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Battle Beyond the Star Schlock

  A subset of the Scrum Club and some of our friends met for a game on Dec. 30 to close out 2021. In addition to guests Peter M. and Mark A. (visiting from Minnesota), we were finally able to also have Dave "Zeb" Cook over to Scrum Hall (i.e., my dining room) for a game of some sort.  Scrum Con —the convention we organize here in the DC metro area—has been lucky to include Zeb as our guest of honor since its inception in Feb. 2019, and the idea of him coming over to the house to game with us started getting bandied about not terribly long thereafter. Like so many pre-COVID plans, however, the pandemic sadly put the idea on indefinite hold. But when I bumped into Zeb at Historicon last month and we got to chatting, it seemed like we should revisit the idea of getting a game in together and settled on the week between Christmas and New Years.  Fortunately, the Scrum Club has a handful of pretty fun games at the ready that we've prepped and run at conventions over the yea