Miskatonic Monday #382: The Sea-Chest

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 Sea Chest: A One-Shot for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: John Baichtal

Setting: Anywhen from the Victorian era onwards

Product: Scenario hook
What You Get: Three-page, 2.03 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A locked box mystery!

Plot Hook: “Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—

...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Drink and the devil had done for the rest—

...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

– Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

Plot Support: Staging advice, one ‘Mythos’ artefact, and one Mythos tome

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Nicely detailed and well-written description

# Potential scenario/campaign set-up

# Easy to insert into a campaign

# Would work well with Cults of Cthulhu

# Kleidariaphobia

# Xenophobia

# Kleidiphobia

Cons

# Short and needs development

# A scenario/campaign starter rather than a one-shot

Conclusion

# Entertaining description of a locked-box mystery and its contents

# Pleasing single session waiting to be developed into something more