Alone Against the Dark
Details
Publisher: Chaosium
Product Code: 2312
Publishing Year: 1985
Pages: 64
Cover Price: $?
Author: Matthew J. Costello
Illustrations: Krawczyk
Diagrams and Insert: Carolyn Schultz
Silhouette: Lisa A. Free
Settings: 1920s
Formats: Softcover
ISBN: 0-933635-26-5
Contents
Scenarios: Alone Against the Dark (Scenario)
Additional: Introduction, Player Handouts
Front Cover Text
Defying the Triumph of the Ice
Back Cover Text
Four Friends in Peril...
- Special Pyramid Search Insert.
- 593 Entries -- Many Sub-Adventures and Horrifying Outcomes.
- Trace Numbers for Convenient Backtracking.
- Location System for Free-Will Geographical Movement Between Programmed Story Tracks.
- Calendrical Record-Keeping and Expenditures in a Race Against Time.
- Modified, Removable Investigator Sheets.
ALONE AGAINST THE DARK is a sinister solo adventure for CALL OF CTHULHU roleplayers. Beginning with the theft of a priceless relic, four friends are drawn one by one into a dark design of mystery and terror. As first a quiet linguistics professor from Miskatonic University, you must solve the riddle of disturbing disappearances to foresetall grim disasters which threaten the planet.
Professor Louis Grunewald -- the brains of the bunch
Ernest Holt -- the man with the money
Nora McShane -- the story is hers at the flutter of an eyelid
Lt. Devon Wilson -- the dashing young man of the sea
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