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Welcome to Endtown, a community of animal-like mutants and “impure” humans infected with a mutagenic virus living below Earth’s post-apocalyptic surface. Driven by hunger, they venture out only in search of food, but must face bloodthirsty, mutated monstrosities and the constant threat of the Topsiders; un-mutated, technologically advanced humans bent on exterminating all mutations in order to create a genetically purified humanity. In A Fistful of Beans, droll protagonist Albert Anderson returns to Endtown after a hunt for food with the only non-perishable item the community can’t stand—canned beans. With help from his rhinoceros girlfriend Gustine and the questionable tactics of Professor Nikolai Mallard, he must avoid the town’s bean-focused fury at all costs.