Miskatonic Monday #341: The Silent Cure

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: The Silent Cure

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Andrew ‘Lunitar’ Babcock

Setting: Modern Day

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-six page, 2.69 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Inhalation of the Body Snatchers
Plot Hook: What if the cure is the infection?

Plot Support: Staging advice, six hundred NPCs (victims), and four Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Spotty. Literally.

Pros

# Classic invasion/infection paranoia scenario

# Easy to adapt to any modern small town

# Creepy atmosphere

# Paranoia

# Nosophobia

# Sternutaphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# No maps or floorplans
# Could have been better organised

Conclusion

# Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Night of the Living Dead

# “You don’t have to fight anymore. Just breathe.”