Call of Cthulhu RPG: The Sassoon Files 2nd Edition

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The Sassoon Files, Second Edition, is a set of scenarios and campaign resources for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition role-playing game set in historical 1920s Shanghai; an international city of intrigue, style and violence.
Setting

The Sassoon Files will include the history of Shanghai and some of the primary factions that competed for influence and power: the Communists and Nationalists who played a game of deadly cat and mouse; the Jewish tycoon who provided succor to refugees; the Triad societies who competed to provide vice for the city's residents; the Japanese who were moving closer to invasion. The Sassoon Files will also explore the secret history of the Mythos, and the local factions who sought to exploit that which could not be fully comprehended.

The Sassoon Files, Second Edition. The book harcover:
    8+ Scenarios, 375 pages long.
    Modular design. Play as one-shot, campaign or integrated into other classic Chaosium campaigns.
    Lore Sheets provide investigator backgrounds tying them to the setting.
    20 pre-generated characters,
    historically accurate maps, and immersive handouts.

2nd Edition Improvements
    5+ New Scenarios – Double the content! Expanded Shanghai and Nanjing settings.
    3 Player Factions – Play as a Green Gang enforcer, Communist agitator or Bon Vivant.
    New antagonists and Mythos threats.
    New Mythos spells and eldritch tomes.
    Improved production values and more stunning art.

The Scenarios
S1: Muddy the Water to Catch the Fish – 渾水摸魚
Investigators are called upon to investigate a strange fish-man carcass found on the banks of the Bund. The investigation leads them to Yu Garden and a Deep One slaughterhouse operated by monstrous Japanese military police.
S2: Strange Gates, Hidden Demons – 奇門遁甲
1925. Investigators looking into an alleged cholera outbreak follow a trail of unusual corpses to a local opium den. 
S3: When in Rome, Do as the Romans – 入乡随俗 
A Luxury steamship arrives in Shanghai; passengers include well-funded foreign investigators on the trail of Nyarlathotep and armed with Mythos magic. 
S4: The Strong Feed Upon the Weak – 弱肉強食
A missing persons case in Shanghai leads to a terrifying triangle trade of human trafficking, mutilation, and hybridization by carnivorous alien creatures. Investigators must follow the trail from kidnappers to foreign conspirators, and to hungry monsters hiding in plain sight. 
S5: In the Same Boat – 同舟共济 
A government-sponsored archaeological team embarks on a journey up the Yangtze River to Nanjing, utilizing a gunboat. From there, they trek to a Daoist temple on Maoshan, where they discover a demonic water spirit in Chinese folklore. 
S6: Ride a Crane West – 驾鹤西去
Investigators journey to the frontier town where they encounter “Bird Eaters” reveling in the Mongolian Naadam Festival. Daytime events feature wrestling bouts and archery contests, while nighttime festivities entail consuming space mead and summoning Byakhee.
S7: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
General Sun Dianying pillages the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Months later, Sassoon calls upon his intrepid investigators to look into the theft of a relic once belonging to the Empress Dowager. The trail will lead them to a Shanghai triad being operated by someone claiming to be the deceased Empress Dowager Cixi. Is it a hoax or was Cixi resurrected? If it really is Cixi, who brought her back? 
S8: Drowned We are Born
Investigators must, at all costs, prevent newspaper mogul Henry E. Morris Jr. from publishing the insidious book 
Invocations to Dagon .
S9: There is this One Girl – 有一个姑娘  
Sassoon’s agents investigate a scam at the horse track. The trail ends with a heartbroken triad gangster and the Bloated Woman.
S10: Curse of the Peacock’s Eye
 Investigators on the trail of an evil sorcerer discover the fabled lost city of golden sands and stumble upon the Peacock’s Eye – a field of flowering black lotus plants, their pollen inducing a potent psychedelic response enabling time travel.

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