Hello and welcome history friends, delegates, patrons, everybody else in between to the second

episode of the Delegation Game. Last time we brought you the very first installment of this

absolutely wonderful experience and I went down well enough to persuade another handful of people

to sign up since. It was a week of scheming and plotting as the different Facebook chats saw an awful lot of magic

happen, with cooperation the Order of the Day and everyone really making this game special.

Like many of you, I've had to mute several of these groups and check up on them after intervals.

So incredibly active is this community of nearly

40 people which has grown up around this game. I cannot express enough how hard

warmate it is to see this thing develop and expand and it has surpassed my expectations

so many times over and over again.

While it was a week of activity, it was also a week of learning curves for many of us, so many times over and over again.

While it was a week of activity, it was also a week of learning curves for many of us,

as we got to see precisely how the different mechanisms work, and what we're all capable of.

For me, I encountered the first and probably a long line of whoopsies when playing this game,

because I was forced to announce the postponement of the votes, which I had put forward at the end of last week's episode. Due to the very reasonable fact that you all could not be expected to vote on things, like

the Irish War of Independence or the League of Nations, when I had yet to bring you the background

details of those stories in the actual Versailles project.

The whole idea was that the Versailles Anniversary Project would inform the delegation game

and then make your votes easier to understand, and this had actually been mapped out within my

notes. But due to my enthusiasm last week, I forgot all about this and proposed votes a whole week

earlier than I was meant to, so sorry for that mix-up, but at least this exercise did reveal

what you'll be asked to vote on

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