Miskatonic Monday #322: Flash Cthulhu – Whistling Bones

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of Arthurian legend and romance, Pendragon, the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition is a curated platform for user-made content. It is thus, “...a new way for creators to publish and distribute their own original Call of Cthulhu content including scenarios, settings, spells and more…” To support the endeavours of their creators, Chaosium has provided templates and art packs, both free to use, so that the resulting releases can look and feel as professional as possible. To support the efforts of these contributors, Miskatonic Monday is an occasional series of reviews which will in turn examine an item drawn from the depths of the Miskatonic Repository.

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Name: Flash Cthulhu – Whistling Bones

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Michael Reid

Setting: Venezuela, 1861

Product: One-Location, One-Hour Scenario
What You Get: Eight page, 2.84 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Whistle and la revolución shall come to you.

Plot Hook: Halloween hacienda horror waaayy down south

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, one floorplan, forty NPCs, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# One-shot scenario for Down Darker Trails: Terrors of the Mythos in the Old West

# Could be adapted to other military situations

# Different setting for a scenario

# Corpses and confinement—and the corpses are weird

# Misophobia

# Necrophobia

# Cleithrophobia

Cons

# Does set the Investigators against each other

# Scenario too short to take advantage of the setting

Conclusion

# Short, desperate hacienda horror which works better if the Keeper can whistle

# Potentially interesting setting and period of play undone by the short play length