Kurotokage index (archive)

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Overview to keep track of what's going on

General information on Japan

Modern Japanese society in brief
Being a gaijin in modern Japan
Japanese names
Transportation in Japan
Prices in Japan
Law enforcement
The American military presence in Japan
Crime, yakuza, availability of guns etc in Japan
Brief outline of religion in Japan (Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam)
Note on romanization of Japanese and name conventions (PDF file)

Japanese history and timeline (real and Mythos)

Early myths and legends (most history only covered in timeline)
Meiji history
Amaterasu's birth, death and plots
The Imperial lines (real and IP/VP)
The Imperial Regalia (Jewels, Mirror, Sword)

Taininhodo

The Taininhodo in the Dreamlands

NPCs

Kurotokage

History

Organization
Procedures and Style
Important Individuals
The Secret within a Secret

Kuromaku and Japan Inc

Hidachi Corp. and the Fuyokai
M&M (Mitsue and Mitsuboshi)
Aozora-Kai of METI (formerly MITI)
Mausolea and Tombs Department, Imperial Household Agency
Head of the yakuza
Black Dragons

Cthonians

Overview of Japanese deep structure or, Geology of Japan for Beginners. Includes:
1. Japanese subduction zone (presented as a hands-on info file from the 1958 DG Operation: AHAB)
2. A 1958 geological report about the trail of the cthonians
3. A more recent report about geological anomalies in Japan
4. Brief glossary/tech sidebar
Cthonian ecology - or why they like it under Nihon. Includes: # Cthonian timeline and general bio overview (keeper's eyes only)
1. Why Cthonians love it down there & the Cthonian way of Life (more Op: AHAB, Kurotokage and Taininhodo docs)
2. The diary of a lone Tokugawa-era yamabushi that somehow connected with a cthonian and witnessed part of the burrower's social life
3. Field notes from a Meiji-era insect collector witnessing the hatching of a cthonian egg and following the earlier stages of a cthonian's life
4. A manga script and explanatory letter from a notoriously deranged mangaka (submitted to a publisher but 'lost' after a B&E) full of hentai tentacle sex and hints at cthonian sexuality (hentai as effect of cthonian libido seepage).
The Cthonians and the Japanese. All the rest:
1. How Zhang Daoling trapped a Cthonian under <insert opportune location> (maybe two or three versions of the same tale, with varying Mythos elements, and varying tie-ins with other chapters of the book)
2. Cthonians & CATFISH (a collection of docs recovered and compiled by Kurotokage operatives or Anti-Mythos Monks through the years)
Possible expansions/sidebars/stuff….
1. Japanese Civil Protection details and DG-style template NPCs (who knows…. a Cthonian yamabushi cultist, a non-conformist geologist keeping up Mogi's research, an oversensitive manga artist etc)
2. New Cthonian Spells/Abilities - Mating Call, Clan Summoning etc.
3. Keeper's Help - some new and alternative takes on the old 'stolen cthonian egg' scenario seed.