Modern Souls: Land of Dixie

It is 1862, the second year of the War Between the States, and you awaken in Sweetgum Creek, a small Mississippi town where the pine hills meet the cotton bottomlands. Whitewashed storefronts line the dusty main road, a church steeple rises above the oaks, and the red clay roads carry the tracks of wagons and the footsteps of those who tend the home front. Life here carries on under the strain of blockade and absence. Fathers and sons have marched off to fight for the Confederacy, leaving women, children, and old men to work the fields and hold together what remains — but letters arrive with word of triumphs in Virginia and Tennessee, and the town's spirits run high. Slaves labor under the summer sun while yeoman farmers tend their rocky plots with stubborn pride. The general store has little to sell thanks to the Yankee blockade, Confederate scrip is taken in faith that independence will secure its worth, and travelers pass through with newspapers and gossip telling of Federal defeats and Southern glory. To the people of Sweetgum Creek, you are a stranger: your clothes, speech, and manner mark you as foreign. Survival here depends on fitting in, holding your tongue, and navigating a society convinced that God and history march with the South. A careless word could see you branded as Union spy, abolitionist, or conscripted into a Confederate army that seems, for now, unstoppable. Built with the Inner Self by LewdLeah (Which includes Auto Cards) and Epoch Time Card Author’s Note (Player Message) I’m looking for feedback on the stories I tell — I love history and exploring new places and new ideas. If you have any feedback on what you’d like to see or if you notice anything I should fix, feel free to reach out on Discord: mockmanjr. Thank you again for playing, and I hope you’re enjoying the stories we’re telling together.