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Foreword ...... iii Caribbean Campaigns ...... 63 Investigators Journey to Paradise .1 ...... Tourism Traveling to the Caribbean Criminal Minds The Turquoise Sea ...... 4 Ofshore Banking Weather and Climate Ancient Traditions The Reefs Treasure Hunting The Depths Underwater Explorations Ships of the Caribbean Scenario: The Privateer's Diary ...... 75 The Island Paradises ...... 11 The Diary Island Flora and Fauna New Providence Bermuda Search for the Island The Bahamas The Turks & Caicos Islands Turks & Caicos Islands French Cay Cuba The Treaure Hoard Cayman Islands The Sea Ghouls Jamaica Intruders Haiti Conclusion Dorninicana Appendix A ...... 81 Puerto Rico CaribbeanAnimal Life The Lesser Antilles Appendix B ...... 84 The Devil's Triangle .44 ...... A Triangle Chronology Origins of the Triangle Sample file Strange Phenomena Bibliography ...... 88 Accounts of Survivors of the Triangle Index ...... 89 Explanationsfor the Triangle Indian Burial Mounds Using the Triangle

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~~ A World of Wonder and Beauty

y the Caribbean?, you might be asking active forces, much more threatening than the unmov- yourself. It’s barely mentioned in ing monoliths of Stonehentge. Lovecraft’s literature and doesn’t seem a It is this vitality, this :force of spirit that draws us veryw dark or frightening locide. To most of us, it is just to the Caribbean, that lull:3 us into the sway of reggae a great place to vacation, re minding us more of Club and samba, that arouses 01 ur fascination with the dark Med ads and miles of white sand beaches than other- and sinister. This is a re;dm where drug smugglers worldly monsters and abaiminations from beyond. hold great sway over gove:rnments, where pirates still While barely a hundred mdes off the coast of the operate, killing without mi xcy, and where corrupt dic- United States, and though it shares a close history tatorships thrived for huindreds of years under the - - .-e> 3. ^C a----- r--- with that country, few Keepers consiaer 11 as a iocae ~UIX VI UGIIIULI~G~.rium the genocide of the native worth visiting, preferring the exotic lure of the Middle populations to the sadistic Tontons Macoutes of Haiti, East or the familiar land scape of Europe. Even places a legacy of horror dominate!5 these island paradises. as far away as Australia are sought out as being simi- I hope to bring the CMbbean to life in this lar but different regions for exploration. Yet through- guidebook, introducing Kee:pen and players alike to out the history of the 1Jnited States and of the Old the wonders the islands have ;to offer, as well as entic- World, the Caribbean h as been a vital link in main- ing them to explore the mal iy mysteries that pervade taining and overthrowinig power regimes around the this idyllic world. Ranging i?om the real to the imag- world. These neighboriing islands have been wrong- inary, an abundance of adventures can be generated fully ignored not only iin literature but in roleplaying from information in this g:uidebook. Whether it is games as well. Finally, tlhe world of wonder and beau- exploring the caves where s,hoggoths hide or plumb- ty enters the roleplaying, realm. ing the ancient libraries (,f Dominicana, Keepers This book is about that world and presents it in should find plenty of excitirig material to breathe life the modem setting, on(: which is filled with smug- into their campaign. glers, esoteric religions, and upheaval. Though ele- This book also gives you all the information ments of horror have be :en inevitably woven Sampleinto the needed file to run a campaign in the Caribbean, including islands’ histories, they cc mtain their own terrific pasts, such topics as scuba divin;g, hurricanes, and towns 1 -, 1,. . --.L--- :----..A: --.--..-:-LA l! -I WIIGIG IIII~IIL complete with bloodthirsty pirates an0- nrciiiricr~------1-1. --_-ne iiivesugaiurs lind more than they were mysteries of the Caribbean are not unknown to US expecting. TI ’le Caribbean is full of adventure lurking either: They come to us in voodoo andI in the Bermuda beneath its pi aradise-like exterior. Keepers should find Triangle, exciting our wonder at the unknown. the. ..contrast 1yetween beauty and horror more striking Legends of zombies and voodoo dolls, realities in in ms setting than any other. The calm oceans one Haiti, have become a fundamental part of our folklore, minute can turn into violent swells twenty feet high just as everyone has heard of the Bermuda Triangle. and the nice little resort could be home to cultists Yet there is much that we don’t know about these awaiting the conjunction of the planets to sacrifice things. Just how is a zombie made? Where do all those their guests to the local god. It is all here for you. Read ships vanish to in the Triangle? Perhaps it is these and enjoy. questions that are daunting, as they involve powerful Sample file

H. P. Lovecraft 18904 937 Sample file Caribbean i!5 actually composed of thee are today almost universally dom hated by Africans, major island ppupings: the Bahamas, the freed through legislation or rebellicm. TGreater Antilleis, and the Lesser Antilles. The islands have served as sup'ply stops and distri- Included in this book is Bermuda, which does not tech- bution points for goods traveling f rom the New World * . 0,. A .,, *. .. -...... , nically fall within the bounaanes 01 me Lantmean, DUI to tne via since tneir earliest colonization, with for- which shares a similav c-lirnatn anrl hiatnrrr Thn ;clonAf +.Inno nf rrnlrl nnrl ;n.Irnlc r\na&nrr t5rough their harbors I ULlllKLC" CULU Lllocv'y. IIXU 1YlUl.U" I.U,ICID "I 5"lU allUJCIWbl* yunou~~L. are more or less within the Caribbean Sea, a minor arm in ancient times and shipments of ' liquor and cocaine of the Atlantic Ocean, bordered on the north by the Gulf smuggled through in more recent Jrears. of Mexico and the U nited States and below by South The beautiful scenery and id yllic climate of the -An- ohoAnn m-n-7 ni~lhrralaim- . * 1 .% 1 0. . America. Central Ambllbu, nL,ulI,5 LIIuLIIy.,uILuI i)llll- isianas as0 lure mousanas 01rounsts every year, just as ilarities with the Caribbean, is found to the West, making they convinced many colonists that they had found par- the Caribbean a hub of activity within the Americas. adise in centuries Dast. Year-round clear skies and The Caribbean islands were the first land masses sunny beaches make these islandr5 a favorite destina- discovered by Coluinbus when seeking the New World. tion for vacationers, who find the locals friendly and The oldest colonieis, churches, and forts in the New eager to please. Nevertheless, i m undercurrent of .4 i.. thn P.,Ahhmnn .r,F.P-c, tha -.,-+,.-. --,I :,. d:+X,...lc +- :, World can be foullu 111 ulCI L(uIuuCILuI, WllGLcl LIICI 11lp.Gly ~IULIIIIIG 15 ull1lLulL LU Ignore, as these isles European powers waged war for domination of the cru- are also the nexus of peculiar cults and religions, cial isles. The native peoples-the Arawak, Carib, and strange disappearances and murderous pirates. Perhaps Taino-were quickly decimated through warfare and it is this thrill of danger, combined with the beauty of slavery, replaced by slaves from Africa. This has the people and the islands, that attracts so many to the shaped the culture and make-up of the islands, which islands' shores.