Miskatonic Monday #364: The Borrowed

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 Borrowed

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Sean Liddle

Setting: World War II Plymouth

Product: Outline
What You Get: Eleven page, 948.91 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Three Go Mad in Devon (Again)

Plot Hook: How did Daisy the cow leave her field without a trace?

Plot Support: Staging advice

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Sequel to HUM

# Pleasing sense of a rural idyll

# Detailed outline

# Potential for child-like curiosity and terror

# Potential for sequels

# Petraphonia

# Claustrophobia

# Entomophobia

Cons

# No pre-generated Investigators
# Outline rather than scenario

Conclusion

# Engaging low key scenario accross a landscape of secrets

# Detailed outline still leaves the Keeper with lots of work to do, exactly like HUM