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Post by Head Righter on Mar 11, 2024 19:03:29 GMT 10
You are a Tier 1 Predator at the very top of the Food Chain, and can Attack other Animals to eat them - in fact, you must Attack successfully at least once in every Round. Your home Habitat is the Open Ocean. You cannot go to the Island Sands, but you can visit all the other Habitats. However, you must not spend consecutive Rounds outside your home Habitat. Your victory condition is: survive through all four Rounds, without dying. You will starve to death if you go a single Round without eating another Animal. To get started: 1. Read through the instructions in the Acting Workshops thread about Food Chain. 2. Read the Episode 6 Format thread in the Play of the Week board. 3. DO NOT PM ANYBODY until you have read and understood the rules in the Miniature Parchments thread under Casting Notices. 4. Post the first version of your Habitat selection ASAP in your Decisions thread. 5. Spend the next 12 hours familiarising yourself with the format, and the game. 6. At some point during this Planning Phase, we'll come back here and post the result of your Peek. If there's anything about your Animal role that you do not understand, ask us here and we'll do our best to clarify it  |
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 11, 2024 19:29:39 GMT 10
oh dear. does the orca ever win lmao?
I've not seen the Lion (orca) win ever.
My habitats will be delayed, I'm still working.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 0:52:59 GMT 10
I have a question, Head RighterActually 2. Say I'm in a room with another predator and the puffer fish. The other predator attacks the puffer fish and dies. Do I die too, because there's nobody left to kill? Or can I eat the dead predator lol Same situation, but a benign animal. Say the other predator attacks it first, and there's nothing left for me to kill. Oh wait, in that scenario I'd just eat the other predator nvm. |
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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 1:04:36 GMT 10
You cannot kill and eat an Animal that has already been killed and eaten, or poisoned. And from the tone of the questions I suspect you already knew that  |
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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 2:57:44 GMT 10
I am stunned to see you alive, frankly, after the neglect that Cornley Crew has been putting you through  up to and including those cruel Safety Chains! But the Blue Planet is here now to take over, so please lay back, relax, and then vent for us...  My first question is: How the #$@! are you finding this whole 'ORG' experience so far? Because we've seen the Production Logs, and we have concerns. But also great amusement. So how are you feeling about all of it so far? The BBC would like us to find out. For my next question: What was your role in those Safety Chains last Episode? Talk us through the decisions you needed to make. How did you decide to whom you would pass Safety? Did you expect to receive it from anyone in particular? For my third question: Were there any other decisions or passes which stood out to you as interesting or surprising? What else might you have learned from the process? And why you think Camille, Margaret and Skye were the victims left vulnerable at the end? And now, my last question: What is your strategy for the Food Chain game? How do you reckon your chances of meeting your win condition? Who are you hoping does not meet their win condition, and is left vulnerable at the end of the Episode? Finally, in return for (but in advance of) sharing your deepest secrets, I can at last confirm that your Peeking has shown that: |
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 3:13:53 GMT 10
Oh I hope he really is the puffer fish and not the octopus. If so, what a score!
One of my 2 biggest threats identified. The other is obviously starvation. But puffer fish is the obvious animal to hide as, if you're able to cloak yourself. Still, I'll avoid eating him!
Also, having a ball. How you doing? I will probably talk a bit more this round. I also may have lied when I said I wasn't familiar with this game.
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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 3:15:45 GMT 10
"I've not seen the Lion (orca) win ever." kind of gave that away  |
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 9:46:16 GMT 10
Shawcroft sliding into my MPs and we're in the same habitat. Damn fool.
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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 10:33:08 GMT 10
I believe it was sent just before the Round began, so alas I shall not have the chance to call justice down upon Justice. This time...
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 12:14:38 GMT 10
Doom Operator Sex Designer Composter Flaw Runner Special Defects Head RighterI'm afraid the delay in confirming Mrs Wimblegate's death could cause my demise. She immediately sent out a bunch of MPs telling people I was the ORCA. now I'm forced to go to the ocean and everyone will be hiding from me. I hope I don't have to kill suchet to survive. I know he has to go to the ocean as well.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 14:15:19 GMT 10
I firmly believed once people were attacked they shouldn't be able to send missives until it was confirmed if success or failure - to prevent exactly this situation.
Just wait until the BBC hear that Attenborough is just as incompetent.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 15:43:56 GMT 10
My best chance now is to get Margaret to let me eat here. Or some idiot stumbles into the ocean without paying attention. If I can eat in round two though, the Sea horse will have to return to the ocean in round 3, and then I can just eat the crocodile (Sucker fish) in round 4. I just need one mealllll
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 15:47:23 GMT 10
and now I realise suchet's habitat is not the ocean, so can't even eat him btw. I realised as soon as I said that. Annoying my patron fish doesn't have the same habitat as me smh smh.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 17:29:24 GMT 10
I seem to be only eating predators lmao.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 18:28:04 GMT 10
As long as Suchet doesn't kill the Sea Horse or the sucker fish I may actually be able to score a win here. I believe they are Richard and Croc.
God bless Isobel for being on an island alone and not being in the loop. Poor love walked right into that.
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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 18:31:44 GMT 10
Doom Operator Sex Designer Composter Flaw Runner Special Defects Head RighterI'm afraid the delay in confirming Mrs Wimblegate's death could cause my demise. She immediately sent out a bunch of MPs telling people I was the ORCA. now I'm forced to go to the ocean and everyone will be hiding from me. I hope I don't have to kill suchet to survive. I know he has to go to the ocean as well. Sorry for the delay in dealing with this, had to look through everything properly and consider the timeline. I know you got the raw end of things, but for better or for worse Wimblegate did not break any rules. This is something we couldn't avoid in running Food Chain even slightly non-live, as if there was a rule against sending MPs while waiting for Crew to confirm attacks as successful, then everyone would be abusing that to attack one another constantly and block communications. I can't tell you specifics of what she did or did not send in MPs, but it all happened within about half an hour of your attack, which is well within the reasonable response time window for volunteer Crew members to be checking in - which we established as around 90 minutes in our pre-game discussions - so this could have happened at a number of points yesterday while I was still awake and actively trying to be here far more often than that, but still AFK occasionally or busy posting things elsewhere. If it's any consolation, I imagine there will be still be ramifications for everyone involved when it comes to the social/strategic Game beyond Food Chain, which is an element that made it so iconic on the Genius but is generally missing from most one-off attempts to play Food Chain. And now we all get to explore that aspect a bit more |
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 18:43:02 GMT 10
It worked out okay, poor Isobel. I did intentally attack her when there was ahost on the lurker bar, but it must have been a ghost left behind after logging out. Proboards really lingers like that.
I very much want me to have voting power and NOT Mrs Wimblegate! I don't necessarily want to kill her, I just really don't trust her not to kill me. It's been hard getting proper bonds with my swap-fuck tribe, bacuse there's been very little PM strategy through this phase.
But damn, love playing this game and how different it has been. the opportunity to play food chain is chef's kiss.
I went to a friend's 30th a couple of weeks back, and we played squid game lmao. I even got to carve a honey comb biscuit. #nerdgoals. I did make it to final four but was happy to die, because what would I do with $100 Bubble Tea gift card??
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 19:06:40 GMT 10
Of course if Trumpeter, Rigg, Richard and Joe all come to the ocean together, I'm slightly fucked. I'm hoping Joe won't do that, but he does need to go to the ocean at least once.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 19:27:57 GMT 10
I wish i knew where everyone was right now, so I'd know if I can find an easy target.
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Post by Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge on Mar 12, 2024 20:55:54 GMT 10
I wish I was in the action and able to read the vibe myself. I know all Prey are going to the ocean... presumably meaning nobody else will. Suchet ate croc, meaning I have no meal for round 4, so I'm dead anyway.
Sahwcroft and Plate will probably stay together in Kelp forever. Doesn't help me when I need a feed in the ocean, and I can't rely on another mad fool going there.
If I go to Coral, I either eat Margaret, since suchet can afford to not eat for a round, or starve, and pray to God Sucjet makes it. I don't see myself eating in round four now croc is gone, so I'm abit fucked. Now to stack the voters to my favour I guess?
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