Hello there, history friends. Welcome to the latest episode of the Versailles Anniversary Project. My name is Zach Twomley. If you've never listened to Windapalzi Fells before, you just jumped in here because you felt like it, then you're very, very welcome. And I hope you do listen to the earlier episodes, too, so that you know what's going on. For those of you that have been here before and have been with us a long time, well, thank

you very much for joining us as well.

As is customary for these episodes, I'm here to remind you what this episode is brought

to you by, and it is brought to you by, dun dun, dun, the delegation game.

I know you're very surprised, because you've probably heard all about this by now, but

just in case you have not.

The delegation game is the latest effort by yours truly to try and make folks engage more with the product at hand, and also to get people to sign up on Patreon.

For $6 a month, you can participate in one of the weirdest, most ambitious, and arguably

most fun things I've ever tried to do. It's like a mixture

between fantasy booking, Dungeons and Dragons, and that board game diplomacy that is a super underrated

and everyone should play. You will be going to the Paris Peace Conference and for six months

I'll be narrating what you get up to and what your peers get up to and I'll be throwing several challenges at you based on what would have been faced in real life that week, but there's also an awful lot of freedom as to what actually happens because anything that you want to do you can suggest and if you can find people that agree with you, if you can find people that will vote with you and support you, who knows what you can get up to? To give you an idea of the kind of variety

we have already going into this, those of you that have signed up have already picked some very

varied characters. Everyone from a Japanese guy to an Australian, to a Canadian, to a Hungarian,

to a German, to a New Englander, to a British guy, to, like, there's

so many different ones, and I would really encourage you guys to, well, think about whether or not

the delegation game might be for you. It is going to be something that we take a lot of time

covering. It's going to be something that happens every Friday once the actual Paris

Peace Conference launches. For those of you that are interested, we'll be able to listen in,

even if, by the way, even if you're not taking part, you'll still be able to listen to what

actually happens to these different characters. And maybe you might find it a refreshing

alternative to the actual, arguably more depressing version of the Paris Peace Conference. Who knows, maybe our depressing version of the Paris Peace Conference.

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