We have completed the draft stage, so we now move on to The Control Newspapers phase. Party leaders @Navaronegun and @Panzeh, you may elect to publish the Conservative and Liberal newspapers, respectively. If you choose to publish, they will give you one popular support and then disappear. If you hold off, you or others in your faction can increase the value of the newspapers by spending 2IP.
This table supposedly makes it easier, though I’m not sure I’ve done a great job translating it from board to spreadsheet:
Once we are done with Newspapers, we move on to the Round, where we start with @Navaronegun and then move down the player order. Each player may Make a Speech, Whip up Support, and Fund Newspapers.
The two newspapers publish, cancelling each other out. @Navaronegun for the first turn of The Round. Any speeches, whipping up, or newspaper investing? Each costs 1IP base, plus possibly more for the speech.
Jefferson attempts to make a speech in New Jersey, trying to win over its Fedalist leaning citizens. Sadly, he badly misjudged the room, and attempted to stress the importance of free trade to a tariff loving crowd. Jefferson was ridiculed in the local papers and chased out of town. (Jefferson rolled a one on his speech).
Jefferson parlayed his mistreatment by the “devil’s of New Jersey” into additional support for the Democratic-Republican cause in Virginia (Jefferson rolled a 3 to whip up support).
Finally, Jefferson started to publish a newspaper in Carolina, the Raleigh Evening Mail.