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Athens Rising: An Original Gilded Age RPG

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Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts! The year is 1880 and it is the tail end of a blazing August. Despite the heat, the city is beautiful and bustling, dubbed by our friends across the pond as "The Athens of America". We are known for our first-rate architecture, our profitable harbors, and of course our academic and artistic prowess.

Athens Rising captures the passionate and innovative essence of the era in a rivalry between two groups of extraordinary young people. One group hails from England, students of the prestigious Dartingale College, and call themselves the Dartingale Five. They have already started their own legacy by scandalizing the Grosvenor Gallery with an astonishing set of paintings. The Fives are sharp, tough, wealthy, and see their fledgling rivals in Boston as nothing but a group of foolish copycats riding on the coattails of their success.

Their rivals have recently been awakened to a world of injustice by an extraordinary art history professor. They attend his classes at Grantmore University, a relatively new but already fashionable institution amongst noveau riche and esteemed brahmins alike. The Professor, author of the notorious "little green book" of scandalous moments in art history, encourages his students to look beyond the false morality of their era and see the way censorship of art, behavior, and thought itself has harmed their lives. The stakes on their futures are high as a watchdog group, the iron-fisted New England Society for the Suppression of Vice, closes its jaws around the professor, vowing to see him rot in a jail cell forever...

Each youth is talented in his or her own right in some form of art, has vowed to open the eyes of the public to wrong thinking, and together they have formed a secret society of artists: The Brotherhood of New Athenians. Some of them have their own censored dreams, waiting for the day when they will be fulfilled.

The Brotherhood is looked down upon, frowned on, jeered at, and hated by many. Bureaucrats hate them for shaking up the status quo. Enemy students will stop at nothing to humiliate them. The Fives will do anything to erase them from history. The city threatens to expel them for destroying its peace. And yet the Brotherhood continues to serve and uphold the purposes for which they stand together: Freedom of Expression for All. Will they succeed and go down in history as legends? Or fail and be forgotten as fools?

You be the judge.

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