Miskatonic Monday #311: Lights in the Trees

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: Lights in the Trees

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Matt ‘Doc’ Tracey

Setting: New York, 1975

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Forty-three page, 19.46 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: War is hell and so are the memories

Plot Hook: A war buddy is dead. Was it natural causes or...?

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Veterans, four handouts, one map, seven NPCs, and one Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Archetypal memory & Mythos scenario for Call of Cthulhu

# Solid period feel

# Classic atmosphere of seventies paranoia

# Xylophobia

# Mnemophobia

# Mycophobia

Cons

# Obvious inspiration may be too obvious

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Decently done period feel

# Archetypal Call of Cthulhu scenario of paranoia and uncertain memory set in the most paranoid decade