Miskatonic Monday #410: The Vanishing

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 Vanishing

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Raul Longoria

Setting: East Texas, 1997

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Sixteen-page, 1.01 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A missing persons case casts a different colour on East Texas

Plot Hook: Investigate the town where missing students conducted a biology field trip

Plot Support: Staging advice, no pre-generated Investigators, some NPCs and wildlife, nine handouts, one map, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Scenario for one or two Investigators

# Pleasing sense of mouldering decline and distrust

# Seplophobia

# Chromophobia

# Nosophobia

Cons

# Pre-generated Investigators for Calamity in Drywater Canyon

# Set-up as to who is employing the Investigators muddled

# The presence and details of the missing students should play a bigger role
# Obvious threat

Conclusion

# Recognisable threat developed into an eerie ecological horror
# Set-up needs clarification and development, but otherwise a decent treatment of a classic Mythos monster
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