I hope that you get to travel this time and that your plans don't fall through. Also glad to hear that you're thinking of the 'everybody wins' routine as the default that can change when needed as opposed to the occasional nicety that I had been thinking of it as.
I think I'm gonna take a year long break from experimentation and do what I originally had in mind when I thought of this tier, which is to run thru the first season of The Magicians.
And by the way you have tags named 'reactions' and 'bonus reaction' with some of this tiers winners between them.