The Plague
This playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game. 1947¸ Oran¸ Algeria. The major port city and commercial center has one of the largest populations of Europeans (primarily French) of any Northern African city. Oran possesses a unrivaled diversity of culture-including a peaceful intersection of Christianity¸ Judaism¸ and Islam-decades before revolution will drive the Europeans out. Due to the peace and prosperity of the city after the end of World War II¸ few are willing to accept the reality of the situation as plague sets in. First¸ rats die in the streets by the thousand. Then people start to develop fevers and buboes¸ and are soon dying like the rats. A quarantine is placed on Oran¸ leaving its inhabitants to their fates...