Wake up, Audrey, wake up!

offcourse runes aren't triggered; they are your own troops. 

I have seen a lot of posts from people sending armies and diplos but did anybody try to send caravans (maybe loaded with goods and gold) or harvesters?

Epidemic wrote: A whole whooping 4 days...Seriously? I was under the impression Audrey had an endgame. Lets never bother to wake her up again...

Is Audrey working properly?

I sent 2k Troops to the HofC whilst it was beating, they were completely destroyed but did not add to the spread of the 'corrupted forests' as it was already at its maximum.

I sent 1k and 1.1k diplos to the places of high sacrifice whilst the HofC was beating. This resulted in corrupted elves being sent back (in equal numbers).

However, most disappointingly, when the first 1k wave of corrupted elves hit my city and a few hours later 1.1k corrupted elves also hit, neither dropped any tentacles at all whatsoever.

What is the meaning of this?

Anyone able to provide any insight as to why no tentacles were dropped?

Is the HofC working properly?

What are other player's experience in the latest HofC experience?

Anyone have a reliable way of working out what to send to the places of high sacrifice in order to maximize dropped tentacles?

My own conclusions:

Once the Heart is beating, when you send one unit (be it military or diplomatic) to a corrupted temple, the Heart sends you back one corrupted unit. Whatever the original unit type, the corrupted orc/elf/human/dwarf unit seems to remain the same (race-dependent only stats).
Conversion is 1-to-1 : 897 units sent to a temple, 897 returned to your city.
Units sent directly the the Heart are just lost.

However, it does not seem that large groups yield a substantially higher probability of dropping a tentacle. But it has been seen that groups as small as 6 corrupted units can drop tentacles.
Thus it appears much more effective to divide large groups into smaller ones. I don't know what size they should be to maximise the probability (1, 6, 10, 25, ... ?), but it is clearly the way to go.
If you just send a very large group you know it'll be turned in a very large group of undead that will clash once with your troops and kill many, with a low probability of gaining anything. If you send the same number in much smaller groups you won't have much less casualties, but you'll have a much higer chance to get tentacles (possibly several) and thus to make it worth it.