Dearest Viewers,

I know you’re all probably familiar with the format of our game, so I felt it was time to shake things up and eliminate another HouseAuthor this week! After sitting down with our producers, we’ve decided that in order to both speed up the competition and keep our contestants on their toes, we shall move one step closer to our Final Five by removing a fairly ineffective HouseAuthor from the game.

To be quite blunt, this HouseAuthor was only placed in the game after our producers had a very difficult time extracting Emily Dickinson from her room. The process involved transporting an entity away from a world in which they’re connected to their work, and Ms. Dickinson’s penchant for remaining in her room – coupled with her “eccentric” behavior – made it a much more difficult task. In the end, we all agreed that it would be easier to leave Ms. Dickinson be, and take this other HouseAuthor instead.

We did hope that this HouseAuthor would be a better competitor, but it’s very apparent their relevance is limited to only one or so of our Ideals. In terms of our game, their presence is invalidated.

Lu Xun, your presence is no longer required here. Though you gained immunity this week by winning the Head Thinker Challenge, you only did so because you were the only HouseAuthor who wrote in excess about Science and The Enlightenment. It wasn’t exactly a fair challenge, and we regret allowing you to win so easily. To make up for this folly, you become the victim of our first major twist: the second weekly decapitation.

No exit interview conducted. Lu Xun transported to the basement of the Reasonless Tower.