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Crystal Healing by Katrina Raphaell

Just added in a new background inspired by The Wizard of Oz, one of the best fairytales out there!

Someone has probably already come up with an idea rather like your own. This is fine.

Most people who write althist fiction come either from the US or Europe. Most of them will also be white.

People who write althist fiction will often preferentially write for the region and/or religion around which they were raised.

There will be nationalists, chauvinists, and neo-Nazis in althist communities. Including yours, if you're not careful.

Most people will see the continuation of the slave-holding CSA or the genocidal Third Reich as a bad thing.

People will tend to have a blind spot around slave-holding and genocidal regimes that are not the CSA or the Third Reich. See Point 2.

Altist fans are rarely military strategists or logisticians or even historians.

Althist fans like aesthetically-pleasing and contiguous borders.

Cultures with more historical records (ex. The Romans, Greeks, Russians, British) will have more scenarios made for them than cultures with fewer records. This will bias scenarios to the Global North. (You and I are not exempt from this bias.)

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Hey hey hey!

What's up? We're back with more great CTC fun as we go along Saunders's story!

In our previous post, Saunders has kindly and willingly decided to lend his money to pay up for his brother's education. His brother, of course, has proven himself to be a great student at school, with plans for a school building as his final thesis. He then graduates with high honors, with everyone approving of his plans for the school building with much high acclaim at town hall. Even Donovan, president of the board of aldermen, approves of the plans and is willing to give him offers... until he hears that he's got to pay a commission to the board of aldermen -- $2000 -- but in bills! That's a really large sum of money, yikes!

If he accepted Donovan's offer (or at least according to his mind), he and his mother would get themselves a brand-new house with the latest gadgets, or if he chose not to, his brother's architecture dreams would be crushed and the school may just be built under a

Since you decided it's best to accept Donovan's offer, we'll figure out what happens next...

-Is it financial suicide?

-Is Donovan actually a scammer (even in 1930s standards?!)

We'll see!

Options are highlighted in orange.

For some months after Saunders accepted the plan proposed by Donovan, selling the lot to the city and paying part of the money back to the president of the Board of Aldermen, he was nervous lest some one discover the deal and misunderstand his motives. But Donovan was too adept at this sort of thing to run into any danger whatever, and Saunders became reconciled to his own slight deviation from rectitude because of his mother's satisfaction in the convenient new home and Alfred's enthusiasm and delight in having his plans accepted.

About the time the excavation was finished and the foundation begun Saunders was disturbed by a sudden drop in Alfred's spirits. The boy became glum and uncommunicative, replying to Saunders's questions simply by saying curtly that everything was going well. Certainly he was attending to business, for he had numerous lengthy conferences with the aldermen, each of whom, by a curious coincidence, was furnishing part of the supplies for the building; one owned a brick-yard, a second ran a lumber-yard, and so on.

Saunders realized what he had put his younger brother up against, seeing what temptation there was to connive in dishonesty in the furnishing of materials. Disturbed, he asked Alfred frankly if there was graft in the proposition. Alfred, who had always looked up to Saunders, turned on him with sulky resentment.

"You're a great one to pry into my affairs," he retorted, "after you split profits with Donovan, yourself!"

Then the whole thing came out. The aldermen pretending they doubted, after all, that the plans were practicable, had put off signing the contract, until Alfred was beside himself with anxiety. Then Donovan had come into the open and explained that the school for which a hundred thousand had been appropriated, was actually to cost only sixty thousand. If Alfred wanted to be the architect, it would be necessary for him secretly to substitute for the plans publicly displayed, after being accepted as his thesis, a new set of plans calling for inferior materials and construction. The forty thousand dollars thus saved was to be split up among those who were in the ring. Alfred had at first refused, with young indignation, but when Donovan had told him how Saunders had come round, Alfred, disillusioned, had finally capitulated.

Saunders, bitterly regretting his own false step, urged Alfred to give up the whole business, but Alfred, with unexpected stubbornness, said that Saunders's day of authority over him was past. He assured his brother that although the material was scamped and the construction altered to a cheaper form, the building was still fireproof and better than a good many buildings about which nobody made any fuss.