No worries for the delay, ahaha, it can be hard to keep up with comments or to even what to reply!
The variations were honestly so good and rewarding to chase already, can’t imagine how much work you all had to do to put it all together under Spooktober’s timeframe (and the brevity fit the fairy-tale theme/storytelling so well already!).
And yeah, the “mysterious start” was just perfect to me, I was honestly hooked so easily from the very start.
I wasn’t aware of Jester / King at all, thank you for the rec, I’ll look it up!