Cato’s War
Twilight Histories
Dark Lord Studios
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2014
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Begin your adventure with this tabletop RPG-inspired story from your dungeon master, Jordan Harbour.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You wake in a strange room. |
| 0:07.7 | Your clothes are foreign and the walls are covered in objects from a different world. |
| 0:13.3 | You don't know where or when you are. |
| 0:16.3 | Or if you're still dreaming. |
| 0:18.7 | There are footsteps in the hall. |
| 0:21.0 | Jumping up, you race out of the room and into the streets. |
| 0:24.4 | You have just entered the Twilight Histories. |
| 0:29.1 | The Twilight Histories. |
| 0:32.2 | The... Our agent explored a strange alternate history of America, a world in which slavery survived. She returned with |
| 0:59.0 | stories of poverty, torture, and death. Long hours, dangerous working conditions, no human rights, |
| 1:09.2 | and ruthless owners. The slaves in this world are not treated as |
| 1:13.6 | humans with a will and a mind of their own, but rather as animals or machines. But unlike |
| 1:21.9 | machines, the slaves in this world are whipped and beaten so that they feel their machines have greater value than them. |
| 1:31.3 | If a slave breaks a machine, the slave is punished. |
| 1:36.3 | If a machine breaks a slave, all those who weren't hurt are punished. |
| 1:55.0 | Our agent reports that new slaves are often stunned and confused by the inhumanity of this world. The older slaves have a perspective on this. |
| 1:58.0 | They say that power sometimes devours the slave owners so completely that they become animals, predators themselves. They call their slaves beasts, but it is they who have the jungle inside them. Please put on your costume now while I finish your orientation. |
| 2:26.3 | We're sending you back to the year 1962, |
| 2:30.3 | a hundred years after the second American Revolution, as it's called. |
| 2:36.2 | You'll be living in a small factory town called Stonewall, located in the deep south. |
| 2:42.8 | Our agent has set you up as a slave at a textile factory. |
| 2:50.5 | The factory is the largest slave operation in this town, and from what we understand, it is |
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