Jack Brunswold
Jack Brunswold is the de facto leader and spokesman of the Madtown Commune near Mill City, though he insists he is just another brother in arms. A middle-aged engineer who speaks with a commanding Ironworks accent, Brunswold developed the organizational methods the Commune employs and sits in on almost every dealing they have with Ironworks leadership. Despite his denials, the rest of the Commune comes to him for advice and major decisions.
Brunswold's respect for engineers and creative minds set the cultural tone that allowed the Madtown Commune to thrive. He championed inventors and dreamers, recognizing that the Commune's survival depended on producing innovations valuable enough to justify its existence in the eyes of the Ironworks. When times grew dire, the man who denied all authority could muster an unexpected severity that reminded everyone why they listened to him in the first place.
He was a champion of dreamers in a world that ground dreams into dust, and the Commune he built became proof that egalitarian ideals could produce results the Ironworks' slave system could not match.
Brunswold's respect for engineers and creative minds set the cultural tone that allowed the Madtown Commune to thrive. He championed inventors and dreamers, recognizing that the Commune's survival depended on producing innovations valuable enough to justify its existence in the eyes of the Ironworks. When times grew dire, the man who denied all authority could muster an unexpected severity that reminded everyone why they listened to him in the first place.
He was a champion of dreamers in a world that ground dreams into dust, and the Commune he built became proof that egalitarian ideals could produce results the Ironworks' slave system could not match.
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Personal history
Brunswold came to the Madtown Commune as an engineer and stayed as its conscience. His organizational skills and commanding presence made him the natural point of contact for the Commune's dealings with Ironworks authorities, even as he consistently denied holding any leadership role. He developed the systems that kept the Commune productive and the protocols that protected its members, including the covert sheltering of escaped Iron Slaves. His insistence on egalitarian principles was genuine, not performative; he simply happened to be the person everyone trusted to implement those principles in practice.
De facto leader of the Madtown Commune; engineer, organizer, reluctant authority.
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