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Hapexamendios69

**Hapex** is a player in The Epic Struggle 2. He was on Scorpio, Vortex, Ivory, and Mysockcontainsmycock before quitting in 8th place. This disqualified him from jury status (which was instead taken by toonsage), but he retains his position as the highest-ranked player to ever quit an Epic Struggle. He is also the highest-ranked player in TES2 to have not played in TES1, ranking immediately superior to Mannequin Depressive (9th place).
Kerotan92

**Kero** is a player in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2.

In TES1, he was on Grey 1.0, Grey 2.0, Sol, and Rainbow. He placed 9th and was Juror #5.

In TES2, he started on Scorpio. Although he initially had a leadership role, his activity dwindled and he willingly quit the game when Vortex (his merged team) would've had to vote someone out. This resulted in 39th place.
Inversion Orb

The **Inversion Orb** (also known as the **Orb of Inversion**) is an item won by kirbymuncher in The Epic Struggle 2 that could be used once to swap the Illuminati Overlord and the Drunken Rebel. Following this swap, all surviving players were allowed to participate in the next Illuminati Overlord Challenge.

The holder of this item was allowed to use it for a very large number of weeks compared to previous items following the Final Merge such as the Chaos Trident in TES1.
Dragon66116

**Dragon** is a player in The Epic Struggle 2 and The Epic Struggle 3.

In TES2, he was on Taurus, Platinum, Ivory, and Mysockcontainsmycock. He earned 13th place and voted for Cody11533 to win the game.

In TES3, he was on Venus on Canopus. In Week 11 he was voted out 5-1, causing him to be sent to The Sun. He managed to return from the Sun and joined Andromeda. In Week 19, the vote on Andromeda was 4-3, with 4 votes to eliminate Dragon and 3 votes to eliminate Monster. Dragon was eliminated and tied for 19th place.
Five elements

The **five elements** are usually something like Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, and Metal that behave kind of like Rock Paper Scissors. They appear in several challenges in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2. The team names Quake, Platinum, Vortex, Inferno, and Yggdrasil are based off the five elements.
Kirby

**This article is a disambiguation page for Kirby**

The following is a list of links to pages that might share the same title.

Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

**Kirby** may refer to:

* kirbymuncher
* ThePirateKirby (more commonly known as TPK)
* the Nintendo character
Giacomo Hawkins

**Hawkins** (also known as **Gia**) is a player in The Epic Struggle who was on Purple until being voted out in Week 6. He tied for 56th place.

## Trivia

* Itachi and Baruch originally planned to vote out Hawkins much earlier, as they didn't know him as well as they knew others on Purple. However, Hawkins proved his worth in competitions and so they kept him around until most of their fodder players had been eliminated.
* Hawkins knows Dream and matt314hew from the Legends board on GameFAQs.
JakePotter480

**Jake** is a player in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2.

In TES1, he was on Red and Scarlet until his team was annihilated in Week 13. He earned 34th place.

In TES2, he was on Cancer and Vortex until being voted out during Week 11. He then joined Air and was ultimately eliminated at the time of the Second Merge. He tied for 33rd place.
Drunken Rebel Challenge

The **Drunken Rebel Challenge** in a week of The Epic Struggle 2 determines which player gets to be the Drunken Rebel for that week. Contrary to the Sceptre Challenges in TES1 and the Space Pirate Challenges in TES3 (where generally only 6 players would participate), all players get to participate in a Drunken Rebel Challenge (except the outgoing Drunken Rebel).
Looked gf

**Looked gf** is a player in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 3.

In TES1, he was on Green and Emerald. He placed 33rd, falling just short of the Second Merge.

His fellow green teammates Eponalove and ROBANN\_88 wanted him to join Gemini on The Epic Struggle 2, but DreamwaIker took the last spot on that team at the last moment to escape from TheRealItachi. In the end, **Looked** did not end up playing TES2 on any team.

In TES3, he was on Uranus, Sirius, and Andromeda. In Week 14, Looked offered himself up for elimination, but OwlRammer had already stepped up to be the one eliminated. Since Andromeda won the Week 15 Challenge, Looked chose to wait until Week 16 (when Andromeda did not win) to be eliminated by an 8-1 vote; he cast his own vote for Fastener so that he would be eliminated normally and not kicked for inactivity. Looked earned 25th place.
Choco's element chart

**Choco's element chart** is an alteration of the Chinese Element chart that Choco made by adding the elements *Diamond* and *Wind*. He frequently posts it in Epic Struggle topics in hopes of getting the hosts to use it in a challenge.

The elements' strengths and weaknesses are as follows:

* Diamond (pink) beats Metal, Wood, and Wind. It loses to Earth, Water, and Fire.
* Metal (grey) beats Wood, Wind, and Earth. It loses to Water, Fire, and Diamond.
* Wood (green) beats Wind, Earth, and Water. It loses to Fire, Diamond, and Metal.
* Wind (cyan) beats Earth, Water, and Fire. It loses to Diamond, Metal, and Wood.
* Earth (yellow) beats Water, Fire, and Diamond. It loses to Metal, Wood, and Wind.
* Water (blue) beats Fire, Diamond, and Metal. It loses to Wood, Wind, and Earth.
* Fire (red) beats Diamond, Metal, and Wood. It loses to Wind, Earth, and Water.

## Trivia

* One of Choco's inspirations for this chart was the "Diamond is the hardest metal" GameFAQs meme.
* It was used in a TES1 challenge that Choco did not compete in.
* Choco used this chart in the final challenge of "Choco's Charming Challenges", a game he hosted on GNT.
Drunken Rebel

The **Drunken Rebel** is the player in a week of The Epic Struggle 2 (following the Final Merge) who wins the Drunken Rebel Challenge and has the power to save one of the Illuminati Overlord's nominees. It is similar (but not initially identical) to the Prismatic Prince in TES1 and the Space Pirate in TES3.

For the first several weeks following the Final Merge, the Drunken Rebel had 3 options:

* Save none of the 3 nominees.
* Save 1 player from the block and leave the other 2 players as the final nominees, without a replacement.
* Save 1 player and name the replacement nominee himself but forfeit his vote.

For the remaining weeks of the game, the Drunken Rebel had just 2 options:

* Save neither of the 2 nominees.
* Save 1 player from the block and let the Illuminati Overlord name a replacement nominee.
Heart Stone

Heart stone is the rarest gem known to all of Gilthanon. It can only be found in the deepest caverns of mountain ranges, and it's power is beyond measure. So named because it is the size of a human heart, this purple gem weighs unnaturally light. It is unbreakable by any means, physical, magical, or alchemical, and it is not meant to be ingested by men. It's purpose is mostly unknown, although some have tried to harness it's power, choking on the size of the stone before ever able to receive its magic.

One such instance lead to the creation of the fire demon \*\*\*. A nobleman who's expedition into the distant \*\*\* mountains brought back a Heart Stone, the prince spent years training himself to be able to withstand the ingestion of a stone such a size. He was able, through means of other stonecasters providing him with oxygen and relieving the pain, to swallow the stone, but its power engulfed him immediately, creating the fire demon. Fleeing back to its rightful home in Mt Oblivion, the demon, also named Oblivion, bled fire through the world, creating the fire scar still seen in the Third Age

(A Heart Stone is needed to bring clockwork to life, such in the case of Voldaroth and the black horse of Blugemburg.)
Corrik

**Corrik** is a player in The Epic Struggle 3 who was on Venus, Alpha Centauri, Triangulum, and Universe.

In Week 22, Corrik won the Space Pirate Challenge and saved luckynumber777 (whom Ex-Kefiroth had nominated alongside Colegreen\_c12). This resulted in Choco being nominated as the replacement and Cole being voted out 8-4.

In Week 29, Dream nominated Mayonesa and Corrik, but Corrik saved himself by becoming Space Pirate. Dream then nominated The\_Weegee in Corrik's place, and Mayo was voted out 4-0 over Weegee.

In Week 30, Corrik became the Intergalactic Emperor and nominated DreamwaIker and auron1213 for elimination. Dream used the Pirate power to save himself, so Corrik nominated TheShadowMan683 as a replacement. Shadow was then eliminated by a 2-1 margin.

In Week 32, Lucky nominated Auron and Corrik, but Corrik saved himself, so Weegee was the replacement. Corrik then cast the sole vote to eliminate Auron.

In Week 33, Corrik lost part 1 of the final Emperor Challenge to Lucky and part 2 to Weegee. Lucky won part 3 and chose to eliminate Corrik. This earned Corrik 3rd place and the final position on the Jury.
Ice Scorpio

**Ice\_Scorpio** is a player in The Epic Struggle 2 who was on Capricorn until he opted to join Ophiuchus in Week 3. Although at the time it was only halfway quitting, he never made an effort to return to the game at the First Merge and so his placement was determined to be 110th. (Note that it would've been 111th, except that Death\_Of\_Effie was modkilled and pushed to 132nd place as part of his punishment.)
Dark Maze

The **Dark Maze** is a challenge based off the Catacombs in the PC adventure game *The Legend of Kyrandia*. Rooms in the Dark Maze are of varying light levels, depending on how far they are from a fire berry bush. Players must pick fire berries from the bushes and bring them into the nearby rooms in order to stay safe from the creatures that lurk in the darkness. Berries fade and eventually crumble as you bring them from room to room.

The first instance of the Dark Maze in a GameFAQs forum game was when DreamwaIker used it in Escape the Catacombs, the penultimate challenge of Big Brother: Legends Edition. Since he liked the challenge, he used it as a standalone game on Games-N'-Things shortly thereafter.

Dark Maze 2.0 (the one with which the most strugglers are familiar) was used as the last challenge before the Final Merge in The Epic Struggle. It did not include a wider catacombs but did include (as an extra challenge) a five elements puzzle that had to be solved. The first team to solve the puzzle was Sol, so Luna had to eliminate a player. AndFinrodFell had already opted to leave the game by this point, so no vote actually had to be held after the challenge.

Dark Maze 3.0 played a small role on the ground floor of the temple in Escape the Jungle Temple, another game DreamwaIker hosted on Games-N'-Things.

Dream occasionally pesters the TES2 hosts about when the Dark Maze will be implemented into that game. This is similar to (although less frequent than) Choco pestering the hosts regarding Choco's element chart.

## External Links

* The relevant part of an LP of *The Legend of Kyrandia* Book One: [1]
MysticBrohan

**MysticBrohan** (also known as **Mattssacre**) is a player in The Epic Struggle, The Epic Struggle 2, and The Epic Struggle 3.

In TES1, he signed up for Black under his Mattssacre account but got kicked for inactivity in Week 6 and tied for 56th place.

In TES2, he was kicked for inactivity in a tie for 88th place. However, he had actually dropped out prior to the end of the confirmation period for the game, making it so TES2 arguably did not have 132 players.

In TES3, he was on Earth until he was voted out in Week 2 and tied for 63rd place.
Escape the Jungle Temple

**Escape the Jungle Temple** is the sequel to Escape the Catacombs. It was hosted on Games-N'-Things by DreamwaIker. Although it was a standalone forum game (not part of The Epic Struggle or The Epic Struggle 2), it contained another sequel to the Dark Maze. In addition, two of the major participants in the game were Ex-Kefiroth and kirbymuncher, both strugglers.
Immunity Magic Wand

The **Immunity Magic Wand** is an item in The Epic Struggle 3 which could be purchased for 1 Star Coin from the Magic Item Store. It was the first item purchased from the store.

**Teaser from Item Store:** *This old thing? Some guy named James pawned this a while back. He said he got it from China, and that it had bad memories. I guess it has magic powers?*

**Item Rules:** *The Immunity Magic Wand acts as traditional Immunity items in the past have. When played during a vote prior to the reveal of the votes, the player who played it will be immune, and all votes cast against them will not count. This item is good until the next merge. It may be revealed or transferred to another player via the hosts. It is good for one use, and will be used up regardless of how necessary it was.*

## Trivia

* DreamwaIker bought the item with the first of the 3 star coins he found.
* During Week 12, Dream gave the **Immunity Magic Wand** to wickedmystic13 because he thought the vote on Arcturus would be 2-1 against Mystic and he wanted to get used the Jet\_the\_hawk79 eliminated instead. Mystic used the item, but it turned out to not matter because The\_Weegee also voted out Jet and so Jet was eliminated by a 2-1 vote.
Epic Struggle topics

"Topics" is the GameFAQs term for "threads". As such, "Epic Struggle topics" are the TES1 and TES2 threads that hosts create for all players to see. Their main reason for existence is for the host to post rules for the challenges and overall game, but they are often used by players (including eliminated ones) to talk about whatever's on their mind, sometimes including in-game drama.

Often players will be watching for updates in these topics. They may wake up and find many new posts were added, but a large chain of posts were just Chocolinks.
Challenge

In The Epic Struggle series of forum games, a **challenge** is an activity that requires one or more submissions from players (each submission usually having some kind of deadline). Before the Final Merge, the results of a challenge usually determine how many players (if any) each team must eliminate (usually by means of a vote). After the Final Merge, there are often two types of challenges which each give an individual player some power over determining who is eligible to receive votes that week. A vote is typically held after both challenges are complete.
Elimination

An **elimination** occurs in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2 when a player is voted out of their team, is kicked for inactivity, quits, or otherwise leaves or loses the game. Prior to the Second Merge there is some ambiguity about what exactly qualifies as an elimination, since players who are active but voted out of their team have the chance to return to the game via a team like Invisible or Ophiuchus. But later in the game players are permanently eliminated and there is no ambiguity.
Dragonballer88

**dragonballer88** is a player in The Epic Struggle 3 who was on Venus, Vega, Triangulum, and Universe.

* As the Intergalactic Emperor of Week 21, **Dragon** nominated Mizuno\_Ami and dj-izzle. When luckynumber777 saved DJ, Dragon nominated DreamwaIker as the replacement. (Ultimately, Ami was eliminated 8-5 that week.)
* Dragon was again the Intergalactic Emperor (Emperor A, specifically) in Week 25. He nominated Dream and Ex-Kefiroth, and he named M0NSTER\_ as the replacement nominee after AndShock (Pirate A) saved Dream. Ultimately Monster was voted out 6-3 over Kefi.
* In Week 27, Shock initially nominated The\_Weegee and Lucky, but Dragon became the replacement nominee after auron1213 saved Lucky. Dragon was then voted out 4-2, earning 9th place and becoming Juror #5.
Mysockcontainsmycock

**Mysockcontainsmycock** (also known as Sock, Myhosierycontainsmycock, and Mysock) is the final team of The Epic Struggle 2. The name was created by Choco during a challenge organized by ImTheMacheteGuy. The challenge involved polls asking people on GNT what names they like the most. Appleframer helped Choco's name win by inviting people into GNT that Choco had asked to vote for "Mysockcontainsmycock".

The shortened name "Sock" was suggested by Choco for Dream (who didn't like the full name) to use in his highlighting, and the names "Myhosierycontainsmycock" and "Mysock" are alterations made my la\_mayonesa to avoid potential moderations due to GameFAQs's unclear rules and mods refusing to elaborate.
Achromatic

**Achromatic** is a player in The Epic Struggle 2 who was on Cancer until he was voted out during Week 1. Although he joined Ophiuchus, he made no effort to return to the game at the time of the First Merge, so he only tied for 120th place - originally 121st place, until Death\_Of\_Effie was modkilled.
Idol of Safety

The **Idol of Safety** is won by various high-placing teams in challenges before the Second Merge. If a team's **Safety** is not stolen by the Dominant Team, then that team does not have to vote anyone out that week.

In TES1, the 2nd place team in a challenge got an Idol of Safety that was not allowed to be stolen by the Dominant Team.
Dummywalker

**Dummywalker** was something that Jet often called Dream early in TES3, although Dream would argue he often used it even when nothing dumb was done at all.

When Dream found a Substitute hidden by toonsage, he decided to co-opt that name for his own usage. The dummy that replaced Dream during the vote when he used the Substitute became the new **Dummywalker**. For a fanciful story of this event, see Dragonballer88's summary below:

*It was a hot summer's night, the date, well that's not important. What was important was that Earth's mightiest Hero, Dreamwalker, was faced with the impossible decision of offering up (another) Earthlings to the lord of the underworld for losing yet another challenge. This time, however, Dream had a plan. When the Pied Pipers, AKA Cody and Toon, came asking for their sacrifice, Dream boldly stepped forward (or perhaps everyone else on Earth stepped back) and he activated his trap card, Substitute! Thus a dummy, or Dummywalker, took the place of Dreamwalker and was sent off to feed the hungry god, Pluto.*

*The ultimate fate of Dummywalker is unknown. Some have speculated that the pod destined for Pluto ran out of fuel so Dummywalker is actually somewhere floating in space, allowing for a possible return. Others believe that since Dummywalker wasn’t a real human sacrifice, Pluto had other plans for it, being anatomically correct and all.*
Annihilation

**Annihilation** refers to when a team loses a challenge and (as a consequence) must eliminate a number of players greater than or equal to the number of players remaining on the team. In such a situation, all players are eliminated; there is no need for a vote.

In The Epic Struggle, Scarlet was annihilated when they got Shame at the end of Week 13 immediately before the Second Merge. This resulted in wickedmystic13 and JakePotter480 joining Invisible.
Alliance

An **alliance** is a group of players who have stated an intention (publicly or privately) to work together for their mutual benefit. Some alliances are short-lived, while others last much longer. Example alliances in The Epic Struggle 2 include Chimera, Achilles, and Orion.

While the members of a team will usually work together, this in itself is not commonly called an alliance.

A partial list of alliances can be found at Category:Alliances.
Escape the Catacombs

**Escape the Catacombs** is a forum game that DreamwaIker hosted as a challenge of Big Brother: Legends Edition and as a standalone game on Games-N'-Things. A challenge in The Epic Struggle was based off the Dark Maze that was used in Escape the Catacombs.

The sequel to Escape the Catacombs was called Escape the Jungle Temple.
Dragon

**This article is a disambiguation page for Dragon**

The following is a list of links to pages that might share the same title.

Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

**Dragon** may refer to:

* Dragon66116
* dragonballer88
* green dragon
* SpikeDragon
Jet the hawk79

**Jet** is a player in The Epic Struggle 2 and The Epic Struggle 3.

In TES2, he was on Sagittarius, Quake, and Ebony before being voted out in 24th place.

In TES3, he was on Earth and Arcturus. He had also spent a brief time on Pluto after (willingly) being voted out in Week 4, but he returned to the game at the First Merge with no effort because the exact number of active Plutonians (3) was also the exact number of players needed to make the new team sizes equal.

In Week 12 he was voted out 2-1 on Arcturus (and would've been voted out even if the split was 1-2 the other way, since wickedmystic13 used an Immunity Magic Wand given to him by DreamwaIker). In the final Sun Challenge (in Week 13), he failed to return to the game and is thus tied for 31st place.
Olympus

**Olympus** is an alliance in The Epic Struggle 3 among Appleframer, ArchangelBaruch, Mayonesa, Johnbobb, ThePirateKirby, and Pinxed.

Baruch intended for DreamwaIker (and potentially 1 other person on Earth) to be a member as well, but Dream was sick at the time and didn't feel like joining this alliance. Through a mix of accidental and purposeful interactions by various people, Olympus eventually became public knowledge. This led to Baruch deciding to quit.

## External Links

* forum: http://s15.zetaboards.com/Olympus/index/
Ophiuchus

**Ophiuchus** was a team in The Epic Struggle 2 similar to Invisible from the early part of The Epic Struggle. Players who were active but voted out prior to the First Merge joined **Ophiuchus** and had a chance to return to the game at the First Merge. None ultimately took advantage of this opportunity to return.
Colegreen c12

**Cole** is a player in The Epic Struggle 3 who was on Saturn, Alpha Centauri, Triangulum, and Universe.

In Week 22, Ex-Kefiroth nominated luckynumber777 and Cole. When Corrik became the Space Pirate and saved Lucky, Kefi named Choco as the replacement nominee. Cole was voted out 8-4 and earned 15th place.
Magic Item Store

The **Magic Item Shore** is a place in The Epic Struggle 3 which lists the items a player could purchase with Star Coins.

The originally store was here, but it got moderated (even though Cody magically got the moderation overturned later), so the store was moved to here.

The items listed so far have been 1 Escape Pod, 1 Substitute, and 1 Immunity Magic Wand.
Giving it Your 100%

Giving it Your 100%was the Week 1 Challenge for The Epic Struggle 1.

## Rules

Each player from each team must send a PM with an integer percentage from 0% to 100% (so 5%, 80%, and 96% are valid, but 23.45296% is not). For each team, I will compile a list of the 10 numbers their team submitted. If there are any repeats within the same team (due to poor team communication), I will discard the repeats but keep that number on that team's list.

If at any point you want to change your number, you may send a PM stating what number you're changing it to. Of course, you should not take screenshots of your PMs or anything nefarious like that. All PM communication with the host should be private.

The goal is to have the HIGHEST number which is NOT repeated by any other team.

For each team, I will record the highest number from their list which is not on any other team's list. Then I will rank the teams 1st through 10th place, where 1st has the highest number and 10th has the lowest number. If any team doesn't have a single number which no other team has, they will be placed at the bottom of the rankings.

## Results

Purple won the Idol of Dominance. The 4 Idols of Safety went to Blue, Red, Black, and Amber, and the Idol of Shame was sent to Brown. The Purple Team decided to steal the Black Team's Idol of Safety.
Orion

**Orion** was an alliance between Gemini and Taurus against Scorpio after the Final Merge in The Epic Struggle 2.  It was formally created once everyone left in the game, with the exception of BillyButthurt, was part of Chimera. The alliance was named after Orion, being a major constellation directly adjacent to both Gemini and Taurus.

When the alliance took effect in the round of 16, they ensured Billy won nothing that round, and was then eliminated, though the idea to attack Cocainius before Billy was considered. The alliance disolved before it could be used against Scorpio when Taurus betrayed the alliance and sided with Scorpio to go after Gemini.

Both groups had every intention of remaining loyal to this new alliance, but that changed when the hosts introduced a twist that changed the functionality of the Drunken Rebel. As a result, Taurus had to reconsider its long-term plans, and changed allegiances to Scorpio.

In the aftermath of the alliance's dissolution, Gemini lost two consecutive members, before allying with Scorpio to decimate Taurus.

## External Links

Orion Forum: http://w11.zetaboards.com/Team\_Orion/index/
Indian Poker Showdown

**Indian Poker Showdown** is the Week 36 Illuminati Overlord Challenge.

## Rules

You will each be given 25 chips and a deck of 20 cards. Each card contains a number from 1-10, and for each number there are 2 cards that contain it.

At the start of each round, both players will put in 1 chip as an ante. I will then PM each player what the top card of their opponent's deck is. The lead player may then bet any amount of the chips they have.

The second player may then call the bet (put in the same amount of chips to the pot), raise the bet (put more chips into the pot), or fold (give up and let the other player take all the chips in the pot). If the second player raises, the lead player must also call, raise, or fold. This continues until one player either calls or folds.

The cards will then be revealed. This happens regardless of whether or not a player has folded. If nobody has folded, the player holding the card with the highest number takes all the chips in the pot. If both players have the same number on their card, all of the chips will be used as the ante for the next round. (In this case, players will not be required to throw in an extra chip for an ante)

If one of the players folded, the chips automatically go to the other player. If the top card on the deck of the folding player is a 10, they will also lose an additional 10 chips.

After each round, the leading player will switch.

You cannot bet more chips than either you or your opponent have. If you attempt to do so, it will be assumed that you are betting the maximum that is allowed.

The game ends when either one player has all 50 chips, or when 20 rounds have ended. In the event that 20 rounds have ended, the player with the highest chip count wins. In the event that both players have 25 chips after 20 rounds, the winner will be whoever had the most chips after 19 rounds.

Each game will happen independently of each other, and one can progress faster than the other.

## Results

Auron was the Illuminati Overlord and nominated Kirby and Baruch.
CommodoreTN

**CommodoreTN** is a player in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2.

In TES1, he was on Brown, Mango, and Sol. He was the last player eliminated in Week 14, earning him 27th place.

In TES2, he was on Capricorn but quit during Week 2. This originally earned him 118th place, but it was changed to 117th place after Death\_Of\_Effie was modkilled.
Illuminati Overlord

The **Illuminati Overlord** is the player in a week of The Epic Struggle 2 (following the Final Merge) who wins the Illuminati Overlord Challenge and nominates players for elimination. It is similar (but not initially identical) to the Rainbow King of The Epic Struggle and the Intergalactic Emperor of The Epic Struggle 3.

For the first several weeks following the Final Merge, the Illuminati Overlord had to name 3 nominees and never had the power to name a replacement nominee (who could instead be named by the Drunken Rebel).

For the remaining weeks of the game, the Illuminati Overlord had to name only 2 nominees and also had the power to name any replacements (if the Drunken Rebel saved a nominee).
Admin

The word **admin** can refer to 2 different things on GameFAQs.

In its original context, it is someone with great power over GameFAQs, such as SBAllen or Devin Morgan. These people rank above the mods in the power hierarchy of GameFAQs but below the corporate overlords at CNET.

In a smaller context, it could simply mean the admin of some Private Board. These admins have the power to invite and kick users from the private board, although they cannot invite or kick each other nor can they promote or demote admins (those jobs can only be done by the owner or co-owners of a private board - or, of course, by the GameFAQs "admins" mentioned in the previous paragraph). Several strugglers are admins of GNT, including Mayonesa, toonsage, DreamwaIker, and Cody11533. In 2015 Appleframer was promoted as a co-owner of GNT.
M0NSTER

**Monster** is a player in The Epic Struggle 3 who was on Mars, Alpha Centauri, Andromeda, and Universe.

* In Week 23, luckynumber777 nominated Monster for elimination alongside kirbymuncher. The Space Pirate dj-izzle chose not to save either nominee, but Monster survived the vote by a 7-4 margin.
* In Week 24, Monster was nominated by Mayonesa. Although initially on the block next to DreamwaIker, he ended up next to DJ by the end of the week, and he survived by a 6-4 margin.
* In Week 25, Monster became the replacement nominee when AndShock saved Dream (one of Dragonballer88's nominees). He was voted out over Ex-Kefiroth by a 6-3 margin in Elimination A at the same time that Choco was voted out 5-4 in Elimination B. This earned Monster 12th place, while Choco got 11th. Monster is Juror #2.
Air

**Air** was a team in The Epic Struggle 2 similar to the second instance of Invisible in The Epic Struggle. Players who were active but voted out between the First Merge and the Second Merge joined Air. Most weeks they had a similar challenge to the normal 5 teams at the time that would decide whether they remained on Air or were eliminated for real. When the Second Merge arrived, a few Air players made it back into the game proper.
AndFinrodFell

**Finrod** is a player in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2.

In TES1, he was on White, Sky, and Luna but had to leave the game immediately before the Final Merge. He was awarded 17th place.

He returned in TES2 on Gemini but chose to be Gemini's first vote-out (other than Weezy). Technically, since he didn't vote, he was kicked for inactivity and tied for 103rd place.
Elemental Rooms

**Elemental Rooms** was the Week 11 Challenge of The Epic Struggle 2.

## Rules

This challenge is very simple. There are five rooms. Each player must PM la\_mayonesa which one they are entering (rooms are numbered 1-5). You earn a point for your team if the room you enter has more players from an element you beat than from an element that beats you. (Ties don’t count)

Inferno beats Yggdrasil and Platinum
Yggdrasil beats Vortex and Quake
Vortex beats Platinum and Inferno
Platinum beats Quake and Yggdrasil
Quake beats Inferno and Vortex

The team with the most points wins.

Tiebreaker involving two teams: If two teams tie, the one whose element beats the other will be ranked higher.

Tiebreaker involving three teams: If three teams tie, there are two possibilities: one is that they are easily ranked. team that beats both > team that beats one and loses to other > team that loses to both. The other possibility is they form a rock-paper-scissors trio that can’t be broken. In this case another round will be presented to just these teams.

Tiebreaker involving four teams: If four teams tie, the two that lose to the missing team will be ranked higher than the two that win to the missing team. They’ll then be ranked based on which team beats the other.

Tiebreaker involving five teams: If all five teams manage to get the exact same score, every team will vote out one player.
Cryptogram

A **cryptogram** is the result of taking one or more phrases or sentences and changing each letter to another letter in a consistent manner. A challenge that involves solving a cryptogram is known to be Literally Impossible, especially if the whole puzzle starts as blanks and encrypted letters are only gradually revealed.
Moderator

A **moderator** on GameFAQs is someone responsible for keeping the community in order, assigning moderations and speaking with the GameFAQs admins as needed. As of November 7th 2015, there are two known users who have both played an edition of The Epic Struggle and been a moderator (not necessarily at the same time): gmo7897 and WafflehouseJK.
Invisible 1.0

**Invisible** (called **Invisible 1.0** here so it is not confused with Invisible 2.0) is a team in The Epic Struggle where players go when they are voted out prior to the First Merge. A Redemption Challenge was held immediately before the First Merge to determine which Invisible players would return to the game; the rest of the list was eliminated for real.
Moderation

On the GameFAQs message boards, users who violate the rules may receive a **moderation**. Depending on the severity of the violation, this can take the form of karma loss, a brief purgatory, a suspension, or a ban. Moderations can also result in posts being deleted. Hosts should be very careful in the first post of Epic Struggle topics because if that post is moderated then the entire topic could be deleted. This would be a disaster if nobody archived the important info in the topic yet.
Illuminati Overlord Challenge

The **Illuminati Overlord Challenge** is the challenge that determines which player becomes the Illuminati Overlord for a week in The Epic Struggle 2. With the exception of the Final Three, the Illuminati Overlord the past week is not allowed to compete in the Illuminati Overlord Challenge this week, but everyone else may participate.

The Illuminati Overlord Challenge is similar to the Crown Competition in TES1 and the Intergalactic Emperor Challenge in TES3.
Chocolinks

The term "Chocolinks" was coined by Kefi to refer to Choco's habit of posting imgur links in Epic Struggle topics. Most of them are taken directly from imgur's frontpage. About 60% of them are tumblr screenshots.

Though he never posted anything about this, Machete often pictured "Chocolinks" (after the term was coined) as chocolate-covered sausage links... because why not? That'd be fun, right?
Alpha Centauri

**Alpha Centauri** is one of the 5 teams between the First Merge and Second Merge in The Epic Struggle 3.

## Trivia

* The captain who drafted this team was Mizuno\_Ami.
* After Alpha Centauri lost the first post-merge challenge, they voted out their captain Ami. However, she managed to make it back into the game on Andromeda.

## External Links

* forum: http://s15.zetaboards.com/Generic\_Board/index/
INCEPTI0N

**Inception** is a player in The Epic Struggle, The Epic Struggle 2, and The Epic Struggle 3.

In TES1, he was on Red, Scarlet, Invisible, Sol, and Rainbow, and placed 10th (becoming Juror #4).

He was the leader of Red and made an alliance with Purple early in the game; this helped him destroy them from within once Red and Purple merged into Scarlet. After narrowly returning to the game at the Second Merge, he stayed under the radar on Sol and made it onto Rainbow where he reached the top 10 and was voted out.

In TES2, he was on Cancer and Vortex and only tied for 54th place due to being outnumbered by all the Scorpio members on the team.

In TES3, he secretly signed up as **flatgirl93**, but he was outed as Inception in October 2015 due to some old GameFAQs posts which showed the two accounts used the same Steam name.

He was on Venus and became the captain of Vega. However, Vega did not want him and so he was voted out in a tie for 41st place and joined The Sun. In Week 10, he lost Sun Challenge 2 and was eliminated from the game.

## Trivia

* Inception almost didn't make it through the Second Merge. However, smelyalata quit Sol very shortly after it was formed, and Inception was his replacement.
Chesluk

**Chesluk** (also known by **Cocainius**) is a player in The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2.

In TES1, Chesluk was on Black and Emerald before being voted out in 38th place (tied with TheRealItachi).

In TES2, Cocainius was on Scorpio, Vortex, Ivory, and Mysockcontainsmycock before being voted out in 7th place. He is Juror #11.
Matt314hew

**Matt** is a player in The Epic Struggle, The Epic Struggle 2, and The Epic Struggle 3. He is also the runner-up of Big Brother: Legends Edition and the only person to *play* in all 4 games. *(Since Dream hosted BB:LE and TES1, Dream isn't considered to have played in them.)*

In BB:LE, Matt made the Final Two but lost to UfloridagatorsF by a 4-2 margin during the jury vote.

In TES1, Matt was on Black but got kicked for inactivity in Week 5, earning 68th place.

In TES2, Matt was on Gemini and on-track to make it far into the game as part of the Chimera alliance. During the First Merge, however, he became the only member of Chimera to not make it onto Quake, Platinum, or Vortex; instead he was stolen by Inferno. There he became somewhat inactive and got voted out in a tie for 52nd place.

In TES3, Matt was on Neptune until he was voted out in Week 3 and tied for 52nd place.
Ban

A **ban** is the most severe form of moderation on GameFAQs (other than usermap axes, Kill-on-Sight, and legal action, of course). In almost all circumstances, an account cannot be returned to active status after it is banned. The user must leave GameFAQs, create a new account, or use any Alternate Account that wasn't killed at the time of the ban.
The Epic Struggle 2

**The Epic Struggle 2** (also known as **TES2**) is the second game in The Epic Struggle series of forum games. It ran from April 2014 to July 2015.

## Trivia

* Team names in TES2 were based first on constellations (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and Ophiuchus), then on the five elements (Quake, Platinum, Vortex, Inferno, Yggdrasil, and Air), then on the hosts' TES1 colors (Ebony and Ivory), and finally on polls of GameFAQs users as part of a challenge (Mysockcontainsmycock).
* Over the course of TES2, three people who were part of the game had their GameFAQs account name changed. These people are Choco (formerly "Choco2301994", numbers slightly altered to protect his identity), Cody11533 (formerly "cody11533"), and Mayonesa (formerly "la\_mayonesa").
Jury

The **Jury** is the group of players who get to vote for a winner in the Final Two. They are usually the majority of players voted out after the Final Merge.

## In TES1

In The Epic Struggle, the Jurors were the players who placed 13th-3rd. They voted on whether Apple or Machete should become the winner of the game in the Final Two.

Machete won by a vote of 6-5.

## In TES2

In The Epic Struggle 2, the Jurors were initially going to be the players who placed 17th-3rd. However, after Hapex quit the game in 8th place and had his Jury position relinquished, Toon (who had reached 18th place) was "next in line" and became Juror #10 in his stead.

The Jury voted on whether Cody or Kirby should become the winner of the game in the Final Two.

Cody won by a vote of 9-6.

## In TES3

In The Epic Struggle 3, the Jurors are once again those who place 13th-3rd. They voted for whether Lucky or Weegee should win.

Note that TheShadowMan683 did not log into GameFAQs during the voting period or a couple days thereafter and thus did not cast a vote. This marks the first time a jury member has not voted.

## Trivia

* Three players were Jurors in both TES1 and TES2: Kefi, Rob, and Choco.
	+ Kefi's two votes were the same as Rob's two votes.
	+ Choco's two votes were both for the person who ended up winning.
Num

**Num** is the name of a challenge in The Epic Struggle 2. It was Part Two of the Week 38 Overlord Challenge, played by ArchangelBaruch and Cody11533 after kirbymuncher had won Part One of that week.

## Rules

*Both players will take turns adding numbers to a Sudoku board until the board is either full or there are no moves that can be made.*
 `### ### ###

### ### ###`

*On your turn you must replace one of the # symbols with a digit from 1-9. The digit you place may not be the same as any of the digits in the same row, column, or 3x3 square. The goal is not to necessarily solve the Sudoku but to make a move that does not directly contradict the rules of it. When there are no possible moves left to be made, the player that made the last move is the winner.*

*However, there is also the possibility that the two of you will complete the entire board with no contradictions. On each of your turns you have the option to post "SOLVING" before placing a digit. By doing this, you are changing the win conditions of the challenge. The player that declares SOLVING wins if the board gets completely filled out, while the other player wins if either player gets in a situation where there are no valid moves left to be made. Once a player declares that the board will be solved there is no going back on the decision.*

## Trivia

* Some players casually played this against each other in the then-topic at the same time that the actual challenge took place. These unofficial matches were Choco vs kirby and Jet vs teepan.
Karma

**Karma** is a numerical value attached to user accounts on GameFAQs that roughly corresponds to how many days that user has logged into GameFAQs. Users need a certain (small) amount of karma before they can be invited to private boards such as Games-N'-Things. For this reason, it is good for strugglers to have alts with enough karma already in case they get suspended.
FinalLegendZero

**FinalLegendZero** (or **FLZ**) is a player in The Epic Struggle who was on White, Sky, Luna, and Rainbow. He was voted out in Week 22 in 13th place, earning him the first spot on the Jury. In the end, he stuck around only to vote against Appleframer - and it paid off, since ImTheMacheteGuy won by a 6-5 margin.
Four to Connect

**Four to Connect** is the Week 22 Challenge of The Epic Struggle 2.

## Rules

Two players will be eliminated this week.

For this challenge, you will be playing a classic children's board game. There will be two games set up that will be played simultaneously. Ivory will be going first in Game 1 and Ebony will be going first in Game 2.

If you've never played Connect 4 before, it's pretty simple. You select a column to place your piece, and it goes to the lowest row that doesn't already have a piece there. You win the game by having four pieces in a row on the board vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

When it is your team's turn for either game, any player on the team can make a post declaring their move. You can do this by either changing the ASCII image, or you can simply say something like "Place in column X." Because it is possible for your team to need to make a move in both games, make it clear in your post which one you are making a move for.

If nobody on the team make a move for 24 hours, they are considered to have forfeited.

Each game that your team loses will result in one more player from your team being eliminated. If one game ends in a tie, the loser of the other game will vote out 2 people. If both games end in a tie, both teams will vote out 1 person.
Kirbymuncher

*Note: This article is about **kirbymuncher**. You may be looking for ThePirateKirby or a disambiguation for "Kirby".*

**Kirby** is a player in The Epic Struggle, The Epic Struggle 2, and The Epic Struggle 3.

In TES1, he was on Amber, Mango, and Luna and earned 30th place.

In TES2, he was on Gemini, Platinum, Ivory, and Mysockcontainsmycock and earned 2nd place.

In TES3, he signed up as **nomigersap** and was on Neptune and Vega. In October 2015 it was revealed publicly that nomigersap is kirbymuncher, and in early November 2015 the hosts officially confirmed that he will henceforth be playing the game as kirbymuncher. At the Second Merge, he joined Milky Way. Then he joined Universe at the Final Merge.

* In Week 23, luckynumber777 nominated Kirby for elimination alongside M0NSTER\_. The Space Pirate dj-izzle chose not to save either nominee. Kirby was then eliminated 7-4 and earned 14th place. He is the highest placing player to be in neither the Jury nor the Final Two.
Intergalactic Emperor

The **Intergalactic Emperor** nominates players for elimination after the Final Merge in The Epic Struggle 3. If the Space Pirate saves on of these nominees, the Emperor also names the replacement nominee.

He is the winner of the current week's Intergalactic Emperor Challenge. His role is similar to the Rainbow King in TES1 and the Illuminati Overlord in TES2.

For the final Intergalactic Emperor Challenge, there were 3 parts. Lucky won part 1 against Corrik and Weegee, Weegee won part 2 against Corrik, and then Lucky won part 3 and therefore the challenge as a whole.

*Note: In Week 31, the Survivor Button twist meant there was no Intergalactic Emperor.*
Idol of Dominance

The **Idol of Dominance** is earned by the 1st place team in the challenge each week prior to the Second Merge. The team that wins **Dominance** is in charge of the Dominance Decision.

## Trivia

* Originally (in TES1 and TES2) the only possible Dominance Decision was to steal an Idol of Safety from one of the teams that earned it. This was meant to imply that a team is only safe from the vote if they hold an Idol of Safety - and so the dominant team had to steal an Idol of Safety from one of the other teams to be safe from the vote themselves. But this convention was broken in TES3, where a dominant team between the First and Second Merges might instead cause the last place team to get an Idol of Shame (that they otherwise wouldn't have), meaning the dominant team itself would never obtain an Idol of Safety.
GameFAQs

**GameFAQs** is a site mostly known for its FAQs and message boards to help people with video games they are playing. However, there are other less-known aspects of the site, one of which is its social board and private board communities. On some of these boards users play and host forum games of varying complexity.

The Epic Struggle was hosted on the Current Events social board, but its sequel The Epic Struggle 2 moved to the Games-N'-Things private board, a board on GameFAQs with the specific purpose of hosting forum games. This move brought a resurgence of users to Games-N'-Things.
Big Brother

**Big Brother** is a TV show in many countries. After the Final Merge, The Epic Struggle and The Epic Struggle 2 follow a format similar to **Big Brother** in that the winners of challenges earn the power to determine who is eligible to receive votes that week. However, this is just a guideline - the exact names and rules of these powers are written from scratch and can vary depending on the host.
La mayonesa

Redirect to:

* Mayonesa
**Mayo** is a player in The Epic Struggle and the host (formerly co-host alongside ImTheMacheteGuy) of The Epic Struggle 2.

In TES1, Mayo was on White, Sky, Luna, and Rainbow. He placed 5th and was Juror #9, voting for Appleframer in the end (although Machete ended up winning).

In TES2, Machete allowed him to be a co-host since neither of them wanted to do the full hosting job. However, after Machete quit hosting late in the game, Mayo did get stuck with the full hosting job for the remainder of the game.
Legends

**Legends** is a board on GameFAQs restricted to users whose level is "Legend" or above. It is a social board which has played many forum games within its own community.

Members of the Legends community who were at some point involved in The Epic Struggle Series include DreamwaIker, matt314hew, Giacomo\_Hawkins, and UrCa1988.

Dream hosted Big Brother: Legends Edition (along with countless earlier projects) on Legends before creating The Epic Struggle on Current Events and then moving the majority of his forum games activities to Games-N'-Things.

## External Links

* WikiFAQs article on Legends: http://wikifaqs.net/index.php?title=Legends