Miskatonic Monday #435: Terror on Texas 4

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: Terror on Texas 4

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Autumn Unwin

Setting: Atlantic, 1961

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Thirteen page, 2.05 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Grace Under Pressure because Grace under Pressure is out of print.

Plot Hook: An engineering survey reveals the reason why the deep sea tower went done...
Plot Support: Staging advice, no pre-generated Investigators, two NPCs, one handouts, one deck plan, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# Interesting real world location

# Set on the eve of a real world disaster
# Strong sense of isolation

# Man versus the elements shifts to man versus the deep

# Thalassophobia

# Batrachophobia

# Teraphobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# No pre-generated Investigators

Conclusion

# Not entirely original, but the location and the staging is

# Engaging period piece let down by lack of pre-generated Investigators