1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,680 Welcome to Agents Dossier, a Delta Green actual play series brought to you by 12 Sided Stories. 2 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:48,240 And now your GM, Wes Otis. 3 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,640 Hello and welcome to Agents Dossier episode number 11. 4 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,440 I have a wonderful player with me. 5 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:54,440 Jay, take it away. 6 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:55,440 Hi y'all. 7 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,640 I'm Wes from here playing a brand new character for Agents Dossier since the last one worked 8 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:01,840 out so well. 9 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:07,100 Well, I mean, story wise, they worked out really well. 10 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:08,840 They worked out really well together. 11 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,960 You know, I mean, yeah. 12 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,720 Episode 10 was with Pooja and yeah, it was the kind of the same thing like, oh, here 13 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,060 I am with the new person. 14 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:24,160 So just real quickly, who is this new person that you'll be playing? 15 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:30,440 So my new character, his name is Mars Paulson and he is a former Marine, was a 4th Recon 16 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,240 Marine, so like an elite Marine for a long time. 17 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:38,360 He's from New Jersey and since his honorable discharge and leaving military service, he 18 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,880 just sort of wanders around. 19 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:41,880 Cool. 20 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,720 So you were saying before we came on that your home base is kind of New Jersey. 21 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,120 How long has it been since you left New Jersey the last time? 22 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,760 Oh God, it's probably been, let's say two or three months. 23 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:54,760 Cool. 24 00:01:54,760 --> 00:02:01,440 So as you said, it's been two or three months and you've been traveling along, just going 25 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,560 here or there. 26 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:08,120 You've made basically a big loop around the country and you're kind of coming up the East 27 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,120 Coast. 28 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,400 Not sure if you're going to go back to New Jersey quite yet, but you're more close to 29 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,560 the vicinity and it's late when you get into town. 30 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,680 Get off the bus. 31 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:18,680 It's a Greyhound. 32 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:24,480 Greyhounds, I don't know Jay if you've had much experience with Greyhounds or not. 33 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,840 Have you ever traveled? 34 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,040 A fair amount. 35 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,800 I have traveled by a Greyhound. 36 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,360 It is not great. 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,800 It's an experience. 38 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:40,020 When I was a kid, we went from Branson, Missouri to California and it was a six day trip. 39 00:02:40,020 --> 00:02:45,180 I was 13 and I had a full beard by the time I got done. 40 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:46,440 That is a brutal trip. 41 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:47,440 Holy crap. 42 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:48,440 It's a brutal trip. 43 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:55,040 Greyhounds are a reliable way to get to large cities relatively quickly. 44 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,160 You get there in the middle of the night. 45 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,420 It's probably about three in the morning. 46 00:02:59,420 --> 00:03:03,920 What does Marge do when he first gets into Charleston, Virginia? 47 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:06,720 Into Charleston, he's going to look for a bar. 48 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,240 That's the move. 49 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,700 Find a bar, get a sense of the town and who's here, maybe look for a little trouble and 50 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:16,600 then afterwards find a motel. 51 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:22,640 At three in the morning, the only bars that are really open around here are usually in 52 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:24,480 the industrial areas. 53 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:33,240 There's an old tire factory that has a grungy large warehouse bar. 54 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:40,900 During the weekends, they rent it out to rowdy teenage 18 to 23 year olds who are in college 55 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:41,900 or whatever. 56 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:48,320 During the week, it is full of the most colorful people in the city. 57 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Cool. 58 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:57,680 Like the guys that might be working muscle at different bars or the people from the local 59 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,080 marine units and things like that. 60 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,000 It's an interesting bunch of people. 61 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Cool. 62 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,940 You walk in and you know in a place like this, they're not going to give you a second glance 63 00:04:07,940 --> 00:04:10,560 because you're just like them. 64 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,160 They're a drifter. 65 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,120 They've got a pool table going. 66 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,480 Do you order a beer and all that good stuff? 67 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,080 Yeah, order a bottle of beer. 68 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,400 Highlight if they've got it. 69 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:20,960 Yeah, they absolutely do. 70 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:21,960 Cool. 71 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:22,960 Perfect. 72 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,000 This guy sitting next to you and older guy looks like he might be in his, I want to say 73 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,800 early 60s and he goes, how you doing? 74 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,560 Haven't seen you around here. 75 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,440 My name's Pete, puts out his hand. 76 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,440 Shake it, just passing through. 77 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,060 It's like shaking a pitcher's mitt. 78 00:04:39,060 --> 00:04:42,200 It's just, it's got calluses and it's huge. 79 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,200 Yep. 80 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,520 He goes, well, are you good with guns? 81 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:47,520 Who wants to know? 82 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,480 Pete, I'm right here in front of you. 83 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:54,740 Me, I've got a hunting thing I want to go do and if you're good with guns, maybe you 84 00:04:54,740 --> 00:04:55,880 could help me out. 85 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:57,240 Rifles, that is. 86 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:58,940 And no, nothing illegal. 87 00:04:58,940 --> 00:05:02,120 Not a big hunting person, Pete. 88 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:03,680 But you like action, right? 89 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:10,320 I mean, this isn't any normal prey and he pulls out of his pocket this picture of what 90 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:16,760 looks to be a huge bird like creature, but probably, you don't know, it looks like a 91 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,240 pterodactyl almost. 92 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,920 He goes, look at that thing. 93 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,360 I've been hunting after that for the last three nights. 94 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,100 I got a picture of it last night, but I need a second person. 95 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:27,680 What is that? 96 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,800 Well, I don't know. 97 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,840 It's out by the woods, not far from here and every time it takes off, I shoot towards it 98 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,560 and I miss. 99 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,200 Unfortunately, I'm not as young as I used to be. 100 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,160 I was able to at least get the picture. 101 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:46,680 It's a little blurry, but you can make out like the wingspan and it looks relatively large. 102 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,000 Now you're not sure if he was super close to it. 103 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 But like I said, this is a bar full of interesting people. 104 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,800 I mean, I'm just looking at Pete's gun. 105 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,560 It's like, why are you trying to kill it? 106 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:57,560 Did it hurt you? 107 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,840 It didn't hurt me, but I mean, you know, this is Virginia. 108 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:02,640 We do like to hunt things. 109 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,840 Yeah, I mean, I get it. 110 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,000 But it's not bothering anybody. 111 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,320 Well, you're right. 112 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:09,400 I know. 113 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,800 But I'm just interested in it and I'm trying to capture it. 114 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,680 And if you have any other better ideas on how to get it, that would be, I mean, maybe 115 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,120 you could help me grab it. 116 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,400 It's always on the ground. 117 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,840 It just takes off when I get too close. 118 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:23,840 All right. 119 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:24,840 I guess I'm curious. 120 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,320 I mean, this is real weird. 121 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,160 Yeah, I know it's real weird. 122 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,160 This feels this feels real weird. 123 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,800 I mean, I don't know you. 124 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,240 I just met you and you want to go out into the woods with guns and shoot at some weird 125 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,160 creature that I don't even know is real. 126 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,440 Well, I want you to look around yourself. 127 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:47,400 You're in a large warehouse at three in the morning in the middle of downtown Charleston 128 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:55,200 next to an old tire factory talking to a man that's six foot four with the hands like mitts. 129 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:56,480 You're kind of weird around here. 130 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,920 Yeah, but I'm not from around here. 131 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,920 I don't this is well, if you don't want to do it, that's fine. 132 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:01,920 I don't know, man. 133 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:02,920 I don't know. 134 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,000 It just seems real, real weird to me. 135 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,720 I'm getting such a weird, sketchy vibe off this guy. 136 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:12,600 I'm looking around as like, is there anyone is there anyone sort of like looking askance? 137 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,920 Like is it is it trying to get the vibe of the place? 138 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,240 Is someone looking over here going? 139 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,320 Oh, there goes Pete again with that crazy picture. 140 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,440 I mean, I've got I've got alertness. 141 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,360 Yeah, let's do alertness. 142 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,360 You mean alertness. 143 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,760 That's that's right. 144 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,400 Let's try rolling dice and see what happens. 145 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,240 We saw a 50 in this. 146 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,960 So there's a at least a chance a chance. 147 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:35,920 Hey, I got a 32. 148 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:36,920 That's awesome. 149 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:43,920 OK, I mean, honestly, you are not a stupid person by any stretch. 150 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:49,920 And the picture looks real enough, but you've seen enough stuff that you're not quite sure 151 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,720 if he's he's on the level. 152 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:58,880 I mean, you know, if if we're if we're being honest and and we're thinking about this in 153 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:05,800 a reality situation, going out to the middle of the woods with a crazy guy with a gun. 154 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:06,800 Yeah. 155 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Yeah. 156 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,880 That that seems a bit off, especially in the south. 157 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:17,840 Yeah, especially I'm a I'm a black seller in the south. 158 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,040 I've just gotten to town. 159 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,600 Your bullshit meter wouldn't allow you to do that necessarily. 160 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:25,600 Yeah. 161 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:26,600 Yeah. 162 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,080 So I'm just going to say, you know what, Pete? 163 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:30,080 Thanks. 164 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,080 But no, thanks. 165 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,560 I'm just going to finish my beer and go find a place to crash. 166 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:35,560 All right. 167 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:36,560 No problem. 168 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:37,560 I understand. 169 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:39,360 And then he kind of slinks away. 170 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,080 So how many beers would you be having? 171 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:43,080 Like two or three. 172 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:44,080 All right. 173 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:45,080 I'm a big fella, too. 174 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,520 So it's I'm maybe slightly buzzed. 175 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:49,880 I'm not going to. 176 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,640 If you're having high life, I don't. 177 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:52,640 I'm not going to. 178 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,020 I'm not going to make a roll for that. 179 00:08:56,020 --> 00:08:59,160 Do you want to talk to the bartender about a place to sleep or? 180 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:00,160 Yeah. 181 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:01,160 Yeah. 182 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,160 I mean, I'll ask you. 183 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,160 I'll see the bartender. 184 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:04,160 Where's the nearest motel? 185 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:09,760 Well, there's a Motel Six just down the way, not far from here, and tells you, you know, 186 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:10,760 left, right. 187 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,920 You know, and then you'll see that you'll see the thing. 188 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,600 They usually have something open. 189 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:15,600 Great. 190 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,680 That's the you know, once I finish my third beer, I'll pay him a tab and make my way down 191 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:20,960 to the Motel Six. 192 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,600 OK, you make your way down to the Motel Six. 193 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,440 Sure enough, they have a room and everything's good. 194 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,200 The next day you wake up. 195 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:29,800 How long you planning to stay in town? 196 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,960 You just want to kind of check out the town a little bit. 197 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:33,960 Yeah, a little bit. 198 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:38,880 Yeah, like a day or two is the plan, you know, before I catch the next bus to the next town. 199 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,760 You make your way around just kind of checking things out. 200 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,700 The day goes by relatively without any incident or anything like that. 201 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:55,040 When you're in the area near where that bar was, and I imagine you walk around quite a 202 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,480 bit like that's that's your that's your thing is kind of just walking around, seeing everything 203 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,480 that you can. 204 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:08,000 The bar has not opened yet, but there is a car out in the parking lot and there's something 205 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 on top of the car. 206 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,200 You can't really make it out, but it looks like it might have fallen from the sky. 207 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,760 Oh boy. 208 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,720 Because the top of the car is bent in a little bit. 209 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:21,720 That's not a good sign. 210 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,360 I mean, I'll go check it out. 211 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,840 OK, so you get a little closer to see what it is. 212 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:36,260 And it is a arm from about midway up the bicep that has been ripped apart. 213 00:10:36,260 --> 00:10:39,360 The hands are very definitely this guy's. 214 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:40,360 All right. 215 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,880 Well, he guessed Pete found what he was looking for. 216 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:44,880 Yeah. 217 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,800 So I'm not making you make a sand check or anything because you're a Marine, but you 218 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:54,520 kind of look around and you see that there seem to be some kind of struggle that happened 219 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,040 around the car because it's a dirt parking lot. 220 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:02,720 And you see that there is blood splatter all around the car. 221 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:08,760 You're wondering how exactly did no one see this before you? 222 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,200 Because it's later in the day now. 223 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:12,200 Right. 224 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:13,200 The blood is dry enough. 225 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,720 It's clear it's been here all day. 226 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,720 Part of the night. 227 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:16,720 Do you do anything? 228 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:17,720 Yeah. 229 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,720 I mean, is there a trail of any kind? 230 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:21,720 Yeah, there's a trail. 231 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,720 And then there's also footsteps. 232 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,720 Do the footsteps like do the footsteps go where the blood trail leads or is there? 233 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,720 No, they're just all around this area. 234 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:37,720 But it looks almost like a deer or maybe a small horse or something. 235 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,720 They look like hooves. 236 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,720 A set of them goes towards the bar and comes back. 237 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:42,720 Make a search roll. 238 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:43,720 Search roll? 239 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:44,720 All right. 240 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:45,720 You got a 60 in that. 241 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:46,720 I got a 60. 242 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,720 So here, let's see how these dice go. 243 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,720 15. 244 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,720 Nice. 245 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,720 These are good dice. 246 00:11:54,720 --> 00:12:00,720 Whatever happened, you look around and it seems like all the action happened right around 247 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:01,720 the car. 248 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,720 Then whatever this hoofed creature was, it went to the bar and came back. 249 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:14,720 And then you see some blood away from the car, probably about 20 or 30 feet towards 250 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,720 the general vicinity of the woods. 251 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,720 And then the blood trail stops. 252 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,720 So they took flight basically. 253 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Got it. 254 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,720 Well, let me go try the door to the bar. 255 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Okay. 256 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:34,720 You go to the bar, you open it up, and the bartender is sitting at the bar drinking a 257 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:40,720 beer, and he looks up at you, and it's obvious that he hasn't changed clothes since the night 258 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:41,720 before. 259 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,720 He goes, oh, okay. 260 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:44,720 Well, howdy. 261 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,720 I'm not sure if we're opening up today after... 262 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:48,720 How you doing? 263 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,720 Sorry, I'm a little shooken. 264 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,720 Yeah, what happened last night? 265 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,720 Everything seemed fine when I left. 266 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Everything was fine. 267 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:01,720 And then Pete, one of our regulars, he left after... 268 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:06,720 I remember you from last night, he left after you left, not long after. 269 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,720 He was gone for about an hour. 270 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:14,720 And he came back and he was blathering on about that stupid flying creature that he 271 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,720 took a picture of. 272 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,720 Looked like Bigfoot to us, you know, not real. 273 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:26,720 Sure enough, 10 minutes went by and this weird thing, I don't know what was wrong with the 274 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,720 guy, if he had leprosy or something, I don't know. 275 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:34,720 He walked in, grabbed Pete and drug him out to his car. 276 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:41,720 And we just all kind of sat in here and listened to the horrible sounds that came from outside. 277 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,720 And we didn't do anything. 278 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:45,720 We were shocked. 279 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,720 It was like being shot at or something. 280 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:49,720 You just freeze. 281 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,720 No one called the cops? 282 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:52,720 Tell them what. 283 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:59,720 We went to the door and we saw Pete being taken up in the air by this thing and that 284 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,720 leprosy looking guy is on its back. 285 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,720 And what do we tell the cops? 286 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,720 Half of us have a sheet. 287 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:08,720 You know what I mean? 288 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,720 No, I don't know what you mean. 289 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,720 Your friend was murdered by someone. 290 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:14,720 By something? 291 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,720 We saw it. 292 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,720 I mean, something, someone, something happened. 293 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,720 And you just all let it happen? 294 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,720 You had to see it. 295 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,720 It was not. 296 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:31,720 And you can tell from your years of being in the military and being in war and combat 297 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:39,720 and stuff like that, that this guy is very much shaken even now by what he saw. 298 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,720 So you're not going to get much more out of him. 299 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:50,720 And his brain has basically allowed him to shut out the images and all that other stuff. 300 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,720 What direction did they go in? 301 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,720 They flew off to the east. 302 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,720 There's a thicket out there that's a small forest past the city limits. 303 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,720 I think that's where Pete's been going. 304 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:02,720 All right. 305 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:03,720 I mean, his arm is still here. 306 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,720 You should call somebody. 307 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:06,720 Yeah, I know. 308 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,720 I'll call someone right now. 309 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,720 I just don't know what the hell I'm going to tell him. 310 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,720 Tell him your friend was attacked. 311 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:13,720 By what? 312 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,720 By some weird guy and his pet. 313 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,720 I don't know. 314 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:17,720 Just tell them something. 315 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,720 The man is dead. 316 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:20,720 Jesus. 317 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:21,720 Snap out of it. 318 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:22,720 I know, I know. 319 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:23,720 You know what? 320 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:24,720 You're right. 321 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:25,720 You're right. 322 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:26,720 I'm sorry. 323 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,720 It was just so much. 324 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,720 Listen, you got a gun back there? 325 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:33,720 Yeah, of course I've got a gun. 326 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,720 Everyone in Virginia has a gun here. 327 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,720 I don't know why you didn't use it, but give me your gun. 328 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,720 Look, be careful when you're out there. 329 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,720 That thing was huge. 330 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:44,720 Thanks. 331 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,720 Like elephant size. 332 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:47,720 Okay, thank you. 333 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:48,720 Grab the gun. 334 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:49,720 What is it, like a revolver? 335 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,720 Actually, no, it's a sawed-off shotgun. 336 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:52,720 That's fun. 337 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:53,720 Okay, cool. 338 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:54,720 Yeah. 339 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:55,720 Roadhouse style, you know? 340 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Roadhouse style. 341 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,720 Like, you got any shells? 342 00:15:58,720 --> 00:15:59,720 Give me some shells. 343 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:00,720 Yeah, he gives you shells. 344 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:01,720 All right, great. 345 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,720 So you head out and you travel, you know, that direction. 346 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:06,720 Yep. 347 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,720 It takes you a little bit. 348 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,720 And by this point, it's starting to get towards dusk. 349 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,720 And every once in a while, you pick up the trail of blood. 350 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:26,720 When you get there, you notice that there are two black SUVs sitting on the edge of the forest. 351 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,720 There's four people altogether. 352 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,720 They look up and they see you coming. 353 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:36,720 They go, sir, are you looking for anything in particular? 354 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:37,720 Who wants to know? 355 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,720 I am Agent Russ. 356 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:46,720 Agent Russ is an older, like 50-something white guy with a black suit on. 357 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,720 They all have black suits on. 358 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,720 And this is my partner, Agent Wells. 359 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:56,720 Agent Wells is a, like, 60-year-old black woman in a pantsuit. 360 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:02,720 And this is Agent Peters and Agent Johnson. 361 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,720 He goes, are you missing somebody? 362 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,720 I'm just out for a walk. 363 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,720 With a gun? 364 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,720 It's a dangerous world. 365 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:15,720 Suddenly there's this huge sound coming from the trees. 366 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:20,720 And they all grab their guns and start to run in. 367 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:22,720 And in a second, they're just gone. 368 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:28,720 Every once in a while, you hear a gunshot and then you'll hear, like, a tree move or get knocked down or something. 369 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,720 What do you want to do? 370 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:30,720 I guess I'll follow them. 371 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,720 I mean, yeah. 372 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,720 The inner adrenaline junkie comes out. 373 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:36,720 Mm-hmm. 374 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:37,720 You follow them in. 375 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,720 How far back do you want to be? 376 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:40,720 Like, are you... 377 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,720 You know, 20 feet, 30 feet, something like that. 378 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:44,720 OK. 379 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:45,720 You know, coming in cautiously. 380 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:46,720 I don't know what I'm walking into. 381 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,720 Right. 382 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:54,720 There is a clearing that this thing has made in the center of this thicket forest area. 383 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:55,720 Mm-hmm. 384 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,720 And I would guess I'd call it sort of a nest. 385 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,720 You see Pete's body on the ground next to it. 386 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,720 It's obviously been gnawed on. 387 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:05,720 This thing is huge. 388 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,720 It's got black leathery wings. 389 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:15,720 It doesn't have a face, but it has a humanoid body with long arms. 390 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,720 It's probably, like I said, elephant size. 391 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,720 On its back is the creature. 392 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,720 Obviously not a human. 393 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,720 It is some kind of ghoulish looking creature. 394 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,720 The agents are shooting at it. 395 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:37,720 They've got it in the center and it is trying to grab them, but they are running between the trees. 396 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:38,720 First, give me a sand check. 397 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:39,720 Yep. 398 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:40,720 That seems reasonable. 399 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,720 That's a 33 on the dice. 400 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:44,720 OK, cool. 401 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,720 You don't take any sand loss for this. 402 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:48,720 Good. 403 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:49,720 Wow, your sanity is low. 404 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,720 I mean, well, it's 50, but... 405 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:52,720 Yeah. 406 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:53,720 Oof-dah. 407 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:54,720 Yep. 408 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:55,720 It's going to be an interesting one. 409 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:56,720 Yeah. 410 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:57,720 OK. 411 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,720 So as they're running around, one of them notices that you are kind of hanging back and yells 412 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,720 that you shoot at the damn thing. 413 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:05,720 You've got a gun. 414 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,720 I'm aware. 415 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:08,720 Then use it. 416 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:09,720 We need your help. 417 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:15,720 I am going to try to stay out of the things eyesight and try to line up a good shot on 418 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,720 the guy on top or the thing or whatever the thing that's driving the monster. 419 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:21,720 OK. 420 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,720 In that case, what we'll do is we'll give you a bonus. 421 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,720 I'm going to give you a plus 20 to your percentage. 422 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:28,720 Got it. 423 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,720 So add 20 to your skill in firearms. 424 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:33,720 Great. 425 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:34,720 That's really good. 426 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:35,720 All right. 427 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:36,720 That's a 60. 428 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,720 The dice. 429 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:45,720 This one, I definitely need to keep these dice because I rolled a 57. 430 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:50,720 Thankfully, you got that little bonus there. 431 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:51,720 That's right. 432 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:52,720 Oh, boy. 433 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,720 So let's look at how much damage you do. 434 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,720 So do you want to be firing slugs or shot? 435 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,720 A shot. 436 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:01,720 Let's go for a shot. 437 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:02,720 OK. 438 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,720 So that's 2D10 points of damage. 439 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:05,720 Oh, boy. 440 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:06,720 Yeah. 441 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,720 Delta Green doesn't fuck around with their punishment. 442 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,720 That's great. 443 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,720 So 2D10, that is 10, six and a four. 444 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,720 OK, cool. 445 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:21,720 You nail this thing and it flies off the back of this creature into the brush. 446 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,720 This creature is looking around. 447 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,720 They're firing at it. 448 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:32,720 And without that thing on its back, it flies straight up and you see this big explosion 449 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,720 of light as if a portal is ripped open above you. 450 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:44,720 Oh, wow. 451 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,720 And it flies through it and basically disappears. 452 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,720 Holy crap. 453 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:55,720 You see the agents run over to the other side around it and you hear them just light the 454 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,720 thing up, right? 455 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,720 Just do a bunch of shots. 456 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,720 A few moments later, Agent Wells, the older woman comes over to you. 457 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,720 Says, that shot was really well placed. 458 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:08,720 We appreciate it. 459 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,720 It definitely helped. 460 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,720 Cool. 461 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:12,720 What the hell was that? 462 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:17,720 Well, that, the thing on its back was a ghoul. 463 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,720 Uh-huh. 464 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,720 They eat human remains. 465 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,720 Uh-huh. 466 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,720 And we're not quite sure what the creature that it was riding was. 467 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:31,720 It only comes out at night, doesn't have a face, and you seem to hold together pretty 468 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,720 well, even though those things shouldn't make any sense to anyone you were able to keep 469 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:36,720 your cool. 470 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:37,720 Yeah. 471 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,720 Which is a good thing. 472 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,720 Anyway, would you be maybe interested in some work? 473 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:44,720 More work like that? 474 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:45,720 Yeah. 475 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,720 Yeah, sure. 476 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,720 Like, there's a lot of these things out there and they need to be taken care of so that 477 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,720 people like that poor son of a bitch doesn't accidentally stumble into them. 478 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:57,720 Yeah. 479 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:58,720 Yeah, okay. 480 00:21:58,720 --> 00:21:59,720 I could do that. 481 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:00,720 A lot of those things? 482 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,720 There's a lot of things out there you don't, it's, it's, it's pretty nuts out there. 483 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:05,720 All right. 484 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,720 Anyway, we're all FBI here, but you don't have to be part of the agency. 485 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,720 We'll explain more to you later. 486 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,720 And you know what, in fact, why don't you meet me tomorrow for breakfast? 487 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:22,720 The diner and she gives you the, like an address to someplace near, which is like, where are 488 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:23,720 you, where are you staying at? 489 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:24,720 The Motel 6 for now. 490 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,720 Well, then I'll see you there tomorrow. 491 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,720 Okay. 492 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,720 So you leave and however your brain is able to compartmentalize what just happened, you 493 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,720 go back to your hotel, do you go to the bar again or? 494 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:37,720 Nope. 495 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:38,720 Why? 496 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:39,720 Yeah, exactly. 497 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:40,720 Thanks for the shotgun, guys. 498 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,720 Thanks for the shotgun. 499 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:49,720 So the next day you meet agent Wells at the diner, you know, you guys are eating because 500 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,800 we're part of two organizations. 501 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,720 One organization is just the straight up FBI. 502 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,720 Okay. 503 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:02,880 There's a second organization that is called the project and it deals with, I know it's 504 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,520 going to sound cliche, but after last night, you understand, or at least it's going to 505 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,660 sound like the X-Files. 506 00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:15,800 But yeah, there's a lot of those kinds of things out there that are not from our world 507 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,400 that we have to take care of. 508 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,840 Anyway, we're always looking for people to join up in cells. 509 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:28,400 Small groups of people are better because if something goes wrong, it only affects that 510 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,440 group as opposed to a bunch of people. 511 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:37,000 She goes, but you know, can be mentally wearing on you though seeing that kind of thing. 512 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,760 She goes, anyway, we actually have something going on here right now. 513 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,120 That's a little bigger than that thing that you saw. 514 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:44,720 It's a bigger. 515 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:45,720 Yeah. 516 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,760 These things, for some reason, they're mammoth when they come out. 517 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,760 It's weird. 518 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:54,660 We've got a team that we're assembling to deal with whatever it is. 519 00:23:54,660 --> 00:23:59,960 It's near the school and she opens up one of those envelopes and shows you this picture 520 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:05,120 of a bunch of skeleton bones that are fused together in a cube. 521 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,360 She goes, yeah, it doesn't look natural, does it? 522 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:08,360 No. 523 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:11,920 Well, we got to figure out what it is and we've got to get rid of it. 524 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:16,820 The way you were able to handle yourself, I think the team could use you because right 525 00:24:16,820 --> 00:24:22,320 now we've got a lot of eggheads and not a lot of, you know, muscle to help out. 526 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,320 All right. 527 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,320 Okay. 528 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,320 Well, good. 529 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320 Here's the address. 530 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,080 You can meet us there tomorrow. 531 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,080 All right. 532 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:30,080 Will do. 533 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,080 Okay. 534 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,240 So that was your little introduction into Delta Green. 535 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,720 All right. 536 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,600 Short little thing. 537 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:39,600 Thank you so much. 538 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:40,600 Yep. 539 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,760 You know, the Patreon people, you're here, you know where the show is and everything 540 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,000 else, but Jay, where can they find you? 541 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,880 You can find me on the socials, mainly on the Twitter's at Jay Holtham. 542 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,160 And you can also find me playing games over at Happy Jacks on the regular and sometimes 543 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,320 with It's Probably Okay Games. 544 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,320 Awesome. 545 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,840 And you can find me at Plate Mail Games and you know where all the 12 side story stuff 546 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:03,840 is. 547 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,080 Thank you for being Patreon backers. 548 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,200 We appreciate it and we'll see you next time. 549 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:34,240 Bye. 550 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:55,440 Bye.