The Vanished: A One Page Dungeon
A downloadable One Page Dungeon
A Winner's Circle recipient for the 2022 One Page Dungeon Contest!
The Digital Transformation department is typically a hive of activity. But something is different. Its occupants are gone, vanished into thin air. The only clue to their disappearance lies in a power surge that cascaded through the building, shorting out critical systems.
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The Vanished is a system agnostic dive into a corporate horror dungeon, originally created for the 2022 One Page Dungeon Contest. Brave the horrors of corporate drudgery to solve the mystery of the missing workers.
While perfectly suitable for use with your system of choice, this dungeon should pair nicely with the following:
Better yet, add this dungeon to The Bureau to fill in one of the classified floors!
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Version 2.0 now available! Originally put together for the Fear Bundle by The Lost Bay, V2.0 expands the adventure into an A3-sized poster, adding new rooms, stats for Liminal Horror, and art by Zach Hazard Vaupen.
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The Vanished is an independent production, with writing & design by Josh Domanski. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Development log
- V2.0Nov 23, 2023
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Ran this for a one-shot and it was really fun! I ran it in FATE Accelerate (FAE) and was able use it there with little problem! Drew the map myself, but on the GM side, love how readable everything is for where to find/describe everything. I made the first aid and fire extinguishers on post-it notes in case my players took one of them, which they did; they had fun sticking them to their character's token. I also added post-it notes as they discovered each room with the name of it. Made some playlists that I think helped with the vibes. Here they are if you want to play them when you run it! (I'm not the happiest with my fight music playlist, so just gonna list my ambiance playlists!)
General Ambiance
Creepy/Tense
Extra Creepy (damn tbh should've used this one for fight music)
Also used Elevator Hitch main them looping for rules/character creation.
If you also want to run it in FAE, here's what I did! For situation aspects, I had one that was "Power Surge", and I used "Surveillance Cameras" to have the Host spy on them through them using tech powers. I was able to use the text provided to come up with the character sheets for the Host and the Echos. Didn't fill out all 3 aspects cuz it was a oneshot but you can use what I have as a starting point. I also didn't write a stunt for the echos, but if I were to do one, it would probably be something like: strobe or flood of memories- Add a +2 when forcefully attacking during a conflict. You can also make some stunt about them trying to take your body or spreading the virus, but I never got around to wording it. I made an extra for the first aid that had to do with consequences, but I never ended up using. Tbh I could've done an extra for spreading around the virus but didn't do that either.
One of my players' high concepts was "Unwilling Office Nepo-baby," so I made her his daughter for some fun conflict! And someone played an HR lady who aired out all of Lance Gridlock's dirty secrets. So my version of Gridlock was savable since that felt more fun, but I could see a version where he's dead to be just as fun!
Aspects
High Concept: Life-sucking sentient computer virus
Trouble: Still getting the hang of limbs
Other Aspect: Amalgamation of Man & Technology
Stunts
Evolutionary Algorithm: When atks are repeated in the same method, add a +2 to Defense. Spend FP on new ATKs from characters who previously Atk.
System Reboot: By spending a FP teleport out of a scene. If any consequences, this is free. Regenerates in the server room after a scene.
Careful: +0 Clever +4 Forceful: +3 Quick: +2 Sneaky: +1 Flashy: +1
4 Stress boxes
Echos
Aspects
High Concept: Faded Facsimile of their former selves
Trouble: Unfinished Business
Other Aspect: Infected Holographic Bodies
Careful: +1 Clever +1 Forceful:+3 Flashy: +2 +3 Quick: +2 Sneaky: +0
This is incredible. Glad it went well!
Hi! Can we get more community copies, please? Thanks!
Print proofs from the Fear Bundle for The Vanished.