Survivor: New Helsing Tribal Thread

[Barkeep49]

All members of the Helsing thread may read and post here. Messages to the tribe and tribal council will also be held in this thread.

Your team buff is orange.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

All members of the Howard thread may read and post here. Messages to the tribe and tribal council will also be held in this thread.

Your team buff is orange.

should this read Helsing?

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Lathum

should this read Helsing?

It does read Helsing. I don't know what you're talking about

[Lathum]

HA!!

villager checking in

[Lathum]

dola- hi to my tribe, I LOL when I saw the makup of this group, should be very fun

[Alan T]

Hello tribe, You all stuck with me it appears this game

[Lathum]

I am predicting we will lead in post count

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I am predicting we will lead in post count

Me too. And it should be noted that Blade almost was in this tribe as well. God THAT would have made for a lot of posts.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Me too. And it should be noted that Blade almost was in this tribe as well. God THAT would have made for a lot of posts.

lol, could you imagine

[Alan T]

That would have been fun in some twisted way.

[Passacaglia]

Helsing villagers, represent!!!! (that means I'm one)

[Grammaticus]

I'm checking in, GO HELSING! Not really sure what is going to happen, but It feels like we will have to work as a team

[Grammaticus]

Oh and I'm just a normal villager.

[Grammaticus]

Where is everybody?

[Alan T]

Sorry, was busy with superbowl all evening. Im going to bed now though. I'll be around more tommorrow/

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

Where is everybody?

I assume we're all waiting for a challenge?

[Lathum]

drunk

[Barkeep49]

Tree mail arrives, it reads

Will you be the ones to find the picture?
Do so and become an island fixture
Otherwise your stay here could be mighty quick
And you will lose out on a cool new trick.

Report to the Challenge thread

[Tyrith]

Well, that sucked.

[Lathum]

hey guys, sorry for the non participation, I think you all know I am usually more active. If we lose the challange and you vote for me I'll understand, people get vote out for alot less on day one.

[Alan T]

Well I am not panicing yet. Tyrith coming over was huge.. so that let us have 1 extra person than other teams except Oz. I will be suprised if we get any bonus for winning, but I think we have a shot at not being a team who has to vote someone off tonight.

As long as all of us put in 5 except Lathum who put in 2, that still gives us 27/30 which is more than 2 of the teams can do. Just need to get lucky on which questions other teams choose to answer.

[Tyrith]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Well I am not panicing yet. Tyrith coming over was huge.. so that let us have 1 extra person than other teams except Oz. I will be suprised if we get any bonus for winning, but I think we have a shot at not being a team who has to vote someone off tonight.

As long as all of us put in 5 except Lathum who put in 2, that still gives us 27/30 which is more than 2 of the teams can do. Just need to get lucky on which questions other teams choose to answer.

Hopefully we'll be fine, no DQs or anything. I suspect we'll be second place tonight.

[Lathum]

Tyrith definatly joined the cool tribe .

[Alan T]

Nice job.. way to pull through at the end there. Big kudos to Tyrith for the last hour work.

Well we're safe for a day.. the downside however is once we arent safe any longer we might be a target for wolves because someone in our tribe will be the seer.

[Lathum]

holy crap you guys won. So do we discuss who the seer should be?

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Lathum

holy crap you guys won. So do we discuss who the seer should be?

Im not sure. I was under the impression that it was quietly awarded to one of us. I am guessing the chances are one of each team has a wolf. (maybe not, but my initial guess).. so for us to say in thread who the seer is would let the wolves know too.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Im not sure. I was under the impression that it was quietly awarded to one of us. I am guessing the chances are one of each team has a wolf. (maybe not, but my initial guess).. so for us to say in thread who the seer is would let the wolves know too.

Correct. I will be PM'ing the seer sometime before the next reward challenge is posted.

[Tyrith]

Yay, we won, I was not expecting that, but it seems like some of the other teams had some malfunctions. I think our good tracking won this for us -- nice job, Alan.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Im not sure. I was under the impression that it was quietly awarded to one of us. I am guessing the chances are one of each team has a wolf. (maybe not, but my initial guess).. so for us to say in thread who the seer is would let the wolves know too.

good point, I'm trying to wrap my mind around this game and the flow of it such as when do we find out who the losing tribes voted out and such.

[Lathum]

recount, we didn't win but we were still in second. That may help us since the wolves may leave us alone.

[Alan T]

Hopefully that will be the case.

[Lathum]

ok, the long drive kicked my ass, I'm off to bed. I'll be around tomorrow.

[Passacaglia]

Good job, guys! Sorry I let you down with some of them. I'd like to hear from Barkeep about Madden Bowl 07, though -- I can see that maybe my feline was not huge enough or something, but I definitely had a picture of Madden Bowl 07.

[Grammaticus]

Pass, he screwed you on having two separate pics for the comish photo's. No biggie though.

I'm actually glad we don't have the seer as that would probably make the team a target.

[Grammaticus]

Maybe we can get Barkeep to post all of the links sent in. It would probably be a good laugh to see what everyone sent, assuming it has not additional game meaning.

[Barkeep49]

Tree mail arrives.

Do you have a way with the written word?
The winner will hold back the werewolf herd
So hopefully you can rhyme
And have an easy time

[Grammaticus]

I had no initiative yesterday.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Tree mail arrives.

Are we supposed to meet somewhere?

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

Are we supposed to meet somewhere?

Challenge is now up in the thread.

[Alan T]

Ugh poems.

[Alan T]

Ok, I guess we need to think of a theme. Preferably something that is easy to get inspiration and write about.

I was thinking about things that are FOFC board related.. some thoughts I had..

Theme possibilities:

The Oakland Raiders
The bleak time between the end of Football season and start of Baseball season
Werewolf players get no respect
Being shipwrecked with a bunch of computer geeks.

Just some ideas to toss out. Curious if others have any ideas for a theme. Ideally for me I would prefer if we could decide on a theme by noon or 1pm EST, so I would have a few hours to help write poems. Since availability in the evenings is some times tough, I would prefer we have poems written during the day and we can do the finishing touches in the early evening before submitting them.

[Passacaglia]

I like either 2 or 3....2 seems like it would be easiest.

[Tyrith]

I think we should go with Alan's thought and decide on a theme in the next few hours so we can start tossing out poetry....cause this is gonna be bad. I am personally TERRIBLE at poetry, but I'll do what I can. Out the themes Alan has talked about I have to agree with Pass that number 2 would probably be easiest; 3 is likely to just go into sheer whining at some point, and I'm not sure who is going to be judging this -- chance not all of them will be WW players or appreciate our complaining.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Tyrith

I think we should go with Alan's thought and decide on a theme in the next few hours so we can start tossing out poetry....cause this is gonna be bad. I am personally TERRIBLE at poetry, but I'll do what I can. Out the themes Alan has talked about I have to agree with Pass that number 2 would probably be easiest; 3 is likely to just go into sheer whining at some point, and I'm not sure who is going to be judging this -- chance not all of them will be WW players or appreciate our complaining.

Really good point, Tyrith -- the celebrity judges may be non-WW people.

[Alan T]

Since we are waiting on some people to come in and toss in their opinions on theme type.. here is what our task is with pointers. We have to come up with 4 different unique poems based on the same theme. I'll use some examples here with the 2nd theme (The time between football season and baseball season) since thats the one most like so far.

Acrostic of at least 6 lines - An acrostic is a poem that also spells out another word with the first letter of each line, paragraph or other repeating pattern. An example:

Below as I look down from the stands
Absent are the football players and marching bands,
Sadly there is no more football this year,
Empty sundays without friends or good cheer;
But don't worry and please don't fret
As a new sport is not here just yet,
Look ahead until a March day
Lastly pitchers and catchers are here to stay.

One limerick - A limerick is a 5 line poem that has a strict meter to it. It follows a rhyme scheme of A-A-B-B-A. Meaning the A lines rhyme and the B lines rhyme. In addition, the limerick follows a strict beat where the A lines are 3 beats and the B lines are 2 beats. Here is an example of a limerick:

There once was a young bears buff,
For whom losing was pretty rough.
Rex Grossman threw away
his glorious day,
Now waiting for the White Sox is tough.

[Alan T]

1 Haiku - A Haiku is a 17 syllable verse. Three lines seperated with 5 - 7 - 5 pattern. Usually a haiku is broken into two parts with a dash, semi-colon or some seperator happening at the end of either the first or second line. Haikus must also contain a season word (a kigo) to describe what season the haiku is set in. Examples would be cherry blossoms in the spring or snow for the winter. Example:

Snow covers the field
Where has all of the crowd gone?
Spring will be here soon.

[Tyrith]

Alan should get a cookie. I think that acrostic is actually pretty good -- I don't know if I could beat that if I spent all day trying, although I'm not sure if that says more about him or me.

[Lathum]

I like the theme idea as well. #2 works for me and Alan's 2 are pretty good. I have to go run some errands but can try and come up with something later in the day.

I am confused, no night kill and was anyone voted from the other tribes?

[Alan T]

One 8 to 20 line poem with rhyme scheme - This is probably the most traditional poem type that we all learned in school. There are many different types of rhyme schemes so we likely want to pick one that best fits an 8-20 line poem. Some various types of rhyme schemes: (thanks to wikipedia)


* Clerihew: "aabb aabb".
* Couplet: "aa", but usually occurs as "aa bb cc dd ...".
* Monorhyme: "aaaaa...", an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic
* Ottava rima: "abababcc".
* Sonnet
o Petrarchan sonnet: "abba abba cde cde" or "abba abba cdc cdc".
o Shakespearean sonnet: "abab cdcd efef gg".
o Spenserian sonnet: "abab bcbc cdcd ee".
o Onegin stanzas: "aBaBccDDeFFeGG" with the lowercase letters representing feminine rhymes and the uppercase representing masculine rhymes, written in iambic tetrameter.
* Spenserian stanza: "ababbcbcc".
* Triplet: "aaa", often repeating like the couplet.



I'm not putting an example here as this is pretty self explanatory I think. I personally would guess a Shakesperean sonnet might be the best for this type of thing. That rhyme pattern is:

abab cdcd efef gg

[Lathum]

I have an idea for the ryming poem but it may be a while