The 7 endings
The finale of chapter 13 and the record of your whole campaign decide how the story ends. There are 7 endings; 2 of them are hidden.
Ending 1 of 7
Revolution
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The Open City
The lamps of 2049 burn over a city that governs itself in the open. It cost less blood than anyone feared, and the factions that fought for it still believe in it.
Ending 2 of 7
Revolution
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The Red Dawn
The Revolution won, and kept winning by force. Paris is free of the old masters and afraid of the new ones.
Ending 3 of 7
Law
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The Quiet Order
The Law held Paris for two and a half centuries without turning it into a prison. The streets are calm and the city still consents.
Ending 4 of 7
Law
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The Glass Cage
The Law won everything and sees everything. Paris is safe, bright and watched from every lamp post.
Ending 5 of 7
Either side
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The Burning
Nobody won. The city burned faster than anyone could rule it.
Ending 6 of 7
Either side
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The Steward's City
The machine you built to help decide began to decide alone. Paris runs smoothly. Nobody remembers voting for it.
Ending 7 of 7
Both sides
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The Compact
Both sides switched the Steward off together and sat down at the same table. It is the strangest ending, and the hardest won.
The last pages, before every ending
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The Lamp
Every cover of these booklets has shown the same street lamp on the same corner of the old Saint-Antoine road. In 1783 it was an oil lantern on a rope across the street, lit by a man with a ladder.
In 1789 the crowd hanged men from lamps like it, and "to the lamp-post!" went round the city. In the years after, it was smashed and rehung, smashed and rehung.
In the 1820s it became a gas lamp on an iron post. It was torn down for the barricades of 1830 and 1848, and each new government relit it, a little brighter.
The Lamp
In 1871 it was dark for a week while the city burned, then lit again. In the 1880s the gas gave way to electricity, and the lamplighter to a switch.
In 1944 it was blacked out, then lit on the night of the liberation. In the 1960s it turned orange, in the 2010s white.
In the 2030s a camera was fixed to its post. In 2049 it is still there, and someone will decide whether it is lit.