Thanks for watching! Welcome to Agent's Dossier,
a Delta Green actual play series brought to you
by 12 Sided Stories. And now your GM, Wes Otis.
Hello and welcome to Agents Dossier episode number
13. We have some awesome players with us. Let's
start with Mac. Hey guys, I'm Mac and I'm going
to be playing Desiree Kimball. And I am Michelle
and I'm going to be playing Perla Ayala. So we're
going to do a big recap because the last time
we had these two agents was episode 4 and now
we're on episode 13. Oh, Desiree got out of jail
via Delta Green and helping them recover a statue.
It was a big test. Her contacts are Agent Rebecca.
You never got her last name. She was your cellmate
who was knitting. And she ended up being at the
pickup car after the job was done, smoking a
cigar. And so you've only called her Rebecca
this entire time. And then Agent Tina Way, who
was the FBI agent that approached you in the
first place and met you in the basement of the
mansion of the senator that you were stealing
the statue from. Then Michelle. Ayala was working
at the college, and a cube of skeleton bones
were found not far from the college. Because
that's normal. Right. Agent Roos and Agent Wells
approached you to take a look at the dig site
and to help uncover the bones. Meanwhile, you
went to a concert or a... bar show basically
where a band called graves end played you left
just in time before the music took everybody
over and turned them into monsters at the same
time Desiree was with a strike team in the back
of the building, which you actually saw a couple
of these people, and they went into the building
and had to kill off all the people because they
had already changed because Connor, her handler,
had basically fucked it all up. Later on, Connor
decided to approach you because you were part
of this dig team. And Connor's been a bit off
kilter. So he's not really being very professional.
He's doing things in an odd way. Like he broke
into your house and made an egg sandwich. And
the only thing that saved it was Desiree kind
of coming in and being normal and saying, hey,
look, I've seen all the things that he's talking
about. And these are actually things to worry
about. That is where we actually left it, you
guys. said you know basically okay we'll all
work together to figure out what's going on with
this cube of skeletons connor wants to get rid
of it completely he wants to destroy it because
there's something he says terrible there's no
way that it's natural but you all went your separate
ways and any questions i know that was a lot
after so many months uh any questions at all
about anything Just bear with me as we toddle
along through this. Bear with us all. Great Patreon
listeners, bear with us all. This is going to
be fun to kind of get back into. Oh, and Sonia
is Desiree's girlfriend or partner. Fiance. Fiance.
Oh, yeah. You guys got engaged. Mm hmm. And yeah,
so she's planning a wedding while all of this
stuff is going on. So just another, you know,
thing to throw out there. So as I've said in
the past few episodes of Agent's Dossier, we
are going to be getting to the point where all
of the players are together. And it'll be a little
bit easier for us all to kind of follow along.
So we catch up with you guys a couple of days,
like we're going to say maybe five or six days
after you met each other with Connor at Ayala's
house. And you were supposed to meet Connor at
the same coffee joint that he had originally
met Desiree. The two of you show up and you're
sitting at a table. What kind of things do you
think you'd talk about while you were waiting
for Connor to show up? I mean, Desiree's probably
going on like, ugh, so we were discussing a color
palette for the wedding, and it's, I'm just,
it's so not my thing, but it makes her happy.
Sorry, I feel like I've been talking for forever.
Have I been talking for forever? Um, no. No,
it's all good. I've just been enjoying my coffee.
So, yeah, I mean, weddings are tough. I'm glad
I got mine done a whole long time ago because,
you know, I know the planning stages are just
awful. Just awful. Yeah, there's just so many
expectations and, you know, who do we invite?
Who do we not invite? It's madness, frankly.
Madness. Well, the best advice I can give is
throw the wedding you want. So some time goes
by as you both kind of sit there and make small
talk. And how much time do you let go by before
you start to get a little bit, you know, concerned
about the fact that Connor hasn't shown up yet?
Is Connor usually on time? He was like 20 minutes
late last time. At this point, it's been about
40 minutes or maybe an hour since he was supposed
to show up. I think Desiree would look at the
time, like, you know, past a certain time, teacher
isn't there, you can leave class. Yeah, I mean,
should we be worried? I don't know what these
guys, I don't know enough about them to be worried.
I mean, could be running late because... They
stop for some McDonald's. Could be that something
that's going to end the world has murdered them
horribly. I don't know. You know, I guess that's
normal in this line of business. It's a great
chasm there. McDonald's or death? Ah, death.
And I don't know where to start looking for them.
Would you reach out to... Agent Way or Bruce
or one of your other contacts? Yeah, I think
I'll text Agent Bruce, you know, and say, hey,
your person isn't here. A little time goes by
and he calls you back. He goes, you're not very
far from where he lives. You should go check
on him if he hasn't shown up yet. Who knows?
Just be careful and maybe we'll send you. Guns?
I was brought on as a researcher. Oh, yeah, yeah,
okay. Desiree's eyes just, like, kind of bug
out from across the booth at her doing guns.
Well, in that case, you know, just knock on the
door, but be careful. Be careful. If something
shows up wrong, don't look. I'm sure you'll be
fine. Everything's going to be cool. Anyway,
I got to go. Wow. I guess we're supposed to go
check on him? Yeah, speaking of checks, somebody's
got to pay the bill here, and I assumed it was
going to be him. So I guess not. You want to
split on this? Sure, sure. That's fine. All right.
So he texts you the address, and it's not very
far, maybe a block and a half from where you're
at. How do you proceed? If it's not that far,
I say on foot. Yeah, I would just walk there.
Yeah. Okay. And gonna scope out the house like
I would do for any other job. Do you have a gun?
Yeah. Okay. Okay. So yeah, maybe you go first.
Cool. Sure. I'm thinking maybe we want to. I'm
not sure if we want to go up and knock or if
maybe we want to, I don't know, get in a window
or something. Yeah, maybe taking a peek inside
might not be a bad idea. Yeah, I want to scope
out this house before going in. Okay, well, it's
actually an apartment. I want to scope out this
apartment. Right. It's a four -story, probably
from the 1950s brick apartment. You know what,
Mac? Roll me a luck roll. All right, and it's
the percentile dice? It's just like Call of Cthulhu,
50 -50 chance. So you want to get under 50%.
Okay. Negatory, Ghost Rider. You go to the back
of the building, see if you can scope out. Yeah.
Unfortunately, he's on the third floor. And you
notice that the fire escape that was once there
has been removed. Ah, these bastards. Here, I'll
give you another chance. Michelle, give me a
luck roll to see how high the buildings around
it are. Oh, no. 76. Okay, so there's no easy
way except for to climb up the side of this wall
and look into the window. Yeah, I don't have
those Dracula superpowers going for me, so front
door it is. All right. And I guess let's do it.
Sorry, I was trying to think of something cool
90s, but, you know, just to be in the moment.
You guys, as long as you don't walk under 50
miles per hour, you'll be fine. So you start
to go upstairs. And I actually say that in character,
by the way, about trying to come up with something
cool. Okay. That wasn't me out of character.
We're so entrenched in it at this point that
why not? So you guys climb up the steps and you
get to his apartment. The door is closed. And
you don't see any lights or anything coming on.
It's midday. So I guess, you know, probably wouldn't
be any lights. But you don't hear any movement
or anything coming from the apartment. Okay,
I knock on the door. No response. Pizza! Nope,
he's dead. Nobody comes to the door. Landshark.
Landshark. I try the knob to see if it's unlocked.
It is not unlocked, but it does look like it
was possibly jimmied open. There seems to be
markings around the lock. Evidence of jimmying.
It looks like it's been opened. So you open the
door and you hear a thunk come from. like a body
dropping to the floor, as they are known to do.
In songs? Yes. There is a pretty elaborate pulley
system where someone has hooked a rope to the
doorknob and it goes up to the ceiling and over
like a support beam and... around the neck of
connor and you could tell he was standing on
a chair and the door when whoever slammed the
door probably jerked him off that chair because
it's been kicked over and he is now laying on
the ground but it's very obvious that there's
no way he could have done this on his own i run
over and i check for a pulse he is very dead
i text agent ruse and i'm like It's hard for
me to text because my hands are shaking. I deal
with skeletons all the time. There's just too
much meat on this particular skeleton. Yeah,
not a fresh body. Just relaying that he's dead?
Yeah. It's okay. Search around for any evidence.
Make sure if you think that it's not a suicide,
make sure to try not to touch too much, and we'll
send over a cleanup crew. Um, okay. No police.
We are the police. Right. Okay. I mean, we're
FBI agents. Oh yeah. I forgot that. I don't.
Okay. We'll cover that. Okay. So yeah, let's
start looking around. So why don't you guys give
me search roles? All right. Let me go look what
that is. I got a four. Excellent. I got an 83,
so nope. You're all like, found the bathroom.
He's got windows. You guys are kind of searching
throughout this place, and it looks like it was
tossed in the bathroom, and the bedrooms look
like they've been kind of gone through already.
Michelle, you take a look under the bed, and
a piece of the fabric from the box spring has
been pulled down. And you see up inside there
that there is a box that you can reach in and
grab. And when you look in that box... It has
a bunch of pictures and information about a company
called Black Cod Fishery in Alaska. It also has
several pictures of the skeleton cube, but it's
not your skeleton cube. This one is surrounded
by a bunch of machinery and stuff like that.
Along with these pictures are shots of Edna Bay,
which seems to be the town that the Black Cod
Fishery is in. These pictures are before and...
after a devastating explosion where the town
is leveled and the local forest has been damaged
very severely. Lastly, there's a manifest in
there for a company, a tire factory, that's receiving
chemicals from Alaska and other places right
here in Charlottesville. And that's what you
find. Ooh, this, uh... This isn't good. This
looks super above our pay grades right now. Yeah.
Well, let's grab it and go. And then we got to
talk to the agents. In the searching, is the
body included? No, if you want to search the
body, that's a separate thing that you can do.
I would like to do that before we leave. Okay,
give me a search roll for the body. So... I got
a seven. Cool. So you search his body pretty
well and you find a key to his car. He's got
like cargo shorts on as many of us do. And there's
lots of different pockets. And the reason I'm
making you search is you would have found this
stuff, but this is finding stuff before the cleanup
crew gets here. Yeah. You find his wallet and
inside of it. is a small note and it just says
they all know what's going on need to warn new
teammates and that's it you're gonna take that
message and tuck that away before putting the
wallet back okay cool right then you hear a large
truck pulling up to the front of the apartment.
And you guys can just look out and you see a
large black van with four agents coming out,
all with cleanup gear. And Agent Roos and Agent
Wells are there as part of these four people
as they start to take gear up. And they also
have a stretcher. What do you guys want to do
with all the stuff that you found? I'm keeping
the note tucked away until I can... talk to my
teammate in a more separate capacity okay michelle
i guess i i mean right now i'm still kind of
trusting agent ruse so because i've never been
involved in any sort of intrigue before right
so i would probably hand the contents of the
box over to him okay So he gets up there with
Agent Wells. Now, Agent Roos is an older white
guy, probably in his mid -50s. Agent Wells is
a black woman in her 60s. Both of them are dressed
fetish, not... With a T, but with a D. Fed like.
I'll say fed like. It's going to be that kind
of story, is it? In gimp suits. In gimp suits.
We're here for Zed. So they walk up and. They
start looking around and going over the body
and taking pictures and all this other stuff.
And you relay that, you know, you came over and
found him dead and that the rope was hooked to
the doorknob. And Agent Roos takes the box from
you. So thank you. And he kind of looks at it.
Why don't you both give me a intelligence roll?
Just roll against your intelligence and let me
know what you get. I got a six under 60. Jesus,
that's really good. I am intelligent. I suddenly
have a pipe appear in my mouth and glasses on.
And patches on your elbows. Yeah. But no coat.
Just patches on my elbows, just sewn directly
into the flesh. Directly into it. Welcome, Carol
Ann. I got a 31 under my 75. You both notice
that Roos' reaction to what's in the box, just
the cursory glance that he gives it, is one of
nervousness almost. He goes, where did you find
the box? Under his bed. Oh, so you thoroughly
look through the apartment. Okay. I mean, it
had been pretty well gone through by the time
we got here. Did you look at it? No, no, not
really. I just grabbed the box, and you guys
showed up. Well, you know, unless you're put
on a case, we don't want to expose you to any
other things that might have been affecting Connor
mentally that can be difficult. Anyway, we've
got it sewn up here pretty well. Why don't you
head back, and I'm sure the dig site is still
going right now. Maybe check in with them. Okay.
And we'll get you guys a new handler soon. Oh,
that's a refreshing term for him. But you're
right. We should go. I throw my arm around Perla
and it's like, you know, I could use some coffee
to follow up that coffee we had earlier. What
do you say? Yeah, I think that's totally in order.
I could use an Irish. Yeah, let's... Let's do
exactly that. Now I'm going to stroll her away
to, hopefully on the walk over, there was a bar
that we can slip into. Absolutely. This is a
college town. What do you think? Yeah, you guys
find a bar. Unfortunately, it's not Irish. It's
Welsh. So it's close, but. No cigar. No cigar.
Yeah, it's enough for government work. The name
is just a bunch of consonants with a U on the
end. So like 15 consonants and then a U. Anyway.
We just call this the U. The U. The U. So, yeah,
you guys go in there. Go ahead and speak what
you're going to speak. So we should get some
drinks and then we should look at. A thing that
I found that is particularly interesting to probably
both of us. Yeah, and we need to talk about what
was in that box. I did look. Yeah, I know. I
saw you. We were in the same room. My character's
kind of a jerk. I'm just a little rattled, so.
I'm going to show her the note. Basically, it
just says, they know about these shipments. I
need to warn. the teammates and you guys pretty
quickly put together that he's talking about
shipments now coming into charlottesville that
were going into edna bay in alaska the old shipments
were happening about two years ago and the new
shipments have just started up not very long
after the cube was found all right perla so i'm
gonna lay Everything on the table. I would really
rather not delve into this any deeper. However,
the world ending kind of ruins my prospects at
having a lovely marriage. So we should probably
figure out what the hell is going on here. I
hate to say it, but I totally agree with you.
I just... Okay, so are the chemicals causing
these weird bone formations? Is that cube the
residents of Edna Bay? All good questions. All
you know right now is that the chemicals that
used to be going to Edna Bay are now being funneled
into Charlottesville, into a tire factory in
an industrial area. What time of day is it? It's
like three in the afternoon. It's not very late.
Actually, three in the afternoon is perfect.
So, maybe we can scam our way in? Okay, how?
As inspectors? Sure. Especially towards the end
of the workday, they're going to be pissed if
we come in and start bullying them around. And
they're just going to probably want to be done
with us as quickly as possible and show us around
the area. I'm game for it. Let's try it. Okay.
This is what I do. I'm a criminal. It's so funny
because the characters that everyone else has
made, Saint and Jay and Pooja. None of you guys
are actual federal agents. All of you are outside
of the federal government, which is funny. So
you guys head over there and give me an intelligence
roll again for both of you. Uh -oh. I got 37.
Okay. 67. Out of what, like an 80? 75. Okay.
You notice as you guys are driving over that
you're dragging a tail with you. Swell. How's
your defensive driving? I'm just a college professor.
I mean, geez. It's still a legit question. How's
your defensive driving? It's about to get better.
Yeah, exactly. It's about to get better. So I
make a turn away from the place. Like away from
the direction? You like suddenly, do you turn
like towards where the cube would be? Like going
back towards the cube or? Yes. Yeah, because
that's where they think we were headed. Right.
Give me a drive roll. All right. I want to give
a backseat drive roll. I did not make my drive
roll. Okay. How bad did you miss the roll? 65
over 40. Okay. So you are nervous and you take
a turn on a yellow almost red light that's very
hard and is obvious that you have seen the tail
and you go the direction of where the cube is.
You guys are looking and you don't see the car
anymore. But you do notice that there is a helicopter
not far back tailing you now. Great. I mean,
our only choice right now is to just go to the
cube and quote unquote check on the dig. Yeah,
I... Damn it. It's okay. It's okay. We can come
up with a game plan while we're there. You know,
a lot of digging going on, not a lot of buildings.
There's not going to be bugs or anything like
that. We can talk. We'd like to think so. So
you guys make it out to the dig site. And sure
enough, you pick up the tail again. It like comes
back into view probably about halfway there.
And the copter disappears. So they're switching
back and forth. And when you get to the dig,
Agent Wells is there already. And she's standing
next to some new people you've never seen before.
And that's where we're going to stop it. So had
you, just so you guys know, had you gotten rid
of the tail, we would have had you guys go to
the tire factory. And we would have played that
all out, but because you got a 6D, you know.
Yeah, rub salt in the wound, Wes. I know. Jeez.
I mean, it says right here under my job description,
wound salt rubbing. Yes. Yikes. Yikes. You have
an interesting job. Well, thank you guys so much.
That was a lot of fun. And it's great to be getting
back to these characters because I like these
characters a lot. Just the Patreon people know
you guys and know where to find you. But just
to remind them real quick, Michelle, where can
everyone find you? Oh, hello, Patreon people.
You can find me on Twitter at Mishulu. That's
M -I -C -H -U -L -H -U. i'm mac and you can find
me everywhere as at strange like that the twitter
the instagrams the facebooks etc thank you and
i am wes otis you can find me at plate mail games
and you know where to find the you know what
we're doing right now the podcast my brain is
not working and i apologize but it's been fun
uh we will talk to you very soon with more agents
dossier bye