Miskatonic Monday #408: The Swarms of Tanffridd

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 Swarms of Tanffridd

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Hari Blackmore

Setting: Wales, 1920s

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-page page, 1.31 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren’t too picky, when you come to it.”

― Thomm Quackenbush, A Collector of Spirits

Plot Hook: Flies alight on the corpse of dying village

Plot Support: Staging advice, six NPCs, one map, six NPCs, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Isolated, bucolic instigated by the lord of the flies

# Straightforward plotting

# Pteronarcophobia

# Entomophobia

# Cymrophobia

Cons

# Only has a map of the village, not the mine or surrounding areas

# Definitely not one for entomophobe

# Feels as if the Investigators are being held back from the final scene

Conclusion

# Insect invasion scenario in which the Investigators are also invaders
# The final scene could come sooner if the scenario let it