After a dramatic elimination therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1202102.html

There is a new twist therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1202303.html    and a new prompt! https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1202480.html



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How are you going to be celebrating my birthday weekend? 

 *spins the wheel* 

It's another twist!

But which twist shall it be?   Only one way to find out! 
 *spins the wheel again* 

Bye Necklace 

Whoever receives the lowest amount of votes without getting eliminated, in Week 11, will receive 2 extra byes - TO GIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE!! It's a great way to make new friends.  :) 

 Welcome to those returning to the fray!   I did forget to mention that if you are new this round, you are coming in with 1 bye that is good between now and the Top 10.  So, just keep that in mind! 

This week is going to be different than any week in Idol. Because it's a Survivor style vote!

Which goes against every core value of actual Idol and dives right into the whole reality show aspect. 

What this means is that (1) It's a contestant only vote. You have to be signed up as a current contestant to cast a vote. 
(2) All votes are by email.. You send your vote to clauderainsrm@gmail.com 
(3) Yes, I said VOTE. This time around you are voting for 1 person. The person you want to eliminate from the competition! 

The deadline to vote is Thursday Sept 25th at 7pm ET.    Everyone's entries are at:  https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1201147.html  

Good luck to everyone! 

 Hope your week has been going well. 

Just a reminder the deadline is tomorrow for:

The Prompt therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1201147.html

Anyone who wants to get into the game!  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1200777.html

and of course, submitting your accusations on the identity of a Killer! 

Last week that deadline was very dramatic. Will it be as much of a shock, or just another random week?  The only way to find out is getting to tomorrow!


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Got a free trial of HBO Max this week and was finally able to watch Superman again, this time with Cynthia and Foxy.  They both loved it, but I think it may be Foxy's new favorite movie. She was watching the screen the entire time and went crazy whenever she saw Krypto!  <3 

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What have you been up to? 

 The Wheel is all knowing and all powerful. 

All hail the mighty wheel as it spins and determines our fates! 

*spins*

Oh.  TRIPLE TWIST!!!!

So not just one thing from the wheel, 3 of them!!!

This is going to be interesting. 

Oh great wheel, tell us what is to come this week!!

- Survivor Vote.  This week contestants will be casting a vote to remove someone from the competition!  

- Immunity for the person with the fewest votes last week who was not eliminated.  Which is *looks at list* legalpad819  - congratulations.  You now have an immunity idol!

and  CASTING CALL!!!  Not only is everyone previously eliminated eligible to be back in the competition, ANYONE who wants in is invited to sign up and join in on the fun!!!    Oh this is going to be an interesting week.   I will provide a thread below for people to sign back up in the competition!  (this is an opt in as opposed to other "back in the game" where people are just automatically back in) 

You've got questions - I've got answers!

Maybe. For some things. Let's try this! Some from emails and some from a thread I was directed to so that I could know the sort of things people are curious about.

On this particular vote:

- Will the intersection totals count as your total votes, or just your individual totals. The individual votes.
- How will bye weeks count toward the total. Bye weeks are 0 votes. I considered doing the "average" but that wasn't anywhere in the original requests for this structure. Trying to maintain that integrity to the request.
- Doesn't that make it lopsided for people with bigger friends list? How would that work in a regular season if we did it that way? IMO, it wouldn't. But as a one time thing, it's interesting, which is why it ended up on the Wheel. :)
- Will you provide a list so we all know how many votes we have in total? Maybe. Full disclosure, I haven't even done that for myself yet. I have no idea how far "ahead" or "behind" anyone is going into this week! I need to do that this weekend!





The Wheel:

Is the wheel going to ever allow people to come back into the game? 
There are *counts* 5 different scenarios allowing for different variations of people coming back into the game.  6 depending on how a specific special power is used.  :)  Sooner or later, odds are the wheel is going to land on one of them, and probably soon. 

Do you remove options from the Wheel once they are used? 
Most of them. There are a couple in there specifically designed to come up again. But they haven't come up yet. 

What happens if we get down to the Final 5 but we haven't hit the "come back into the game option?"  We proceed to the end game.  That's the nature of the Wheel.  Like I said, it could last a week and it could go on for the rest of our natural, and unnatural lives.  



The Killer(s): 


How many Killers are left in the game?  There is absolutely no way I'm going to tell you that.  :) 
That said, the pieces are all there.  You know we started with between 1-3.  The original(s) don't even know how many we started with, or who the others are!  I also tell you when there is an empty vial found, and when there isn't.  Which considering you also know that the Killers have two choices: Recruit or Poison. If no vial is found, you know what they picked!  You can do the math from there, and I've seen some people are doing that. 

- Was a vial found this week?   I can now reveal, yes. Yes there was an empty vial found. 

-  What is the criteria for who for an Accusation? What is the criteria for the Killer(s) in who they choose to poison?  I'm not you. I can't decide what your criteria is.  I assume that everyone has their own strategy for both of those things. For the former, I'd say it should be "Who do you think a Killer is" for the poisoning/recruiting - who would be the best choice for further whatever agenda you have in the game! 

- If a Killer is eliminated during a poll, will you know?  Yes. You will know. 

-  How does the Accusation work? Is it majority vote?  Yes.  The majority of you have to agree.  If the Killer is Person X and 40% of you think it's them, but 60% think it's Person Y, you are going to officially accuse Person Y.    The Killer(s) work on the same principle. They have to reach majority on two issues:  Recruit or Poison and then who to either recruit or poison. In the event of a tie that cannot be broken, the Wheel would decide between the choices. 

- How does the antidote work? Does the person taking it know if it works or not?  Yes. Or rather the person who wins it knows. If they drink it themselves, they know and if they give it to someone else, they know that as well.... and so will the person drinking it.  

- How does it taste? It has a bit of a minty lemon aftertaste that once you get used to is quite pleasant.  :)


Participation

- Yeah. It's been down.  Some of that is the small numbers we have and some of that is that I'm not driving engagement like I normally would be doing.  Haven't been in a good place in awhile. I need to be doing more of this and less of *points the rest of the world* 

How are you Gary? 

- Not great.  Some days MUCH better than others.  Proud of Celena who has been accepted to every single grad school she's applied to so far. Cynthia's birthday is on Monday, so that's weird not going all in on it... and my birthday is coming up at the end of the month and really not sure how I want to celebrate it.  If anyone wants to send me massive amounts of cash though, I'll figure something out!  :D   (Note to self - find people with massive amounts of cash, who want to give it to you!!! No, I won't send them to you!!!) 

How are YOU?  

I can't answer that.  You go ahead and answer it below. 

Ask any other questions you've been having below and I'll try my best to answer them.