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Any similarity between characters in this book and persons living, dead, imaginary, children of nature, infested by semi-extradimensional spawn, or otherwise not quite right, is entirely coincidental. Call of Cthulhu is the Registered Trademark of Chaoisum Inc., and is used with permission under [license. www.chaosium.com](license. www.chaosium.com)  \nFeel free to contact us through our Facebook page at [https://www.facebook.com/StygianFoxPublishing/](https://www.facebook.com/StygianFoxPublishing/)  \n[Published by Stygian Fox](Published by Stygian Fox), [Chester](Chester), CH1 3EE, UK.  \n[https://stygianfox.wordpress.com/](https://stygianfox.wordpress.com/)  \nPrinted on Earth  \nthe things we leave behind  \nFor mature readers  \nWritten by  \nJeff Moeller, Brian M. Sammons, Simon Brake, Oscar Rios, and Scott Dorward  \nLine Editor  \nJeff Moeller  \nart by  \nDavide Como and Stephanie McAlea  \nLayout and Design by  \nBadger McInnes  \nCartography by  \nStephanie McAlea  \nCOver Art by  \nAnton Raath and Stephanie McAlea  \nHandouts by  \nDean Englehardt and Badger McInnes  \nCover Design by  \nStephanie McAlea  \nLady of Disorder at Stygian Fox  \nStephanie McAlea  \nTable of Contents  \nLadybug, Ladybug, Fly Away home by jeffrey moeller  .................... 7  \nForget Me Not by brian m  . sammons  .................. 32  \nRoots  \nby simon brake  ...................... 57  \nHell in Texas by scott dorward  .................... 85  \nThe Night Season by jeffrey moeller  .................. 100  \nIntimate Encounters by oscar rios  ...................... 122  \nDedication  \nSimon: Dedicated to my wife, Carol Brake, and my friend, David J Rodger. And special thanks to the King in the Woods who dwells in the woods south of Chester, and Stephanie McAlea, who dwells within Chester’s walls.  \nStephanie: To my daughter who taught me to dream for others.  \nJeff: To Cookie, who left me alone from house chores long enough.  \nIntroduction and Musingson Trigger Warnings  \nA little girl’s stuffed ladybug backpack. One’s identity and memories. A psychotic, rambling suicide note full of Dreamlandsand sci-fi television references. A letter from a teenager’s biological mother, postmarked from “one of those kinds of towns.”Acrazed rant about the futility of religion and the inevitable triumph of Satan. A tawdry hookup solicitation on a particularly sleazy personals bulletin board. What do these things all have in common? They are all things that have been left behind by their owners, things that will draw your investigators into their orbits. Unpleasant, decaying orbits into darkness and terrible choices.  \nThis is Stygian Fox’s first book, and we’re trying to set ourselves apart a bit, both in terms of style and substance, from other modern-era Call of Cthulhu treatments. One thing that we strove for is to structure each scenario so that it could start something bigger. When people asked me how long should a scenario be, I answered: “however long it needs to be to stand on its own.”You’ll see that there are freestanding cults, threads, and lots of other meat on the bones of a particular plot. If you don’t like one scenario, then hopefully there are enough ideas that you can use to homebrew something of your own.  \nAnother thing that we strove for is a more modern, photo-realistic look and feel. 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