In exotic British India, the great and good gather from within & surrounding the Raj. Use your resources - airships, troops, spies, assassins & more - to emerge victorious from the Jaipur Crisis!
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The Amber Palace, near Jaipur, Rajputana Agency, British India, March 1907 - - The British Agent of the Princely States of central India has just been installed at his magnificent palace on the shore of Lake Maotha near Jaipur. The event has drawn grandees from across the subcontinent and beyond, including representatives of both the Shah of Persia and the Russian Tsar. The stately halls of the Amber Palace susurrate with whispers of convention and alignments, revolution and war. Players will represent some of the mightiest powers on Earth, gathered in luxury to play The Great Game. Colonel Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth and Agent of Rajputana, finding himself in a role above even his pay grade, must be brilliant to avoid being outmaneuvered in his own keep.
Nicholas II has gathered the elite of Russia to celebrate the anniversary of victory at Poltava. There will be intrigue, high fashion, vodka, half-mad futurists &, of course, Rasputin.
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Two hundred years ago, the armies of Peter the Great triumphed over the Swedish at the Battle of Poltava. The Russian Imperial court is planning a vast celebration to commemorate the bicentennial of the great victory. The leading figures of the court will attend – Grand Dukes and Duchesses – as will their followers and hangers-on. They have invited commoners as well, and a selection of the most interesting men and women from throughout the Empire. The Russian Empire is torn between east and west, Britain and Germany, and the different factions will share canapes and biting remarks, while dark schemes unfold in hidden corners, and Rasputin… well, is Rasputin.