Miskatonic Monday #307: No Witness

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: No Witness: a 1940s Film Noir Mystery

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Brendan Lahey

Setting: Montreal, 1943

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifty-one page, 10.18 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Serial killer, murder Mythos mystery

Plot Hook: A suicide is murder by any other name... Unless it’s an actual murder

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, twelve handouts, one map, eleven NPCs, two Mythos tomes, one Mythos spell, and six Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Clue rich, delightfully investigative scenario

# Suitably plotted like a Film Noir

# Good use of period photographs

# Could be the start of a series

# Hemophobia

# Wiccanophobia

# Foniasophobia

Cons

# A would be singer with no Sing skill?

# Needs a slight edit
# Many photographs could be handouts if organised better
# A floorplan or two would have been useful

Conclusion

# Enjoyably muscular investigative mystery

# “Down these Mythos streets, a man must go who is not himself Mythos, and who is neither insane nor afraid.” (with apologies to) – Raymond Chandler