Jacadeux
So before I reach out to anyone, I want to lay out what my opening plans are.
Obvs, I want to get myself into a majority alliance. I feel like doing this successfully results in a smooth ride to merge. And there is a lot of material to work with on this tribe.
Golok Tribe -
Jasoi - I don't know him at all, but recently his name has been coming up as someone who is an enemy of some friends of mine. I don't know what that's about. I'd like to meet him and get to know him on my own terms.
Jabbar - Unless something happens to change this, I expect to be extremely loyal to Jabbar. I've played games with him before and although he's one of my favorite people on tengaged, I've always wound up working against him. Not this game. I'm reaching out to him first before I talk to anyone else to ensure that this doesn't happen. I for sure want to work with Jabbar 100%
Josh - Josh and I have had amazing success as alliance partners before in TPS. Since then, we've only played once, and I didn't feel like the same magic was there. We didn't talk as much as we previously had and I wonder how our relationship will go this game. At any rate, I do trust him more than most people on tengaged. He's always there for my charities. I don't see me writing his name down, but I also don't know that I'll be spilling my plans to him all the time either. We'll have to see how it goes.
Julian - I really don't know where we stand. I really like Julian, but I have this feeling that he thinks I don't and am after him. It kinda stems back to this weird STARS game that a friend of mine, (Burger) was in. LOL. Burger was telling me he didn't have any allies, and I told him. "find someone you don't know, and tell them you heard their name. See if you can work that into a relationship". He wanted to know what to do when they asked where he heard it. I wasn't in the stars, so I was like, "meh, just tell them you heard it from me." ... ok, so like, literally, the only other person in that game I knew was Julian, and that was the person Burger chose. :/ I didn't know it was coming when Julian very sanely came to me and asked what the fuck. LOL. Since the entire thing was a lie to begin with and I didn't want to blow up Burger's game, I was left with no choice but to be shady. He thinks it's related to him cancelling his org I was in. I've never explained myself or apologized, so oops. fingers crossed, because he's a power player. I want to work with him, but i'll have to feel like I'm safe and he's not after me.
Tris - A friend of hoops I think. I've played with him before in a BB where I repeatedly used him as a pawn. he wasn't happy about it. He talks in all caps and it's weird. This is the first time we've played since I found out he was close to hoop, though, so that kinda influences my opinion of him. I'm going to try talking to him and see where it goes.
AJ/Brien/Maddie - I have no knowledge or background with any of these people.
Tarang Tribe -
I've played with Jay before... He's like an ally who is more of a threat than an ally. I dig him a lot as a person. I fear him a bit as a player. He does what I can't - he talks to everyone. So when he makes a move it always seems to fucking work, and it's always completely out of my control because it's coming from unexpected directions. He's good at playing people, and I think he's good at playing me. ;)
Kyle - played a game with this guy once where he was widely detested. I wound up being ostracized because I was willing to work with him. I never found out why he was so hated, he seemed nice enough to me. A little whiney maybe, but not in a super terrible way. Maybe i'll get a chance to get to know him a little better.
The rest? - I know none of those people, I'm so glad i'm not on that tribe.
I have an idol! OMG! I'm so excited. ignore the fact that everyone has one. Most people don't play their idols wisely.