Chapter 12 · 2018 to 2024
Saturdays
A leaderless movement in fluorescent vests takes the roundabouts and the Saturdays. The Revolution cannot give orders, only proposals; the Law fights a war of images in which every use of force can go viral.
- Map
- 28 districts
- Newspaper
- The Feed
- Street lighting
- LED
The levels
- Fuel17 November 2018
- Act III1 December 2018
- The Great Debate14 January 2019
- The Empty City17 March 2020
- Override19 January 2023
- The Games26 July 2024
- Interlude 12
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The booklet opens
Prologue
In 2018 everyone had a phone, a group chat and an opinion, and fuel was getting dearer.
If the interlude ended this way: The stream stayed open, chaotic and free.
The stream of Night Standing had shown that a movement could organise itself without leaders.
If the interlude ended this way: A party took over the stream.
A party had taken over Night Standing's stream, and nobody trusted parties any more.
Otherwise
Night Standing's stream had faded, and the police had learned to watch the platforms.
In the outer ring, a car was not a choice.
The factions
The Revolution
- The spokesmen
- Maxime Roux and the accidental spokesmen who would like to be received by the government. Nobody elected them.
- The Black Bloc
- The masked hard core that comes to the Saturdays to fight.
- The roundabouts
- Nathalie Brun, the nurses, the drivers and the small workers of the outer ring who hold the roundabouts.
- The streamers
- Kenzo and the phones that film every Saturday live.
The Law
- The government
- President Adrien Lacombe and his ministers.
- Riot companies
- The mobile companies of the riot police.
- The Interior Ministry
- Minister Paul Darrieux and Commissioner Laure Dassin's motorbike brigades.
- Intelligence
- The drones, the cameras and the files on the group chats.
- Business
- The employers and the shopkeepers of the grand avenues.
Neutral factions
- The news channels
- The channels and the platforms, live every Saturday.
- Foreign powers
- The world watching Paris: governments, tourists, investors.
- Shopkeepers
- Parisians
Characters
- President Adrien Lacombe
- Paul Darrieux, interior minister
- Maxime Roux, truck driver and accidental spokesman
- Nathalie Brun, nurse and roundabout organiser
- Kenzo, streamer
- Commissioner Laure Dassin
- Lina, trust-and-safety engineer
The booklet closes
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Epilogue
If the Revolution won The Games
The movement never had a leader, and never quite went away.
Otherwise
The Saturdays ended, one by one, and the cameras stayed.
The streetlamps were white LEDs now, dimmed after midnight, and every one of them had a camera somewhere near it.