The Repairer of Reputations
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The Repairer of Reputations is a Trail of Cthulhu scenario by Robin D Laws¸ based on the story of the same name by Robert W. Chambers. It is one of four short horror stories incorporating Chambers' mythology of The King In Yellow¸ a decadent play whose publication brings madness and supernatural presences into the world. His mythology was later subsumed into the Cthulhu canon when H. P. Lovecraft¸ and his circle and later followers¸ made reference to it in their tales of the mythos.
"This scenario allows the players to recreate an alternate version of the story¸ in which their characters¸ who do not appear in the original¸ confront the nation-shaking conspiracy of its central villains. They either destroy it¸ or are destroyed themselves.
"A seemingly utopian future takes on a distinctly nightmarish quality. The scenario plays with this by suggesting that the publication of The King in Yellow has warped history in a disturbing direction. The alien beings described in the play are as real as the antagonists believe them to be. They want their literal heir of Hastur¸ Hildred Castaigne¸ to ascend to the Imperial throne of their America - Hastur's America.