Contact by Cameron Tressler is a role playing game supplement published by Chaosium Inc. through the Miskatonic Repository Community Content Programme for use with Call of Cthulhu, the horror role playing game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. This is a modern-day scenario.
The supplement is available as a nine page Pay What You Want DPF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover and one the front matter.
The Keeper Introduction explains that about a year ago a person was abducted by Mi-Go in Texas and experimented on. About six months ago, he encountered what he thought was a like-minded group; however, they were believers in little grey men and Lovecraftian horrors were considered absurd by most. A couple of members were interested, exchanged messages with the person and set off looking for the Mi-Go, but haven’t been heard from since. Details are given on various NPCs.
Beginning the Scenario has the investigators contacted by the older sister of one of the two missing people and hired to find him. The characters can speak to his place of employment and go to the trailer park where he lived to gain information, as well as check out the group they were members of and that groups website. They can also speak to the person the Mi-Go abducted; he is trying to summon the Mi-Go to him. The characters can then go looking for the two missing men which will lead them to the abduction site and the Mi-Go base.
Wrapping Up the Scenario are how the characters can sort things out.
The final two pages have handouts.
Contact in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is short enough that they aren’t needed, though there are enough different sections that they would have been useful. Navigation is adequate. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors, though layout could have been better in places. The only illustrations are handouts. Presentation is adequate.
This is a simple enough adventure, and it should be easy enough to drop it into another location; with a bit more work, it could be placed in an older period as well. It’s also an adventure where about all the characters are going to get from it is paid; they aren’t going to succeed at anything else. Contact can be found by clicking here.
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