Miskatonic Monday #198: 52 Hz

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, anthology, or campaign, each was a showcase for their authors—amateur rather than professional, but fans of Call of Cthulhu nonetheless—to put forward their ideas and share with others. The programme was notable for having launched the writing careers of several authors, but for every Cthulhu Invictus, The Pastores, Primal State, Ripples from Carcosa, and Halloween Horror, there was Five Go Mad in Egypt, Return of the Ripper, Rise of the Dead, Rise of the Dead II: The Raid, and more...

The Miskatonic University Library Association brand is no more, alas, but what we have in its stead is the Miskatonic Repository, based on the same format as the DM’s Guild for Dungeons & Dragons. 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: 52 Hz

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Michał Pietrzak

Setting: Modern Day Pacific

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifteen page, 380.02 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The song of the loneliest whale reveals horrors out of time.

Plot Hook: A Miskatonic University research expedition reveals horrors in the most unexpected of places.
Plot Support: One handout, five (forty) NPCs, one map, and seventeen Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain.

Pros

# One session Scientific Action one-shot

# Suitable for two to three Investigators
# Mythos on Mythos action
# Nice sense of environment

# Literally ends with a big bang

# Thalassophobia

# Aquaphobia

# Megalohydrothalassophobia

# Nucleomituphobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# Tightly plotted

# Bland layout

# Bland maps

# No pre-generated Investigators

Conclusion

# Exciting one session scientific action aquatic one-shot let down by a lack of pre-generated Investigators

# Horrors out of the past drive a Mythos conflict with everyone else caught up in the Mythos on Mythos action