Miskatonic Monday #313: Starport Helios

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: Starport Helios

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Geoff Bridges

Setting: Edge of the Milky Way, 2370

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Ten page, 1.43 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Moon in deep spaaace…!

Plot Hook: Déjà vu in, yes, deep spaaace…!

Plot Support: Staging advice.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# One Investigator, one Keeper Science Fiction Future Era horror scenario

# Easy to run

# Can be played in an hour (or a lot less if the Keeper provides a pre-generated Investigator)

# Thanatophobia

# Trypophobia

# Autophobia

Cons

# If the aim is evolution, what is the aim of the evolution?

# Very, very short

# Science Fiction rather than Mythos horror

# No real Investigator agency

Conclusion

# Leaves player and Keeper with the question, “Yes, and?”

# Serviceable in all senses of the word, except a positive one