Miskatonic Monday #455: Whiteout

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: Whiteout

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Macabre Margin Games

Setting: British Columbia, Canada, Modern Day

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Six page, 1.73 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.”

― John Green

Plot Hook: Trapped in a breath 
Plot Support: Staging advice, four (five) pre-generated Investigators, three NPCs, two handouts, and eleven Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Charming

Pros

# Two-hour/one-session horror scenario 

# Creepy, night-time ‘zombie-like’ nightmare in the rising snow

# Easily adapted to other snowy climes

# Easy to prepare

# Chionophobia

# Cryophobia
# Somniphobia

Cons

# No clean map

# No map of the chalet

Conclusion

# Rising snow, rising horror horror one-shot
# Weird, creepy interpretation of hypothermia