Hey, I just wanted to drop by and say how much I've been enjoying this timeline; it's been a long time since I've played Paradox games, but this almost makes me want to get back into the swing of things. I hope we get another Hobsbawm update soon, loved that chapter. What's Maxton been getting up to in all this?
Hey! Very glad indeed to have you around. This timeline actually stems from the first Victoria play through I did in a very long time, so if the desire to get back into the game is infectious then in some ways I can consider my work done.
Hobsbawm is always a fun character and no doubt I'll get him back out for something or other down the line. Maxton too is a gift. He's currently putting his considerable talents to good use as a leading member of Mosley's PLUA. Don't worry: he'll be sticking around for a while.
On an unrelated note, I found it funny that you mentioned Meadow as an inspiration since I never knew he published stuff over on the Paradox forums - he's got his own publishing firm for alternate history stuff at Sea Lion Press, it would be great to see a well-researched and well-written story like this on the forums over there.
It was
@LordTempest who first made me aware of the fact that Meadow was involved with Sea Lion Press after I said how much I enjoyed reading
Shuffling the Deck a few years ago. I've always liked what I've read of their work and I'd be quite happy to put this timeline on the forums over there in some form at some point.
Thanks for stopping by! Glad to have you around.
Working my way through the Mosley updates right now. I have to hand it to you Dens, you've done a marvelous job of capturing the sheer, er, uniqueness of the mind of Mosley.
A lot of the work was essentially just editing Mosley's own words to fit the TL, but if it's unclear to the untrained eye which parts are Mosley and which parts are my efforts at imitation then I'll happily (?) take the W. Reading his memoirs was certainly an
interesting experience. His self-apologist, "let me explain what really happened" act gets quite ugly quite quickly.
Decisive times, in a way knowing the ultimate outcome of the sequence of events makes the whole process of getting to that result far more dramatic and interesting. Or maybe it is just your repeated cliff-hangers throughout the story so far that makes it so interesting to finally get to this moment of revolution.
I've watched
La Haine an awful lot over the past year and there's something about the whole "being upfront about how this ends" structure that I just find really effective. Hence why I borrow it at every possible opportunity.
And we still don't have the whole picture of how Mosley, the CPBG and all the different revolutionnary currents are going to interact during and after the revolution itself, so there is that which you are concealing to us too. In this update itself there is of course already an embryo of an alternative to the United Kingdom which is being built, and seeing those actions taking place is already largely revolutionnary on its own.
Some of this, truthfully, is me also still working things out. But absolutely there's some big-picture stuff that is still to be revealed. Certainly, the clash of different factions when the dust settles and the revolutionaries realise they don't all think the same way makes for some fun times ahead. (Or so I hope.)
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Thanks as ever for the comments, ratings and feedback. They continue to be greatly appreciated.
I've started in earnest on a handful of updates post-revolution that really start to push the timeline ahead. I've got two weeks ahead with a good amount of time for writing, so with any luck I'll be able to make good progress (provided I don't get too distracted reading
Age of Extremes like I did this afternoon...) Depending on how things go I'll look to put the next update out towards the end of the week.
Until then!