Post by Adrian on Nov 10, 2012 13:46:43 GMT -5
After I was done confirming my willingness to be in an 4 person alliance, I got into an interesting conversation with Ian, our Philppino bambino. He seemed like a pleasant, if not odd, guy. He would mention that he needed to "go number 2" and stuff between our chats.
We mostly spoke about his love of fanfic and his scary knowledge of the game. At first I was pretty cautious of him because he has won an ORG before, but then I thought having someone who knows the game well would be a better ally than adversary.
After we chatted for a while, we decided to have a video call. This lead me to reveal my first plan to deal with the idols for the first time to anyone (which I will highlight in my next strategy post) and of course he seemed okay with it. Nobody wants to say no to any alliances just yet.
Here is the transcript of our conversation:
[12:20:36 PM] Adrian John Dias: Hey, buddy. How are you?
[12:20:51 PM] Ian Sevilla: Howdy tribemate!
[12:21:20 PM] Ian Sevilla: whatchadoin?
[12:21:45 PM] Adrian John Dias: Nice to meet you, bro! What is the time there in the Philippines?
[12:21:51 PM] Ian Sevilla: 621pm
[12:21:53 PM] Ian Sevilla: your time?
[12:22:10 PM] Adrian John Dias: I am taking it easy and thought I would check in on everyone.
[12:22:22 PM] Adrian John Dias: it is 12:22 pm here.
[12:23:17 PM] Adrian John Dias: So, what can you tell me about yourself, bro? I am pretty excited to meet a whole bunch of people from around the world.
[12:23:29 PM] Adrian John Dias: I like the diversity of our tribe.
[12:23:42 PM] Ian Sevilla: Im the admin of the Survivor Wiki
[12:23:59 PM] Ian Sevilla: 21 years old, and a budding teacher
[12:24:24 PM] Ian Sevilla: One of the mods is actually one of my admins in the Survivor Wiki
[12:25:27 PM] Ian Sevilla: H'bout you?
[12:26:11 PM] Adrian John Dias: Oh, really?
[12:26:25 PM] Adrian John Dias: That is is cool. I take it you know the game really well, then.
[12:26:36 PM] Ian Sevilla: Superfan since 8 years old
[12:28:11 PM] Adrian John Dias: I am 26-years old, been a Survivor superfan since I was 14, I run a small business with 2 of my friends that I have know since we were kids, currently in a long-distance relationship with the love of my life and am an aspiring game developer.
[12:28:30 PM] Ian Sevilla: Wow. Very interesting profile!
[12:28:56 PM] Adrian John Dias: I plan to travel with my girlfriend to Australia Thailand, Japan and maybe Canada to live and work a few years at a time.
[12:29:45 PM] Ian Sevilla: ...I still don't have a passport. The furthest place I went to was Boracay, one of our kickass summer destinations here.
[12:30:07 PM] Adrian John Dias: Yours is as well. I like the buff in your profile pic.
[12:30:18 PM] Ian Sevilla: Not a survivor buff though
[12:30:31 PM] Adrian John Dias: I have only been overseas when I was still a kid, so that needs to change
[12:30:53 PM] Adrian John Dias: I also have a regular buff in my profile pic
[12:31:04 PM] Ian Sevilla: But there's this guy who sells Survivor buffs, and he's going to resupply with S25 buff by the end of the month, so good news for me!
[12:31:19 PM] Adrian John Dias: Awesome!
[12:31:32 PM] Adrian John Dias: Which tribe was your favorite this season?
[12:31:41 PM] Ian Sevilla: Roosters
[12:32:03 PM] Ian Sevilla: The buffaloes were bland, while the monkeys were just a hot mess
[12:32:09 PM] Adrian John Dias: I must say the buffs from Survivor: One World were the nicest I have ever seen.
[12:32:23 PM] Adrian John Dias: That is true
[12:32:26 PM] Ian Sevilla: I agree. The creaky frank font fits very well
[12:33:11 PM] Ian Sevilla: There's a lot of things going on in the roosters' camp. Kalabaw's convos are mostly about getting rid of Penner, while Matsing only talks about losing and voting people out
[12:33:49 PM] Ian Sevilla: THis week's episode was a shocker
[12:33:57 PM] Ian Sevilla: I like Penner's revenge
[12:34:04 PM] Adrian John Dias: Kalabaw only had Penner and Jeff that I liked, although Dawson could have been fun - while I felt so sorry for Malcolm and Denise and to an extent Russell Swan at Matsing.
[12:34:26 PM] Adrian John Dias: It was nuts!
[12:34:29 PM] Ian Sevilla: For some reason, I felt like the monkeys' losing streak was the best thing that could have happened to them
[12:34:37 PM] Adrian John Dias: I agree.
[12:35:04 PM] Adrian John Dias: Only Malcolm and Denise were ready for the game. Now they can hide in the cracks of Tandang
[12:35:12 PM] Ian Sevilla: All the fats were gone when they needed it, and Malcolm and Denise are the only people who made sense in that tribe
[12:35:29 PM] Ian Sevilla: Abitch and Asshat Pete's days are numbered
[12:35:36 PM] Ian Sevilla: BTW, I also write fan fiction
[12:36:21 PM] Adrian John Dias: I liked Pete at first when he messed with RC and Abi. It was smart for him, but now he is just being a douche.
[12:36:36 PM] Adrian John Dias: That is awesome!
[12:36:46 PM] Adrian John Dias: You have any fanfic links I can read?
[12:36:54 PM] Ian Sevilla: The Survivor Wiki has a sister wiki, survivorfanon.wikia.com
[12:37:22 PM] Ian Sevilla: I wrote The Cursed Idol, Couples, Showdown and Burma. I have other fan fictions in line too.
[12:37:42 PM] Ian Sevilla: Rob ("Tucker") is one of my admins in the wiki
[12:39:10 PM] Adrian John Dias: Awesome!
[12:40:03 PM] Adrian John Dias: I am glad we have someone so invested in the whole Survivor experience like this!
[12:40:24 PM] Ian Sevilla: Likewise! I won a tengaged game before, but this is crazy
[12:40:32 PM] Adrian John Dias: I never wrote fanfics, but I used to kind of play out my own little scenarios when I was a kid
[12:40:53 PM] Ian Sevilla: Most of my fictions are derived from our local version.
[12:41:44 PM] Adrian John Dias: This is my 1st ever Survivor ORG. I almost made it onto the last season of Survivor South Africa: Maldives and I am hoping to try again when we have another season, so I thought I would try out an ORG to see if I have what it takes.
[12:42:15 PM] Adrian John Dias: I'm sure you guys have had some great seasons. Ours are pretty bland, but the latest one was pretty fun.
[12:42:15 PM] Ian Sevilla: Wow. What if we make an alliance like right now?
[12:42:32 PM] Ian Sevilla: Yeah, our recent one had the couples' format
[12:43:00 PM] Adrian John Dias: I would like that very much. I feel that instead of going against someone who knows the game well, we could help each other get further together.
[12:43:17 PM] Ian Sevilla: Like, in the US show, they always say a pair is always dangerous, and they put it to the test
[12:43:31 PM] Adrian John Dias: How did it play out?
[12:43:48 PM] Ian Sevilla: A lot of quitters in the first few weeks, but it picked up really fast
[12:44:07 PM] Ian Sevilla: The winner and his partner stayed in the top 5
[12:44:26 PM] Ian Sevilla: and they were the last pair to be picked in the schoolyard picking process
[12:44:49 PM] Ian Sevilla: if the pairs are judged based on physical activity, the winner and his partner will fare badly.
[12:45:03 PM] Ian Sevilla: But they weaved through the competition and made it to top 5
[12:45:11 PM] Ian Sevilla: Then one of them won
[12:45:24 PM] Ian Sevilla: Our show is a monday to friday one btw
[12:45:39 PM] Ian Sevilla: To get to know the cast better
[12:46:27 PM] Adrian John Dias: Wow, that is quite a lot of screen time. I think Survivor only needs 2 hours. That way you don't get bored and nobody is invisible in the season.
[12:46:45 PM] Ian Sevilla: Well, the 3-day cycle is divided into 5 episodes
[12:47:06 PM] Ian Sevilla: REward Challenge on Monday, Immunity on Wednesday, then TC on Friday
[12:47:31 PM] Adrian John Dias: How long are the episodes?
[12:47:45 PM] Ian Sevilla: similar to the US version: 45 minds
[12:47:47 PM] Ian Sevilla: mins*
[12:48:09 PM] Adrian John Dias: Okay, I could see that working pretty well.
[12:48:33 PM] Ian Sevilla: Yeah. In our first season, the fan fav award was a jury vote
[12:49:01 PM] Ian Sevilla: Since we had our version aired M-F, we had a better perception of the finalists
[12:49:40 PM] Ian Sevilla: Season 1 was a F2 with an 8-person jury. If there's a tie, the fan vote will break it.
[12:51:49 PM] Ian Sevilla: Season 1 was filmed in Ko Tarutao (similar to Thailand), Season 2 was in Palau (tribe names were Koror and Airai), Season 3 was in Ranong, Thailand (very close to Burma), and Season 4 was filmed here in the Philippines (S3 and 4 were Celebrity seasons)
[12:54:50 PM] Ian Sevilla: Whatchadoin?
[12:55:58 PM] Adrian John Dias: Just quickly chatting to my girfriend
[12:56:04 PM] Ian Sevilla: hahahahahaha
[12:56:19 PM] Adrian John Dias: She send me a message because I was in hospital yesterday.
[12:56:30 PM] Ian Sevilla: What happened? I was acidic
[12:56:41 PM] Adrian John Dias: I know
[12:57:09 PM] Adrian John Dias: I got sent in for 2 drips and and a butt injection.
[12:57:22 PM] Ian Sevilla: Why? lol
[12:57:34 PM] Adrian John Dias: Have an ear infection that put pressure on my skull and brain.
[12:57:44 PM] Ian Sevilla: That's scary
[12:57:45 PM] Adrian John Dias: It came out of nowehere.
[12:58:06 PM] Ian Sevilla: I get boils frequent. Just last week, I had one on my armpit
[12:58:15 PM] Adrian John Dias: I woke up feeling ill and then I got rushed into hospital. I am getting better though.
[12:58:22 PM] Adrian John Dias: ha ha ha
[12:58:23 PM] Ian Sevilla: whew!
[12:58:33 PM] Ian Sevilla: can we have a video chat?
[12:58:57 PM] Adrian John Dias: We can, I just want to move my laptop to my room quick.
[12:59:03 PM] Adrian John Dias: Give me 3 mins
[12:59:04 PM] Ian Sevilla: ok then
[12:59:27 PM] Ian Sevilla: added you on FB btw
[1:02:08 PM] Ian Sevilla: wait, brb in five minutes. gotta do a number 2
[1:02:21 PM] Adrian John Dias: ha ha
[1:02:36 PM] Adrian John Dias: I will accept your invite on fb shortly.
[1:02:52 PM] Adrian John Dias: Enjoy poopin' dude.
[1:03:10 PM] Adrian John Dias: Video call me when you're done
[1:07:10 PM] Ian Sevilla: Back
We mostly spoke about his love of fanfic and his scary knowledge of the game. At first I was pretty cautious of him because he has won an ORG before, but then I thought having someone who knows the game well would be a better ally than adversary.
After we chatted for a while, we decided to have a video call. This lead me to reveal my first plan to deal with the idols for the first time to anyone (which I will highlight in my next strategy post) and of course he seemed okay with it. Nobody wants to say no to any alliances just yet.
Here is the transcript of our conversation:
[12:20:36 PM] Adrian John Dias: Hey, buddy. How are you?
[12:20:51 PM] Ian Sevilla: Howdy tribemate!
[12:21:20 PM] Ian Sevilla: whatchadoin?
[12:21:45 PM] Adrian John Dias: Nice to meet you, bro! What is the time there in the Philippines?
[12:21:51 PM] Ian Sevilla: 621pm
[12:21:53 PM] Ian Sevilla: your time?
[12:22:10 PM] Adrian John Dias: I am taking it easy and thought I would check in on everyone.
[12:22:22 PM] Adrian John Dias: it is 12:22 pm here.
[12:23:17 PM] Adrian John Dias: So, what can you tell me about yourself, bro? I am pretty excited to meet a whole bunch of people from around the world.
[12:23:29 PM] Adrian John Dias: I like the diversity of our tribe.
[12:23:42 PM] Ian Sevilla: Im the admin of the Survivor Wiki
[12:23:59 PM] Ian Sevilla: 21 years old, and a budding teacher
[12:24:24 PM] Ian Sevilla: One of the mods is actually one of my admins in the Survivor Wiki
[12:25:27 PM] Ian Sevilla: H'bout you?
[12:26:11 PM] Adrian John Dias: Oh, really?
[12:26:25 PM] Adrian John Dias: That is is cool. I take it you know the game really well, then.
[12:26:36 PM] Ian Sevilla: Superfan since 8 years old
[12:28:11 PM] Adrian John Dias: I am 26-years old, been a Survivor superfan since I was 14, I run a small business with 2 of my friends that I have know since we were kids, currently in a long-distance relationship with the love of my life and am an aspiring game developer.
[12:28:30 PM] Ian Sevilla: Wow. Very interesting profile!
[12:28:56 PM] Adrian John Dias: I plan to travel with my girlfriend to Australia Thailand, Japan and maybe Canada to live and work a few years at a time.
[12:29:45 PM] Ian Sevilla: ...I still don't have a passport. The furthest place I went to was Boracay, one of our kickass summer destinations here.
[12:30:07 PM] Adrian John Dias: Yours is as well. I like the buff in your profile pic.
[12:30:18 PM] Ian Sevilla: Not a survivor buff though
[12:30:31 PM] Adrian John Dias: I have only been overseas when I was still a kid, so that needs to change
[12:30:53 PM] Adrian John Dias: I also have a regular buff in my profile pic
[12:31:04 PM] Ian Sevilla: But there's this guy who sells Survivor buffs, and he's going to resupply with S25 buff by the end of the month, so good news for me!
[12:31:19 PM] Adrian John Dias: Awesome!
[12:31:32 PM] Adrian John Dias: Which tribe was your favorite this season?
[12:31:41 PM] Ian Sevilla: Roosters
[12:32:03 PM] Ian Sevilla: The buffaloes were bland, while the monkeys were just a hot mess
[12:32:09 PM] Adrian John Dias: I must say the buffs from Survivor: One World were the nicest I have ever seen.
[12:32:23 PM] Adrian John Dias: That is true
[12:32:26 PM] Ian Sevilla: I agree. The creaky frank font fits very well
[12:33:11 PM] Ian Sevilla: There's a lot of things going on in the roosters' camp. Kalabaw's convos are mostly about getting rid of Penner, while Matsing only talks about losing and voting people out
[12:33:49 PM] Ian Sevilla: THis week's episode was a shocker
[12:33:57 PM] Ian Sevilla: I like Penner's revenge
[12:34:04 PM] Adrian John Dias: Kalabaw only had Penner and Jeff that I liked, although Dawson could have been fun - while I felt so sorry for Malcolm and Denise and to an extent Russell Swan at Matsing.
[12:34:26 PM] Adrian John Dias: It was nuts!
[12:34:29 PM] Ian Sevilla: For some reason, I felt like the monkeys' losing streak was the best thing that could have happened to them
[12:34:37 PM] Adrian John Dias: I agree.
[12:35:04 PM] Adrian John Dias: Only Malcolm and Denise were ready for the game. Now they can hide in the cracks of Tandang
[12:35:12 PM] Ian Sevilla: All the fats were gone when they needed it, and Malcolm and Denise are the only people who made sense in that tribe
[12:35:29 PM] Ian Sevilla: Abitch and Asshat Pete's days are numbered
[12:35:36 PM] Ian Sevilla: BTW, I also write fan fiction
[12:36:21 PM] Adrian John Dias: I liked Pete at first when he messed with RC and Abi. It was smart for him, but now he is just being a douche.
[12:36:36 PM] Adrian John Dias: That is awesome!
[12:36:46 PM] Adrian John Dias: You have any fanfic links I can read?
[12:36:54 PM] Ian Sevilla: The Survivor Wiki has a sister wiki, survivorfanon.wikia.com
[12:37:22 PM] Ian Sevilla: I wrote The Cursed Idol, Couples, Showdown and Burma. I have other fan fictions in line too.
[12:37:42 PM] Ian Sevilla: Rob ("Tucker") is one of my admins in the wiki
[12:39:10 PM] Adrian John Dias: Awesome!
[12:40:03 PM] Adrian John Dias: I am glad we have someone so invested in the whole Survivor experience like this!
[12:40:24 PM] Ian Sevilla: Likewise! I won a tengaged game before, but this is crazy
[12:40:32 PM] Adrian John Dias: I never wrote fanfics, but I used to kind of play out my own little scenarios when I was a kid
[12:40:53 PM] Ian Sevilla: Most of my fictions are derived from our local version.
[12:41:44 PM] Adrian John Dias: This is my 1st ever Survivor ORG. I almost made it onto the last season of Survivor South Africa: Maldives and I am hoping to try again when we have another season, so I thought I would try out an ORG to see if I have what it takes.
[12:42:15 PM] Adrian John Dias: I'm sure you guys have had some great seasons. Ours are pretty bland, but the latest one was pretty fun.
[12:42:15 PM] Ian Sevilla: Wow. What if we make an alliance like right now?
[12:42:32 PM] Ian Sevilla: Yeah, our recent one had the couples' format
[12:43:00 PM] Adrian John Dias: I would like that very much. I feel that instead of going against someone who knows the game well, we could help each other get further together.
[12:43:17 PM] Ian Sevilla: Like, in the US show, they always say a pair is always dangerous, and they put it to the test
[12:43:31 PM] Adrian John Dias: How did it play out?
[12:43:48 PM] Ian Sevilla: A lot of quitters in the first few weeks, but it picked up really fast
[12:44:07 PM] Ian Sevilla: The winner and his partner stayed in the top 5
[12:44:26 PM] Ian Sevilla: and they were the last pair to be picked in the schoolyard picking process
[12:44:49 PM] Ian Sevilla: if the pairs are judged based on physical activity, the winner and his partner will fare badly.
[12:45:03 PM] Ian Sevilla: But they weaved through the competition and made it to top 5
[12:45:11 PM] Ian Sevilla: Then one of them won
[12:45:24 PM] Ian Sevilla: Our show is a monday to friday one btw
[12:45:39 PM] Ian Sevilla: To get to know the cast better
[12:46:27 PM] Adrian John Dias: Wow, that is quite a lot of screen time. I think Survivor only needs 2 hours. That way you don't get bored and nobody is invisible in the season.
[12:46:45 PM] Ian Sevilla: Well, the 3-day cycle is divided into 5 episodes
[12:47:06 PM] Ian Sevilla: REward Challenge on Monday, Immunity on Wednesday, then TC on Friday
[12:47:31 PM] Adrian John Dias: How long are the episodes?
[12:47:45 PM] Ian Sevilla: similar to the US version: 45 minds
[12:47:47 PM] Ian Sevilla: mins*
[12:48:09 PM] Adrian John Dias: Okay, I could see that working pretty well.
[12:48:33 PM] Ian Sevilla: Yeah. In our first season, the fan fav award was a jury vote
[12:49:01 PM] Ian Sevilla: Since we had our version aired M-F, we had a better perception of the finalists
[12:49:40 PM] Ian Sevilla: Season 1 was a F2 with an 8-person jury. If there's a tie, the fan vote will break it.
[12:51:49 PM] Ian Sevilla: Season 1 was filmed in Ko Tarutao (similar to Thailand), Season 2 was in Palau (tribe names were Koror and Airai), Season 3 was in Ranong, Thailand (very close to Burma), and Season 4 was filmed here in the Philippines (S3 and 4 were Celebrity seasons)
[12:54:50 PM] Ian Sevilla: Whatchadoin?
[12:55:58 PM] Adrian John Dias: Just quickly chatting to my girfriend
[12:56:04 PM] Ian Sevilla: hahahahahaha
[12:56:19 PM] Adrian John Dias: She send me a message because I was in hospital yesterday.
[12:56:30 PM] Ian Sevilla: What happened? I was acidic
[12:56:41 PM] Adrian John Dias: I know
[12:57:09 PM] Adrian John Dias: I got sent in for 2 drips and and a butt injection.
[12:57:22 PM] Ian Sevilla: Why? lol
[12:57:34 PM] Adrian John Dias: Have an ear infection that put pressure on my skull and brain.
[12:57:44 PM] Ian Sevilla: That's scary
[12:57:45 PM] Adrian John Dias: It came out of nowehere.
[12:58:06 PM] Ian Sevilla: I get boils frequent. Just last week, I had one on my armpit
[12:58:15 PM] Adrian John Dias: I woke up feeling ill and then I got rushed into hospital. I am getting better though.
[12:58:22 PM] Adrian John Dias: ha ha ha
[12:58:23 PM] Ian Sevilla: whew!
[12:58:33 PM] Ian Sevilla: can we have a video chat?
[12:58:57 PM] Adrian John Dias: We can, I just want to move my laptop to my room quick.
[12:59:03 PM] Adrian John Dias: Give me 3 mins
[12:59:04 PM] Ian Sevilla: ok then
[12:59:27 PM] Ian Sevilla: added you on FB btw
[1:02:08 PM] Ian Sevilla: wait, brb in five minutes. gotta do a number 2
[1:02:21 PM] Adrian John Dias: ha ha
[1:02:36 PM] Adrian John Dias: I will accept your invite on fb shortly.
[1:02:52 PM] Adrian John Dias: Enjoy poopin' dude.
[1:03:10 PM] Adrian John Dias: Video call me when you're done
[1:07:10 PM] Ian Sevilla: Back
