SESSION 1
Synopsis
At the campaign's opening, the characters were standing on a subway-surface trolley platform near City Hall in Philadelphia. It was Friday, June 4, 1920. None of the characters knew one another and each was traveling somewhere in town for their own purposes. As they all rode along in a Route 34 trolley car, a fight broke out between two passengers (one accused the other of pick-pocketing his wallet). As the fight became heated, the passengers slowly drifted to the middle of the car around the two men and the driver stopped the car in the middle of the tunnel, between stations. People clamored; a few players tried to bribe the driver to keep the car moving; bedlam was erupting.
While this was happening, one passenger (an old woman) discretely grabbed hold of another passenger (a young woman who was pregnant), pressed something in her hand to the young woman's side, and spoke strange words. Though most were focused on the fight, one player noticed the women and tried to intervene, which caught the attention of another passenger (an NPC), who jumped in and separated the two women. The old woman lashed out with a small knife before crawling out an open window, dropping down into the tunnel, and running off into the darkness. Eventually, the driver pulled up to the station, where police were waiting, having been alerted by a Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. worker who was in the tunnel near the trolley when it stopped.