Miskatonic Monday #353: Fear Jet 1975 – Hijack!

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: Fear Jet 1975 – Hijack!

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Andy Miller

Setting: 1975 USA and beyond...

Product: Expansion to Fear Jet
What You Get: Thirty-four page, 31.94 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A flight into The King in Yellow via hijack-horror horror!

Plot Hook: When fear of flying takes you out of this world with a gun to your head...

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, six Investigator portraits, and one handout.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Mad Men meets the Mythos

# Can be run as a convention scenario
# Can be run over and over until some Investigators escapes...

# Easy to adapt to other periods during the Age of Flight

# Pre-built tension and secrets

# Extensive playtest notes

# Xanthophobia

# Aerophobia

# Katagelophobia

Cons

# Very similar sequel to Fear Jet

# Challenging to run as a convention scenario

# What happens next?

Conclusion

# Mad Men meets the Mythos in mid-air

# Character-driven re-iteration that a group might not want to play again

Miskatonic Monday #325: Fear Jet

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: Fear Jet

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Andy Miller

Setting: 1970s USA and beyond...

Product: Scenario
What You Get: One-hundred-and-twenty-four page, 97.64 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A flight into The King in Yellow via the liminality of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here and Groundhog Day

Plot Hook: When fear of flying takes you out of this world...

Plot Support: Staging advice, twenty-four pre-generated Investigators, twenty-four Investigator portraits, five handouts, one map and one deck plan, fourteen NPCs, two Mythos tomes, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Bizarrely, fantastically detailed scenario

# Can be run as a convention scenario
# Can be run over and over until some Investigators escapes...

# Easy to adapt to other periods during the Age of Flight

# Has extensive notes to adapt it to other eras for Call of Cthulhu

# Xanthophobia

# Aerophobia

# Fasciphobia

Cons

# Highly detailed scenario

# Challenging to run as a convention scenario

# Would not work half as well without the pun

# What happens next?

Conclusion

# Weird flight into unreality and back again. Possibly.

# Enjoyably, constantly creepy, but too wearing to run again and again?

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