LA SEMAINE SANGLANTE

May 21, 1871. Just a week and a half ago, the Third Republic of France signed the Treaty of Frankfurt with the German Empire, marking the end of the War of 1870. But there’s still blood to spill.

The city of Paris, seized by the communards back in March and made into the first example of a dictatorship of the proletariat, holds its breath as soldiers of the French Army have entered the commune. And they will not leave until the city loses the red and waves the tricolor once more.

You stand with the commune of Paris, a gendarme of its National Guard, defending it from the Third Republic. But death and war aren’t the only horrors that await the Bloody Week. Les goules, les fantômes, les diables, les loup-garous; creatures straight out of myth and nightmare prowl the city day and night, hunting down their prey to slake their unending hunger.

And unfortunately, you and the rest of humanity make for perfect quarry.

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La Semaine Sanglante is a one-page rpg about a gothic horror Paris Commune in its last days, as gendarme of the French Army storm the city in a bid to recapture it for the Third Republic, unleashing a week-long deluge of brutality and bloodshed: la Semaine Sanglante, the Bloody Week. In the shadows, nightmarish things hunt and lurk, whittling down souls from both sides to satiate their eternal hungers.  And you and your company of National Guard gendarmes are caught in the middle of it all.

(Note: This game takes more than a few liberties with the historical setting and organizations it uses, y'know aside from the World of Darkness-ass premise. I know  some things won't be accurate, though I tried my best to keep the game in the spirit of things, so you don't need to point any inaccuracies out unless the truth is interesting)