If it's any consolation, it is delicious (and helped chase away an incipient migraine for me yesterday morning).

That's wonderful! I am very content knowing that.

(I suspected it would make me ill after the first batch; I think I mitigated the effects somewhat by ventilating the kitchen right from the start of the process, rather than remembering about the fan at the point when the air was already filled with coffee fumes, but I was still exposed and it still set off whatever contrary reaction I have to caffeine. I don't consider it a waste of my efforts, though. Especially not if it turned out delicious.)

The show was both funny and touching. It's rare to find both of those together.

I will tell derspatchel. I think it's the best work he's done. The Big Broadcast of October 30th, 1938 got everybody's attention in 2009 and it should have; it was his first foray into the Byfar universe and it was pitch-perfect, with that sudden destabilizing drop into real life. It was invented to be interrupted by The War of the Worlds, but it had a life of its own. This spring's episode of Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder ("Crisis of the Cuddlykins") was my favorite of the live shows and again the most interesting work he's done with the characters in that continuity, allowing them to grow and argue and change while still making time for My Little Pony jokes and shout-outs to Real Genius. A Byfar Christmas Carol wouldn't have worked without its weight of time and history and change. And it didn't collapse under its own finality and it didn't apologize for either its seriousness or its humor and I am really happy to hear that you enjoyed it, considering how much I talked it up! I try to shill only for things I really like, but I can never guarantee how that'll translate.