Diaries of an MC

[Brian Corridan]

I hope this challenge isn't Tug of War...it never ends well. Now, odds are I'll have to win the challenge if I want to stay in the game, but I don't really care if we lose or not. It's most likely down between Vytas and I if we go to TC, and either of us going is fine in my book. I'll throw both of our names out if we lose the challenge as possible targets, and then proceed to vote for Austin and wait and see if I'll last longer than a single round. This should be a whole lot of fun.

[Brian Corridan]

Why me?

[Brian Corridan]

Da Thugs and Da Funkmaster is a go featuring myself as Killa B, Jeremy as Gay Z, Tasha as Big Tasha, Kass as A$AP Clam, Dolly as Dizzy D, Baylor as 15 Cent (4 a BJ), and Lex as BuddhaMike. 

[Brian Corridan]

I've turned our team into a Robb-worship cult. It's glorious.

[Brian Corridan]

We lost the challenge, and the bottom three contributors were Kass, Vytas, and Robb. Now, Vytas has publicly said that he and his super alliance will be going after Austin, which I don't like. I want to make fun of Austin for as long as I'm in the game, but I'm also supposed to vote him this round. It's truly a terrible dilemma. I have a solution. I'm going to campaign for Vytas with Austin, and lie and say I'm going back on my Alphabet Strategy. In actuality, I'll still vote Austin while trying to save him. It sounds really counter productive, but trust me, I think this will work. It already sounds like 7 votes (not including me) are in place to vote against Vytas. It's a little too early to decide, but I'll do my best to ensure Austin doesn't go while also voting for him. This is gonna be fun.

[Brian Corridan]

I told Austin I have my vote for him made on standby if 10 votes end up on Vytas, and offered to show it to him. He said it better be cool looking, so I showed him my beautiful pink comic sans vote...

This is gonna be a fun game. 

[Brian Corridan]

Round 2: Sicilian Roullette 

Ima make it all fancy when I get home. So, Vytas gets the boot 10-2 just like I planned it (I mean, I didn't really but I did), and then JEREMY reveals this twist which is fucking sweet. Voting before we win the challenge is something I wish I'd thought of, and it definitely pissed off most of the cast, so I think it worked. Being the golden God that I am, I told everyone in the game blast chat to vote for Edgardo and I. I can't control it if he gets votes or not, but it pissed him off, so that worked. Now, the idea of telling everyone to vote me off works in a few different ways. I'm gonna let my tribe relax about this upcoming TC so they can just focus on the challenge and not worry about getting axed this TC. The only downside is people might not try as hard because they'll be safe, but I'm hoping I can light a fire under these people and get them to work their asses off.

I'm calling back to an old adage, slightly less famous than "Never fight a land war in Asia": "Never get into a battle of wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line." I've already adopted the culture, and my life is on the line. This is my cunning (or lack thereof) versus the hosts and Team Aras. These uncultured swine won't know what hit them, and while they're scrambling for votes like the bitches they are, Team Jrmy aka Team Comic Sans aka the Cult of Robb will be led by King Brian Corridan aka Killa B aka Da Funkmaster to victory. Am I a genius, or am I a genius? I'll answer it for you: I'm a genius.

Edit: Part 2: For any fans of the show Big Brother, can you recall when a certain doctor publicly asked for votes, so the target on him was so huge that it vanished? 

When LJ and PG both messaged me after I told everyone to intentionally vote me and said "I don't want you to go", I used thought of my man Dr. Will, and decided to use this as an in. I'm gonna pull some strings and get Lex voted out tonight. He's been a lot less active, isn't as social as other people, and that was the name PG threw out as an alternative. PG, LJ, Coach, and Yul are all already on board, and I can get Austin and Kass no problem. Lex is most likely dead in the water, and if we win, he won't even know it. 

[Brian Corridan]

I just realized...I'm gonna do what IRL Lex did to people to a Lex in an ORG. How woefully ironic.

[Brian Corridan]

So far, Coach, Austin, Yul, LJ, Austin, Kass, Crystal, PG, and Robb are all on board with voting Lex, only leaving Charlie. Lex is a goner, and I kinda feel bad, because Mikey is a good guy, but it has to be done. I've reverted to the cocky puppetmaster role I had in Greece, and I love it. Rather than Hatch in All-Stars, which was my goal, I've taken a Will in All-Stars role. My over-the-top Alphabet Strategy, asking to get voted out, and my tribe chat antics have turned me into someone that nobody on the tribe takes seriously, and yet...I was a major player in the first vote and getting support for Austin, and now after talking to PG and LJ, Lex will be going home if we lose this challenge. For all I know, people might catch on and try to send me home if we lose, or we do lose and all my plans are for nothing, but that's part of the fun. I love being the villain, and every villain needs their downfall. Here's hoping I'll get mine later rather than sooner.

[Brian Corridan]

I've had a conversation with Yul about how nobody is takin me seriously as a bad guy due to the Lex vote, and that I just want my tribe to fear me. I think he bought into it. Nobody is taking me seriously because of my antics, so I'm openly telling him I want to be the bad guy and lying about the part how I'm bothered by the lack of respect I command is hopefully making me less threatening. I also think the pink Comic Sans on AIM helps.

[Brian Corridan]

This challenge would normally be fun, except that we have CC on the tribe. She, Robb, and I are the only ones on, so she's pretty much controlling how the entire story plans out and very little input from Robb and I has been accepted. What started out looking like a possible dramatic short story, a rare feat in an ORG, has turned into a twisted combination of an Adam Sandler comedy and a Sylvester Stallone action movie, and I'm terrified. I want to have some initial ideas and hold off until some other members of the tribe can come on and, you know, contribute, but we have less than 2 days to work on this thing and there's gonna be a lot of writing to do. I'm happy I was able to get the target off of myself, because we're on our way to Tribal.

[Brian Corridan]

Apparently Vizzini wasn't an acceptable family name. LAME.

[Brian Corridan]

This challenge has turned out a lot better than I initially expected. Crystal's original ideas were wayyyy too much, but PG and I were able to step in and tone it down a bit. It's not quite done, but it's almost there. My only concern is the current amount of work different people have put in. Crystal, PG, and I have done all the writing, Coach helped plan it with us, Austin and Charlie have done some editing, and Robb is going to get images to accompany parts of the story. Lex, Kass, LJ, and Yul haven't done anything to work on it, so we'll have to have them write pieces or help edit some of the new writing and find a way to include everyone. Not everyone involved has sat down and decided to do something, or they'll show up online, chat, and then head out. In theory, it's such an easy grade, so losing out on it because people are too lazy to add anything would be really disappointing.

If we lose and Lex goes home, I think I'd want Kass out next. She's almost never in the actual tribe chat talking to people, and isn't always on her AIM for this game. While she does prove useful as a vote for me right now, Kass falls in the realm of people who are difficult to work with down the line because they have shitty ideas. In Greece, taking out Austin was a death knell for my game and I went along with it, and in other games I've made the mistake of following Kass and paying the price for it. I'd rather take her out sooner rather than later, but at the same time I think she's still a vote that I can use, so I'm not sure. People like Robb and Charlie are less likely to work with me but are more valuable to this team, so I'm juggling my individual game versus the team's strength. Hopefully, we don't lose this challenge so then Lex stays around and we can just boot him at a later date.

[Brian Corridan]

I am not talking to Abi with her stupid broken English thing. It's normally more cringeworthy than funny, and it's not even close to how Hispanic people who don't know English well sound. It's a step up from Abi speaking Spanish like she did in Japan, which was just flat-out ignorant, but it's still absurdly annoying and grating. It isn't even her with broken English, it's her speaking broken English while also acting stupid. It's not a funny character at all, especially when this is the 2nd season she's doing it after she broke the character in Japan. Abi's lucky that people here just find it aggravating rather than offensive.

[Brian Corridan]

Round 3: The Tyrant of La Barbera

Pick your poison. Great. One of the most boring challenges in ORGdom. It's almost entirely up to luck, just because guessing what the other tribe is going to do with all their potions is a massive pain in the ass. However, there may be someone on their side who could help the ailing La Barbera tribe win. We've lost back to back challenges, and hopefully this is us shedding dead weight rather than imploding and completely collapsing on ourselves. This is the second round in a row where we had people complain/make excuses rather than go out of their way to do some work, and it's showing. We might not have as many over emotional, overly dramatic people, but we're the weaker tribe until we can win more challenges than Greco. I suggested using random.org, because why the fuck not at this point? It's funny how the tribe picks up my shitty ideas and runs with them, and this is another really bad one. Comic Sans, the Cult of Robb, and now random.org-ing a challenge have all caught on. They're feeding my ego, and it's lovely. Anyway, I was discussing the challenge, and I may have convinced Dolly to give me her tribe's Pick Your Poison answers. She apparently wanted to lose and boot Marcus, and might throw this challenge for whatever reason she wants. Now, a win is a win, even if the other tribe intentionally loses, I'll take it. I'm not sure if Dolly is bluffing and planning on feeding me false information, but I think throwing and getting someone out is her way of being villainous. 

In other news, PG and I discussed the vote, and Kass' name was thrown out. If Kass isn't very active this round and we lose, she's done for. If other people are coming to me, one of her closest friends in the cast, that's really bad news for her. I want her to pick it up and do her best to socialize, because I'd like Kass to make it out of the 20s. She had this idea she'd be taken out early for whatever reason before the season, I guess because she saw herself as a threat or her pre-game relationships made her a target? It'd be funny with the idea that you're a threat going into the game, only to turn into an early boot due to a lack of activity. Meanwhile, you have Brian, a possible huge target pre-game escaping two rounds where my name was thrown out (and one of the two was me campaigning for myself). It's a lot of fun convincing people to do stupid things or even digging yourself into a hole and seeing if you can dig yourself out by the end of the round so you don't go home. This game has been so fun while remaining so peaceful, and that's pretty rare in All-Star games. I'm hoping this calmness can continue and that it won't get shattered by a blindside or hurt feelings, and that I can effectively manage my tribe into taking out whoever I want out. I've been efficiently ruling the tribe and I don't think people even know that I'm the man in charge around here. Even if we lose, I won't be going anywhere, and the longer I'm kept the more dangerous I get.