Miskatonic Monday #451: Something Smells Fishy

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: Something Smells Fishy

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Ignacio Campos

Setting: Massachusetts, 1924

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Seven page, 3.84 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: If the Buffy the Vampire Slayer ‘Go Fish’ episode was written for Call of Cthulhu

Plot Hook: The swim team is being killed off just before the state championships
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, two Mythos tomes, and three Mythos monsters (but plenty more in the sea).

Production Values: Good

Pros

# High school horror as the swim team splits apart

# Multiple endings considered—Will the Investigators keep the secret, flee, or destroy it?

# Thalassophobia

# Ichthyophobia

# Teraphobia (Internal and External)

Cons

# No maps

# Linear plotting

# Original staging, unoriginal plotting

Conclusion

# Could a title not be more apt?

# If your inspiration is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, why not run it using Bunny The Eldritch Slayer?