Miskatonic Monday #445: After The Flood

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: After the Flood

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Keith Craig

Setting: Nebraska, USA, 2019

Product: Scenario

What You Get: thirty-one page, 3.34 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’ recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things.” – Merlin Sheldrake

Plot Hook: The calm after the flood
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, eight handouts, six NPCs, six maps and floorplans, and five Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# Suitably flat-feeling investigation across post-flood farmland

# Infectious horror that flirts with Ufology

# Classic Mythos-style Men-in-Black confrontation

# Makes use of the Malleus Monstrorum (notes included)

# Would work easily with with Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game

# Entomophobia

# Mycophobia

# Mysophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# Underwritten pre-generated Investigators

# Makes use of the Malleus Monstrorum (notes included)

Conclusion

# What horror blooms in a washed out, washed away horror?

# Classic Mythos-style Men-in-Black confrontation

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