@Heiner: While this is a bit tricky, the rules says characters that suddenly became out of Direct Influence control of other characters (because the character him left the board somehow) do not need to be controlled by GI and their mind do not add up for this until the next organization phase of the player controlling the character. On the other hand, as Marcos already pointed out, characters controlled by GI leaving the game inmediately stop using that GI - and also, if you want to play WHCTK, there has to be enough GI or DI to control the character that is about to enter the game. Not sure if that answers your question.
And yes, all final games were very exciting until the very last moment. Hey, after all it's more than a decade playing this game for most of us, we should be good at it
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