Miskatonic Monday #407: Gelateria

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: Gelateria

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Hayley P

Setting: Rome, 1954

Product: Ninety-minute one-shot
What You Get: Seventeen page, 14.35 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.” – William Gibson

Plot Hook: Frozen in time at the gelato shop

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, three handouts, one floor plan, three NPCs, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Ninety-minute one-shot for the new Keeper

# Pleasingly parochial setting

# Easy to prepare with most options and outcomes covered
# Aliens could be replaced by the Mi-Go

# Athazagoraphobia

# Pagotophobia

# Frigophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# Not a Mythos scenario

Conclusion

# Claustrophobic Italian ice horror meets a ‘Man in Black’
# Easy to run scenario, but advice for the new Keeper could have been stronger