The Mole: Day 2: Dinner #2 and a Failed Challenge.

[Mgm]

==================PROFILE==================

User Name: Mgm
Birthday (year not necessary): May 16
Hometown: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Favorite Color: Black
Favorite Movie: The Sixth Sense
Favorite Band: OUTL4W
Lucky Number: 18
Good Luck Charm: Wood carving necklace from the Dominican Republic

What would you do with the title of MSMole Champion?
Post it in my sig and brag.

Who do you think is most likely to be the mole, just based on the playerlist?
JDodge looks dodgy (even before he posted his profile)

Have you watched any seasons of The Mole on Television?
All 7 Dutch series, all 3 Belgian ones and I read up on other series around the world.

Do you have access to a webcam?
If it will install properly, yes.

Can and will you check MS multiple times a day to partake in this game?
Yes.

Are you the mole?
Of course not.
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[Mgm]

Nonsense, that's typically the sort of information the mole gets in their mission brief.

[Mgm]

Who do you think is most likely to be the mole, just based on the playerlist?
no one... hopefully the choosing of the mole is completely random, therefore no 1 person has any greater probability of being the mole, than any other 1 person...

Personally I prefer a capable mole over a random one. Makes for a better game.

[Mgm]

Are you the mole? [answer deleted]

Is this post still considered to be a fully filled in profile? Or was the material deleted by the mole?

[Mgm]

Thestatusquo: Is your secret number 3.14 or was that just the short form of pi?

[Mgm]

Are you the mole?

[answer deleted]

Kinetic, please fix your profile.

[Mgm]

Mr. Cooper said he'd fix things when we asked.

[Mgm]

IM WATCHING SURVIVOR STOP BOTHERING ME

Then why did you sign up?

[Mgm]

IM WATCHING SURVIVOR STOP BOTHERING ME

If Mr. Cooper is throwing out any exemptions for which we have to make a group decision, I know who's not getting it...

[Mgm]

Who's Jathan?

[Mgm]

And how do you propose we do that?

[Mgm]

Should be easy if he's not playing...

[Mgm]

Does that mean we won't have the next challenge until then? If so, I'll be glad to sacrifice 24 hours if it means we can have a replacement. No one PM him.

[Mgm]

Crosspost. Nevermind

[Mgm]

Who is BBM? That's not a abbreviation that fits a name on the playerlist.

[Mgm]

Challenge #2: Hostage Rescue - Worth = $50,000

The four captains that have been randomly chosen for this first challenge are TSQ, MGM, JDodge and Eteocles.

You will all break up into groups of three... Wait!

I only count 11 of you!

It seems that BBM has been taken hostage! You must break up into four groups. People who love to walk, People who love to run, People who love to drive, and People who love to fly.

You have 36 hours for the captains to confirm their teammates in BOLD. Obviously, BBM cannot be picked, so one group will only have 2 members.

If you fail to establish 4 different teams by the deadline, your team will be docked $5,000.

Hostage:

Flameaxe

Team 1:

TSQ

- captain

Team 2:

MGM

- captain (would like to fly)

Team 3:

JDodge

- captain

Team 4:

Eteocles

- captain

Players:

2. Pickemgenius
4. ShadowLurker
5. Kinetic - prefers to walk.
6. DragonsOfSummer
8. Dani Banani
11. Max - wants to go with MGM
12. somestrangeflea

Suggestion:

We let each player decide which team to go with on a first-come first-served basis.

[Mgm]

Or we could do something that is much quicker. Have the four team captains decide their team mates.

[Mgm]

If pickemgenius or Dani Banani joins my group, I'll take on Max.

[Mgm]

I would like to fly.

[Mgm]

For the other team captains. I'd like to see final teams assembled at least 6 hours before the deadline. Just ignore the wishes of the players you haven't heard from.

I think life can be made slightly easier if we first decide "Who will captain the team of 2?"

More importantly, who will take SL in their team?

[Mgm]

Do either of you have any objections to my team taking to the air?
If so, please speak up now, because as soon as PEG has chosen, I will lock in my team choice and Dani's inclusion depends on it.

[Mgm]

Did you read that PM from the mod yet?

[Mgm]

Is it? Never heard that one before.

[Mgm]

Just my kind of dinner.

[Mgm]

I've heard no complaints from Dani about being in my team; PEG wanted to be on JDodge's team, so I'm set:

Team that likes to fly.
Captain: Mgm.
Member 1: Max.
Member 2: Dani Banani.

[Mgm]

These negotations are a bit messy. Did you complete your team already?
If none of them had another preference, go ahead and take the car.

[Mgm]

Why two walkers?

[Mgm]

I know that. Why have two people walk? Three will be just as slow.

[Mgm]

If the TV version of this challenge is anything to go by, we probably all need to reach Flameaxe at a given time. There's no difference in having two or three people on a team apart from perhaps having the extra set of brains to overcome obstacles, which I assume would be quite handy in the slowest group.

[Mgm]

TSQ needs to confirm too if we don't want to lose $5000.

[Mgm]

yeah kinetic stop being a selfish dick and trying to act like the mole by trying to get us to inadvertantly lose 5 grand

Could be much worse, like losing $12 grand.

[Mgm]

The same reason they do so in the show. It's a lot easier for an individual player to make decisions than it is for a group of people who disagree and are paranoid because the mole may be among them.

[Mgm]

In the French game show "La Carte de Tresor" each team does have a helicopter, so if they can do it, I'm pretty sure the economy is safe...

[Mgm]

No, it's one person teams, but they do have two teams flying as opposed to our one.

[Mgm]

SL, I haven't thrown a challenge on purpose. You still need to post that profile or you're going to be replaced. Not only that, but if

YOU

refuse to participate, how am

I

the one acting like the mole?

You've got a point, but you should've read the thread more carefully, he already posted his profile.

[Mgm]

Good point.

[Mgm]

Where has everyone gone?

[Mgm]

I believe we should try to land on our respective corners of the field and then head back to check our original starting point to see if BBM is there.

[Mgm]

OH AND

FLYERS - CORNER 3 SPACES ON ALL 4 CORNERS
DRIVERS - BORDERS
RUNNERS - DBLOCK
WALKERS - INSIDE

Hmmm, this is actually a good idea...

[Mgm]

when a team stops moving

I'm worried about a team that stops moving, not because they found Flame, but because of inactivity.

[Mgm]

Yeah, just a bit late.

[Mgm]

Instead of having the walkers and runners do D and E sections, perhaps we can have both checking the non-edges (aka inner circle). The runners can go by starting down, which has an added column and the walkers can go up.

[Mgm]

And let's not forget to have at least one person in each team record all the moves, so we don't have different people checking the same squares.

[Mgm]

The plan is to have the faster team travel the largest distance and to inform the other team of a find by dropping of your predetermined path.
Have a look at the suggestions SL and I made and decide what you think the best plan is.

Majority decides.

[Mgm]

In that case it might be a good idea to have the walkers stay closeby the rest of us and have runners do the actual checks. We could for example start moving to the bottom left and search in a clockwise direction. If the walkers move into the same general direction as the rest of us but stay near the middle, they have a bigger chance of reaching the rest of us in time. If they happen to find BBM, it's peanuts for us to reach them anyway.

[Mgm]

I'm fine with making that assumption

for personal preference I'm thinking BBM is in B6

Who are you?

[Mgm]

/checking in.

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/read and /sent

[Mgm]

Great! </sarcasm>
The mod managed to pick 4 things that totally don't describe me.

One group of 3 who have nothing but time.
-Since I'm getting more busy this week, picking this group may not be the smart thing to do.
One group of 3 who have nothing but fashion sense.
-I have no fashion sense whatsoever.

So I either "have nothing but money" or I'm a compulsive shopper.

All things considered...

I'm nothing but a compulsive shopper.

[Mgm]

Flameaxe has immunity for the next round. He was offered immunity to hinder the team during that challenge, which he accepted. He will not have his execution quiz graded.

Exactly how did you hinder us?

[Mgm]

So you got immunity for agreeing to hinder the challange without actually doing anything? Mod, did BBM have any abilities in that challenge?

[Mgm]

Welcome to the shopping team.

[Mgm]

Yea... I have no money. (Poor college student >>), I have no time (see why I have no money), and I have no fashion sense (mainly because I have no time or money).

So what do you use to shop with?

[Mgm]

Everyone should post a link to verify their decision is correct. If they don't, I reserve the right to not accept the group's choice.

[Mgm]

Everyone should post a link to verify their decision is correct. If they don't, I reserve the right to not accept the group's choice.

actually, i think you

and your teammate

reserve that right...

btw, you saw the 2 links i used for references, right?..

That's what I meant.

[Mgm]

Everyone should post a link to verify their decision is correct. If they don't, I reserve the right to not accept the group's choice.

actually, i think you

and your teammate

reserve that right...

btw, you saw the 2 links i used for references, right?..

Yes, I did notice those references. Can Kinetic and I have bolded final decisions to decide on? I'm not yet sure what the final verdict on the money is, but the rest seem to have a decision behind them.

[Mgm]

Anderson, is there any chance we can get something bigger than thumbnail images?

[Mgm]

While searching Google for ways to find counterfeit watches, I found this page. Scroll down to "Daytona Hands" and you will notice I found the

exact same picture

as the second one above. Said picture is of a counterfeit watch.

I can has praise now?

I know for a fact that

the second Rolex is fake.

Yes you are Flea

I'm about ready to agree with this one. Any comments, Kinetic, or should I go ahead?

[Mgm]

I'm pretty sure the top 5 is the real one. One of the real hallmarks of fake bills (I work in retail, so I've handled quite a few of them.) is that they look duller, faded, out of focus and lifeless compared to the real thing. If you look at those pictures, the top one is clearly the more lifelike, and the colors and image look much sharper. Thats my opinion, anyway.

I thought it looked like it came off a copier. If you compare the images by alternating between them, this one looks a bit too perfect to me.

Has anyone looked at the watermark?

[Mgm]

While searching Google for ways to find counterfeit watches, I found this page. Scroll down to "Daytona Hands" and you will notice I found the

exact same picture

as the second one above. Said picture is of a counterfeit watch.

I can has praise now?

I know for a fact that

the second Rolex is fake.

Yes you are Flea

Anderson, please break the second Rolex

We'll also agree with Dani Banani that Louis Vutton bag 3 is real; please destroy the others.

Now, what are we going to do about the money...?

[Mgm]

2nd one is fake

I agree with this one. #1 has a watermark, #2 hasn't

Anderson?

[Mgm]

If a newbie doesn't know how to read the opening post of a thread someone links to, I honestly believe they are beyond help. I think we should've won this challenge. They got ample help.

Funny how this challenge was called "Ethics" though. It fits a lot better as a title for challenge 3a.

[Mgm]

Simple, yet very helpful. All in one. Does it get any better? No, no it doesn't.

I guess it could've gotten any better than...

[Mgm]

The newbie was NEVER pointed to the opening post. The newbie was pointed to the LAST post of the newbie queue.

If the person made it to this thread, I'm sure that they knew how to click the funny little "page 1" link at the top. Do you disagree?

You overestimate the intelligence of the general internet user. I see it time and time again on a daily basis that your assumption is incorrect. People usually fail to read instructions so when things are reduced to a single small link chances of success are even lower.

[Mgm]

What's funny is that I've already figured out who the mole is

That proves the point in my previous post. Even the mole can fail to read their instruction PM...

[Mgm]

Please enlighten me. Exactly how does a joke help your assumptions?

[Mgm]

By the way, I'll double check, but I think I'm down to 5 suspects with 2 people clearly sharing the top spot.

[Mgm]

I'm 75% certain that whatever you think you know is 100% wrong.
Let's see who's right...

[Mgm]

Why is no one touching their wine?

[Mgm]

Let's say it this way: I've seen 7 seasons of the mole and I never saw the mole get eliminated.

[Mgm]

You mean the test is graded on the time it took to send in instead of the time it took to actually answer the questions. That's going to put certain people at a disadvantage here.

The original plan was to put this test up at 4am in my timezone...