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Erkes |\n| --- |\n| |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nThe material presented in this story is designed specifically for use with \"Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium Inc's fantasy role-playing game of the macabre, based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, by permission of Arkham House.  \nThe primary purpose of the information presented here, although it is loosely based on historical facts, is dramatic and any similarity of events or the major characters to persons alive or dead is purely coincidental.  \nThis story is designed to allow the Keeper of Arcane Knowledge (Keeper) to stage an adventure for the Players. Narrative descriptions and specific time lines mesh easily together to form a living backdrop against which the Players will act out their drama. Ultimate presentation, however, is entirely at the Keepers discretion. Use this story in any way you see fit. Keepers are urged to photocopy the various pages contained in this story and hand them out at appropriate times.  \nBACKGROUND  \nAlexei Samsonov, who had achieved the rank of Major in the Red Army and would soon reach Colonel, sat relaxing in a small, private beerhall; in spite of its size it was the finest in all Berlin. The two men at the table with him were also officers, but they wore the uniform of the German Reichswehr. They had been drinking freely. They were not talking about their work. They were in too pleasant a mind to talk about their work, and it was forbidden anyway. The two men in Reichswehr uniforms asked him playfully to describe the girl they had seen on the Alexanderplatz, using Ancient Greek, and Samsonov replied that he would be glad to do so, but that he would first have to decline a certain noun in all its forms; he did not see his adjutant behind him until the man whispered in his ear.  \n\"Immediately?\" said Samsonov out loud, in Russian. Several people in the hall, hearing the word in the unfamiliar language, turned to look at him.  \n\"Da,\" said the adjutant impassively.  \nWhen Samsonov reached his room another attaché was there, and handed him the cabled message. For all its importance, the order had not even been coded: RETURN TO MOSCOW IMMEDIATELY, it said. He glanced at the upper right corner of the message, where its point of origin was imprinted in neat black letters, and knew that there could be no mistake.  \n\"Draft a message for our hosts,\" he said to the attaché, and tottered slightly, putting a hand to the heavy table before him to steady himself. He felt the drunkenness leave him like a spirit. Why did they want him? He searched his mind for failures, for improprieties - he  \nfound none. The cable had struck him like a hammer blow in the night. Unexpected stories begin unexpectedly.  \nTHE TUNNELS  \nThe real beginning of the story had occurred about halfa year earlier, when Soviet construction workers were excavating a portion of Red Square for the permanent Lenin mausoleum. Almost immediately after his death in 1924, Lenin had been interred in a temporary wooden structure on the square; Soviet planners had the intention of constructing a permanent stone mausoleum for him on the site, and work began in the late summer of 1928. During the digging for the foundation of the monument, in September of that year, workers came upon a network of secret tunnels running beneath the Square, extending deep into the earth even under the Kremlin. Although many such underground passages had been known to exist, this network was entirely new to the modern world; these tunnels, and the chambers that adjoined them, were significantly deeper and more remote than any other known Kremlin passages. They had been unseen, as far as anyone could determine, since the late 1500s. They dated from the era of Ivan IV (\"the Terrible\") . They had been sealed up after Ivan's death, for reasons unknown.  \nThe most significant of the discoveries in these tunnels was of the half-legendary, so-called \"Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible.\" This small chamber contained ","cbCaisfPKz8czbbV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisfPKz8czbbV","pdf",695351,21,"English","# Introduction\n# Background\n# The Tunnels\n# Plan of the Kremlin","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the story text for a Call of Cthulhu game?\",\"answer\":\"It is designed for the Keeper to stage an adventure, providing narrative descriptions and timelines to form a backdrop for the Players’ actions.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is Alexei Samsonov in the setup?\",\"answer\":\"He is a Red Army officer in Berlin on a secret training mission who is abruptly ordered to return to Moscow for urgent reasons.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the tunnels beneath Red Square discovered?\",\"answer\":\"They are uncovered during Soviet construction work excavating Red Square for the permanent Lenin mausoleum, revealing a network sealed since Ivan IV’s era.\"},{\"question\":\"What crucial item is found within the Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible?\",\"answer\":\"A rare set of books and manuscripts, including a Greek translation copy of the Necronomicon.\"}]","Secrets of the Kremlin - Part 1 - Call of Cthulhu adventure background | PDF",1791313927,32]