Miskatonic Monday #326: Flash Cthulhu – The Cavernous Haunt

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: Flash Cthulhu – The Cavernous Haunt

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Michael Reid

Setting: 15,000 BCE, Transcaucasia

Product: One-Location, One-Hour Scenario
What You Get: Eight page, 2.62 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: On the mountain of madness

Plot Hook: Sometimes caves are home to more than just bears...

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, three NPCs, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Simple and short

# Encounter far beyond the comprehension of the investigators

# Speluncaphobia

# Trypophobia

# Diokophobia

Cons

# Potential for a party split

# Potential to end the scenario very, very early

# Potential Monolithic evolutionary possibilities (but left unexplored)

Conclusion

# Hooting horror on the mountain of madness

# Stone Age Survival horror