THE TUNNELS The real beginning of the story had occurred about half a year earlier, when Soviet construction workers were excavating a portion of Red Square for the permanent Lenin mausoleum. The cable had struck him like a hammer blow in the night. Why did they want him? He searched his mind for failures, for improprieties - he Secrets of the Kremlin © T.O.M.E.įound none. He felt the drunkenness leave him like a spirit.
"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 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. For all its importance, the order had not even been coded: RETURN TO MOSCOW IMMEDIATELY, it said. When Samsonov reached his room another attaché was there, and handed him the cabled message. Several people in the hall, hearing the word in the unfamiliar language, turned to look at him. "Immediately?" said Samsonov out loud, in Russian. 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. They were in too pleasant a mind to talk about their work, and it was forbidden anyway. The two men at the table with him were also officers, but they wore the uniform of the German Reichswehr. BACKGROUND Alexei 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. Keepers are urged to photocopy the various pages contained in this story and hand them out at appropriate times. Ultimate presentation, however, is entirely at the Keepers discretion. Narrative descriptions and specific time lines mesh easily together to form a living backdrop against which the Players will act out their drama. This story is designed to allow the Keeper of Arcane Knowledge (Keeper) to stage an adventure for the Players. The 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. Lovecraft, by permission of Arkham House. INTRODUCTION The 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.
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