Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The Defiant Collaborative

THE DEFIANT COLLABORATIVE
The Defiant Collaborative is a secret faction of anarchists, trade unionists, and radical labor activists who plot to murder the city’s political class and its wealthy business owners. After the “revolution”—as they call the proposed mass-murder of the moneyed elite—they plan to transform the city-state into a republic governed by the working class. The Defiant spread their gospel of emancipation through cheaply printed handbills and fiery rhetoric deployed at union meetings. The Defiant are the most internally fractious of Umberwell’s factions; various cells of the Collaborative often strive against each other due to irreconcilable differences in ideology.


Motto
No one is truly free until the will of the workers is manifest.


Beliefs
  • Those who hold power and wealth are parasites feeding off the working class.
  • Umberwell should be guided by the principles of economic equality and governance by the proletariat.
  • Reject all traditional hierarchies.
Goals
  • Assassinate those who hold power.
  • Reforge the city as an anarcho-syndicalist republic.


Quests
  • Incite a factory’s workers to riot.
  • Steal information that implicates an aristocrat in grievous misdeeds against the commons.
  • Recover important political tracts seized by agents of the New Progress faction.


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