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Chaosium has announced a brand new Call of Cthulhu adventure featuring the infamous King in Yellow entity in an unexpected locale. The Sutra of Pale Leaves – Twin Suns Rising is a new Call of Cthulhu adventure set in 1980s Japan that will feature the King in Yellow. No other details were provided outside of the creative team, which includes Damon Lang, Yukihiro Terada, Andrew Logan Montgomery, Jason Sheets, Jesse Covner, with Keris McDonald and Mike Mason.

The cover of the new adventure can be seen below:

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Call of Cthulhu enjoys immense popularity in Japan, with the RPG often eclipsing sales of Dungeons & Dragons in that country. There were rumors that Chaosium was developing a setting based on 1980s Japan, and it appears that this is what the rumors were referring to.

The official description for the new adventure reads:

Forgotten for centuries, the Sutra of Pale Leaves has resurfaced in 1980s Japan—a time of excess, conspicuous consumption, and enormous technological changes.

In the hands of those who revere it, the Sutra of Pale Leaves can remake the world…

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