(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

[Feirei]

Fucks given: 0)

(No really. Who cares.)

[yabbaguy]

You'd be surprised how many people flip out when they're gender-bended like that.

5-4 selected, as mentioned.

Feirei

*lid lifts*

Feirei

*applause, set flashes red*

He

beat it! That's two in a row for red!

Feirei

That shuts up the Northpaw/Southpaw debate - 4's smack dab in the middle.

Well, red's up $2,000 but down 3 golden spheres. What's going to happen this time?

*walks over*

*unlocks sphere*

*opens the sphere*

*audience groans*

Ouch again! Blue takes its second hit on just the sixth golden sphere!

JerryArr
Mist7676
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

KingdomAces
IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

D3f3nd3r
animorpherv1
JDGA

The big golden spheres are dwindling, but you keep winning! Careful we don't get stuck in the big target doldrums though. Who gets us out of it?

[StrangerCoug]

A common pick for obvious reasons is first then second. I don't remember how, but this became known as Southpaw.

Those are the leftmost two. A southpaw is a slang term for a left-hander, and I'm left-handed.

[Mist7676]

Fucks given:

:0)

FTFY

[JDGA]

Well,

animorpherv1

can deal with this target now.

[yabbaguy]

animorpherv1

Third time in a row we're dishing a 3 over to UV, hopefully that's a justified move.

animorpherv1, there's effectively only a 1/70 (1/14 * 1/5) chance that you're going to actually win JDGA another $9,000. But hey, why not give it a go?

[animorpherv1]

RNG HO!

Original Roll String: 1d5

1 5-Sided Dice: (4) = 4

Original Roll String: 1d4

1 4-Sided Dice: (1) = 1

I pick those. Obviously the d4 is the 5 orbs the picked one.

[yabbaguy]

Legal, but cowardly. Besides, it's still totally your fault if this goes wrong.

Dice are siding with Feirei in the Paw Debate, but it's the spheres that matter.

animorpherv1

*sphere opens*

animorpherv1

*audience groans, set flashes gray, ani throws his dice into the trash can*

You can consider yourself stuck in the doldrums, JDGA. That 3's coming right back at you. ._.

animorpherv1

Another golden sphere removal for your consideration... we've been sinking a lot of big money recently. Can we avoid doing that this time?

*unlocks sphere*

*opens it up*

*audience gasps,

$1,000

chyron shatters on screen*

Wow! The entire welfare of the ultraviolet sector was hinged on animorpherv1's sphere just then! Instead of $10K and the security of its last golden sphere, it's collapsed!

JerryArr
Mist7676
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

KingdomAces
IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

D3f3nd3r
JDGA

Ultraviolet is now known to be counterfeit, so I'm guessing the worst target in the game has a pretty clear-cut destination.

[Feirei]

The collapse of the uv sector was ani's fault.

*presses button*

[JDGA]

*watches balloons come out of the floor in celebration*

Oh, it's definitely going to

D3f3nd3r

, btw.

[yabbaguy]

D3f3nd3r

D3f3nd3r, no cash on the line - we just need a lower target. Or a 4, then a lower target. Whatever tickles your fancy.

[D3f3nd3r]

Second then fifth.

[DiplomatDC]

/in

[puzzledan]

chants you can do it Go JDGA go

[yabbaguy]

"Go! Go! Go! Go! *rhythmic clapping*

D3f3nd3r

*lid dramatically flips up*

D3f3nd3r

*audience gasps, target hologram fizzles out*

In this Reloaded edition, those 4s always mean something no matter what. Now instead of opening a golden sphere, we're spending this second phase of the turn opening another one of D3f3nd3r's spheres!

NOW we need a low number. And remember D3f3nd3r, you really want a 0 for your own sake too, but we need something really low so we can stop dealing with atrocious targets.

Pretty please?

*D3f3nd3r unlocks the far right sphere, more rhythmic clapping*

D3f3nd3r

*and opens it*

D3f3nd3r

*clapping stops, groans*

At least it's better?

D3f3nd3r

JerryArr
Mist7676
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

KingdomAces
IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

JDGA

The lofty targets actually haven't been all that troublesome today! Have a look...

TARGETS 2 AND ABOVE

FEIREI

>>> 3 (2)

DRENCH

>>> 1 (3)

D3F3ND3R

>>> 4/2 (3)

ANIMORPHERV1

>>> 3 (3)

XALXE

>>> 4/0 (3)

...you've been 3 for 5 with them, and you've got the ability to purge one more.

How do you wish to proceed?

[JDGA]

bluh bluh, bluh bluh.
bluh bluh bluh bluh

KingdomAces

bluh bluh...

[KingdomAces]

Third then second.

[yabbaguy]

$200K is the highest figure on the monitor, we need this one in order to keep it there.

*clack*

KingdomAces

KingdomAces opens it up*

KingdomAces

*audience claps, set flashes blue*

And there's a 3! Another big target is squished, although now the bigger one's coming!

KingdomAces

Well, I think we'll know where that 3 is going. But there are way too many of them, so maybe this golden sphere pick gives us a clue where the rest should be headed.

*unlocks sphere*

Yeah, second row's done already. We're ripping through this game.

Here's the sphere that capped out the row.

*flips lid*

*some oohs and applause at the novel sight*

Oh good, we remembered to put greens in the assortment! What a relief.

*some laughter*

Only took us until the halfway point to do that.

JerryArr
Mist7676
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

JDGA

Now red and green are level - and they're both three steps away from pretty similar sums of cash. Blue, however, is three steps away from the second-biggest Optimize prize possible, and a record-breaker compared to Quilford's $100,000 takedown.

Red's still equal or better to green in every sense, but the next golden sphere drop could change that now.

But we'll contemplate all that once you dispose of that ugly target.

[JDGA]

*siiiigh*

Well at least that passed, but that 3 is STILL around. Apparently, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. Speaking of which...
My spheres are 4-0-3-1-2, so I'll run southpaw and prepare for a second consecutive game once I finish this one (:3)

[Nobody Special]

*fidgets impatiently*

[Mist7676]

Silly Raven. It's 4-1-0-3-2

[yabbaguy]

Uh oh, I didn't think that through! x_x

*gulp*

All right, do your worst. You want this one? Okay.

*I unlock the sphere myself*

JDGA

Just be a straight 0 please so we're all happy. :S

*grimaces, lifts lid hesitantly*

JDGA

*audience groans, target chyron does the most pointless animation ever - changing itself from a 3 to a 3*

Well that's just

no fun at all.

._.

UV shows up with two 4s, two 3s, and a 1 today - in contention for $500K if only the golden spheres cooperated!

JDGA

House wins all bets.

Well, that's it for the discard pile. We'll see if the golden spheres threaten to make another soon enough, because here goes another one.

5/5 on red/green, this could imbalance one or severely damage blue's chances of being the last sector standing.

*unlocks sphere*

*opens up*

A red! Not clear cut, now we're back to the classic dilemma of the bigger money being riskier!

JerryArr
Mist7676
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

Well, now that 3 needs to do some damage. Or maybe not, big targets haven't been death sentences in this game, but we're getting a bit sick of seeing them.

[JDGA]

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

kdowns

, take it away.

[yabbaguy]

*walks over to kdowns, shoots a funny look at his neighbor*

Why are you still doing that NS?

*laughter*

kdowns

JDGA's not too hopeful about the $200K, but kdowns, if you can find that 4, that stubborn figure is going to remain on the board and the case for the blue sector will keep getting stronger.

and/or please send this target wayyyyyyyy down please and thank you.

[yabbaguy]

Also, for what it's worth, anyone who calls out their entire sphere distribution in one pick like JDGA did (and backs it up by picking their 4 and 0 predictions), I'm immediately assuming you're keeping that prediction for your "bonus" Line Jumper pick.