Bytown
1836 Bytown, ruled through terror and mayhem. Episodic historical webfiction.
2020 13 characters 9 files
Nine episodes and roughly three hundred thousand words of historical webfiction, published across ten months of 2020 and returning here as a weekly serial. Maggie Kelly came from out east looking for a fresh start and ended up worse off; her husband Rían works as a junior constable for the magistrate, which puts him in harm’s way more than she would like.
The cast, the town and the period research are all free to build on. The episode covers below are the artwork that ran with the original release.
The cast
- Ada Honeywell she/her Resident of Bytown
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Béatrice Lemieux she/her Resident of Bytown -
Cedric Sisk he/him Enforcer -
Colleen Crowley she/her Maggie's friend - Edwin Poole he/him Resident of Bytown
- Émile Deschênes he/him Resident of Bytown
- Justice Sutherland he/him Magistrate
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Liam Kelly he/him Rían's brother -
Maggie Kelly she/her Protagonist - Mr Crowley he/him Colleen's father
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Peter Aylen he/him Antagonist -
Rían Kelly he/him Maggie's husband - Rupert Owens he/him Constable
Files
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Bytown, episode 2 Episode cover -
Bytown, episode 3 Episode cover -
Bytown, episode 4 Episode cover -
Bytown, episode 5 Episode cover -
Bytown, episode 6 Episode cover -
Bytown, episode 7 Episode cover -
Bytown, episode 8 Episode cover -
Bytown Series cover -
Bytown key art Night exterior, Maggie in frame Maggie Kelly
Using Bytown
The world, its cast and the files above are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Write in it, draw it, score it, set your own story there. Credit me, don't sell it, and license what you make the same way.
Attribution — copy this:
“Bytown” by MCM (2020), https://mcm.1889.ca/commons/bytown — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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