Miskatonic Monday #397: Operation Bottleneck

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: Operation Bottleneck

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Chicho ‘Arkashka’ OCARIZ

Setting: World War II Spain

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-nine page, 20.62 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A rock hunt takes Allied stalwarts from the Rock deep into Spain

Plot Hook: Spain is ‘neutral’ right now, but will it be after Tartessos Suchexpedition?

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, five NPCs, nine maps, two Mythos monsters, and a giant robot.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Can be run using Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos

# Sequel to Operation Midnight Sun

# Nicely detailed with lots for Investigators to do in Gibraltar

# Lovely period maps

# Batrachophobia

# Speluncaphobia

# Robophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Initial Sanity penalties overblown

# More military operation than Mythos investigation

# Not clear what the Investigators achieve

# Ends in a big fight with little to discover

Conclusion

# Action and stealth-focused World War II scenario

# Ultimately does not feel as if the Investigators achieve much or push the plot forward very far