Miskatonic Monday #414: Whispers from the Bramble’s Heart

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: Whispers from the Bramble’s Heart

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Robert Gresham

Setting: Oregon, USA 1925

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-three-page, 15.11 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Ambition is the poison that spoils the fruit.

Plot Hook: What is the seed of corruption in small town Oregon?

Plot Support: Staging advice, six NPCs, fifteen handouts, six maps and floor plans, one Mythos tome, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Variable

Pros

# Solid investigation with multiple hooks

# Easy to adapt to other settings and eras

# Adaptable to Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos

# A fruit-based scenario that does not involve a Colour Out of Space

# Excellent art

# Aichmophobia

# Fructophobia

# Pedophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# Heavily plotted in places

Conclusion

# Slightly heavy-handed in places, but a serviceably creepy scenario

# Something rotten in the heart of Oregon