Tales of the Monolith #2 - Trail of the Monolith

There's been a robbery at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A priceless artifact recovered by a team of archeologists from Miskatonic University is missing and reports from a witness bring inti question the nature of the thieves and their motivation. Unraveling the clues sets the investigators on the path of a world-wide conspiracy leading them from the world's great cities to the densest of jungles and the coldest of frozen wastes.

The Trail of the Monolith is a 1920s-era globe-trotting campaign for three to five intrepid investigators that can be played over several sessions. Although it can be played alone, the campaign is prefaced by The Scales of Time, and is part of a collection of eldritch adventures written by Mike Nagel and collected across three volumes.

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"The first volume, THE SCALES OF TIME is a prequel of sorts to the second volume THE TRAIL OF THE MONOLITH. I actually wrote the latter first, having been inspired by DiTillio’s Masks of Nyarlathotep. Once you get through Masks, particularly as a Keeper, writing anything other than a globe-spanning campaign seems a let-down. I wrote this while at Miami University in the 1980s, while playing with an amazing group of gamers that included luminaries like John H. Crowe III (“Walker in the Wastes”) and Jeff Moeller (“The Primal State”) among other great players and Keepers … yes, I have no problems with dropping names!

I followed that up with SCALES, which I wanted to be more of a mystery where the players had to determine who the bad guy actually was (among lots of potential suspects). Hopefully players will be shocked by the big reveal! While writing SCALES, I noted that one of its key elements really tied in with THE TRAIL OF THE MONOLITH and that combining the two could result in some more SAN rolls at the appropriate times. I’ve been tweaking this campaign over the years, and have run into some really neat synchronistic moments."

_Michael P. Nagel.

Scales of Time and Trail of the Monolith - two new linked adventures on the Miskatonic Repository