Chapter 5: Straight Lines
Interlude 5
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The Balloon Post
- Years
- 1870 to 1871
You play Adèle
Paris is besieged and starving; the elephants of the zoo are on restaurant menus. The only way out is up. Adèle, nineteen, sews balloon envelopes at the Gare du Nord and has learned to fly them over the Prussian lines.
Mission 1: 2 October 1870
Lift
- Turns
- 8 turns, a day each
The gasworks at La Villette are under shellfire, and the balloon on the hill at Montmartre needs gas. Send crews to keep the works going and fill the envelope three times before the batteries find the range. The guns take a share of the gas every night.
Objective
Fill the balloon 3 times at Montmartre (3 Gas each, made at La Villette)
How it can end
- The balloon was filled and flew.
- The balloon never filled.
Mission 2: 6 October 1870
Cargo
- Turns
- 10 turns, a day each
There is room in the basket for one passenger. A minister who will raise an army in the provinces, or a delegate of the faubourgs carrying the workers' appeal to Europe. The prefecture wants the launch stopped before Adèle can choose.
Objective
From day 5, launch from Montmartre with the minister or the delegate, without Adèle being arrested
How it can end
- The minister flew to the provinces.
- The delegate flew with the workers' appeal.
- Nobody flew.