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 --> 00:00:48,520 And now your GM, Wes Otis. 3 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,000 Hello and welcome to Agents Dossier episode number 12. 4 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,440 I have an awesome player with me and I'm going to let her introduce herself. 5 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Go for it, Saint. 6 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,600 Hello, I am Saint Spider. 7 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,440 I'm kind of a new cast member and I'm really happy to be here. 8 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,680 I will be playing an agent named Norman Morales. 9 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:17,600 He is a NSA technician working on the software side, who is also a part of our elusive Delta 10 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:18,600 Green force. 11 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:25,160 Kind of like a, you know, good background in keeping secrets and a very, very, I think, 12 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:33,520 I definitely ran out of adjectives, but I think a cool guy. 13 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:34,520 That's fine. 14 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,360 We all have run out of adjectives at times in our life. 15 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,080 So you've been working for the NSA and for Delta Green. 16 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,280 Yes. 17 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:51,360 It has put you in a position of doing a lot of research for movement around of different 18 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:57,360 resources that Delta Green might need and information on specific targets, especially 19 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,200 cult members and things like that. 20 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:07,120 People have become so reliant on cell phones and computers and internet and all of that 21 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:13,520 stuff that the NSA has just been sucking up information for literally years now. 22 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:19,260 On the Delta Green side, we use that, like I said, to be able to dig up dirt and follow 23 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:20,760 the money and everything else. 24 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,960 You've been working outside of Charleston because they wanted you nearby Quantico, but 25 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,180 they didn't want you next necessarily directly in a large city. 26 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:32,720 So they set up an outpost somewhere. 27 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,660 You have to drive 30 minutes to get into Charleston. 28 00:02:36,660 --> 00:02:40,480 If you drove by where you're at, it just looks like a farm. 29 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,000 We always make a joke on Delta Green that it's the 90s action aesthetic. 30 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,640 So kind of the men in black thing where you walk into the old bar and you knock three 31 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:54,640 times on the third horse stall and the whole stall goes down at once and you get into like 32 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:01,080 this really everything chromed out in white light hallway and they're making sure that 33 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,160 you're who you say you are and you're doing scans and everything like that. 34 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,320 And that's where you work as NSA. 35 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:13,680 Now Delta Green itself does not have a central anything, just so you know. 36 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,640 They are decompartmentalized. 37 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:19,520 There's a word I don't like saying very often. 38 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:25,800 Basically if one section, like let's say you are part of a group of people, if you all 39 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:32,120 hit something that is too much for your brains to deal with and there's an incident, you're 40 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,720 not going to infect people with knowledge, knowledge or truth. 41 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:37,720 And that's what they call it. 42 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,960 The infection of, and that's the way it's been broken down to you is that they don't 43 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:48,760 want people learning everything because then there's more of a possibility of that kind 44 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:54,000 of knowing too much and your feeble human brain not being able to handle it. 45 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Yes, indeed. 46 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:05,480 So what kind of work do you feel like Norman would be doing at his post? 47 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,160 And there's like a hundred people working at this particular facility and what kind 48 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,720 of things do you think that you guys would be doing? 49 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:13,720 Okay. 50 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:19,040 So on a day to day, this is the NSA branch, right? 51 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:25,520 Delta Green will just give you things independently and you will work in those things. 52 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:31,760 This is your day job and you use your day job to supplement information to Delta Green. 53 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:32,760 Right. 54 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:33,760 Okay. 55 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:44,000 So my day to day task is maintenance of the software network that NSA is using for scraping 56 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,840 cell phone images. 57 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:46,840 Okay. 58 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,040 Does that, I'm okay with changing that if that doesn't work? 59 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:54,560 No, no, it's evil as hell and it's fine, but it's just like, oh, I know they're doing that 60 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:55,560 shit. 61 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,720 Yes, thanks. 62 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:03,680 So I maintain the, you know, some of the nitty gritty of identifying certain images or working 63 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,400 on, cause it's a massive task. 64 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,920 The algorithm that identifies certain images that we're looking for tweaks it and I have 65 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,000 a boss, so I'm not someone who makes the decisions whether or not to tweak these things, but 66 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,240 I know how these things work and I am involved with the maintenance of keeping this program, 67 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,980 you know, at working at a decent capacity. 68 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:23,760 It's definitely not perfect. 69 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:29,080 So you're working with the algorithm on a regular basis and everything else. 70 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,080 Yes. 71 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:36,560 And also everybody in the NSA deals with a certain amount of security. 72 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:43,720 You're always looking at all these drives and you have a huge area in your facility 73 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,080 that all it is, is banks and banks and banks of drives, right? 74 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,480 So you're at your computer. 75 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,300 The first thing that I want to do to kind of, you know, just a warming up of some sort 76 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:01,240 is give me a computer science role as you're working on your algorithm. 77 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:02,520 This is already very exciting. 78 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:03,520 I love the setup. 79 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,520 So I'm just, yes. 80 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:07,520 Okay. 81 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,240 I got five. 82 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,680 Ooh, that's really good. 83 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:12,680 That's an awesome. 84 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:13,680 Yeah. 85 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:14,680 Okay. 86 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:15,680 So you got a 5% under 60. 87 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:16,680 So you did really well. 88 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:22,720 I thought I understood a lot more than I did, but that's fine. 89 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:27,560 You know what, we're rules light and story heavy, so it's fine. 90 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:35,120 You're looking at the program for recognizing faces and suddenly one of the drives starts 91 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:43,920 freaking out and having all of these issues with a 5%, you realize that some picture that 92 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:54,080 it has loaded into the program is causing it to rewrite code and causing a breakdown 93 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,880 of the program. 94 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:04,440 And you're not quite sure why, but you know that if you don't disconnect that drive before 95 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,120 it starts to spread out throughout the rest of the chain, you're going to have a hard 96 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,120 time with it. 97 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:11,120 Oh my goodness. 98 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,120 Okay. 99 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:18,000 So you have to get downstairs real fast and pull drive 132. 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 132. 101 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Okay. 102 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:27,320 Well, so I'm going to leave my desk where I've been monitoring the situation and elevators 103 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,560 or stairs are the, which, what's are available here? 104 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:36,660 50% you get to pick 50 or under, you get to pick 50 or over. 105 00:07:36,660 --> 00:07:38,000 It's the slowest way. 106 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Okay. 107 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Let's go. 108 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,320 And six. 109 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:43,720 Wow. 110 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:44,720 That's great. 111 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:45,720 I'm okay. 112 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,280 I hope this emulator is a bork, but I'll take it. 113 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,280 I'll take it. 114 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:54,480 Well, you know, you rolled a 67 earlier, so I think it's fine. 115 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,480 We'll see. 116 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:56,480 We'll send you guys soon. 117 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:03,040 I just got to, I'll buy some after my next job. 118 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,040 Yeah. 119 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,400 So which, which one do you want? 120 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,320 I think I'll take turbo or elevators, so I'm assuming I'm not going to be near this. 121 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,120 No, cause it's down. 122 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:15,480 It's it's further down below. 123 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:16,480 Yeah. 124 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:17,480 Let's do turbo elevator. 125 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:18,480 I don't have horse legs. 126 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,620 Okay, cool. 127 00:08:19,620 --> 00:08:25,760 So you fly down there and you set a timer on your phone. 128 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,020 You had a five minute window and you get down and there's three minutes left. 129 00:08:31,020 --> 00:08:35,320 And so what we're going to do is we're going to roll a decks roll. 130 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,600 Basically you have a 60%. 131 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:38,600 Okay. 132 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,400 So you want to get under 60%. 133 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,400 Okay. 134 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,440 I got a 96. 135 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:44,440 Okay. 136 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,120 So it flipped on you. 137 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,640 All right. 138 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:50,640 It's okay. 139 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,800 So you're running down this long bank of drives. 140 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,560 All of the drives are, have these multiple green lights saying, you know, Hey, I'm cool. 141 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:02,560 Everything's good. 142 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:08,440 You're running as fast as you can and it's like 10 bays down and the 26 drive up and 143 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,280 you see the red light as you're getting closer. 144 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:16,560 And then suddenly there's four drives that get red and then it starts to spread. 145 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:22,080 And you realize that you're going to have to shut down the entire drives, that particular 146 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,000 bay because there's several base and you swing around the back to it. 147 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,800 You're pretty good at computers, but you don't really do a lot of the computer work or hookup 148 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,160 of these particular drives. 149 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:43,160 And so there are two massive coils that are, that are plugged in that send information 150 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,480 to all the different tribes. 151 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:50,040 One sends stuff upstairs and one sends stuff to the different, you know, set, but you don't 152 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:56,280 know which one is which you've got to pull the correct one or it will jump outside of 153 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:04,840 the drives that it's already hurt and it will continue to basically work the entire server 154 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:05,840 system. 155 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:06,840 Okay. 156 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:07,840 Okay. 157 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:08,840 All right. 158 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:13,080 So since this is a 50 50 situation, we're just going to go straight up with luck. 159 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,080 Okay. 160 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,080 All right. 161 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,080 Here we go. 162 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,080 I got an eight. 163 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:18,080 Excellent. 164 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,080 Okay. 165 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,080 Cool. 166 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:27,880 So I pulled the right one about 200 drives suddenly go offline, but about half of them 167 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:35,000 were infected with whatever program has gotten through whatever this picture did. 168 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,880 Right then your work cell phone rings. 169 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,440 The only thing that works this far down underground. 170 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,360 So it has, it has a special secure network. 171 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:45,360 Yeah. 172 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,960 And it's your boss on the other end. 173 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:53,600 She goes reports that Bay 10 got shut down. 174 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:54,600 What happened? 175 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:55,600 Oh man. 176 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:56,600 Ha. 177 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,400 So there's something, something I'd never seen before work the system. 178 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:10,120 I have no idea, but there seems to have been a virus that was transmitted through an image 179 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,920 and it actually affected our algorithm. 180 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,680 I had to, I had to just pull the plug on a huge Bay. 181 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:16,680 Okay. 182 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:24,040 So pull the drive that the original drive that the pictures on take it to secure a quarantined 183 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,400 system and find out what the hell. 184 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:28,400 Roger. 185 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:29,400 Okay. 186 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,120 So you grab the drive, you pull it. 187 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:37,200 They already have people coming down to start rebooting the system and trying to get those 188 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,840 drives in place. 189 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:47,760 When you take this one drive over to a quarantine Bay and you pull up these pictures and one 190 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:51,740 of the pictures is of this face. 191 00:11:51,740 --> 00:11:56,600 It looks like three people melded together into one. 192 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,040 Their clothing is also melded together. 193 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,120 So like they had suits on when this happened. 194 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,620 So you see like fabric coming out of their necks and everything. 195 00:12:06,620 --> 00:12:11,280 And like their eyes are like in different places and it's not like they were standing 196 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:12,760 right next to each other. 197 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:18,960 So like a skull kind of starts up here and then a second skull comes out of the side. 198 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:23,200 It's really horrifying to look at and I need a sand check. 199 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,200 Alrighty. 200 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,200 Okay. 201 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,200 I got a 92. 202 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:28,200 Okay. 203 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,440 So you just take, you take two points of sand loss. 204 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:33,640 Okay. 205 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:40,160 It's just unnatural and disturbing to look at and it just affects your brain. 206 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:46,720 You kind of get a little bit of a shock, but not to the point where you have a temporary 207 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,200 mental breakdown or anything like that. 208 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,200 Right. 209 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:57,280 You look at the batch of pictures along with this and it's connected to a place in Portland, 210 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,280 Oregon. 211 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:03,200 It seems like it was on some kind of like Dropbox or something, some kind of server 212 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:04,200 like that. 213 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:10,480 Obviously a civilian that thought they were more secure than they really were. 214 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:15,900 And some of the pictures are of a city that has been flattened. 215 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:23,000 Like it looks like there's trees that have been knocked over and explosion and some kind 216 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,080 of building that has sunk down beneath the ground. 217 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,960 And then there's this picture of this creature and there's another picture of another creature 218 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,760 that's similar, but this one only has two faces melded together. 219 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:43,680 And as you're looking through all of this, you realize that you realize that the program, 220 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:48,520 the JPEG has extra data hidden within it. 221 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,720 What do you want to do with all this? 222 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:51,720 Okay. 223 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,240 This is quite a lot. 224 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:05,840 And I'm wondering if I can, okay, there's images of the melted or coagulated people. 225 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,960 There is the flattened city. 226 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,920 Coagulated people. 227 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:18,440 There's a flattened city and then there's the extra layer of information on top of the 228 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:19,560 photos, right? 229 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,080 And that's all I can see. 230 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,680 Some kind of Trojan horse. 231 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:23,680 Right. 232 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,360 That triggered the whole, the viral attack. 233 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:27,360 Okay. 234 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,360 That's, okay. 235 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:35,160 Well, I'm thinking my instinct is one to just report the attack and what I found because 236 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,600 that would be good due diligence. 237 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:46,400 Another part of me though is curious to examine this a bit more before I report, even though 238 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,680 that could be a bit risky. 239 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:56,760 And I'm thinking about all the skills I have and well, one thing I wonder is, is it possible 240 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:02,840 that there's anything familiar about the images? 241 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:08,280 Could I possibly roll from that based off my previous experience? 242 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:14,760 Like whether or not they are something that you've seen in occult studies or anything? 243 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:15,760 Yes. 244 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:23,040 No, but I will say that it definitely speaks your DNA interest. 245 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,760 You know, how were their DNA rewritten to melt them together? 246 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:28,760 Yes. 247 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,200 Give me a computer science role. 248 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,200 Okay. 249 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,200 All right. 250 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,200 Under 60, right? 251 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,200 Yup. 252 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,200 All right. 253 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,200 I got a 37. 254 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,200 Excellent. 255 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,760 So you do a little bit of digging and you find out that the images that you're looking 256 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,920 at are satellite images from the CIA. 257 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,360 Okay. 258 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:55,080 Which is really weird that this person would have CIA pictures on their drive. 259 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,220 They're of this place called Edna Bay. 260 00:15:58,220 --> 00:16:00,000 It was a fishery. 261 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,320 Something happened that sunk it below the island. 262 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:09,840 Edna Bay is in the southern part of Alaska, one of the little islands that trail down 263 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,000 the Canadian coast. 264 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,580 You've been following genetics for a while. 265 00:16:14,580 --> 00:16:17,360 You know about CRISPR and all that kind of stuff. 266 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:18,360 Yeah. 267 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,000 There is a new nanotechnology. 268 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:29,640 It's this chemical that they've developed that is not known to the public and isn't 269 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,720 necessarily all that legal. 270 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,600 It uses small robots. 271 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,160 It's not like advanced nanotechnology though. 272 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:42,920 It's not like they're a swarm or anything like that, but it's basic systems in a green 273 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:44,120 goo. 274 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,920 There seems to be quite a lot of it going to Edna Bay, at least until about two years 275 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:50,920 ago. 276 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:51,920 And then it stopped. 277 00:16:51,920 --> 00:17:00,200 And now you're seeing a large portion of that going to Charleston. 278 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:05,920 And what's weird about the Charleston thing is that it's going to a tire factory. 279 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:07,360 Hmm. 280 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:10,400 So the first place was an old fishery. 281 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,560 Now it's going to a tire factory all the way on the other side of the country. 282 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:15,560 Hmm. 283 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:16,560 Okay. 284 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:23,820 I want to know if I can find anything out about the tire factory before I go to my higher 285 00:17:23,820 --> 00:17:25,160 ups with a report. 286 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,880 Because they definitely know something happened. 287 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,640 I have to tell them something. 288 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:34,040 Well, the tire factory closed down in the 70s. 289 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:39,360 A lot of this happened during the 70s where a lot of businesses started to go overseas 290 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:42,120 to different countries for cheaper labor. 291 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:51,120 So they closed down, but the facility itself has been used as a address of sorts, I guess. 292 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:56,680 If you look at the postal service records, they're still getting mail. 293 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:57,680 Hmm. 294 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,880 And someone's still picking up mail there. 295 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:01,680 Oh my gosh. 296 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:07,960 So even though it's been 40 years since the place closed down and it really started heating 297 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,800 up about two years ago after the fishery disappeared. 298 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:12,800 Okay. 299 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:20,340 Pardon me then, as I am in government, I'm thinking, well, this could also just be another 300 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:26,160 branch that they neglected to tell us about at the dear old NSA. 301 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,160 It happens. 302 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,160 Yes. 303 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:33,960 Especially if things are kind of spread out, but also for something to, for me not to already 304 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:40,360 know about it, especially with how intrusive my position is, that strikes a big chord. 305 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,000 That strikes a big chord. 306 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Okay. 307 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,920 I'm thinking I'll bring this info. 308 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:52,920 Do you want to bring it to the NSA or do you want to get rid of it because it's got a cults 309 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,640 stuff to it? 310 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,640 Yeah. 311 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:06,800 Maybe, is there a way that I can separate the virus from the image and present that 312 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,680 to my higher ups? 313 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:09,680 Just the virus? 314 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:10,680 Yeah. 315 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,200 Which in real life, I know that you can do that. 316 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:13,200 You can. 317 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,200 Yeah, absolutely. 318 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,200 Do that. 319 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:16,200 Well, let's see. 320 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,280 You're going to be doing a lot of this computer science stuff. 321 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:20,280 So give me a role. 322 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:21,280 All right. 323 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:22,280 Let's see. 324 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:28,760 I'm trying to conceal the occult image, but keep my job and reveal enough that whatever 325 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:29,760 I have to. 326 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:30,760 I rolled a two. 327 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Yeah, you're fine. 328 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,720 You get it out really easily. 329 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:39,420 You can cover your tracks really easily so that they can't find you, which is a trick 330 00:19:39,420 --> 00:19:43,120 in the NSA because everybody's watching everybody all the time. 331 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:44,120 Indeed. 332 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:50,080 Then you're able to come up with a nice report and just maybe you attach it to a more benign 333 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:56,640 picture, maybe connected to some kind of domestic terrorist organization that you don't like 334 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,840 to bring on heat on them. 335 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:06,520 Because if you say CIA, then all of a sudden the federal alphabet soup gets thrown in and 336 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,320 it becomes an issue. 337 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:14,380 But you have all of the pictures from the drive that are occult and you have them on 338 00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:15,840 a stick drive. 339 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,640 So what is your next move then? 340 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:19,640 All right. 341 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,400 It's certainly piqued my interest. 342 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:27,240 I'm either going to let my Delta green handlers handle. 343 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,240 Yeah. 344 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,240 I have a person I report to. 345 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,240 Okay. 346 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:38,320 So I, my instinct as Norman is, you never want to be handling this stuff alone, especially 347 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,640 when it has to do with DNA being altered. 348 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:42,640 Right. 349 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:43,640 Absolutely. 350 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:49,600 My instinct is to let my handlers know what's going on that I found something very interesting 351 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,240 happening in Portland and it got caught in the NSA's radar. 352 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:54,240 All right. 353 00:20:54,240 --> 00:21:00,800 Well, as soon as you send that information in, you get this reply from this agent Russ. 354 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,980 He's part of the FBI. 355 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:08,080 He's not your handler, but he is a local agent for Charlotte. 356 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:14,960 And he asked to meet you to talk about a case that he's working on that he thinks that these 357 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,880 pictures might be a part of. 358 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:18,880 Hmm. 359 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,880 Okay. 360 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,600 I know I can trust him. 361 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:22,600 Yeah. 362 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,680 But as much as trust is you give anybody in any situation. 363 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,160 So yes, no. 364 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,160 Yes, no. 365 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,160 All right. 366 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,720 You trust you, you, you will give him the meeting, but you will be prepared to get out 367 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,040 as quick as possible if things go sideways. 368 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,040 Go right. 369 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,040 Yes. 370 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,040 Okay. 371 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,040 All right then. 372 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,800 Did you take any firearms? 373 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,280 I did not. 374 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,880 I have drive heavy machinery, which I guess could apply to a weapon. 375 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:53,200 Well, I guess, yeah, something I can make a wrench is a wrench is a weapon. 376 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,800 It's dodge ball. 377 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,800 You can dodge a wrench. 378 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800 Indeed. 379 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,640 Yeah, I didn't take a, that's fine. 380 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:02,640 Didn't take it. 381 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:03,640 Yeah. 382 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:04,640 So we'll see how this goes. 383 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,200 So you meet up with agent Russ and he's with another agent Wells. 384 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,760 Russ is an older gentleman, probably in his fifties. 385 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,240 Agent Wells is a older woman, African American. 386 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:23,560 Both of them are in, you know, these suits, very fed looking. 387 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:30,260 And they go, Roberts, who is your handler, reached out to us and relayed that you had 388 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:37,920 found some information about a, some kind of connection between Edna Bay here and Charleston. 389 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,000 Yes. 390 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:45,800 It looks like something very chaotic happened up in Portland and maybe it could have been 391 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,520 considered a disaster. 392 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:54,600 There is a blatant connection to a lovely little tire factory out here that should have 393 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,720 been closed about 40, 40 years ago, or maybe a little more. 394 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:06,280 We've been excavating what we think is some kind of possibly alien artifact, not far from 395 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:07,640 here. 396 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,000 And there is a connection with Edna Bay. 397 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,160 We found out recently, we have a team together of agents that are looking into it. 398 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:21,200 And I think with your knowledge and everything else, you would be a good add on for this 399 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,920 particular project. 400 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,240 Oh, does my handler know about this job offer? 401 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,240 Oh, of course. 402 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,240 Okay. 403 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,360 We cleared it through them. 404 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:39,120 Obviously we wouldn't just poach you, but yeah, we've had too many coincidences. 405 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,620 Does that make sense? 406 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:43,280 Too many things kind of lining up. 407 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,280 Yes. 408 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:50,200 And so most of the people on this detail, they're part of the project, which is Delta 409 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:55,280 Green, but they are not part of the federal structure. 410 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:01,520 We need somebody like you that is, that can kind of keep an eye on things and keep things 411 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,040 a secret as it were, as we move forward. 412 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:09,960 We're not sure what we're going to do with this particular artifact we found. 413 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,200 We're still digging it up. 414 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:17,600 We have good people working on it, but we're worried about the effects it's going to have. 415 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,760 And if there's something going on with the tire factory, we'd rather have a crew of you 416 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:27,760 working together, looking into it than just one or two agents. 417 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,560 That seems very sound. 418 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:35,320 I guess one question I have before I give you my answer is, what's with the connection 419 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,180 to nanotechnology? 420 00:24:37,180 --> 00:24:39,640 We don't know, if I'm being quite honest. 421 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,060 We're not sure what that connection is. 422 00:24:42,060 --> 00:24:44,840 We do know the chemical. 423 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,260 We don't know how the chemical works. 424 00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:56,020 So you know, as the NSA, there are black ops agencies that are off the books that are completely 425 00:24:56,020 --> 00:25:01,640 like funded on a different level than all this other stuff. 426 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,000 And they don't talk with each other. 427 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,280 Of course. 428 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:14,300 So the idea is that there's possibly a black ops organization working within the United 429 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:22,320 States government that is not communicating what they're doing to everyone else. 430 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:30,880 And that's why the NSA comes in handy because of the amount of data that you guys are pulling. 431 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,120 You know, it's a little easier to find stuff. 432 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:39,920 But I have to be honest, I don't know where any of this technology or what the goop is. 433 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,800 It just, Edna Bay had an accident that happened a couple of years ago. 434 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,560 And now all of a sudden, that stuff is showing up in Charleston. 435 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,400 And Edna Bay was small. 436 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,880 There was probably maybe two to 300 people there. 437 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,720 And most of them perished because of the incident. 438 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,580 Charleston's a lot bigger. 439 00:25:58,580 --> 00:26:05,440 And so we can't afford the same kind of situation to happen here and lose, you know, 10 times 440 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,440 as many people. 441 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,040 And that'd be one hell of a cleanup. 442 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,220 Yeah, it would be catastrophic, basically. 443 00:26:12,220 --> 00:26:13,440 To say the least. 444 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,440 Yeah. 445 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,880 We would like you to join the team if you're willing. 446 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,760 I have to say I'm interested and I'm worried. 447 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,120 So I'm definitely signing on. 448 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:25,120 Okay. 449 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:29,840 So you're going to meet with the rest of the team tomorrow morning. 450 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:35,360 We'll come up with some reason why you're away from the NSA and give that to them through 451 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,960 FBI channels and welcome aboard. 452 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,440 They shake your hand and, you know, you guys kind of go your separate ways. 453 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,680 You actually live in Charleston, I would imagine, because it's close. 454 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,880 I mean, it's a 30 minute drive. 455 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,880 Yeah. 456 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,120 You know, and it's a 30 minute drive on back country roads. 457 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:59,600 So if you want to make it a 15 minute drive, you can, depending on how fast you're willing 458 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,600 to go. 459 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,120 So that is where we're going to end it. 460 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:08,280 Your little intro to our agents dossier game. 461 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,560 Thank you everybody for listening and thank you, Saint, for being a part of the game. 462 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:13,960 Thank you. 463 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,160 Being Patreon people, you know where to find us, but where do you find Saint? 464 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,200 Oh, you know, Saint's been a real recluse lately. 465 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,200 If you want to find me, I'm on Twitter at SaintSpiderTV. 466 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:33,600 That's S-A-I-N-T-S-P-I-D-E-R-T-V. 467 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:34,960 It's all one word. 468 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,960 Thank you. 469 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,920 Excellent. 470 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,700 And you can find me at Plate Mail Games and you know where the podcast is, obviously because 471 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:47,320 you're a wonderful supporter and you're helping us with the show and we appreciate that. 472 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,080 We will talk at you real soon. 473 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,080 Bye. 474 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,760 Thank you. 475 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:57,500 I'll see you here in another Upon a 476 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:01,300 Tch Pleasure, friends comprehend. 477 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:07,360 Oh, I'm looking forward to it when you joined me. 478 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,640 You get to travel a lot. 479 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,560 Thank you for everything. 480 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:12,560 wenlaughs 481 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,280 Oh, I'm looking forward to it.