Finale · 5 September 1793
The Blade
- Turns
- 26 turns, a week each
- Map
- 12 districts
Chapter 2: Year of FireSealed so it does not spoil the story for you.Break the seal
The Revolution
The Revolution now governs, and the Committee governs the Revolution. Vérac sends men to the scaffold every day and calls it virtue. Win over three of the five ministers, then arrest Vérac at the Hôtel de Ville before the blade reaches you.
Objective
Turn 3 of the 5 ministers and arrest Vérac in the Cité within 26 turns
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 19 turns
- No assassinations
- Won
- Thermidor
- Lost
- The blade falls on you
The Law
You are the Government. Conspirators are everywhere, in the clubs, in the sections, in the Convention itself. Arrest four of their leaders before the twentieth week, but beware: past 80, the Terror will devour its own.
Objective
Arrest 4 conspirator leaders by turn 20 with Terror under 80
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 19 turns
- Terror never above 50
- Won
- The Committee endures
- Lost
- Thermidor
Events
News that reaches both sides during the level. Each side answers for itself.
The law of suspects
Anyone who has shown no zeal may now be arrested. The prisons fill in a week.
The Revolution
What happensTerror +10
The Law
What happensTerror +10
Murdered in his bath
The most feared journalist in Paris has been stabbed in his bath by a young woman from the provinces. His paper's readers want blood.
The Revolution
What happensJournalists loyalty −20
The Law
What happensJournalists loyalty −20
The Festival of Unity
A plaster mountain on the Field of Mars, choirs of thousands, a fountain of Nature. Whoever holds Saint-Germain holds the day.
The Revolution
What happensOpinion +10
The Law
What happensOpinion −10
The Convention grows afraid
Deputies who once applauded Vérac now sleep away from home, afraid of the list in his pocket.
The Revolution
What happensGovernment loyalty −10
The Law
What happensGovernment loyalty −10
The prisons
Rumours of a prisoners' plot have sent crowds into the prisons. For four days, the killing does not stop. Nobody ordered it; everyone will be blamed for it.
The Revolution
What happensViolence +20
The Law
What happensViolence of the Revolution +20
This level's booklet page
VI. The Blade
One way “The Palace Falls” can end
The king was tried and executed in January. The Committee of Public Safety governed France from a green room in the Tuileries, and Maximin Vérac governed the Committee.
Otherwise
The monarchy had survived, but only in name. A royal ministry governed in the king's place, with Vérac at its head, and it was not gentler for wearing a crown.
One way “The Blade” can end, version 1
On the ninth of Thermidor the Convention turned on Vérac. He went to the scaffold the next day, in the cart he had sent so many others to.
One way “The Blade” can end, version 2
The Terror ate its own. Vérac's colleagues turned on him, and he fled the city with a forged passport. Nobody knows where he died.
Otherwise
Vérac survived the summer. The conspirators were taken one by one, and the Terror went on in the name of virtue.