Miskatonic Monday #444: Lost Library

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: Lost Library

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Wille Ruotsalainen

Setting: Somalia, 1920s

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Twenty-four page, 59.42 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: ‘King Solomon’s Library’

Plot Hook: The promise of adventure and discovery
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, two handouts, one map, one floorplan, one Mythos tome, and two beasts.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Atmospherically dusty journey into a hidden corner of Colonial East Africa

# Horror in the library is enjoyably not what you think

# Very light on the Mythos

# Decent introduction to Somali history and culture

# Bibliophobia

# Ammophobia

# Herpetophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# Very light on the Mythos

# Pre-generated Investigators could have been better designed around the scenario

Conclusion

# The horror of the Great War lingers in a cat and mouse hunt in a lost library

# Refreshingly different scenario in Colonial East Africa