Miskatonic Monday #467: Horror in the Nunnery

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: Horror in the Nunnery

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Francis Acquarone

Setting: Montreal, Nouvelle-France, 1734

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Forty-nine page, 19.64 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.” – John Milton

Plot Hook: When a sister goes missing, it is time to head into the storm.

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Nuns, six NPCs, eleven handouts, one map, three spells, one Mythos artefact, and four Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Part of the Canadian Chronicles Volume 1: Nouvelle France bundle

# Nun on nun action!

# Comes with its own suggested soundtrack

# Unexplored setting and history

# Highly detailed investigation

# Storm-shrouded horror that is almost a locked room mystery

# Tokophobia

# Paedophobia
# Chionophobia

Cons

# Deals with the ‘horror’ of birth

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Nasty nun horror on the edge of the world

# Highly detailed, focused scenario which will take the nuns back to the horror of their beginnings
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