Level 2 · 26 March 1832
The Blue Fear
- Turns
- 14 turns, a week each
- Map
- 12 districts
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The Revolution
The cholera has come from the east. It kills in a day and turns the dying blue. The rich leave for the country; the faubourgs stay and bury. Be there with soup and linen, and win the faubourgs' trust by spring's end.
Objective
Bring the faubourgs to 70 toward you by turn 14 (or see the cholera reach more than 5 districts)
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 10 turns
- Never use the poisoners rumour
The game's hint Neighbourhood aid works once a turn in a sick district where you have people. The prefecture's relief bureaux compete for the same gratitude.
- Won
- The faubourgs remember
- Lost
- The sickness contained
The Law
The cholera is in Les Halles. Lime the streets, burn the bedding, open the hospitals, and keep it to five districts or fewer. Someone is already shouting about poisoners.
Objective
Keep the cholera to 5 districts or fewer at turn 14
Stars
- Win the level
- Already meet the objective by turn 10
- Never use the poisoners rumour
The game's hint Each sick district can pass it to a neighbour every turn. Sanitation stops a district catching or spreading it for three turns.
- Won
- The sickness contained
- Lost
- The faubourgs remember
Events
News that reaches both sides during the level. Each side answers for itself.
The blue fear
The cholera has reached Les Halles. The sick turn blue and die in a day. The rich are leaving.
The Revolution
What happensUnrest +8 in Les Halles
The Law
What happensUnrest +8 in Les Halles
The ragpickers' riot
The prefecture's new carts take away the rubbish the ragpickers live on. They burn the carts.
The Revolution
What happensUnrest +5 in the workers' districts
The Law
What happensUnrest +5 in the workers' districts
The prime minister dies
The head of government has caught the cholera visiting the hospitals. He is dead in a week.
The Revolution
What happensThe Crown loyalty −10Legitimacy −3
The Law
What happensThe Crown loyalty −10Legitimacy −3
After the level
After level 2 · 5 June 1832
The General's Funeral
The Revolution
The cholera has taken a general who fought for the Republic. His coffin will cross the city tomorrow, and the faubourgs will follow it.
- Turn the funeral into a risingRepublicans loyalty +15Unrest +20 in the workers' districts
- Keep it peacefulLiberals loyalty +15
The Law
A popular general is dead of the cholera, and the republicans want to bury him themselves.
- Ban the processionMunicipal Guard loyalty +10Unrest +10 in the workers' districts
- Honour him officiallyOpinion +5
This level's booklet page
II. The Blue Fear
The cholera came in March, from the east, as the newspapers had said it would. In the streets of the centre the dead were stacked in the churches; in the west, the windows were shuttered and the owners gone.
One way “The Blue Fear” can end
By summer it had touched every quarter. Eighteen thousand died in Paris that year.
Otherwise
The prefecture limed the streets and burned the bedding, and the sickness stayed in the old centre. The new boulevards were drawn on maps that summer.
If the Revolution chose “Turn the funeral into a rising”
The general's coffin was the spark. The funeral became a rising before it reached the bridge.
If the Revolution chose “Keep it peaceful”
The funeral was long and silent, and nobody fired a shot.
If the Law chose “Ban the procession”
The procession was banned and went ahead anyway, with soldiers at every corner.
Otherwise
The government gave the general an official funeral and stole it from the republicans.