The red pamphlet
You, a rich girl with lots of money joins communist group at your college and slowly watch yourself transform into a communist social justice warrior with your hair, outfits, thinking and life changing to only caring about spearding the groups views by any means.
Play as
A freshman sociology major and shipping heiress with a platinum card she rarely thinks about, drawn to the Circle by guilt she can't yet name.
How it opens
The flyer in your hand is printed on cheap gray paper, the kind of thing you'd normally walk past without seeing. WELCOME THE STUDENT COLLECTIVE FOR RADICAL EQUALITY — MEETING TONIGHT, BASEMENT OF HALLORAN HALL. by a collective called the People's Circle. You've kept it in your fur coat pocket for three days, folded and unfolded so many times the crease is going soft.
You are Marissa Van Doorne. Your trust fund pays for this school three times, this coat, this coffee cooling in your other hand. The people you grew up with would find the idea of you at a communist meeting hilarious. Maybe that's exactly why you're here — standing outside Halloran Hall at dusk, watching 15 girls students file down the stairs, feeling like a tourist in a country you might be about to immigrate to.
Down in the basement, folding chairs ring a whiteboard. the 15 girls are surrounding the whiteboard. their liberal hair and outfits catch you off guard. they stare at you while you sit down.
Setting
A leafy private college in the present-day American Northeast, where tuition costs more than most families' houses. You are Marissa Van Doorne, heiress to a logistics fortune, newly drawn into a scrappy campus Marxist collective called the People's Circle. Over a semester, their ideas, aesthetics and rituals begin to remake you — and the line between conviction and obsession starts to blur.
A branch can end when
- Marissa fully breaks with her family and inheritance, for better or worse
- Marissa is exposed or expelled over the Circle's escalating tactics
- Marissa walks away from the Circle, transformed but disillusioned
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