Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works

[Diamond18]

A decidedly anti-royalty trend formed on day fifteen, and an angry mob, sounding the war drums in light of a continued attack on the Smith, summarily ousted the elven lass:

Princess Mee: 6 votes

Smith of Wootton Major: 2 votes

King Augustus Bonifacius: 2 votes

And so, Princess Mee was sent to live with her wicked step-mother, who hired a woodsman to cut out her self-absorbed little elven heart.


Day the Sixteenth finds 31 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
King Augustus Bonifacius
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Lhunardawen]

Save Elempi!

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIUS

I'm not a member of any league, mind you, nor was I hired by our resident Smith of Wootton Major. It's just that...umm...erm...his name is too long.

EDIT: Extra "o" removed. Save Esty from bugs!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I'll jump on that bandwagon and give an additional reason for getting rid of this character:

Ego Augustus Bonifacius Ambrosius Aurelianus Antoninus Pius et Magnificus, dux rex, tyrannus, et Basileus Mediterranearum Partium

How many productive things could his team members have accomplished in the time it takes just to say his name?! Besides, nomen est omen, it starts with "Ego".

++King Augustus Bonifacius

(minus the second o, by the way...)

[Tuor of Gondolin]

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIUS

It apears the revolution is on.
Could 80-year-old matriarchs be next?
(And what are the views of her son and
daughter-in-law)?

[Anguirel]

No! Is Royalty to be allowed no Dignity?

Let Cavaliers and King's Men all shout down the insidious Puritans! Down with the meddling Churchmen!

++THE PARSON

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

No! Is Royalty to be allowed no Dignity?

None whatsoever, thou bend-minded, malice-hearted cretin.

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIOUS

The man had no sense of responsibility, and thought dragon tail cakes were more important than a the right ordering of his kingdom. Away with him!

And thanks, Alcarillo, for being willing to deal.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Could we get rid of that extra "o" in the King's name before the deadline? The misspelling is bugging me!

[Celuien]

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIUS
On with the Revolution.

(And let's save Elempi. )

[Alcarillo]

++King Augustus Bonifacius

*waves red banner* Long live the Revolution!

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Could we get rid of that extra "o" in the King's name before the deadline? The misspelling is bugging me!

But it establishes a delicious pun! Don't you think Tolkien was quite intentional with it?

[Bêthberry]

Well, really I think that the Barrow Wight has hung around quite long enough and could do with a relocation exercise, but I'll save him for another day when he might be more likely to receive that dispatch.

In other words,

++ Augie Bono, Tyrannus... Rex

Assuming that spelling irregularities and alternate name forms do not mitigate against the court's pleasure.

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

But it establishes a delicious pun! Don't you think Tolkien was quite intentional with it?

Um, it was my spelling error.

[littlemanpoet]

Oh. Oops.

Ah what the heck! Good pun anyway!

[Diamond18]

Regicide was the name of the game on day sixteen. The foes of the Smith backed down but cries of "Save Elempi!" still rang acrss the beach, and Auggie Bonnie was made their whipping boy.

King Augustus Bonifacius: 7 votes

The Parson: 1 vote

And so, the King was fed to the Dragon for midday snack.


Day the Seventeenth finds 30 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[littlemanpoet]

Hmmmm.... 6 on each team. Whereas there are folks I would preserve, there is nobody I really want gone. However, 'tis time to show that ignorance does beget results, and so I shall vote to decrease the numbers of characters from the one book I have NOT read.

++ Herbert Dorkins

With a name like that, he really has to go. He isn't even his own! I mean, look at the name. "Her" bert. Her who? Not a very self-possessed person. Reason enough!

[Anguirel]

Hmm. Hrrrom. I wonder who I'll pick.

Oh, what about this bright idea!

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

[Tuor of Gondolin]

++ Herbert Dorkins

Do you really need two dorks...I mean, Dorkins?

[Anguirel]

Oh come on. This is starting to be seriously predictable. It's cringeworthy the way you're all giving in to LMP's craven threat of desertion. Unite. Buck the trend. Do something different for a change.

Smith, indeed. What's this loafer's real name, I'd like to know?

[The Saucepan Man]

*snore*

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

Unless this game perks up, this shall probably be my last participation on this thread. Seriously, folks, it is incredibly boring when all but a few vote the same way as each other every day ...

[Anguirel]

A promise: If Smith is evicted today, I will not jump on a bandwagon again in this thread. I shall transmogrify entirely into a Radical Free Spirit.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

A promise: If Smith is evicted today, I will not jump on a bandwagon again in this thread. I shall transmogrify entirely into a Radical Free Spirit.

Sorry... no deal...

A.) I'm already a free agent with a dislike of bandwaggons that aren't my own- and Smith is definitely not my own.

B.) I'm already a Radical (er... well, not-so-Radical) Free Spirit.

Which reminds me...

++ Mew

Should be a cat, not a seagull.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Unless this game perks up, this shall probably be my last participation on this thread. Seriously, folks, it is incredibly boring when all but a few vote the same way as each other every day ...

Pulling a LMP, are we, Saucey?

There you have it, I guess: either we keep Sauce or we keep LMP...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, Saucy, if you plan to make good on the idea of voting for the same character every day, the snores won't all be yours! There's nothing wrong with campaigning to save characters one really cares about, is there? I want Smith to stay, and if the only way to accomplish that is by bandwagoning to get other characters expelled instead, why I choose that efficient method! Therefore:

++Herbert Dorkins

Really, if Tolkien hadn't been the author, I wouldn't have bothered to read the Mr. Bliss story, and I don't care nearly as much about its characters.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Esty

Well, Saucy, if you plan to make good on the idea of voting for the same character every day, the snores won't all be yours!

One person (or, at most, two people) voting for the same contestant each day until he or she goes is not boring. That happens frequently in these shows and is my general chosen modus operandi. What is boring is for everyone else to simply vote the same way each day, which (however satisfying for them) removes any element of excitement from the "contest".

The situation is easy to remedy, though. Either Smith is voted off and the game can move on, or people stop voting en masse for the same character just to save him (which is hardly justified, given that only two at most are voting for him) and the snorefest becomes a proper contest.

The third option, as far as I am concerned, is simply to opt out and leave you all to your cosy arrangements. Which, as I said, is a distinct possibility the way things are going.

[The 1,000 Reader]

++Niggle.



Why? Because For is Niggle and he made a reference to a certain Japanese craze and has tainted the forums.

[Bêthberry]

'Tis far, far easier to work Dorkins into a parody than Smith of Wootton Major.

So we are here on a Dorkin plane.
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where insensed wills clash by night.
And Diamond counts the chads by day.
Fall as they may.


For this alone, it must be a double vote.

++ Matthew Arnold

++ Herbert Dorkins

And if the howls of the mer-dogs singing keep me up tonight, I may come to regret this vote.

[Diamond18]

Ah, I love the smell of controversy in the morning. A mini kafuffle arose when some found fault in the voting style of others, but at the end it did not change the result any:

Herbert Dorkins: 4 votes

Smith of Wootton Major: 2 votes

Mew, the Seagull: 2 votes

Niggle: 1 vote

And so, Herbert was spanked with a battledore until his bottom bled and he died from blood less.


Day the Eighteenth finds 29 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

The situation is easy to remedy, though. Either Smith is voted off and the game can move on, or people stop voting en masse for the same character just to save him (which is hardly justified, given that only two at most are voting for him) and the snorefest becomes a proper contest.

The third option, as far as I am concerned, is simply to opt out and leave you all to your cosy arrangements. Which, as I said, is a distinct possibility the way things are going.

In other words, "THEY need to change but not ME."

There is a fourth option: realize you can't get Smith (because there are too many who love the character {not LMP but the story character}) and move on to a more realistically removable candidate. Then the game can go on with more interesting possibilities. Why not give it a try?

As for my vote today, I have no problems with evicting....

++ Mew

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + The Wizard Artaxerxes

Leave him in now and he might find
his arrogant soulmate (Saruman)
and together in Middle-earth they might
"Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war" (or whatever).

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by lmp

In other words, "THEY need to change but not ME."

Precisely. After all, it is THEY that are wrong, not ME.

Originally Posted by lmp

There is a fourth option: realize you can't get Smith (because there are too many who love the character {not LMP but the story character}) and move on to a more realistically removable candidate.

So why not abandon the "contest" and simply appoint Smith the winner without further ado?

+ + SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

[Anguirel]

Quite. Smith for winner!

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

Oh, I seem to have voted for Smith to go by accident. What a disaster. Everyone, vote for Smith and you might persuade me to change my vote. How does that sound?

[Celuien]

++ MEW
Messy animals, seagulls. 'Nuff said.

[The Saucepan Man]

Celuin (and others - you know who you are), why not save yourself the time of visiting this thread simply by arranging a standing vote, as follows:

+ + Whichever one littlemanpoet votes for

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Celuin (and others - you know who you are), why not save yourself the time of visiting this thread simply by arranging a standing vote, as follows:

+ + Whichever one littlemanpoet votes for

Well, that would take some of the fun out of come over here to irritate the anti-Smiths.

Besides, I'm perfectly willing to vote differently than LMP...if the attacks on Smith cease.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, now that this thread is getting to be more about personal politics than being just fun and games (which I originally thought it was supposed to be), I will simply vote

++Estelyn

off.

[The Only Real Estel]

Well, Spm, I think that if you (and Ang in this case) are going to continue to vote for someone until they are gone on the basis of "that's the way the game goes" then I don't think you can fault others for piling on other tribespeople to keep Smith from going. After all...that's the way the game goes.

And it's quite often that a leader emerges (in this case, perhaps lmp) that other people rally to to save their favorite. It's to be expected.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Well, now that this thread is getting to be more about personal politics than being just fun and games (which I originally thought it was supposed to be), I will simply vote

++Estelyn

off.

Poor Esty...

You don't realise, alas, from the PAST Survivor threads, that this is how it inevitably goes. It is ABOUT the characters, of course, but what makes it FUN... er, or Mirthful... is the reasoning that we come up with. Not, of course, that we want to get rid of characters for that REASON, but because of the reactions it gets.

Really, all this personal assault is a part of the game, and not to be taken seriously. However, if you're easily offended, 'tis best indeed to drop out.

Meanwhile... hmm....

I've often identified with SPM and his anti-popular candidate positions, but he's taken such a liking to getting RID of Smith, that I find it rather more amusing to KEEP someone in this juncture.

Therefore,

++ Mew

As for my no-bandwaggons-but-my-own personal rule... well, I started this bandwaggon yesterday, didn't I?

[The Saucepan Man]

Apologies to one and all if my style of playing these games has offended anyone. Especially you, Esty. It was not my intention.

My posts are meant entirely in jest, I can assure you and, as Formendacil indicates, these games have recently tended to go this way. I am slightly frustrated by the collaberative effort to save Smith, but in an enjoyable and rather amused way. As Formy accurately identifies, I tend to take an "anti-populist" approach, and so I always tend to end up railing against the majority. For those who have not played these games before, I can understand how my posts may have seemed a bit off. For my part, it is purely part of the game, and not meant personally in any way (I appreciate that lmp has closely associated himself with my nemesis in this particular game, but my Smith votes should not be taken as any reflection on him personally, but rather a prodcut of my anti-populist approach).

I hope that I can tempt Esty back to the thread with an offer not to vote for Smith again ... well not for a few days, at least.

And, to show willing:

- - SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

+ + MEW

Seagulls! Dirty, messy creatures. As anyone who lives close enough to the sea (which seems to include most of the British Isles, these days) will testify.

I do, however, hope that my vote today, and my agreement to hold off on the Smith votes, will be reciprocated with a more open competition in the next few days.

[The Saucepan Man]

Sorry. One more comment.

Originally Posted by TORE

After all...that's the way the game goes.

I will say that I don't think it is best played in that way. The game is much more fun when there are a number of factions - and therefore alliances to be made ... and broken.

[The Saucepan Man]

Of course, I coud always pull a Kuru and say that it was always my intention that Smith should win, as and when when he finally does.

Has anyone noticed how, in these games, everyone seems to be able to claim great satisfaction with the result, however it goes ...?