So, general thoughts after all this? Well, I still haven't got through a game without modkills. Sadness. Yakko offered to take over for Death, but I didn't see the message until after I'd posted the flip. Other stuff:
-I was a little sad that people dropped the flavor text as quickly as they did. I was particularly enjoying the Serling soliloquies.
-Once again I turn out to be too absent-minded to strictly enforce some rules. The succinct thing was more of a suggestion (and no force in the universe can prevent Xanth from posting walls of text), but overlooking absences was more egregious on my part. Granted, had I been less forgiving on that account, I would've modkilled four out of eleven players.
-On that note, I was a fair bit worried during the first day that the game was going to be an out-and-out trainwreck. Had a couple people barely posting, Soppy forgetting to post anonymously twice (what the hell, man,) and exploitation of the instant death rule that I really, really should've seen coming. Solid play by some of the more active players really turned things around on days two and three, though.
-Xanth was unquestionably the MVP. The only thing that could've stopped him was getting copped by Miyagi on night three, and even that would've taken some very persuasive arguments from Miyagi to pull off.