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.
and welcome to Agents Dossier episode number
14. Let's start by meeting our awesome players.
Let's go with Mac first. Hey guys, I'm Mac and
I'm going to be playing Desiree Kimball, who
is a former cat burglar and current what the
fuck is happening person. Hi y 'all, Jay Holtham
playing Mars Paulson, an unattached drifter who
beats things up. Hello, I'm Pooja. I'm playing
Robin Porter. Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor. Hello,
I am Saint, and I'll be playing Norman Morales,
a totally, totally chill and not secretive NSA
technician. I'm Michelle Otis, and I am playing
Perla Ayala, a forensic anthropologist, and,
you know, just wondering what's going on. So
what's going on is before this episode, we had
three individual campaign episodes where each
person had their own intro into our little group
here. We had new additions. We got Norman, Robin,
and Mars in the overall campaign. And then in
episode 13, we had Michelle and Max characters,
Perla and Desiree. find their handler dead and
something strange going on with a note that was
scrawled in frantic lettering in his pants pocket.
You guys also found a box that was full of pictures
of a lovely little town, at least it was, called
Edna Bay in Alaska and a wonderful place where
all your dreams can come true. If your dreams
involve cults. Basically, everybody is now together.
I know that's a really brief intro, but there
was so much that happened over four episodes
that if I was to do like a play by play with
each one, it would take up 15 minutes of this
episode. So and you're all wonderful patron supporters.
So I'm absolutely sure that you're not starting
with this particular episode and you're up to
date anyway. We believe in you. We believe in
you. So we're going to start literally a few
days after the end of everyone's last individual
adventure. You have met each other. You have
kind of got in the lay of the land. Your handlers
at this point are two federal agents. Agent Russ,
who is a middle -aged guy, probably in his mid
-50s, big kind of burly white dude. And then
Agent Wells, who is a black woman in her mid
-60s. And they both look incredibly fetish. Which
I got to stop using that word because obviously
it's too close to fetish. With a T instead of
a D. Fet -like. I was confused there for a second.
They're incredibly fet -like. I'll say that.
Welcome to agent's dossier, knights. But they
wear the suits. They wear the ties. Sunglasses
sometimes a little too... far into dusk, that
kind of thing. But so far they have been relatively
hands off with all of you. You each met at the
dig site in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the
cube is about halfway dug up at this point. It's
pretty massive. It's a 30 by 30 foot cube. It's
bones that are literally fused together. It seems
to be like hundreds of bones, mainly made up
of. long leg bones, thigh bones and arms and
everything else. But entire skeletons have been
fused in. You can see through it, though. It
is not a perfect block. The more that you dig
up, though, Perla, the more the students start
to leave your project to the point that right
now the federal government has stepped in and
has their own crew. basically licensed archaeologists
and stuff who are now digging instead of students
because of the drop in people. You guys have
a relatively interesting amount of information
from your one shots and whatever. And we're going
to start the game opening in a relatively empty
diner. in downtown Charlottesville. It's a good
point to maybe talk about some of those pieces
of the puzzle that you guys do have. Like the
fact that, you know, you found Connor dead with
information about Edna Bay and any other pieces
that you guys kind of want to tack together to
figure out how you want to move forward. So who
wants to start that conversation as you guys
are eating steak and eggs? Probably Desiree because
she's a loud mouth. Sure, go for it. I don't
know who we can trust. Frankly, I'm not sure
I can trust all of you, but I'm going to go ahead
and just roll with that. But I think we need
to do some investigating and I think we need
to make sure we're not being tailed while we
do it. I'd say that's always a good instinct.
Yeah. Why don't we start with what do we know
about Edna Bay? What's Edna Bay? Well, Edna Bay,
from what we found in that box in Connor's apartment,
it was this town in Alaska. They were shipping
a whole bunch of chemicals there. They found
a bone cube exactly like the one that we have
here. And the town's not there anymore. And now
they're shipping the chemicals here. Like, where
did the town go? It was destroyed. Okay. I love
that there's two bone cubes, so at least there's
a nice match set happening. But I think we need
to get over to the factory. I think we need to
find out what these chemicals are and how much
is coming in. They have some undesirable side
effects. Such as? You know about these chemicals?
They happen to have anything to do with people
becoming one. Caught it in one. I guess I should
have expected it from the, you know, NSA. I have
some pictorial evidence, we'll say. Let me show
you a couple of these. I want to whip out just
a simple, definitely burner phone that has the...
One of the images that I found. We won't overload
people, but especially that first one where it
seemed like two people in suits were melted together.
Right. This would be... Neha and Porter. Yeah.
Sorry about that. Yeah. Yikes. Oh, okay. Okay.
So can I get sand checks from Mac, Jay, and Michelle?
Yeah. Okay. And thank you, Saint -Type. That
assist on the layup of sand checks. And you want
to roll under the sand points, right? Right.
Oops. Oh, no. Oh, no. I had 45 in sand. I rolled
68. Okay. So, yeah, you missed. Michelle? I made
mine 28 under 70. And Jay, you made yours? I
made mine 28 under 40. Okay, you guys are fine.
Mac, you just take two points. Okay. So, it's
just, it's disturbing, especially seeing Klopp.
coming out of clothes because it looks like their
clothes and skin and flesh was melted together
as well. Delightful. Yeah. Does the movie The
Thing exist in our universe? Yes, it does. And
it's very close to that. So I guess that explains
why all those bones are fused together. But why
are they in a cube? It could be that the chemical
is being used in conjunction with. From the age
of the cube, I doubt the chemical directly created.
It seems like more the other fusion is a side
effect, not the intended consequence. A side
effect of the chemical? Or of the cube? Of exposure.
Hmm. Exposure to the chemical or the cube? I
don't know. Oh, great. Cool. I still think we
got to get in and look at that factory, though,
and figure out how much they're bringing in in
the first place and what they're doing with it.
So I feel like this, just to interject this real
quick, I feel that it is time for one of the
mini computer roles that I'm going to ask from
Norman, our computer person, because he was looking
into all this. So why don't you give us one of
those mini roles I'm going to be asking for?
All right. I was like, when do I start that?
I didn't want to cut to the chase too fast. No
doubt. Okay. Still got my digital roller here.
Okay. And yes, success. It was 20, way under
my limit. Awesome. So here's what you have learned,
Norman. It's a liquid. It comes in drums, like
those big 50 -gallon barrel things that you put
humans in and acid when you're on Breaking Bad,
those kind of drums. It's those really big ones.
They're getting about two shipments a week. They're
never at the same time, so obviously they're
purposely moving the delivery dates around, and
they get about 10 barrels every time. 10 barrels.
So that's quite a bit. Okay, well, here's what
I know so far about our little tire factory.
It's getting a shit ton of this crazy chemical.
There's got to be at least two shipments per
week, and it's always at wild times. So somebody
is aware that there are eyes on this, and somebody
is very, very upset about that. Can you imagine
trying to schedule a different time for maybe
human -sized barrel delivery every single week?
It's too much. It's too much. Too much work,
and it's actually kind of funny I didn't catch
on to this sooner. I... Holy sh... It's a thousand
gallons a week. I mean, if you know it's this
dangerous, why would you ship it to such a heavily
populated city? Because Edna Bay, Alaska, is
one thing. Charlottesville, that's a significantly
larger population. Unless they're intending to
test it, yes. Possible. I mean, when you do experiments.
How are you all doing over here? Can I get you
anything to drink? Oh, you've been an absolute
doll. More coffee would be great. Coffee? Coffee?
Everybody? Coffee? Of course. Yep. All right.
I'll get you more coffee. Anything else to eat?
Are you all set? Yeah, I don't know if my stomach
can handle anything else right now. Okay. So
your waitress, you know, toddles off and gets
you more coffee. Can I observe the waitress for
a moment? Is she seeming a little too interested
in what we're talking about? I'm going to say
probably. She is definitely looking interested.
Now, does she look like spy interested or flow
interested? I'm going to, you're... You're leaning
more towards Flo. She's picking up little snippets
of the conversation. Most of the people that
come through here are truckers who are talking
about, like, you know, long haul, you know, junk,
not tire factories and chemicals. And we're an
odd -looking group, I imagine. Yeah, you're an
odd -looking group. You're the A -team of our
Delta Green. I feel like I would pick up maybe
on the looks that Norman is giving. Maybe we
should relocate after another cup of coffee.
Seems like a good idea. Yes. Yeah, sounds like
a good idea. Somewhere secure. I don't know if
anybody has any particular suggestions. I'm sure
we're all being tap -bugged, what have you, at
this point. Yeah. You don't have a burner by
now. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. You're all on
Nord VPN. Exactly. So you guys drink this last
cup of coffee and you've gotten a good sense
of what's going on. Where do you want to reconvene
whatever next move you're going to make? Cause
they're still digging that. that cube out of
the ground, and you're not sure, first of all,
how the cube got there. Is it the same cube that
was in Edna Bay, or is it a second cube? And
what is the next goal? Because you've heard Russ
and Wells talk about destroying the cube, getting
it out, taking it to a secure location, and blowing
it up. Obviously, from the pictures that you've
seen... that the other cube that was in Edna
Bay was active. It had energy going through it.
This one's inert. Even though it's freaking out
people and making them uncomfortable, it hasn't
caused any ill effect beyond that. So just to
be clear, the students that stopped working on
the cube, they just left. They didn't, like,
disappear, correct? No, no, they didn't disappear.
They're still showing up in class. They all came
up with... excuses i i smoke too many bongs and
i can't make it you know whatever yeah yeah i'm
trying to get over my adderall addiction whatever
whatever works you know so uh to get off of this
particular they they just seem uneasy but no
one's disappeared from the situation Well, I
know the town pretty well, so I'm sure I would
know of some secluded spot that I would be reasonably
sure could not be bugged. You know the town so
well that you even know its actual name. So...
There you go. Yes! Unlike the keeper who does
not. I know a bar. It's pretty terrible. Last
time I was there, a guy got killed. But... They
don't ask a lot of questions or care what we
do. I love it already. All right, let's go. So
you guys get to this bar and yeah, they have
like the worst beers on tap and the, the music
is this eclectic, like it's not like country.
It's not. classic rock it's the seasides of all
of those albums like none of the really good
music's in there it's it's just like the third
cut on an album or whatever so which i should
do a playlist that would be kind of funny to
do a playlist of this bar for patreon yes the
worst tracks off of great albums that should
be like like why would you pick that song over
the eight other songs that are good So that's
the situation. You guys are able to get a table
away from everybody else. So you've talked about
the tire factory. You've talked about all the
evidence that you have, the pictures, this cube
that they're digging out. You found the note
that you're not sure who to trust. Both Russ
and Wells have indicated that they want to destroy
the cube when they get it out of the ground.
It's just really big. It's just taking a while.
You have the one extra thing I will say is they
have become less delicate with how they're digging.
They are digging faster now because it was like
your typical archaeological dig where, you know,
small brushes, small trowels and all that. Now
it's more like, let's just get this thing out
of the ground already. Back hoes. Back hoes and
all that. So you have all that information in
the tire factory. How do you guys want to proceed?
I have one quick question. Are all the bones
in the cube human? Or is it a bunch? No, it's
all human. Only human bones. Only human bones.
So there's like a biomagnet situation or something.
Yeah, that's a good word for it. Biomagnet. That
sounds like an 80s horror movie. biomagnet that's
probably real yeah probably exists out there
we probably just like screwed up someone's uh
trademark thing just real quick the best fake
title that i've ever seen for a movie that is
a ripoff of another movie was the day the earth
stopped yeah that's great i read that just laughed
at like the day the earth stopped okay anyway
so what do you guys think you want to do with
all this information run away and hide and cry
i'm down with that And so the Delta Green game
ends with the destruction of a city and living
characters. So what are you guys going to do?
What's the idea? Well, I'm confused. I mean,
I'm not a government agent or anything really,
I suppose. I'm just a doctor. But if all they
want to do is destroy the cube, why haven't they
done it yet? Always a good question. Yep. I'll
say anything these agencies do is very deliberate.
One excuse that they give for that particular
thing is that it's in this empty lot area pretty
near a stadium. So they're keeping it kind of
covered up by a huge tent, basically. Kind of
like in Jurassic Park in the beginning when they
have the big tent up and the guy lands his helicopter.
But their excuse is that they want to move it
to a more secure location before getting rid
of it. They don't want to explode it in the middle
of the city kind of thing, just in case something
bad happens. So we have a cube that they don't
want to blow up, and we've got chemicals coming
in for God knows why, and those could be used
to make another said cube out of our entire city.
Right. I still think we need to... assess how
much they've fully gotten in. We have an idea
of some of that from Norman here, but we ought
to see where, is it being stored there? Are they
moving it on to a secondary location? What's
happening with these chemicals? Yeah, that's
harder to find out because the tire factory that
it's going into is actually, I believe it's been
out of business since the 70s. 70s, yes. And
so it's supposed to just be an abandoned old
tire factory that no one has used in a long time.
The name on the deed is the city Charlottesville
owns. the land they just haven't done anything
and other places in the city bulldozed you know
older buildings that aren't in use anymore but
for some reason this particular building has
remained intact yes it's definitely not a cia
black site which is the usual culprit for buildings
that should have been knocked down um so i i
can't ask the cia about it they will be pissed
that the NSA is doing anything in their business.
It's supposed to be separate, but it's not. Well,
I know in my line of work, you don't go into
anything blind. I think we need to go scope things
out. Okay. So you guys want to go sit on the
location for a little bit and see what's what?
Yeah. I actually, I would also like to do at
some point, it doesn't have to be right this
second, but I want to do some research. some
anthropological research to find out if there's
any like myths or legends about such cubes. Okay.
So do we want to split up at all? The way that
I'm kind of seeing it is maybe the doctors go
and do more research on the cube. Norman goes
and does more research with the NSA and tries
to figure out more about the site. And then our,
our muscle and our criminal. go and stake out
said tire factory to figure out the comings and
goings. Does that sound like a good plan? Like,
is that something you would want to do? It sounds
good to me. Yeah. Okay, cool. So what I'm going
to do is I'll just go around then to each of
the little groups and then we'll go from there.
Desiree and Mars. Yeah. How are you guys? going
to break this up are you going to sit on it overnight
a couple of nights well i'm i'm wondering if
near this site if there is like a hotel or a
motel or somewhere that we can sort of set up
like a base camp from that we can go to and from
because i think that's her normal mode of prepping
for you know burglaries right I'm going to say
that, yeah, the tire factory is in the same industrial
area as the kind of oddball bar, which is what
I'll name it from now on. There's a Motel 6 that
Mars has stayed at. Again, Motel 6, if you're
listening, if you want to throw us advertising
dollars, we'll take those. Motel 6, we promise
you probably won't go crazy from Cthulhu -like
things. Yes. There you go. New slogan. So you
guys could set up there, definitely. Okay. I
go with you to sweep the place with my microelectronics
skill. Yeah, why don't you give us a roll? Yay!
I gotta use this. Since you know that you're
probably being watched by more than one group.
I'm sure at work they're like, where is he? He
has a valid excuse, but we still need to know
where he is. Alrighty. Oh, wait, what am I hitting
under? Hitting under a 40, I believe. Oh, got
35. Excellent. Okay. This game is already off
to a much better start. Motel 6 will leave the
ceremonial candles lit for you. You don't find
anything. But Mars, I'm going to say that you
do notice that there is a van. It looks a little
too clean to be a van in this area. And it has
set up shop not long after you guys get there.
Cool. Any markings on that? None. No, it's not
like a pizza truck or whatever. Right. Frank's
flowers or anything. No, it's just brand new
looking van across the street. It's a little
suspect rental plates. Yep. And it's white. So,
cause most rental cars are white. Got it. What
you're figuring is that they followed you. They
see that you're setting up in this particular
location. And at this point, they haven't even
had a chance to put anything into the room yet
because you guys have been setting up for your
first night of surveillance. Oh, my gosh. That's
so funny. It sounds like FBI. Probably. That's
Norman's guess. Yeah. So let's jump over to the
doctors real quick. What specifically, Perla,
are you looking up? I'm looking up ancient indigenous
legends or lore about skeletons or bones or things
being fused, things like that. Okay. So you guys
should have some kind of library use research,
I believe. So why don't we do this? Why don't
we do a straight up intelligence check? Because
it's not really an anthropology check. It's more
of a research check. So just roll against your
intelligence, the two of you, and let me know
what you got. I got a 54 under my 60. So I have
46 under my 75. Cool. Here's what you have found.
In about 1697, there is a story of a group of
English explorers slash colonists who showed
up on the shore and they brought with them a
small cube of bones. this particular group of
English explorers were basically running from
the church and had left and shown up on the doorstep
of the new land America that they had found.
And it talks about that the cube was made out
of animal bones. And the size of the cube sounds
like it was probably... cats and dogs, and these
people were part of some kind of cult. That's
all it says. I think that's a pretty big piece
of information, so... Not to downgrade it. Like,
oh, that's all you find. You know, that's, you
know, decent. I mean, so basically what you're
saying is, like, it all comes back to the colonizers.
Yes. Absolutely. Checks out. Oh, is there any
mention of any texts? Anything that may... like
where exactly they settled, journals, a holy
book. There is definitely mention of an unholy
book, and it literally just says that, the unholy
book of the secret society. And the one thing
that you do read into it is you're not sure how
much propaganda is going on here from the local
uptight Protestants who were in the area at the
time. Puritans, gotta love them. Yeah. It's gotta
be something around, around that of like, she's
a witch kind of thing. Yes. Were there any like
signs or symbols or anything listed in the text
of like, that would be a signifier of this cult?
There's a rudimentary picture of a tree. It actually
just looks like a line down with several little
lines going away from the base. It looks like
a tree symbol of some sort. Makes you think of
like some kind of druidic drawing or something
like that. You know that this area, you know,
obviously the East Coast is like, was pretty
well starting in like what's probably about 16.
or whatever, right before Elizabeth died. Well,
1607 was Jamestown. Right. So early, people were
coming over and starting to try to colonize the
area. When was Roanoke? Because I thought you
were describing Roanoke. Roanoke, I can't remember
the year. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement.
Roanoke was before that. Yeah. It was before
that. And Jamestown was 1607. And he said this
is 1697. So this is 90 years after Jamestown.
Okay. Roanoke was 1587. Wow. Way early. Way early.
This is about 100 years after Roanoke. Yeah.
Yeah. Way earlier. See, Agent Stassier, learn
history as we enjoy. But that's part of the reason
that the... information you're getting is spotty
is because you're talking about something that
happened several hundred years ago and you're
just reading it in a book that it's been reprinted
in not the original manuscript so let's jump
back over to norman yeah i would stay in the
motel but i'm doing my own thing while they do
their own thing why they're okay so you kind
of because you notice that this van is over there
right What kind of things do you want to do while
they're out? Well, after establishing, of course,
my very secure VPN and Tor browser. Yeah, one
I wanted to know, OK, is there a government connection
to the tire factory? Is that is there another
already established? Yeah, there's there's another
agency. This is I don't know what it is. You
don't know what that agency is. So it kind of
screams out, you know, black ops kind of thing.
Right. OK, so I know for sure it's OK. I wasn't
sure if I was certain. So then I need to figure
out who that's what I that's what I want to.
You want to focus on that? Well, let's go back
to our many roles of computer. computer science
and we'll see how you do all right here we go
25 success okay cool it is a division of the
cia oh and it's just called majestic and the
info i found is that they are operating out of
there or that they have paid for the land or
what kind of level of What you can tell is that
they are the ones that set up all the deliveries
to the tire factory. You know, right now it's
just the state of Virginia that owns the land.
But a fake bureaucracy person has probably been
created with a name and everything else that
has a background. You're pretty sure if you were
to... call the phone number that's on the public
record, you would get a person who's in a basement
answering phones via spy stuff. Right. Now I'm
going to roll to see if they notice you poking
around. Okay. And I'm not going to tell you whether
or not I succeed because it's fun that way for
me. Oh my gosh. As a person. Okay. So, yeah,
that's the information that you find from all
that. Okay. And for right now, we're going to
jump over to our final team real quick. Desiree
and Marge, you know from Norman's info that these
shipments tend to come. between about 5 at night
to 5, 6 in the morning when no one's around in
this area because it's an industrial area. So
I'd imagine you'd probably sit on the place overnight
to see kind of what's going on. Am I right in
assuming that? I don't want to... Yeah, I'm just
wondering, like, do we think this van is Delta
Green or do we think this is another group that's
also... Oh, the van. Yeah, if you want to start
with that first, we can do that. You don't know
who's in it at all, so... I feel like we have
to deal with this van. Okay, cool. How do you
and Mars want to proceed? Also, I can assist,
since I'm still in the area, right? Yeah, you're
in the hotel room. Yeah, we're in the hotel.
I've got... mechanic skills and stuff yeah if
you need that i'm still around and drive heavy
machinery no i'm not stealing a car right but
if you need to deja what do you so desiree what
do you want to do can we see in the windows does
it look like they're looking towards our direction
does it look like they're looking towards the
factory It looks like they're parked right outside
your hotel, outside the Motel 6, across the street.
And they're set up in such a way that, yeah,
they're totally scoping out the comings and going
from your room. Motel room? Yeah. Norman, with
your hacky hacky skills there, can you, and this
is like a TV cop show thing, but I don't know.
Maybe it's a real thing. Can you like. Hack the
rental company? Like, we've got the tags. Can
you figure out who rented this car? Well, in
real life, yes. In this world, can we do that,
Wes? Sure. Give me a roll. All right. Oh, my
God. I love this. And I, too, shall make a roll.
Oh. All right. I just feel powerful this time.
Oh, yeah. Three success. Super success. Ooh.
You find out that it looks like your direct boss,
Norman, in the NSA has rented this vehicle. They
used a fake name, but you were able to get by
that pretty quick. That feels like a troll move
is what Norman says. Yeah. You know what they
really hate is when you know that they're watching
you. Yeah. They really hate that. I kind of want
to go let them know. That we are aware of their
presence. I was thinking that same thing, too.
So I want to go up to the van. And I want to
go knock on the window. Yeah. All right. So Desiree
and Mars just walk straight over and you knock
on the window. And this woman, middle aged woman,
rolls down the window. She's got the. bleach
blonde hair and the spray on tan maybe a little
too much makeup and she goes oh hello hi can
i help you y 'all know anywhere good to eat um
not in this town we just got here we're gonna
be staying at the motel six And she starts to
get out of the car. And then this other guy starts
to get out of the car. And they have, like, duffel
bags that aren't quite big enough to hold much.
But they're all like, yeah, we were just checking
out this place, you know. Oh, it's great. It's
lovely. I definitely think you should go check
in. So the manager's office is right over there.
Oh, thank you. Feel free, like, you know, to
go ahead and... do that because i i really think
that you're gonna enjoy your stay here because
there's no reason you wouldn't the total awkward
silence and they're like uh thank you and they
start to walk away i want to break into the back
of their van when they're in the manager's office
which i figured but this is a great place for
us to stop right here so we're gonna we're gonna
stop it right here that was a lot of fun and
uh i appreciate you guys uh we'll find out what
happens next time uh as patreon members you guys
know where to find us and you are helping out
uh by being supporters we really appreciate that
but just for fun let's go around and find out
where you can find all our wonderful players
we'll start with michelle Hey, you can find me
on Twitter at Mishulu. That's M -I -C -H -U -L
-H -U. You can also find my music on Plate Mail
Games through DriveThruRPG or BattleBarts. Hey
guys, I have been and will continue to be Mac
Beauvais. You can find me online as atstrangelikethat,
the Twitter, the Instagram, and the Facebooks.
hello i am puja you can find me on twitter at
la daisy girl that's l -a -d -e -s -i girl and
pretty much everywhere else is forgotten saves
hey y 'all you can find me on the twitters at
jay holtham and uh yeah i'm saint and uh you
can also find me at on twitter at saint spider
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