Welcome Skye, Plate, and Isobel!

Thank you Smythe for getting this started. And thank you to all three of you newcomers for being so wonderful all throughout this Game. Your being out of the running now hasn't quite sunk in, because each of you brought so much to this ORG and it took some more Goes Wrong energy than we'd intended to land you all here, unfortunately.

Sandra as Cpl. Valerie Skye I know you had a rough time at the end there, but being lost amidst some of the Format and Challenge details does not diminish in any way the impact your presence and personality had upon everyone who interacted with you. Somehow you'd waltz into a Tribe, flash your charm, and have almost everybody enamored instantly, PMing you twice as often as anyone else, and counting on you whenever they needed a number. It took some rough luck with the Safety Chain, thrice over, to put you in any danger at that stage - Neighbour getting to start the Chain, Isobel getting to finish it, and then your Challenge mishap which as you saw not one you were alone in. A lot of the players regret losing you, but I think your being out of the way makes things less complicated for a lot of them too, and that's yet another reason to mourn your loss

Max as Plate You were a legendary underdog here, and overcame so many close calls but always stayed in good spirits, and turned every poor situation into comedy fodder. I wasn't joking about using your MPs to get co-hosts re-engaged and your treatment of Suchet particularly in this last round will have huge consequences. You also turned other enemies into allies effortlessly and amassed enough people willing to vouch for you that you were far closer to getting the votes in the end than you gave yourself credit for, had they coordinated a bit better. Eventually you seemed somehow invulnerable, and so it seems like a shock to have you land in the Sub-Actors' Shelter now, even though back at the start of this I would have bet on it as a given. I'm also very curious to know what you might have done had the Drag worked differently, or what might have swayed you in the end.

Vanessa as Queen Isobel I know you feel done dirty here, and I can't pretend not to understand it. You were a powerhouse all Game long, had the positioning and skill to go far deeper even with allies dropping left and right through no fault of your own - you had so many other avenues that yes, it took something this extreme to take you out For whatever its worth, the Drag twist was the one we knew we had to telegraph from the very beginning (and quite a few people caught on, knowing to expect it in the first round that didn't seem to be a double boot, before the jury stage) and the ambiguity in who was eligible to be dragged was intended to help the Endangered players, enabling them to make threat and plan for all scenarios. And even after your poor luck with the Food Chain outcomes and The Defence's approach you were barely a part of backfiring onto you alone, I do think there were potential ways out of it. Unfortunately your run was cut shorter than you expected or deserved, and I hope that with time we all will find it less painful to look back past the ending and celebrate how incredible you were, consistently, through every twist and turn up to that point


Mostly I hope all three of you hang around and make the most of being in the Shelter here for the next couple of weeks, enjoying what's still ahead without the bittersweet combination of intense stress/involvement. Because I'm not ready to lose any of you and your characters from this experience yet and I want to keep hearing your thoughts about everything. You have access to all there is to see, and now that the Shelter is full I can be a lot more open about what was/is going on in-Game if you want to know all the secret details You're all wonderful, and deserve the best possible treatment here in your premature retirement