Time for a Dose of Marcus Medicine

[Marcus Lehman]

Hey guys! Congrats on the final two! Well deserved!

Let me start out by giving a HUGE shout out to the HOSTS, PW's and the rest of this CAST! You all are insanely awesome! Thank you for making this game special!

Coming into this my vote is up in the air, and your answers to questions will have a lot of impact on how I vote.

Adam, I think you're a great guy, but since I am Lex Lutheresque to you, I feel the need to be a bad guy.




There is one issue I want to address within your opening statement (the long version) because otherwise, I have no issue with you.

So... Your list of people who needed to go, in the exact order they went. I am calling bullshit on all of those except for me and Dolly. I respect that you were trying to showcase your game, but you added a little too much glitter as far as I'm concerned. Here's why I don't believe you had a target in mind (other than Dolly) every round:

1. Erinn. *sigh* The one who "needed to get Erinn out" was ME. She wasn't even a blink on your radar before I brought her name up, she wasn't a blink on ANYONE'S radar before I brought her name up, and you spewing shit about how she, Sierra and Spencer were tight AFTER I had already brought her name up bored me to death. I don't think even you believed that crap.

2. Marcus. Totally believable. I was big man on campus, bitches. A fucking star that needed to be extinguished. *flexes* *cheeky smile*

3. Spencer. Let's be real, because Silas wanted Spencer out WAY before it was cool.

4. Crystal. Really, an everyone who was playing thing.

5. Sierra. Wasn't mentioned, didn't need to be.

6. Dolly. If any of you morons thought you could beat Dolly at that point, you deserved to lose, and you and Crystal were the only ones targeting her before I left, so I believe you wanted her out bad.

Please defend your view of this, or just tell me "You misinterpreted my opening statement." or "You're absolutely right!"

Silas, buddy, ole pal, ole friend. I am glad to see you made it here despite your panic attacks and mental breakdowns. Your opening statement came off as far more honest, and more enjoyable to go through. Even your part about saving my ass "time and time again". I actually laughed out loud and nodded with a grin, because it's so true (at least pre-merge). If there is one person I wouldn't have backstabbed for anyone in this game, it was you. That doesn't mean I won't vote for Adam to win this thing though.

The problem I'm having, besides the fact that you made a Fifty Shades reference -_- is that the jury deserves more details about your journey through this game. So along with my question for you, I'd like you to give us a layout.

QUESTIONS:

Adam - Is this really only your second ORG? Without giving too much away (for alias sake), what was your first one like compared to this one?

Silas - You told me once you had never made Jury, how true is that? Like, you'd never made merge, or only made finals?

[Adam Gentry]

1. Erinn had been on my radar before merge, and Crystal can even agree to that. She has always been the head of the snake, and I knew how dangerous she really was. Now was Dolly more of a threat than her, yes that's why I wanted her gone, but Erinn was always on the radar, hence why confessinals are filled with me talking about how she is waiting patiently to strike and take me out.

2.Yeah I wanted you out.

3. Everyone knows I wanted Spencer out, That was made obvious when I called him out in the aim chat. Had nothing to do with Silas cause I was calling the shots not him

4. I need clarification on this one.

5. Sierra was mentioned on my long version, mostly in the final 5 where she attempted to get me out and I talked about finding out, and creating a plan to idol her out.

6.And yes I did want Dolly out bad


My first org compared to this honestly sucked.. The cast was not as interesting as you guys, I was so confused with the confessional shit. I had a huge target on my back for no reason, people were making house meetings to get me out, saying I was the MVP (it was a Big Brother one). Now come to find out, majority of them were already friends and shit, but that's not my problem. But yeah this is my second org.

[Marcus Lehman]

Adam, you're all set. Erinn actually articulated what I wanted to ask you better, and I got what I wanted there. Good job and good luck!

[Silas Gaither]

Marcus <3 

I'll start off by addressing your question. 

Silas - You told me once you had never made Jury, how true is that? Like, you'd never made merge, or only made finals?

I'll try and stay vague here not to break alias. I told you I almost never sit jury (I have once before, in my first ORG, like a year ago). But, usually, I'm pre-merge yeah. But I was more dedicated to this game than I am usually, because I was really motivated to succeed and qualify for All-Stars and play against some friends I know who are gonna be in that. I have made finals once, also, but I didn't win. 

As for my layout, I'll go round by round. I'll bold the important stuff if ya'll don't want to read the whole thing.

Pre-merge for me was honestly a breeze. I was never close to being in danger. Pre-tribes, to reiterate what you've already reiterated, was spent just throwing the vote off you. I had to beg and sway people not to vote you out at the Colton vote and at the Josh vote. That was how I spent the pre-tribal phase of the game. I had an alliance with Dolly, Robb and Dan as well, which lasted until Dan was voted out. 

During tribes, I really didn't struggle very much either. I got very lucky with the tribe we ended up on because I trusted just about everyone. The Tasha move, which is one of the few votes I really really pushed for, was a key moment for me. Everyone wanted to vote you but I really strong-armed them into voting Tasha, because we felt as though she was with the other side and I knew you'd be loyal to me in the future (unlike her). 

Merge got a bit messier. Obviously, I fought to keep Robb, but I also spent a lot of that vote trying to sway people like Sierra, Adam and (unknowingly) Cirie to not target me if we couldn't muster the numbers. The Chelsea vote was messy also. I put my faith into Erinn and Spencer, who I really couldn't trust, and gambled. But that really was the end of my lucky streak. I insisted on voting Cirie rather than Adam at the next vote (as you remember) because I knew me and Cirie were dead and I knew how loyal Adam was to me. The same thing happened at the Erinn vote, where I insisted on keeping Adam over Erinn (or Spencer) because they were wildcards playing the middle. I constantly fought to keep Adam around post-merge, because I knew he'd always be a number for me going forward.

After that, you were blindsided. If I'm gonna take credit for that round, it's gonna be for making sure I wasn't the target. Jaclyn and Adam would never have voted for me and I made sure Crystal was wearier of you than she was of me. I planned for a power-shift and made sure I wasn't the first target in the event that that happened. I solidified an alliance w Jac and Adam at that point and stated that I wanted that as my F3, which I was able to accomplish. I set myself an ideal bootlist from that point on, which I just about replicated almost 100%. 

Me and Adam totally planned the Spencer blindside, because I knew he would flip on me at some point and was the biggest question mark for me going forward (as non-threatening as he was). Despite blindsiding Sierra that round, I tried to regain her trust by including her in the Crystal vote, which I really pushed for. I think that if I hadn't pushed for Crystal to go as hard as I did, she would've stayed and would probably be sitting F2 right now.

Dolly told me about her idol at like f7. I knew, then, that I had to target Sierra at f5. However, I didn't vote for her because I didn't want her to be too furious at me and I let Jac cast the one vote against her (yes, that double idol play and one Sierra vote was entirely planned for beforehand). Then, I voted out Dolly at f4 and told her I was doing so to try not to burn that bridge either. Though I didn't have that many bridges to burn, I made sure that I never burned any of them by voting people out. I made a point of not leaving on worse terms with every and any any juror. 

The final round is sketchy. Whether or not Jaclyn or Adam would've taken me is up in the air. I banked on throwing the final immunity challenge and going to F2 regardless. That obviously didn't pan out. I wouldn't say that Jaclyn and Adam outsmarted me during that round, though. The fact they couldn't figure out a post-once-per-minute endurance challenge and lost with 10 and 7 minutes respectively kinda nullifies any semblance of strategy. They failed in their plan and I won the final challenge with 38 minutes. I don't know if I deserve credit for that, but Jac and Adam, certainly deserve condemnation for failing such a simple task. 

Thanks Marcus!

[Marcus Lehman]

Thank you, Silas! Great job, good luck!

I'll be watching the other threads before I make a decision.