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Secrets of the Devil's Triangle

JUSTIN SCHMID

additional material

JANICE SELLERS

front cover design and layout

ERICVOGT

Interior illustrations

THOMAS BROWN, EARL GEIER

maps

MARK SCHUMANN AND JANICE SELLERS

editorial and layout

JANICE SELLERS

back cover layout

SHANNON ApPEL

readers

ALAN GLOVER, CHRIS WILLIAMS

Chaosium, InC.

1998

Contents

Foreword . •• •.. •••• .• • •. ••••• .• •• • • .111

Caribbean Campaigns .. ..... ••. .. . ...63

Inv estigators

Tourism

Criminal Minds

Offsho~ Banking

Ancient Traditions

Treasure Huntin g

Underwater Explorations

Journey to Paradise •••..•••.••••..•••. 1

Traveling to the Caribbean

The Turquoise Sea ............••• • ..... 4

Weather and Climate

The Reefs

The Depths

Ships ofthe Caribbean

Scenario : The Privateer'. Diary •••.. ••• .15

Th e Diary

New Providence

Search for the Island

Th e Turks &. Caicos Islands

French Cay

The Treaure Hoard

The Sea Ghouls

Imruders

Conclusion

The Island Paradises . . .. ... .. .. .. ...•. 11

Island Flora and Fauna

Bennuda

The Bahamas

Turks &. Caicos Islands

Cuba

Cayman Islands

Jamai ca

Haiti

Dominicana

Puerto Rico

The Lesser Antilles

Appendix A •• . ••• . ••• . ••• .. •• . •••• .• 81

Caribbean Animal Life

Appendix B .• • .. ••.•••• . .•• . •.. . ....84

A Triangle Chronclogy

The Devll's Triangle ••••••..•••.•••• . ••44

Origins ofthe Triangle

Strange PhenometUl

Accounts ofSurvivors ofthe Triangle

Explanations for the Triangle

Indian Burial Mounds

Using the Triangle

Bibliography . ..... ... ..... . . . .......88

Index •.••..•••.••• • •••..••..• • ..•••89

The Bermuda Triangle is published by Chaoslum, Inc.

The Bermuda Triangle is 01996 by Justin Schmkt. Interior illustrations are 0 1998 by Thomas Brown and Earl Geier. Maps are

0 1998 by Chaoslum , Inc. Cover Inustration Is 0 1998 by Eric Vogt. AU righls reserved .

PIayIeslers: captain Karen "What just happened?" Etheridge, FIrst Mate Eric "The Hook" Jones, Quartermaster Oavid "Spooky"

Schaub, Chiel NBvi\}8tor Jeremy "' think we're lost" Denton, Doctor Mike ' Oops' Jones, Bosun Valerie "Voodoo" Bjorn.

Special thanks to Marsha Myell 01 PoInt of Departure In Ber1«tley. California for help In compiling trawllnlormatlon.

CsJI of CthulhtAb is the registered lracleman.: of Chaosium, Inc.

SimHiarities between characters in The Bermuda Triangle and persons living or dead are strictly coIncideotaJ.

The reproduction of material from within this book lor the purpose 01 personal or corporate profit, by photographIC. electronic, or

other methods of retrieval , is prohibited.

Address questions and comments regarding this book, as well as requests kit free catalogs of Chaosium books, parnes, and

supplements, to Chaosium, Inc., 950A 56th Street, oaldand, CA 94608-3129, U.S.A.

C"-o,lum Publication 23n. Pu bll,hed In Apri l 1998. ISBN 1·56882·122-0

Printed In Canada.

Foreword

A World o f Wonder and Beauty

Wr y the Caribbean ? you might be asking

active forces, much more threatening than the unmov-

ing monoliths of Stonehenge.

It is this vitality, this force o f spirit that draws us

to the Caribbean, that lull s us into the sway of reggae

and samba, that arouses o ur fasc ination with the dark

and sinister. lbis is a realm where drug s mugglers

ho ld great s way over governments, where pirates still

operate, killing without mercy. and where corrupt dic-

tatorships thrived for hundreds of years under the

guise of democracy. From the genocide of the native

populations to the sadi stic Tontons M acoutes of Haiti,

a legacy of horror dominates these island paradises.

I hope to bring the Caribbean to life in this

guidebook. introducing Keepers and players alike to

the wonders the islands have to offer. as well as entic-

ing them to explore the many mysteries that pervade

thi s idyllic world. Ranging from the real to the imago

inary. an abundance of adventu res can be generated

from information in this guidebook. Whether it is

exploring the caves where shoggoth s hide or plumb--

in g the ancient libraries of Dominicana, Keepers '

sho uld find plenty of exciting material to breathe life

into their campaign.

This book also gives you all the infonnation

needed to run a campaign in the Caribbean. including

s uch topics as scuba diving, hurricanes, and towns

where investi gators might find more than they were

expecting. The Caribbean is fu ll of adventure lurking

beneath its paradise-like ex terior. Keepers should find

the contrast between beauty and horror more striking

in this setting than any other. The calm oceans one

minute can tum into violent s well s twenty feet high

and the nice little resort could be home to culti sts

awai ting the conjunction o f the planets to sacrifice

their guests to the local god. It is all here for you. Read

and enj oy.

yourself. It 's barely mentioned in

Lovecraffs literature and doesn 't seem a

very dark or frightening loca le. To most of us, it is just

a great place to vacation, re minding us more of Club

Med ads and miles of while sand beaches than other-

world ly monsters and abominatio ns from beyond.

Whi le barely a hundred miles off the coast of the

United States. and th ough it shares a close his tory

with thaI country, few Keepers consider it as a locale

worth visiting, preferring the exoti c lure of the Middle

East or the familiar landscape of Europe. Even places

as (ar away as Australi a are sought oul as being simi-

lar but different regions for exploration. Yet through-

OUI the hi story of the United States and of the O ld

Worl d, the Caribbean has been a vital Li nk in main-

tain ing and overthrowing power regi mes around the

world. These neighboring islands have been wrong-

fulJ y ignored not onl y in literature but in ro lepl ay ing

games as weU. Finally, the world of wonder and beau-

ty enters the roleplaying realm.

This book is about that world and presents it in

the modem setting, one which is fi ll ed with s mug-

glers. esoteric re li gions. and upheaval. Though ele-

ments of horror have been inevitably woven into the

islands' hi stories, they contain their own terrific pasts,

complete with bloodthirsty pirates and occultists. The

mysteries of the Caribbean are not unknown to us

either: They come to us in voodoo and in the Bermuda

Tri angle. exciting o ur wonder at th e unknown.

Lege nds of zombies and voodoo dolls. realiti es in

Haiti. have become a fundamental part o f our fo lldore.

JUSt as everyo ne has heard of the Bermuda Triangle.

Yet there is muc h that we don' t know about these

thi ngs. Jus t bow is a zombie made? Where do all those

ships vanish to in the Triangle? Perhaps it is these

questions that are daunting, as they involve powerful

H. P. Lovecraft

1890·1937

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