The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
- Thread starter Physici
- Start date
- Alt. History
Violent Men
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Violent Men:
Arthur Morgan POV
You awoke to a bag being pulled over your head. "Up." The man ordered as you sat up.
"The hell are you?" You asked as you coughed. "I didn't do nothing."
"You are right mister Morgan. You did do nothing. And it will remain that way, until I say otherwise." he stated.
"And why should I believe in your so called mercy?" You asked.
"Because Dutch Van Der Linde is dead, and right now, the Pinkerton Detective Agency is out for your head, a five thousand dollar bounty." He stated. "Be lucky it was me who got to you, instead of someone else."
"Why?" You asked.
"Ask your Friend, John Marston. He helped me save you."
John? "Why the hell would that boy-" You tried to argue.
"It was either this or a hangman's noose." The man replied. "Now please, listen. I'm going to ask you for help. It may never come, but I have given you your life back. But know this: There is a man who has trouble with Chinamen in California, and they are a violent ruthless orginization. He may ask you to kill them."
"And if I don't?"
"We will know, and there will be no place on earth you may hide."
"godspeed then, Mr Morgan.
AN: Enjoy.
@Physici if this omake is good, can I have a boost to the rolls?
Dear William O'Mally.
My name is John Olsen, and I have received reports from my associates in your town that the dangerous outlaw Arthur Morgan and John Marston have been captured by your authorities and are awaiting trial for their crimes in the State of Arizona.
I strongly ask that you reconsider this. My associates within the Federal Government have requested that these two men, despite their crimes of banditry and theivery, be not sent to the hangmens noose that many in your community think they oh so deserve.
The bounty of five thousand dollars, willbe sent to your sheriffs department, to be paid to you, but the men must not be harmed. If you refuse, the money will not be yours.
And by God and all that is holy, you will not be brought ti a court of law for your justice. You will meet the Lord, in his heaven.
From your's Greg Hammer
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My name is John Olsen, and I have received reports from my associates in your town that the dangerous outlaw Arthur Morgan and John Marston have been captured by your authorities and are awaiting trial for their crimes in the State of Arizona.
I strongly ask that you reconsider this. My associates within the Federal Government have requested that these two men, despite their crimes of banditry and theivery, be not sent to the hangmens noose that many in your community think they oh so deserve.
The bounty of five thousand dollars, willbe sent to your sheriffs department, to be paid to you, but the men must not be harmed. If you refuse, the money will not be yours.
And by God and all that is holy, you will not be brought ti a court of law for your justice. You will meet the Lord, in his heaven.
From your's Greg Hammer
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Arthur Morgan POV
You awoke to a bag being pulled over your head. "Up." The man ordered as you sat up.
"The hell are you?" You asked as you coughed. "I didn't do nothing."
"You are right mister Morgan. You did do nothing. And it will remain that way, until I say otherwise." he stated.
"And why should I believe in your so called mercy?" You asked.
"Because Dutch Van Der Linde is dead, and right now, the Pinkerton Detective Agency is out for your head, a five thousand dollar bounty." He stated. "Be lucky it was me who got to you, instead of someone else."
"Why?" You asked.
"Ask your Friend, John Marston. He helped me save you."
John? "Why the hell would that boy-" You tried to argue.
"It was either this or a hangman's noose." The man replied. "Now please, listen. I'm going to ask you for help. It may never come, but I have given you your life back. But know this: There is a man who has trouble with Chinamen in California, and they are a violent ruthless orginization. He may ask you to kill them."
"And if I don't?"
"We will know, and there will be no place on earth you may hide."
"godspeed then, Mr Morgan.
AN: Enjoy.
@Physici if this omake is good, can I have a boost to the rolls?
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Canon, but I'm not giving rewards for super short omakes (<500).
Vote closed
1891: Actions
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
President Harrison has signed into law the Immigration Act of 1891, which banned some types of immigrants from countries other than China.
In New York, an expose by a former member of Tammany Hall was released: Tammany Hall was directly proved to be bribing the police. Not only that, but indeed, said police were caught doing extortion, bribery, counterfeiting, voter intimidation, election fraud, brutality, and scams, all in service of Tammany Hall.
The city was in an uproar. They demanded reform, and soon. Many if their supporters abandoned them and it looked like the Republicans would win the next mayoral election with ease.
With the outpouring of Republican support for reform also came support for the Republican war hero, Ulysses S. Grant. His tomb was currently being constructed, and with a small dearth of funds. Many citizens demanded that the foundation meant for building it be investigated, seeing how long they've taken.
In Dakota, the Sons of the Dakota's was formed by Arthur "Art" Randolph (a member of the Land and Labor Reform Party), a youth and scouting organization designed to teach young men outdoorsman skills, life skills, and civics. It was a volunteer organization organized on the Local and State levels. It would be on a small scale for a while, with little funding.
In Pennsylvania, the Mammoth mining complex exploded in an accident. This prompted the state to update safety regulations and do regular inspections, a true example of state reforms in these years.
The revolutionary Catarino Garzo has lead an army from Texas to Mexico, starting a war of guerrilla warfare against both the United States and Mexico. The US army has mobilized, but has been unable to find and destroy his forces.
West Coast Union Association:
The WCUA bought an office in Los Angeles, which their staff would then work from as a permanent base, and would allow them to receive mail as an organization.
Farm union progress: 5d20 = 29, 85/500
They also sent organizers to help form farm unions. Despite spending more resources on it, this went worse than before, with farm owners cracking down on unions and bringing in replacements in the form of other migrant labor to simply ignore their demands. While there were more unions at the end of the year than the beginning, there was a long way to go.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
The LLRP moved into an office in Lansing, the capital of Michigan. It would serve as the headquarters for their upcoming electoral campaign.
While settling in, John Olsen (the leader of the party) met with the neighbors. They were interested in his party, and referred him to some of their friends, who were an experienced campaign team interested in working for him.
(+5 to all electoral actions next turn)
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
The anarchists finally began requiring dues, recognizing that they needed funds to get anywhere. This put them in a solid financial status, ready to expand their operations.
And expand they did, with sending organizers across New York to set up mutual aid groups.
Mutual Aid: 5d20 = 52
The working class of the city steadily partook in these groups, realizing their own benefit. While most have refrained from actually joining the organization, they were much friendlier to it and its activities. And, in time, they would be steadily radicalized by the organizers they work with.
The anarchists also set up a New York Newspaper, "The Worker's Post".
Paper: 5d20 = 34
This paper would quickly be defamed by the others in the city, saying that it's mere lies meant to trick people. Indeed, there began a small but real effort to turn people against the anarchists, only interrupted by the Tammany Hall scandal.
It had a small following, but mostly from within members of the Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists itself.
Still, it proved a useful way to communicate what their ideology actually was, keeping coherence within the movement.
Local unions: 5d20 = 58 + 5 (The Worker's Post) = 63.
The anarchists also continued to send agitators to local unions. Now almost every industrial union in the city has at least a few members part of the movement, even if most are officially non-ideological.
The Forty Acres Movement:
The Forty Acres Movement also began a newspaper. Timothy Fortune, leading editor of the nation's largest black newspaper The New York Age, even came down south to help set it up. The very next say, his paper released an issue speaking in support of the movement.
Newspaper: 5d20 = 52
Headquartered in a small town in Mississippi, the newspaper made sure to put effort into sending the news all across the countryside. In this initial effort, various theorists would take turns writing ideological pieces in addition to writers encouraging people to join the movement.
Claiming to be the ideological successor to the Union Leagues, movements decades ago dedicated to enduring African American rights after the civil war until being destroyed by the KKK, the papers argued that the need for a powerful organization was needed to earn their rights in the face of the South's disenfranchisement.
Guns: 14d20 = 155/530
Secretly, the organization began to stockpile weaponry. Although only a just begun, already almost a third of the movement had access to small arms.
And they would need it too. Individual attacks by small groups against black people rose as white supremacists fear-mongered about the "insurgency of the south". The Redshirts in the Carolinas and the White League in Louisiana operated openly, traveling into the countryside and murdering black people in areas thought to be supporting the Forty Acres Movement.
The movement made a committee to organize informal groups with bats, crowbars, and often guns to defend against these attacks. The Defense Group organized groups of young men and established patrols as well as simply arming people in self defense.
On several cases, this ended in open fighting, fights of dozens of white supremacists and Forty Acres members shooting and brawling. State authorities have denounced the violence on both sides.
The movement also formed the Biracial Cooperation Think-Group, a committee designed for reaching out to the poor white farmers as well, a group solidly in the minority in the movement.
Think-group: 61
The committee ended up with a minority of white members (though larger than the percent in the movement as a whole) to help determine how would be best to appeal to them.
For now, they advocate on focusing on the right to land as well as actively integrating them into the food aid network. The latter suggestion had some dissenters, as very few white farmers rich enough to help contribute would be willing to join, but by majority vote the committee decided it would be needed.
With this in mind, the organization began an on-the-ground movement to get more members. Supporters went out to their neighbors as well as further afield, advocating that their measured were necessary, and would help them too.
Reach out to farmers: 10d20 = 88
(8.8% increase in membership growth next turn, consists of white and black farmers)
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths set up cross-religion meetings, meant to amicably discuss theology and other topics. These groups quickly became a nucleus of organization and thought in the society, as well as helping ease fundamental differences between the different groups that make up the society.
In the wake of Tammany Hall's scandal, the Society picked up the slack. They began an effort to reach out to new immigrants fleeing religious prosecution, and helped them integrate into American society without losing their culture.
Reach out to immigrants: 6d20 = 71 + 5 (Tammany Hall Scandal) = 76
(7.6% increase in recruitment next turn)
This went well, to the point many in the society suggest they should continue helping immigrants, supplanting Tammany Hall entirely, something that would not have been possible at their height.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The APFA decided to focus on organization this year, buying an office in Chicago to work from.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Friends of Huddled Masses set up mutual aid groups in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.
Mutual Aid Network: 67
It went well, with much of the community participating. They shared what they had, spreading the wealth and keeping the poorest afloat amid these difficult times.
They also contacted several Chinese majority towns in California, such as Locke and Walnut Grove.
Committee: 5d20 = 50
With their permission, they set up the Affiliated Town Coordination Committee. For now it has relatively little power, but assists the towns in prioritizing each other as well as giving each other good deals on trade regarding whatever products they produce.
Despite being affiliated with the towns, it works just as much with individuals within the towns, seeing as it is they who buy and sell goods. Thus it acts as a sort of large scale mutual aid network.
There have already been proposals to make the committee more self-governing, as well as giving it more power over its associates, though the latter proposal is certain to fail without the first.
The Friends of Huddled Masses bought an empty building on the edge of San Fransisco by the waterfront. There, they built a factory. A canning factory, it would be able to employ hundreds of people.
Factory: 50
Former Chinese fishermen, out of a job due to the Scott Act, flocked to the factory, which gave preferential hiring to them. It paid well, much better than most others in the organization.
As a consequence of the good pay and focus on safety features over profit, the factory gives very little profit to the organization. But many see this as just the start to financial independence by the Chinese community.
They also send organizers to help Chinese miners form unions.
Miners: 4d20= 40/300
This went well, but not great. There was much resistance to the idea by the mine owners, used to being able to pay their workers little compared to white workers.
Finally, the leaders if the organization received a secret missive. The Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves wished to join the Friends of Huddled Masses. The Yellow Scarves were a small organization of militant workers known for violent rebellion against their bosses.
They accepted. The decentralized movement would become the militant arm of the huddled masses, working in tandem to achieve the same goals. By the nature of the agreement, the Yellow Scarves would be sacrificing some of their autonomy (but for now staying decentralized) but in exchange getting the resources of the larger organization, allowing them to do much more than they could alone.
The Orange Disciples:
The Orange Disciples began instituting dues, based on the income their members make. This has vastly increased their financials, especially since many of their members are priests or intellectuals on the wealthier side.
Church recruiting: 11d20 = 147
(14.7% increase in recruitment next turn)
They have also been handing out flyers and keeping members after on Sundays, hoping to recruit from the churchgoers. This has gone very well, with a steady expansion of the organization's membership.
Anti-racist think group: 5d20 = 50
They have also established a group of rotating members which actively drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist. They work with legislation in any area they're in, as well as federally.
The Party of Justice:
The Party of Justice further organized itself, setting up an office in Baltimore.
In New York, an expose by a former member of Tammany Hall was released: Tammany Hall was directly proved to be bribing the police. Not only that, but indeed, said police were caught doing extortion, bribery, counterfeiting, voter intimidation, election fraud, brutality, and scams, all in service of Tammany Hall.
The city was in an uproar. They demanded reform, and soon. Many if their supporters abandoned them and it looked like the Republicans would win the next mayoral election with ease.
With the outpouring of Republican support for reform also came support for the Republican war hero, Ulysses S. Grant. His tomb was currently being constructed, and with a small dearth of funds. Many citizens demanded that the foundation meant for building it be investigated, seeing how long they've taken.
In Dakota, the Sons of the Dakota's was formed by Arthur "Art" Randolph (a member of the Land and Labor Reform Party), a youth and scouting organization designed to teach young men outdoorsman skills, life skills, and civics. It was a volunteer organization organized on the Local and State levels. It would be on a small scale for a while, with little funding.
In Pennsylvania, the Mammoth mining complex exploded in an accident. This prompted the state to update safety regulations and do regular inspections, a true example of state reforms in these years.
The revolutionary Catarino Garzo has lead an army from Texas to Mexico, starting a war of guerrilla warfare against both the United States and Mexico. The US army has mobilized, but has been unable to find and destroy his forces.
West Coast Union Association:
The WCUA bought an office in Los Angeles, which their staff would then work from as a permanent base, and would allow them to receive mail as an organization.
Farm union progress: 5d20 = 29, 85/500
They also sent organizers to help form farm unions. Despite spending more resources on it, this went worse than before, with farm owners cracking down on unions and bringing in replacements in the form of other migrant labor to simply ignore their demands. While there were more unions at the end of the year than the beginning, there was a long way to go.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
The LLRP moved into an office in Lansing, the capital of Michigan. It would serve as the headquarters for their upcoming electoral campaign.
While settling in, John Olsen (the leader of the party) met with the neighbors. They were interested in his party, and referred him to some of their friends, who were an experienced campaign team interested in working for him.
(+5 to all electoral actions next turn)
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
The anarchists finally began requiring dues, recognizing that they needed funds to get anywhere. This put them in a solid financial status, ready to expand their operations.
And expand they did, with sending organizers across New York to set up mutual aid groups.
Mutual Aid: 5d20 = 52
The working class of the city steadily partook in these groups, realizing their own benefit. While most have refrained from actually joining the organization, they were much friendlier to it and its activities. And, in time, they would be steadily radicalized by the organizers they work with.
The anarchists also set up a New York Newspaper, "The Worker's Post".
Paper: 5d20 = 34
This paper would quickly be defamed by the others in the city, saying that it's mere lies meant to trick people. Indeed, there began a small but real effort to turn people against the anarchists, only interrupted by the Tammany Hall scandal.
It had a small following, but mostly from within members of the Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists itself.
Still, it proved a useful way to communicate what their ideology actually was, keeping coherence within the movement.
Local unions: 5d20 = 58 + 5 (The Worker's Post) = 63.
The anarchists also continued to send agitators to local unions. Now almost every industrial union in the city has at least a few members part of the movement, even if most are officially non-ideological.
The Forty Acres Movement:
The Forty Acres Movement also began a newspaper. Timothy Fortune, leading editor of the nation's largest black newspaper The New York Age, even came down south to help set it up. The very next say, his paper released an issue speaking in support of the movement.
Newspaper: 5d20 = 52
Headquartered in a small town in Mississippi, the newspaper made sure to put effort into sending the news all across the countryside. In this initial effort, various theorists would take turns writing ideological pieces in addition to writers encouraging people to join the movement.
Claiming to be the ideological successor to the Union Leagues, movements decades ago dedicated to enduring African American rights after the civil war until being destroyed by the KKK, the papers argued that the need for a powerful organization was needed to earn their rights in the face of the South's disenfranchisement.
Guns: 14d20 = 155/530
Secretly, the organization began to stockpile weaponry. Although only a just begun, already almost a third of the movement had access to small arms.
And they would need it too. Individual attacks by small groups against black people rose as white supremacists fear-mongered about the "insurgency of the south". The Redshirts in the Carolinas and the White League in Louisiana operated openly, traveling into the countryside and murdering black people in areas thought to be supporting the Forty Acres Movement.
The movement made a committee to organize informal groups with bats, crowbars, and often guns to defend against these attacks. The Defense Group organized groups of young men and established patrols as well as simply arming people in self defense.
On several cases, this ended in open fighting, fights of dozens of white supremacists and Forty Acres members shooting and brawling. State authorities have denounced the violence on both sides.
The movement also formed the Biracial Cooperation Think-Group, a committee designed for reaching out to the poor white farmers as well, a group solidly in the minority in the movement.
Think-group: 61
The committee ended up with a minority of white members (though larger than the percent in the movement as a whole) to help determine how would be best to appeal to them.
For now, they advocate on focusing on the right to land as well as actively integrating them into the food aid network. The latter suggestion had some dissenters, as very few white farmers rich enough to help contribute would be willing to join, but by majority vote the committee decided it would be needed.
With this in mind, the organization began an on-the-ground movement to get more members. Supporters went out to their neighbors as well as further afield, advocating that their measured were necessary, and would help them too.
Reach out to farmers: 10d20 = 88
(8.8% increase in membership growth next turn, consists of white and black farmers)
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths set up cross-religion meetings, meant to amicably discuss theology and other topics. These groups quickly became a nucleus of organization and thought in the society, as well as helping ease fundamental differences between the different groups that make up the society.
In the wake of Tammany Hall's scandal, the Society picked up the slack. They began an effort to reach out to new immigrants fleeing religious prosecution, and helped them integrate into American society without losing their culture.
Reach out to immigrants: 6d20 = 71 + 5 (Tammany Hall Scandal) = 76
(7.6% increase in recruitment next turn)
This went well, to the point many in the society suggest they should continue helping immigrants, supplanting Tammany Hall entirely, something that would not have been possible at their height.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The APFA decided to focus on organization this year, buying an office in Chicago to work from.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Friends of Huddled Masses set up mutual aid groups in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.
Mutual Aid Network: 67
It went well, with much of the community participating. They shared what they had, spreading the wealth and keeping the poorest afloat amid these difficult times.
They also contacted several Chinese majority towns in California, such as Locke and Walnut Grove.
Committee: 5d20 = 50
With their permission, they set up the Affiliated Town Coordination Committee. For now it has relatively little power, but assists the towns in prioritizing each other as well as giving each other good deals on trade regarding whatever products they produce.
Despite being affiliated with the towns, it works just as much with individuals within the towns, seeing as it is they who buy and sell goods. Thus it acts as a sort of large scale mutual aid network.
There have already been proposals to make the committee more self-governing, as well as giving it more power over its associates, though the latter proposal is certain to fail without the first.
The Friends of Huddled Masses bought an empty building on the edge of San Fransisco by the waterfront. There, they built a factory. A canning factory, it would be able to employ hundreds of people.
Factory: 50
Former Chinese fishermen, out of a job due to the Scott Act, flocked to the factory, which gave preferential hiring to them. It paid well, much better than most others in the organization.
As a consequence of the good pay and focus on safety features over profit, the factory gives very little profit to the organization. But many see this as just the start to financial independence by the Chinese community.
They also send organizers to help Chinese miners form unions.
Miners: 4d20= 40/300
This went well, but not great. There was much resistance to the idea by the mine owners, used to being able to pay their workers little compared to white workers.
Finally, the leaders if the organization received a secret missive. The Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves wished to join the Friends of Huddled Masses. The Yellow Scarves were a small organization of militant workers known for violent rebellion against their bosses.
They accepted. The decentralized movement would become the militant arm of the huddled masses, working in tandem to achieve the same goals. By the nature of the agreement, the Yellow Scarves would be sacrificing some of their autonomy (but for now staying decentralized) but in exchange getting the resources of the larger organization, allowing them to do much more than they could alone.
The Orange Disciples:
The Orange Disciples began instituting dues, based on the income their members make. This has vastly increased their financials, especially since many of their members are priests or intellectuals on the wealthier side.
Church recruiting: 11d20 = 147
(14.7% increase in recruitment next turn)
They have also been handing out flyers and keeping members after on Sundays, hoping to recruit from the churchgoers. This has gone very well, with a steady expansion of the organization's membership.
Anti-racist think group: 5d20 = 50
They have also established a group of rotating members which actively drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist. They work with legislation in any area they're in, as well as federally.
The Party of Justice:
The Party of Justice further organized itself, setting up an office in Baltimore.
1891: Organization Info Sheets
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
West Coast Union Association
The Land and Labor Reform Party
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
The Forty Acres Movement:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Orange Disciples:
The Party of Justice:
The New American Patriots
Dues: Low with delinquency
Formed to organize cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
Locale: California
Supporters: Agricultural unions, migrant labor, and industrial unions.
Ideology: Marxism and Agrarian Socialism, not enforced.
Affiliations: Some small west coast farming unions
Formed to organize cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
Locale: California
Supporters: Agricultural unions, migrant labor, and industrial unions.
Ideology: Marxism and Agrarian Socialism, not enforced.
Affiliations: Some small west coast farming unions
The Land and Labor Reform Party
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Sucessor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?)
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership
Formed as a Political Sucessor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?)
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Infrastructure: An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Affiliations: The Order of Railway Conductors, New York industrial unions
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (The Worker's Post): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City.
Mutual Aid Groups in New York. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in New York. +2% recruitment.
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Infrastructure: An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Affiliations: The Order of Railway Conductors, New York industrial unions
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (The Worker's Post): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City.
Mutual Aid Groups in New York. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in New York. +2% recruitment.
The Forty Acres Movement:
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
The Defense Group: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in rural Mississippi. +5% recruitment.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
The Defense Group: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in rural Mississippi. +5% recruitment.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism.
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism.
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The rapid industrialization and technological development of the late 19th century caught the attention of a variety of up-and-coming inventors, industrialists, political reformers, and even the occasional revolutionary. A "Futurist Symposium" held at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris helped catalyze them into a political movement, of which the APFA is the American manifestation.
Locale: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
Supporters: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); industrial magnates, nationalist politicians, military officers (right wing)
Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy and for the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures", while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society.
Locale: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
Supporters: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); industrial magnates, nationalist politicians, military officers (right wing)
Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy and for the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures", while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Infiltrations: Several west coast railroad unions.
Committees:
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall
San Fransisco Canning Factory: +2 funds
Continuous Actions:
Mutual Aid Groups in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +2% recruitment
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Infiltrations: Several west coast railroad unions.
Committees:
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall
San Fransisco Canning Factory: +2 funds
Continuous Actions:
Mutual Aid Groups in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +2% recruitment
The Orange Disciples:
Dues: Income with delinquency
The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Affiliations: Many churches across New York and Pennsylvania.
The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Affiliations: Many churches across New York and Pennsylvania.
The Party of Justice:
Jebediah Roberts was always unusually compassionate and friendly towards the poor and downtrodden no matter their race or faith or gender. It made sense as he was one of them, a wanderer and vagrant who toured the country by whatever means he could. During his travels he talked with many different people from all sorts of different backgrounds, and wrote down his observations in a manuscript. Eventually he became sick from a cancer still unidentified by scientists and died near the house of the Freemans, a family of poor black sharecroppers. The sharecroppers gave him water and shelter while he waited for the end and so Jebediah Roberts passed on his notebook to the Freeman household. The head of the household had never learned to read or write, but felt as if he should not destroy a man's life's work and so the book was sold for a pittance to a general store. The owner there, who was well versed in politics read a few pages out of boredom on a rainy day and became amazed at the wisdom contained in the book. He moved to have it published and shared and eventually a political party was formed based on his ideas.
Locale: Primarily the mid-Atlantic region.
Supporters: The educated white middle class with left leaning beliefs, and also popular with minorities attracted to its ideas of racial equality.
Ideology: Robert's Philosophy has a few key points:
1. No one is at fault for their actions: Yes, bad people do exist, but a combination of nature and nurture determines their choices. If they are not responsible for their choices, punishment should never be punitive, but exist to maintain order.
2. Human beings are equal. Any differences between peoples living standards is due to various factors that cause inequality.
3. People are generally good. However, they are at their best when being bad is disadvantageous.
4. Power imbalances lessen the negative consequences for being evil in favor of the strong.
5. Therefore, the best way to ensure a good society is to make moderate and eliminate power imbalances.
Continuous Actions:
A book club in Baltimore. +5 to ideological rolls.
Locale: Primarily the mid-Atlantic region.
Supporters: The educated white middle class with left leaning beliefs, and also popular with minorities attracted to its ideas of racial equality.
Ideology: Robert's Philosophy has a few key points:
1. No one is at fault for their actions: Yes, bad people do exist, but a combination of nature and nurture determines their choices. If they are not responsible for their choices, punishment should never be punitive, but exist to maintain order.
2. Human beings are equal. Any differences between peoples living standards is due to various factors that cause inequality.
3. People are generally good. However, they are at their best when being bad is disadvantageous.
4. Power imbalances lessen the negative consequences for being evil in favor of the strong.
5. Therefore, the best way to ensure a good society is to make moderate and eliminate power imbalances.
Continuous Actions:
A book club in Baltimore. +5 to ideological rolls.
The New American Patriots
Originally fabricated out of whole cloth by scheming British business interests, it was hijacked by a small group of actual ideologues.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
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1892: Planning
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
It is 1892, and therefore an election year. The progressive section of the Republican Party has broken off into the People's Party advocating for collective bargaining, federal regulation of railroad rates, an expansionary monetary policy, pro-farmer policies, bimetallism, a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, a shorter workweek, and the establishment of a postal savings system.
Essentially, they were the party of small businesses, farmers, and laborers.
The republicans maintained their pro-big business, voting rights, and bimetallism, while the democrats advocated for the gold standard and lower tariffs than what have been impoverishing the population.
Some actions are universal and can be included in any organization's plan, others are just for one. Funds are per turn, they don't stack. Any ?s are for you to write-in a number for that action. New actions as write-ins are encouraged to be suggested at any time.
When voting, put the organization acronym before the name of the plan like this:
[X][WCUA] Plan do stuff
Universal Actions:
[] Require dues
--[] Small
--[] Medium
--[] Large
--[] Based on income
-[] Allow delinquent members
More dues reduces membership but increases income. Allowing delinquent members offsets the membership decrease but you also get less income.
[] Make a newspaper.
-[] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
Making newspapers can increase recruitment and increase the effectiveness of other actions such as putting candidates up for election. Only use an action for initial creation.
[] Stockpile guns. ? funds.
To complete is members/100. Roll 1d20 per funds. Rolling completion, decays 5% per turn representing use and action never disappears.
[] Train militia. ? cadres.
Uses 1 funds and 10 "stockpile guns" progress per cadre. Get 5d20 trained militia per cadre.
[] Organize protests about ?
Write-in option.
[] Attack organization building of ?
-[] ? times.
-[] Claim credit.
Write-in, can be an OTL organization or one of the other player organizations. Costs 1 wealth per building attacked. Note if it's discovered you did it, or if you claim credit, there will be consequences.
[] Make a public campaign defaming a rival person or group.
-[] Spend ? funds.
[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
-[] On the streets of cities. ? funds.
-[] In the factories of cities. ? funds.
-[] To mining towns. ? funds.
-[] To the farmworkers. ? funds.
-[] At parties of the rich. ? funds, min 20.
-[] In the lobbies of politicians. ? funds.
West Coast Union Association:
17480 supporters
4 actions, 12 funds
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
9120 supporters
3 actions, 32 funds
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
22,040 supporters
4 actions, 51 funds
The Forty Acres Movement:
79,300 supporters
5 actions, 47 funds
Weaponry: 155/793
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
20,600 supporters
4 actions, 18 funds
American People's Futurist Alliance:
11,040 supporters
3 actions, 12 funds
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
53,400 supporters
5 free actions, 1 Yellow Scarves action
51 funds
The Orange Disciples:
17,700 supporters
4 actions, 40 funds
The Party of Justice:
5400 supporters
2 actions, 7 funds
The New American Patriots:
3200 supporters
1 action, 1 funds
Essentially, they were the party of small businesses, farmers, and laborers.
The republicans maintained their pro-big business, voting rights, and bimetallism, while the democrats advocated for the gold standard and lower tariffs than what have been impoverishing the population.
Some actions are universal and can be included in any organization's plan, others are just for one. Funds are per turn, they don't stack. Any ?s are for you to write-in a number for that action. New actions as write-ins are encouraged to be suggested at any time.
When voting, put the organization acronym before the name of the plan like this:
[X][WCUA] Plan do stuff
Universal Actions:
[] Require dues
--[] Small
--[] Medium
--[] Large
--[] Based on income
-[] Allow delinquent members
More dues reduces membership but increases income. Allowing delinquent members offsets the membership decrease but you also get less income.
[] Make a newspaper.
-[] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
Making newspapers can increase recruitment and increase the effectiveness of other actions such as putting candidates up for election. Only use an action for initial creation.
[] Stockpile guns. ? funds.
To complete is members/100. Roll 1d20 per funds. Rolling completion, decays 5% per turn representing use and action never disappears.
[] Train militia. ? cadres.
Uses 1 funds and 10 "stockpile guns" progress per cadre. Get 5d20 trained militia per cadre.
[] Organize protests about ?
Write-in option.
[] Attack organization building of ?
-[] ? times.
-[] Claim credit.
Write-in, can be an OTL organization or one of the other player organizations. Costs 1 wealth per building attacked. Note if it's discovered you did it, or if you claim credit, there will be consequences.
[] Make a public campaign defaming a rival person or group.
-[] Spend ? funds.
[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
-[] On the streets of cities. ? funds.
-[] In the factories of cities. ? funds.
-[] To mining towns. ? funds.
-[] To the farmworkers. ? funds.
-[] At parties of the rich. ? funds, min 20.
-[] In the lobbies of politicians. ? funds.
West Coast Union Association:
17480 supporters
4 actions, 12 funds
[] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. ? funds. 85/500 progress.
[] Send representatives to existing west coast industrial unions to set up a meeting for potentially becoming affiliated.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the democrats this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Send representatives to existing west coast industrial unions to set up a meeting for potentially becoming affiliated.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the democrats this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
9120 supporters
3 actions, 32 funds
[] Contact various politicians in the main two parties to see if they would be willing to be affiliated with the Land and Labor Reform Party.
[] Run for state-level elections in North Dakota. ? funds.
[] Run for state-level elections in Michigan. ? funds.
[] Run for president. ? funds.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Run for state-level elections in North Dakota. ? funds.
[] Run for state-level elections in Michigan. ? funds.
[] Run for president. ? funds.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
22,040 supporters
4 actions, 51 funds
[] Send organizers to help factory workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help ship workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds. -2 per turn.
[] Send organizers to expand the mutual aid networks in New York. 8 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Send agitators to North-Eastern unions to try to convince them of the necessity of Anarcho-Collectivism.
[] Set up official contacts with like-minded unions to allow coordination for acts such as a general strike.
[] Request various members, especially police officers or former police officers, to transfer to the New York Police Department. 2 funds.
[] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department. ? funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Send organizers to help ship workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds. -2 per turn.
[] Send organizers to expand the mutual aid networks in New York. 8 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Send agitators to North-Eastern unions to try to convince them of the necessity of Anarcho-Collectivism.
[] Set up official contacts with like-minded unions to allow coordination for acts such as a general strike.
[] Request various members, especially police officers or former police officers, to transfer to the New York Police Department. 2 funds.
[] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department. ? funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The Forty Acres Movement:
79,300 supporters
5 actions, 47 funds
Weaponry: 155/793
[] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across the black belt. 40 funds, +1 action.
[] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. ? funds. 0/(2880) progress, 1d20 per fund.
[] Make a fund dedicated to paying fines put on African-Americans for arrests that could result in prison. ? funds.
[] Contact town manufacturers, making inroads to invite them to join the movement and potentially include them in a more expansive mutual aid network.
[] Increase the size of The Defense Group, adding logistics and communications to increase their capabilities. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
Gives extra actions related to the creation and management of militia, and in addition gives 1 action that can only be spent on such.
[] Set up armed patrols outside of voting buildings, escorting any black people to and from.
[] Get some of your white members as volunteers administrating literacy tests to allow your other members to vote. ? funds.
In the wake of this action, it will be commonly known that your movement includes many poor white people.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. ? funds. 0/(2880) progress, 1d20 per fund.
[] Make a fund dedicated to paying fines put on African-Americans for arrests that could result in prison. ? funds.
[] Contact town manufacturers, making inroads to invite them to join the movement and potentially include them in a more expansive mutual aid network.
[] Increase the size of The Defense Group, adding logistics and communications to increase their capabilities. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
Gives extra actions related to the creation and management of militia, and in addition gives 1 action that can only be spent on such.
[] Set up armed patrols outside of voting buildings, escorting any black people to and from.
[] Get some of your white members as volunteers administrating literacy tests to allow your other members to vote. ? funds.
In the wake of this action, it will be commonly known that your movement includes many poor white people.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
20,600 supporters
4 actions, 18 funds
[] Form cross-community mutual aid groups in New York out of your members. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Set up charitable aid out of the churches and synagogues in New York that you're associated with, open to all. 1 fund, -1 per turn.
[] Set up a committee to help integrate new immigrants coming into New York. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Contact various churches and synagogues in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, and nearby cities to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[] Contact various churches and synagogues in upper New York to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the democrats this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Set up charitable aid out of the churches and synagogues in New York that you're associated with, open to all. 1 fund, -1 per turn.
[] Set up a committee to help integrate new immigrants coming into New York. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Contact various churches and synagogues in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, and nearby cities to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[] Contact various churches and synagogues in upper New York to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the democrats this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
11,040 supporters
3 actions, 12 funds
[] Set up a committee to make a plan to either work aside local parties or replace them in integrating immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. ? funds.
[] Set up a committee to help mediate between trade unions and industrial magnates, helping ensure good working conditions and a healthy profit. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. ? funds.
[] Set up a committee to help mediate between trade unions and industrial magnates, helping ensure good working conditions and a healthy profit. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
53,400 supporters
5 free actions, 1 Yellow Scarves action
51 funds
[] Set up mutual aid groups in San Fransisco. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Modify the Affiliated Town Coordination Committee to consist solely of elected representatives of the towns affiliated with it.
[] Send organizers to help Chinese miners form their own unions. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help the former fishermen now working at canning factories form unions. ? funds. 0/200
[] Set up a committee made up of factory workers to manage the canning factory. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Set up mutual assistance groups in Sacramento among communities your members are a part of. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Contact various guilds (Chinese trade unions) and set up a committee to help them coordinate.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
Yellow Scarves:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Yellow Scarves actions.
[] Request better conditions at mines, and assassinate bosses who refuse. 1/5/10 funds.
[] Recruit/move in wealthy neighborhoods in Sacramento as servants to serve as informants and potentially assassins.
[] Modify the Affiliated Town Coordination Committee to consist solely of elected representatives of the towns affiliated with it.
[] Send organizers to help Chinese miners form their own unions. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help the former fishermen now working at canning factories form unions. ? funds. 0/200
[] Set up a committee made up of factory workers to manage the canning factory. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Set up mutual assistance groups in Sacramento among communities your members are a part of. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Contact various guilds (Chinese trade unions) and set up a committee to help them coordinate.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
Yellow Scarves:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Yellow Scarves actions.
[] Request better conditions at mines, and assassinate bosses who refuse. 1/5/10 funds.
[] Recruit/move in wealthy neighborhoods in Sacramento as servants to serve as informants and potentially assassins.
The Orange Disciples:
17,700 supporters
4 actions, 40 funds
[] Lobby various politicians to support progressive laws. ? funds.
[] Start handing out flyers and other methods of recruiting at associated churches. ? funds.
[] Write up a state referendum proposal for Ohio giving women the right to vote, and form a committee tor advertising for it. 2 funds, ? per turn.
[] Work with churches to encourage and assist people in voting, especially in poor or black areas.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Start handing out flyers and other methods of recruiting at associated churches. ? funds.
[] Write up a state referendum proposal for Ohio giving women the right to vote, and form a committee tor advertising for it. 2 funds, ? per turn.
[] Work with churches to encourage and assist people in voting, especially in poor or black areas.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The Party of Justice:
5400 supporters
2 actions, 7 funds
[] Set up a party apparatus in Maryland to prepare to campaign on the state level. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
The New American Patriots:
3200 supporters
1 action, 1 funds
[] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
[] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. ? funds.
Using 0 funds is an option, and means you're just directing your followers to vote for that party.
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Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
- Location
- Your Nearest Orbital Habitat
[X][TFAM] Plan Carrot Meet Stick
-[X] Stockpile guns. 15 funds.
-[X] Contact town manufacturers, making inroads to invite them to join the movement and potentially include them in a more expansive mutual aid network.
-[X] Increase the size of The Defense Group, adding logistics and communications to increase their capabilities. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Set up armed patrols outside of voting buildings, escorting any black people to and from.
-[X] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. 22 funds. 0/(2880) progress, 1d20 per fund.
getting some trained militia is a generally good idea I think, combining that with expanding the defense committee will be a really good synergy, but I also want to get to work on protecting people going to the polls, we are pretty big and at least throwing some guys out there will do a world of wonders for our publicity. finally I want to put some effort into buying share cropping land to fulfill the promise of our organization, because the more people with their own famers and land, the better we're doing as an organization. I think next turn we get the extra action and really start trying to snowball.
EDIT, now that I've looked at it id rather have more guns for next turn.
-[X] Stockpile guns. 15 funds.
-[X] Contact town manufacturers, making inroads to invite them to join the movement and potentially include them in a more expansive mutual aid network.
-[X] Increase the size of The Defense Group, adding logistics and communications to increase their capabilities. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Set up armed patrols outside of voting buildings, escorting any black people to and from.
-[X] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. 22 funds. 0/(2880) progress, 1d20 per fund.
getting some trained militia is a generally good idea I think, combining that with expanding the defense committee will be a really good synergy, but I also want to get to work on protecting people going to the polls, we are pretty big and at least throwing some guys out there will do a world of wonders for our publicity. finally I want to put some effort into buying share cropping land to fulfill the promise of our organization, because the more people with their own famers and land, the better we're doing as an organization. I think next turn we get the extra action and really start trying to snowball.
EDIT, now that I've looked at it id rather have more guns for next turn.
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- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
[X][WCUA] Plan Direct Action Only
-[X] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. 5 funds. 85/500 progress.
-[X] Send representatives to existing west coast industrial unions to set up a meeting for potentially becoming affiliated.
-[X] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. 5 funds.
-[X] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
Big oof on our unionization roll last turn. Hopefully getting some strike funds going and doing some more concrete organization and planning will help out with that going forward.
I'm not intending to get involved electorally, since the general brief of the WCUA is to mostly support unionization initiatives and strike actions. I'm generally assuming that our presence among the farmworkers isn't really significant enough to make a big dent, and we don't really have much influence in urban areas.
Also, the last major labor-adjacent party out West was the Workingmen's Party of California, which won pretty big electoral victories in the late 1870's, promptly stripped Chinese workers of the voting rights, then dissolved, so I'm not super enthusiastic about the potential successes of electoralism out here
-[X] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. 5 funds. 85/500 progress.
-[X] Send representatives to existing west coast industrial unions to set up a meeting for potentially becoming affiliated.
-[X] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. 5 funds.
-[X] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
Big oof on our unionization roll last turn. Hopefully getting some strike funds going and doing some more concrete organization and planning will help out with that going forward.
I'm not intending to get involved electorally, since the general brief of the WCUA is to mostly support unionization initiatives and strike actions. I'm generally assuming that our presence among the farmworkers isn't really significant enough to make a big dent, and we don't really have much influence in urban areas.
Also, the last major labor-adjacent party out West was the Workingmen's Party of California, which won pretty big electoral victories in the late 1870's, promptly stripped Chinese workers of the voting rights, then dissolved, so I'm not super enthusiastic about the potential successes of electoralism out here
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
[X][LLRP]Plan We Are Starting Locally Dammit!
-[x] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[x] To the farmworkers. 8 funds.
- [x] Run for state-level elections in North Dakota. 10 funds.
-[x] Run for state-level elections in Michigan. 10 funds.
What We Plan to do, is a simple get-together with the locals of our area, drum up support from the disenfranchised that were entirely lost in the major political parties, and among them, and show them our brilliant ideas.
Perhaps we can even win townships and other key government offices where we can partake in the most American of pursuits!
Political Corruption!
I joke of course, but if we win elections we will be on track for really making national headlines. After all, that's how the Republicans did it?
Also @Physici A question: Do Funds reset every turn based on previous membership dues, or are we to ask for dues if we are low on money?
-[x] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[x] To the farmworkers. 8 funds.
- [x] Run for state-level elections in North Dakota. 10 funds.
-[x] Run for state-level elections in Michigan. 10 funds.
What We Plan to do, is a simple get-together with the locals of our area, drum up support from the disenfranchised that were entirely lost in the major political parties, and among them, and show them our brilliant ideas.
Perhaps we can even win townships and other key government offices where we can partake in the most American of pursuits!
Political Corruption!
I joke of course, but if we win elections we will be on track for really making national headlines. After all, that's how the Republicans did it?
Also @Physici A question: Do Funds reset every turn based on previous membership dues, or are we to ask for dues if we are low on money?
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- Location
- California,USA
[X][LLRP]Plan We Are Starting Locally Dammit!
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Dues once instituted are permanent. You can see in your character sheet what you currently have.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Also: A reminder, if you all want help writing an omake to help your party, I am willing to help out.
Another question though: Do we gain more money thew more followers we have?
THank you.
Another question though: Do we gain more money thew more followers we have?
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Yes, money is proportional to the number and makeup of your followers.
Leaders
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Leaders:
(John Olsen POV)
They called you the Leader of the Land and Labor Reform Party? You almost found yourself gagging at the very thought of being called a leader. For the love of god, you had just been an orginizer and a few men were willing to work with you.
But a Leader? Especially a political leader of a political movement? You had never once seen that possible in a hundred years. You knew what America was about, Politics, small and wide, were something that defined a mans existence. THere were certainly other men that could take the reins, to act as leaders for an orginizations that was for all intents and purposes, not yours.
It belonged to the ideas that you wishes to see done. To see a world that is a better place, to make it better for your children, and posterity.
Yet Shakespeare had said it best, even in a tongue in cheak way from one of his great works. "Greatness thrust upon them."
There was so much that you wanted to take from the news. But instead you were sitting on the roof, looking out into the city, a ice cold bohemian beer in hand, as you watched the city the city pass by. It was early january, ths snows were still falling and inside was colder than out, for you at least.
Maybe it was the fear keeping you warm. Maybe it was pride? You didn't want this, but you knew no other man that would be willing to try. Perhaps that was why the papers and the people saw you as a leader? You were the only man who could be the leader.
"Seat taken?" You saw one of the men who were trying to change the way things could be, by way of the electoral trail. John Malcom.
"No, I was just about to-" You saw john plop down and than sigh, letting his breath rise up into the sky.
"Sit." He said. You remained sitting. "I just got the numbers back. Something good."
"What's good?" You asked.
"Both the Republicans and Democrats are not campaigning hard this season, seems they view the townships and cities as locks for their regular constituents. In North Dakota, and in Michigen" John stated.
"What does that mean for us?" You asked, as you took a sip of the beer, trying to think. "Besides that they view us as a none issue."
"That is where we can use it to our advantage." There was a smile on Johns face. "We have plenty of cash on hand, and if we win, we can leverage our victories into something spectacular. A base that we can move to our side."
You frowned. "Is that how you view this all John?" Getting power?" You had long hated this part of the job. Needing to balance pragmatism, and the idealism you oh so cherished. Even after you had Long made peace with compromise. But that would not mean you would see Power as the ends.
The means justify the ends. Not the Ends, justifying the means. You were not radicals, you were not arming men and storming buildings, and laying siege to factories. Nor were you shooting them for having the gall to ask for what they are worth. Not like others.
Not like you.
"How else will we be able to win over the hearts and minds of the people?" John asked.
"By showing that we can improve their lives."
"Fuck the people and their lives." John's words nearly caused you to spit your beer out. "The people will elect you to do what you must to represent them. If their lives improve, it will be a byline for your political power."
You frowned. "John, if you do not stop talking, I will throw you off this building."
John shook his head. "Fair enough." He sighed. "You just need to choose one thing: Your ideals, or the power to see those ideals to fruition. Because otherwise, you will be nothing but an idealist."
John drank the rest of your beer. "Think on that."
You would. After you punched him in his face.
@Physici I have an omake for you.
I would ask to increase the election rolls for the next turn if possible.
(John Olsen POV)
They called you the Leader of the Land and Labor Reform Party? You almost found yourself gagging at the very thought of being called a leader. For the love of god, you had just been an orginizer and a few men were willing to work with you.
But a Leader? Especially a political leader of a political movement? You had never once seen that possible in a hundred years. You knew what America was about, Politics, small and wide, were something that defined a mans existence. THere were certainly other men that could take the reins, to act as leaders for an orginizations that was for all intents and purposes, not yours.
It belonged to the ideas that you wishes to see done. To see a world that is a better place, to make it better for your children, and posterity.
Yet Shakespeare had said it best, even in a tongue in cheak way from one of his great works. "Greatness thrust upon them."
There was so much that you wanted to take from the news. But instead you were sitting on the roof, looking out into the city, a ice cold bohemian beer in hand, as you watched the city the city pass by. It was early january, ths snows were still falling and inside was colder than out, for you at least.
Maybe it was the fear keeping you warm. Maybe it was pride? You didn't want this, but you knew no other man that would be willing to try. Perhaps that was why the papers and the people saw you as a leader? You were the only man who could be the leader.
"Seat taken?" You saw one of the men who were trying to change the way things could be, by way of the electoral trail. John Malcom.
"No, I was just about to-" You saw john plop down and than sigh, letting his breath rise up into the sky.
"Sit." He said. You remained sitting. "I just got the numbers back. Something good."
"What's good?" You asked.
"Both the Republicans and Democrats are not campaigning hard this season, seems they view the townships and cities as locks for their regular constituents. In North Dakota, and in Michigen" John stated.
"What does that mean for us?" You asked, as you took a sip of the beer, trying to think. "Besides that they view us as a none issue."
"That is where we can use it to our advantage." There was a smile on Johns face. "We have plenty of cash on hand, and if we win, we can leverage our victories into something spectacular. A base that we can move to our side."
You frowned. "Is that how you view this all John?" Getting power?" You had long hated this part of the job. Needing to balance pragmatism, and the idealism you oh so cherished. Even after you had Long made peace with compromise. But that would not mean you would see Power as the ends.
The means justify the ends. Not the Ends, justifying the means. You were not radicals, you were not arming men and storming buildings, and laying siege to factories. Nor were you shooting them for having the gall to ask for what they are worth. Not like others.
Not like you.
"How else will we be able to win over the hearts and minds of the people?" John asked.
"By showing that we can improve their lives."
"Fuck the people and their lives." John's words nearly caused you to spit your beer out. "The people will elect you to do what you must to represent them. If their lives improve, it will be a byline for your political power."
You frowned. "John, if you do not stop talking, I will throw you off this building."
John shook his head. "Fair enough." He sighed. "You just need to choose one thing: Your ideals, or the power to see those ideals to fruition. Because otherwise, you will be nothing but an idealist."
John drank the rest of your beer. "Think on that."
You would. After you punched him in his face.
@Physici I have an omake for you.
I would ask to increase the election rolls for the next turn if possible.
Ramble
[Verified 'Murican]
- Location
- America
[X] [The New American Patriots]
-[X] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[X] Coffee houses frequented by aspiring journalists, novelists, artists, musicians, and those young, educated, idealistic sorts. 1 funds. So that the most handsome and convincing of our number can do it full time.
--[X] Rotations though. Rotations. We don't need our agents getting too addicted to caffeine. The chemical sharpens the mind but shakes and jitters hurt the image.
-[X] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. 0 funds.
-[X] Brainstorm ideas for secretive memorabilia which can be distinctive for members to recognize but which are innocuous enough that they can be hidden in plain sight.
-[X] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[X] Coffee houses frequented by aspiring journalists, novelists, artists, musicians, and those young, educated, idealistic sorts. 1 funds. So that the most handsome and convincing of our number can do it full time.
--[X] Rotations though. Rotations. We don't need our agents getting too addicted to caffeine. The chemical sharpens the mind but shakes and jitters hurt the image.
-[X] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. 0 funds.
-[X] Brainstorm ideas for secretive memorabilia which can be distinctive for members to recognize but which are innocuous enough that they can be hidden in plain sight.
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[X][TFHM] Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet
-[X] Contact various guilds (Chinese trade unions) and set up a committee to help them coordinate.
-[X] Set up a committee made up of factory workers to manage the canning factory. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
-[X] Set up mutual assistance groups in Sacramento among communities your members are a part of. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. 27 funds.
-[X] Recruit/move in wealthy neighborhoods in Sacramento as servants to serve as informants and potentially assassins.
First three are to do more on the ground, the latter 2 (+ the Yellow Scarves action) are meant to try to get as much influence as possible since we really need influence on the law-making stage. I am open to other plans but I really want to dedicate a large amount of resources to endorsement and campaigning.
-[X] Contact various guilds (Chinese trade unions) and set up a committee to help them coordinate.
-[X] Set up a committee made up of factory workers to manage the canning factory. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
-[X] Set up mutual assistance groups in Sacramento among communities your members are a part of. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Endorse the republicans this election, and campaign for them. 27 funds.
-[X] Recruit/move in wealthy neighborhoods in Sacramento as servants to serve as informants and potentially assassins.
First three are to do more on the ground, the latter 2 (+ the Yellow Scarves action) are meant to try to get as much influence as possible since we really need influence on the law-making stage. I am open to other plans but I really want to dedicate a large amount of resources to endorsement and campaigning.
[X][APFA]Plan Committee-ing to Success I
-[X] Set up a committee to make a plan to either work aside local parties or replace them in integrating immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. 10 funds.
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
While I really wanted to set up the union negotiation committee to put a foot in labour politics, it is an election year, and as such if we want to endorse politicians and as such start to pull a bit of weight in the halls of congress, now it would be the most effective time to do so.
And I think that starting to use dues is simply obligatory or else the funding will start drying up with the various continuous efforts we are putting up and will be continuing to and we would be hamstringed in the future in terms of more expensive and ambitious actions to perform.
In regard to endorsing the Republicans, I don't think that taking a side would be good for the association's reputation this early on. We are still practically establishing ourselves and these things take patience, especially when you are a small fish in a big pond.
-[X] Set up a committee to make a plan to either work aside local parties or replace them in integrating immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. 10 funds.
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
While I really wanted to set up the union negotiation committee to put a foot in labour politics, it is an election year, and as such if we want to endorse politicians and as such start to pull a bit of weight in the halls of congress, now it would be the most effective time to do so.
And I think that starting to use dues is simply obligatory or else the funding will start drying up with the various continuous efforts we are putting up and will be continuing to and we would be hamstringed in the future in terms of more expensive and ambitious actions to perform.
In regard to endorsing the Republicans, I don't think that taking a side would be good for the association's reputation this early on. We are still practically establishing ourselves and these things take patience, especially when you are a small fish in a big pond.
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[x] [SFAF] From Faith to Politics
-[x] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. 2 funds.
-[x] Make a newspaper.
--[x] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[x] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[x] To the farmworkers. 1 funds.
-[x] Set up a committee to help integrate new immigrants coming into New York. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
The logic of this plan is that the sudden publicity about how awful Tammany Hall is leads to many leaders in the SFAF looking to get involved in local politics to protect their followers from such predation. Meanwhile, the Quakers in the SFAF are looking to speak to some of their more rural co-religionists. Should I adjust where the agitators are speaking to show that?
-[x] Endorse the populists this election, and campaign for them. 2 funds.
-[x] Make a newspaper.
--[x] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[x] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[x] To the farmworkers. 1 funds.
-[x] Set up a committee to help integrate new immigrants coming into New York. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
The logic of this plan is that the sudden publicity about how awful Tammany Hall is leads to many leaders in the SFAF looking to get involved in local politics to protect their followers from such predation. Meanwhile, the Quakers in the SFAF are looking to speak to some of their more rural co-religionists. Should I adjust where the agitators are speaking to show that?
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
I'll give you a +5 to Michigan (there was an earlier omake with +5 for Dakota).
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Done.
Make way, there will be far more omakes to come.
Mostly because Me and Cyber have too much time on our hands right now, and I have the day off.
Also, everyone, if you ask, I will do an omake for your party. You just have to PM me.
The Fall of Tammany Hall
The streets of New York City are filled with wrath. Wrath shakes the flimsy tenements, wrath runs along the decaying sewage pipes. There's wrath at the terrible conditions; the rat-infested tenements, the backbreaking factories, the incensing lies in yellow papers. But there's fresh wrath now, as people learn that the greatest promise America offers is that if you can vote, your vote will count, is revealed to be a lie. In New York City, your vote only counts if it goes the way Tammany Hall wants it to. In New York City, you might as well not vote at all.
The bosses of the great machine sit atop its gears and smile as the works are lubricated with blood. The enforcers of the great machine wield cudgel and manacle and drag the innocent into crushing pistons and whirling crankshafts. Dribbles of coin and words, every coin a silver denarius, every word an evil tongue, are used to ensnare thousands upon thousands, keeping them unaware of the nature of the machine, deceiving them in demonic fashion.
But ask any Christian. The Devil is nothing next to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And ask any Jew. The Devil is nothing at all.
The light of truth shines forth. The nature of the machine is revealed, in all its hideous glory. The death of a young boy, an Irish boy who sang in the choir, a kind boy who gave pennies to those without, a handsome boy who all said looked like an angel, is murdered to send a message to his father.
And in response, as journalists spread the word, revealing scandal after scandal, priests and preachers and rabbis, take to the pulpits, just as activists take to the street. The harbor stops for a day and a night. The streets are filled with crowds, their eyes burning with rage.
The police do the math, and turn their guns on their former masters, hoping to be spared.
And hundreds cheer as the crowd and the mob, as the poor worker and the hungry immigrant, bend the mighty to their will. The kings of Tammany Hall are brought out in handcuffs before cheering crowds by the men who were once their thugs. Bureaucrats are dismissed from their positions by the dozen, tearing gaps into the civil service of New York City as the influence of the machine is "purged" but many of the corrupt patrons and clients remain. The police gather, wishing never again to be forced to risk their precious positions and their bloodsoaked authority, as new plans and organizations are made. The politics of the city become chaos and confusion.
And in the halls of a quiet office nestled between a church and a synagogue, a half-dozen men, representatives of the Faiths make an agreement. Their congregations have spoken, and lessons have been learned. They cannot abandon the physical for the spiritual. Their safety must be kept, their welfare ensured. The Society of the Friends of All Faiths is going into politics.
And now it's time for a hundred new arguments.
The bosses of the great machine sit atop its gears and smile as the works are lubricated with blood. The enforcers of the great machine wield cudgel and manacle and drag the innocent into crushing pistons and whirling crankshafts. Dribbles of coin and words, every coin a silver denarius, every word an evil tongue, are used to ensnare thousands upon thousands, keeping them unaware of the nature of the machine, deceiving them in demonic fashion.
But ask any Christian. The Devil is nothing next to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And ask any Jew. The Devil is nothing at all.
The light of truth shines forth. The nature of the machine is revealed, in all its hideous glory. The death of a young boy, an Irish boy who sang in the choir, a kind boy who gave pennies to those without, a handsome boy who all said looked like an angel, is murdered to send a message to his father.
And in response, as journalists spread the word, revealing scandal after scandal, priests and preachers and rabbis, take to the pulpits, just as activists take to the street. The harbor stops for a day and a night. The streets are filled with crowds, their eyes burning with rage.
The police do the math, and turn their guns on their former masters, hoping to be spared.
And hundreds cheer as the crowd and the mob, as the poor worker and the hungry immigrant, bend the mighty to their will. The kings of Tammany Hall are brought out in handcuffs before cheering crowds by the men who were once their thugs. Bureaucrats are dismissed from their positions by the dozen, tearing gaps into the civil service of New York City as the influence of the machine is "purged" but many of the corrupt patrons and clients remain. The police gather, wishing never again to be forced to risk their precious positions and their bloodsoaked authority, as new plans and organizations are made. The politics of the city become chaos and confusion.
And in the halls of a quiet office nestled between a church and a synagogue, a half-dozen men, representatives of the Faiths make an agreement. Their congregations have spoken, and lessons have been learned. They cannot abandon the physical for the spiritual. Their safety must be kept, their welfare ensured. The Society of the Friends of All Faiths is going into politics.
And now it's time for a hundred new arguments.
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][TFAM] Plan Carrot Meet Stick
Leaders Part 2
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Leaders Part 2:
(John Olsen POV)
You were trying not to hide your very disdain as you looked at the Senator for Michigan. James McMillian was trying his best to show off his opulence, his power, his wealth that he made over his life as a Railwayman, a man who had never once set foot on the line to swing the hammer, to place the wood. To fear the Indians that may come to attack them.
He was always safe. And unlike you, you had never felt the same. "Drink Mr. Olsen?" He offered as the wine was poured, and you felt a queasy, poor sensation in your stomach.
Pale as you were, you raised your hand. "Just some water please." You said, meekly.
McMillian smiled before he laughed at his compatriots that were with you, all laughing at the insinuation. "Careful boys, we might have a teetotaler here." He said.
You let out a cough, covering your mouth as you tried to join the laughter. Instead, it seemed, it only made the men who were there seem very… uncomfortable with you.
The Water came, still warm from the boil, with ice cubes, probably from just outside that was there, or from one of the ice houses down the river. "Now Mr. Olsen, perhaps I am being too forward to one of my new friends, but there are things that must be said… considering many of the upcoming… elections."
You found yourself feeling the pit of your stomach fall deeper. "Tell me then. You think I am one of those radicals that wish to upend your power?"
THat made McMillian laugh. "Radicals? Ha, my boy, if I saw you as a radical, I would have made sure that the police would never find your body."
That made your heart sink. "Oh, those socialists that are stirring up trouble in the city, bombing mines… the Negros in the south trying to get forty acres from good honest men, to no longer be sharecroppers. Some chinamen acting like the second coming of Christ with his own heathen talk?"
He then looked at the steak and began cutting it up. "See John, think of all these radicals like the Indians. We keep on trying to make peace with them and live properly. But they don't want to, so we have to civilize them as best as we can. Some of them will be able to be civilized." He took a bite. "Others will not, simple as that."
"I have never been one who ignored the plight of the-" You started.
"Of course, you do you, stupid bastard. Perhaps you weren't listening then." He swallowed and you felt a chill run up his spine. "There are those that listen, and be civilized." He pointed to himself. "Than there is you." He pointed to you. "The Indian. You can either be a savage or be civilized."
"And what would you want?" You asked.
"Your making headlines boy, even when your name barely shows up in the papers, that party of yours did. Head of a new political party. A man who talks of big ideas and bigger dreams." He paused and drank. "Now, those dreams can falter, and die, or they can be planted. Seeded. Grown into something mighty. All one has to do, is nourish it with the right soil, the right sunlight… the right shade from and oak."
You frowned. "You would have me endorse you? To abandon all of my efforts, to join you?"
"And now he begins to understand!" McMillian shouted. "See, you have done something incredible. You have attracted my attention Mr. Olsen, and you have talent, a comment I rarely give to anyone that I do not know on a personal level." He leaned forward. "I am asking you to foreswear your allegiance to your little collective, and join the Republican party, and I will make you one of the most powerful men in the country."
"And If I refuse?" You asked.
McMillian laughed. "And If I refuse?" He mocked you with his tone. He then splashed his wine on your face.
"Imagine all your work, becoming naught but ash. You will become less than nothing. You will not be a single step… and I will make it my personal mission to destroy you."
"I thought you positioned yourself as a moral politician?" You asked.
"Morality? You must have forgotten my chosen profession is politics." McMillian laughed. "Now make a choice, here and now. Will you be my friend, or will you be my enemy?"
You stood up. "I will be neither. I will be an American. Who makes his own goddamn choice, as the good Lord intended me to."
You threw down a bill. "Thanks for the water. I hope you choke on it."
AN: @Physici I have another omake
If possible another Michigan election bonus.
If not, perhaps something involving the popularity roll next turn
(John Olsen POV)
You were trying not to hide your very disdain as you looked at the Senator for Michigan. James McMillian was trying his best to show off his opulence, his power, his wealth that he made over his life as a Railwayman, a man who had never once set foot on the line to swing the hammer, to place the wood. To fear the Indians that may come to attack them.
He was always safe. And unlike you, you had never felt the same. "Drink Mr. Olsen?" He offered as the wine was poured, and you felt a queasy, poor sensation in your stomach.
Pale as you were, you raised your hand. "Just some water please." You said, meekly.
McMillian smiled before he laughed at his compatriots that were with you, all laughing at the insinuation. "Careful boys, we might have a teetotaler here." He said.
You let out a cough, covering your mouth as you tried to join the laughter. Instead, it seemed, it only made the men who were there seem very… uncomfortable with you.
The Water came, still warm from the boil, with ice cubes, probably from just outside that was there, or from one of the ice houses down the river. "Now Mr. Olsen, perhaps I am being too forward to one of my new friends, but there are things that must be said… considering many of the upcoming… elections."
You found yourself feeling the pit of your stomach fall deeper. "Tell me then. You think I am one of those radicals that wish to upend your power?"
THat made McMillian laugh. "Radicals? Ha, my boy, if I saw you as a radical, I would have made sure that the police would never find your body."
That made your heart sink. "Oh, those socialists that are stirring up trouble in the city, bombing mines… the Negros in the south trying to get forty acres from good honest men, to no longer be sharecroppers. Some chinamen acting like the second coming of Christ with his own heathen talk?"
He then looked at the steak and began cutting it up. "See John, think of all these radicals like the Indians. We keep on trying to make peace with them and live properly. But they don't want to, so we have to civilize them as best as we can. Some of them will be able to be civilized." He took a bite. "Others will not, simple as that."
"I have never been one who ignored the plight of the-" You started.
"Of course, you do you, stupid bastard. Perhaps you weren't listening then." He swallowed and you felt a chill run up his spine. "There are those that listen, and be civilized." He pointed to himself. "Than there is you." He pointed to you. "The Indian. You can either be a savage or be civilized."
"And what would you want?" You asked.
"Your making headlines boy, even when your name barely shows up in the papers, that party of yours did. Head of a new political party. A man who talks of big ideas and bigger dreams." He paused and drank. "Now, those dreams can falter, and die, or they can be planted. Seeded. Grown into something mighty. All one has to do, is nourish it with the right soil, the right sunlight… the right shade from and oak."
You frowned. "You would have me endorse you? To abandon all of my efforts, to join you?"
"And now he begins to understand!" McMillian shouted. "See, you have done something incredible. You have attracted my attention Mr. Olsen, and you have talent, a comment I rarely give to anyone that I do not know on a personal level." He leaned forward. "I am asking you to foreswear your allegiance to your little collective, and join the Republican party, and I will make you one of the most powerful men in the country."
"And If I refuse?" You asked.
McMillian laughed. "And If I refuse?" He mocked you with his tone. He then splashed his wine on your face.
"Imagine all your work, becoming naught but ash. You will become less than nothing. You will not be a single step… and I will make it my personal mission to destroy you."
"I thought you positioned yourself as a moral politician?" You asked.
"Morality? You must have forgotten my chosen profession is politics." McMillian laughed. "Now make a choice, here and now. Will you be my friend, or will you be my enemy?"
You stood up. "I will be neither. I will be an American. Who makes his own goddamn choice, as the good Lord intended me to."
You threw down a bill. "Thanks for the water. I hope you choke on it."
AN: @Physici I have another omake
If possible another Michigan election bonus.
If not, perhaps something involving the popularity roll next turn