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Congratulate me on the victory! Hooray, hooray! And so on, and so forth! Thanks to Ples for the victory! Thanks to Loken for the victory! Thanks to Yashchur for the victory! Everyone else — you're all great too, even troll-Arandor with his curses and his "well, you guys fight under my curse while I sit in the corner" tactic.
And now, in order:
1) Ples set up the formation, calculated the start, convinced everyone to shoot lightning at Chonchonliya (okay, Geroist also played a big part there, thanks to him too). In short, yes, I was nervous, especially about the debate on whether to fly to the box or not. Still, Ples, I believe in your honest, good intentions and hope that the box would be preserved, but I read Yashchur's intentions correctly. I still don't understand why he took Ferlyuts away, didn't leave Nebka the wyvern, and even killed you. In any case, you could be relied upon, and we all did. In short, Ples is a great guy; if the GM offers to share the honor and glory (i.e., reputation points) via RP, Stefania would give 2 points to Alaria. Though, that would require adjustments to the chronicles.
2) Huge respect to Loken for killing Candle. Yes, it was actually Ples's decision, but that sacrifice sealed the deal to the max. It was painful to watch both the poisoning and the sudden removal of invisibility. In short, top-1 in painful deaths of this drama. Top-2 — Geroist, top-3 — Ples. Then Alex, Nebok, Arandor, Nelia, and Galyan. Rezara is also pitiable; Astral was on the bad guys' side, but he killed the troublesome Nina.
3) Well, the main reason for my victory in the end was Yashchur's decisions. First, he shouted louder than anyone that the team was handing me the victory, and then he brilliantly directed the Northerners and Vaitkalm against the players to eliminate all my competitors for the finale. Seeing that the NPCs had no chance, he could have at least reduced my odds, but he chose not to 💖
And overall, the idea of introducing the Northerners when there were already four "neutrals" was incredibly cool. In fact, after Rezara's death, Ging and Lorican became Albus's #9 and #10. They could have broken the box so Ferlyuts would fly to me sooner. But instead, together with Vaitkalm, they brought down Axel (I mean, to the ground...), took out Ambrose's rider (he could have played catch-up at the end, and I would have had to choose between a horse with a one-shot rider and a wyvern), Orvald (I didn't plan to go down there, but still, he was left for last), Alaria, and Nelia. And all this just to spite the players who wanted to ally against the GM-organized coalition.
As someone who can hardly be called a strong strategist, even I am extremely surprised by the outcome. Not in terms of Stefania's victory, but in terms of depriving everyone else of their chances. In any case, I'm glad I won something somewhere. I believe that without the team, without Ples's clear leadership in the first half of the rounds and the Northerners who basically threw almost the entire player team, I wouldn't necessarily have won.
