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
21. My name is Wes, and I have some wonderful
players. Let's start with Saint. Hello, I'm Saint,
or Saint Spider, and I have been controlling
our dear Norman Morales, and he's just, well,
he's ready to eventually get out of this hoedown
town. Hey, I'm Michelle Otis, and I am playing
Yesenia Alvarez, who normally is supposed to
be the tank, but right now her teammates are
saying tanks for nothing. Oh. How many hit points
do you have left? 50. Pooja, continue the lies.
No, I am Pooja and I'm playing Robin Porter,
who, yes, yes, yes, she is the healer of this
group. And it, you know what makes it easier
to heal? When we're not dealing with things on
the literal road while people are still shooting
at us. You know, that brings us to the recap
of our episode. Last time you all went to a small
town in Idaho called Telldale. Basically, three
brothers had been killed. Elliot, Russell, and
James Wright. They were found next to this weird
tree, and they had been separated at all their
joints. Much like an action figure, I think that
was the best way to put it. You went and saw
Jake, the coroner. and you saw that felt like
the eyes were following you around the room like
they were still there was still some kind of
consciousness there you went to the police because
you wanted to see more information about this
site and they drove you out to the middle of
the forest acting very weird and then tried to
kill you and almost succeeded several times.
Gunfights happened. I believe an owl was accidentally
killed. It was all terrible. And that's where
we're picking it up. I love that you mentioned
that an owl was accidentally killed, but the
fact that Norman totally murdered someone. Yeah,
that's true. Murdered someone and then ran someone
over. It's unimportant. Yeah, saints turning
into quite the murder hobo. I'm so proud. So
last game, you killed everyone but the police
chief, I believe, who's still out in the woods.
You left him there. Who's driving? I believe
Norman's driving the car while Robin was trying
to keep Yesenia from bleeding out. So that's
where we're basically at right now. You are going
past the sign, the Taledale, you know, welcome
to Taledale sign. And it says population. 750
,000. Then that's crossed out. Then it says 75
,000. Then that's crossed out. And it says 7
,500. And then there's a question mark on the
end of it. And you fly by the sign and it starts
to snow. It's almost like you're in a snow globe.
I don't know. Both St. Anne and Michelle grew
up here. I don't know. Have you ever been in
like really bad snow? Like just, it's like white
out. You can't see anything. It's pretty bad.
So this snow starts to... That sounds awful.
That sounds like why would anyone live there
awful? Why do you think a guy from Wisconsin's
here? Because it's awful. I watch Fargo and it's
a horror movie for me. So cold. So yeah, it just
starts snowing really hard. And you were heading
back to the coroner's place. And you notice that
all of the lights in the city... have gone out
there's no lights there's no street lights there's
nothing there doesn't seem to be anybody on the
street right now of course it's 11 o 'clock in
a podunk town so it's kind of like burbank there's
not a lot of people after a certain time nine
o 'clock hits everyone disappears yeah you're
driving through this really weird almost desolate
town all of a sudden with tons of snow coming
down and I'd like you to make a drive roll for
me, Norman, as you're going through the city.
Of course. Okay, check back in with what I'm
fighting against here. Okay. Unfortunately, I
got an 83 over my 60. Okay. So you hit what is
commonly known as black ice. It's basically the
road has a patch of ice that you can't see. And
you overcorrect and slide into another car. Now,
you weren't going very fast, but you're stuck.
And so you're going to have to walk the rest
of the way to the corridors. As a real person,
that's my nightmare. Anything under 75 degrees,
I go, no, no. No. Oh, my God. That's, no. Just
no. Being a Californian, snow is something you
visit. Exactly. I mean, I grew up in South Louisiana.
Snow is something I've watched on television.
Yeah, true. You know, the funny thing about the,
at least, I don't know how it is in Louisiana,
but in Tennessee and Missouri, we never really
got a lot of snow, but we got ice storms where
everything was covered with like an inch of ice.
And yeah, it sucked. Fuck that too. So yeah,
you hit this patch of bad ice. And you slide
and you hit another car and you're kind of just
stuck. Now, I will give you an opportunity to
get out if one of you wants to try to push the
car to get out of the situation. But usually
on ice, it's really difficult. That's why most
cars have like cat litter and stuff in it. You
know what? We're in the police car. Right. True.
You know what I'm going to say? If you check
the trunk, there's... cat litter back there okay
let's sprinkle let's do the thing that you do
with cat litter i'm assuming that's what you
yeah what i'm norman totally yeah norman knows
what to do of course as a cool secret agent but
saint does not i'm assuming you just shovel that
in front of the tires you put it around your
tires and it gives something to grip so what
i need is an alertness roll from norman I had
higher search. Also, just a reminder, since Norman
just failed his drive rule, that in this, you
check a box when you fail. Yes. Ahead of the
game on that one, at least. I think it's optimistic
to think that you'll be able to raise those at
some point, but we'll see. Rude. Okay, so going
against alertness. Yeah. I got a 30 under my
31. Wow. I did not, did not work is what I'll
say. Robin, you see a figure through the snow
on top of one of the buildings looking down at
what you're all doing, but you kind of slumped
over a little bit. They don't seem to be wearing
any clothing and the snow is like building up
on them and they're just staring down at you
all through the darkness. There is definitely
someone on top of that building. Don't look up.
Don't look. Don't look. Oh, Norman was about
to turn, but just grabs the litter and just turns
away a little, obviously. But let's, since, I
mean, I'm just going to, I'm not, I'm not going
to sugarcoat it. It's creepy as hell. Let's do
this and get out of here because whoever it is,
is on a roof during a snowstorm getting snowed
on naked. And just staring at us. And that seems
bad. Yesenia says, is it a who or a what? I'm
not going up there to find out. How far away?
It's across the street on one of the little two
-story buildings. Just staring up over one of
the signs. You can see its head and its shoulders.
It looks like it's got really leathery skin,
kind of a dog face. Does that mean that it's
pretty big then? Yeah. You can assess that it's
rather large. Okay. Then I'm going to amend my
statement to say I'm leaning towards what? Strongly
leaning towards what? And also doubling down
on let's dump some kitty litter and get the fuck
out. Okay. You don't tell me twice. So you dump
out the kitty litter. Are you going to continue
driving Norman or is Robin going to take over?
No one wants me behind that wheel. Okay, I'll
keep going. So give me a roll. I'm going to give
you a plus 20 % because you have the advantage
of kitty litter. All right, here we go. Here
we go. All right. I got a 60. That's right at
my 60. That counts, right? Okay. I'm nervous.
I know it's unforgiving sometimes. Well, if that's
what you rolled and then you subtract the 20
% that he gave you. Oh yeah, brain. Hello. And
then it's even better. Oh my gosh, you just told
me that. My attention span. It's okay. It's 2022.
We all have the attention span of a rubber band.
Anyway, you drive away and Robin, you watch this
thing just kind of watch you start to drive away
slowly because you can't go too fast. And you
notice that it starts to lope from one building
top to another, following about 20 feet behind.
Oh no, it's following us. Oh. Well, I guess I
was hoping that we'd be rarely lucky. I don't
think there is such a thing as lucky in this
town. Well, Norman's looking around. We know
we can't go fast. Is there any type of fork in
the road situation? What's the scenery like around
us at this moment? It's like an old west town
almost with two to three story tall buildings.
It's set up in a grid shape. You guys are on
the main drag. There is no light at all except
for the light that's coming from your headlights,
and the snow is coming down pretty hard. Like
I said, you can make this thing out because it
looks like it's probably maybe 7 feet, 8 feet
tall. It's just kind of hunched over and, like
I said, loping towards you all. It could catch
up to you because you're being careful, but it
doesn't seem to be gaining. It's taking its time.
It'll sit on one roof for a little bit, wait
for you to go a little bit farther, and then
jump to the next roof. So it's keeping its distance.
Yeah. Yeah, okay. So we're being surveilled by
a biggin. He didn't biggins us all. It feels
like the most defensible place we've been so
far since we got here is the mortuary. I would
have to agree with that, though we don't know
where the chief of police, quote -unquote, is.
Well, you know that he's in the forest. We wounded
him. You wounded him. And he's on foot. And he's
on foot. Oh, right. We took the car, right. I
was thinking, oh, maybe he made it back. Okay.
Well, I mean, I'd say let's get there because
poor Yesenia is... What do you have? Three points
of health now? Two. Two. Still two. All right.
We need to get somewhere with some facilities
for me to... be able to really help her you've
been to the morgue and sure enough here the the
lights are all out and the front door is slightly
cracked open a little bit and you hear the sound
of something landing on a roof not far away the
snow's starting to give a little and you feel
like you have eyes on you i kind of feel like
uh you know like the mouse a cat brings home
after it's played with them a bit, and the mouse
is just like, are you going to do it or what?
You know, it's just sitting there. And you're
like, I feel for the whole situation, man. But
being the mouse here, how close are we to the
doors of the morgue, not mortuary? Maybe 20 feet
at most, because you're parked right out in front
of it. You know how they have those main streets
where it's all parking? Yeah. And then the stores,
it's the same thing here. It's not a parking
lot or anything. You just drive up, park, and
you can get out and go straight in. Okay. So
can we jump the curb? Absolutely. If you want
to. Are you asking me to do that right now, Robin?
I mean, it's just a thought. 20 feet in the snow
with obviously ice that we've already seen. Yesenia
is not in great shape. The closer we can get
to that door, the better. Well, it's not my car.
All right. I'm going to go for it. Okay. I'm
not going to make you roll. Oh, yes. I'm going
to say that you speed up, you hit the curb, you
go up the little steps just a little bit, and
then you jump out and you start going inside.
And the last thing you see, Robin, as you're
going in, your eye just catches this thing hunkered
down on one of the roofs across the street, just
peering through the snow as you go into the door.
Okay, when you said the last thing you see, I
was like... I feel like I flipped to the wrong
page and choose your own adventure. It's been
great playing with everyone. No, the last thing
you see before you go inside. I'm sorry, though.
I'm going to leave that all in because it's funny.
I also thought we died. That's funny. OK, so
we made it inside. You made it inside. OK. Like
the eight foot tall, loping, leathery skinned,
dog faced creature that has been following us
did not attempt to breach the door yet. Right.
It's just watching you. Nor was there another
eight foot tall, leathery, dog faced creature
inside. Nope. Waiting for us to come inside so
we can murder us all. Right. But the door was
open. So something might. I mean, that's a problem.
Yeah, let's observe. What can we see if anything
is there anyone waiting to kill us right in the
entryway? No, there's no one waiting to kill
you in the entryway, but it's completely black
in here. It's pitch black. And you know that
the main morgue facility that you were all in
was downstairs. You hear the sound of the wind
buffering up against the building. It's it's
blowing pretty hard at this point. And you can
it feels like there hasn't been any heat in this
place since you left. Like it is bone cold in
here. So your guess is if Jake is still here,
he's downstairs. I'd like to secure the door.
Is there a way to. Yeah, is it one of those places
where they leave the key, perhaps? No, but it's
one of those places that it's not a key lock
on the inside, it's just a bolt. So you're able
to close it and bolt it relatively easy. When
you do do that, you notice that the creature
on top of the roof is no longer there. Well,
our friend Quasimodo is no longer here, but I
guess there's no way we're out of the woods yet.
Well, you're in town, I mean. Comedy. Is there
like a flashlight nearby or can we hit the lights?
Are the lights currently working? No. Cool. All
right. You do have flashlights from the car.
I will say that you grab them because that would
make sense to me. So you do have flashlights.
Thank you. Hmm. See, I'm a nice GM. Yeah, that's
very kind. I was prepared to have to go back
out. I was like, I just locked the door. Before
we go downstairs to maybe find Jake, I'm going
to go to where it makes the most sense upstairs
that a first aid kit would be and see if I can't
help out Yesenia a little bit because that's
our number one priority. Yes. Yeah, she's lost
a lot of blood. Yeah. Why don't you give me another
first aid roll and you have a kit and everything
that you can, you know, pack gauze into her wound
and all that. I rolled an eight. Excellent. Nice.
So you get another point back. You're up to three
now. This game hates us. Definitely wants us
to die. It's there's a reason why it's so easy
to make characters. That was a design choice.
Just to handle it and I won't press it anymore.
Is there I want to see if I can use search in
here. There's a clue as to why the power's out.
Does anything look like somebody got kidnapped?
Is there blood? Is there pool of blood on the
floor? Yeah, you don't see any blood. There's
no sign of anybody lurking in a corner. The door
was just open. You found the first aid kit. You
hear the wind buffering against the walls. You
know that Jake was downstairs the last time we
were here. So what do you all want to do? Carefully
make... Our way downstairs? Yeah, maybe very
sneakily. I mean, obviously we haven't been super,
super quiet up here while we deal with. But like,
at least maybe while we're on our way downstairs,
maybe they'll still think that we're up here.
Why not stealth rolls from everyone? Yeah. And
Michelle, I'm going to say you're at a negative
20. Yeah. We'll leave you up here with the gun.
That's a zombie movie waiting to happen. Even
with a negative 20, I made my roll. Nice. Because
mine is normally a 71, so it would make it a
51. And I rolled a 29. Nice. I rolled a 13. I
got a 27. All right, so you're able to get down
the stairs and relatively easy without making
any noise. Luckily, there's also the wind helping
out a little bit. And you go into the morgue
downstairs and it's completely black. There is
no sign of Jake. Actually, let me roll some dice
ominously. There's no other way for a GM to roll
dice, but ominously. All right. So you do notice
that there is something on the floor. There seems
to be spots of blood down here on the floor.
They're not big. It's not like a pool, but it's
little spots of blood going towards the office.
And the office door, I'm assuming, is closed,
or is it? It's closed, yeah. Okay. And the blinds
are pulled. All right. And is the wind as strong
down here, or maybe we can hear? Okay. You can
hear better down here because you're underground.
Yes. A noise? Any noises? Give me alertness.
Everybody can give me alertness. The one I failed.
Oh, I forgot to check. Nope, not this time. Damn
it. No. I rolled an 88. Oh, shoot. So you just
don't hear anything ever again? You know. That's
not a huge critical fail there. Yeah, 88's a
critical fail, but an alertness, meh. It just
means you're still in a lot of pain and you hear
your heart more than anything else right now
because you're slowly dying. Oh, Lord. So let's.
Worst first aid kit ever. Well, in the downstairs
in the morgue part, there's got to be like thread
and needles and, you know. Yes. Yeah. All that
surgery stuff. Oh, yeah. OK, so we can't hear
anything, but there's blood leading to the office,
which does. Put me on edge. Let's just do the
classic trying the doorknob. Swobbly, quietly.
I'm just expecting a zombie to jump out. I don't
know why. Give me a luck roll. Oh, it's a 50
-50 roll in this game. Oh, crap. Okay. Be nice
to me. Oh, yes, I got a nine. Okay, cool. I rolled
a five. So you start. So the last thing you see
is. There's a flash and then gone. So you're
jiggling the door handle and a gunshot goes off
and shatters the window right next to you. You
did make your luck roll. So you just get sprayed
with glass and not a bullet. You stumble back
quickly. And yeah, you now know someone's in
the office. Oh. God, I thought for a second maybe
I activated a trap, but this is not home alone.
D &D, no. It's not home alone. D &D, I mean.
D &D, I mean. No, no, you meant home alone, and
we respect that. I'm here for that. I'm here
for that. That's cool. I am going to scream when
that happens. I've had a hard day. Actually,
I think everybody should make a resolve check
for me. That's fair. Me over here being like,
nope, I've had enough. I want to go back to civilization.
This one's 50 -50 also, right? No, it's against
your power. Power? I should have remembered this.
Whatever your sanity was for the game. Okay,
what was that? I did not make my resolve roll.
Okay, I made mine. Okay. I also made mine, and
that's a 55 under my 60. I got a 38 under my
60. So, Michelle, let's see. You lose three points.
You're definitely freaked out. You've lost a
lot of blood, but you're still in control of
your faculties. And yeah, so that's good. What
do you want to do? Gunshot. Yo, at this point.
Well, before I just do something reckless, let
me rein it in. Shall we, Robin? Perhaps just.
See if this is someone who also doesn't know
what's going on. That seems protective to shoot
out towards from a locked door. I mean, it also
seems insane, but that seems scared. Perhaps
there's someone we could reach out to on the
other side of that door, to succinctly put it.
I just yell, Jake! Yeah. Jake, it's us! Did he
hear that? Should we repeat it? No, no, he heard
that. Okay. Are you alone? It's three of us.
Yeah, but you don't have anybody with you, right?
No. No. They all tried to kill us. And then something
followed us back here, but it left after we got
inside. Okay, you said that part. Okay. Sorry,
quiet part out loud. So Jake comes out of the
office. He's like, I'm really sorry. I didn't
mean to try to shoot you. I thought you were
one of them. If by one of them, you mean the
cops? Did they try and hurt you too? Yeah, what
is going on? Yeah, they showed up 20, 30 minutes
after you left, just a couple of deputies and
attacked. All the lights went out. The storm
hit. The lights went out. We, I think I shot
one of them. They fled. They ran out. There was
this weird sound. I didn't know if it was from
the storm or from something else. Did it sound
dog -like? Yeah, it kind of did. Cool, cool.
He looks at Yesenia and goes, oh. You don't look
good at all. We have some we have some candles
over there. Candles are great. But how about
something better than that shitty ass first aid
kit you got upstairs? Well, let's see what we're
dealing with. Lay on the table. Oh, God. OK.
A few things are going through Yesenia's mind.
One, how am I getting up on this table? Two,
it's a morgue table and it just feels ooky. I'll
help you. I'll help you out. And I'm just it's
it's a gurney's a gurney. Do you know how often
we reuse gurneys that had dead people in the
hospital? Don't worry, Pat. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
So you get up on the thing and he goes, yeah,
they said something about bringing too much attention
to the town, like calling you was a mistake or
something. They seemed off. Strange. Yeah. Could
you say in like a concrete way something about
the way they behaved or the. Was there a weird
physical trait? They smelled strange, and for
someone who works in a morgue, that means a lot.
Almost like, they smelled almost like, I want
to say, like wet dog. Ugh. Okay, so that thing
following us was either one of the deputies or
the sheriff. Is that what you're telling me?
Are you telling me that the thing following us
was the sheriff? What thing following you? Well,
okay, yeah. Robin, no one's telling you that,
but it is a fair... conclusion to come to just
you know so we're directing our anger properly
you're not wrong but like let's not get mad at
him he he doesn't know i look at him i'm like
well i'm only about 60 sure of that so robin
make me a medicine roll okay that's an 11 under
my 60 so that's a critical critical success very
nice so she has been hit a couple of times Yesenia
has a bullet lodged in her to help out. You are
definitely going to have to make that surgery
roll. Jake can help. That will give you a plus
20 to your percentage. But you're going to have
to act fast because you've got to clamp off the
artery and keep her from bleeding out kind of
thing. Okay. So, yeah, I'm going to get to it.
This is not a hospital. So they have everything.
but knockout juice. Okay, great, great. Jake
and Norman, you're gonna have to hold her down.
Yesenia, this is gonna hurt a lot. He goes, you
know, I've got some, I've got whiskey in my,
I mean, it's not gonna help a lot, but, you know,
might help a little. Just give me something to
bite on. I was about to say, and if we give her
alcohol, that's gonna thin her blood more and
we're gonna end up with even more bleeding. True.
You're true. You're absolutely right. I'm just
so freaked out. The advantages of your ex being
a semi -functional alcoholic. Oh, that's not
where I thought that was going to go. I'm just
saying Neha was not great about keeping herself.
Yeah, no, she was an alcoholic. So, yeah, you
are going to have to try and work on that. This
is like combat medicine at this point. It's going
to be really, have you ever seen that movie,
Meaning of Life, where they take the guy's liver
out? It's kind of like that. It's pretty bad.
Why don't you make a surgery roll and let me
know what you get. Okay. Come on, Dice. Ooh,
yeah. I mean, it could be better because I could
have had an 11 instead of a 12, but I got a 12.
Still. So you're able to get the bullet that's
lodged in there out of it. Michelle, make me
a con check. 50 under my 55. The pain does knock
you out. Mercifully. Mercifully. But you're able
to, it just gets to that point where it just
becomes so much that it overloads your nervous
system and you just shut off. But you're able
to stop the bleeding. You're able to get everything
figured out. I think getting knocked out when
you're in extreme pain is mercy. Yes, no doubt
about that. Robin, why don't you roll to see
how many points you get back? So roll a d4. I
need to have other dice for this. You get a whopping
two points back. Slowly coming back up. Which
is double what I gave you back before, so I guess
that's great. This game is mean. Yeah, no, this
is not an easy game. This takes like an hour.
It takes time. And Yesenia is asleep on the table.
Yesenia, you find yourself walking in tunnels.
There seem to be dugout. And you hear what sounds
to be like a chittering sound coming from the
tunnel ahead of you. And you realize that you're
dreaming. What do you want to do? Well, if I
know I'm dreaming. You're pretty sure you're
dreaming. Okay. I'm going to walk towards the
sound. Okay. Do I get a gun in my dream? Roll
luck for me. Dang. I assume she'd get whatever
she wanted. I know. She's in a lucid dreaming
state. I rolled a 77. That's with the horrible
doubles for me. Oh, no. Not only do you not have
a weapon. You're also naked and your middle school
teacher is there yelling at you about papers.
I have a weapon. Okay. So, yeah, I still head
towards it. All right. You come to what seems
to be some kind of feeding chamber where there's
a mound of corpses in the center of the room
and these large, leathery looking creatures chewing
on human flesh. And then you wake up screaming.
Were they dog faced? Yep. All right. So finally,
Yesenia comes out of her slumber screaming. And
you hear the door upstairs get broken into. You
hear the lock give way. And Jake goes, oh shit,
we've got to hide. Get in one of the empty drawers.
Okay, Jacob. Where else are we going to go? No,
he says, I am, but I cannot. Norman has had this
nightmare before. It's he's doing it, but he's
shaking. He's like this. I they said it wouldn't
ever happen. Get in there. They're coming down
the stairs. He said it wouldn't happen for real.
I crawl into one because with my dream, I'm like,
yeah, get in. Get in one. Get in one now. I'll
tell you why later. OK, after Yesenia goes in.
OK, so all of you get into these. Basically more
drawers. And Jake shuts you all in. That's where
we're going to end this episode. The looks that
I'm getting from my players are not good, but
you know. No likey. No likey. But yeah, so he
shuts you into these drawers and we're going
to pick it up next time. So thank you all so
much. We will. obviously find out what happens
very soon next month. Tell me where we can find
all you wonderful people. I will go with who
looks the most angry and that's Pooja. Just my
normal face, Wes. hi i'm puja you can find me
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