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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Charles Darwin: On the origin of "On the Origin of Species"
Description: Victorian London, 1851. Charles Darwin is working on the most important scientific text in history, and Ryan's just turned up at the pub under the deeply suspicious pseudonym "Ryland Mulchroneforth." His plan? Gaslight the father of evolution, steal credit for the Theory of Natural Selection, and demand a piggyback across town.
The Game Master this week is Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so the AI is depressed, sarcastic, and deeply unimpressed by everyone's existence. Ryan's approach to Victorian science: walk into a pub, shout for noble scientists, and then inform Charles Darwin...