Miskatonic Monday #411: The Disappearance in Montignac

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 Disappearance in Montignac

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Thomas Baudart

Setting: France, 2015

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Ten-page, 1.58 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A missing persons case attracts a podcast squad

Plot Hook: Find the girl, make a podcast, get famous

Plot Support: Staging advice, no pre-generated Investigators, one NPC, two handouts, one map, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Simple investigation 

# Scope for development

# Family horror story

# Sciophobia

# Castlephobia

# Entomophobia

Cons

# Needs a good edit and localisation

# Some NPCs underdeveloped

# Why is the castle causing Sanity loss?

Conclusion

# Not enough time to really allow for an investigation

# Small village, family horror scenario that could benefit from development and clarification