No problem haha, I get really into tracking down old drama sometimes.

I think Plague might have been uniquely vulnerable to this scenario because the old dom team had kind of a history of being a cliquey friends group. So he just had to buddy up to people like KyraG and convince them that his reputation was just from people being mad that he was good at fundraising or whatever, and it wouldn't have been difficult. Also, he did have a lot of energy to put into dom, and that's rare enough that other dom leaders would probably welcome a new addition to the team, even if they had reservations about his history.