Hello everybody and welcome to a very special end of the year, holiday, McStravaganza Beastcast

episode special. That's what this is. It is the special episode I'm joined by Alex Navarro.

Hello everybody. Jeff Bakalar. Hi there. Uh-huh Dan Raker. Oh hello. Uh and special guest Pat Bair. Oh

hi. Back again. Thank you for joining us and of course a very very warm welcome to the Master

of Ceremonies Austin Walker. How's it going? This is my official title because of the game we're

playing actually. You see instead of the GM. Austin what are we playing? We are playing a

apocalypse world. Second edition. It's a game by Devinson Baker. Uh apocalypse world was a game that

kind of set the tabletop role-playing game scene on fire years ago. Second edition came out last year.

It is the first time that we're going to be playing a game for this holiday special that is kind

of a more traditional role-playing game. Uh it's not as traditional something like D&D let's say.

But you know in the past in this in these specials we played games like Fiasco and follow which are

kind of improv driven very rules light games where you're not just playing a character who is a class

year you're like just kind of playing out scenes. And this year we are going to be playing a

apocalypse world. And I know what you're thinking. Wait a second the last two years have been

heist games set in the modern day. Why are we playing a apocalypse world? Well people who've

listened to those specials know that at the end of last year's heist in which the crew of

ridiculous scoundrels that you are you were trying to steal the original holiday or New Year's Eve

ball which which in our fictional world was made out of diamonds. And you did it under the nose of

southerner AG Dufrein. Armistice gains wood Dufrein. And he was was crushed by the ball I believe

or killed in some other. At some point I'm pretty sure the ball fell on him. The ball he was

he'd also been poisoned by a weird blue drink that he'd been convinced was not some sort of acid.

I know a little bit of a listen through to the last one. So you're real long time for

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