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- From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
- Subject: Miskatonic U graduate kit?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.201936.11446@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:19:36 GMT
- Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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- I'm not a heavyweight CoC player, but I enjoy the mythos. Several
- years ago I picked up something called the "Miskatonic University
- Graduate Kit". I *think* it was from Chaosium. This included pennants,
- ID badges (laminate in your own photo), course catalogs, diplomas,
- etc, all of which might convince the naive that you'd actually
- attended the hallowed halls of Ol' Misk.
-
- The prize item, as far as I was concerned, was the car decal. It
- was a standard university rear window decal, reading (in white,
- official looking letters): "MISKATONIC U.", with a school slogan
- beneath in smaller black letters - "Lux et Tenebras" (or something
- like that).
-
- This decal graced my car for many years (my real university
- didn't have them when I was there). It had just the right level of
- weirdness for me - those in the know would get the joke, those who had
- never heard of Lovecraft would ignore it, and some might have vague
- memories of something creepy about it.
-
- About a month ago my rear window was broken in an accident, and I
- lost the decal. I'd love to replace it. Does anyone know where I can
- obtain another kit (it was $10-$15), or even just the decal? Please
- post or write.
- thanks,
- Peter Trei
-