Miskatonic Monday #318: Beyond the Edge of Darkness

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: Beyond the Edge of Darkness
Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Matthew Tansek

Setting: Egypt, 1923
Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-Seven page, 36.38 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: It’s a sequel to ‘Edge of Darkness’
Plot Hook: If the father cannot be saved, then at least the son can be.
Plot Support: Staging advice, five NPCs, two handouts, one map, seven Mythos artefacts, and one Mythos monster.
Production Values: Decent

Pros
# Sequel to ‘Edge of Darkness’
# Can be played using the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set
# Part of ‘The Next Adventure’ series
# Part of the Call of Cthulhu – Ongoing Horror BUNDLE

# Alternative hooks provided

# Solid set-up for a sequel to ‘Edge of Darkness’

# Heliophobia
# Pyrophobia

# Achondroplasiaphobia

Cons
# Needs a slight edit

# ‘Speakeasies’ [sic] of Cairo?

# Clues to the finale location could have been stronger

Conclusion
# Investigation loses momentum
# Suitably straightforward sequel to ‘Edge of Darkness’