KAPPA BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND LISA HOFMANN KURODA Twilight of the Republic Four for Call of Cthulhu

Four for Call of Cthulhu (“Dog Will Hunt

It’s eat or be eaten

A Blightking’s helm is a corroded relic

or the Ocean of Tears)

KAPPA BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND LISA HOFMANN KURODA Twilight of the Republic Four for Call of CthulhuThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawas Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa. He decides to chase it and, like Alice