Colonial America
Choose Your Own Path
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Instructions
- Choose your character: Farmer, Indentured Servant, or Native American
- Read each scenario carefully and choose a path.
- Follow your choice to the next scenario and see how your story develops.
- Complete the reflection at the end.
Farmer
Native American
Indentured Servant
Instructions
- Choose your character: Farmer, Indentured Servant, or Native American
- Read each scenario carefully and choose a path.
- Follow your choice to the next scenario and see how your story develops.
- Complete the reflection at the end.
Farmer
Native American
Indentured Servant
Alternative Option
Farmer in the Southern Colonies
Dilemma #1:
Your wife begs you to go to the magistrate and accuse Sarah Good, a poor, disliked woman in the village, of bewitching your daughter. She believes a public accusation is the only way to break the curse. You know Sarah is an easy target, but you have no real proof.
You are a devout Puritan and a father of four. Life is hard. Last year's harvest was poor, and this spring has been unusually cold and wet. Your youngest daughter has been sick with a fever for a week, and your wife is convinced it is the work of witchcraft. Tensions in your community are high; neighbors are accusing each other of all sorts of dark deeds. Your neighbor, a stern man named Giles Corey, has been openly critical of the magistrates leading the witchcraft accusations.
Name: Samuel Pierce Year: 1691
Choice B: Refuse to accuse. You believe in God, not superstitious fears. You will rely on prayer and herbal remedies, and you will not send an innocent woman to her doom based on fear.
Choice A: Accuse Sarah Good. You must protect your family. An accusation might save your daughter and will put your family in good standing with the church leaders.
Outcome: The magistrates praise your piety. Your daughter’s fever breaks the next day (likely a coincidence), which is seen as proof of Sarah’s guilt. Now, the magistrates are pressuring you to name others who might be conspiring with Sarah. They mention that Giles Corey has spoken against the trials and suggest he may be a wizard.
Dilemma #2:
Option B:Claim you know nothing more, risking the magistrates' suspicion turning towards you and your family
Option A: Name Giles Corey to further solidify your family's safety and pious reputation
Outcome: Your wife is terrified and angry, and your neighbors whisper that your lack of action is suspicious. Your daughter’s fever lingers. Giles Corey hears of your refusal and quietly thanks you for your integrity. A week later, he is arrested and accused by others.
Dilemma #2:
Option B: Name Giles Corey to protect your family and demonstrate your piety.
Option A: Speak up for Giles Corey at his trial, testifying to his good character but putting your own family at extreme risk
Outcome: Giles is arrested based on your testimony. The community now looks to you as a pillar of piety, but also with fear. The magistrates reward your service to the court with a favorable ruling in a property dispute, giving you two acres of Giles's former land.
Dilemma #3 Your wife, emboldened and still fearful, now claims another neighbor, Martha, has sent her spirit to torment her at night. Martha is a respected midwife and friend. Do you:
Option A: Support your wife's accusation? You must stand by your wife and continue to root out evil to protect your family's standing and safety.
Option B:Urge caution and silence? You have already condemned one man; you refuse to be the cause of another's ruin, especially a friend's.
Outcome: Your refusal to name others displeases the magistrates. They see your silence not as piety, but as defiance. Whispers spread that you are trying to protect a coven of witches. To test your loyalty and root out any hidden sin, the court demands that you and your wife submit to a public examination of your faith by the town's minister.
Dilemma #3 To test your loyalty and root out any hidden sin, the court demands that you and your wife submit to a public examination of your faith by the town's minister. Do you...
Option A: Agree to the examination. You trust that your family's history of devotion will protect you from the intense, accusatory questioning.
Option B:Refuse the examination. You declare that your faith is a private matter between you and God, not a public spectacle for the court.
Outcome: Martha is arrested. During the trial, she is asked who else works with the Devil. Under duress, she names your wife as a witch. Do you:
Dilemma #4
Option A: Denounce your wife? You save yourself and your children by cutting ties with her, claiming you were fooled by the Devil in your own home.
Option B: Defend your wife? You stand by her, arguing it is a lie born of desperation, but this makes you and your entire family targets of the court.
Outcome: Your wife is furious at your lack of faith. She tells the magistrates you are weak and possibly a sympathizer. They now watch you closely. A public day of fasting is called. Do you:
Option A: Make a show of extreme piety? You pray the loudest and fast the longest, hoping to prove your loyalty beyond doubt.
Option B: Quietly try to move your family away? You sell your farm at a loss and attempt to flee the colony for the relative safety of Connecticut.
Final Resolution
You and your wife are both arrested. You are pressed to confess, and like Giles Corey, you refuse. You are removed from society for practicing witchcraft, and your children become orphans.
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Final Resolution
You survive the trials, but as a broken man who sacrificed his wife to save himself. You keep your land, but you are haunted and ostracized for your ultimate act of betrayal.
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Final Resolution
Your attempt to flee is seen as an admission of guilt. You are captured on the road, brought back, and swiftly condemned as a wizard.
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Final Resolution
Your performance works. You survive the trials, but the community is shattered. You live out your days in Salem, a town full of ghosts and bitter memories.
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Outcome: Your daughter's fever lingered, your neighbors whispered, and Giles Corey was arrested anyway. Your testimony is dismissed, and you are immediately arrested for contempt of court and suspicion of witchcraft. You are thrown into a dark, crowded jail cell.
Dilemma #3 The magistrates offer you a deal: confess to witchcraft. Your life will be spared, though your property will be seized. If you do not confess, you will hang. Do you:
Option A: Falsely confess? You will say anything to live and one day see your children again, even if it means living with a lie.
Option B:Maintain your innocence? You refuse to betray your faith and your soul with a lie, even if it costs you your life.
Outcome: You confess. You are forced to name other "witches." Do you:
Dilemma #4
Option A: Name people you know are already accused? You add to their misery but avoid condemning new innocent people.
Option B: Name people who have wronged you in the past? You use this terrible opportunity to settle old scores.
Outcome: You are sentenced to hang. In your final hours, you are brought before the town to give a final statement from the gallows. This is your last chance to speak.
Dilemma #4
Option A: Forgive your accusers. You speak of God's grace and hope for peace for the town, dying with the piety you lived by.
Option B: Condemn the court and the town. You use your last breath to speak the truth about the madness and injustice that has consumed them.
Final Resolution
You are eventually released from prison when the hysteria ends. You have no property and are branded a confessed witch, an outcast for the rest of your life.
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Final Resolution
Your false testimony leads to more arrests and executions. You survive, but you live with the knowledge that you became a tool of the very evil you opposed, sending innocents to their deaths.
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Final Resolution
You are removed from society. Your angry final words are remembered by many. Your defiance helps fuel the later backlash against the trials, making you a martyr for the truth. By choosing this path, your character's death serves a greater purpose. The action of speaking out, while resulting in your own end, contributes to stopping the wider hysteria and likely saves many other innocent people from suffering the same fate.
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The examination begins. The minister questions you and your wife relentlessly about your prayers, your devotion, and your neighbors. He brings up a time last autumn when you argued with a neighbor over a stray pig. Days later, that neighbor's child fell ill. The minister calls this "a dark providence" and asks what evil you worked upon that family. Your history of devotion means nothing; they are looking for a confession.
Option B: Deny the accusation completely. You state that a simple argument has no connection to a child's illness and that their line of questioning is both illogical and unjust, directly challenging the court's reasoning.
Option A: Confess to the "lesser sin" of anger. You admit that you had un-Christian thoughts about your neighbor, hoping that confessing to a minor sin will appease the court and prove you are repentant, thus avoiding the major accusation of witchcraft.
Final Resolution
Your confession is a fatal mistake. The court does not see your admission of anger as a lesser sin, but as the motive for your witchcraft. They declare that your un-Christian anger allowed the Devil into your heart, and that is how you cursed your neighbor's family. Your attempt to appease them has given them the proof they need. You and your wife are condemned as witches. Your pragmatism fails in a system that has no room for reason.
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Final Resolution
Your appeal to reason is seen as arrogant defiance. By questioning the court's methods, you are questioning their divine authority. Your logical defense is dismissed as the clever words of a witch trying to trick the godly. They declare that your pride and refusal to show remorse are the ultimate proof of your guilt. You and your wife are condemned, not by evidence, but for daring to challenge the madness with logic. Your reason is no match for their fear.
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Indentured Servant in Virgina
Dilemma #1:
Another servant, a man named Daniel, tells you he can't wait any longer. He has a plan to run away tonight and head for the western frontier where the colonial government's reach is weak. He asks you to come with him. The risk is enormous—if you are caught, you will be whipped and have years added to your service. But the reward is freedom. What do you do?
You sold seven years of your life for passage to the New World. You are in Virginia, with two years left on your indenture, and they are the hardest yet. The work in the tobacco fields is back-breaking, the food is meager, and the overseer is cruel. You dream of the day you will be free and receive your "freedom dues"—a suit of clothes, some corn, and perhaps a small plot of land.
Name: Thomas FinnYear: 1720
Choice B: Stay and serve your time. It is safer to endure than to risk everything.
Choice A: Run away with Daniel. The reward is worth the risk.
Outcome: You and Daniel successfully slip away into the woods. After two days of traveling, you hear the baying of hounds behind you. The slave patrol, often used to catch runaway servants, is closing in. Daniel wants to split up to improve your chances.
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Stick together with Daniel, believing you are stronger as a pair.
Option B: Split up as he suggests, hoping one of you makes it to freedom.
Outcome: Daniel runs away alone. The next morning, the overseer is furious and needs someone to blame. He knows you were Daniel's friend, so he singles you out in front of the other servants. He accuses you of stealing a sack of corn to help Daniel escape. What do you do?
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Falsely confess. You know the overseer just wants a confession. Lying might spare you a severe beating, even if it means a lesser punishment.
Option B:Maintain your innocence. You refuse to confess to a crime you didn't commit, even though you know the overseer will make an example of you with the whip.
Outcome: Whether you confessed to helping Daniel or maintained your innocence, the result is the same. Your service is extended, you are brutally punished, and you are now marked as a troublemaker, given the worst tasks and poorest rations
Dilemma #3 Weeks later, filled with resentment, you overhear a plot by other servants to burn a tobacco barn. Do you:
Option A: Report the plot to the overseer to prove your loyalty and escape your pariah status.
Option B:Join the plot, seeing destruction as your only path to revenge.
You report the plot. The barn is saved, and the plotters are punished severely. You have earned the overseer's trust and are given better food, but the other servants now despise you as a traitor. Your life is easier, but you are completely alone. The overseer, seeing you as his tool, now wants you to incite a fight with another servant so he has an excuse to sell him. Do you:
Dilemma #4
Option A: Obey and start the fight, cementing your role as the overseer's pawn.
Option B: Refuse to go that far, drawing a moral line you will not cross.
You join the plot. As the night of the fire arrives, the conspirators look to you. Your anger is well-known, and they see you as a key part of the plan
Dilemma #4
Option A: Take a lead role, being the one to actually light the fire.
Option B: Act only as a lookout, taking a less risky part in the plan.
Your defiance earns you a vicious whipping that leaves you scarred and weak. You are sent to work clearing a new, dangerous field at the edge of the property, isolated from the others. An older, enslaved man working nearby sees your suffering and offers you a hidden herbal remedy for your wounds.
Dilemma #4
Option B: Refuse his help, trusting no one in this brutal world but yourself.
Option A: Accept his help, forming a quiet bond of trust
Outcome: Whether you stuck together or split up, the wilderness is unforgiving and the patrols are skilled. Your escape attempt fails. You are caught, dragged back to the plantation, and brought before the furious master.
Dilemma #3 The master declares you will be punished to set an example. Do you:
Option A: Beg for mercy, promising to be the most obedient servant imaginable.
Option B:Remain defiant, showing no remorse for your actions.
Your begging works, slightly. You are spared the whip but are assigned to humiliating work in the master's house. The master's wife, a devout woman, notices you and offers to teach you to read from the Bible.
Dilemma #4
Option A: Humbly accept her offer. Knowledge may be a key to a better future, even if it comes from your captors.
Option B: Refuse the offer. You distrust any "kindness" from the people who own you and see it as a trick.
Outcome: You learn to read and write. This secret knowledge gives you a sense of power you've never felt before. You see two potential paths this new skill opens up for you
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Forge a Pass. You can write a document claiming you are a freeman traveling on business, allowing you to walk away in broad daylight.
Option B:Manage the books. You can reveal your skill to the master, making yourself too valuable for fieldwork and gaining a position of trust within the system.
Final Resolution
You chose to work within the system. You reveal your skill and the master, seeing your value, makes you his clerk. You are no longer sent to the fields, you are not whipped, and you eat better food. You survive your indenture and are eventually freed, but you have done so by helping to manage and uphold the brutal system that oppresses others. You have your freedom, but your soul is heavy.
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Final Resolution
You chose to work within the system. You reveal your skill and the master, seeing your value, makes you his clerk. You are no longer sent to the fields, you are not whipped, and you eat better food. You survive your indenture and are eventually freed, but you have done so by helping to manage and uphold the brutal system that oppresses others. You have your freedom, but your soul is heavy.
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Final Resolution
You chose to work within the system. You gain a position of minor authority as a junior overseer. You are no longer whipped, and you eat better food. You survive your indenture and are eventually freed, but you have done so by helping to uphold the brutal system that oppresses others. You have your freedom, but your soul is heavy.
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Final Resolution
Your usefulness as an informant is over. By refusing a direct order, you have shown the overseer you can't be controlled. As punishment for your defiance—and to turn a profit—your master sells your remaining time to a rice plantation in South Carolina. You are sent south in chains, to a place of legendary cruelty and disease, a fate that many consider worse than death.
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Final Resolution
The fire is set, but the plot is discovered. While your lesser role as a lookout spares you from execution, you are still found guilty of conspiracy. As punishment for your defiance—and to turn a profit—your master sells your remaining time to a rice plantation in South Carolina. You are sent south in chains, to a place of legendary cruelty and disease, a fate that many consider worse than death.
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Final Resolution
You decided to trust no one, but that choice left you completely isolated. Without any help or friendship, your last spark of hope dies out. The endless, back-breaking work and the daily cruelty of being a servant wear you down. You stop dreaming of escape and just try to get through each day. Years later, you die on the plantation, just another nameless servant who never got to taste freedom.
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Final Resolution
Your gamble with the forged pass pays off. You bravely walk away from the plantation in broad daylight, and your document holds up under the scrutiny of a patrol. You make your way to a northern city like Philadelphia, where you disappear into the bustling crowds, a free person at last. Your future is uncertain and will be difficult, but for the first time, it is your own.
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Lenape Trader in PA
Dilemma #1:
A British agent comes to your village, offering 20 high-quality muskets if you agree to fight with them against the French. Soon after, a French trader makes a similar offer, but also promises to respect your hunting grounds, as the French are more interested in trade than farming.
Your people, the Lenape, have lived on this land in Pennsylvania for generations. You have always had a peaceful relationship with the followers of William Penn. But now, new colonists are arriving who do not respect the old agreements and are clearing your hunting grounds for farms. Tensions are also rising between the two great European powers, the British and the French. Both sides are trying to secure Native American allies for a coming war, offering muskets and iron tools in exchange for loyalty.
Name:Tamanend Year: 1691
Choice B: Ally with the French. They seem to have more respect for your way of life.
Choice A: Ally with the British. Their settlements are the biggest threat; fighting for them might secure your land claims.
Outcome: You and your warriors join a British colonial militia. However, the British commander treats you and your men as scouts, not as equals, and dismisses your knowledge of the land. He orders you to lead an attack on a small village of the Shawnee, who are allied with the French. You have traded with these people before.
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Obey the commander's orders and attack the Shawnee village, proving your loyalty to your new allies.
Option B:Refuse to attack a fellow Native people, risking being branded a traitor by the British.
Outcome: Your warriors join a French-led war party. The French officer respects your skills in forest warfare. Your first mission is to ambush a British supply convoy on a road cut through the forest. The attack will be swift and brutal.
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Participate fully in the ambush, knowing it will make you a permanent and hated enemy of the powerful British colonists living nearby.
Option B:Pull your warriors back after the initial attack, showing support but trying not to provoke a massive retaliation against your home village.
Outcome: After your success in your first major mission, your commander sees you as a valuable strategic asset. You have proven yourself to be either ruthless, principled, aggressive, or cautious.
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: After your successful attack on the Shawnee village, the British commander sees you as a valuable and ruthless asset. You have proven your loyalty without question. .
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: After your successful attack on the Shawnee village, the British commander sees you as a valuable and ruthless asset. You have proven your loyalty without question. .
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: After your successful participation in the ambush, your commander sees you as a valuable strategic asset. You have proven yourself to be effective and cautious.
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: Your French commander sees your action not as weakness, but as a sign of a leader who thinks about the long-term survival of his people. This makes you a valuable strategic mind, earning you a seat at the high-level war council.
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: Your refusal to attack the Shawnee infuriates the British commander. He sees your principles not as honor, but as a betrayal. In his eyes, you are an unreliable weapon that will not do as it's told. He declares that if you will not fight his enemies, then you are no friend of the British.
Dilemma #3 He gives you a harsh ultimatum.
Option A: Submit to a "loyalty test." To prove you are not a spy, you must lead your warriors on a near-suicidal scouting mission deep into French-held territory, alone and without British support.
Option B:Break the alliance. You stand by your principles, return the muskets the British gave you, and lead your people back into the wilderness, now enemies to both the British and the French.
What do you do about this shift in your people's focus?
Your aggressive strategy leads to many victories. You are hailed as a great warrior, and your people benefit from the spoils of war, gaining many European goods, tools, and even clothing from captured convoys and forts. However, the constant warfare and easy access to these new possessions begin to change your people. They are becoming more focused on material wealth and less on traditional practices and hunting, which worries the elders.
Dilemma #4
Option A: Encourage the use of new goods to adapt and strengthen your people in this changing world.
Option B: Emphasize traditional ways and discourage excessive reliance on European goods, even if it means sacrificing some immediate benefits.
What do you do about this shift in your people's focus?
Your calls for peace are noted, but your commander says that to negotiate from a position of strength, you must lead one more critical raid against an enemy supply depot. How do you conduct the raid?
Dilemma #4
Option A: An Honorable Attack. You focus only on the soldiers, sparing the civilian workers at the depot.
Option B: A Brutal Attack. You attack everyone to leave no witnesses and send a fearsome message.
Final Resolution
Your loyalty test becomes your final act. The scouting mission is indeed incredibly dangerous. Deep in French territory, you and your warriors are ambushed. Without British support, you are completely overwhelmed. Your people lose a brave leader, and the British learn nothing. Your attempt to prove your loyalty results only in your tragic demise, a warning that in war, trust is a rare commodity.
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You throw the British muskets at the commander's feet and lead your people back into the forest. You have kept your honor, but you are now truly alone. The British consider you traitors. The French and their allies, including the Shawnee you spared, still see you as enemies who sided with the British. Winter is approaching, and your lands have become a warpath. Your people's survival is on the line. What is your plan?
Dilemma #4
Option A: Send an envoy to the Shawnee. You will travel to their village under a flag of truce, offer them the story of your defiance as proof of your change of heart, and ask to join them against the British, hoping your refusal to attack them has earned their respect.
Option B: Lead your people on a great migration west. You will abandon your ancestral lands entirely and travel over the Appalachian Mountains, hoping to find a new, peaceful home far from the white man's war, even if it means entering the territory of unknown tribes.
Final Resolution
You encouraged your people to adapt, and they become excellent traders, known for their European clothes and iron tools. However, in focusing so much on these new goods, they begin to forget the old ways. Traditional hunting skills fade, and they become completely dependent on European muskets and supplies. When the war ends and the British demand your land, you declare war to defend it. But your warriors are now more like traders than fighters. Their muskets break, and they have few traditional skills to fall back on. After a short, brutal conflict, your village is destroyed, and the survivors are scattered, forced to live as refugees.
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Final Resolution
You emphasize traditional skills, and while your people use European weapons, they do not become dependent on them. Your warriors remain disciplined hunters and fighters. When the war ends and the British demand your land, they find you are not a broken people. Your fame as a fierce and effective warrior is legendary. The British, knowing a war with your people would be costly, treat you with respect. In the peace treaty, they grant your people significant territory and favorable trade rights. You have won a future for your people through strength and discipline.
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Final Resolution
The war eventually ends with a British victory. They know you as a wise and honorable leader who sought peace but fought effectively. Because you spared their civilians, they see you as a man of principle. They treat you with respect in the peace council, and you successfully negotiate to protect your people's most sacred lands. You have saved your community from destruction through diplomacy and honor.
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Final Resolution
The war eventually ends with a British victory. They know you as a leader who spoke of peace but acted with extreme brutality. Seeing you as untrustworthy and hypocritical, they ignore your requests for negotiation. They force a harsh treaty on you that takes most of your land and leaves your people with almost nothing. Your decision to be ruthless in the final moments has cost your people everything you hoped to save.
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Option AAgree to leave your own son behind as a hostage. Your son will live with the Shawnee to guarantee your people's loyalty. This is a powerful, peaceful symbol of trust.
Option B:Agree to lead an immediate attack on a British patrol. You must spill the blood of your former allies to prove you have truly turned against them. This is an undeniable act of war.
Outcome: You and your envoy travel under a flag of truce to the Shawnee village. The reception is icy. They are warriors, and they remember you were allied with their enemies, the British. You are brought before their war chief and council of elders. You explain your story, how you defied the British commander and refused to attack them. The chief listens, his face like stone. He says, "Words are wind. Your defiance saved our village, but you still carry the scent of the British. We require a greater sign of your new loyalty."
Option AApproach with open hands. You will walk into their village as refugees, explain your plight, and place yourselves at their mercy, hoping for compassion. This is a plea for help.
Option B:Attempt to steal supplies. Under the cover of a winter storm, you will try to steal enough food and supplies to continue your journey. This is a desperate gamble to survive.
Outcome: That choice to abandon everything for the unknown leads to a final, desperate dilemma that will determine the ultimate fate of your people. How do you approach these strangers? The journey over the Appalachian Mountains is grueling. Many of your people are lost to sickness, starvation, and the harsh winter. Finally, on the verge of collapse, your scouts find a large, well-stocked village belonging to a powerful western tribe you do not know. Your people are too weak to fight and too hungry to continue on their own. This is your last chance
Final Resolution
Your profound sacrifice convinces the Shawnee chief of your honor. He accepts your son into his own family, and an unbreakable bond is formed between your peoples. The Lenape and Shawnee fight as one, mounting a fierce resistance. When the war eventually ends with a British victory, your combined tribes are too strong to be simply wiped out. The British are forced to negotiate with your joint council. While you must give up some land, you successfully secure a large, protected territory for your united peoples to live in. You have saved your people from destruction, but you have paid a heavy price. Your son grows up as a Shawnee, and you live out your days as a respected leader who sacrificed his own family for the survival of his tribe.
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Final Resolution
Your attack on the British patrol is swift and brutal. The Shawnee see the blood of your former allies and are convinced—you are now a proven brother in arms. The Lenape and Shawnee fight as one, mounting a fierce resistance. When the war eventually ends with a British victory, your combined tribes are too strong to be ignored. The British, who now know you as a ruthless turncoat, negotiate not out of respect, but out of fear. You successfully secure a territory for your united peoples, but you are known as a dangerous leader who will do anything to survive. You have saved your people, but you sacrificed your honor to do it.
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Final Resolution
After you approach with open hands, the western tribe, witnessing your people's desperate state, takes pity on you. They offer your weary and starving people refuge, providing food, shelter, and warmth. While your people slowly recover, you spend weeks negotiating with the tribal elders. You explain your traditions, your history, and your hopes for a new beginning. They are impressed by your honesty and resilience. In a remarkable act of generosity, they offer your people a portion of their vast hunting grounds to settle permanently. You agree to live in peace and share resources, forging a new alliance. Your tribe finds a new home and a powerful ally, and you are hailed as a wise leader who saved his people through diplomacy and trust.
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Final Resolution
Your desperate gamble fails. The warriors of the western tribe are skilled hunters and trackers, and they easily detect your small raiding party in the storm. They see you not as desperate refugees, but as thieves encroaching on their territory. There is no mercy. In a swift and brutal confrontation, you and your remaining people are wiped out. Your long journey to find a new, peaceful home ends in a strange land, a victim not of the Europeans you fled, but of the desperation their war had forced upon you.
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Tamanend
As you guide Tamanend, be aware that this story deals with challenging historical themes, including:
- The violence of warfare includes raids on villages and military ambushes.
- Forced displacement, exploring what it means to be driven from your ancestral lands.
- Impossible choices that involve betraying allies or going against your own principles to survive.
- Potential outcomes that include the destruction of a village and the scattering of a tribe.
- This journey explores the difficult reality faced by Native American tribes who were caught in the middle of European conflicts and fought to protect their culture and existence.
Thomas Finn
You will experience the harsh reality of unfree labor, where life is cheap and hope is running low. The story begins with a desperate choice: endure the last few years of brutal servitude, or risk your life on a dangerous escape to the frontier.
- As you guide Thomas, be aware that this story deals with mature themes, including:
- The threat and reality of harsh physical punishment (whipping).
- Difficult moral choices, like betraying fellow servants to save yourself.
- Participation in violent plots for revenge.
- Potential outcomes that include being sold into even worse conditions or execution.
Samuel Pierce
You will step into a community gripped by intense fear and suspicion. The story begins with a sick child and the difficult choice of whether to blame witchcraft. As you make decisions for Samuel, be aware that this story explores challenging themes, including:
- Intense community and religious pressure.
- Making accusations against others without proof.
- Difficult choices involving the betrayal of friends and family.
- Potential outcomes that include imprisonment and the threat of execution.
Tamanend
As you guide Tamanend, be aware that this story deals with challenging historical themes, including:
- The violence of warfare includes raids on villages and military ambushes.
- Forced displacement, exploring what it means to be driven from your ancestral lands.
- Impossible choices that involve betraying allies or going against your own principles to survive.
- Potential outcomes that include the destruction of a village and the scattering of a tribe.
- This journey explores the difficult reality faced by Native American tribes who were caught in the middle of European conflicts and fought to protect their culture and existence.
Thomas Finn
You will experience the harsh reality of unfree labor, where life is cheap and hope is running low. The story begins with a desperate choice: endure the last few years of brutal servitude, or risk your life on a dangerous escape to the frontier.
- As you guide Thomas, be aware that this story deals with mature themes, including:
- The threat and reality of harsh physical punishment (whipping).
- Difficult moral choices, like betraying fellow servants to save yourself.
- Participation in violent plots for revenge.
- Potential outcomes that include being sold into even worse conditions or execution.
Samuel Pierce
You will step into a community gripped by intense fear and suspicion. The story begins with a sick child and the difficult choice of whether to blame witchcraft. As you make decisions for Samuel, be aware that this story explores challenging themes, including:
- Intense community and religious pressure.
- Making accusations against others without proof.
- Difficult choices involving the betrayal of friends and family.
- Potential outcomes that include imprisonment and the threat of execution.
Colonial America
Alicia Derr
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Colonial America
Choose Your Own Path
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Farmer
Native American
Indentured Servant
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Farmer
Native American
Indentured Servant
Alternative Option
Farmer in the Southern Colonies
Dilemma #1:
Your wife begs you to go to the magistrate and accuse Sarah Good, a poor, disliked woman in the village, of bewitching your daughter. She believes a public accusation is the only way to break the curse. You know Sarah is an easy target, but you have no real proof.
You are a devout Puritan and a father of four. Life is hard. Last year's harvest was poor, and this spring has been unusually cold and wet. Your youngest daughter has been sick with a fever for a week, and your wife is convinced it is the work of witchcraft. Tensions in your community are high; neighbors are accusing each other of all sorts of dark deeds. Your neighbor, a stern man named Giles Corey, has been openly critical of the magistrates leading the witchcraft accusations.
Name: Samuel Pierce Year: 1691
Choice B: Refuse to accuse. You believe in God, not superstitious fears. You will rely on prayer and herbal remedies, and you will not send an innocent woman to her doom based on fear.
Choice A: Accuse Sarah Good. You must protect your family. An accusation might save your daughter and will put your family in good standing with the church leaders.
Outcome: The magistrates praise your piety. Your daughter’s fever breaks the next day (likely a coincidence), which is seen as proof of Sarah’s guilt. Now, the magistrates are pressuring you to name others who might be conspiring with Sarah. They mention that Giles Corey has spoken against the trials and suggest he may be a wizard.
Dilemma #2:
Option B:Claim you know nothing more, risking the magistrates' suspicion turning towards you and your family
Option A: Name Giles Corey to further solidify your family's safety and pious reputation
Outcome: Your wife is terrified and angry, and your neighbors whisper that your lack of action is suspicious. Your daughter’s fever lingers. Giles Corey hears of your refusal and quietly thanks you for your integrity. A week later, he is arrested and accused by others.
Dilemma #2:
Option B: Name Giles Corey to protect your family and demonstrate your piety.
Option A: Speak up for Giles Corey at his trial, testifying to his good character but putting your own family at extreme risk
Outcome: Giles is arrested based on your testimony. The community now looks to you as a pillar of piety, but also with fear. The magistrates reward your service to the court with a favorable ruling in a property dispute, giving you two acres of Giles's former land.
Dilemma #3 Your wife, emboldened and still fearful, now claims another neighbor, Martha, has sent her spirit to torment her at night. Martha is a respected midwife and friend. Do you:
Option A: Support your wife's accusation? You must stand by your wife and continue to root out evil to protect your family's standing and safety.
Option B:Urge caution and silence? You have already condemned one man; you refuse to be the cause of another's ruin, especially a friend's.
Outcome: Your refusal to name others displeases the magistrates. They see your silence not as piety, but as defiance. Whispers spread that you are trying to protect a coven of witches. To test your loyalty and root out any hidden sin, the court demands that you and your wife submit to a public examination of your faith by the town's minister.
Dilemma #3 To test your loyalty and root out any hidden sin, the court demands that you and your wife submit to a public examination of your faith by the town's minister. Do you...
Option A: Agree to the examination. You trust that your family's history of devotion will protect you from the intense, accusatory questioning.
Option B:Refuse the examination. You declare that your faith is a private matter between you and God, not a public spectacle for the court.
Outcome: Martha is arrested. During the trial, she is asked who else works with the Devil. Under duress, she names your wife as a witch. Do you:
Dilemma #4
Option A: Denounce your wife? You save yourself and your children by cutting ties with her, claiming you were fooled by the Devil in your own home.
Option B: Defend your wife? You stand by her, arguing it is a lie born of desperation, but this makes you and your entire family targets of the court.
Outcome: Your wife is furious at your lack of faith. She tells the magistrates you are weak and possibly a sympathizer. They now watch you closely. A public day of fasting is called. Do you:
Option A: Make a show of extreme piety? You pray the loudest and fast the longest, hoping to prove your loyalty beyond doubt.
Option B: Quietly try to move your family away? You sell your farm at a loss and attempt to flee the colony for the relative safety of Connecticut.
Final Resolution
You and your wife are both arrested. You are pressed to confess, and like Giles Corey, you refuse. You are removed from society for practicing witchcraft, and your children become orphans.
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Final Resolution
You survive the trials, but as a broken man who sacrificed his wife to save himself. You keep your land, but you are haunted and ostracized for your ultimate act of betrayal.
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Final Resolution
Your attempt to flee is seen as an admission of guilt. You are captured on the road, brought back, and swiftly condemned as a wizard.
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Final Resolution
Your performance works. You survive the trials, but the community is shattered. You live out your days in Salem, a town full of ghosts and bitter memories.
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Outcome: Your daughter's fever lingered, your neighbors whispered, and Giles Corey was arrested anyway. Your testimony is dismissed, and you are immediately arrested for contempt of court and suspicion of witchcraft. You are thrown into a dark, crowded jail cell.
Dilemma #3 The magistrates offer you a deal: confess to witchcraft. Your life will be spared, though your property will be seized. If you do not confess, you will hang. Do you:
Option A: Falsely confess? You will say anything to live and one day see your children again, even if it means living with a lie.
Option B:Maintain your innocence? You refuse to betray your faith and your soul with a lie, even if it costs you your life.
Outcome: You confess. You are forced to name other "witches." Do you:
Dilemma #4
Option A: Name people you know are already accused? You add to their misery but avoid condemning new innocent people.
Option B: Name people who have wronged you in the past? You use this terrible opportunity to settle old scores.
Outcome: You are sentenced to hang. In your final hours, you are brought before the town to give a final statement from the gallows. This is your last chance to speak.
Dilemma #4
Option A: Forgive your accusers. You speak of God's grace and hope for peace for the town, dying with the piety you lived by.
Option B: Condemn the court and the town. You use your last breath to speak the truth about the madness and injustice that has consumed them.
Final Resolution
You are eventually released from prison when the hysteria ends. You have no property and are branded a confessed witch, an outcast for the rest of your life.
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Final Resolution
Your false testimony leads to more arrests and executions. You survive, but you live with the knowledge that you became a tool of the very evil you opposed, sending innocents to their deaths.
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Final Resolution
You are removed from society. Your angry final words are remembered by many. Your defiance helps fuel the later backlash against the trials, making you a martyr for the truth. By choosing this path, your character's death serves a greater purpose. The action of speaking out, while resulting in your own end, contributes to stopping the wider hysteria and likely saves many other innocent people from suffering the same fate.
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The examination begins. The minister questions you and your wife relentlessly about your prayers, your devotion, and your neighbors. He brings up a time last autumn when you argued with a neighbor over a stray pig. Days later, that neighbor's child fell ill. The minister calls this "a dark providence" and asks what evil you worked upon that family. Your history of devotion means nothing; they are looking for a confession.
Option B: Deny the accusation completely. You state that a simple argument has no connection to a child's illness and that their line of questioning is both illogical and unjust, directly challenging the court's reasoning.
Option A: Confess to the "lesser sin" of anger. You admit that you had un-Christian thoughts about your neighbor, hoping that confessing to a minor sin will appease the court and prove you are repentant, thus avoiding the major accusation of witchcraft.
Final Resolution
Your confession is a fatal mistake. The court does not see your admission of anger as a lesser sin, but as the motive for your witchcraft. They declare that your un-Christian anger allowed the Devil into your heart, and that is how you cursed your neighbor's family. Your attempt to appease them has given them the proof they need. You and your wife are condemned as witches. Your pragmatism fails in a system that has no room for reason.
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Final Resolution
Your appeal to reason is seen as arrogant defiance. By questioning the court's methods, you are questioning their divine authority. Your logical defense is dismissed as the clever words of a witch trying to trick the godly. They declare that your pride and refusal to show remorse are the ultimate proof of your guilt. You and your wife are condemned, not by evidence, but for daring to challenge the madness with logic. Your reason is no match for their fear.
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Indentured Servant in Virgina
Dilemma #1:
Another servant, a man named Daniel, tells you he can't wait any longer. He has a plan to run away tonight and head for the western frontier where the colonial government's reach is weak. He asks you to come with him. The risk is enormous—if you are caught, you will be whipped and have years added to your service. But the reward is freedom. What do you do?
You sold seven years of your life for passage to the New World. You are in Virginia, with two years left on your indenture, and they are the hardest yet. The work in the tobacco fields is back-breaking, the food is meager, and the overseer is cruel. You dream of the day you will be free and receive your "freedom dues"—a suit of clothes, some corn, and perhaps a small plot of land.
Name: Thomas FinnYear: 1720
Choice B: Stay and serve your time. It is safer to endure than to risk everything.
Choice A: Run away with Daniel. The reward is worth the risk.
Outcome: You and Daniel successfully slip away into the woods. After two days of traveling, you hear the baying of hounds behind you. The slave patrol, often used to catch runaway servants, is closing in. Daniel wants to split up to improve your chances.
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Stick together with Daniel, believing you are stronger as a pair.
Option B: Split up as he suggests, hoping one of you makes it to freedom.
Outcome: Daniel runs away alone. The next morning, the overseer is furious and needs someone to blame. He knows you were Daniel's friend, so he singles you out in front of the other servants. He accuses you of stealing a sack of corn to help Daniel escape. What do you do?
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Falsely confess. You know the overseer just wants a confession. Lying might spare you a severe beating, even if it means a lesser punishment.
Option B:Maintain your innocence. You refuse to confess to a crime you didn't commit, even though you know the overseer will make an example of you with the whip.
Outcome: Whether you confessed to helping Daniel or maintained your innocence, the result is the same. Your service is extended, you are brutally punished, and you are now marked as a troublemaker, given the worst tasks and poorest rations
Dilemma #3 Weeks later, filled with resentment, you overhear a plot by other servants to burn a tobacco barn. Do you:
Option A: Report the plot to the overseer to prove your loyalty and escape your pariah status.
Option B:Join the plot, seeing destruction as your only path to revenge.
You report the plot. The barn is saved, and the plotters are punished severely. You have earned the overseer's trust and are given better food, but the other servants now despise you as a traitor. Your life is easier, but you are completely alone. The overseer, seeing you as his tool, now wants you to incite a fight with another servant so he has an excuse to sell him. Do you:
Dilemma #4
Option A: Obey and start the fight, cementing your role as the overseer's pawn.
Option B: Refuse to go that far, drawing a moral line you will not cross.
You join the plot. As the night of the fire arrives, the conspirators look to you. Your anger is well-known, and they see you as a key part of the plan
Dilemma #4
Option A: Take a lead role, being the one to actually light the fire.
Option B: Act only as a lookout, taking a less risky part in the plan.
Your defiance earns you a vicious whipping that leaves you scarred and weak. You are sent to work clearing a new, dangerous field at the edge of the property, isolated from the others. An older, enslaved man working nearby sees your suffering and offers you a hidden herbal remedy for your wounds.
Dilemma #4
Option B: Refuse his help, trusting no one in this brutal world but yourself.
Option A: Accept his help, forming a quiet bond of trust
Outcome: Whether you stuck together or split up, the wilderness is unforgiving and the patrols are skilled. Your escape attempt fails. You are caught, dragged back to the plantation, and brought before the furious master.
Dilemma #3 The master declares you will be punished to set an example. Do you:
Option A: Beg for mercy, promising to be the most obedient servant imaginable.
Option B:Remain defiant, showing no remorse for your actions.
Your begging works, slightly. You are spared the whip but are assigned to humiliating work in the master's house. The master's wife, a devout woman, notices you and offers to teach you to read from the Bible.
Dilemma #4
Option A: Humbly accept her offer. Knowledge may be a key to a better future, even if it comes from your captors.
Option B: Refuse the offer. You distrust any "kindness" from the people who own you and see it as a trick.
Outcome: You learn to read and write. This secret knowledge gives you a sense of power you've never felt before. You see two potential paths this new skill opens up for you
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Forge a Pass. You can write a document claiming you are a freeman traveling on business, allowing you to walk away in broad daylight.
Option B:Manage the books. You can reveal your skill to the master, making yourself too valuable for fieldwork and gaining a position of trust within the system.
Final Resolution
You chose to work within the system. You reveal your skill and the master, seeing your value, makes you his clerk. You are no longer sent to the fields, you are not whipped, and you eat better food. You survive your indenture and are eventually freed, but you have done so by helping to manage and uphold the brutal system that oppresses others. You have your freedom, but your soul is heavy.
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Final Resolution
You chose to work within the system. You reveal your skill and the master, seeing your value, makes you his clerk. You are no longer sent to the fields, you are not whipped, and you eat better food. You survive your indenture and are eventually freed, but you have done so by helping to manage and uphold the brutal system that oppresses others. You have your freedom, but your soul is heavy.
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Final Resolution
You chose to work within the system. You gain a position of minor authority as a junior overseer. You are no longer whipped, and you eat better food. You survive your indenture and are eventually freed, but you have done so by helping to uphold the brutal system that oppresses others. You have your freedom, but your soul is heavy.
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Final Resolution
Your usefulness as an informant is over. By refusing a direct order, you have shown the overseer you can't be controlled. As punishment for your defiance—and to turn a profit—your master sells your remaining time to a rice plantation in South Carolina. You are sent south in chains, to a place of legendary cruelty and disease, a fate that many consider worse than death.
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Final Resolution
The fire is set, but the plot is discovered. While your lesser role as a lookout spares you from execution, you are still found guilty of conspiracy. As punishment for your defiance—and to turn a profit—your master sells your remaining time to a rice plantation in South Carolina. You are sent south in chains, to a place of legendary cruelty and disease, a fate that many consider worse than death.
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Final Resolution
You decided to trust no one, but that choice left you completely isolated. Without any help or friendship, your last spark of hope dies out. The endless, back-breaking work and the daily cruelty of being a servant wear you down. You stop dreaming of escape and just try to get through each day. Years later, you die on the plantation, just another nameless servant who never got to taste freedom.
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Final Resolution
Your gamble with the forged pass pays off. You bravely walk away from the plantation in broad daylight, and your document holds up under the scrutiny of a patrol. You make your way to a northern city like Philadelphia, where you disappear into the bustling crowds, a free person at last. Your future is uncertain and will be difficult, but for the first time, it is your own.
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Lenape Trader in PA
Dilemma #1:
A British agent comes to your village, offering 20 high-quality muskets if you agree to fight with them against the French. Soon after, a French trader makes a similar offer, but also promises to respect your hunting grounds, as the French are more interested in trade than farming.
Your people, the Lenape, have lived on this land in Pennsylvania for generations. You have always had a peaceful relationship with the followers of William Penn. But now, new colonists are arriving who do not respect the old agreements and are clearing your hunting grounds for farms. Tensions are also rising between the two great European powers, the British and the French. Both sides are trying to secure Native American allies for a coming war, offering muskets and iron tools in exchange for loyalty.
Name:Tamanend Year: 1691
Choice B: Ally with the French. They seem to have more respect for your way of life.
Choice A: Ally with the British. Their settlements are the biggest threat; fighting for them might secure your land claims.
Outcome: You and your warriors join a British colonial militia. However, the British commander treats you and your men as scouts, not as equals, and dismisses your knowledge of the land. He orders you to lead an attack on a small village of the Shawnee, who are allied with the French. You have traded with these people before.
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Obey the commander's orders and attack the Shawnee village, proving your loyalty to your new allies.
Option B:Refuse to attack a fellow Native people, risking being branded a traitor by the British.
Outcome: Your warriors join a French-led war party. The French officer respects your skills in forest warfare. Your first mission is to ambush a British supply convoy on a road cut through the forest. The attack will be swift and brutal.
Dilemma #2:
Option A: Participate fully in the ambush, knowing it will make you a permanent and hated enemy of the powerful British colonists living nearby.
Option B:Pull your warriors back after the initial attack, showing support but trying not to provoke a massive retaliation against your home village.
Outcome: After your success in your first major mission, your commander sees you as a valuable strategic asset. You have proven yourself to be either ruthless, principled, aggressive, or cautious.
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: After your successful attack on the Shawnee village, the British commander sees you as a valuable and ruthless asset. You have proven your loyalty without question. .
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: After your successful attack on the Shawnee village, the British commander sees you as a valuable and ruthless asset. You have proven your loyalty without question. .
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: After your successful participation in the ambush, your commander sees you as a valuable strategic asset. You have proven yourself to be effective and cautious.
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: Your French commander sees your action not as weakness, but as a sign of a leader who thinks about the long-term survival of his people. This makes you a valuable strategic mind, earning you a seat at the high-level war council.
Dilemma #3 You are now invited to a war council to help plan the next phase of the war. Your reputation precedes you. What is your grand strategy?
Option A: Advise Aggression. Argue that now is the time to press the attack and drive the enemy from the Ohio Valley for good.
Option B:Advise Caution. Argue that your recent victory should be used as leverage to negotiate a lasting peace that secures your people's land rights.
Outcome: Your refusal to attack the Shawnee infuriates the British commander. He sees your principles not as honor, but as a betrayal. In his eyes, you are an unreliable weapon that will not do as it's told. He declares that if you will not fight his enemies, then you are no friend of the British.
Dilemma #3 He gives you a harsh ultimatum.
Option A: Submit to a "loyalty test." To prove you are not a spy, you must lead your warriors on a near-suicidal scouting mission deep into French-held territory, alone and without British support.
Option B:Break the alliance. You stand by your principles, return the muskets the British gave you, and lead your people back into the wilderness, now enemies to both the British and the French.
What do you do about this shift in your people's focus?
Your aggressive strategy leads to many victories. You are hailed as a great warrior, and your people benefit from the spoils of war, gaining many European goods, tools, and even clothing from captured convoys and forts. However, the constant warfare and easy access to these new possessions begin to change your people. They are becoming more focused on material wealth and less on traditional practices and hunting, which worries the elders.
Dilemma #4
Option A: Encourage the use of new goods to adapt and strengthen your people in this changing world.
Option B: Emphasize traditional ways and discourage excessive reliance on European goods, even if it means sacrificing some immediate benefits.
What do you do about this shift in your people's focus?
Your calls for peace are noted, but your commander says that to negotiate from a position of strength, you must lead one more critical raid against an enemy supply depot. How do you conduct the raid?
Dilemma #4
Option A: An Honorable Attack. You focus only on the soldiers, sparing the civilian workers at the depot.
Option B: A Brutal Attack. You attack everyone to leave no witnesses and send a fearsome message.
Final Resolution
Your loyalty test becomes your final act. The scouting mission is indeed incredibly dangerous. Deep in French territory, you and your warriors are ambushed. Without British support, you are completely overwhelmed. Your people lose a brave leader, and the British learn nothing. Your attempt to prove your loyalty results only in your tragic demise, a warning that in war, trust is a rare commodity.
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You throw the British muskets at the commander's feet and lead your people back into the forest. You have kept your honor, but you are now truly alone. The British consider you traitors. The French and their allies, including the Shawnee you spared, still see you as enemies who sided with the British. Winter is approaching, and your lands have become a warpath. Your people's survival is on the line. What is your plan?
Dilemma #4
Option A: Send an envoy to the Shawnee. You will travel to their village under a flag of truce, offer them the story of your defiance as proof of your change of heart, and ask to join them against the British, hoping your refusal to attack them has earned their respect.
Option B: Lead your people on a great migration west. You will abandon your ancestral lands entirely and travel over the Appalachian Mountains, hoping to find a new, peaceful home far from the white man's war, even if it means entering the territory of unknown tribes.
Final Resolution
You encouraged your people to adapt, and they become excellent traders, known for their European clothes and iron tools. However, in focusing so much on these new goods, they begin to forget the old ways. Traditional hunting skills fade, and they become completely dependent on European muskets and supplies. When the war ends and the British demand your land, you declare war to defend it. But your warriors are now more like traders than fighters. Their muskets break, and they have few traditional skills to fall back on. After a short, brutal conflict, your village is destroyed, and the survivors are scattered, forced to live as refugees.
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Final Resolution
You emphasize traditional skills, and while your people use European weapons, they do not become dependent on them. Your warriors remain disciplined hunters and fighters. When the war ends and the British demand your land, they find you are not a broken people. Your fame as a fierce and effective warrior is legendary. The British, knowing a war with your people would be costly, treat you with respect. In the peace treaty, they grant your people significant territory and favorable trade rights. You have won a future for your people through strength and discipline.
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Final Resolution
The war eventually ends with a British victory. They know you as a wise and honorable leader who sought peace but fought effectively. Because you spared their civilians, they see you as a man of principle. They treat you with respect in the peace council, and you successfully negotiate to protect your people's most sacred lands. You have saved your community from destruction through diplomacy and honor.
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Final Resolution
The war eventually ends with a British victory. They know you as a leader who spoke of peace but acted with extreme brutality. Seeing you as untrustworthy and hypocritical, they ignore your requests for negotiation. They force a harsh treaty on you that takes most of your land and leaves your people with almost nothing. Your decision to be ruthless in the final moments has cost your people everything you hoped to save.
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Option AAgree to leave your own son behind as a hostage. Your son will live with the Shawnee to guarantee your people's loyalty. This is a powerful, peaceful symbol of trust.
Option B:Agree to lead an immediate attack on a British patrol. You must spill the blood of your former allies to prove you have truly turned against them. This is an undeniable act of war.
Outcome: You and your envoy travel under a flag of truce to the Shawnee village. The reception is icy. They are warriors, and they remember you were allied with their enemies, the British. You are brought before their war chief and council of elders. You explain your story, how you defied the British commander and refused to attack them. The chief listens, his face like stone. He says, "Words are wind. Your defiance saved our village, but you still carry the scent of the British. We require a greater sign of your new loyalty."
Option AApproach with open hands. You will walk into their village as refugees, explain your plight, and place yourselves at their mercy, hoping for compassion. This is a plea for help.
Option B:Attempt to steal supplies. Under the cover of a winter storm, you will try to steal enough food and supplies to continue your journey. This is a desperate gamble to survive.
Outcome: That choice to abandon everything for the unknown leads to a final, desperate dilemma that will determine the ultimate fate of your people. How do you approach these strangers? The journey over the Appalachian Mountains is grueling. Many of your people are lost to sickness, starvation, and the harsh winter. Finally, on the verge of collapse, your scouts find a large, well-stocked village belonging to a powerful western tribe you do not know. Your people are too weak to fight and too hungry to continue on their own. This is your last chance
Final Resolution
Your profound sacrifice convinces the Shawnee chief of your honor. He accepts your son into his own family, and an unbreakable bond is formed between your peoples. The Lenape and Shawnee fight as one, mounting a fierce resistance. When the war eventually ends with a British victory, your combined tribes are too strong to be simply wiped out. The British are forced to negotiate with your joint council. While you must give up some land, you successfully secure a large, protected territory for your united peoples to live in. You have saved your people from destruction, but you have paid a heavy price. Your son grows up as a Shawnee, and you live out your days as a respected leader who sacrificed his own family for the survival of his tribe.
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Final Resolution
Your attack on the British patrol is swift and brutal. The Shawnee see the blood of your former allies and are convinced—you are now a proven brother in arms. The Lenape and Shawnee fight as one, mounting a fierce resistance. When the war eventually ends with a British victory, your combined tribes are too strong to be ignored. The British, who now know you as a ruthless turncoat, negotiate not out of respect, but out of fear. You successfully secure a territory for your united peoples, but you are known as a dangerous leader who will do anything to survive. You have saved your people, but you sacrificed your honor to do it.
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Final Resolution
After you approach with open hands, the western tribe, witnessing your people's desperate state, takes pity on you. They offer your weary and starving people refuge, providing food, shelter, and warmth. While your people slowly recover, you spend weeks negotiating with the tribal elders. You explain your traditions, your history, and your hopes for a new beginning. They are impressed by your honesty and resilience. In a remarkable act of generosity, they offer your people a portion of their vast hunting grounds to settle permanently. You agree to live in peace and share resources, forging a new alliance. Your tribe finds a new home and a powerful ally, and you are hailed as a wise leader who saved his people through diplomacy and trust.
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Final Resolution
Your desperate gamble fails. The warriors of the western tribe are skilled hunters and trackers, and they easily detect your small raiding party in the storm. They see you not as desperate refugees, but as thieves encroaching on their territory. There is no mercy. In a swift and brutal confrontation, you and your remaining people are wiped out. Your long journey to find a new, peaceful home ends in a strange land, a victim not of the Europeans you fled, but of the desperation their war had forced upon you.
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Tamanend
As you guide Tamanend, be aware that this story deals with challenging historical themes, including:
Thomas Finn
You will experience the harsh reality of unfree labor, where life is cheap and hope is running low. The story begins with a desperate choice: endure the last few years of brutal servitude, or risk your life on a dangerous escape to the frontier.
Samuel Pierce
You will step into a community gripped by intense fear and suspicion. The story begins with a sick child and the difficult choice of whether to blame witchcraft. As you make decisions for Samuel, be aware that this story explores challenging themes, including:
Tamanend
As you guide Tamanend, be aware that this story deals with challenging historical themes, including:
Thomas Finn
You will experience the harsh reality of unfree labor, where life is cheap and hope is running low. The story begins with a desperate choice: endure the last few years of brutal servitude, or risk your life on a dangerous escape to the frontier.
Samuel Pierce
You will step into a community gripped by intense fear and suspicion. The story begins with a sick child and the difficult choice of whether to blame witchcraft. As you make decisions for Samuel, be aware that this story explores challenging themes, including: