Welcome to a guide to the New Orleans of the 1920’s, which weaves together history and legend to provide a rich and exciting campaign environment for Call of Cthulhu gamers. This book aims to assist investigators in bringing the mysteries of the Crescent City to light, and to assist their Keepers in bringing those mysteries to life. For these benighted investigators, simply discovering the mysteries of the Crescent City is notĮnough to them goes the burden of solving the mysteries, as well. And they see Great Cthulhu, lurking in the degeneracy of the ages, orchestrating unspeakable acts in New Orleans from his sunken tombcity. They see the dense swamp jungles and decaying plantation mansions that lie on her outskirts, concealing sinister intrigues in their sultry dimness. They see the voodoo and mysticism that thrive in the private parlors of the city’s most powerful residents. There are those who walk the tenuous path between the comforting facade we call reality and the sanity-curdling horrors of cosmic truth these investigators of forbidden secrets, due either to foolish ambition or tragic heroism, dare to look over their shoulders and see the real New Orleans. Not all visitors are so easily deceived by the trinkets and baubles New Orleans puts on display for tourists. You are so distracted by cosmetic spectacle that you never notice that the real New Orleans lies behind you, just over your shoulder-and that this New Orleans contains so many more … novel sights. The intricate iron lace of the verandahs and the green Edenic bliss of the French Quarter gardens seduce your eye, capture you, hold you prisoner to their beauty. Mardi Gras revelers, laughing madly behind distorted masks, bump into you, grab you, tempt you to further debaucheries.
From the waterfront and the kitchens drift the sharp smells of Cajun spices. Loud, raucous jazz escapes the closed shutters of Bourbon Street speakeasies. Everywhere you go, your senses are assaulted by exotic delights.
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Introduction Mysteries of the Crescent City Won’t-cha come a-long with me, To the Mis-sis-sip-pi? We’ll take the boat-to the lan’ of dreams, Steam down the river down to New Orleans The band’s there to meet us, Old friends to greet us, Where all the light and the dark folks meet-“Basin Street Blues”Įw Orleans learned long ago how to hide her secrets well. The latest information on Chaosium books and games can be found at Chaosium Publication 23114. The reproduction of material from within this book for the purpose of personal or corporate profit, by photographic, electronic, or other methods of retrieval, is prohibited. Similarities between characters in Secrets of New Orleans and persons living or dead are strictly coincidental. Call of Cthulhu® is the registered trademark of Chaosium, Inc. Del Rio’s Arcane Bookshop and Papa Screech appeared previously in “Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?” in Great Old Ones, ©1986 by Chaosium. Cover illustration is ©1997, 2009 by Scott Baxa. Interior illustrations are ©1997, 2009 by Earl Geier, M. Contributions by Owen Guthrie & Toivo Luick and Kevin Ross are ©1986, 1996, 2009 by Chaosium, respectively. Contributions by James Cambias and Chris Williams are ©1997, 2009 by them, respectively. Secrets of New Orleans is ©1997, 2009 by Fred Van Lente. Secrets of New Orleans is published by Chaosium, Inc. 71 Getting Started The Widow The Charlatan The Musician The Scholar The Holy Terror The Gate-crashers Conclusion Bibliographical Resources. 58 Humfor Black Spiritualist Churches (box) Mambos and Hungans Conjure Doctors and Bokor Voodoo and the Mythos Loa Voodoo Grimoire Marie Laveau (box) Scenario: Twilight of the Fifth Sun. 47 Traveling the Swamplands Cajuns “The Call of Cthulhu” Oil-drilling Complexes Indian Burial Mounds The Esoteric Order of Dagon (box) Acadian Coast The Mafia (box) Voodoo. 31 On the Waterfront Rampart Street The Zobop (box) Garden District Universities Lake Pontchartrain Plantations Areas of Interest The Ku Klux Klan (box)īayou Country. 12 French Quarter Buildings Cities of the Dead Below the French Quarter Areas of Interest Jean Lafitte (box) La Santa Hermandad (box) The Greater City.
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1 Historical Events (box) Getting There Social Customs Creole-Cajun Name Generator (box) Mardi Gras Themes (box) 1920’s New Orleans Occupations (box) New Orleans in Different Eras The French Quarter. WAYNE MILLER maps STEWARD NOACK editorial and layout JANICE SELLERS cover layout SHANNON APPEL, CHARLIE KRANK readers JAMES CAMBIAS, NICK NACARIOĬontents Introduction.
FRED VAN LENTE additional material JAMES CAMBIAS, OWEN GUTHRIE & TOIVO LUICK, KEVIN ROSS, CHRIS WILLIAMS cover artwork SCOTT BAXA interior illustrations EARL GEIER, M.
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