It's Tuesday, August 6th, and you're listening to a special edition of the Secret

Caball Gaming Podcast.

Today, the founders welcome honorary founders, Tom Vassel, and Eric Summer.

To discuss the best four days in gaming, GenConn 2013.

And now, please welcome the Secret Cabal Founders.

Hello and welcome to the Gen Con 2013 preview episode. My name is Jamie. Tony here.

Hey, this is Chris. Tom the Vassel. Howdy. I'm Eric Summerer. All right. And you heard that right.

This is not a prank. We heard a lot of people on the forums and things asking if this was an elaborate

prank that Tom Vassal and

Eric Summer were going to be on the secret cabal gaming podcast and vice versa on their show. But no,

it is not. We have the virtuosos of gaming on our air today, Tom Vassal and Eric Summer.

Well, I like to point out real quick that Tom Vassal and Eric Summer will not be working on any

elaborate prank together

for the very, very far future. Are you still angry? Tom is very upset. We've been playing a game of

diplomacy with some various other podcasters and Tom decided he was not going to be involved in this

at all. He says, I'm out. I'm not playing this game. Because I'm smart. A lot of the other guys

that are playing this game, we're like, well, we should kind of mess with Tom. So let's pretend that

we're having a huge fight over this game of diplomacy. And we're going to play this up. And we

actually had the moderator who's running this game right to Tom and saying, well, nobody's talking to each other.

They're all threatening to leave the Dice Tower Network.

And this is going terribly.

And then Tom responds by writing to all of us and saying, all right, guys, I know that tempers may be high,

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