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.
Welcome to Agent's Dossier, episode number 15.
Let's meet our players. We will start with Saint.
Hello, I'm Saint, or Saint Spider, and I will
be playing Norman Morales, our resident NSA technician.
Hey, I'm Michelle Otis, and I will be playing
Perla Ayala, a forensic anthropologist. Hi, y
'all. Jay Holtham here. I am playing Mars Paulson,
and I punch things. Hi, I'm Pooja and I'm playing
Robin Porter, Physician Extraordinaire. Hey guys,
I'm playing Desiree Kimball and I like breaking
into things. Speaking of breaking news, so last
game you guys got together and you pooled all
of your information and you decided to check
out the anthropology angle of the cube as well
as check out the tire factory, the old tire factory,
to find out if there were any... Clues or any
way to learn how often they were delivering these
chemicals. You know, you spoke about Edna Bay.
So you're checking out the tire factory and you're
checking out the cube. You had kind of come across,
you know, talked about the fact that they say
they want to destroy the cube, but they also
need to move the cube to avoid a possible catastrophe
in the middle of the city. So there's some debate
on whether or not that's an actual. or if they
want to use it for something more government
sinister -like. Norman, Mars, and Desiree were
together at a Motel 6 where they're using that
as their base. They found out that they were
being followed by some people from the NSA, specifically
Shelly Bain, who is Norman's direct supervisor,
had rented a van and parked it across the street.
At the end of that game, Let me jump back just
a little bit further to the history part. Robin
and Perla went to find out what information they
could about the cube, if there was any other
historic record. And they found a group from
England had come over with a bone cube, but it
was not the same size. It seemed to be made of
maybe dog and cat bones. And it had a symbol,
kind of a druidic symbol of a tree. They're guessing,
though, because the historical record's a little
thin, because it was from the 1600s. At the end
of the last episode, Desiree and Mars decided
to be very direct and walked across the street
and knocked on the window of the van. And two
people got out, a man and a woman. They said,
we're just here thinking about checking in. They
have gone to the front office to check in, leaving
the van behind. And that's where we're picking
it up. Fabulous. I would like to break into this
van. Okay. Go ahead and give me a... What would
be a good... I have locksmithing under my craft.
That sounds perfect. There you go. All right.
Let's see if my dice don't botch my roll, though.
Oh, I got a two. Wow. Under my 60. Yeah. What
particular... door are you opening i'm going
to the back door i'm imagining it's got like
the double doors that you open up that's where
i am and i'm figuring it's also harder for them
to see from the manager's office Okay. So you
swing open the doors and sure enough, there's
a couple of milk crates with pillows on top of
them that they're using as seats and some surveillance
gear crammed into the back of this thing. It
looks like listening devices and also other things
that seem like they were planning on sneaking
some of this stuff at least closer to your...
room. You do know that listening devices have
come a long way. They can literally listen to
what you're saying in the room from where they're
at. All they have to do is set up a transmitter
anywhere near your room and they can pick up
a large area. They've got cameras and everything
positioned on the Motel 6. Great. So they're
definitely here for us. Yeah. Oh, absolutely.
I was willing to give them the benefit of the
doubt, but doubt has been assuaged. Are there
any documents or anything loose that I can rifle
through? With a two, yes. Okay. Do you want a
rifle or do you want to just straight up steal
or take pictures of with your phone? Because
you're not going to have that much time to really
study them. Yeah. And I think taking pictures
of my phone is also going to be time intensive.
So I think I'm just going to take their documents.
Mm -hmm. So you grab the documents, you close
the door. Where do you two go after that? I mean,
I'm following Desiree's lead here. I'm keeping
an eye out for them. Okay, so you're lookout.
And we're close, you said, to the oddball bar.
Yeah, that whole area is relatively kind of centralized.
So you're walking distance to the bar and the
tire factory. All right, well, they're definitely
watching us. I think maybe we head to the bar
and look over some of these documents because
there may be some information that we need before
we investigate the tire factory. Works for me.
And what we could say is the doctors will meet
up with you there or something like that. Yeah,
we can text them or whatever, let them know where
we're going. Right. Yeah, that sounds like a
good... Okay, so you guys meet up, the four of
you, and I believe that you would probably text
Norman and let him know what's going on because
he's back at the hotel and they're going to find
that some of the documents are missing. And you
get to the bar and you're looking through these
documents and basically... It's kind of similar
to the information that you guys already had.
They're definitely interested in why this company
is putting money into these chemicals. And it's
been tagged as a possible problem for national
security. Well, you know, as they say, the enemy
of my enemy is my friend. Yeah. I mean, you should
probably, I don't know, maybe we should make
friends with them. They're going to. tap into
everything that we have to say anyway. We might
as well make sure that they know that we're here
and maybe they've got some resources that we
could use. Yeah. What about Robin and Perla?
What is your opinion on this? And I think that's
the only way we can go, to be honest, because
they are going to hear everything anyway. And
they need to know that we're on the same side
here. Yeah. If they really are on the same side.
Well, yeah, we don't even know who them or they
were in that note. Yeah. Not to mention, I mean,
the government is full of the left hand knoweth
not what the right hand is doing. Yeah, that's
a good way to put it. Yeah, but maybe we can
use them to our ends. Mm -hmm. I agree. I think
if we lead them in a direction, then it's possible
that they'll just end up with bigger fish to
fry. Correct, because Norman was able to kind
of cover up. some of the information because
obviously the project doesn't want NSA really
involved in the supernatural part of everything
because that's a whole different level of problems.
So... Norman separated that information when
he took a look at it from everything and was
able to kind of keep out the fact that there
was the catastrophe at Edna Bay. They know chemicals
are coming in, but they don't know what those
chemicals are. Oh, we don't know what those chemicals
are. You guys don't know, but you know that they're
going to the tire factory, whereas he made it
so that it just seems like the chemicals are
coming into... charlottesville not necessarily
to a specific location yeah i will also say that
majestic being involved is a red flag as to involving
any other government agencies and what we're
doing they don't have any idea about any of majestic
stuff so that was only something that came up
during yours yeah i i'm a little lost on majestic
okay well I am telling you now, Majestic is some
bad news. What is Majestic? In the 90s, there
was the Majestic 12, and they infiltrated the
U .S. government, and it was one of Delta Green's
takedowns. They managed to, I guess they thought
they did, took out the Majestic 12 and got rid
of them from the U .S. government. What were
they going to do? They were manipulating the
government to whatever their own ends were. Supernatural.
I mean, I'm just telling you what I know, what
I was briefed on when it comes to that. Okay.
I'm not sure they would have even told me that
much had I not been so nosy. Okay. But I do know
that if Majestic is there, then it means Delta
Green failed in the 90s. Interesting. All right.
That's... This is all okay. So are we going to
approach the NSA people or not? I don't think
that it's a good idea to try to go make nice
with the NSA. Personally, I don't have a good
track record with the clandestine government
agencies. Norman, can you do anything to throw
them off our scent? Gin up an order or a requisition
or something, sending them to, I don't know,
somewhere else? I can definitely take a look
into it. I don't want to let them know that I...
know exactly what they seem to know um but i
can definitely definitely make it look like something
else well just so you guys know they are going
to know that those documents are gone oh yeah
i mean listen they saw us like we're we're pretty
well blown here but it's a question of whether
or not we want to just put them off our scent
because assume i'm assuming that they were assigned
to us right i did not reveal everything about
the Edna Park situation, right? In my intro,
right? Yeah, the NSA only knows that there was
a picture that came in that caused a crash of
the servers. So I sent them the virus, right?
Right, you sent them the virus. They have not
seen the pictures. They also only know that there
is a chemical of some sort that caused a... environmental
spill or something like that you basically covered
it up the best you could but left enough information
in there that once you kind of went on your own
way they are following up to making sure that
you're you're doing what you say you're doing
right i'm not pulling a snowden or anything right
exactly or they might want to make sure he didn't
send the virus on purpose yeah i i think um Also,
the second part of that was that it was from
a phone that I wrote down was in Oregon. Did
I write that down wrong? Yeah. Yeah, that was
in Oregon. That was correct. Yes. Portland, Oregon.
It was just a phone that was pinging Portland,
Oregon. I could send them in that direction and
reveal the actual... Thinking, okay, I sent them
the virus. They didn't see the photos. I'd probably...
I'd send them... What did I already tell them?
I want to throw them there. I want to throw them
in that direction. Maybe drop a... Or mislead
a GPS point or something like that. All right,
so let's do the computer roll. Okay. Okay, I
got an eight out of... Wow. Yeah. Okay. So yeah,
you're able to send some more data in that gives
them a point in Portland, Oregon to check out.
Yeah. How about Mount Hood? Okay. That's a small
area. Yeah. You're able to send that out and
we'll see how successful that is. I guess the
next step is watching the tire factory and seeing
what happens. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Are all five
of you going to be doing this, or is Norman going
to stay at his base? Yeah, I feel like if I'm
near a computer, I'm the most powerful. Right,
yeah. Yeah. Perhaps we set up communication either.
You're probably texting over burner phones or
whatever. Simple text. Got a nice group chat
going. You have a MySpace account that you're
doing a forum on. Since it's old tech, no one
thinks about it. Yes. Oh, I love it. The rest
of you then, the other four, how do you guys
want to approach this? Well, first I'm going
to go up to the bartender and talk him out of
a bottle of whiskey to take back to the room
with us. That's easy enough. And then, I guess,
head back to the hotel. Okay. Are all four of
you going to be working on the detail of watching
this place? Like, are you going to have two people
in the back and two people in the front, basically?
Yeah, that makes the most sense. I mean, we need
to... We're not infiltrating. No, we're just
scoping. Are you sure? I mean, the infiltrating
went so well in the past. I'm sure it'll go well
this time. Nope. Okay. Observe and report. Sounds
good. So you guys go back to the hotel, kind
of get all your information. And let me see something.
I will make a roll. Oh, okay. So sure enough,
the van has disappeared. No longer there when
you guys get back from the bar. Okay. Hopefully
the lead that has been set has sent them far
enough away for some time. I'm retroactively
wishing I had put a tracker on their car, like
a GPS tracker. You can make those so cheap in
real life. You guys split up that night and you
go to the tire factory. Who's going to be on
the front entrance? Who's going to be on the
back? I'm thinking I would be posted up front
entrance. Okay. Robin, where will you be? I will.
Take the front with Desiree. It makes sense to
have, like, one of us with physical skills and
one of us without together, as opposed to...
It does. That does make sense. Yeah, it makes
total sense, because I have zero physical skills,
so I'm with Mars. All right, so Perlin, Mars
on the back. Yep. All right, the four of you,
I want you to roll a luck roll for me. You want
to get under 50%. Nope. Ah, 57. 49. 38. Wow,
nice. Okay. Ooh, lucky. I am owed. Yeah, you
really are. The last game of Parker was... Oh
boy, that was a hum day. Like the first two rolls
he got, and then he literally, I don't think
he got another roll. Nope. I got shot almost
to death in one hit. Yeah. Gunfire in this game
is no joke. Like if I took that hit on this character,
I would die. Yeah. We just blew the box every
single time. It wasn't even like close. It was
like real bad. Yeah. Two of you made your luck
roll. So you guys are watching and a car drives
up about midnight. It's a old Lincoln Continental,
just this boat of a car, just huge, probably
from the early 80s. It does not have any tags
on it. And this guy gets out of the car. He's
like really uncomfortably tall. and really uncomfortably
skinny. Just kind of skeletal, I would say. And
he is dressed head to toe. He's got on like a
trench coat and a hat. He's got glasses on. He's
covered up pretty well. And when he walks, it
has a fluid look to it. Almost like he's a wave.
He's going in through the back. In the front,
not long after he arrives, A large truck, I'm
not going to say like a semi, but one of those
really big U -Haul or Ryder moving trucks shows
up and pulls up to the front and a guy jumps
out and runs over him. Pushes in this button
and a side gate starts to open up for him to
drive the truck into the building. Can I get
a closer look at the guy who went in the back?
Sure. Like I said, he's covered head to toe in
cloth. Like his face isn't being shown. He's
got on a black trench coat and glasses. You can't
make out any features. But, like I said, the
way he's moving is kind of weird. It's not like
a normal walk. It's, like I said, more fluid.
Can I see any patches of skin? Like, maybe on
the side of his face or something? No. Okay.
And is he alone when he gets out? Like, he gets
out of the car. It's not like he's being let
in. No, he's alone. It's just him. And he punches
in a code. Why don't you guys give me... Another
luck roll to see if he can figure out what the
code is he punches in on the back door. That
one I blew. Okay. Wait, hold on. Actually, did
I? Ooh, 13. Lucky 13. Cool. All right. So, yeah,
you are able to figure out the code that he presses
in before he walks. Is there any other security
there? Is it just this door? You do notice that
there are... Cameras all around the perimeter
of this place. So definitely security. I want
to get closer, but I'm worried about getting
closer looking like just a civilian. Do you want
to be stealthy about it? Because that is your
bag, as it were. It is. I'm actually wondering
if there isn't some way I can disguise myself
a little bit, though. You have disguise, is that
correct? I do. So if you wanted to try, you could.
Yeah, I kind of want to. I want to see if I can,
like, I don't know, go back towards the hotel
real quick and see, like, sometimes people have,
like, clotheslines and shit up, you know, and,
like, pull stuff and try and look, like, hobo
-esque. Derelict. Derelict. Derelict. Yeah, you
can do that. You can find that kind of stuff.
Do you want me to roll? No, I'll make the roll.
Uh -oh. So that whether or not you, uh, we'll
see. What's your percentage? 80. Okay. All right.
So you dress up and you scuff yourself up as
best you can to look the part. And I've got the
whiskey in my hand because I'm sure they gave
it to me in like a brown paper bag. And so I
make sure I take like a big swig so that my breath
smells like whiskey and stuff and just go toddling
up towards this gate. Cool. You're with Robin,
correct? Yeah. So Robin, you watch Desiree go
off after kind of making herself up. to look
like she's living in the area on the street.
And when she gets up to the gate, you notice
two of the cameras turn towards her. Then you
hear a really high -pitched whine that, Desiree,
you also hear as well. It's a little bit higher
than the normal servo sound. And Robin, you notice
that there is a really tiny red dot right on...
Desiree's back. You're looking at her. She has
turned towards the street. That means whatever
that red dot is coming from a building that's
nearby where you guys are held up watching. Okay.
Can I pinpoint which building it's coming from?
Yes. It's literally the next building over like
third floor up. I'm going to throw a rock down
the street, like skitter, like a rock or a can
or something. to get Desiree, like, to grab her
attention, get her to maybe move on. Okay. Yeah,
Desiree, you hear a very distinct sound of Robin
is held up in. What do you want to do? And let's
say you guys agreed on a call. Caw -caw! Yeah.
Look at me! Look at me! Anyway. Yeah, so I'm
definitely going to take the hint. But I'm going
to stay sort of in character, sort of swag and
like screaming about the government, you know,
injecting things into my brain or whatever crazy
bullshit and start wandering back towards Robin.
All right. So, yeah, as soon as you leave the
area of the fence, you know, Robin, you hear.
The sound kind of died down and the cameras go
back to their normal rotation. I'm going to sling
an arm around Robin like I've just like run into
somebody randomly on the street and just be like
up in her face kind of thing. And but quietly
be asking like what they have a sniper next building
over third floor. Interesting. I'm assuming it's
a sniper anyway. Well, it's information we didn't
have, so we should probably alert the others.
You want to text them? Sure. I don't think there'll
be any gaining access through the front here.
Not subterfuge, anyway. Fair enough. All right.
They send you guys a message. Mars and Perla.
You saw the code that got put in. You know that
there's this huge Lincoln Continental sitting
out there from probably the early 80s. And then
the truck. If you guys wait long enough, the
truck will just pull out at some point and go
about its way. And, I mean, do you want to continue
waiting? Do you just watch for a while? Or do
you want to get out of there? I mean, I think
if they've got a sniper on the front, they probably
have somebody watching the back. So we should
probably get out of there. That's my opinion.
I think you should go. I'm going to stay a little
while, so I'm going to see what happens when
that guy comes out. Okay. Okay. I feel like with
my dodge and stealth, I can stay hidden just
to continue to observe. Okay. You head back over
to the Hotel Perla. Marge, you stick around.
Desiree and Robin, what are you guys going to
do? Now, what kind of building was the sniper
beam coming from? A lot of these buildings around
here are just abandoned factories and like machine
shops and stuff. So it looks like they're set
up in one of those. Is it terrible that I want
to go investigate? That's exactly what a GM would
want you to do, just to mess with you. So if
you feel like you want, if you really want to
see what's in that room, I can't stop you. Once
we interact with them, we've kind of blown our
chance. Just thinking the gears are turning.
Yeah, I know. It's just like Robin thinks that
like if we're going to study and figure stuff
out, let's study and figure stuff out. But if
we put ourselves in another position where they
know they're being surveilled, then we've ruined
whatever good we found like out of coming here
sneakily. I think what I'd like to. do then is
gather more information rather than like trying
to approach this person like while we have everybody
staking out the building i want to kind of amble
over and kind of like stake out the abandoned
building as well because i'm curious if there's
like a rotation of people coming in okay just
stay in your hidden place and still watch the
building for a while and get more information
So basically what we'll do is we'll say that
Mars is still in the back. Norman and Perla are
back at the hotel. And you guys are watching
the front and seeing if anyone comes in and out
where this sniper might be. So Mars, what exactly
do you want to do before I do an info dump on
what you're watching? I mean, that's all. I just
want, I'm found like a quiet. dark spot where
i'm sort of crouched out of view where it's hard
for someone to sneak up on me and i'm just keeping
an eye on that continental and that door to see
what comes out okay so here's what basically
happens we'll say that you guys survey the place
for the rest of the night No one comes in and
out of the building besides that one truck in
the front. And no one comes in and out of what
you guys are assuming is where the sniper is.
Through the rest of the night, you don't see
anybody. No movement at all. The cameras are
on the entire time. Mars in the back about four
in the morning. The man in the Lincoln Continental
comes out and he gets back into the car and drives
away. Again, he is moving oddly, but this time
he's also carrying a different kind of briefcase.
It's this almost a large piece of luggage, you
know, one of the silver pieces of luggage that's...
Probably made in a specific way so that it can't
be penetrated by like x -ray and stuff like that.
The end of the night comes and that's basically
the information that you get. So you can all
kind of meet up back at the Motel 6. And there's
still, there are no plates on the car, no tags
at all. No. Windows were, could I see him inside?
Yeah, you could see inside. They weren't tinted
or anything like that. And he was just driving.
Right. Your guess is that they picked up a clunker
that possibly would come up, if you could search
the VIN number, it probably would come up as
destroyed or no longer in service or whatever.
Right. But could I see his hands when he was
driving? Was there any other information I could
glean about him, you know, since his face was
all covered with cloth or whatever? It almost
looked like a bag of water walking, like almost
without bones. You got it. Human water weenie.
Basically. Ugly bags of mostly water. Ugly bags
of mostly water. Yeah. Not cool. All right, cool.
So that's what you gained from this first night
of... surveillance and you guys are all back
we we can say that you've rested up a little
bit and it's probably about midday so you can
decide what your next move is going to be my
instinct is i wanted to actually see i don't
know how much you guys learned about majestic
when i had to uh dip for a second so i wanted
to see if there was any connection between the
symbol that our lovely professor found and If
any other organizations have picked up similar
symbols, perhaps government organizations for
some reason were sloppy about it. And then I
also wanted to, if we can't do the make and model
thing on the car, I wanted to, I guess, get the
info about the cameras and like the weird sound
that accompanied it and see if I can. trawl my
knowledge of either, I guess it could be a search
thing or it could also be electrician or mechanic
thing if we wanted to make it a little more difficult.
We can say it's electrician. And you don't have
to roll for this. What you find out is on the
electrician side, it is a closed system. It has
its own power. It is not on the grid. It is being
generated by someplace nearby. The frequency
that they heard is something different than the
frequency of the cameras. So your best guess
is a turret of some sort, which would make sense
on why nobody left the building the entire time
you guys were there. It's because they had some
kind of robotic situation going on with the turret.
As for that symbol, it's a pretty standard occult
symbol that's been around for a while. So it
pops up a lot. It's used as an omen of protection.
It's used as an omen of displeasure. It's kind
of all over the map. But for this particular
group, it was probably used to contact older
gods. things that lived during the druidic time
in england so that's what you gleaned from your
information okay so i'll definitely pass along
the turd info it's like we are dealing with more
technology than you would expect in a urban situation
especially and i guess i just feel like i'm missing
something here to look up does anybody else have
any I want to go back to the dig site. Okay.
And I want to see if I see that symbol anywhere
in the bones, in like in any rocks or trees nearby
or anything. Okay. So you go back and Agent Wells
is there and they've dug down pretty deep. They've
used a backhoe to get the outer casing done.
And they're using high -pressure water hoses
to get the dirt out in between the bones. As
they're cleaning down, oh, just so I know, where
is everybody else? Does anyone else go with her?
I'll go with, because I would like to see what
this bone cube is all about, possibly. See if
my medical background can shed any further light
on anything. All right, that sounds good. I think
I'm going to stay and stake out the area still.
Like, I think I'm going to keep up the transience
check and just meander around the area and just...
And if I can send them with a question of, like,
looking into, have these bones been DNA tested?
Can we find an electronic trail of that, perhaps?
Yeah, they haven't been DNA tested. They've just
been digging them out. They haven't done any
tests like that. Interesting. Mars? I'm going
to stay at the motel and just sort of keep an
eye out here in case, you know, other vans come
back or make sure no one else is watching us.
Okay, sounds good. So you guys are at the site.
There are no more students at this point. Now
it's all just professional, either agents or...
archaeologists that they've brought in under
the payroll. And they're spraying out the mud
in between the bones from the top down. And they're
pretty much almost at the bottom. They're talking.
Russ comes over to you at some point and goes,
this has gone pretty well, pretty fast. We've
been able to uncover a good chunk of this. And
as soon as we're done getting all the dirt out
from between the different bones, we're going
to... see about lifting this thing out of the
crater and getting it out of town. Any chance
before you get it out of town of me just getting
a small sample? He looks visibly worried about
that question, but then goes, um, you, yeah,
you can get a sample of it. You just need to
be careful of which lab you send it to. Okay.
If you have a... particular lab you want me to
use. I do. I wouldn't want it sent to like the
school lab or someplace that would find information
that we don't necessarily want in the public
discourse as it was. Right. So he leaves. What
are you doing, Robin? Why she's talking with
Roos and getting this sample that she needs.
I'm gonna kind of go around the edges and see
if... I mean, they're using high -pressure washers.
Yeah. And none of the bones are breaking apart?
Nope. Like, this is not normal. Completely. Because
you would expect, like, they've been buried,
there'd be some decomposition, fragility of the
bones. Right. That you would start to see chips.
Right. None of that is happening, and that's
very alarming. As they're doing this, you notice
that they're getting to the center of the cube,
and there seems to be some kind of object lodged
in the very center, and... What kind of object?
It looks like a silver sphere in the center of
the cube. Okay, that's... and they kind of they
they all go okay halt halt we we need to figure
out what we're before we spray that too much
we need to figure out what that is and that's
where we're going to stop this particular episode
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word like that. Hey, guys, I have been and will
continue to be Mac Beauvais. And you can find
me everywhere is at strange like that. That's
the Twitter, the Instagrams and the Facebooks.
Hi, I'm Pooja. You can find me on Twitter at
LADCgirl. That's L -A -D -E -S -I girl. And pretty
much everywhere else is Forgotten Saves. Hi,
y 'all. Jay Holtham here. And you can find me
on all of your various social outlets at Jay
Holtham. Hi, I'm Michelle Otis. And you can find
me on the Twitter at Mishulu. That's M -I -C
-H -U -L -H -U. You can also find my music through
Plate Mail Games on DriveThruRPG and BattleBards.
And I am Wes Otis. You can find me at Plate Mail
Games. Thank you all for being awesome Patreon
supporters and for listening to our show. We
will talk at you real soon. Bye.