"Welcome back. Before the break, we recapped the first three episodes. Now we're going to discuss episodes four, five, and six. Let's look at the first challenge in episode four which was Combo Breakers."
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"Incorrect."
This was one of my favorite challenges. I got to be the hero, and sabotage at the same time.
"You can go down the first path for free, but each path you take after that will cost the pot $2,000."
I ended up going down all five paths after the sixth one that was free. I knew Maya was suspecting me more at this point, so I wanted to sound like a genuine player by getting the code correct.
"Try 642424."
"OK."
"IT OPENED!"
"YOU'RE A GENIUS MICIAH!"
You're right Phoenix. I am a genius. I figured out how to sabotage and you do not even know about it.
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SABOTAGE - $10,000
TOTAL - $46,000
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"That's what made me not suspect you anymore." Maya remembered. "I was like: despite her costing money, she was able to help us get the combination."
"I remember how happy you were when the safe opened." Phoenix added "That made me rule you out completely."
"After the challenge, our whole alliance was talking about how she couldn't be the Mole." Apollo laughed
"OH YEAH!" Phoenix gasped "I was like: if it was her, hit me in the head with a brick."
"I happen to have one now." Athena joked
"Cykes was telling me about your talk of it not being Miciah." Simon admitted "And it worked, until later."
"What do you mean by that?" Vaike asked
"You'll see soon, Aldente."
"Let's take a look at the Kidnapped Crisis."
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"Fredrick! Where are you?"
Poor little Fredrick Lewary. He didn't even get a chance to hear about what happened until after we arrived at Fort Sumter.
"Guys! The walkie talkie isn't working."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT WORKING!"
She means that I messed up your only way of communication.
"How did the battery get lost?"
"I don't know. How DID it get lost?"
"It was sitting in this boat the whole time. None of us took it when we checked that island."
I can tell you how I was able to take the battery out. Before we got out to check the first island, I took the walkie talkie, and used a screwdriver to open the battery compartment. I quickly took out the battery, and sealed the compartment shut. When we got out, I put the now taken out battery in the trash can.
"I know it was someone. Who wants to show their pockets first."
"I don't think the Mole would hide it in their POCKETS!"
I was in the very backseat when I did that, so I could easily use the positioning to my advantage. No one really bothers to check the person in the backseat anyway. If I did it up front, then everyone would be able to see it.
"I know it's one of you three. Maybe I'll forgive you if you confess right now!"
I was luckily able to blame it on the others on the boat. Larry, Maya, and Lucina were the top three suspects at this point.
"You guys did not earn the money for this challenge. You just missed the deadline by under a minute."
I know we would've won if only I never touched that battery.
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SABOTAGE - $50,000
TOTAL $96,000
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"IT WAS YOU!?" Kagero hissed
"Yep." Miciah snickered
"I thought it was Larry when I saw it on TV." Charlotte admitted
"Same here." Vaike added
"I got an idea. Let's have a poll real quick. Audience can you participate too?" Miciah asked "Raise your hand if you thought it was Larry who stole the battery."
Phoenix, Miles, Vaike, Charlotte, Trucy, Apollo and around half of the audience raised their hands.
"Who thought that it was Lucina?"
Simon, Athena, Maya, Oboro and around a fifth of the audience raised their hands.
"Who thought it was Maya?"
Fredrick, Ike, Lucina, Kagero, Larry, and about a third of the audience raised their hands.
"And who thought it was me?"
Everyone in the building had their hands down.
"Wow." she gasped "Was I really that good of a Mole?"
The audience suddenly gave a standing ovation.
"If the audience would settle down now, I have a few questions for some of the players. Fredrick, I'll start with you. You said you heard the helicopter."
"I really did here one, but it wasn't the right one."
"You did?" Vaike asked stunned
"Yeah. It was right over me, so I couldn't give a description of what it looked like."
"Trucy, you forgot the key. Larry, you went back for it."
"I was in such a rush to get to the fort. I left the key on the boat by mistake."
"I pushed too hard when I was running. On the way back, I ended up running out of breath."
"You guys told the truth too?" Vaike gasped
"Yeah. You thought we were all lying?" Larry asked back
"Yes. Either that, or you all were trying to look like the Mole."
"No wonder why you were the first boot." Charlotte chuckled
"Says the girl that saw the red screen after me." he teased
"Well let's take a look at the fourth quiz. This is where we lost Athena."
1st. Phoenix 2/10 1:08
2nd. Miles 2/10 1:11
3rd. Ike 2/10 1:18
4th. Lucina 2/10 1:21
5th. Trucy 2/10 1:23
6th. Fredrick 2/10 1:43 EXEMPTION
7th. Maya 2/10 1:58
8th. Oboro 1/10 1:34
9th. Larry 1/10 2:00
10th. Apollo 1/10 2:01
11th. Simon 0/10 :45
12th. Athena 0/10 :46
"As you can see, Athena and Simon tied. Simon survived by one second. Thoughts on this?"
"We were both going to select only Ike answers." Athena explained "If either of us went home, it would confirm that Ike couldn't be the Mole."
"After my fight with Ike, Lucina, and Fredrick, I came up with a complex theory." Simon explained "The first four questions were about the teams in challenge seven. The next four were about the teams in challenge eight. Since I guessed Ike for all of the questions, I would've got either four or eight right if the Mole was on a team with Ike in episode four. I figured that Athena and I couldn't have got four right, so I knew we got zero right. Since we got zero right, I knew the Mole couldn't have been on a team with Ike in episode four. That narrowed my Mole suspects down to all of the girls, except for Trucy. She was on the helicopter team with Ike."
"Wow. That's genius." Ike complimented
"I know." Simon smirked
"Let's take a look at episode five. Challenge nine was Pick Your Poison."
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"You may start once Larry hits the water."
I knew how to sing Oh Shenandoah, cause my dad used to sing that song to me when I was little. I got my task done easily.
"My number is eight."
I was going to sabotage this challenge by having Miles over think the code. Before I could give him my ideas though, he already figured it out.
"Let me try something."
31754 8 692
CORRECT
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"That code was so easy."
"For you it was." Vaike told Miles
"That's why I picked you for the coding." Phoenix explained "You were one of the smartest players this season."
"I want to know why you decided to pick me for navigation." Lucina asked
"You told me you had a good sense of direction."
"Yeah. When I have a MAP! I got so lost in there, I ended up forgetting my number."
"At least I was able to keep the challenge going for you." Larry bragged "Remember? I was the swimmer and time keeper?"
"Yeah. We need to give Larry some credit too." Fredrick agreed
"Let's take a look at our Halloween challenge."
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"Happy Halloween everyone."
I remember this challenge all too well. The producers didn't tell me anything about what was in the virtual reality. They wanted genuine fear, and boy did they get it.
"SPIDERS!"
I planned my sabotage as soon as I saw the spiders. I didn't want to, but I knew I had to stay in the challenge for awhile. I would get suspected easily if I was one of the first ones to leave.
"HALLOWEEN! HALLOWEEN!"
Not only did I steal five grand, I got to come back to the real world.
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SABOTAGE- $5,000
TOTAL - $101,000
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"What I thought was crazy was that none of you could last seven hours." Vaike laughed
"It was their worst fears." Kagero defended
"But, the fears weren't real. It was just a simulator."
"That doesn't matter though."
"Hey Larry. How come your worst fear is rejection?" Charlotte teased
"I'm just scared I'll miss out on the one." he explained
"Let's take a look at the fifth quiz. This is where we lost Larry."
1st. Simon 3/10 1:15
2nd. Oboro 1/10 :40
3rd. Miles 1/10 :42
4th. Phoenix 1/10 :54
5th. Ike 1/10 1:01
6th. Apollo 1/10 1:06
7th. Fredrick 1/10 1:11
8th. Maya 1/10 1:14
9th. Trucy 1/10 1:21
10th. Larry 1/10 1:27
11th. Lucina 1/10 1:34 EXEMPTION
"OH MY GOD!" Larry and Lucina yelled together
"That's right. Lucina, if you didn't have your exemption, you would've gone home."
"Things would've been so different if I stayed in a minute longer." Apollo added
"Lucina, I'll ask you first. Who did you suspect?"
"Well, at this point Ike joined Fred and I to take down Simon. We were all going for Maya. I also put a few answers down for Larry, but it was mostly for Maya."
"Larry?"
"I was suspecting Trucy as my main, and Edgey."
"Let me guess. You chose me because of my smarts?"
"Yep."
"Now, let's take a look at episode six."
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"You must free the escape player, and ring the bell."
I wanted to make it to Simon's cell, to show the team that I wasn't a weak link. I also wanted to have a sniper eliminate me after we freed Simon. He could have one less person to worry about shooting. Well, only one part of that plan worked.
"RUN MICIAH!"
*ZAP*
"OH COME ON!"
I don't know how I got sniped from that far, but at least I could convince everyone it was just bad luck.
"That was the worst luck ever."
"I know!"
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"I'm still dumbfounded how the sniper did that." Miciah admitted
"That took some serious skill." Oboro laughed
"I'm wondering something Simon?"
"What's up, Lewary?"
"If you narrowed down your suspects to four, then why did you need to take the exemption?"
"Yeah." Lucina added "You were WAY ahead of everyone else."
"After Cykes was eliminated, I thought that almost everyone would not pick me as the Mole. You three were talking about me the day after the Quiz. I heard Greil say that I couldn't be the Mole, because I had to be the one that tied with Cykes."
"Oh yeah." Ike added "And I remember other alliances were talking about that too."
"Like AAA." Maya added
"Yep. We completely ruled you out." Apollo smirked
"Since you all ruled me out, I thought I could change your minds. I still wanted suspicion on me. Also, I didn't know which of my four suspects it was. Luckily, two of them were eliminated during my little exemption run."
"Me and Maya?" Oboro gasped
"Yeah. You guys weren't on a team with Greil last episode."
"Oh yeah. You're right."
"The next challenge was Doing Duels."
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"Come on up, and grab a card."
As soon as I got informed of what the challenge was going to be, I knew that I had to get the blank card. If someone else got to the blank card first, I had a plan B.
"Miciah has the blank card."
Luckily, I could use my plan A.
"Miciah, $10,000 will go into the pot for each prediction you get correct."
I didn't want to pick all winners, or all losers. I decided to pick two losers, because I thought it would be a happy medium.
"Congratulations Miciah. That's three correct predictions."
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SABOTAGE - $20,000
TOTAL - $121,000
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"I knew Miles wasn't taught fencing, whereas Phoenix was. I also know that Lucina hates ponies. That's why I picked them to win." Miciah remembered
"How did you know that?" Phoenix asked
"I never told you that I hated ponies." Lucina added
"You guys didn't, but your applications did."
"You looked at our applications?" Miles gasped
"Yeah, the day before the game started. I wanted to know a little bit about my competition. I guess studying your likes, dislikes, talents, and all the other stuff on there ended up coming in handy."
"Did you pick the correct winners based on their applications too?" Larry asked
"Well, I did somewhat. Fred and Ike are much more athletic compared to Maya and Trucy. I actually didn't put Apollo down because Oboro's my best friend."
The two girls gave each other a hug, and the audience all awed.
"Let's take a look at the sixth quiz. This is where Oboro was eliminated, and our Mole got all upset."
1st. Simon 3/10 1:07 EXEMPTION
2nd. Miles 1/10 :53
3rd. Trucy 1/10 1:10
4th. Maya 1/10 1:16
5th. Ike 1/10 1:25
6th. Apollo 1/10 1:32
7th. Lucina 1/10 1:35
8th. Phoenix 1/10 1:39
9th. Fredrick 1/10 1:42
10th. Oboro 1/10 1:59
"Miciah? After my elimination you were crying. Was that real?"
"Yes. It was real. I felt like I lost my only true friend in the game. I wanted to help you so badly so we could be in the finale together, but I wasn't allowed to give out hints."
"Oboro, who were you suspecting?"
"Well Nick, I had my top suspect as Lucina. My backup choice was Maya."
"OK then. Coming up we'll take a look at the next three episodes. Don't go anywhere."