All players make Health tests against a
Difficulty of 4. Those who succeed awaken
on their own, at about the same time.
Failed characters either must be awakened
by another characters (on a Difficulty 2
First Aid test) or come to on their own. In
the latter case, they wake up on their own
in fifteen minute intervals, in the order of
their Health ratings, from highest to to
lowest.
Upon awakening, each character makes an
Athletics or Fleeing roll (player’s choice)
against a Difficulty of 4. Failed characters
take a die of damage+2. This is retroactive
damage, measuring how badly they were
hurt during the shipwreck. See which failed
character loses the fewest Health points;
successful characters lose this number,
minus 1.
As soon as a player inquires into the state
of repair of his or her garments, all of them
make Difficulty 4 Preparedness tests.
Winners’ clothing is relatively intact. The
garments of failed characters are tattered
and will afford less than perfect protection
against the elements until repaired.
Characters with Physics consider the storm
anomalous both for its speed of attack, and
for its apparently highly localized effect.
The character with the lowest Stability
rating thinks he felt the ship shudder just
before it went down, as if it was hit by
some moving object below the waterline.
The character with the second-lowest
Stability rating thinks he saw a dark form
moving through the water, dragging
drowning passengers down into the
depths. If the character voices this, other
characters with Biologycan theorize
(correctly) that the passengers were
attacked by one or more giant squids. If the
players dwell on this, more of them recall
the squid attack, reliving it in all of his
horrible detail. Players who take no part in
the discussion are portraying their
characters as successfully denying or
repressing the ghastly memories. Everyone
else faces a possible 5-point Stability loss.
After a day without water, characters
suffer impairment as if hurt, regardless of
their Health pools. After 48 hours without
water, they are treated as seriously
wounded (including the need for a
Consciousness roll) regardless of their
Health pools. These conditions can’t be
cured with First Aid, only with the gradual
ingestion of clean drinking water. After 72
hours without water, characters must
make Difficulty 6 Health tests every two
hours, or die.
Going without water induces panic; after a
day without water, characters face a 3-
point Stability loss. After two days, a
second test, for 5 points, is required.
Anyone drinking the water takes
Damage+1, and suffers impairment as if
hurt, regardless of Health pool, for 1-6
hours.
After two days without food, the cost of all
investigative spends increases by 1, and
clues which would normally be available
automatically now require 1-point spends.
All general ability Difficulties increase by 1.
After a week without food, the cost of all
investigative spends increases another
point, as do all Difficulties. After two weeks
without food, this cumulative increase
occurs again. After three weeks without
food, characters must make a Difficulty 7
Health test every six hours, or lapse into
unconsciousness and die.
The flash: In the middle of the night, the
character on watch (there issomeone on
watch, right?) perceives a sudden flash of
green-blue light out on the ocean horizon.
This leaves the observer with the sense
that the world is more fragile and
mysterious than he or she had ever
contemplated. (1/0)
Mist: A thick, churning mist emerges from
the jungle depths to roll through camp.
Characters test Stability against a Difficulty
of 4. Those who fail lose 4/Sanity.
Disorientation. The spatial relationship
between the group and its destination
(whatever that happens to be at the
moment) appears to change at a rate
inconsistent with the distance they’ve
actually traveled. (2/0)
Sensation of surveillance. A castaway
making a Difficulty 2 Sense Trouble check
gets the feeling of being watched from the
jungle—but can see nothing. (1/0)
Glimpsed in camp. For an instant, a
castaway sees the devourer in all of its
mutilated splendor, standing just a few
inches away. Then it apparently vanishes.
Abholos chooses the most evidently
unstable castaway, or one who has
otherwise aroused its attention. (5/0)
Dragged off. Devourers wait until a
castaway has isolated himself from the
others, in camp or elsewhere, and set upon
him. If they incapacitate him, they drag him
off into the jungle and finish the kill. Only
scraps of clothing and bloodless flesh are
found, a discovery which may occasion a a
4-point Stability loss.
Glimpse reprise. After a castaway is
claimed by the devourers, “Glimpsed in
camp” repeats—but this time, the
devourer is recognizably the lost comrade.
(6/0)
Witnessing this constitutes a Mythos shock
carrying a potential Stability/Sanity loss of
4/2. Abilities: Athletics 8, Health 5, Scuffling
8 HT: 7 (drops to 4 if attacker has glimpsed
it during current round, or 5 if an element
of the environment, like wet sand or snow
drifts, reveal its location) Alertness
Modifier: +1 Stealth Modifier: +1 Weapon:
necrotizing aura +0 Armor: 0 Stability Loss:
+0
Items of gear salvageable from the crash
include four parachutes, a bucket, a
canteen, a machete, a world map (on
which this island does not appear) and a 6-
shot .32 revolver. Characters with
Preparedness may each make a test to find
a single item apiece amid the wreckage.
Choose Difficulties according to the
likelihood that the item would be among
the limited equipment taken on an
exploratory flight.
The Firenze Tome is a famous lost book,
referred to in many medieval works but
not seen since the Hundred Years War. It
reputedly had a metal cover and was said
to be cursed.
Found at the camp are two metal pails, a
shovel, a harpoon, a pair of six-inch fish
gutting knives, a spyglass, and four sodden
and deteriorating blankets. Also, as at the
plane crash site, each character with
Preparedness can now make an additional
pitch for a single other object they might
find there, with the Difficulties determined
by likelihood
Also present are a quartet of shallow
graves. Evidence Collectionsuggests that
they were dug about a month ago. If dug
up, the bodies show all the vomit-inducing
signs of tropical putrefaction. Nearby
characters must make Difficulty 4 Health
rolls or unceremoniously lose their hard-
won lunches. Forensics shows that they all
died of injuries consistent with a
shipwreck.
The dreams occur to the first character
wounded by a devourer attack. (If no one
gets hurt by a devourer and pacing
demands that the clues appear anyway, it
is the character with the lowest Sanity
pool.) To speed up the transmission of
information, allow dreams to come to
multiple qualifying characters, and/or
combine separate dreams.
Mlle Earhart, ficar na cidade até a semana seguinte.
Parece que os japoneses estão fechando a
Guardo ainda com carinho esta foto da
cidade.
apresentação em Nova York feita há cinco
anos. Parece que foi em outra vida que me Atenciosamente,
envolvia com ondas de rádio e tecnologia...
Eugene Houdry
Meus estudos hoje são outros e gostaria de
falar-lhe sobre eles pois são de extrema
importância.

Aquilo que eu mais temia descobrir,

quando iniciei minhas novas pesquisas,
provou-se verdadeiro. Porém, receio não
poder tratar mais sobre isso nessa missiva,
simplesmente não seria seguro.

Li nos noticiários que também está em

Singapura e penso que poderíamos nos
encontrar para uma conversa. Seria um
prazer relatar minhas descobertas e saber
de primeira mão sobre suas expedições.
Envie em meu nome, por favor, sua
resposta para o hotel Raffles. Pretendo
The next morning after acquiring the final
radio transmission and/or third dream, the
castaway with the lowest Sanity rating
awakens to see the island’s landscape
bizarrely changed. (If the lowest Sanity is
shared by more than one character, all of
them see it.) Now looming from the atoll’s
rough geographical center is a pylon of
black volcanic rock, thrusting hundreds of
feet into the Pacific sky. The observer sees
the vague outlines of a face leering from it.

At first, other characters do not perceive

the structure. The realization that others
can’t see it costs the initial observer(s) 3
Stability, unless they succeed at Stability
tests.

As those who do see it describe it, the rest

of the party makes Difficulty 6 Sense
Trouble tests. Those who succeed can now
perceive it too—and must make Stability
tests, or lose 4 Stability.

Characters who still can’t sense the pylon

get retries on their Sense Trouble tests
when they’re halfway into the jungle.
When they finally do perceive it, the
potential Stability loss is 5.

When they finally reach the base of the

tower, they see it no matter what—and
face a possible Stability drop of 6 points.

Abilities: Athletics 10, Health N/A, Scuffling

23 Hit Threshold: 3 (large) Alertness
Modifier: +2Stealth Modifier: -1Weapon:
+5 (speared tendril)Armor: Abholos
completely shrugs off damage to its
monstrous form (although you should mark
it down as if it matters). However, if the
book is destroyed, Abholos loses his hold
on this plane and disappears into a warp in
space, leaving behind only a stench of
vinegar and methane. If its pages are
burned, the book is destroyed in one
round. To rip up enough of the pages to
Stability Loss: +3