Welcome to Agent's Dossier, a Delta Green actual
place series brought to you by 12 Sided Stories.
And now your GM, Wes Otis. Hello and welcome
to Agents Dossier episode number 37. I am Wes
Otis and I have some wonderful players with me.
Let us start with Michelle. Hey, I'm Michelle,
and I'm playing Maggie Cortez, researcher extraordinaire,
historian, folklorist, and wondering how she
got into this situation. Hello, I'm Pooja, and
I'm playing Robin Porter, a doctor, just a doctor.
Hey, I'm playing Norman Morales, and sorry, I'm
trying not to giggle right now. He's not giggly,
that's for sure. Very serious. And we'll leave
it there. Hey, y 'all, I am Mac and I am playing
a less spidery Wanda Sims. And that's a good
segue to our recap real quick. In the last game,
you all went to Bree's house to find the book
that they had used to summon this spider god
that had then laid a bunch of eggs, five altogether,
I believe, or four. You then burned her house
down because that was definitely the right thing
to do. There was a huge spider baby in there.
Plus. Bree's husband had been infected himself
and everything needed to go up in flame. You
did find the book and escaped. You were able
to find some kind of spell in there to reverse
the effects of Wanda's infection. Wanda had been
infected by one of the spider babies and had
been... turning into a spider herself. I think
she had an eyeball in her hand and all this other
stuff. You were able to cast a spell, and in
doing so, freeing Wanda from that, you called
up Agent Jackson and found out that they had
gotten rid of the spider baby that was in the
apartment building and had lost a couple of agents.
and that they were monitoring the school where
brie still was you also went back to your apartment
and found someone had been through every section
of it and smelled like ghouls and there was blood
up on the wall that said Where's our jar? So
you knew the ghouls were in town, but they're
following you and they want their jar back of
apocalypse bugs, which you have hidden pretty
well, Robin. Finally, Norman opened up his computer
and logged on and found a DOS prompt. And it
said, you've been gone a long time. Where have
you been? And that's where we stopped the last
episode. Also real quick in talking with agent
Jackson, you. talked about what to do next. One
idea was to wait until the game was done and
see how she reacts to the burning of her house
and whether or not she would lead you to where
this entity was so you could deal with it. That's
basically where we're at at this point. You're
all kind of making the decision of like, what's
the next step? You have enough evidence. I think
Roderick's the only husband you haven't checked
in on, but you've gotten rid of all the babies.
So, you know, all the babies are gone at least.
Yeah. So we'll pick it up there. What is the
next step now that we've done the kind of the
recap? Where do the agents want to go next? Quick
question. The one husband who was still turning,
but he was in the custody battle for his kids.
Have we gotten him turned back yet? Didn't we
hand him over to Jackson? So if we give the agency
the book and let them know how? Yeah. Or at least
like send him photos of the pages or something.
Oh, yes. Yeah. So that we can hold on to the
book just in case we need it for reasons or leverage
or something. Very smart. Definitely, definitely
need it. All right. So you guys send over some
pages of the spell to Jackson because, you know,
he's probably in some secret hospital right now
being monitored. Poked and prodded. Dissected.
Wait, what? What? I mean, I wouldn't put it past
him. Right? I just remembered bacon turning into
bacon. I know it's another universe, but... Bacon
squared. Oh, bacon. It's the same frame of time
where we just came in and had the combo with
Jack Jackson and stuff, right? Right. Yeah, it's
still night. It's about 45 minutes till the basketball
game ends. You're staring at a screen that says,
where have you been? Very accusatory for a font.
Okay. I guess I'll deal with that a little bit.
I'm going to, let's see. What should I say to
a disembodied entity that may or may not be digitally
based and can follow me wherever it wants to?
I'm going to say I've been at work. I'm just
going to tell him to say, hey, I've been working.
But your cubicle has been empty. OK. Noting that
it can't actually like see where I am. Fascinating.
I'm assuming that being part of the NSA means
you're smart enough to put something over your
cameras. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. That was a given.
Yeah. Yeah. Given. That's what I was thinking.
Yes. Gotcha. Gotcha. All right. OK. Well, there's
so little info to go on. I'll just say I'll.
Be back there soon. Do you need something from
me talking to a child? I need friends, more friends.
So you're asking about like you have very little
information to go on. Do you want to try to do
a computer role to see where this computer program
kind of backtrack it and figure that out? A role
to narrow down what the hell is going on on here.
All right. Yeah. Give me a role. I didn't even
look at my thing. I got 35, but that's under
my 60. Oh yeah, you're fine. As this program's
running, you check what's running in the background
and where it's at. And it is definitely located
in the NSA framework, but it seems to be drawing
power from several different programs and drawing
information in from several different programs.
The NSA has such a large amount of information
coming in that... It's very difficult to find
because you're constantly adding stuff to your
servers. It makes it difficult to pinpoint where
it is. But one thing that pops up is a folder
that just says NSA AI protocol. And when you
open that one up, it looks like they're working
on some kind of AI program that will. deal with
all the information they do get every day. But
it seems like the AI is going beyond what it's
supposed to go, what the parameters of its program
are. So it is much like a child looking for information
and friends to play with. Do you want to play
a game? Oh, God. So baby Skynet is what you're
telling me? Yeah, kind of. Oh, Jesus. There's
no Jesus here. Oh, yes. Okay. I'm going to, if
I can, sandbox this program, a .k .a. try to
make sure it's not getting into all the other
crap on my computer. Okay. And that might be
a roll, actually. Absolutely. Yeah, that might
be a roll. You're correct. All right, let me
try to do that as I do not respond to it, as
I slowly... realize in horror new horror uh what's
uh what's going on here it's a 10 even oh wow
okay so you're able to put baby in the sandbox
and keep it from going outside of that anything
else you want to do right now because obviously
you got other pressing things going on but it's
still inside the framework at the NSA it's definitely
getting a conscience And it's learning everything
from our text. So that's not good. No. OK. Yeah.
Millions of texts today. Yeah. Wow. It's just
like it's man -made horrors beyond my comprehension
at this moment. We have the other stuff happening.
So, yeah, I think Norman wiped some sweat from
his brow and goes, we can play later. I will
find you. Exit everything, shut it down to the
screen is super black and just back away. Okay.
So you do, you shut it down and everything seems
to go off. It doesn't turn back on or anything
like that. And you've got it trapped within its
little sandbox for right now. That's definitely
something you're going to have to deal with later.
That's a big thing. Yeah. I guess we'll deal
with the spider monsters. First, the cosmic horrors
of my comprehension, because I've prepared for
this. Now that we've dealt with that, and I know
that you had told Jackson that your place had
been tossed, but not that it was ghouls looking
for the bugs. And so at this point, you're kind
of moving into a new safe house, or at least,
you know, you know, one is being set up and you're
not at the old location anymore. What do you
all want to do next? You have about 20 minutes
until this basketball game is done. So you can
pick her up before she even gets home and say,
hey, we know what's going on. We have the book.
You need to tell us where mom is. Or you can
follow her and see what her reaction to the burned
down house is. Whichever way you all want to
go. I'm of the mind to follow without confrontation
and see where she goes. But that's just me. I
like that. Yeah. Agreed. Okay. So you want to
set yourself up in her neighborhood and kind
of just watch for when she gets there, correct?
Mm -hmm. And keep an eye out for Jessica. Jessica.
Yeah, yeah. I was like, Shannon? No. Had to go
through all the names. Shannon, Terry. Oh, my
God. Yeah, Jessica from Phantom X from the YouTube
channel. Mm -hmm. I forgot. Oh, no. My malfunctioning
or poorly placed tracker hasn't blown up in our
faces yet. Yet. Yet. I guess I should track that
at some point. You'd have to turn on your computer.
I just thought about that. I was like, wait a
minute. Ugh. Might be time for a new laptop.
You've replaced so many laptops. So many. Yeah.
I got to get some non -laptop based technology.
Yeah. You head over. And I'm going to say because
you get there so far in advance that I'm not
going to make you like make stealth rolls or
anything. You're hidden pretty well. And you
wait to see Bree drive up and she doesn't even
pull into the parking space of her house. She
just stops the car kind of in the middle of the
road. At this point. The police tape is up. The
fire has been put out. There's a police car there.
The police officer gets out of the car and walks
over. You're like just across the street. You're
close enough to kind of hear what they're saying.
He informs her there was a fire. They found a
body and they took it to the morgue. He's very
sorry for her loss. If you could park your car.
I know this is traumatic. I'll take you to...
the station so you can start to fill out some
paperwork and we'll get you in touch with your
family and all of that sort of thing that the
general things that they would do after such
an occurrence after about a minute she just starts
to cry a little bit he walks a little forward
and starts to comfort her he's not like giving
her a hug but he puts his hand on her shoulder
and she grabs his hand and pulls the cop towards
her and Bree's jaw unhinges and all of these
teeth come out and they grab onto his throat
and basically cleave his head full off and he
falls to the ground and there's all this blood
everywhere. She starts to change rapidly as her
skin flakes off a little bit and you start seeing
more spider -like things. Somehow she had some
kind of guise up to keep anyone from seeing the
fact that she was herself changed. I need a resolve
check from everyone. Oh boy. I'm really glad
we waited and didn't confront her at the basketball
game. Yeah. It could have been such a bad scene.
Think of the children. 30 under my 55. Are there
people? It's empty? Well, no, there's people,
but they're all like either asleep or it's nighttime.
It's like late night at this point. It's probably
nine or 10 o 'clock. So it's a small, quiet residential
area. I got a 55 under my 57. Wow. Just barely.
I did not make it at all. I got a 76 over my
current 33. No. You're maybe getting visions
of what you could have turned into. Right? Yeah.
Why couldn't I have gotten the cool jaw thing?
No, I got eyes on my hand. Is the jaw thing cool?
I mean, I think it's cooler, but that's... It's
definitely preferable to palm eye. Yeah. Palm
eye? That sounds like some real weird disease.
Yeah, I got a bad case of palm eye. I pass, by
the way. I pass. I got A+. Yeah, I passed. Palm
eye sounds to me like a lotion that no one should
use. I use palm eye every day. That was miserable.
No, thank you. All right, you take seven points.
Oof. Let's see what you do in response to this.
Oh, dear. You need to roll a luck roll, 50 -50
roll. You want to get 50 or under. Oh, boy. I
got a six. Nice. You're freaked out, but you
don't respond to it in a flight or fight situation.
You're still undercover. You're still watching
this unfold. So this guy drops after she basically
turns him into a human gusher. She then pulls
out a phone. and does a quick dial and starts
to speak on it. But she's not speaking in any
language you've heard before. It sounds like
a lot of guttural noises with all these clicks
and large slurping sounds. What do you all want
to do? Can we run her over with the car? It's,
you know, vehicular manslaughter is always a
possibility. It's arachnid slaughter. I think
it'll be OK. Spider side is just part of life.
Is it manslaughter if she's a giant spider creature
at this point? I feel like no. I think we're
good in the eyes of the law. I think it's spider
slaughter at that point. Yeah, yeah, there you
go. Which is just extermination and totally legal.
Yeah, yeah. Wow. I mean, I can't think of anything
better than hitting her with the car. It worked
with the first spider we ran into. So that's
where my mind is at is just. Try and run her
down. Worked with the first spider we ran over.
It did, yeah. So who's driving? That's always
the question at 12 Size Stories. Sure. I like
driving over spiders and missing rolls horribly,
which will be a great combination. Oh, no. All
right. Give it a roll. All right. Watch it be
something real stupid. Yep, it was real stupid.
I got 83 over my 50. Wait, did you just kill
us or something? I mean, probably. So you swing
around the corner and you gun it and you're going
super fast and she turns and looks at you with
the phone in her hand. You hit the cop. She leaps
vertically in the air. You ram straight into
the SUV that she drove here. She lands a few
feet behind you all. I'm going to assume all
of you had on your seatbelts because of course
you would. The airbags deploy. You're a bit dazed
for a moment. And then when you turn around,
she's gone. Did she leave her phone? Even spiders
don't leave their phones. Is she anywhere nearby?
Did she leave any spider prints? Everybody do
a search roll for me. All right, I'm going to
switch dice. Good. Ooh, I rolled a 10. Nice.
I rolled a 90, so I've been clearly blinded by
this crash. 75, I ain't found shit. I rolled
a 40 under my 50. You all start searching around,
and sure enough, there are some prints near the
road. It looks like she just kind of ran through
the area where the burned house is and picked
up some soot. You follow it in and it's obvious
she's looking for the book, but it's not there.
The prints lead out into her backyard. She's
on foot running away. How many feet? Right now,
just the two. Good question, though. If you want
to run after her, you can. You might be able
to catch up to her. She's running, but it literally
took you maybe like, I'm going to say like three
to four minutes to shake off the days of slamming
into the SUV. Is there a role involved in running
after her? Because Wanda is pretty fit, so. I'd
have you guys do like a athletics role for it.
If you don't have any athletics. I'll give you
the base 30 for athletics. Got it. What do we
want to do? Are we giving chase? Because I have
no idea where she would be going. At this point,
I mean, I don't love our chances. We have done
quite poorly in hand -to -hand combat with the
spider people. True. And we don't know where
she's going, and we don't know if she's laying
a trap or any of those things. Yeah, she could
be running back to some hive of spiders. You
know what I mean? Like, we don't know. You all
know that more than likely if she's calling somebody,
she's probably calling Summer or Tiffany. But
whether or not she'd go back to them right now,
who knows? It's possible if we go and grab Tiffany
or Summer, one of them would know where she's
going or where she would be more likely to go
rather than us running around town to all the
places that she may or may not be. Yeah. They're
probably also turned. So I guess we should, if
we did something like that, we'd need to prepare
a trap for them. Because we don't want to just
kill them. Don't we, though? I mean, not until
we get the information. Yeah, info first. But
yeah, I'm open. I'm open. Or it's possible that
if one of them isn't turned yet. Which one was
the outlier one? There was one who was kind of
like trying to impress them. Tiffany definitely
was the outlier. I believe her husband was the
one that was like kind of trying to pull her
out of the situation. And they were having marital
problems and all of that. So she was definitely
the outlier. Okay. That sounds like a good person
to pursue, especially because we know that Omar
is not going to jump out at us. You know, we
took care of him. Yeah, we took care of Omar.
Yeah. So that makes me feel better. Same. Well,
and Omar could potentially be used as leverage,
which is not a bad thing either. Indeed. All
right. So you head over to Tiffany's. I'm going
to say that you hotwire car. I'm not going to
make you, you know, roll for it, but why not?
It's cinematic. You jump in a car, a cut list
that was just there. Actually, no, you take the
police car. Why not? He's not needing it anymore.
He doesn't need it anymore. So you jump in the
police car and you head over there as Norman
does a salute out the window. It's a little disrespectful
of us, I guess, whatever. You know, an emergency,
it's hard to remember what etiquette is. So you
fly over to Tiffany's and right when you get
there, she's running out to her car on the phone
talking to someone. Is she grunting? No, she's
just yelling. She's like, what do you mean? What's
going on? I don't understand. She's got these
really high six inch pumps on and a small Pomeranian
in her hand as she's trying to open up the door
of her Escalade. What do you all want to do?
I think we should pull up the cop car like so
that it blocks her being able to drive off. OK.
As a first measure. OK. The second you do that,
she's like, oh, no, no. And she starts to run.
Back to her house. What do you all want to do?
This time we might think giving chase. Yeah.
I mean, unless she's like that woman from the
new Jurassic Parks. Hey, I worked with a woman
who she used to wear stilettos like almost every
day. This was a teacher, mind you. And she was
the ASB director. And I saw that woman sprint
in heels and not think twice about it. She was
a master. Yeah, you can get to that level. I
guess practice makes perfect. So you all chase
after her and she's not sprinting like that.
You basically corner her and she turns towards
you and she goes, look, look, look, look. What
do you want? Why are you here? We're here because
I believe that you're in a little over your head.
And if you don't want to become a spider person,
we're your best choice. Oh, God. Well. You got
to protect me. You got to keep me from the other
two. Absolutely. We've got Omar. We can get your
kids. We can get them out of here. Everything
will be OK. OK, so we did a ritual and we called
this thing forward because we thought it'd be
fun. We didn't think it was real. And then it
became real and it just kept getting worse and
worse and deeper and deeper. But there's a problem.
All of us have been. The entity that came, the
spider mother, it's in all three of us. Okay.
A piece of it. And so if we're put together,
it will materialize here on our plane. So you
got to keep me away from the other two and I'll
just get it out of me and I will cooperate. Okay.
Do you know, ma 'am, if... There is a way of
reversing the... God, I hope so. Yeah. Oh, so
you haven't looked in the book yourself? Only
Bree's allowed to have the book. She told us
we wouldn't understand it. It does sound like
you should get better friends. Maybe something
you can bring up in therapy later. In the meantime,
Bree's in the wind. Where would she go? She's
the one that holds the, I guess, the intelligent
part of the deity. So she would probably head
towards one of us to get her other aspects so
that she could manifest in this reality. All
right. So sounds like you need to come with us
right now. Yes. Yes. Can I bring my dog? Sure.
Sure. So you all jump into the car, back into
the police cruiser. It's a little bit of a tight
fit, but you get in there. What's your next move?
While we're driving, I'm calling Agent Jackson
to get a team to get Tiffany out of here so that
they can't reunite. Okay. So you meet Agent Jackson
at whatever location that's nearby. and they
have a team and they put tiffany in basically
a holding cell that's pretty i'll say very very
secure holding cell just in case she doesn't
seem to be changing though her comment about
the intelligent part of the entity being part
of brie makes sense maybe it's possible that
you know it can change Bree instantly, but it
can't change anybody else unless it's melded
with them. We've got to find these other two.
I already sent somebody over to Summer's house,
but she's gone. So I can only assume that Bree
might have already made it to her and is now
looking for Tiffany. So what I would say is loop
back around to Tiffany's place and just observe
and wait to see if she shows up. We should take
Tiffany's phone. Yeah. Actually, has Tiffany
left already? Not yet. Yeah. I have a question
for Tiffany, actually. Sure. Do you know if Bree's
ability to come together and bring this creature
is something where she has to come find you where
she thinks you are? Or is there some other further
connection between you all that she can sense?
I didn't think about that. It is some sort of
spider deity. I don't know what kind of powers
it might have. I'm wondering if we need to bait
the trap. I don't want to be bait. I said bait
the trap. I didn't necessarily mean that you're
going to be bait, but if there's some way that
we can make it seem that way. Agent Jackson goes,
that's actually a really good idea. Tiffany suddenly
turns incredibly pale. But what happens if she
gets through you all and gets to me? Well, we
just have to make sure that doesn't happen, don't
we? I don't think we have to. Do you want to
be hunted by spider creatures for the rest of
your life? Admittedly, very short life. Of course,
of course not. All right, fine. We're assuming
that this thing knows where all its pieces are,
I gather. So, yeah, just leave me in this steel
cage here. I just, you know, try not to get all
of us killed. We'll do our best. Well, the nice
thing is this means we get to pick the location
and set it to our advantage. Agent Jackson goes,
we definitely want to get it out of the town
center. We need to go like out to the country
or whatever. Somewhere where no one else can
get damaged by this thing. Yeah. Let's check
and see if there's just like untended fields.
There's a lot of farmland out here. There is.
I mean, some of those fields where you murdered
those cows, I guess. Yeah. Already known hunting
grounds. Perfect. Okay. So you do that. And you
head out there. At this point, it's pretty late.
It's like probably getting close to 11 or midnight.
And you set up. You put this steel box with Tiffany
in it in the middle of this field that is empty.
And you are, I'd say, probably 40 yards away
in some brush kind of watching for cars. You've
hidden all your cars. Agent Jackson isn't there.
But I am going to say that you did get. a couple
of backup people with firearms and whatever to
help back you up a little bit. Did we get flamethrowers?
And also perimeter sensors? Yeah, I'm going to
say you can do that. Flamethrowers. Flamethrowers.
I was thinking about that. I don't think you'll
be able to find flamethrowers that, no. Set all
of Fresno on fire. It's the agent's dossier way.
It is. We have definitely established this is
canon. This is canon. It is our way. What do
they say in Mandalorian? This is the way. This
is the way. Just between us. I definitely thought
about just taking Tiffany out and solving this
issue. If you want to do that, you can. That
can be the last resort, final kill switch kind
of thing. That's the fail safe. Yeah. I feel
like the intelligence part, though, is the main
part to crush. Yes, definitely. It is the most
important, but I feel kind of bad about it. Like,
I'm supposed to be saving lives, not taking them.
That's really worked really well for you all
during this whole thing. I'm just saying, people
are alive. Yep, very true. Our people are alive.
Very true. We're saving Fresno. But at what cost?
Saved Omar. Omar's kids. Mm hmm. Yes. That. Yeah.
Oh, I was thinking when the jaw came out on Brie,
I was like, she ate her kids. Well, hopefully
they said their kids were with the grandparents.
So hopefully that's actually true. Yeah. Yeah.
With the grandparents in her stomach. She ate
them all. I don't like it. Kitties must be OK.
About an hour goes by and. Off in the distance,
you see some headlights, and then the sensors
go off. And it looks like two people kind of
grafted together with spider parts out of it.
So it's Summer and Bree melded together. And
the first thought is, how the hell did they drive
the car? But they did it. Apparently, grafting
people together is also the Delta Green way.
Yeah. They've got six legs all together. And
they've got this elongated like torso thing and
all of these eyeballs on the top that look like
a spider. And unlike your first encounter with
melded together people, Robin, this definitely
looks like the spider side of it is taking over
and creating a new thing and that they just don't
have enough material to finish the process. And
it is making its way across the field. And one
of your grunts is like, Oh, should we attack?
What's the call? I think we need to disable the
vehicle because that can be used as a weapon
on their behalf. Well, they're in the field now.
The vehicle's parked on the street. Oh, they
already parked. Oh, okay. They're skittering
across the field towards the cube that you've
left. And you hear Tiffany like hitting the walls
and she starts to scream in that like weird guttural
sound. Oh, isn't good. All right, we should definitely
stop getting any closer. Yeah. Yeah, I was just
thinking, why didn't we blow up the car? But
we should just... That's what I was thinking,
too, actually, is, like, we should have set,
like, mines or something. But gun time? I think
it's gun time. I think it is gun time. I think
it's shooting time. All right. All right, everybody,
take your shot. All right. So you pop out and
you start... Blasting. Blasting. You said we
couldn't get flamethrowers, right? Then I started
blasting. Yeah, I know. No, I miss. I keep forgetting.
There's a note in your file about not giving
you flamethrowers. Rude. Oh, man. My firearms
is not great, so let's see what I can do. I got
11. Okay, that's rude. That's a critical. Damn
it. I got 44 over 20. Crap. Am I the only person
who hit? You're the only person to hit. And while
I'm rolling for the grunts, both of them missed
and one of them got a 99. Oh, my gosh. I got
a 10 under my 21, which is a miracle in and of
itself. Oh, my God. Yes. Miracle systems. Virtual
high five. Let's start with the good, and then
we'll get to the bad. You had a critical success,
so you're aiming towards Summer Bree special.
Breemer. The Breemer. And go ahead and do damage.
You're going to do full damage. What's your full
damage? D10? D10, yeah. I'm going to allow you
to roll your D10 and then I'm going to double
the damage. Cool. Okay, let's go. All right,
I got three. So you do six points and they turn
towards where you all are at and they realize
that you are firing on them. Now you hit as well,
right, Pooja? Yeah, and I just rolled a seven.
Wow, nice. Two big chunks of this thing get torn
off a bit. What did you roll, Mac? 44 over my
20. Uh -oh, so that's a crit fail. Yeah. So you
start to fire and your gun just jams. You have
to just grab another gun or you're going to have
to clear the jam. It's your call. They're both
going to take about the same amount of time.
Okay. Michelle, what did you get? Just a miss.
I did like a 70 over my 40. Okay. So... One of
the other guys who are there with you, he rolled
a 70. And so it's just this wild shot. The third
guy rolled a 99. And in his excitement and fear
of this thing, he starts to pull up his shotgun
and accidentally shoots the other guy in the
leg. And the guy's like screaming in pain and
falls down on one knee. And he goes, oh shit,
I'm sorry. Now this thing is coming towards you
very quickly and it's spitting these balls of
web at you to try to keep you from using your
weapons. So everybody needs to make a dodge roll
for me. 32 under my 60. 28 under my 50. Oh my
God. The dice want me to die. What'd you get?
A 66 over my 30. Oh my God. God, they really
do want you to die. Like they're like, they hate
this character. They really do. Oh yeah. I, what
the fuck? Okay. So Michelle, you made it. Pooja
made it. Saint did not make it. Mac definitely
didn't make it. Okay. So the guy that got shot
in the leg did not make it. And the other guy
who critically failed the last role, critically
failed his role for Dodge. And basically he's
leaning over to help. The other guy and they
both just get hit with these globs of web. And
they're just covered in sticky web -like substance
and can't really move much. Wanda is struck with
this goo stuff. That's this webbing that's all
over. Kind of stuck in place trying to fight.
You'll make a strength check in a minute to see
if you can break free of it at all. Great. My
strength sucks. Did someone just not make it
in general? I just didn't make it in general,
yeah. That was the same thing. Wanda took a lot
worse. It's going to be a lot harder for her
to get free of this stuff. Robin and Maggie,
you are free, and this thing is running towards
you. You can now respond. You are the only two
that are able to shoot right now. I missed 78
over my 40. I think I got a lucky shot before,
but I've got multiple people down and I'm going
to shift my focus and I'm going to cut Wanda
free. Okay. Much appreciated. You cut Wanda free.
And then I'm going to move to the next, like,
it's like the order of operations here will be
cutting Wanda free, cutting Norman free, cutting
the mooks free and treating and possibly if we're
still alive by then. most likely treating mook
two's leg wound okay well you're able to cut
wanda free and in the time the this thing's moving
pretty fast and it gets to the mook first and
so you hear one of them screaming because it's
in this like cocoon like structure of this web
and basically the spider thing rips the cocoon
open and just starts chowing down on one of them
but this gives you enough time to free norman
meanwhile right next to the first loop is the
second one with the leg injury and he is screaming
his head off because he knows he's going to be
the second plate of hometown buffet here so the
four of you are now free I'm going to give you
an opportunity to fire, or you can run away.
Which one do you want to do? All of you are free.
All of you get to make a decision on whether
you want to run away or not. I mean, if we run
away, we're dealing with a spider unmanifested.
Yes, that's a clue. Unless you get rid of Tiffany.
Well, did we never look in the book and see if
there was something magic? Oh my God, why did
we do that? No, none of you ever, no one said
that. Can I look at the book now? Hold out. Use
my occult? Pull out your backpack. But I think
we have to deal with what's happening in front
of us before we do research things again. Yeah.
I'll shoot. Yeah, I'm going to do another shot.
All right, so everybody make a shot. Actually,
wait. Can I use my turn running, but work on
moving into position to flank this creature so
that we have people on either side of it? Yeah,
you can do a shot and run. I mean, it's a two
action thing. That's fine. Okay. Yeah, I'd like
to take a shot, but I want to start moving into
another position and see if that helps. If you
want to do that, I can say that if you're flanking,
I'll give you a 20 % boost to your shot. If any
of you want to get closer to do like a point
blank shot, I'll give you a 20 % bonus. No. I'll
take the evil monkey paw gift right now. All
right, cool. So you get closer and flank it.
Pooja, what about you? I rolled and my dice decided
not to hate me again. So I rolled an eight. Wow.
Nice. Okay, cool. I missed. Jesus Christ. I rolled
a 73 over my what would be 40 right now. At least
it wasn't doubles. No, no. I mean, it was a slight
improvement, but not by much. So I rolled an
81 over my 40. You missed. Okay. I missed, but
it wasn't doubles. Thank God. For crying out
loud. I rolled a nine in damage. Oh, wow. So
that's good damage. That's good damage. You can
take this down all by yourself, man. Don't wanna.
All right. So it is bleeding from three different
gun wounds. And I believe Mac was, I believe
Wanda took the 20 % bonus. So kind of got a little
close. So it's going to try to strike you with
one of its sharp arm like appendages. All right.
So go and give me a dodge. I got a 13 under my
31. So awesome. So you made your dodge. So you
jump out of the way as it swings towards you.
I'm going to give it a chance to because it's
got six of these things. I'm going to let it
try to attack. I'm going to roll and see which
one it's going to try to kill because it realizes
it can't eat at this point. It has to kill. Pooja's
one. Saint will be two. Mack will be three. Michelle
will be four. Five, six will be the mooks, but
six is the dead mooks, so that'll be a reroll.
There we go. All right, Michelle. It lunges towards
Maggie, trying to take you out. Let me see. I
rolled a 98, you lucky... Anyway, so it lunges
towards you and misses completely and stumbles
and falls on its side, giving you all a plus
20 to your attack because it critically failed
its attack. So go ahead and take your shot and
please someone besides Pooja hit. I didn't hit.
My dice are verifiedly like, this is enough of
this for you. I've helped you as much as I'm
going to fucking help you, lady. I'm done. I
rolled a three. 17. Nice, nice. Mac? I have an
idea that's probably really bad. Okay, what's
your idea? So, since I can't seem to hit this
thing for shit, my strengths lie in unarmed combat.
Can I jump on this thing and shove my hand in
one of the bullet holes? And basically just try
and piss it off and hurt it more so that the
other people can actually get at it? Absolutely.
Sure. Do I get a bump for proximity? I'll give
you a bump. Okay. To where? The 20 %? Yeah. Okay.
Same. To ask your question, this is all happening
at once. So you fire your gun. So she's jumping
towards our gunfire. Yeah, it's a stupid move,
but I'm doing it on behalf of the team at this
point. This is how my character rolls. Like this
thing has to be taken down and that's the priority.
I just want to understand. Okay. Very action
packed. Well, yeah, it is. It's everything's
happening at once, which is the problem with
combat. I got a 79 under 82. Wow. All right.
Okay. So Robin fires and misses. You can hear
the sound of the second living Luke crying. Wanda
takes off into the air. And as Norman and Maggie
are shooting guns, she lands on top of the back
of this thing as pieces of it are flying off.
goo is kind of everywhere she then shoves her
hand into one of the open rooms to just grab
whatever she can and start pulling stuff out
and i need damage done from maggie and norman's
attack real quick before we get to what what
the rest i rolled a 10 oh nice okay cool how
about seven Awesome. Okay. Nice. Very nice. So
you reach into this thing because it's got all
these different bullet wounds and holes. And
you grab onto something that feels relatively
sturdy. And you can feel that inside the torso,
things are still moving about. And you rip through
its back because you're on its torso. You're
ripping out. from behind and you pull out one
of their damaged heart in your hand and this
thing drops to the ground and all of this blood
just kind of oozes out of it as you've got Bree's
heart in your hand. So you have defeated it.
It has taken so much damage that it can no longer
function. I shoot it a couple more times just
to double tap. Completely, completely understandable.
Probably a lot more bullets go into it. And then
as the gunfire dies down, you just hear the soft
sobbing of a mook and a bunch of webbing. Is
that the one that was shot? That's alive? Yeah.
What about Tiffany? Once you kill the creature,
the essence that is in her becomes... It's still
there because it's both physical and, I guess,
hyper -geometrical, which is what they call magic.
It's still within her, but it becomes dormant
because there's no way for it to be activated.
Now, you have no idea how deities work. You don't
know if this creature is going to manifest again
on the plane of existence that it's from, or
if it's going to call out to Tiffany at some
point to try to reclaim itself, or if it's dead
forever. There's no way for humans to know. What
would you all do? How would you deal with this?
Kind of want to Indiana Jones arc her, except
that she's getting studied by scientists who
have the book and let them figure it out. Okay.
That's my initial. Hand it over to Delta Green.
Let them, you know, they have facilities where
they keep people like this who've been infected
by the supernatural. So that is definitely a
route to go. Is that how everybody wants to go?
Top men are working on it. Top men are working
on it. Top men. As opposed to bottom men? Oh,
my. What, Saint? I just had to stop for that
amazing joke. I don't even remember what I was
going to say. I'm going to be real. Sorry. Blasted
my brain out. Do you wish that there was a different
way to... Oh, I was going to say, I wish there
was a more humane... place to put these entities.
This is really the wrong game for that. Why isn't
there X -Men school? School for gifted children
or whatever. School for spider... Schools for,
again, cosmic horrors. Free -range cosmic horrors
is what we're going for. We rehabilitate those
who have seen the unseeable. They can... I mean...
They can go back to, we are releasing them back
to their natural habitats by expelling them from
our reality. It's not like, not like they're
sitting around going, Oh, I hope a cultist calls
me to earth. That place is so awesome. I imagine
that getting summoned is kind of annoying. So
this is sometime later as after every mission,
you take a break and Wanda, you head back to
the Pentagon to report on. what you have found
so far. So you're in one of those super secret
rooms where no one can hear anything that's going
on inside them. The general asks you to report.
I wish I could. Okay. I saw things that are beyond
my ability to report. And you weren't able to
explain them away with science. That was why
you were kind of chosen. was that you were pragmatic.
And that is still the case. However, if there
is a science, the science is not caught up. And
I have to recommend that all other organizations
step away and let Delta Green do what it does
best. All right. Well, I'd like you to stay with
this group and continue to report to me on how
they're faring. Unfortunately, I believe I need
to resign from my other official positions and
take up full time. with Delta Green. It's important.
Okay. It's your decision. I think that that's
fine. Dismissed. And I'll speak with you soon.
Thank you, sir. All right. I think that is a
good place to wrap it up. Good little epilogue
there. Hey, everybody. This is Future Wes, I
guess, in a way. I'm recording this about five
or six months after we recorded this episode
in July or June, middle of summer of 2023. Unfortunately,
we had some casting changes that I wasn't expecting.
And that has meant that we aren't going to be
able to tie up all of the loose ends. We were
going to record an episode 38, maybe possibly
39 and 40 with this group. But it just sometimes
these things happen. It's just wasn't meant to
be. Going to be recording a new show called Beyond
the Outer. And the difference between that show
and this show is we're going to be recording
a lot of it ahead of time so that we don't run
into these same issues of scheduling and cash
change and all of that. Now let's get back to
the regular program where our wonderful actors
sign off for the final time for Delta Green for
now. I would like to come back to Delta Green,
probably with an all -new cast, and maybe I can
tie up some loose ends just with backstory. Thanks
so much for listening. And here are our outros.
Hey, y 'all, I have been and will continue to
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