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EX
Astoria
Ruth Tillman
EX ASTORIA
Publishers
Simon Rogers and Cathriona Tobin
GUMSHOE
One-2-One System Design
Robin D. Laws
Author
Ruth Tillman
Cover Art
Christian Knutsson
Design and Layout
Cathriona Tobin, based on a template
by Christian Knutsson
Editing and Development
Will Jobst, Cathriona Tobin
Playtesters
Jae Cooper, Chris HAQ, Tony Kemp, Luke
Mathieson
Copyright © 2017 Pelgrane Press Ltd.
Cthulhu Confidential and GUMSHOE One-2-One are trademarks of Pelgrane Press Ltd.
Pelgrane Press is co-owned by Simon Rogers and Cathriona Tobin.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EX ASTORIA
THE STORY SO FAR
RELATIONSHIP MAP
SCENE FLOW DIAGRAM
VIVAN SINCLAIR
TIMELINE OF PAST EVENTS
CAST
PROPERTIES OF DHOLE EGGS
SCENES
COVERING THE RIOT
THE OLD SCAB’S STORY
THE STATION HOUSE
PROBING THE HUDSON
WINN WATER TUNNEL MAP
THE UNION LINE
MINDING O’MARA
BELLEVUE
NO PLACE FOR SNOOPS
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GETTLER’S ANALYSIS
SCOURING THE ASH HEAPS
MARK ARNOLD
FINDING IRA GRABER
WHAT IRA SAW
HEAD SHRINKING
UNION DIVIDED
THE DESCENT
THE BOWERY BAY HORROR
DENOUEMENT
ALTERNATE DENOUEMENT
ANTAGONIST REACTIONS
EX ASTORIA PROBLEM CARDS
EX ASTORIA EDGE CARDS
VIVIAN SINCLAIR
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This adventure brings Viv into the world of
labor unions, city power brokers, and scabs.
The city’s growing infrastructure comes into
conflict with an ancient, toxic evil. What have the
workers uncovered and what’s the fate of the few
exposed? Can Viv prevent further injuries and an
environmental disaster?
Although the branch in this scenario is
fictional, City Water Tunnel no. 2 was constructed
by unionized sandhogs, laboring under
extraordinary, dangerous conditions. Buried far
below the busy streets, it remains invisible to the
millions who rely on it for water access daily. This
scenario asks--what else lies, invisible, beneath
the city?
If this is your player’s first time playing Viv,
she will need to choose a starting Problem, like the
four given in the opener for “Fatal Frequencies”
(Cthulhu
Confidential,
p. 181). If you’ve already
run at least one scenario for your player, the
journalist probably has some lingering Continuity
Problems still in hand. In that case, write an
introduction that connects the most salient of
those Problems to the following assignment.
ambitious project. Surely, the borough of Queens
deserves more than the few miles of City Water
Tunnel No. 2 currently slated to run through it.
Rush and his ambitious assistant, Mark Arnold,
move through Tammany back rooms, convincing
them that New York can get even more money out
of Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act.
But they have to move fast—interim Tammany
mayor John O’Brien goes up against popular
Fusion candidate LaGuardia in the fall. Alderman
Samuel Winn sponsors a resolution to build a
pipeline, joining City Water Tunnel No. 2 just after
it makes landfall beyond Rikers Island. The tunnel
will then pass diagonally through the borough,
carrying water southeast to the far side of Jamaica
Bay.
Workers break ground on the Winn Water
Tunnel in October 1933. The project proceeds
apace until the blast crew encounters an anomaly.
A charge intended to blast through solid rock hits
something far more malleable and sends a toxic
substance in all directions, including back at the
blast crew, leaving five sandhogs severely injured.
Union president Ernest Foley calls for a work
stoppage until the company agrees to the union’s
safety terms and provides some compensation.
Meanwhile, Arnold discovers something far more
horrifying beyond the explosion—a tight cluster of
enormous, opalescent spheroids in a cavern that
stretches wide across the path of the tunnel. Not
only does the cavern pose a significant challenge,
the toxic substance which debilitated the sandhogs
also burned into the rock.
Although initially stunned by his discovery,
Arnold returns night after night to the cavern to
commune with the strange clutch. Soon, he hatches
a plan. While Rush continues negotiations with the
union, Arnold recruits scabs from Hoovervilles,
The Story So Far
In the summer of 1933, sandhogs, the urban
miners who construct New York’s infrastructure,
labor tirelessly 500 feet beneath the city, working
to complete the longest large diameter water
tunnel in the world, City Water Tunnel no. 2. An
ambitious New Deal project, it funnels water from
the Catskills Aqueduct into the Bronx, East River,
western Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. In his
Chanin Building boardroom a thousand feet above
them, Adrian Rush, founder of Hudson Enterprises,
plans to siphon that New Deal money into his own
coffers by proposing an addition to the already-
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RELATIONSHIP MAP
SCENE FLOW DIAGRAM
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