Aw, thanks! 💜
All stats are added to the general pool after your friends die. This can be seen during character creation—you can essentially choose between 10% and 100% of a stat from the general pool upon creation.
At the start of the game, all stats are set to 10, so this isn't very noticeable, but after a couple of runs, it will become apparent, especially if you set a stat to 100%—the maximum points in the general pool will be shown in parentheses. I don't know if I explained it clearly 😅