Miskatonic Monday #418: GOZU

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: GOZU

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author Steven Goodison

Setting: Edo period Japan

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-five page, 43.72 MB PDF

Elevator Pitch: A blighted bath, a paper chase, and a ‘coloured’ curse

Plot Hook: Rest, relaxation... and horror for the season

Plot Support: Staging advice, eleven handouts, two maps, two NPCs, three mythos tomes, two Mythos monsters, and Colour-possessed Macaques!

Production Values: Underwhelming

Pros

# Set in Edo era Japan

# Third part of a five-part mini-campaign

# Inspired by Japanese folklore

# Sequel to Thing Torments Poet, Daimyo calls on Greatest Help, Will the Players Fail? and The Kofun Closes to the West

# Could be adapted for use with Japan – Empire of Shadows: A Call of Cthulhu sourcebook for 1920s Imperial Japan

# Deprecophobia

# Bovinophobia

# Dysmorphobia

Cons

# ‘Cow-Ju’

# Needs a good edit

# No suggestions as to how to create the Investigators

Conclusion

# Poisoned ‘paradise’ which puts the Investigators into the middle of the very obvious horror

# Engagingly, enjoyably unsubtle