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Last time, we saw the residents of Monster experience a dress rehearsal for the end of days.

They were summoned to the Cathedral Square in the pre-dawn hours of the 23rd of October

in the year 1534, and they waited expectantly for the apocalypse to begin, only to be told that

it was actually just a drill, a test by God of their willingness to participate in

the second coming. Since they had all passed the test, they were to be rewarded with a feast.

A feast served to them by Kinyan and the members of his royal court.

At the end of the last episode, the feast had concluded and evening was approaching.

King Jan then told the people of Munster that he had an important announcement to make.

To reinforce the solemnity of the announcement, communion was offered.

Now, in his book the Taylor King, Anthony Arthur points out that this was a little strange.

The communion offered to, and accepted by the Anabaptists of Munster, was the traditional

Catholic form of communion, performed though not by a Catholic priest, but by King Yarn. Since this was

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