Cthulhu Dark - The Clay Ships

RSVPs will open Tuesday 8/19 6:30 pm

Part of series of linked, but standalone scenarios for Cthulhu Dark, set in the not too distant future. Returning players and characters are welcome. So are new players!

The Vanguard corporation has a contract for one of these colonies, Xanadu Fields. The company inherited it from age-old mergers in a time before Vanguard was even called Vanguard. The company runs ships there monthly—it’s been like that for centuries—bringing the colonists food and oxygen tanks. Vanguard crews never stay or try to communicate much with the colonists who’ve grown very strange. The company has tried to locate the original transactions linking Vanguard to Xanadu Fields, trying to learn who created this colony, or why it’s been maintained for so long, but all the original records have been purged. It’s a liability Vanguard has not been able to shake or exploit.

Now Vanguard communications relays have picked up something that make might the colony a whole lot more interesting: it is emitting stellar signatures. Stellar—as in galactic travel stellar. There is a radar line stretching from the colony and all the way to the Algol system, way out in the constellation of Perseus. Communications on this level is far, far beyond any current tech. So how can it be that someone or something in this remote colony, where the people can barely boil water, is reaching all the way out into deep space?

So there it is—a new investigation for you. Make contact with the colonists and find out what’s going on. Pack oxygen masks and Kevlar clothes. You’ll need them.