Miskatonic Monday #428: Colours of the Deep

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: Colours of the Deep

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Nader Rabie

Setting: Massachusetts, USA, 1925

Product: One shot
What You Get: Thirty-seven-page, 2.19 BB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The Colour Out of Space… “Under the sea … Under the sea”

Plot Hook: A tourist trip by advanced submarine ends with a clang and pales into horror...

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, nine handouts, one schematic and one deck plan, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Exhilaratingly creepy underwater threat

# Doubly trapped—underwater and in a mine!

# Strange bedfellows make for maddening allies

# Easy to prepare

# Easy to adjust to other modern times and coastal cities

# Nicely selected illustrations

# Submechanophobia

# Thalassophobia

# Monochromophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit (surprisingly)

# No maps, but the schematic works

# Feels a little too modern for its period

Conclusion

# A one-shot which takes the Investigators somewhere different

# Creepy, claustrophobic encounters with the Mythos that are definitely fish out of water!

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