How does one go about using a Japanese fox spirit properly in a CoC campaign set in modern Japan...

How does one go about using a Japanese fox spirit properly in a CoC campaign set in modern Japan. Also fox spirit thread, I guess.

Also, going for a horror vibe, obviously. Want to scare the hell out of them a la Higurashi.

>CoC
You mean Call of Cthulhu or Corruption of Champions? With the kitsunes and all it's really hard to tell.

>horror
That isn't clearing this up at all!

Call of Cthulhu. I want the investigators to show up trailing some clues about a secretive cult associated with some eldritch diety, and want to incorporate the kitsune as the BBEG for the end of the campaign. Just fishing for ideas.

Look at Sengoku Youko. One of the evil guys is a monk married to a kitsune and the other is a cult of a time traveling tribe corrupting spirits and gods.

>Call of Cthulhu. I want the investigators to show up trailing some clues about a secretive cult associated with some eldritch diety

Honestly, a sufficiently powerful Kitsune is more or less indistinguishable from a trickster GOO like Nyarlathotep or Hastur. In fact, I'd go so far as to say Shinto is incredibly conducive to the Lovecraftian Mythos as the themes and mood of the nature of man in the cosmos is much the same.

There's a hepatitis cluster--not hepatitis as in the virus, but hepatitis as in people showing up to hospitals with inflamed, hardening livers. The common risk factor of these people is that they worship some kind of fox spirit, or all have the same neighbor or something, which is the kitsune in disguise. The kitsune has some sort of warping power that allows it to steal tiny portions of people's livers without ripping them open first.

If the protagonists get in a fight with the kitsune, they might get their livers or other organs telefragged, or have foreign objects teleported into their abdomens.

Kitsune are not Kumiho.

A neat little trick you could incorporate into the CoC campaign is the fact Kitsune are incapable of directly killing a Human. They could lure them into a bog where they will drown, they can get them in trouble with the law that leads to execution, they could cause them to fall into despair and commit suicide... But a Kitsune can't just stab someone, or rip out their throat.

At least, not in their "natural" form. A Kitsune can inhabit someone's body and wear them as a meat-puppet, which is what Daji did and so did Tamamo-no-Mae.

Yiss. This sounds neat

>Kitsune are not Kumiho.
Spoken like someone trying to virtue signal to his kitsune master.

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Kitsune are tricksters, not malicious. They are, however, inhuman... so maybe luring them into a house full of deadly traps is whimsical to them.

"Nani? Are you not having fun?"

Lewd. Appreciated, but not horror. Unless you can tie horror to lewd foxes.

Why not? Horror is even more horrific if you're turned on by it, and horrified that you are.

>Meet pretty women at bar
>After a couple of drinks and some talking, you two hit it off and go to a nearby hotel
>Going to have sex with this 10/10 hot women
>Fuck Yeah
>Oh wait, her teeth look a little sharper and is that a tail??
>OH FUCK!
>SHE ATE MY DICK!
There you go, horror for lewd foxes.

Well, an expecting mother has to provide fir hee kits... and a horny male is stupud.

Have them offer cryptic hints that often get the investigators in trouble and danger but also further the plot.

So stuff like:
>Sending the players to an important crime scene... but only about 10 minutes before the police arrive

Obviously it should not reveal that it is a fox-spirit, typically they should take a human form and pretend to be an informant or something.

Use a kumiho instead so as to better ward off waifuism. For best results make her true form a nightmarish mashup of fox and human qualities rather than just a fox or person with multiple tails. You can easily rationalize it as the kumiho realizing how much easier her cousins across the pond have it since people in Japan don't immediately go for their dogs and guns if they run across what they assume to be a fox spirit.

Use the Korean version that eats people as well

90% of Youkai are THAT SORT OF SHIT THAT'S ALL AROUND US AND KINDA DISGUSTING AND OMG I CAN SEE IT CLEARLY NOW.

Fox spirits would be anything between predatory ghouls to messengers of the king in yellow.

>The most distinctive feature that separates the kumiho from its two counterparts (kitsune and huli jing) is the existence of a 'yeowu guseul' (여우구슬, literally meaning fox marble/bead) which is said to consist of knowledge. According to Korean mythology, the yowu guseul provides power to the kumiho and knowledge (and intelligence) to people if they can steal and swallow one. The kumiho can absorb humans' energy with it. The method of absorbing energy with the "yeowu guseul" resembles a "deep kiss," (i.e. a kiss using tongue.) The kumiho sends the yeowu guseul into people's mouths and then retake it with their tongues. If that person swallows the yeowu guseul, however, and then observes "sky, land, and people," each observation gives the observer preternatural knowledge. But the person fail to watch the "sky" in most of tale. So they get a special ability but without the most important one.

The fox bead is an artifact that has been passed among occultists, madmen, and sorcerers for a century. When swallowed, the fox bead gives a subject a sudden and inevitably maddening Mythos insight. But without the cooperation of a kumiho, the bead remains lodged in the subject's body until death.

The investigators are alerted by a series of murders in which the liver and heart were extracted from the body, and seemingly cut to pieces. One or more occult agents is trying to find the fox bead, and has been identifying and hunting other occultists they suspect of bearing the fox bead.

The kumiho itself is still bonded with the bead. It is an unearthly entity that uses the bead to anchor itself to victims, eventually devouring their sanity snd soul. Trying to "return the bead to its owner" will end badly. The kumiho will forcibly implant the fox bead if a willing subject does not swallow it. The maddened bearer of a bead usually sees the kumiho as a wise and benevolent spirit.

A thing found in some Japanese folklore and in almost all Chinese and Korean folklore about fox-creatures; they rip your fucking liver out to eat it.
The only difference between Japanese ones is that a few more of their folklore stuff has them being helpful or not as openly malicious, but in all three of the farthest East Asian cultures they have some violent or murderous traits.

Interestingly the liver-eating thing is also found in werewolf stories.

Indeed. All fun and games when she takes you back to her place, then she trips you and the little foxes set upon you...

>four ears
>no fluffy tail
into the trash.

Still Kumiho

fuck yeah i love foxes
god bless weeb GMs

>guys how do i use inhuman supernatural prankster sorcerer as horror
>DUDE LIVER LMAO
>DUDE KUMIHO LMAO

You fucknuggets are literally taking the most boring interpretation of myth and lauding it like it's some sort of divine revelation. Stop trying to do what you did to fae with all supernatural creatures.

By remembering they're a fucking succubus that eats people's souls? Add in body horror, the horrible canine woman can make a keening sound that entrances their victem despite their being hideous in their true form, etc etc. Then they fuck you with their vagina full of suckers and razors that cut your dick open and drain the blood from your body

.... why not both? It doesn't merely rip out the liver of its victim, it likes to torment and fuck around with them, and when that grows boring, then it's dinner time

Look for a copy of Secrets of Japan, a Call of Cthulhu supplement. It's got you covered, full of Japanese societal information.

This is still dumbedgy!fae or, like, hundred or so unrelated mthological monsters. This doesn't take advantage of kitsune myths at all.

Kitsune horror should be psychological, as well as visceral. You are against an old as fuck entity with complete lack of conventional human morals, who needs... something. or punishing PCs for... again, something. She has her own code of conduct (that players can find out), her own far-reaching plans (That PCs can throw a wrench in), and all in all it's a supernatural game of cat-and-mouse against an enity that can trap you in your own delusions, shapshift into someone you know and in general do spooky mind tricks (the thing CoC is GOOD for).
But noooooooooooooooooooo, let's have zombie #78325452326753, that's MUUUUUCH better.

Also, jap horror. The absolute treasure trove of vengeful spookies, mindfuck and shyamaladingdong twists. Western psychological horror is good as reference for this campaign too.

> zombies
Nekomata it is then!

Those are more like-


weird half-ghost reverse-werecats?

I remember a folk story where a Japanese man had to fight an entire gang of Kitsune armed with swords, but the moment combat started their swords turned into soft wood.

Kitsune can't kill humans.

Yeah, but they can command the dead, if I remember correctly.

Check out "Secrets of Japan" for Cthulhu Now.