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A sneak peek at our next manuscript preview section, The World of Adventure. Backers will have access to the entire chapter in it's current draft form tomorrow! To whet our appetite, let's grab a quick look at two of the many areas noted in the chapter.
In Africa, as the price of crops continue to plummet in the wake of the Great Depression, colonial taxation exploits farmers and rural communities with export and poll taxes, forcing market production in a time of strife. Unrest sometimes gives way to rebellions, but the shadow of imperialism still falls across the continent, and colonizers brutally suppress resistance.
There is hope, however. With the value of African exports now diminishing, imperial powers are beginning to find that possessing colonies isn’t sustainable. But power is insidious, and creditors do not want to relinquish control. Meanwhile, the people themselves face an uncertain future. But it is one they’re prepared and willing to fight for.
In the changing world, the secrets within Africa’s colonies and countries are emerging at long last. Stories of strange places and artifacts have weaved their way across the world, and with any luck, their discovery (or perhaps rediscovery) may help secure them from evildoers for decades to come…
Due to the region’s proximity to Europe, the colonies in this area receive greater oversight and interference from their imperial rulers. This has sparked a constant stream of activism against imperial powers and scrutiny from other nations. Despite this, colonial forces maintain their military presence, although some have been forced to retreat in peculiar ways.
While the history of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco spans centuries, the rise of colonial rule began in 1830 with the Invasion of Algiers by France. What followed was 45 years of militant colonization, and by 1878, hundreds of thousands of resisting Algerians had been killed by the occupying forces when the French took possession of Tunisia. In the beginning of the century, France took advantage of a local rebellion in Morocco to deploy a substantial force in support of Sultan Abd al-Hafid. This became known as the Agadir Crisis, which would see the sultan sign the Treaty of Fes in 1912, sparking riots and revolts across the new protectorate for years to come. While the sovereign state of Morocco still has a sultan, he has no real power under the colonial administration.
Today, the Arab countries are still under French rule, but the Great Depression has begun to worsen conditions across the deserts and coasts. Among major crops, the price of wheat fell first, and all three countries are major producers of it. While hard wheat is cultivated by the locals, soft wheat is grown by European settlers, and only the latter is bolstered by the colonial governments. The ignorance of these problems is now leading many Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians into debt, and creditors have already begun to seize their lands.
Every action has a reaction, though and the preferential treatment of French settlers, along with many military engagements over the decades, have turned the French colonies of North Africa into a bubbling hot spot for resistance. France continues to pursue a policy of pacification, but exploitation and massacres have followed in their wake. In turn, the politics of Algeria and Tunisia are radicalizing even faster than before.
In Algeria, the Star of North Africa is a group that’s called for Algerian independence since 1926. Banned three years later, they operated underground and emerged again last year, and its newspaper, El Ouma, circulates among tens of thousands of Algerians. Meanwhile, Islamic reformers have gained popularity and influence, but colonial authorities recently banned them from preaching in the official mosques. Across Algeria, there is religious unrest, but plenty of hope.
In Morocco, a strong independence movement flourishes. Following the end of the Rif War in 1927, tension between European colonists and the Berber-speaking peoples never ebbed away. The signing of the Berber Dahir in 1930 replaced Berber tribal law with the French penal code, and in doing so, sparked Morocco’s first true nationalist movements. Today, the Moroccan intelligentsia is growing into the political consciousness, and the newly formed Moroccan Committee of Action is currently drawing up reforms with the help of French sympathizers. In Casablanca, the Order of the Star has established a hub for their students and members, and as a result, the city has become a beacon for Inspired people of African descent.
People of Interest
• Louis Enoch: The Order of Murder’s Moroccan retreat offered a luxurious, relaxing place for its beneficiaries to recover before assuming their new identities and returning to the world. Louis Enoch, retired arch-criminal, former master duelist, and impossibly healthy octogenarian oversaw the retreat’s establishment and operation at every step, an integral part of its guests’ transformation. But now the financial stresses of the Depression and cultural ferment of rising nationalist movements threatens tiny paradisical kingdom Louis had made for the Order of Murder’s use, and he now turns his considerable abilities to strangling dreams of independent African states in their cradles.
• Rabia Al-Harrak: Born and raised in Casablanca, Rabia is the heir to a moderate shipping conglomerate, activist, and philanthropist. They founded the Brahim and Zara Al-Harrak Home for Wayward Youths in honor of their deceased parents, which is a front for the Order of the Stars, an allegiance of Inspired individuals dedicated to helping the various African peoples. Rabia has always been in tune with people’s feelings and didn’t learn about telluric energy, or that they were a mesmerist until individuals claiming to be from the Æon Society asked them about their activities. Determined to find and educate other Inspired folks throughout the continent, Rabia wants to return African nations back to their people and has deep nationalist sentiments.
It is impossible to understate what the Great War did to Europe. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in history with over sixteen million military deaths and roughly twenty million civilian casualties. The Versailles Treaty, which formally ended hostilities between the Allied and Central Powers, set the stage for an inevitable resurgence of war. The treaty forced Germany to adopt a democratically elected government, relinquish all its seized territories, and pay reparations. In the end, the United States did not ratify the Versailles treaty with Germany. Russia wasn’t even present for it.
Meanwhile, the borders of Europe changed dramatically. The Austro-Hungarian Empire fractured. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were born. From the war’s ashes came Czechoslovakia, a new Austrian republic, a wounded Hungary, a reborn Poland, and a southern Slavic state known as Yugoslavia.
As a first step towards preventing a second war across the continent of Europe, and as a means of holding sovereign nations in check, the continent established the League of Nations. Headquartered in Geneva, it owes much of its initial success to President Woodrow Wilson, though he subsequently failed to persuade his fellow Americans to join the League. Almost at once, the League intervened with some success in disputes between nations which might have otherwise led to armed conflict.
Between the shattering of empires and the creation of the League, a new international order reigns over the world. The days of European political supremacy are over. And while the roaring twenties ushered in great economic progress, most of those gains evaporated with the Great Depression. By 1934, no European power is left unscathed, though some are in a better shape than others.
Nearly twenty years after the Great War, the ‘Weimar Republic,’ named after the town where its constitution was born, is in peril. With the Great Depression, Germany gained six million unemployed citizens, coupled with rampant inflation and widespread civil unrest.
Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party reaped the political benefits. They appealed to the wish of many Germans for strong measures and national unity. They exploited impatience with parliamentary politicians who had failed to prevent economic disaster, and they fueled resentment against the Versailles settlement believed by many Germans to be the root of their troubles as well as being morally unjust. The semi-military ‘Storm Troops’ of the Nazi movement grew rapidly in numbers as the crisis worsened. Like the early Italian Fascists, they terrorized political opponents and Jews without police interference. In 1930, the Nazis won 107 seats in parliament — just under a fifth of the total. By 1932, they were firmly in the majority.
Field-Marshal Hindenburg, President of the Republic, bent to the political winds and named Hitler as Chancellor. On January 30th, 1933, Hitler took office and immediately called for new elections, promising a coalition with various conservative groups. Instead, five months later, during the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler ordered the execution of two hundred of his political rivals. With President Hindenburg sick with lung cancer, the Nazi Party stands to gain unprecedented control if he were to die.
Of all the Allegiances, the Rational Experiment Group is by far the most prevalent in Germany. Doctor Elmar Striesow, a former member of Æon Society, leads the REG’s efforts in Berlin. From his office inside the Reich Ministry of Science, Education, and Culture, Striesow has gained strong support for his endeavors, receiving money and resources to further the REG’s work. According to Branch 9, the REG is well on their way to developing weapons of mass destruction, including advanced rocket testing on Borkum Island in the North Sea and blueprints for one-hundred-ton spider-tanks out of Essen. Meanwhile, unwilling test subjects, with some assistance from the Contedorri, arrive at the REG’s lab in Munich. They never walk out again.
Efforts are currently underway, spearheaded primary through the International Detective Agency and Branch 9, to infiltrate and identify REG facilities throughout Germany. While they have had some success, the German authorities are suspicious of foreigners. This has forced the IDA and Branch 9 to conduct themselves cautiously.
People of Interest
• Doctor Elmar Striesow: Elmar Striesow has always been a thinker. He studied physics under Max Planck in Berlin, but was always interested in germ theory and biology. He married the two in his own studies, using Planck’s ideas about quantum theory and applying them to what appeared to be a limitless field of microbiology. Dr. Sriesow got almost nowhere with his studies until the Hammersmith Incident sent telluric energy rocketing through the world. Nearly over night, Sriesow’s studies gained momentum and he began studying the effects of telluric energy on the human body. His studies garnered the most interest from the REG, who offered him a hefty stipend and a directive to find a way to weaponize his studies.
• Hannelore Ferres: Officially, Ferres joined the German nationalist youth movement in the 1920s becoming a leader in the Bund Deutscher Mädel, or League of German Girls. On paper, she functions as a female detective and a member of the Geheime Staatspolizei, better known as the Gestapo, the secret police answering directly to Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel(SS). In truth however, she works directly for the Æon Society as a premier mesmerist and serves as a deep cover mole inside the Third Reich. From there, she feeds intelligence back to the Allegiance, doing what she can to resist the Nazi Party. In spite of her true loyalties, she remains haunted by the things she has had to do in order to maintain her cover.
I can't wait for our next preview! It's a tour around the inspired world of 1934, full of tensions and potential, enemies and allies. A great guide to have if you're looking to build a secret headquarters for your hero!
Which will be easier with our recently unlocked Stretch Goal achievement! Together, we've added enough additional funds to get a companion supplement, The Adventure Addendum, added to Onyx Path's project list!
I'm sure we'll be revisiting the companion book in future stretch goals, and hopefully adding another topic to expand the rules and story possibilities of Trinity Continuum: Adventure! Let's keep at it and see if we can't unlock another Stretch Goal or two this week!
I had a foundation and a gimmick, now I just needed to build on what I'd started. Easier said than done.
We'd had a rapid-fire first week, but things slow down quickly in Kickstarter land, and this middle territory was known to drain energy. I needed to mix it up a bit, throw a quick beat into the rhythm to keep it from getting stale.
Speaking of stale, I also had a load of laundry to do. Since I'd switched over to black and white, I didn't have much sorting to do, so that saved a bit of effort. Still, I wondered if there might be a way to put this chore off for another day...
Alright! We've funded the creation of three supplements for Trinity Continuum: Adventure! We've got a full Jumpstart, which includes a handful of Ready-made characters and an introductory scenario and guidance for launching your own story. We've started a companion book, with guidelines and information on creating secret lairs, hideouts, and HQs. And we've started a cliffhanger scenario book, detailing and expanding the Tales of the Æon Society audio adventure.
Let's see if we can't bulk up those supplements! And maybe add a little sartorial celebration in there as well!
At $75,000 in funding – The Adventure! Addendum – Strange New Life! – Guidelines and rules for creating non-human characters, from intelligent apes to living robots, will be added to the Trinity Continuum: Adventure! Companion PDF.
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At $80,000 in funding – Thrilling Tales! – Terror from the Skies! – Another scenario will be developed for the Thrilling Tales supplemental PDF, allowing you to play through a chapter from the Tales of the Æon Society audio adventure!
Intelligent apes! Cliffhanger adventures! Another day before laundry needs to be done! Let's get to it, Continuum Community! Remember to spread the word on your social media and in your social circles! Let's see if we can add another trinity of Stretch Goals to our achievements during this middle portion of the kickstarter campaign!
Transcribed by Eddy Webb from the journals of Cian Hayden, published posthumously.
THE SPARKLING Broadway audience screamed as a dozen men in domino masks stepped out of the crowd and into the lobby. Each of them wore an ill-fitting tuxedo — likely rented, based on how thin the fabric was from repeated washing. Knives glittered and steel pipes slapped into gloved palms as they stared at Lucy Hebron with murder in their eyes. One of them screamed “Get into the theater, or I’ll cut every one of you” in a thick Brooklyn accent, and the rich and well-to-do of New York City tripped over each other to flee the lavishly decorated theater lobby. A man in an elaborate Venetian mask kicked a woman wearing more jewels than I would see in a lifetime, just so he could get into the theater before her.
As the rest of the crowd scrambled out of the room, Lucy calmly kicked off her shoes and took a stance I recognized from our frequent sparring contests. A stocking-covered mahogany thigh slid through the slit in her dress, muscled from decades of training. “Cian,” she said, addressing me in a brittle British accent while not taking her eyes off her enemies, “be a dear and ask the bartender to get me a drink. I’ll need it when I’m finished.”
“The bartender ran off with the rest,” I said. I always hated how my dull American Midwest accent sounded next to hers.
“Shame,” she muttered.
I turned my cap backwards and put my own fists up. “I bet this isn’t what you meant when you said you wanted to fight crime,” I said. “I mean, drinking booze and punching hoodlums in the face just ain’t civilized.” I smiled at one of the masked men, showing a lot of my teeth.
The tough from Brooklyn stepped forward, pointing at Lucy with a dull-looking dagger. Even from here I could see it had scratches from a lot of use. “You’ve been looking into things you shouldn’t have,” he snarled. “And we don’t want your kind around here.”
I saw Lucy subtly adjust her stance. “I do hope by ‘my kind’ you mean detectives,” she said, her voice dangerously low, “or I’m going to make you eat that knife.”
He laughed, and casually switched the knife from one hand to the other. “No, I mean all you—”
We didn’t discover what he meant, because at that point Lucy punched him in the eye. The tough fell over, his scarred knife bouncing on the plush carpet of the theater lobby.
“Anyone else got any smart comments?” I asked. Which is when they all attacked.
As soon as they moved, I slid to stand back-to-back with Lucy. “Civilization is overrated,” she said, resuming our interrupted banter. “Besides, I learned a lot more than chemical tests and studying footprints.”
“Oh yeah?” I said, as I lashed out with a fist. I felt something pop in the man’s jaw. “I’m sure he also taught you about talking nice to people.”
I heard a sound like celery snapping behind me. “I’ve found the ancient art of baritsu is quite effective in communicating my point,” Lucy said as I dodged another fist.
“Ancient art?” I asked incredulously, as I knocked a third man’s arm up. His grip on his blade slipped, and I grabbed the hilt before it hit the ground. “Baritsu was made up by some Englishman not even fifty years ago.” I used the knife in my hand to slash at the tough’s wrist, and he fell to the ground, desperately holding his arm to staunch the blood.
With no more toughs standing in front of me, I spun around to see how Lucy was doing. Five of them were bloodied, unconscious, or limping away from her. She had a sixth in a chokehold, holding his lead pipe against his throat. “You’re thinking of bartitsu, Cian” she said. Despite having dispatched a half-dozen well-armed men, she sounded like she was giving a lecture in a drawing room. “The additional t is important to differentiate the two.”
I punched the man she was choking in the stomach, and he slumped to the ground in a moan. “Ah, you’re right,” I said, grabbing the pipe so I had the knife in one hand and the pipe in the other. “It all sounds like Greek to me.”
“I think you’ll find Greek is….” Lucy trailed off as she noticed the man she originally punched was pulling himself up off the ground. “Perhaps we should hold off on your lessons for now,” she said, watching the man carefully. I showed her the knife and pipe, but she shook her head, instead balling up her fists and shifting back into her original stance.
The man tossed a litany of profanity at Lucy. She remained silent, but her brown eyes hardened. I knew that playtime was over. I held my weapons as she crept toward her opponent. The light from the elaborate crystal chandelier played off the white satin of her dress and her russet brown skin. Although I knew she was in her forties, she had the glamour of a starlet and the strength of a Turkish wrestler. She was, without a doubt, the most brilliant woman I had ever met, and I would gladly put my life on the line for her.
Not that I would tell her that, of course. I was just a 22-year-old kid from Westchester still getting his degree from New York Medical College. All I had to my name was a boxing scholarship and a few too many hits to the head. But one day she was investigating the disappearance of one of the students in my class, and she needed someone who knew the area, so we were thrown together. I admit I laughed when she reluctantly claimed to be the protégé of Sherlock Holmes, but when she discovered that the “missing student” was actually the next in line to the throne of an obscure kingdom somewhere in Eastern Europe, I started to believe it. She started calling me her “Boswell” (whatever that is), and we’ve been working together — and fighting together — for a couple of years now.
Lucy stared daggers at the tough. “If you’re quite done with your inane insults, tell me where the Black Carbuncle is.”
The tough squinted through his swollen eye and grabbed his dagger off the ground. “You’re too late, dame. By now, the jewel’s already been sold to my boss, and then you’ll never get your hands on it.”
“Then give me the name of the thief.”
“Why would I give someone like you anything?”
She glanced at me, and I threw the pipe at his head. He fell to the ground with a loud crash, causing the chandelier to sway slightly. The moment he hit the ground Lucy was next to him, gripping his wrists both to hold him down and check his pulse. He quickly started struggling, thus proving he was still alive, although pinned by Lucy’s iron grip.
“The name,” she repeated. “Or what they look like.”
“Don’t know the name,” the tough said, resigned to his fate. “But he was wearing some kind of weird mask.”
“Lucy, I saw someone wearing an Italian mask in the crowd just now!” I said. Lucy quickly yanked the tough’s arms into a pair of handcuffs. He called her something unmentionable, so I kicked him in the unmentionables, and we ran into the theater.
To be continued...
Hello Continuum Community,
We're gonna go down under with a quick peek of our next manuscript preview section. On Tuesday, we'll be looking at Chapter Two: A World of Adventure!, which presents the world as it appears in 1934. This chapter introduces the world in all its Inspired glory and details how it is slightly different from our own world.
From the end of the Great War onward, Australia and Oceania have been undergoing transformations of national identity as well as post-colonial protectorate expansions. Former colonial states have banded together to forge new nations, and once independent kingdoms have welcomed outsider protection for the purpose of consolidating indigenous power using the established might of their new patron-nations.
After the Great War and subsequent pandemic, many nations turned inward, seeking a return to normalcy and focus on strengthening new national identities. Unfortunately, it did not last long as the Great Depression rocked global financial systems and held markets in a death grip. Battered and beleaguered, the world is in desperate need of hope — and a renewed sense of pride and self-determination — after thirty years of uncertainty and looking to Europe for leadership. Half a world away, Australia and Oceania are learning that they can do more on their own than they have ever imagined, and that they have the resources available to become a major player in world politics with the discovery of new wells of telluric energy dotted throughout the Pacific.
In the three decades following Australia’s move from a federation of colony-states to an independent commonwealth under the dominion of British Empire, a national identity has begun to take shape. Now flying a flag of their own making, feelings of national pride have grown as they have popularized the recreational sport of surfing, produced Vegemite, and built the Shrine of Remembrance as a reminder of the horrors of war. Despite these forward leaps, Australia has had its fair share of internal issues.
Labor strikes during the Great Depression followed by fiscal mismanagement by the central government led to the formation of the Labor Party in 1931. At the same time, despite movements toward greater unity, there was still a disparity in society with immigrants and indigenous peoples being the most marginalized and affected by economic pitfalls. Continued mismanagement saw the Labor Party split the same year of its founding, leading to widespread distrust in the central government.
The general populace has since wondered if the transition away from being a British colony was worth the trouble, with Western Australia all but declaring its intentions to secede from the commonwealth all on its own just recently in 1933. The Secession League remains strong there, with rumors that a group of prospectors have uncovered a wellspring of…something. Even they are not sure of what they have found. They just know they need to keep it secret, lest the central government get wind of it or their secret army of battle-ready emus.
With the new capital of Canberra being less than twenty years old, having beat out rivals Melbourne and Sydney, it set the first foundational stone for this newly established and independent commonwealth. As Canberra grew, so did the sense of hope that Australians are in control of their own destiny. Even though it lost the vote to host the new capital, Sydney still considers itself the cultural and social heart of Australia. The recently established guild, the Artisans of the Verse, set up their primary salon there, with satellite salons established in Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, and Perth making them alluring destinations for wealthy patrons looking to support the best and brightest rising stars in art.
The Artisans of the Verse find constant issue with the Ponatowski Foundation who regularly attempt to fund expeditions into the Australian “outback.” The Artisans believe they seek out telluric energy hot spots, which could lead them to compromise or exploit indigenous peoples. The Artisans work to keep the expeditions from gaining approval, which has only made the Foundation members more daring about entering the Australian wilds on their own.
People of Interest
• Judith Eiland: Judith Eiland is a newspaper columnist, public speaker, and politician. She has covered women’s rights within the commonwealth since starting her career, championing women to stand for Parliament and assisting in election campaigns. She stood for the Labor Party in the 1932 election, though she did not win. Behind the scenes, she runs a small chapter of Le Salon des Femmes Nouveaux in Brisbane to educate and guide young women. The group keeps up to date on local politics but devotes most of their study to scientific inquiry into quantum physics. Judith’s chapter has happened upon telluric energy, but do not yet know what they have discovered, though harnessing the energy
• Rose Gleeson: Descended from the Yolngu people on her mother’s side and Irish balanda on her father’s, Rose took a keen interest in the natural world around her and expressed this interest through artistic endeavors which would eventually lead her to establish The Artisans of the Verse. Considered to be avant-garde, her sculptures and poetry are heavily influenced by the oral and artistic traditions of Aboriginal Australians and other indigenous peoples from around the world. When not vetting new members of her guild, this mesmerist is jet-setting across the globe with her partner, Amélie Brodeur, to preserve and promote the art of other native populations while mapping out new sources of telluric energy.
A commonwealth state of the British Empire, New Zealand — like its western neighbor Australia — saw a lot of changes following the end of the Great War. It saw the New Zealand Expeditionary Force dispatched to Egypt and German Samoa, war-time conscription and Prohibition introduced, and all public houses being forced to close no later than 6pm. Yet despite such conservative measures, New Zealand was the first country in the world to enact universal female suffrage, recognized the land rights of the indigenous Māori peoples, and create social welfare programs which introduced retiree pensions, maximum hour regulations, and minimum wage laws.
These strides did little, however, to quell the unrest in New Zealand in the post-war years. After a 7.8 magnitude earthquake destroyed Hawke’s Bay in 1931, the conservative government reduced social welfare programs and public servant wages to pay for the repairs. To make matters worse, the Great Depression all but destroyed New Zealand’s agricultural-based economy. This led to widespread unemployment riots in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin exacerbated by political policies which favor the same businesses and bank ventures that recently collapsed.
Public confidence is at an all-time low as the government struggles to rebuild after the natural disaster and the populace feels ignored. A fair share of day laborers since turned to banditry to make ends meet, holing themselves in the Southern Alps and biding time until they are ready to strike.
The Artisans of the Verse are convinced the earthquake was caused by a spike in telluric energy and are investigating the cause. Scientist at the University of New Zealand have begun experimenting with something the Artisans believe is powered by telluric energy but are having issues gaining access to group. Whatever they are doing, the results have been devastating, and the Artisans need all the help they can muster to get to the bottom of it.
People of Interest
• David Wallace: Jazz Singer. Dancer. Actor. Heartbreaking adventuring scoundrel. Hailing from Invercargill, Wallace was a daredevil from his youth and after the Hammersmith Incident, became a daredevil in truth. Always bucking expectations, moving to the beat of his own drum, and often singing to it whenever provided the chance. Ever on the move, he lends his special brand of roguish sensationalism to Allegiances, acting as a lucrative courier who can cross international borders under the guise of being a performing artist, flying under the radar of interceptors seeking to undermine the Æon Society.
• Lottie Franks: Lottie Franks is an international sensation, or villain, if you read the press. Born in New Zealand, she joined the New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood and went to the European front during the Great War. While there, she began educating people about safe sex, and would often distribute pamphlets on the subject to any and all camps in several different languages. While in France she met Jake “Danger Ace” Stefokowski who she convinced to carry her pamphlets overseas, in return for a little propaganda writing. Now Lottie acts as the sole creator of Ace Circus propaganda, flyers, and pamphlets, and its members distribute her — often outlawed — materials wherever they fly.
We'll have another preview from this Atlas of Adventure coming on Monday, before the full chapter gets posted on Tuesday! Do you have a preference about what we preview? Let me know in the comment section! We'll take a peek at whatever part of the world gets the most mentions!
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