Miskatonic Monday #458: House of the Setting Sun

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: House of the Setting Sun

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author Steven Goodison

Setting: Edo period Japan (& 1982)

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-five page, 44.89 MB PDF

Elevator Pitch: The ghosts of the past collide with the ghosts of the future

Plot Hook: A missing girl and a reviled family inheritance

Plot Support: Staging advice, ten handouts, five maps, five NPCs, and six Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Underwhelming

Pros

# Set in Edo era Japan

# Fourth part of a five-part mini-campaign

# Sort of the end of the campaign

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

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

# Chronophobia

# Phasmophobia

# Hauntophobia

Cons

# Needs a good edit

# Sort of the end of the campaign

# No suggestions as to how to create the Investigators

# Does not clearly explain how the haunted house situation is resolved 

Conclusion

# Sets up the radically different final part

# Short affair which needs a clearer explanation as to how the final scenes come to pass