Miskatonic Monday #441: The Black String

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 Black String

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: doumoku

Setting: Japan 1996

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Twenty-six page, 3.94 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Invasion of the Body Worm

Plot Hook: A missing entomophile? A changed entomologist?
Plot Support: Staging advice, three NPCs, six handouts, three floorplans and maps, one Mythos tome, two new new Mythos spells, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Insects and body horror make for a classic threat

# Pleasing combination of theme and Mythos

# Has its creepy moments. Worm shower anyone?

# Solid investigation undone by the translation

# Scoleciphobia

# Mysophobia

# Entomophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Challenging to read

# Weak introduction

# Would benefit from pre-generated Investigators with motives

Conclusion

# Challenging to run due to the underwhelming introduction and translation

# Insect invading body horror at the Insectarium with some well done creepy scenes