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(set:$name to (prompt:"Enter your name: ", "Default Name"))
Welcome, $name.
You have entred a time capsule, and reached year 1922! We have just ended World War One. Our wounds are still open, but not having to wear that death gown is a miracle which does not go unoticed. Based on which player you choose, you will start your story differently. Worry not, you will have the chance to experience all the stories first-hand regardless of your beginning? Are you ready?
[[Choose Character]][[Captain Vaggelis]]
[[Young Sultana]] (set: $answer to (prompt: "How did he spend his day?", ""))
So, your idea was $answer
[[See what happened]];During the long school year, we are dreaming of summer's free time and all the games we would play. Games throughout the years do not differ... So, which one do you choose?
[[Tag->Vote(Tag)]]
[[Hide-and-Seek->Vote(Hide-and-Seek)]]
[[Marbles->Vote(Marbles)]](alert:"Great answer! Let's see which young Soultana would opt for?")
[[Game]](alert:"Great answer! Let's see which young Soultana would opt for?")
[[Game]](alert:"Great answer! Let's see which young Soultana would opt for?")
[[Game]]Unfortunately, Soultana and every other child who experienced the forced movement did not have time to spend on playing games with their peers. Perhaps, many of them failed to grasp what was happing; one day running carefree, the other hiding under dead bodies hoping that the ship manages to cross to Greece at the beginning of June in 1922. But even in Greece, the Golgotha did not end...
[[See their journey]]
In a spam of less than a year, young Soultana and her family moved from city to city, till they found a place to call home. Or rather, a place where fingers were not pointed towards them or being called racist names. But how can you explain this to a child? Soultana just like many of her peers were born at the wrong time in the wrong place; being born a few years before Minor Asia Catastrophe means that through their young eyes, they experienced bloodshed and war; hunger and filthiness; stigma and racism.
[[Then]]As you can guess, transportation is not like the modes that we have after one hundred years... They didn't hoped on a bus, while touring Greece, and admiring its natural beauty.
Things turned to worse when they tried to reach Thessaloniki, after stopping briefly at Volos...
(set: $answer2 to (prompt: "Can you guess what happened then?", ""))
So, your idea was $answer2
[[Let's see what happened to Soultana]]Soultana at four years old was lost among the sea of immigrants walking miles to get from place to place on foot. Yet, she was not alone. She, being the secondoldest of her siblings, was tasked of safekeeping her younger cousin, Dimitros...
How easy is to get separated from your parents...
I mean I cannot recall the times I lost my mum at the supermarket!
Yet, Soultana held on her cousin's tiny fingers and didn't let go...
[[Turn page]]When you are scared of doing something, don't you wish you had a parental figure to hold your hand or give you that reassuring smile?
Well, among a crowd of tired and food-deprived faces, even the smallest physical touch which portrayed instances of humanity were oasis to the endless despair.
So, when a woman and a man with no children of their own tell you that they are your parents, you accept it. You need your belly and your cousin's to fill up, and if this mother and this father fulfill their duties, then why search for missing parents?
But what would you do?
[[Search for your lost children]]
[[Reach Thessaloniki with the other and then look for them]]
I see you have made your choice, but do you think you would change opinion after reading this story?
[[Four Years Ago]]
I see you have made your choice, but do you think you would change opinion after reading this story?
[[Four Years Ago]]
Sailers can predict when a storm is brewing, so can people do at the whispers of a catastrophe. Thus, they run; they run to places where they hope they could stake out and avoid getting hit directly and then return to their home. This was not the case of the fourteen year old Aggeliki.
She was one of many child brides, as we would define them in the year 2023. It's still a tradition being practised, although declining, it won't disappear even in 2030. We will need more 300 years to completely eradicate this practice.
So, even one hundred years after Aggeliki's case, we cannot promise young girls will not be sold to men twice or triple their age just for parents to have one mouth be lifted from their hands...
So, did Aggeliki become her husband's burden and mouth to feed?
[[Aggeliki's Husband]]Fotis was around the age of 25 when he took custody of feeding Aggeliki.
But, what is heroic of a man dying and leaving behind his pregnant 29 year old wife along with 3 children?
Nothing! Aggeliki was one of the many women who had to fight for their survival.
And she did not do it alone. Her father in law was there despite being ill himself.
In his words, he wished that his youngest grandchild, Maria, reached the age of 7 before taking his last breath, so she would know what a father figure is, and how a family should be...
One would say that some people, regardless of how much we love them, are not meant to stay in our stories...
So, now you know Sultana's mother backstory
Did you change your opinion?
[[Go to next]]What would you do?
[[Search for the lost children]]
[[Reach Thessaloniki with the other immigrants and then look for them]](alert:"How could one search for two small humans in a crowd of thousand people?")
[[After one day]](alert:"How could they wait? They are their children and their family!" )
[[After one day]] How would you picture the perfect family photo?
(set: $answer1 to (prompt: "How would you picture the perfect family photo?", ""))
So, your idea was $answer1
[[The perfect family]]This is a perfect family picture, one in which all your daughters and son could be in it.
From what you understand, the lost children where found to be holding hands with two strangers, who were robbed from their chance to have a family with two young children. But, even when you are an immigrant forced to walk miles, starving, and without your belongings, your family means everything.
Sometimes, home is not a building; rather it is the relationship with your closed ones...
Who cares about material things, when you are missing your home?
Time for you, my dear reader to see what other characters would do to protect their home!
[[Choose Character]] (set:$correct to 0) (if: $wrong <0) [set:$wrong to 0]
'' $name: Correct Answers=$correct | Wrong Answers= $wrong ''
T.S. Eliot said that “April is the cruellest month”. Yet, for the people who fled from their homes, or were slaughtered in Minor Asia and in Pontos the year 1922, August is the cruellest month. More than a million people reached the Greek coasts, but their histories lay buried under the ashes of the lives which they once knew. Silenced heroes whose history endeavours to mute even more are the key points to saving more lives than the governments could achieve through settlements. Vaggelis Fotiadis, otherwise known as chieftain captain, dedicated his life to saving people. Despite his noble heritage, the war which afflicted the powerless masses forced many of the Greek Minor Asians to lose their fortunes. Don’t fool yourselves into believing that the war erupted in an instant. The Turks officials, Tsetes and Tsarmantades, regularly brutalized the Greeks, to the point of forcing them to join the army of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
What do you think Captain Vaggelis did?
[[Created his own army]]
[[He chose to join Ataturk's army, but he rebelled afterwards]](set:$correct to 1) (if: $wrong <0) [set:$wrong to 0]
'' Correct Answers=$correct | Wrong Answers= $wrong ''
//“I will fight till my last breath to save those who cannot protect themselves,”// said Captain Vaggelis and fled into the mountains of Serntivan. In those valleys, among the few survivors, Captain Vaggelis formed his alliance; a self-made army of around 500 men with one sole goal: survival. Some of his close allies, Stavro Euthimiadi, Kiriako Papadopoulo, Lazarus Tsoraklidi, Leontio Savva, Stavra Soultsidi, Konstantino and Kiriako Iosifidi and Sarigiannidi. Captain Vaggelis collected the remaining forces and set on a five-day trip to Nikomidia, where parts of the Greek army waited for the refugees.
[[River]]
(set:$correct to 0) (set:$wrong to 1)
'' $name: Correct Answers=$correct | Wrong Answers= $wrong ''
(alert:"Think again!")
[[Go back ->See what happened]] While the self-made army and the immigrants were crossing the river, the wind stilled for a moment.
A small wood piece was cut in half, and they were surrounded in a heartbeat by 20 Turkish cavalry. They said: //"Such is easy prey! Look at them rag clothed, dirty, and hunched."//
While people all run to take cover because, Captain Vaggelis...
How did he react?
[[Run to hide with the other immigrants]]
[[He gave himself up to save the others]]
[[He was shot]]
[[He went against his opponent]](alert:"Think again !")
[[Go back ->River]] (alert:"Think again !")
[[Go back ->River]] (alert:"Think again !")
[[Go back ->River]] (alert:"Good choice, $name!")
He ordered his army to take a stance and capture alive the enemy soldiers. His speech that day is what kept us warm at heart and fuelled us into surviving the cruellest month.
//''“You forget that for a few days, months, or years, we all inhibited the same space. We walked the same streets, and we ate the same treats, and we shared the same drinks. How can you forget? How can you sleep at night with an easy heart and celebrate till dawn the burning of your neighbourhood? We do not! We don’t blindly follow and kill who we thought were our allies, our friends, our neighbours. You, soldiers, will not die today at the hands of the people you swore to hunt down! Greeks, we are no longer welcomed in our homes, and we will probably be outsiders in our motherland, but remember this! We, the people from Minor Asia and Pontos, do not kill! We are humans and we believe in justice and equality. Do not let this cruellest month, that is August, turn your hearts into stones and become cruel. Remember to be human even during the cruellest month!”
''//
[[See Captain's Vaggelis Statue]]This is how he looked like
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Since, you have finished with his story, now it is the time to choose another character and experience their life
[[Go back ->Choose Character]]