Talk:This is Madness! Chapter I: Roma Delenda Est (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20200309073848

Theresa Sullivan
15th January 478: Syagrius (finally spelt it right) came back to me with a very 'open' response of allowing me to teach people to teach across the Soissons (also spelt it right, I guess Syagrius is a fluent person who had corrected my spelling). However, I still don't trust him for a reason that he might be using my message to his own advantage. I must move on in Noviodunum (self-explanatory, you get the idea) and start my move to make people literate. I'll also set up another branch like what I did in Parisium. Let some women into it and we can discuss and learn more as we can spread on how much the patriarchy like Syagrius' domain is.

However, because of Syagrius' expectations, I have to play the role as he wants. I'm forced to live two lives instead. That is a huge, huge problem for my intention of educating all women first about my goals. I have to also teach the men as well. I don't mind children, sometimes women bring them along if they want to, just like in Parisium where I taught them few months ago, it is their own choice. So my new goal is to now undergo spreading literacy and teaching them how to write and do basic numeracy to men and women. But the catch is that women are only allowed in my own hideout that I've set up in Noviodunum. It'll be a tough time but I'll need to clear the evidence for men or those who probably hate me to search over my hideout by potentially moving out from Noviodunum to other towns.

On the outside, they'll see me as Carissa Aurelius. But once they know me more, my inner circle of girls, they will know me as Theresa.

[''There is a two month gap since she wants to continue her own endeavours. She would continue to keep doing the same activity in Noviodunum, but this time slightly more successful and convincing.'']

16th March 478: Two months since I did anything. I have to devote a lot to spreading literacy here in Noviodunum and nearby towns that I've done. In Noviodunum, I continued my business around educating and telling women of more stories I could tell of future women (of their own time), embellishing them and encourage them to tell young girls and other women of such thing.

As with men in literacy, I've not told them about our hideout. I've gave them basic things to read and write, along with basic numeracy the same way as I did in Parisium, for a length of hopefully four to six months, so they can comprehend some written words of their own language (not mine). They felt very suspicious of me, a place where women can meet together in private? Hah, they just decide to dismiss it as a thing.

My lessons have started to improve in quality, we still do basic numeracy and literacy around writing and stores, but I have expanded so much more. We are starting to do some math questions that are much more complicated, but never too complicated so that they can grasp some of the concepts that they may have not understand it. As a reminder, I studied mathematics in university, it is my major. We are taking this by steps, so they won't get into algebra and measurement (except in quantities) just yet. We need to multiply and divide numbers first.

27th March 478: It came to me in some murmurs around nearby towns that Syagrius, the leader of the Soissons that he has started to integrate Napoleon's army into his own army for discipline and sort of stuff. How embarrassing for me to send a message back under a pseudonym. Now I have to simply need to cover up my activities even more for our secret hideout activities.

19th May 478: Some of the women who constantly come to my hideout (and any other hideouts and meetings) are becoming my followers after just four months of teaching. There are only three who want to go with me, mainly they are single and/or are orphaned. This is good news! I no longer need to stay alone as I have been for over a year and a half since I came here. I could also start preparing my intentions of no longer having to stay at Noviodunum and start wandering across the Soissons Kingdom to spread my own word of truth to women. Stories and ideas that they've never heard of before.

Followers are a good thing. Someone who believes in your values and beliefs. That is the main point of what you get for being the one that stands out the most. But again, everyone else who hasn't been in my circle of trustworthiness don't know what I'm up to. Hopefully, they see a group, us for instance, being a small band of women who just wander around like merchants.

6th June 478: There's a rumour that ten people who came from the same place I am who arrived in Soissons. It turns out that when I was visiting in the afternoon in a small village, I saw ten familiar figures. It can't be. Could they be the Presidents? Yes, I clearly recognise some of them by the looks of their faces. They look different and they are really the Presidents of the United States. Only ten of them. None of them being Donald Trump, the President that I really hate. That's good! This sexist man doesn't deserve to live here.

It has been a very long time since I met people who spoke English. That was almost two years ago and it felt like a distant memory rather than the present. Eventually, one of them, I think it was Barack Obama (one of my favourite presidents on the list) or... was it Lincoln... came up to me and greeted me in the local language rather than English. I notice that they have been a little shaky in the language that they speak. So instead, for a long time, I tried to talk to him in English. They were somewhat surprised by this and told me: "What is your name?"

I replied back: "Carissa Aurelius" rather than my proper name in my own time. He nodded, being astounded by how clear and fluent I was in English, even if its now slightly rusty because I haven't spoken in English for literally a year and basically said on the vague lines of "huh, you have very good English". Then they left for another town and dismissed me like a regular peasant. It was a surreal moment to meet up with the Ten Presidents. Of course, some who I was teaching was shocked. They did hear our language and are quite baffled by it. It was like secret talk. I taught very few of those in my hideout about my language we could get used to saying very few words of my native tongue, but fortunately, no-one knows English or at least very few people do, I don't really think I encountered them in the first place.

The encounter with the Ten Presidents have changed my plans. I now have to face another problem: someone who is already literate and knows different ideologies and values. Perhaps this is why they came here and do their own job. Whatever that is, I have to make a move, fast. Hopefully I will exceed their expectations.

24th June 478: I'm moving out from Noviodunum and start my trip to walk through few towns in promise to spread my own word to women about my promising message and under the provisions of Syagrius (ugh...), to continue teaching people how to read and write where the Ten Presidents have left off. They aren't doing anything, they're only just wandering around to do something, which is something that I would've done more. And for that goal, I'm asking for women to start advocating for justice against the patriarchy. It is God that sent me down here and these Presidents and Napoleon have too. I want to make most of my time living in this world. I really want to.

There are at least seven women who want to come with me after a half year's worth of teaching and lecturing in secret. I don't hesitate them going with me, but they can help continue learn from me as close as they can and spread a similar message. Though I have some doubtful decisions of letting them spread their own word, hopefully the need of equality to be enshrined in this kingdom shall be achieved slowly. Even if it means by force and facing Napoleon.

The Presidents' blessings to the locals must've helped me a little. They can read, so I don't need them to make them learn how to read and write. But, I have to make them able to comprehend the writing of say, more than 500 words locally than 100. Talking to locals has become easy, but still shaky. Once I continue to learn from experience over the course of one and a half years, I can simply speak and tweak anything that I want - that they will do as I say. I'm starting to lose my mind on how to even speak English at all after encountering the Ten Presidents. I've been speaking the local language for over a year.

The problem now for them is how to convince them if they learnt American values, the same values that shaped my life. They probably think of liberty and freedom. Syagrius on the other hand, is an autocratic figure who has his right-hand figure. Introducing say, equality for both genders (yep, Theresa is a TERF, no such thing as non-binary gender in the concept of her own mind) and a legal court, along with elections would be a great way to dissident. But these are American things. I want my own way of ruling and that is to tell any women they've encountered the Ten Presidents to be informed of my arrival and that our march, the Women's March has begun.

tl;dr:

Bruh WIP