Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Infernal adventures
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Being a brief guide to the peoples and concerns of the New World, prepared for the discerning reader of The Ladies Illustrated Quarterly by M Scott Momaday, whose recent novel The Last of the Mohicans, though not in any wise a truthful account of matters Indian, is humbly presented in serialized form in this same…
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After a summer’s evening party meeting the main factions operating in the New World, we meet our heroes as they try to decide whether they need to pick sides, and what sides to pick. Sympathies seem to lie with the Natives, though those sympathies would perhaps extend to the colonials were they not so thoroughly…
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Colonel George Washington, 5th August 1754 Attended Madame C’s Firefly party last night. Better than last year, more pretty dancing girls (one Chinese with a cloud of fireflies particularly feisty in the back of the library, damn her for saying no but she learnt the hard way that no-one can!). Guests were worse though, one…
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As the Age of Enlightment drew to a close the Great Houses and Monarchies of Europe had begun to stifle under the pall of their own histories. A small circle of authors and scientists, many of great repute in the salons of Europe, had begun to plot a revolutionary and terrifying new path for European…
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I ran the initial Compromise and Conceit campaign for about 2 years in Sydney, Australia with a variety of different players, and I aim to restart it in the next 6 months. The last version was played with my own rule system (which was bad), but I aim to restart it with a variant of…
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