Miskatonic Monday 87b: Saint's Peak and other indie Call of Cthulhu releases to round off 2023

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Here's part two of our wrap-up of community content releases in the Miskatonic Repository for 2023! Under the Miskatonic Repository community content license, independent Call of Cthulhu creators can make and sell their own Call of Cthulhu content using guidelines, templates, and art we provide. 

Remember you like what you see in the Miskatonic Repository, remember to give the creators a star rating or even a review!

Saint's Peak
Quico Vicens-Picatto ($3.00, 23 page PDF)

In this chilling adventure, players assume the roles of the Lana brothers, young and innocent, unaware of the dark and sinister truth lurking among their own relatives and neighbors. Set in the grim year of 1926, the players will undergo a harrowing and horrifying awakening to the cruel realities of the world.

Heinrich's Call of Cthulhu Guide to Carcosa
Heinrich D. Moore ($12.95, 340 page PDF)

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Come fall with us.

In Heinrich’s Call of Cthulhu Guide to Carcosa you will discover not only a replayable solo campaign, but a schematic for generating your own personal vision of Dim Carcosa. Every sojourn into Carcosa builds upon the story developed through your earlier playthroughs. Your investigators will live, they will die, they will be damned. Beware that you do not share the same fate.

Japan, Makami Sakura
momiji kuzunoha ($4.95, 36 page PDF)

Scenario set in Japan in the Taisho Era (the early 1920s). The author is from Japan and the scenario was originally written in Japanese. It has been translated into English by the authors ofJapan – Empire of Shadows for the enjoyment of Keepers and Players everywhere and to promote international goodwill through gaming. nb a copy of Japan – Empire of Shadows is not required to play the scenario.

Japan, Bride of the Goat
EDO-RAM ($7.95, 44 page PDF)

Yaide Village is located deep in the mountains of Okayama. In ancient times, the people of Yaide performed a ritual where a young woman from the village was offered as a sacrifice to Yama no Kami, the “Mountain God.” The sacrifice was known as the “Bride of the Mountain God,” but over the centuries, the ritual was lost. However, while in Tokyo, the investigators are contacted by acquaintances of a girl from Yaide Village, Yamagami Marie. Marie has left her girls high school in Tokyo to return to the remote village to become the symbolic bride of the Mountain God in the newly revived ritual.

It is up to the investigators to discover what this ancient marriage to the Mountain God portends for the new bride and for the people of Yaide Village. Another Japanese scenario translated by the authors of Japan – Empire of Shadows.

Dead Body Shore
Agata Brig (Free, 48 page PDF)

Sudden visit of an unknown grandfather, a traveler and conqueror of Swedish mountains, turns the Investigator’s reality upside down. Cthulhu Mythos meets Nordic Mythology.

The Haunting Handouts Revised
J.J. Lahtinen (Pay-What-You-Want, Suggested Price $1.00, 12 page PDF)

Enhanced handouts for The Haunting (as found in the Call of Cthulhu Quick Start and 40th Anniversary Keeper Rulebook) for a more immersive experience.

The Excursion
Maja Hvalryg Kvendseth ($3.99, 23 page PDF)

It's Norway, October 1999. A small group of students from The University of Trondheim are going on an excursion to Kvenvær on the island of Hitra together with one of their lecturers. The excursion is unofficial; they are visiting a dishonoured retired History Professor who claims he has discovered some rock carvings that will revolutionise the field and future research in Trøndelag, Norway, and perhaps even the world... but is that really true? And what will be revealed out there?

This scenario is part of the Northern Lights and Darkness collection. Scenarios in this collection share the common traits that they are set in a Nordic country, written by a native of said country, and set in a modern setting.

The Hidden People
Theodor Helgason ($4.99, 39 page PDF)

Takes place in a small town in the east of Iceland, named Blue Whale Bay. The investigators are trying to find out what happened when a local woman named Ella was abducted one night while drunk and high on magic mushrooms. She was found shortly thereafter, on the outskirts of the town, and since then has been talking frantically about meeting the Hidden People, a torture chamber and alien languages amongst other things…

This scenario is a part of the Northern Light and Darkness collection, where writers from each of the Nordic countries - as well as the cultural region of Sápmi - create modern-day scenarios set in their respective country, to let English-speaking Call of Cthulhu players from around the globe discover what an excellent playground for cosmic horror this part of the world can be.

Strange Carol
Konstantinos Kotsaridis ($4.90, 41 page PDF)

“Welcome everyone, welcome friends. Thank you for your support to our team and our performances despite this very hot day. My name is Nicola Tese and I will be your main host and ringmaster for today. Although our highly anticipated show will begin in a few hours, you are more than welcome to wander off to our stages…''

What is the connection between a scientist, the Miskatonic River's water and a circus? Set in 1926s Arkham during the Prohibition era, a group of investigators try to unravel the truth concealed beneath the heavy curtains of the Strange Carol Circus stage. An unsettling riddle that intertwines science, the occult, and the pulse of an era veiled in secrets.

Trouble on the Rock
Adam Wright ($4.99, 32 page PDF)

Gather your team of investigators to find out why prisoners and guards are disappearing right before the military prison becomes the first Federal Maximum Security prison!

Dark Visions From Beyond #00
Fábio Silva ($5.93, 113 page PDF)

Magazine with its structures based on the Cthulhu Mythos, dedicating its pages to the insanity of Call of Cthulhu; includes Alienist occupation; "The One Who Crawls in the Night", 40-page classic era scenario; "The Last Glimpse of Hope", 48-page modern era scenario; and "Creating Your Own Cthulhu", with tips on how to brainstorm your ideas into a homemade scenario.

The Secret Song of Lake Billings
Aaron Hawke ($2.49, 20 page PDF)

It’s the height of summer. Camp Billings opens to the children of Virginia in just a few days and the town of Kinbridge is getting ready for the influx of vacationers. A heat wave is already threatening the fun and games, but now a body has been found. What looks like an animal attack has got the town worrying about what this means for the seasonal tourism they so desperately depend on.

You have been hired by the mayor as "experts" in your field to form a task force to deal with the crisis. Will you find the animal responsible and neutralise it, or will you uncover something much darker… 1980s scenario.

LEROY
June Austin ($5.99, 63 page PDF)

A little town in Montana becomes the heart of a waking nightmare... September, 2021. Vaccines for COVID-19 have been available for months, and for the first time in over a year, kids are returning to school. Yet would-be eighth grader Emma Locke-Fuller remains locked inside. She recently lost both her parents — one is in a coma, the other mysteriously disappeared from their home in the small town of Leroy, Montana. Now it's up to you to find out what the hell happened.

Modern scenario of surreal horror and unbridled insanity.

Season of growth
Carrer Marco ($1.50, 14 page PDF)

Set in the middle 90s where technology was not as advanced as now, a photographer is sent to the country to find out more about the , supposedly, oldest tree in the US..or even in the whole world! One-shot for a keeper and an investigator.

Burning Desire
Gaz Bowerbank ($5.00, 32 page PDF)

A year after the investigators defeated a daemon-summoning cult, their allies have been in touch. Murder, arson, disappearances. Could the Siblings of Burning Desire be back? The investigators must return to the scene of their former victory and get to the truth lest disaster befall them, their friends and everything they hold dear. Modern Day scenario.

Beyond the Stars
Royce Wilson ($2.90, 26 page PDF)

A client has come to the Investigator with an unusual request - her husband is missing and she wants to make sure he stays that way.

Hard-boiled noir scenario set in late 1930s/early 1940s Los Angeles and designed for one player (portraying a Private Investigator) plus a Keeper; the scenario can also work for two players plus a Keeper.

Plus new releases in Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Spanish!

Edited December 19, 2023 by MOB