Among the Dead (1e)
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As the Earth slips further into chaos and despair¸ some places have far less to slide.
"One of New York City's largest children's hospitals¸ funded by 'private donations¸' is being used to provide orphans as human raw material for some unspeakable purpose. This could have gone on for a long time¸ had not one of the nurses stumbled on part of the secret. She vanished¸ just another victim of the city's lawlessness¸ but leaving a worried and suspicious uncle.
"On another part of the globe¸ Moscow¸ amidst the ruins of a Russia blighted by pollution¸ war¸ hunger¸ and fear¸ there stands an age-old figure of unimaginable evil. Once he was called Koshchey Bessmertny¸ Koshchey the Undying¸ and he became the dark enemy of Russian fairy tales and folklore¸ a name to whisper when the moon passed behind a cloud. In the 1930s and '40s¸ they called him another name¸ and he became the sinister mind behind the deaths of millions in the Siberian Gulag.
"What he does not know is that the disapearance of a simple provincial nurse threatens to bring these loose strands together into the noose that may at last catch him. If¸ that is¸ the players are able to face and overcome the horrors waiting them... Among the Dead.