Austranded: Red Centre

G'DAY MATES! your new crush Nico is here with some opening night confessional questions.

1- Stranded will have been running for 14 years as of this coming Saturday! Along the way we've seen some truly unhinged characters, master strategists, and plenty of worthy contenders. Heading into this season, everyone was informed of the alias allstars twist, and had time to prepare accordingly. Is there anyone in particular that you would expect to be here? Do you think people can alias well enough to hide that identity for the entire game?

2-Tell us about your tribe! Who are you clicking with so far? Do you think you'll be able to work within this specific group of personalities?

3- What has changed since the last time you played Stranded? Update us! Help the viewers get to know you!

4- How are you aliasing this season? Any specific information you're withholding from the other players to avoid being detected? Remember that there is one new player with knowledge of which stranded and isolated characters have returned for the season. How do you think this twist will factor into the game?

As always, feel free to use this confessional to update us with anything you feel is important! It's just you, the hosts, and some famous Australians allowed in here, so you can be as honest as you'd like. we can see all of your DMs anyways so it's not like you have anything to hide

Is there anyone in particular that you would expect to be here? Do you think people can alias well enough to hide that identity for the entire game?



That is the first take list of who I think could be playing and why, but as we all know, I have bad reads, so we shall see.

Can I alias the whole game - no, no way I can. I will blow it sooner than later. You all should start a pool and bet dates that ol Mat/TomTom outs himself by saying way too much personal info. "Im FrOm SeAtTLe AnD LoVe SpOrtS/StOCks/GaMbLing."

2-Tell us about your tribe! Who are you clicking with so far? Do you think you'll be able to work within this specific group of personalities?

I don't think the start of this game could have gone much better. We had 4 on early and often, kinda solidifying a first 4 even though no one said it out loud: Honestly it feels like day one with Liz/Dean/Aaron all over again and let me tell you why.

Kylie - Feels like I am back with a less edgy, but just as sharp version of Liz. Great talks, she is smart for sure. I have been dropping "so good to be back" once in a while and she never bites so if I had to guess the rookie out of 23 others and I've only spoken with 4, I'm guessing Kylie first, but who knows.

Jarrad - Really bonding well, he is hiding his super strategic mind as best he cant. Really feels like when I first was chatting with Dean. My first two guesses here are James/Michael. I didn't watch all of James, but when he thought he knew who you were, mother fucker dropped hint after hint (dean). So for me, he's been dropping crumbs every time we talk
"Aye Aye Capt" - Rematch - Said that twice last night
Wants to be "Hosts Favorites" - Feels like a Mike/James move
Said "Isolation" when it didn't fit his talk track - Could be another carrot, or I could be seeing things that arent there.

David - Aaron Lite feel to David. I think David is trying to hardest to stay hidden. He is the dude of the group, easy to chat with. Said he likes to get stoned, play vids, watch shows, but works hard. I dont know how much of that to fully believe as the guy is hiding hard.

Ex. Using very global language. Started convos with "Mate" "Reckon" and a few other regional phrases.

Simon - Late to the party and went to bed early, but seems very much to fit this team. Clueless on who he is, so no guesses from me. But we are making some good 1:1 headway.

5/6 of us are here, no Henry, which hurts us if he never shows, already down a number, but does make getting out of this round easier with an inactive. I have been really focusing on Kylie and Jarrad off the start, want to solidify a core. Hoping the 3 of us connect together rather than 1-1-1. I have been more 1:1 with David, but I think the 4 of us are the main group if I am feeling things out correctly. Still super early and we will see how we do on the challenge. But on early, often and very active has things looking UP for the Yellow Tribe.

3- What has changed since the last time you played Stranded? Update us! Help the viewers get to know you!

-Not much. Still married (only 10 months in, but Covid makes it feel like 10 years..."Love ya babe!"
-The baby making process has begun, not as much fun as you would think, maybe I am doing it wrong
-The weed smoking has stopped until I can knock her up, so sooner the better
-I am worse at the site, not sure how that is possible. I think it took me over 15 minutes to post that puzzle.
-Anything else? Ask if you wanna know more.

4- How are you aliasing this season? Any specific information you're withholding from the other players to avoid being detected? Remember that there is one new player with knowledge of which stranded and isolated characters have returned for the season. How do you think this twist will factor into the game?

Terribly, this is the part that is keeping me up at night. I'm trying to just avoid talking about anything that will give me away. I am most worried about how I type, verbiage and things that only I do. I know you have some psychos on here that are going to go over every board and the discord to find patterns (fuck maybe I should do that). So I am trying to be like 10% Tommy, just to mix some in and the rest all lies. AGAIN, I will fail in this, lets just hope the first person to figure out who I am is a friendly.

The Rookie - not much you can do about that. I hope that they are on my side cause you can do damage with all that info. I think that person has much greater control over what happens than any of us can plan for. If they decide to team up with a vet, that is such a powerful duo and could really aim at specific targets. Really not much you can do to counter that unless I am missing something. I think best case for all us players is for that person to stay anonymous as long as possible. If they are the only person with this info, the better for the rest of us.

Hej där! Nice to meet you! I’m Anders, and I’ll be one of your hosts this season!
We hope you are getting used to your mates this weekend. Just wanted to drop in and see how you are doing with building relationships during your free time! What do you think you are really good at when meeting new people and what’s something that you think you’ll struggle with when connecting with your tribe mates?

Are we mixing Scandinavian with Aussie? I don't know much about AU Survivor, but I don't remember the phrase Hej Dar (that an umlaut?) while living in Oz.

Its been a slow weekend. Not sure if everyone feels comfy because of the inactives or is taking the slow start to enjoy some last semblance of relaxation (I am), but its been slow indeed. That is ok and I think night 1 & 2 were very important to laying the groundwork with my tribe.

My top 2 to speak with - Kylie/Jarrad
Ill ride with those 2 and David for now. David is great too, just spoken with him less. However I think we have the most in common outside of game and I think Jarrad and I have the same strategic mindset. Trying to poke Jarrad into declaring that we are a duo for the foreseeable future. See if he takes the bait and feels similar about me.

Good at
Connecting and finding common ground with anyone and everyone. Being so fucking old, I have done and experienced a lot. I am able to translate that into smooth convos with just about anyone and that does me good.

Bad at
While connecting I tend to not think longterm and will easily disclose too much about myself. I am trying to take on as many of my close friends personas and life experiences and use those in chatting, but once in a while I revel something that wreaks of Tommy and that might make my ID easier to guess.

If I am right and Kylie is the newb, which I most likely am not. I am worried about telling her so many tall tales that she will not want to pair longterm, so I really keeping convos surface level with her for the most part. Things that I am doing or am going to do vs story time.

Bad at
If you took samples of my communication within the team and took that over to discord, you could prob tag my writing style very quickly. Hoping no one does that. I need to start writing Lol, ROFL and all that stuff I never say vs my hahahaha, cause most people dont do that. Gotta start mixing it up like David. I swear he has a list of all the different ways they say hello and goodbye around the world and picks a different one each time.

Time to step it all up starting with Trivia, the vote (if we lose) and everything else.

"Yesterday was your last easy day"

-Tommy/Mat's peewee football coach circa 1996. I think its appropriate for this game.

Logos

Love the logos, feel like Legends of the Hidden Temple, but can someone help me out?

Green - Lizards/Iguanas/Dragons?
Yellow - Bird/Hawk?
Blue - Roos
Pink - what the fuck is that thing? Echidna?

Little known fact that Echidna and Platypus are the only mammals that lay eggs. I hope that comes up in the trivia.

Mat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:21:26 pm Logos

Love the logos, feel like Legends of the Hidden Temple, but can someone help me out?

Best show ever

Mat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:04:01 pm Are we mixing Scandinavian with Aussie? I don't know much about AU Survivor, but I don't remember the phrase Hej Dar (that an umlaut?) while living in Oz.

YOU are from Australia, tio, pero your hosting team son INTERNACIONALES!