Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative

Version 1.70 of Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative is up on itch.io: https://interactivefact.itch.io/hwln

This is a larger update than the last few. Thank you again to everyone who has been playing and sending notes.

Patrick Henry comes to town

Patrick Henry is now in Williamsburg for one night. You can find him at the Raleigh Tavern on the opening evening and again at breakfast the next morning, before he rides home to Hanover. If you are in the room at the right moment that evening, you will hear him give the close of the “Liberty or Death” speech (the text is William Wirt’s 1817 reconstruction). He has a good deal to say about Lord Dunmore, none of it flattering. Keep your ears open around town and people will tell you where he is.

A note on the history: Henry was at home in Hanover when news of the powder seizure reached him. Nothing in the record puts him in Williamsburg on the 19th, and nothing rules it out, so I have taken that small liberty and sent him home before the trouble starts.

A fuller town

Seven characters who were written long ago but never actually appeared in the game are now where they belong: Patience Anderson, Samuel Briggs, Dr. Ephraim Coles, Richard Charlton, Josiah Holt, Mrs. Vobe, and Ned Pulliam. The taverns and the coffeehouse are a good deal livelier, and the cast is now 22.

Fixes

• The Royal Marines now move through town late on the night of April 20. That event was never occurring, which meant the early warning part of the score could not be earned.
• SLEEP now works on every night of the visit. Going to bed on the second evening used to end after a single minute.
• After a full night’s sleep you no longer spend April 20 and 21 “Near collapse.”

One caution: saves from earlier versions will not load in v1.70.

Still Windows only for now. As always, I would love to hear what you find, especially anything that reads oddly in conversations with the newly arrived characters.

Hap