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 Agents Dossier. This is episode 20
and part two of our case based in Idaho in Taledale.
Why don't we introduce our players and see where
everybody's at, how everyone's doing. All right,
let's start with Michelle. Hey, I'm Michelle
Otis and I am playing Yesenia Alvarez. She's
a special agent and she's going to be a little
upset in a minute. Hello, I'm Saint, or Saint
Spider, and I'm playing Norman Morales, who is
also probably unhappy right now. Hi, I'm Pooja,
and I'm playing Robin Porter, who, yeah, we are
a trio of very unhappy people. So, quick recap.
You all got your first case since a few months
ago when you dealt with the flesh cube, as it
was, and you've been in training. getting ready
for your next assignments but you didn't know
when that was coming you are now working for
the cowboys the delta green arm that is the longest
running and also illegal the reason you've done
this is you don't trust the federal government
to be able to handle the kinds of things that
you have to investigate plus Breaking the law
is something that you all have to do every once
in a while, so it makes it easier when you're
not a federal agent. You got a dossier for Telldale,
three deaths of brothers, triplets. Elliot, Russell,
and James Wright were found around a tree, separated
at all the joints, much like an action figure.
So you flew out. You talked with Jake, the coroner.
Jake showed you the bodies. He said that the
cops didn't take any pictures and were kind of
being tight -lipped. You went over to the police
department and basically used your badges to,
or Yesenia used her badge to try to get more
information. The police chief showed up and said,
well, I'll take you out there. And you all left,
following behind him. A couple of cars suddenly
appeared behind you. The chief slammed on his
brakes. You missed your drive roll and hit the
back of his truck. You then tried to escape and
made a bad roll as all of them were getting out
of their cars with shotguns. And that's where
we're picking up this time. The car is surrounded
by police officers. There's nine of them all
together. There were four in each car, and then
the police chief. And they've all got guns drawn
on your car. And the police chief says, all right,
kill the engine and get out. I don't like his
choice of words. Yeah. I don't think we have
much of a fucking choice. Yeah, I don't think,
yeah, I guess we are armed. But there's nine
of them. There's nine of them. If we're going
to go out in a blaze of glory, I want it to be
glory. It's yeah. Not gory. Right. Not redneck
bullshit. You know, I think that's very fair.
I understand that want and desire. So. All right.
Do you get out of the car? Yeah, I guess so.
All right. Three of the officers approach you.
Have you turn around, pat you down, take away
your weapons, your keys. Even my ankle piece?
Even your ankle piece. They throw the keys to
another officer and the chief goes, all right,
start walking that way. And he points with his
gun to the right of the road into the forest.
I guess we comply. Yeah, there's nothing to be
done at this moment from me. It's unfortunate.
So four of them, plus the chief, start to walk.
The others jump into the car, including your
car, and drive off, taking the police cars with
them and taking your vehicle. And they start
walking you into the forest. You see, number
one, it's super dark. Like, it's really, really
dark. And there is very little light coming through
from the moon. Number two, it's winter, so you've
got snow up to your ankles. And he goes, well,
really sorry this has to end this way, but can't
have you people around here. And you hear the
click of the guns being cocked. There's nobody
right in front of you. They're behind you and
you're in the woods. You have a chance to run
away. It means just running deeper into the woods.
Y 'all really don't think shit through, do you?
Because did you think we came out here like some
randos off the Internet? making a sign that didn't
tell anybody where they were going? Like, use
the brain that you assume your creator gave you.
The one in your head, that is. That's a lot of
lip from a girl that's... staring at a gun yes
because this is the worst thing that has ever
happened to me boohoo i'm so scared shaking in
my boots norman actually just laughs like out
loud kind of too loud after her boohoo's just
like kind of like a shock And I wait before I
say anything else. What is our formation right
now? They have us just it's just they're behind
us and we could run. You could run forward deeper
into the woods. They're just a few feet behind
you with their guns. Guns supposedly ready to
shoot immediately. Right. Yeah. They don't seem
very concerned. They know they have the upper
hand, so they seem probably a bit too confident.
Okay, I'm thinking and I'm going to assume that
because we know each other so well. You have
trained together. Yeah, we could kind of give
a heads up signal of I'm about to run in a certain
direction or converge. And I'm thinking I want
to try to signal that we run in different directions
into the dark because I think we could take out
a smaller chunk of each of these people. Like
gorilla style? Yeah. So do you want to try to
give the hand signal to do that? Is that what
everybody's going to do when he does? I'm just
hoping to get him to flinch before we do this
with like, it's like, what's, I'm sorry, say
again what the department you work for is, Yesenia?
SOCOM. It's U .S. Special Operations Command.
Look, I'll be honest with you. I don't think,
I don't think SOCOM cares about three deaths
in Idaho. In fact, I'm 100 % sure. You know,
you've talked a lot. Maybe you should try not
to. You know who does care? Who? Delta Green.
The project cares. I don't know that branch.
I don't know who those people are. You best hope
it stays that way, buddy. Well, after we shoot
the three of you, it will. Three people, three
agents disappearing. You know the shit storm
that's going to come down on your town. Nobody's
no death. Oh my God. This guy's such an idiot.
Well, are you going to go or not? Yeah. All right.
Well, yeah, let's, I'm going to say, Hey, I'm
done. And I just take off in a different direction.
Yeah. Yes. And hopefully you guys got the signals
to go in two different directions as well. Yes.
Yes. Gorilla time. All right. Give me dodge rolls.
Yay. So is dodge our dex? There's a dodge skill.
There's a dodge skill. Oh, right. I was just
looking at dex. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. All right.
Well, I might have been overconfident. Let's
see what's up. Oh, I made it, though. I did not
make it. All right. Maybe we can save you. I
have a high dex, but I have the standard dodge.
Yep. How many hit points do you have, Michelle?
Oh, I just rolled up this character. Let's see.
Ten. Oof. Oh no, not an oof. I don't like the
eesh either. You take a serious gunshot to the
back of your shoulder, and yeah, it's... It's
pretty bad. You feel the slug hit you and the
rest of you hear this as well. So you're bleeding
profusely. You take, I have to see what the critical
roll. Oh, thank you. The damage is here. Let's
see. I keep hearing that word evil. What did
I do? Just rolled some dice. Let's see. Uh -huh.
I just rolled up this character. Do you know
how? long delta green takes characters take to
make not very long they're quick shush you're
supposed to say long no they're quick it's easy
don't call the chief stupid i mean come on who
called him that that wasn't me all right was
he even the chief gosh we didn't even look at
his badge yeah well Who's not taking precautions
now? You know, the supernatural does crazy things
to you. He showed up in uniform in like five
minutes. So did we, right? Make a con check for
me, Michelle. Please survive. A three. Ooh, so
you do not lose permanent use of that arm. That's
a good thing. Wow. You take eight points. Oof.
And your arm is basically useless for right now.
It's still there, but you're bleeding profusely,
but you keep running, and all of you are able
to go in different directions. I want you all
to make a second stealth roll to see if you can
lose them. I did not. I did not lose mine either.
I made mine. Okay, Yesenia. You somehow find
yourself away from the rest. It's freezing cold.
You have blood trickling down your back. Everything
hurts. You don't hear the others. What do you
want to do? Is the chief's car still there? No,
they drove all the cars off. Remember all the
cars. Okay. It's weird. Cause it's leaving the
other guys stranded. That's why I thought they
just drove. Okay. No, they all, they drove all
the cars away. Now you are far from the road.
So you don't know if they've come back or not,
but when you were leaving, the other officers
were taking the cars. Um, I mean, I want to.
Do what I can to stop the bleeding for now. Do
you have first aid? Yes. Why don't you give me
a first aid roll? No, I did not make my first
aid roll. 40 over my 30. It's bleeding pretty
bad. You know that you're going to need medical
attention soon. Let's flip over to the other
two. Let's start with Norman. Norman, you're
not losing your guy. He's still 10 or 15 feet
away from you, even though it's completely dark.
And he's... lining up to take another shot at
you. I want to kind of do a stop short and try
to trip him. Yeah, if you want to trip him up,
give me an unarmed combat roll. Yes. OK, let's
see. Let's see. I probably have zero points in
that. All right. So I just have the base, which
isn't bad. OK. All right. Schoolyard tricks.
Do they work? They do. So, yeah, you go around
a tree real quick. You hear him run up, you stick
out your foot and he, I'm going to give him an
opportunity to dodge. I feel like it's wrong
for me not. Oh, nope. Does not dodge and face
plants right next to you. I'm going to grab his
gun. Going to grab the gun. Okay. Immediately.
Uh -huh. Okay. So damn. Okay. I have a hostage
now. Didn't think about that. Didn't think about
that. Norma just says all that out loud. It's
like, I didn't, this was not okay. Well, were
you going to kill us? No. I don't know why I'm
asking you easy lies right now. You know, if
you let us go, we can work this all out. Of course.
Right. I checked the gun. It seems normal. Yeah.
Nothing. Just, just like. Okay, all right. I
shoot him in the knee. Okay, you don't have to
roll. You shoot him in the knee. Roll two ten
-sided die for me. Okay. Ooh, what do you do?
These are my hundreds. All right, I rolled a
nine and a two. So that's 11 points of damage.
11, yes. All right, so you blow the back of his
kneecap off and send this slug through. major
arteries and he screams at the top of his lungs
and then all of this blood just starts gushing
out of the bottom of his leg okay i guess you're
human uh all right were you gonna kill us he
he goes fuck yes of course i was all right see
all right so why should i keep you alive right
now then he passes out okay Well, I know the
screaming is probably going to draw people toward
me. Well, they might be busy. I'm going to try
to see if I can stealthily regroup. We're doing
it all gorilla style. So I want. So you're going
to just kind of get away from him right now?
Well, if he's passed out, he can't walk. There's
what can I. Hello. Let me check his being for
useful items. pockets or is there an identification
card yeah he has his wallet and his identification
and he's he's got some you know handcuffs and
he's got they're not in officer's uniforms just
so you all know they're all dressed normally
oh right yeah they were gonna kill us i believe
it now they were in police cars they were in
police cruisers and he's got you know his wallet
and whatever you can take all his stuff if you
want yes i'll take all his stuff Wallet, anything?
Well, you know, it's not anything that you're
going to be able to figure out right now. Hello.
OK, so shoot. All right. Yeah. OK, I'll take
whatever. Everything that's useful. Definitely
the handcuffs. If he had another sidearm. Yeah,
he did. OK, I'll take that. And I almost I was
going to take his shoes. No, we don't need to
do that. It's petty. I already took his kneecap.
OK, yeah. Now I am going to. should you know
try to listen my way towards my my friends my
fellows okay and i don't care about him because
he's a murderer but i won't kill him because
i don't need to because he's gonna bleed out
or maybe yeah yeah but he was gonna kill us it
like kkk style like that's back wouldn't that
look deliverance what is this i love you so much
say he doesn't need my pity all right let's flip
over let's flip over to puja real quick puja
you hear a gunshot a scream and then silence
as you're running away you've got two of them
running after you rude because there were four
all together And they figured you were the most
talkative, so they started both running after
you, which shouldn't be shocking. One of them
takes a shot at you as you're running through
the woods. All right. Make a dodge roll for me.
I'll make it. All right. So a big branch explodes
next to your head as you dodge away from the
bullet. What do you want to do? They're right
on you. I'm going to go for the burst of speed.
You're going to try outrun them? Mm -hmm. Yeah.
Because I'm sure as hell not taking on two of
them when they're armed and I'm not. And when
my biggest assets are my mouth and running away.
All right. So let's in this case, because you
are running and they're running, we're going
to use Dex's. Go ahead and give me a roll. It's
nighttime. So you're. Cool. I got a 58 under
my 70. All right. So what did they get? Oh, OK.
They're sticking with you. Damn it. They're not
very far behind you. Unfortunately, you're not
able to outpace them. Okay. Can I try to make
it like when I'm running, can I try to loop back
around towards the road? Sure. Of course, it
might be hard, but. I have officially given Robin
the opposite of my own personal sense of direction.
My sense of direction being that if I have chosen
to go to a way. It is the wrong way. Navigation.
Oh, never mind that. I'm never going to make
it. I don't have navigate. Damn it. I didn't
give Robin a better sense of direction than I
did. I didn't realize navigate was even a skill.
Do you want to try navigate or no? No, I only
have a 10. It's the base navigate. Make a con
roll for me. Let me see how you're holding up
with this long distance running. stamina well
i got a 38 under my 50 so you're still running
just fine and they're running just fine we'll
come back to you you can think about what you
want to do did you write a will before you okay
so rude michelle yes you're uh you're bleeding
pretty bad yeah what do you want to do i think
i'm gonna try and navigate back to the road because
i figure that Norman and Robin will probably
meet me back there, but there's not a lot I can
do in my current condition. Okay. So give me
a navigate roll. Yeah. 22 under my 70. Wow. You've
got a good navigate. Nice. So you get back to
the road and the road has ditches on both sides
and then it goes into the forest. And what you
see when you get to the edge of the forest is
there is one police car there with one cop. who
is dressed normally in street clothes, smoking
a cigarette, and just waiting out by the back
of the car. Well, that seems a little too easy.
What about any of this has been easy? Just so
you know, anything you do, you're going to be
at a negative when it comes to combat or whatever.
I know. How much of a negative? 20 points. Let's
find out if we're going to be seeing a new character
from Michelle. What are you doing? I want to
come up behind him and, you know, put him to
sleep. So let's start with a stealth roll. Okay.
And that's negative. Is that negative as well
or no? I'm going to say no, because it doesn't
require you to actually physically do anything
to somebody. No, I did not make my stealth roll.
Okay. Why would I? It's 74 over my 70. I'm always
like a couple of points over my thing. You make
a sound and he swivels around and sees you and
pulls out his gun and goes, you're not supposed
to be here. You have one chance for him not to
shoot you. What do you want to do? Rush him.
All right. So unarmed combat. Uh -huh. No. I'm
dead. I did not make it. Oh, my God. We're all
going to die. First, he has to make his shot.
Right. Oof, you might be dead. All right. So,
Pooja. Ah, you're just. You have this person
running behind you. And Norman, you have made
your way away from. Give me a navigate. Actually,
give me a luck roll. Okay. 50 % says that you
find Robin. The 50 % above says that you make
your way back to the road. Okay. Let's see. Let's
see. That's 68. Okay. So you make your way back
to the road. Right. All right. You make it to
the edge of the forest. You see Yesenia jumping,
basically, with one damaged arm towards a cop
who... has got a gun out and is about to shoot
her, I will give you a moment to shoot your gun
at him to stop him from doing this. Okay. All
right. So give me a roll. I'm going center mass.
So the most, most likely shot. Okay. No trick
shots here. No, no, no disadvantage. All right.
Here we go. Oh my God. Okay. All right. Just
do it. Just do it. Oh. That's a five. Nice! Yay!
So, the gunshot goes off. Bless you. Yesenia,
you really think you're about to die from his
gunshot, but it was actually not his gunshot.
It was your friend's, Norman's gunshot, who strikes
the guy before he's able to shoot you. Roll me
damage. Which gun did you use? Right. I used...
The same one I used for the other. It's a shotgun.
Yeah. Wait, did that guy have a shotgun? And
I blew his knee out with a shotgun? Yeah, that's
why you blew his leg off. Oh, no wonder he's
going to die. No, he's dead. He died. He died.
He is no longer. We lost Pooja. I was like, oh.
He is no longer with us. Okay. You know, I imagine.
He is a dead parrot. Okay. All right. Well, hey,
you try to murder me. That's what happened. Anyway,
so we're doing damage, right? Right. 2d10. Oh,
my God. I did three damage. That's enough for
him to stagger away for a second. But he's still
up. That's not enough to kill him. Should I shoot
his appendix or what? You basically graze him.
It's basically like you were far enough away
and the shot. You know, like Grace's shoulder
or whatever. All right. But he's going to swing
around and shoot towards you while he's doing
that. Can I try and get him again? Lunch at him
after he's done. He can shoot first, though,
because you are slow because you're severely
injured. Got to bite his ankles. I just love
how angry everyone gets. Oh, wow. He misses you
completely. You just hear an owl drop from one
of the trees. Who shot me? Robin, you've heard
a couple of shots off in the distance and you
get a general direction of where they're coming
from. Do you want to start trying to make your
way over there as these guys are still running
after you or do you want to try to lose them?
No, I'm going to make my way over there because
I'm going to assume. with multiple shots that
my people are over there and hopefully at least
one of them makes it. So now, Yesenia, you can
do something. Okay. I'm going to try and lunge
at the guy again. Okay. Yes. 20. Nice. My thing
is normally 80. It's down to 60, but I rolled
a 20. All right. So you tackle him to the ground
and his gun. skitters into the middle of the
road norman what do you want to do let's get
him incapacitated how do you want to do that
i know i have the handcuffs now i know i'm not
gonna shoot him again not yet um yeah let's uh
god yeah let's i guess hand handcuff him I feel
like there's something else I could do, but this
is the best thing right now. Well, so I'll give
you an idea. In the olden days, they called it
pistol whipping. Oh, right. You could use the
butt of your shotgun to disconnect his consciousness.
You could do that. All right. Yeah, we'll save
the handcuffs, I suppose. Okay. Yeah. Well, it's
easier to put the handcuffs on after you've knocked
him out. Yes. Yes. I guess Norman's just itching
for a fight. True. Well, I'm bringing you one.
Don't worry. Oh, my God. Yeah. All right. Let's
just knock him out then. All right. So I'm not
going to make you roll for that. You knock him
out. Then you hear the sound of someone running
towards the road. All right. Well, Yesenia, how
are we doing on a scale of? I'm not. I'm not
good. Make a con roll for me, Michelle, because
Yesenia's lost a lot of blood. I was going to
do first aid, but I'm also at 10 % first aid.
I rolled a six. Okay, so you're still up. You're
pale. You're very pale. I get the gun that skittered
off, and I hide behind the car so that I can
have a shot at... whoever's coming and i just
uh help proper up fully upright will get not
me to help you with this wound because i'm afraid
of hurting you more but uh let's let's take out
these guys i'm gonna i guess flank the car is
it wait they're coming at us from one of the
sides of the forest so you can be behind the
car Waiting for them to come out. We'll do that.
We're both hiding behind the car and I'm on the
opposite side. Yeah. Robin burst forward from
the forest like a deer trying to run across the
road. And like many a deer, I'm going to dive
directly. Like if I see that car, I'm assuming
I see it from where I am. So I'm going to head
straight to it to dive underneath it. Okay. So
you're running towards the car and these two
police officers come careening out of the forest.
I am going to say that Yesenia and Norman, you
can each take a shot if you want before they
open fire on the car. Okay. All right. I easily
make it. It's going to be tight. Oof. I don't
make mine. I got to check it. All right. Is this
a medium pistol or a light pistol? Medium. I
do nine points of damage. Oh, roll a four -sided
die for me. One, two, you get the chief. Three,
four, you get the police officer. Three. So you
get the police officer. He's down. Nine points
is brutal, so you hit him. Yeah, I know. Okay,
so because everything happens in a split second,
the officer... Takes a shot at you when you pop
up. Roll with advantage because you're partially
behind the car. Yesenia. I got a 45. My dodge
is 30, so 20 points will cover it. Okay. Yeah,
so he shoots and blows the back of the window
out of the car, almost hitting you, but you're
able to get down. Go ahead and give me a dex
roll, Robin, to see about diving underneath the
car. I got a 14 under my 70. Very nice. You all
have the same dexterity, so who wants to go first?
I'm perfectly willing to let people who have
weapons go first. That is true. Oh, so you're
under the car, though, so you have access to
what we have, and I had two. So I'm going to
give you the secondary arm. Is that my action?
Yeah, if you slide something to her, that's going
to be your action, because you have to get under
and slide, and it's all so quick. Well, I mean,
if you put it down. next to you yeah you could
drop it and kick it with your foot okay maybe
do a luck roll to see if it goes off i'm just
kidding i was about to say no i will roll dexterity
for a kick and nothing else do you but i i'll
say that if you want to put it on the ground
and slide it do you can okay yes i want her to
also be armed you're like ma 'am look at that
and uh Do I try to shoot this guy again? I don't
know. You seem to have a lot of existential dread
over killing people. Well, I just don't want
to miss. Well, roll to see if you miss. Right.
I get the point. I get the point. Okay. Well,
let's try to shoot him again. Yeah. So my half,
my mini action was dropping that gun. And then
let's go for it. All right. Please, please. Come
on. We did it once before. Oh, shit, it almost
dropped off the damn table. Okay, that... I didn't
get it. It's 21. Literally one point. One point
above. All right, so you miss. Michelle? Okay.
Yes, I make it. Let's see if he dodges. Nope.
Do your damage. Do my damage. Four points of
damage. Okay, you've wounded him. He... Immediately
turns around and runs back into the woods. Robin,
you get one shot. Okay. Well, let's Hail Mary
this then. Channel all your hatred. No, it's
cool. I don't make it. I don't critically fail,
but I don't make it. Okay. Damn. I mean, my firearms
is a 20. Same. He disappears into the woods.
Okay, so I say, Norman, drive. Robin, in the
backseat with me, can you take a look at my shoulder?
Aye, aye. Yeah, yeah. Before we go, I'm going
to pop the trunk, or have Norman pop the trunk,
and grab the standard issue first aid kit from
back there. Okay. Excellent. And I'm thinking,
like, what do we do with this guy who's still
here? Run him over. Yeah, we don't want to...
Pooja, the bloodthirsty. She'll kill anyone.
Guys, you should know that one of them is down
for the count permanently. So I don't know if
we want to keep killing all of them or... No,
we can toss him in the back of the trunk as well.
No, we need to go. Yes, but we need to take him
with us so we can get some fucking answers. He's
not going to give us answers. Kill the fucker.
We need to go. Okay. And I just look at the guy.
The guy goes, you don't need to kill me. I won't
say anything. Just let me go. I'm just going
to take his shit, too. Take his wallet. Take
his, if he had a handcuff, whatever he had. Yeah.
Take his gun. Wait, we already had it. Oh. Yeah,
we have his gun. Does he have anything special?
Can I roll for it? At this point, are we taking
his shoes? I will take his shoes. Suddenly, a
gunshot rings out from the forest. Point taken,
point taken. And it wings Norman. What? I just
take in this stuff. What? As you're bending down
to take a stuff, a gunshot comes from the forest
and it hits you for two points of damage. Let's
go. Ouch and goodbye. Are we running over him?
I guess we did. Yes. We don't have to. It was
just a joke. We ran over him. I ran over him.
Okay. I don't joke with Norman. Point taken.
You guys pull away. Who's in the back? Robin
and... Yesenia. And Yesenia. Yesenia. And I'm
going to do some first aid. So give me a first
aid roll. And then me next. And I got an 11,
so I make it. All right. So you've stabilized
her. You stopped the bleeding. She's not doing
well, though. She's going to have to wear a sling
for a little while. I kind of fashion one out
of whatever is available. Take a belt and you
do that. How far do you drive? Where do you drive
to? Do you drive deeper into the woods? Go find
Jake. Yeah, I'm talking Jake. Yeah, I mean, it's
like, okay, well, we angered all the cops in
this town. So, like, when we're visible again,
we're going to be targets. But we can maybe hide.
in the coroner's office for a minute. Sure. Let's
do that. All right. So you swing back around
and you head out to Jake's. And honestly, this
is a really good place to stop. So we're going
to stop here and pick up this, I'm going to say
fiasco next time we get together because it definitely
was all over the place. It was a lot of fun,
but it was definitely chaotic. Thank you all
so much for playing. Things did not go well.
Where can they find you wonderful people? Let's
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And you can find me on Twitter. That's at Saint
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