The Gold of Fallen Republics
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You ride through a broken city under a gray spring sky. Two years have passed since the catastrophic collapse at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, when the Army of the Potomac shattered and Confederate forces occupied the nation's capital. Now, Washington, D.C. is a city of curfews, grey-clad patrols, and shadow-draped gallows. In your saddlebags rests a small fortune in stolen Confederate bullion, pulled from a garrison vault by hands that were never meant to touch it. With this gold, you can buy forged travel passes, secure passage aboard a blockade-runner, and smuggle your family north across the border before morning. But tonight, the last surviving cell of the northern resistance is preparing a final, desperate strike—and using the coin to save your kin means abandoning the comrades who trusted you with their lives. Every rain-slicked cobblestone holds a trap, and every shadow harbors a provost guard. As night settles over the Potomac, the temptation to leave the dead republic behind burns against your conscience. Will you buy your family's freedom with the blood of the resistance, or sacrifice everything for a timeline that is already slipping away?
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