Miskatonic Monday #358: Desperate Measures

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: Desperate Measures

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Keith Craig

Setting: Modern day Lincoln, Nebraska

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifteen page, 1.30 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch:“Can calm despair and wild unrest / Be tenants of a single breast, / Or sorrow such a changeling be?”— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.

Plot Hook: How can a woman turn up dead when she died seventeen years before, less than a year old?

Plot Support: Staging advice, one NPC, two handouts, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Detailed, but uncomplicated plot

# Easy to add to a campaign

# Easy to relocate

# Would work easily with with Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game

# Standard Mythos cemetery monsters, but not a funeral home in sight!

# Pedophobia

# Ososphobia

# Athazagoraphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# Needs some Sanity losses

Conclusion

# Short, sharp modern day investigation

# Easy to prepare and run