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The campaign is set in 1889, using Aces & Eights rules, very historical. The PCs are railroad detectives for the Union Pacific. The UP is pounding the rails, using, as they historically did, Chinese labor in a near-slavery status, losing the traditional two lives per mile.

So you have the railway workers, several tangs (organised criminal gangs) providing gambling, girls (human trafficking) and opium: the traditional trinity of the railways at that time, which provided the workers with sufficient distraction.

And reformers who confront Cain about opium and human trafficking.

And inevitably there are a few brave souls among the Chinese workers who are trying to organize the working class for better conditions and wages.

There are language, cultural and social barriers.

The PCs must identify and suppress any unionization, keep the gambling, girls, and opium from getting out of hand, prevent the Tongs from shedding too much blood or becoming too powerful/conceited, and ensure that the reformers are not injured or spoil the crucial pressure relief of gambling, girls, and opium (which keeps the labor force somewhat in check).

It may involve multiple sessions.

But I can’t get it off the ground. The pieces are all there, there’s huge potential, and yet I can’t seem to put these great pieces together into a viable scenario(s).

Does anyone have any suggestions? Anything to get me started? I have two dozen scenarios prepared and I am creatively fried.