Miskatonic Monday #439: Fear of Overtime

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: Fear of Overtime

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Phanzar

Setting: New York, 1929

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Twenty-three page, 8.22 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: ‘Karoshi’ would be a safer way to go…

Plot Hook: It starts with a bang!
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, five NPCs, two handouts, one map, one Mythos artefact, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Overtime survival horror

# Closed location one-shot

# Escalating horror that builds and builds

# Nicely done location

# Ergophobia

# Diokophobia

# Microphobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# Investigator templates rather than pre-generated Investigators

# Escalating horror is very procedural

# Only way to defeat the hunter is through violence

Conclusion

# Opens with a bang and the horror builds and builds

# Literally brings a shrinking feeling to survival horror