The Things We Leave Behind
Details
Publisher: Stygian Fox
Product Code: TBA
Announce Date: January 3, 2013
Expected Publication Date: "Q3, 2013"
Project Status: On Track
Expected Page Count: TBA
Author(s): Jeff Moeller, Simon Brake, Steff Worthington, Adrian Gawain Jones?, Tad Kelson?, others?
Artist(s): TBA
Setting(s): Modern
Format(s): TBA
ISBN: #########-#
Contents
This publication was mentioned in the January 3, 2013 press release which announced that Stygian Fox had become a Call of Cthulhu licensee.
This will be a dark collection of stand-alone, modern-day scenarios, each examining the Mythos from the perspective of its impact on innocent lives. Each scenario begins with something symbolic having been left behind.
There are no cuddly plushies here — well, except in one case, where a stuffed ladybug backpack is what has been left behind by a young kidnap victim.
The scenarios in this collection will aim to shock and horrify your players, and will be geared at mature gamers. They deal will with difficult subjects such as child abductions, bullying, runaways, murders, suicide, and the stark knowledge that mankind itself can be more cold and calculating than anything from time and space. This is not to say that these are non-Mythos pieces; on the contrary, they seek to examine the full extent of the horror that would logically be endured if such things existed in today’s world. Nor is it to say that we lack a sense of humor. Laughter is the initial reaction to discomfort. But happy endings? Not bloody likely, we’re afraid.
The Things We Leave Behind will include:
The security camera-captured abduction of a sick, five year old girl from a busy big box store, leaving behind the plushie backpack that her medication pump is carried in, captures the attention of the tabloid television industry, and the F.B.I.’s Missing and Exploited Children Task Force.
Featuring "a bizarre doodle in a cold case file"
- Roots, by Simon Brake.
Karen, a 15 year old tomboy, has gone missing from a camping trip near the town of Geverlon, leaving behind a secret letter from her birth mother encouraging her to come for a visit. But where have all the men in town gone?
Several years ago, Bobby Horn, a 17-year old jock, left behind a bizarre, rambling suicide note full of references to pop culture television shows that he had no interest in, as well as other, darker things. The closer that the investigators get to the truth, the more reality begins to unravel.
For years there have been rumours about the Fowler House. Spooky stories told by the local kids who'd just walk past it on a dare. The truth of that old house on the hill is darker than anyone expects.
- Snowfall, by Adrian Gawain Jones.
Featuring "a submarine base"
Scenarios: Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Moeller), Forget Me Not (Sammons), Roots (Brake), The Night Season (Moeller), The House of Lost Stories (Worthington), Snowfall (Jones).
Front Cover Text
For Mature Gamers
Six Adventures Into Horror and the Unknown
Back Cover Text
List all the text from the back cover.
Comments / Trivia
List dedication, color plates, rarity of the book, etc.
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