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A time of struggle, intrigue, and horror. A divided country, where the upper class enjoys the bounty of wealth, and the poor cannot afford a loaf of bread. Where the cries of anger and rage at life's injustices find momentum, sparking the people to unite and cast away the old regime for a brighter and more hopeful tomorrow. In time, hope will be replaced with fear as the Terror descends upon France, and the guillotine cries out for blood.
If used with Horror on the Orient Express, this book provides an exciting and action-packed "living handout" to engage players in the full horror of the Comte Fenalik at the height of his powers, bringing new insights into the parent campaign.
The strong points: The Mythos and the French Revolution, one of the biggest world-altering events in human history, work fantastically well when joined. The book is conscious of the subject matter, and goes to great pains to explain the context of what is happening. It does not side-brush complex historical and political events like The Terror which cost the lives of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people, even though the supernatural makes an imposing appearance. The feeling is one of claustrophobia, of impending great changes that mankind has never seen before. This is true, at least when it comes to real history. With this on the background, the writers craft a terrifying amalgam of excesses, decadence, and wickedness, of debaucheries that would land one in jail even today. Visceral scenes do not only come out at the thick of the action; sometimes they are the introduction to the sadism and malevolence that follows. The description of the so-called skinless pope, a skinned, preserved figure dressed in papal clothing, whose ring-bearing finger all entrants to the mansion have to kiss while uttering an oath, is bound to cause major discomfort around your table. If I were to use a single word to describe most of the encounters and scenes of the adventure, that word would be 'disturbing'. Idem for the (rather obvious) concept that the continuous executions and the guillotines serve a substantially more sinister purpose than eliminating the enemies of the revolution. In the context of a horror scenario which reaches into supernatural paranoia, this is the highest praise possible.
There has been little public effort by the de facto Turkish authorities to provide redress for the victims of these incidents or prevent further abuses by the SNA. In a rare exception, one SNA member was sentenced by a Syrian Interim Government military court for the killing of Khalaf, according to a U.N. report.190 However, the report gives no details of the purported sentence, and the AANES disputes the claim that anyone was sentenced. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar says Turkey has established two military tribunals in TARA for the express purpose of investigating war crimes allegations, but little information has emerged about their activities.191 More positively, in May 2020, the Syrian Interim Government said it had banned recruitment of children for the military.192 Despite these steps, the proxies that Turkey relies on to theoretically secure the TARA area are violent, ill-disciplined, economically desperate, and routinely and credibly accused of human rights abuses, murder, rape, extortion, kidnapping, and petty theft.193
In addition to these challenges inside TARA, the SNA frequently skirmish along the line of control with the SDF and, in places, with the regime. The SNA and Turkish forces have regularly shelled the towns of Ayn Issa and Tel Tamer on the strategic M4 highway in the AANES.211 According to scholar Amy Austin Holmes, Turkey and its militias committed more than 800 cease-fire violations over the course of the first year following Operation Peace Spring, with 138 of these in the Tel Tamer area, averaging more than two violations per day.212 The SDF and the SNA routinely accuse each other of attempting to infiltrate opposing positions, and there are frequent casualties. Anti-IS coalition officers have expressed concern that the attacks on Ayn Issa and Tel Tamer are distracting the SDF from its anti-IS mission.213 The attacks also boost Russian influence; in December 2020, the SDF agreed to have Russian troops deploy in Ayn Issa in an effort to stave off attacks.214 2ff7e9595c
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