Miskatonic Monday #347: The Demon of the Deep Leads

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: The Demon of the Deep Leads

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author David Waldron

Setting: Ballarat, 1854

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Forty-three page, 21.49 MB PDF

Elevator Pitch: The Blue Mountains panther hunts by night

Plot Hook: Hunt for a missing man in time of chaos
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, three handouts, two maps, four NPCs, one non-Mythos monster, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Reasonable.

Pros

# Combines Cthulhu by Gaslight and Call of Cthulhu: Darker Trails, but in Australia!

# Engaging historically based scenario

# Solid interaction investigation

# Straightforward, uncomplicated

# Can be run as a non-Mythos horror scenario

# Ailurophobia

# Teratophobia

# Amychophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# No pre-generated Investigator backgrounds

# Underwritten introduction

Conclusion

# Uncomplicated scenario against a chaotic background

# Engaging sense of history combined with an urban legend