Xiao Wang, Aditi Lahiri, Kavya Nambiar.
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As today was the first day of Spoons, we feel that it is only fitting we talk about the first kill. And what a juicy one it was! A huge congratulations to our tribute Xiao Wang for being first... to die.
In the short amount of time since this kill was confirmed, it has evolved into a folklore. Numerous rumors have surfaced about the exact way in which it occurred, but most sources suggest that the Spooner had been plotting sly schemes leading up to the moment. Schemes that involved distractions and lies and misdirection and misplaced trust. Yet the Spooner never got the chance to use these alleged schemes because, at the start of brunch, our fallen tribute put his spoon down at the end of a blue table to take down some notes. Back turned and hunched over without his spoon in reach, he was picked off with no hesitation. Cold. But it warms our hearts.
In his final moments alive, our fallen tribute managed to capture a few barely legible scribbles on a hastily torn-out piece of graph paper. It is unclear whether the language he chose to write his cipher in is one that we as a species recognize. Perhaps it was a desperate plea for help, an SOS for someone to save him as the end of his Spoons career stared him in the eye. Perhaps it is a haiku reflecting back on his deepest secrets and regrets about all the people he had wronged in the short 2 to 3 hour span he was alive in this game. Perhaps it truly is nonsensical, benign scrawlings. We may never know what flickered across his mind in his final moments.
But one thing we know for sure: The first of many has fallen. Take notes, Spooners, because you could be next. Until next time!
UPDATE: Upon closer inspection of the cryptic scribbles, it appears that his final word was “expected”. How ironic.