Miskatonic Monday #412: A Heady Draught

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: A Heady Draught

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: J. Michael Arons

Setting: Modern day United Kingdom

Product: Single-Secession Scenario
What You Get: Eight-page, 30.28 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Possession is ninth tenths of the bottle.

Plot Hook: “I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.”

― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Simple investigation

# Suitable for one Investigator, one Keeper play

# Easy to adapt to other eras and settings

# Easy to slip into a campaign

# Easy to prepare

# Focusses on one NPC for strong roleplaying

# Dipsophobia

# Thanatophobia

# Dipsomania

Cons

# Needs an edit

# The Keeper may want to add a map and other NPCs

# Episodic; what are the Investigators doing the rest of the days?

Conclusion

# Episodic, tight scenario focused on one NPC

# Keeper may want to develop the scenario a little wider