Miskatonic Monday #390: The Forbidden Beat

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 Forbidden Beat

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Robert J Grieves

Setting: The Second Summer of Love, London

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Twenty-three page, 8.75 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A conspiracy of sound of Olympic proportions

Plot Hook: “Off with your head

Dance ’til you’re dead

Heads will roll

Heads will roll

Heads will roll

On the floor”

– Heads will roll, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s

Plot Support: Staging advice, ten NPCs, three maps, one ‘Mythos’ monster, and a playlist.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# Hedonistic horror on the London rave scene

# Lowlife on the edge of national gentrification

# Opportunity to create some interesting Investigators

# Melophobia

# Pharmacophobia

# Chapodiphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# DJ Eric Z gives it all away
# No pre-generated Investigators

Conclusion

# Scuzzy Saturday Night Squatter’s Rites

# ‘All your base are belong to Azathoth’