Definitely a weird feeling getting out of that Tribal Council compared to the ones I've gone through in past games. The very first Tribal Council of the game is always hot garbage - and I've been to at least a few of them - but this game I have a sense of "god damn am I going to have to go through this another 17-18 times?" that I can't say I've ever had before.
This was a very, very quiet Tribal for whatever reason. I had some sort of PM from everybody when I got out of work at 6pm or so, but between then and deadline the only two people I heard from were Ace and Lennie - despite Scruffs and Jake both being online at different times. And Lennie was getting very brief and really only throwing one-liners at me. I really need things to pick up tonight/tomorrow if I'm gonna want to get anywhere without having to pray for a tribe swap soon.
Or maybe I'm just internalizing Heiji's comment.