Spooky Aurora's WHITE CITY

Occult Investigators Patrol The 1893 World's Fair for Supernatural Threats.

WHITE CITY contains everything you need to Pick Up and Play.
An introduction to Play Style and examples of Game Play.
Lore drops that establish the foundations of Spooky Aurora.
Basic Moves and a Flow Chart to visualize the Game Loop.
A Character Sheet that walks you though character construction.
Nine of the Ten Adventures in Zine form.

WHITE CITY was designed for busy people!
It was built for a Walk-In Club, conventions, gaming in a bar, or restaurant.

2-8 people can create characters, start and finish an adventure in about 3 hours.
Each adventure has a question that focuses the table.
The game also has mechanics that tell you, "It's time to wrap things up!"
What if you don't want to play that fast?
"Rules are more like guidelines."
If you want to slow the pace down, go for it!

This is a tight game, with simple mechanics, so busy people can enjoy gaming.
But can you run a long term campaign?
Yes!
Star Trek is a 60 year old franchise and Law and Order has 25 seasons.
Playing episodic adventures over multiple sessions is a long term game!

The Handbook is for players and contains their character sheet.
Give one to each player.

End of Line is a sheet that helps a Facilitator track Mission Resolution.

Mission Cards are an expanded version of the missions detailed in WHITE CITY.
Each Mission Cards includes cover art that helps set the tone.
Three QR Codes offer additional insight into what inspired the adventures.
Mission Cards are like Jazz lead sheets.
Print them out and hand them to every player.

The Mission Summaries are as follows:

Pusher:
When a relative falls in front of a train attempting to leave The 1893 World’s Fair. An Investigator familiar with the maliciousness nature of mankind asks, “Were they pushed?”

Annie Got Her Gun:
When the Knights of the Lone Sentry fail to capture The Whispered Name at The Columbian Exposition. They appeal to a potential ally, The Rifle Queen: Annie Oakley!
Will Little Sure-Shot help The Knights of the Lone Sentry stop The Whispered Name? What happens if she declines?

When Vikings Stormed Chicago:
To celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering America, a group of Norwegians sailed a Viking Ship to the Columbian Exposition. The Crew of the Viking insist they are celebrating the perseverance of humanity. Yet where every the Viking goes, trouble follows. The World’s Fair has no room for parody. The Knights of the Lone Sentry are looking for mystic hi-jinks. What kind of trickery is afoot?

The Curious Case of the Chicago Curator:
“Anthropology” is a new science making its debut at the Exposition.  The Logan-Rust Collection displays artifacts and proposes how people from different times and cultures carried out their lives. The shows Curator delayed opening the display, then suddenly disappeared. If one of the artifacts is cursed, this a problem only The Knights of the Lone Sentry can solve.

Meet Me at the Fair:
When Scott Joplin comes to Chicago to listen to Fredrick Douglas speak at The Columbian Exposition’s Colored American Day. He pays his way by playing ‘rags’ at bars and brothels.  When a Boundary Being called The Entertainer, hears Joplin’s music, it must possess this new sound.
Can Scott Joplin save himself from The Entertainer?
Can Aurora’s Investigators help the piano player become the future King of Ragtime?

Creature from the Wooded Island:
A marshy swamp was dredged to create the wooded island and the lagoons that surround it. Local fauna were dislocated during it's construction. As the woooded island nears completion, wildlife returns to the area...
It has come to the attention of Fredrick Olmstead, designer of the Wooded Island, and Lewis Lindsay Dyche, creator of the Panorama of North American Plants and Animals that an unknown animal or "cryptid" is living on the island.
The Modern Order of Spartans are hired to determine the fate of this creature.

The Horror at Bubbly Creek:
Stockyard workers are blocking the entrance to the World's Fair, demanding better wages, improved safety standards, and an answers to what happened to missing workers. The last part grabs the attention of The Knights of the Lone Sentry. There are rumors of something living off the waste discarded by the slaughter house.  If something unnatural is killing people. It's the sworn duty of the Knights of the Lone Sentry to get involved.   

The Hat Man:
The bigger the light, the larger the shadow.
The Exposition uses three times more electricity than all of Chicago. There’s nothing in the world like it. They say The Hat Man was drawn to Chicago by the 160,000 light bulbs that illuminate the White City. The Modern Order of Spartans intends to capture a Shadow Creature, a “Hat Man.”
It’s the Age of Progress.
It’s time to prove monsters are real.

A Practical Book to Missing Children and Cats:
In 1893 T.S. Eliot is 5 years old.  There’s no evidence he visited The Columbian Exposition, but what if he did?
Little Tommy wants to see "The Jellicle Ball." However, no such event is listed at the Exposition. When “Possum” disappears looking for the event, his sister Ada asks her father for help. Henry Ware Eliot is a successful Industrialist who uses his network to contact The Modern Order of Spartans. A missing child is a serious thing  and Knights of the Lone Sentry agree to join in the search.
Possum, was last seen looking for The Jellicle Ball at The Streets of Cairo. If the investigators can understand where Tommy thinks The Jellicle Ball is, maybe they can find him.

Madman in Mid-Air:
They say he started screaming.
Then he tried to leap from the contraption.
If it wasn’t for The Cool Woman, he’d be dead.
The Modern Order of Spartans have a Hypothesis. The Mad Man in Mid-Air entered The Vortex. The MOS intends to do the same thing. They will interview The Cool Woman, the Mad Man, and use what they learn to unlock the secrets of Ferris’ Wheel.
The Human Adventure Begins.

If you live in the Fox Valley or Chicago and purchased the OG Zine.
Send a picture of your copy, and say where you bought it to get a Digital KEY!