The Mini Mole: ALL RECAPS POSTED

[Richard Yul]

In the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, March 15, 2006, I hosted the Mole. These are short episodes based on that game.

Seven players have come together to compete for an online prize of up to $1,000,000. The catch is, one of them is the Mole, a saboteur hired by us to keep money out of the pot. Every round, the players will take a quiz about the identity of the Mole. The player who scores the lowest on the quiz will be eliminated. Who will win? Who will lose? BUt most importantly, who is the Mole? Is it...

Nessa (VanessaHouse) - An ORGer famed for her “wtf” and calls of “rig.g”
: I’m not the mole wtf

Ty (Tyogical) - An ARG frequenter and hardcore minigamer.
: Nessa is the mole.

Charles (PIHeadHunter) - A mini gamer will a particularly ill will towards Rhiannon.
: I AM THE MOLE
:

Belle (Ju Nee Baun) - A law student and usually controversial ORGer.
: I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL ANYBODY I’M THE MOLE

Brian (RnnrBrian) - Quiet but talented ORGer with a few games under his belt
: I’m not the mole.

Heidi (The Cyan Brick) - An intelligent Mole game enthusiast.
: I’m very good at playing the Mole...

Jacob (Msufan21491) - An avid minigamer who has some bad luck recently in games
: I think that I would make a good Mole.

These are your seven contestants! Five will lose, one will win, and one will be revealed as The Mole.

[Richard Yul]

RECAP 1: The First Victim

After meeting and having a bit of time to talk, the players were introduced to their first challenge, seen often in Mole games: The Exemption Game. After little discussion, Ty pitched a plan to roll for the exemption--which was well-received by all of the contestants. Belle was chosen to roll a seven sided die, and ended up rolling herself to be exempt. Shockingly, no one disputed Belle as the winner of the challenge. Belle was exempt and the team added $50,000 to the pot.

Before the quiz was sent out, players shared their most embarrassing moments. Ty noted that he had BO every day after lunch in his freshman algebra class, while Brian said he once tackled a stranger thinking the stranger was his friend. While this was going on, Jacob told Nessa he was the Mole and she should direct all quiz answers to him. During this exchange, Heidi began to get annoyed with Jacob’s antics. Charles stayed quiet throughout.

At the execution, Heidi, Jacob, and Ty all proved safe. Charles was put into the computer fourth and became the Mole’s first victim.

On the next recap of The Mini Mole:
- Tensions start to boil when one player aggravates another.
- The contestants struggle during their provided tasks.
- A shocking execution leaves the players doubting if they really know who the Mole is.

[Richard Yul]

RECAP 2: Hot! Hot! Hot!

After Charles’s execution, the players moved on to their next challenge, called “Hot! Hot! Hot!” The players were instructed to divide into three teams: Hot Heads, Hot Shots, and Hot Air. Ty and Heidi teamed up on the Hot Shot team, Brian and Nessa were on the Hot Head team, and Belle and Jacob picked Hot Air. Each team was given ten minutes to complete a task; the Hot Shots had to beat a score of 55 on the online game iSketch, the Hot Heads had to choose between the two of them to get an exemption, and the Hot Air had to send me one email a minute--no more and no less.

Neither Brian nor Nessa was willing to budge on the Hot Head challenge, and they gave up within the first five minutes of the challenge. Belle made no attempt to even help Jacob with the Hot Air challenge, and their team also lost within the first five minutes. Ty had trouble getting the hang of iSketch, but Heidi managed to beat the score in the alotted time. Heidi would have gotten $40,000 for the pot, but because Brian and Nessa failed in their challenge, Heidi’s money was halved, leading to a total of $70,000 in the pot.

Before the quiz, tension between Heidi and Jacob reached a boiling point:

>HEIDI: I’m about to block Jacob. Is that allowed?
>JACOB: *Laughing* Why would you block me?
>HEIDI: Let’s see...you’re immature and annoying.
>JACOB: What? This can’t be the Heidi I know.
>HEIDI: Sad...I guess you’re young, though

Brian was also angry about Nessa’s performance in his confessional:

>BRIAN: Well, we basically lost because Vanessa is literally dumber than a box of hair. I mean, sometimes I think she has an IQ of a poodle.

Nessa didn’t care.

>NESSA: I am the best player.

Ty had a defined strategy.

>TY: I’m leading people on to think that the Mole is me. I hope it works.

The quiz was sent out, and after the quiz, Jacob was worried about his confrontation with Heidi.

>JACOB: I have no alliance, and I’m fighting with somebody who is supposed to be my friend. I know I’m getting eliminated.

At the execution, Heidi, then Ty, then Nessa, then Brian all proved safe. It was between Belle and Jacob, and Jacob’s prediction came to fruition. He was the Mole’s second victim. At the end of the elimination, Ty whispered to Heidi:

>TY: Vanessa HAS to be the Mole.

On the next recap of the Mini Mole:
-The contestants continue to struggle with their missions.
-One contestant, elected as a leader, has a big decision to make.
-Another contestant is eliminated.

[Atom]

I refuse to believe that Vanessa is the Mole - no host would put their game in the hands of her.

[Richard Yul]

RECAP 3: Reality Show Mess

After Jacob’s execution, the players moved along to their next challenge, where they were asked to elect a leader with a good knowledge of reality TV. The team, after some discussion of her intelligence, elected Belle as the leader for this mission. Each of the other players would be given lists of description of reality TV show contestants from either The Mole, Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, or American Idol. They were given three minutes to come up with names to match the descriptions, then they would forward their lists to Belle, who would have five minutes to correct the lists. After the players forwarded their lists to Belle, the challenge fell apart.

>BELLE: What do I do? I can’t see if they are right or wrong.
>HOST RICHARD: Make corrections as you see fit.
>BELLE: How do I fix them if I don’t know what the question is?
>NESSA: It is too big to send to Belle!!

As it ended up, the team only got four out twenty correct overall--Nessa and Brian each got two. The team got $30,000, making the pot’s total $100,000.

Afterwards, Belle (as leader of the challenge) had to decide who to give an exemption. Belle chose to give her exemption to Nessa, but the other players had a chance to veto her choice. Heidi and Ty voted to return the exemption to Belle, while Brian voted for Nessa to keep the exemption. In the end, Belle ended up with her second exemption.

Before the execution, Ty was concerned...

>TY: F*CK. I have ruled out Nessa now. I’m really not sure between Brian and Belle...

At the execution, Heidi was safe--but Nessa, who name went in second, became the Mole’s thrid victim.

On the next recap of the Mini Mole:
- Players celebrate their placing in the Final Four.
- The players work hard to try to improve the standing in the pot.
- Everyone scrambles for the coveted exemption to get into the final round.

[Megsy<3]

nice episodes!

[Richard Yul]

RECAP #4: Another Bad Title

After Nessa’s name showed up in red, players were obviously sad to see one of their favorite ORGers go home.

>NESSA: oop
>TY: LMFAO

For the next challenge, the players were instructed to split into pairs and label themselves Book Smarts and Street Smarts. Ty and Heidi became the Street Smarts team, while Belle and Brian were the Book Smarts team. Brian was unhappy about having Belle as a partner.

>BRIAN: Belle is a bitch. I bet her last name is McBitch. I bet when she goes to McDonald’s, she orders a McBitch with fries...bitch.

For the next mission, the Street Smarts team had to keep people in a chat room while the Book Smarts team solved some difficult trivia questions. The team would score on how many people were in the Street Smarts chat room when the Book Smarts solved all their riddles. The Street Smarts were able to keep 13 people in the chat room long enough to score and earned $90,000 in the process. The pot stands at $190,000.

For the final exemption before the final round, each player’s chances with the exemption was in their former partner’s hands. Each partner had to say whether or not they wanted their counterpart to have a chance at an exemption. Everyone except Belle voted to give their partner a chance. Brian would not get the chance to compete for the exemption. After a trivia question, Belle was awarded her third and final exemption, meaning the final quiz was between Ty, Heidi, and Brian.

>HEIDI: Um, Belle said she was the Mole, but she’s an idiot.
>TY: I’M F*CKED.

At the execution, Heidi was again safe. Fufilling his prediction, Ty was, indeed, f*cked and became the Mole’s fourth victim.

Next time on the Mole:
- The Final 3 competes in the final challenge.
- An extended quiz pushes contestants to their mental limits.
- Find out who loses, who wins, and who is the Mole!

[Richard Yul]

RECAP #5: The Finale

After the executions of Charles, Jacob, Nessa, and Ty, only three remained. Belle, Heidi, and Brian would battle it out to win the game. Well, except, of course, the Mole.

For the Final Challenge, each of the players had to answer questions about their teammates. Some of the questions included...

Who is more likely to backstab their closest friend to win?
Who is the more respectable competitor?
Who is less deserving to be here?
Who, if stranded on a deserted island, would die?
Who is more likely fart in public and not care?

After several disputed answers and a few hurt feelings, as Belle got the brunt of most of the negative ones, the team only located Heidi. Fortunately, they added $100,000 to the pot, leaving the final total at $290,000 / $1mil. The players geared up for their Final Quiz.

>BELLE: The mole is SO Heidi.
>HEIDI: Brian was obviously the Mole, I just hope I beat out Belle in the end.
>BRIAN: Belle was definitely the Mole.

After the final quizzes were in, so were the results.

And the winner is...








































{HEIDI}

And the Mole was...








































{BRIAN}

Which leaves BELLE as the runner-up.

Look for The Mini Mole 2 soon! And look for Heidi and Brian to be on the The Mini Mole All-Stars in the future.

[tyogical]

Great episodes Rich!!!

I laughed my ass off at the part where Nessa's all "OOP"

LMFAOFOAFOAOFAO