Miskatonic Monday #470: Penguin One is Down

 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: Penguin One is Down

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Kevin Kreiner

Setting: Arctic Canada, 1955

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Forty-eight page, 28.45 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: At the ‘Mountain’ of Madness

Plot Hook: A race to rescue the survivors and secrets of downed aeroplane before the Russians do

Plot Support: Staging advice, eight pre-generated Investigators, four NPCs, two handouts, two maps, one deckplan, one Mythos spell, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Cold War era rescue mission at the top of the world

# Straightforward to run

# Could be run in conjunction with Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game or The Fall of DELTA GREEN

# Mucophobia

# Chionophobia
# Cryptophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# No NPC stats

# Personnel dossiers a little too personal

Conclusion

# Desperate Cold War mission in the mode of Ice Station Zebra

# Needs slightly more preparation than it should