Miskatonic Monday #333: Bride of the Wilds

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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Bride of the Wilds
Name: Bride of the Wilds

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: H.S. Falkenberry

Setting: Appalachian Mountains, Georgia, 1932

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Twenty-eight page, 3.5 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Sometimes the forest is fulsomely fecund.

Plot Hook: Witchcraft in the woods and a missing woman. Could they be connected?

Plot Support: Staging advice, four handouts, six NPCs, ten Mythos tomes, and four Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Detailed missing persons case

# Solid investigation

# Easy to adjust to other eras for Call of Cthulhu

# Will end in a gunfight, but who should the Investigators shoot?

# Decent handouts

# Nyctohylophobia

# Wiccaphobia

# Tokophobia

Cons

# An abundance of Mythos Tomes

# Will end in a gunfight, but who should the Investigators shoot?

Conclusion

# Detailed investigation leads to a gunfight with a difficult choice

# Solid fear of the forest one-shot