Miskatonic Monday #416: Welcome to Silkwood Motel

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.

—oOo—

Name: Welcome to Silkwood Motel

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Niebosky

Setting: Jazz Age USA

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Nine-page, 9.45 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Arachnophobia at the Bates Motel

Plot Hook: A dark and stormy night forces a last stay at the Silkwood Motel

Plot Support: Staging advice, one NPC, one floorplan, and one Mythos monster and a swarm of Mythos monsters!

Production Values: Solid

Pros

# Very short, creepy session, suitable as a side trek or encounter in between longer scenarios.

# Suitable for small groups, but necessarily a single Investigator

# Would work with Spawn of Azathoth

# Easily adapted to other countries and eras

# Arachnobia

# Daknophobia

# Tokophobia

Cons

# Floorplans hard to read

Conclusion

# Single session, harrowing encounter that will put the put the Investigators off lonely motels
# Easy to slip into a campaign or between scenarios.