Weekly News

Prologue

A few weeks ago a message went out over the Teslagraph addressed to certain people, somehow hidden from the Analytical Intelligences, to meet in a secret location in Cambridge if you want to change things. It was signed Ada Lovelace, a figure who's supposedly been dead for several years.

You've decided to answer the message.

File:Newspaper Interactive 1.pdf

Week 1

The Resistance met ADA, the intelligence that Ada Lovelace uploaded her mind into after she was killed. They are protecting this new Resistance from discovery by the AIs. She asked them to investigate an abandoned lab out at Fen Edge. The Heirs of Jupiter unexpectedly gave them some other useful information - that Safeguard was already moving on the lab and trying to retrieve a specific device.

Four of the Resistance went and snuck into the lab, eventually finding Prince Jr., a mutated being that was the result of the experiments that were conducted there. It's holding onto the device that was Dr. Prince's most advanced research, and they have smuggled it into Cambridge after rescuing it from Safeguard.

Week 2

Prince Jr. was talked to in Ada's house, but it wouldn't give up Dr. Prince's research without knowing what his wishes were.

A lot of mysterious letters were delivered, including one that had appeared under strange circumstances.

The Luminary agent "Architect" asked some of the Resistance to help them get some buildings demolished to make way for a grand monument, and help design said monument. In the process they poisoned the Earl Grey, Lord Charles Grey, who has left Cambridge temporarily.

Another agent, "Star", was helped to build a giant steam-powered speaker and has used it to sing songs.

Many parties came in to present their cases to the Resistance for aid, and ADA has organised them into a set of mission briefs.

Week 3

The players managed to talk the Qualia Transcription Engine out of Prince Jr's hands and smuggled them back out of the city. The grand monument is now going ahead, as is some kind of project by the Heirs of Jupiter. Several members of the group have drawn the attentions of the Coppers, and may need to take care!

One party talked their way into Ward Z0 of the hospital, and fought an automated nurse-bot. They then managed to save one of Honoria's friends from the surgery that was in-progress, despite the mockery of Equilibrium, a Safeguard sub-intelligence. Another party broke into the book depository and fought their way through multiple guard patrols, securing three out of the five boxes of books.

Week 4

Probably the most dramatic event was the appearance of the AI known as Equilibrium at the weekly meeting, seemingly to taunt the players and inform them that it's moved into the Cambridge area and taken a personal interest in the Resistance.

Two missions were selected - one to venture into the wilderness to retrieve some rare herbs, and a second to help Nikola Tesla with human trials of his new Teslaportation technology.