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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1987051" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p>Glad you're enjoying it PC. Lots more to come. I hope you're reading my two other western Story Hours as well! </p><p></p><p><strong>Prologue Three: "The French Wizard", February 12th, 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>Over two years earlier Ferdinand de Lesseps had first proposed the construction of a fifty-mile wide sea level canal through the Central American land of Panama. He was the same French engineer who had success constructed the Suez Canal in Egypt just ten years before that. Lesseps was confident he would complete the canal which would allow for quick passage from east to west, the original goal of Christopher Columbus. He organized investors for the project, creating the French holding company named Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique. But political instability in France had deterred investment in new ventures and by late 1881 he only had managed to collect 8% of the 400 million francs that he estimated the project would cost. </p><p></p><p>But not to be deterred, he used what he had collected and purchased tons of modern equipment, including steam shovels, locomotive and dredges. He had transported to the site this digging equipment along with 2,000 workers. So on Friday, January 20, 1882, the digging for the canal commenced. Their plan was to cut a broad path through the jungle. In the months and years ahead tens of thousands of working class Frenchmen would have to contend with swamps, pumas, jaguars, ticks, fleas, spiders, chiggers, and several species of poisonous snakes. At the end of 1883 the work force will have grown to 13,000, many of whom would perish from disease in this hostile land. By the time in 1894 when the French company eventually goes bankrupt and the project abandoned it will have cost its investors $ 287 million dollars as well as over 20,000 lives. </p><p></p><p>One man who would not lose his life on the project was the grand arch mage Marc Andre Guillieaut. He had been hired to assist with the project but within hours of his arrival on January 20th in the humid, bug infested land he realized that he had made a terrible mistake. Not only was the land inhospitable but there was an absence of magical lay lines in the earth. This location just wouldn't do for him to spend the next decade of his life. </p><p></p><p>He confronted Lesseps, who adamantly refused to provide Guillieaut with transportation back to France. One spell that the arch mage had never been able to successfully master was that of teleport, effectively staranding the man. So he arranged transportation for himself onto a ship that was leaving Panama and traveling north to American, unsure of exactly where this new path of his life would take him. The jouney north took several weeks, with him stopping and exploring various places along the way. </p><p></p><p>He eventually found himself this day arriving at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. He felt immediately at home in the French Quarter of the city. Not only were the magical lay lines present here but he was told that this was one of the few places in the United States where magic use was not outlawed. Mages still needed to be discreat, but they did not have to fear being burned as witches or jailed for use of a simple spell. So he decided to make this city his new home. Little did he know that a mere five weeks later fate would have other ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 1987051, member: 8530"] Glad you're enjoying it PC. Lots more to come. I hope you're reading my two other western Story Hours as well! [B]Prologue Three: "The French Wizard", February 12th, 1882:[/B] Over two years earlier Ferdinand de Lesseps had first proposed the construction of a fifty-mile wide sea level canal through the Central American land of Panama. He was the same French engineer who had success constructed the Suez Canal in Egypt just ten years before that. Lesseps was confident he would complete the canal which would allow for quick passage from east to west, the original goal of Christopher Columbus. He organized investors for the project, creating the French holding company named Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique. But political instability in France had deterred investment in new ventures and by late 1881 he only had managed to collect 8% of the 400 million francs that he estimated the project would cost. But not to be deterred, he used what he had collected and purchased tons of modern equipment, including steam shovels, locomotive and dredges. He had transported to the site this digging equipment along with 2,000 workers. So on Friday, January 20, 1882, the digging for the canal commenced. Their plan was to cut a broad path through the jungle. In the months and years ahead tens of thousands of working class Frenchmen would have to contend with swamps, pumas, jaguars, ticks, fleas, spiders, chiggers, and several species of poisonous snakes. At the end of 1883 the work force will have grown to 13,000, many of whom would perish from disease in this hostile land. By the time in 1894 when the French company eventually goes bankrupt and the project abandoned it will have cost its investors $ 287 million dollars as well as over 20,000 lives. One man who would not lose his life on the project was the grand arch mage Marc Andre Guillieaut. He had been hired to assist with the project but within hours of his arrival on January 20th in the humid, bug infested land he realized that he had made a terrible mistake. Not only was the land inhospitable but there was an absence of magical lay lines in the earth. This location just wouldn't do for him to spend the next decade of his life. He confronted Lesseps, who adamantly refused to provide Guillieaut with transportation back to France. One spell that the arch mage had never been able to successfully master was that of teleport, effectively staranding the man. So he arranged transportation for himself onto a ship that was leaving Panama and traveling north to American, unsure of exactly where this new path of his life would take him. The jouney north took several weeks, with him stopping and exploring various places along the way. He eventually found himself this day arriving at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. He felt immediately at home in the French Quarter of the city. Not only were the magical lay lines present here but he was told that this was one of the few places in the United States where magic use was not outlawed. Mages still needed to be discreat, but they did not have to fear being burned as witches or jailed for use of a simple spell. So he decided to make this city his new home. Little did he know that a mere five weeks later fate would have other ideas. [/QUOTE]
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