Savage's... Savagely Savage Savageness ;D

[Andrew Savage]

Well hi you three. Congrats on the making it of the end of the game. ;D
I feel a bit late to the party, but have some questions.

1) Give a small biography about yourself, we're all humans outside of the box, so I'd like to get to know you guys a little bit.

2) Describe your experience with Survivor or ORGs in general, this could possibly roll into the above request, but it's something specific that I'd like to hear about. I'm a games enthusiast, so hearing about what drew different people into such a unique community as this will ALWAYS interest me.

3) Please pick a major arcana which you believe represents yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arcana
For extra credit you may also pick some for your opponents and the members of the jury, but I won't judge you if you don't do that.

To be clear, my vote is not swayed in any direction right now. I will not be reading the other questions or answers that you've been given. I will be voting on the basis of these three questions alone.

Once more, congrats on making it to the end of a game as intense as this one. ;D

[no]

but I won't judge you if you don't do that.

You might want to clarify this. Either you mean you won't judge them (make fun of them or hold ill regards to them if they don't), or you won't judge them meaning their question will be void. =P

[Sydney Wheeler]

Well hi you three. Congrats on the making it of the end of the game. ;D
I feel a bit late to the party, but have some questions.

1) Give a small biography about yourself, we're all humans outside of the box, so I'd like to get to know you guys a little bit.

Thanks Andrew!

Normally I wouldn't answer this if my alias was still in effect, but I feel it's out in the open anyways. I'm from Jersey and I'm 21 years old. I have a knack for drawing and am a Marvel Comics junkie. I'm currently still in college and I'm majoring in Art. My favorite shows are Survivor ( ), Big Brother, Buffy, Angel, and Lost. Oh and you can't pull me away from a Roseanne marathon. I also hate talking about myself.

2) Describe your experience with Survivor or ORGs in general, this could possibly roll into the above request, but it's something specific that I'd like to hear about. I'm a games enthusiast, so hearing about what drew different people into such a unique community as this will ALWAYS interest me.

I found Online Reality Games by reading Jokers Updates during season 9 of Big Brother. (Winter Version) A game was advertised and I was shocked this sort of thing existed, but it looked like it would be fun. When I got my first taste of ORGs I started to play them in heaps at one time. Now I'm at a point where I can only really focus on one game at a time. One is my current "limit" but I sometimes find myself in two. Most people know me as a host anyways, as I've hosted around 25 games. I've met a lot of good friends from ORGs, and I still talk to those people despite them *leaving* the scene.

3) Please pick a major arcana which you believe represents yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arcana
For extra credit you may also pick some for your opponents and the members of the jury, but I won't judge you if you don't do that.

Sydney: [The Empress] I feel this major arcana best represents myself in terms of the game. I felt in the driver's seat and had the power to direct the course and events that transpired in this game throughout my journey. An Empress is a position of power. Most Empress cards are seen with her holding a shield, which is a nice symbol to my game. I felt very protected and almost immune to the threat of being snuffed. (My alliances, idols, and challenge wins combined brought this security) I did not and was not overthrown as Empress. I choose Empress over Emperor because Emperor is "Ruler of the World" where as Empress has her dominion over "growing things." It took time for me to become the Empress - I grew into it. Associated words: "Comfort ----- Power"

Chelsea/Matt: [The Lovers] They really felt like a couple in this game. Very strong and very dominant, this duo had the chops to go the distance with a little more careful planning. They wanted nothing more than to be sitting at the end together and I feel this is the best fit to the tarot card of lovers. They had a connection that was impenetrable.

Tom/Mick: [The Chariot] Both of these guys hung onto the coat-tails of me and the other members of our alliance. They had both started on a different tribe than Salchicha and both felt at the bottom of each totem pole. They jumped ship to Salchicha, and like a chariot, rode the rest of the way to the end of the game - never having to walk on their feet.

Sandra: [The Devil] She was trouble. She had made more enemies than friends in this game and got into plenty of heated arguments. She is walking out of this game with more damaged relationships than anyone else, I feel. While she wasn't the games biggest "Villain" strategically, she was the biggest character villain. The devil of the social game, so to speak.

Mike: [The Magician] Commonly associated words: Action — Consciousness — Concentration — Personal power. He made the conscious decision to jump from Salchicha and to the Power Rangers, receiving his own personal power instead of following the herd. Like a magician, he pulled a rabbit out of a hat by making it a lot farther than people in my tribe would of expected him to.

Andrew: [The Hanged Man] Commonly used words: Conformism ----- Non-action ----- Waiting. When we had merged, Andrew conformed to our alliance's control. He knew there was no numbers the other route, but was essentially waiting to be picked off due to a lack of an alliance. The "non-action" from my viewpoint holds, as any attempt to stay longer was a little to late.

Stephanie: [Justice] Words to describe the tarot card of Justice are "Objective mind----- Criticism ----- Being clever" Steph was a pretty shrewd and clever player. This was displayed as she mingled with both alliances. She also showed criticism in her parchments and had an objective mind when it came to voting decisions. (Clear to her belief - voting Sekou for example)

Jay: [The Tower] Words frequently associated with the tower are "Crisis ----- Revelation ----- Disruption ----- Realizing the truth" This sums up the end of Jay's game. There was a disruption in the alliance as he realized the truth of where he'd be placing if we continued forward. Thus, this revelation was a crisis for me and my alliance and his tower came crumbling down.

Shawna: [Strength] Shawna had self-control, patience - common words - and strength. This was seen when she avoided elimination by winning a couple challenges before her elimination. Another word used to describe this tarot card, "inner strength" was what she had to use to pull out the wins, because clearly her spirits would be down.

Sekou: [The Fool] Sekou fits the the fool tarot card best of all. He was a joker, and wasn't taking this game as professional as the rest of us. He was acting like a fool on purpose. (I believe, anyway)

Semhar: [The Moon] Words commonly associated with the moon: Lack of clarity ----- Tension ----- Doubt. There was a lack of clarity for Semhar when she tried to deduce the cracks to our alliance. There was tension building up inside her, as well as doubt that she would stand a chance at making it to the end of the game.

Chase: [The Sun] Commonly associated words are "Optimism---Expansion---Being radiant---Positive feelings" Chase was very optimistic, or even if he wasn't, tried to appear that way at the merge as he tried to recruit votes. I know it was believed the votes would have been closer than they came out, so there was probably optimism or the hope in the shot at staying. In addition, Shawna stated he was a motivational speaker, and probably emitted positive feelings and words to his tribe.


Thanks again Andrew

[Tom Westman]

1) Give a small biography about yourself, we're all humans outside of the box, so I'd like to get to know you guys a little bit.

Hey Andrew, we talked a little bit about me but here it is for the purpose of this question I'm Leif, 29 years old, a programmer working for Americans. I love listening to alternative music but have been a fan of Chris Daughtry ever since he showed up on American Idol. I am a TV show junkie and watch just about any US TV shows you could name. I also love my PS3 and play a lot on it.

2) Describe your experience with Survivor or ORGs in general, this could possibly roll into the above request, but it's something specific that I'd like to hear about. I'm a games enthusiast, so hearing about what drew different people into such a unique community as this will ALWAYS interest me.

My first ever Survivor ORG was during 2000 lol I know it was that long ago since I started. Back then we had this crappy board and we did challenges by email. Security back then wasn't even as good as proboards right now. I played 3 ORGs before I stopped and focused on studying and came back to it just 2 years ago when it got me thinking whether ORGs are still alive and I was not disappointed. Since then I have never stopped playing ORGs and no matter how crappy I sound right now I have seen better days in other games and I could still say I am proud of how I have played.

3) Please pick a major arcana which you believe represents yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arcana
For extra credit you may also pick some for your opponents and the members of the jury, but I won't judge you if you don't do that.

The Hanged Man - I feel like this is the card for me. Like I am going thru the green mile to my execution. This is prolly why I feel defensive and feel like giving up. Because I knew what awaits me in the end of it all will be a lot of criticisms and I guess I got overwhelmed by it and broke under pressure. I know this is not a reaction you expect of a finalist and I apologize, I am human after all and I am entitled to feel how I should feel. But I guess it shouldn't be how I should I have acted and I'm sorry for that.

Thanks for the questions Andrew!

[Chelsea Meissner]

1) Give a small biography about yourself, we're all humans outside of the box, so I'd like to get to know you guys a little bit.

Hey, Savage! This is a refreshing one! Well, I go by Ash for the most part online, I’m 21 years old, and I live in Washington D.C. I’m in college right now working my butt off to get a degree in Journalism. I’ve done my finals this past week and have one more on Monday! So, it’s a good thing I love to write having to prepare for essays and short answers, plus doing these Sausage questions. ❤ It’s one of my biggest passions. I would really love to work for a magazine or newspaper and cover a variety of topics, however, I don’t wanna’ do politics! That’s something that doesn’t interest me. Let’s see, some random facts are always fun. I have two puppies: Presley and Romeo, I’m currently reading Catching Fire, right now I’m listening to “Call My Name” by Cheryl Cole, I have a cake in the oven at the moment that I’m baking tomorrow for Mother’s Day, and I’m just a huge fan of reality television. I love Survivor and Big Brother. It’s kind of hard to think about a time where I didn’t know either existed. I had just learned about reality television in 2010 and started doing ORGs.

2) Describe your experience with Survivor or ORGs in general, this could possibly roll into the above request, but it's something specific that I'd like to hear about. I'm a games enthusiast, so hearing about what drew different people into such a unique community as this will ALWAYS interest me.

Wow, this was so long ago, but I remember how it happened. In 2010, I was browsing YouTube out of boredom and I stumbled across a video of a Big Brother 6 feed clip, and it was a clip of Janelle, and she was telling off April and Beau. I remember falling in love with it. It was so hilarious. At that point, I started clicking all the suggested videos for Big Brother, and I had come across a video for an ORG. I clicked the link in the description and it led me to the site of the game it was advertising and everything. It was so neat. I remember being so intrigued by it. That site then led me to a community known as ORGReloaded, which is where I went to find games. I stuck around there for awhile and just waited for games to pop up, until I got more savvy with the whole ORG community and was able to maneuver between communities to find other games. From that point on, I got into Big Brother and Survivor. My first ORG was a Big Brother game, and the one that followed was a Survivor one. I’m now addicted!

3) Please pick a major arcana which you believe represents yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arcana For extra credit you may also pick some for your opponents and the members of the jury, but I won't judge you if you don't do that.

[ authority, power, leadership, fathering, control ]

The reason I have chosen the card of The Emperor for Chase is simple. Chase was seemingly perceived as the authority figure of the other side, the Power Rangers. I was not apart of Chorizo, but Shawna mentioned in her questions how Chase gave motivational speech(es), and I think this shows a great deal of leadership. Chase in a way was the fathering figure of Chorizo, because he was the stronger male of the tribe and Shawna and Semhar were two people that looked up to him, and respected him. They all respected eachother. In addition, Chase had control in his alliance.

[ opportunities, possibilities, activities, expansion ]

Jay has been given the card of The Wheel of Fortune. Jay’s game was a lot of opportunity and possibility, in my opinion. He had motives in this game, however the reason he majority of them fell through were because of these overly mentioned pre-existing relationships. He spun the wheel on his want to make an activity out of taking out myself with the assistance of some of the people who he perceived to be on the outside, but instead struck out on the possibility because he was caught red-handed.

[ deception, respect, maturity, formality, experience ]

I’ve handed Matt the card of the Hierophant. Matt is a very respectful and mature player. He never bad-mouthed anyone, never made anything nasty, and was very formal in every conversation. In addition, he does have quite a history of experience under his belt. While Matt was all of these things, he also deceived often. He would lie to those that wanted to work with him in order to gather information, which ended up being the downfall of players like Jay and Sandra for saying the wrong things.

[ passivity, acceptance, letting go, non-action ]

Mick is being awarded the card of The Hanged Man. Mick was extremely passive in this game. He was playing the game for Sydney to win, therefore what she wanted or what benefited her the most, he did for her. He was accepted into the Capitol as being a loyal voter on our side because of his outside relationship with Sydney. The only real moves Mick in this game were not many, hence his non-action. In the end, he let go of the game and left at the Final 4, after asking to be eliminated prior.

[ sudden change, disruption, impact, transformation ]

I am giving the card of The Tower to Mike for one main reason. There was a sudden change in the game, and that change happened when the game actually divided into the two sides known as the Power Rangers and the Capitol. This transformation happened before the merge, and Mike was a person who jumped ship. It made an impact because he joined forces with the Power Rangers and obviously put a bit of a disruption in the plans, as both Stephenie and Misty were numbers for our side. This sudden change by Mike gave the Power Rangers somewhat of a fighting chance.

[ ignorance, egoism, pessimism, materialism, stagnation ]

The card of The Devil is going to Sandra. Throughout the game I felt that Sandra was a ignorant in many of the arguments she engaged in. She would run around showing logs of her fights with the Power Rangers and they did the opposite effect of making her look bad instead of good. I’ve mentioned materialism as a reason for this card because Sandra used material from other games to base her reasoning’s when planting seeds of doubt about me to others. In addition, Sandra became extremely stagnate and sluggish in the merge, missing competitions and becoming worthless.

[ silence, guidance, reflection, looking inward, isolation ]

Savage, I have decided to give you the card of The Hermit. In this game you were quiet, which would represent the silence aspect. I feel as though you were guided by the helpful hand of Stephanie during the game, however, when she was taken out of the game, your connection to the majority in the game crumbled to pieces and you became isolated and on your own. But, I do think that you spent a great deal of looking within yourself, as you knew that you were a quiet person, and admitted that you were shy when it came to talking to the other castaways in the game.

[ madness, crazy, childlike, wild, appreciation of beauty ]

The card of The Fool was best represented by Sekou in this game. I feel that every post Sekou made was filled with pure madness. He was that crazy presence in the game that kept everyone guessing and kept every eye-brow raised either in awe, disgust, or hilarity. Alot of what Sekou said and did in this game was childlike, he was deemed wild by the things he said, and I believe that he spoke a great deal about the female anatomy and what’d he’d like to do with it 24/7, thus giving reasoning for his appreciation of beauty. Sekou was a crazy character this season.

[ free-flowing, trust, serenity, calmness, inspiration, hope ]

Semhar is being given the card of The Star. Semhar played her character to a T, and with a character like Semhar, you need to channel inspiration and serenity, and I feel like she accomplished that with her rhythmic votes and things she had said throughout the game. To deal with someone like Sandra the way Semhar did, you need to have a certain about of calmness, and I believe Semhar kept a right head and mind when she dealt with the ignorance of The Devil. Semhar was free-flowing with her poetic verses and had hope to go far in this season of Sausage Island.

[ self-control, composure, inner-strength, perseverance ]

The card of Strength is being given to Shawna. Like Semhar, Shawna also dealt with the shenanigans displayed by Sandra, and Shawna handled those situations with self-control and composed herself in a mature manner. At the start of the merge, her side began to dwindle in numbers and after Chase had been voted out, she was the next targeted to go. Regardless of the odds being stacked against her, she found inner-strength to persevere and try her hardest to remain in the game no matter what.

[ loss, conclusion, deep change, transitioning to the next ]

If anyone experienced a great deal of loss in this game, it was Stephanie. I have given the card of Death to her because of the huge chunk of allies she had lost prior to the merge. This caused Stephanie’s game to shift and it left her with you, Savage, by her side. With the conclusion of her allies gone from the game for good, Stephanie had to transition into the next stage of the merge and had to find a way to stick around, and she did so by coming to me for help and aid in order to survive against the core.

[ harmony, balance, joining forces, unification ]

I have decided to give the card of Temperance to Sydney. The reason for this is because I felt like Sydney balanced her previous relationships and then ultimately brought them together, and unified them by her side in this game. People she had known, may not have known eachother well, but she unified them for the sole purpose of her game in order to make an easy path to the end, aware these people wouldn’t vote for her because of their pre-existing relationships with her. In addition, she joined forces with Matt and I, and we became a strong three; a force to be reckoned with.

[ objective mind, intellect, responsibility, criticism ]

I have given myself the card of Justice. I believe that in this game I had a very objective mind. I had goals that I wanted to complete and if I had one in cue, I made sure to get the job done. By this, I mean if anyone had the want to come after me [Jay], exclude me from future plans [Cochran], etc, then it became my top objective and priority to take them out and thus they would then be eliminated from the game. I believe that I’ve shown intellect in this game through my confessionals, Tribal Council answers, and by the way I’ve handled myself; things that a winner should portray. I’ve taken responsibility for my moves in this game, and I’ve given and handled criticism from others throughout my journey.

[ willpower, self-assertion, recognition, success, anxiety ]

Out of the cards left to select, the most fitting seems to be The Chariot for Tom. Yes, at the start of the game I don’t believe that Tom knew who Sydney was, so he stayed alive through his own actions. However, all that was stripped away when he knew who Sydney was, and then became somewhat of a sheep for the cause of making sure the Capitol remained strong. He should receive recognition for his consecutive immunity victories, and his success in capturing them, but at the end of the day, his moves in the game better served Sydney’s game than his own.

[no]

That card needs to be bleeped out!!

[Chase Rice]

Which one? Semhars large framed naked body or Sandras gorilla coated snatch?

[no]

Semhar's...but Sandra...close your legs. =X

[Tom Westman]

Maybe it's a guy with moobs?

[no]

Maybe YOU'RE a guy with moobs!!

[Tom Westman]

As I recall you're the one with moobs...

[no]

How can I have moobs if I'm not overweight? ...In fact I weigh less than the average person does my size. =P

[Andrew Savage]

May 10, 2012 18:40:29 GMT -5 no said:

but I won't judge you if you don't do that.

You might want to clarify this. Either you mean you won't judge them (make fun of them or hold ill regards to them if they don't), or you won't judge them meaning their question will be void. =P

The first one. xD