personally about how happy we was that Thiago was safe this round? Not trying to be offensive, but this is absolutely horrible gameplay and this is why we don't let Michael touch anything.

So glad we're safe this week, but even if we weren't, I don't see myself going anywhere. Some information has surfaced tonight about Annie/Michael/Wendy working together in cross-tribal alliances with people like Emily, Cassie, Thiago, etc. This is kinda annoying to me cause Annie has been talking me up for months about working together in this game. Of course, I've also been told he's tried to make other alliances with Ellen and Luca as well. Figures he's trying to overplay and not embarrass himself. Being a snake and having your hand in everyone's cookie jar isn't necessarily a bad thing, but when you're horrible at it and get caught, then all this treachery is going to get you is a one-way ticket out of this game. To overcome this, currently exploring the possibility of a Ben/Dominic/Gloria/Mark majority on this tribe. I personally think that would be an amazing mix of people that could go very far in this game.

Next mission: idol hunting. Gotta make sure Michael doesn't get it. Unfortunately, that means I'll have to try super hard to get it because Michael has a lot of free time on his hands and is always looking for it. This should really be a piece of cake though. Michael has a lot of bark, but not a lot of bite to back it up with. Two can play this shady game and I really don't think he knows who he's dealing with.

But for now I'll just pretend to take the bullshit they're throwing my direction. Putting my my Fake-shirt and smiling my way through pre-jury stage.

[Faith]

Who was Gloria in All Starz?

[Dominic]

Jun 17, 2013 2:58:41 GMT -5 Faith said:

Who was Gloria in All Starz?

Hope Dworaczyk. She got 17th Place.

[tina]

ctrl + f "tina"
no results
(mad)

[yvette]

ok ok everyone give up their Starz aliases lol I was Brant last time around

[Silvia]

hi! good luck yo

[Faith]

I was Jessica Serfaty hahaha. Huge Hope fan but I guess not really anymore.

[yarik]

Team Dominic, all the way. You got this!

[annie]

Regardless, she was bitter enough about it blindside me at final 9 in another game after she found out who I was, so I definitely think the grudge is still there.

I knew who you were since round 1. I didn't blindside you because of who you were. I blindsided you because you were a threat. It had been in my plans all along. Jesus fucking Christ how many times do I have to tell you this.



Also, I never asked Ellen for a final 2. Seriously? Why would I. No.
And I never talked to Luca about working together this game because I figured 1) it was a given and 2) we wouldn't be anywhere near each other's plans anyway.