CORNUCOPIA Cleanup and Extraction - Sun, Feb 4, 2001

• The group has just finished clearing Cornucopia House, with the elderly woman and young man neutralized. Cortez was affected by the woman’s hypnotic abilities, causing him to collapse in agony.
• Monroe provided emergency medical care to Cortez, noting his genitals were withered and desiccated, indicating severe internal injuries. However, Monroe only briefly mentioned the internal injuries to the group, likely to preserve Cortez’s dignity.
• McCarter searched the master bedroom, finding it filled with occult symbolism, bones, and the elderly woman’s personal belongings. He found a stack of notes written in Cyrillic that he pocketed.
• The group discusses what to do next. Steel volunteers to watch over the children found on the property, while the others decide to first investigate the ritual site Cortez mentioned, rather than the hairdryers.
• On their way, they come across the body of the large, bearded man (referred to as “Beardo”) that McCarter had shot earlier. They search his pockets, finding his wallet with ID showing his name as Ryan Inokenty, likely a Russian name.
• McCarter suggests they should destroy the bodies to prevent identification, mentioning the large buckets of lye they had seen, implying they could use it to dispose of the remains.
• The group discovers several large plastic buckets of lye, which Drummond recognizes could be used for disposing of bodies and cleaning up crime scenes.
• Drummond’s high Criminology skill (50) allows him to assess the situation and determine that hiding all evidence of the violent events would be very difficult. He suggests burning the place down to destroy the evidence.
• They acknowledge there is blood in the snow and shotgun blasts in the walls that would be hard to fully conceal. Drummond believes investigators will likely not look too hard to determine who committed the murders, as long as the child pornography evidence is not too obvious.
• The group decides to dispose of the bodies using the setup Drummond has prepared - a rig with powerful hair dryers to thaw the frozen ground so they can dig graves and bury the bodies, along with buckets of lye.
• During their search, they discover another freshly dug grave with a trash bag containing the body of a young girl, approximately 8-9 years old. The body shows signs of unnatural growths and black, seeping tumors.
• Cortez and McCarter are disturbed by the sight, with McCarter’s eye becoming inflamed and leaking a black substance after some of it splattered on him.
• The group also finds a clearing in the woods with a perimeter marked by rocks bearing strange, ornate symbols and crosses. They decide they must destroy or bury these rocks to remove any evidence.
• Monroe contacts the group to report that the children in the barn are starting to get agitated and want to check on their pets. Drummond suggests using Russian to try to calm them down until McCarter can get there.
• Drummond and Cortez return to the barn, finding the animals inside in very poor health, with many dead birds stacked up in cages. The sight is disturbing.
• The group enters the house and sees the children looking at them expectantly, but the children remain well-behaved and do not rush them.
• McCarter and Monroe have not yet described the “nice version” of the cottage they saw earlier. Cortez woke up in the cottage but did not see this version.
• The group notices a young boy, likely the oldest child present, taking charge and distributing food from the unlocked cabinets to the other children, some of whom are completely withdrawn and unengaged.
• Cortez approaches the young boy, speaking to him first in Russian, then English and Spanish, but the boy does not seem to understand. He points towards the back door.
• Cortez then speaks to the boy in a more gentle, reassuring tone, telling the children they will be taking them to see their “pets” that they have to love and keep safe. The boy responds that it hurts, and that they have to love and keep the pets safe, especially from “Mama Sabina” when she is angry.
• Cortez realizes “Mama Sabina” is likely the woman they saw dead outside, and the boy seems unsure how to feel about this.
• Cortez asks the boy to describe his “pet”, and the boy mimes a small animal, saying its name is “Kitty”. He indicates the pets are kept in “metal boxes”.
• Cortez decides they need to remove the dead animals from the barn before the children see them, and asks McCarter to do this discreetly.
• McCarter finds that over half of the animals are dead, and he gently removes the bodies, realizing there are more children than living animals.
• As McCarter is working, he sees a small, fast-moving shadow leaving the barn, presumably a live animal.
• Overwhelmed, Cortez decides they need to leave and call in services that can properly care for the children.
• McCarter chased a shadowy ferret-like creature out of the barn and into the snow, but decided to let it go rather than continue pursuing it.
• The ferret-like creature, which appeared to be a zombie possum with its face melted off, made its way back to the house and squeezed through the door, where it was greeted with affection by a young blonde-haired boy.
• The boy seemed unperturbed by the ferret’s disturbing appearance, petting and cuddling it. The ferret appeared to be mostly blind.
• The group discussed the various dead animals they had found in the barn, some recently deceased and others that had been dead for weeks or months.
• They decided to take the children out to the barn to see their pets, hoping this would help calm them. The children eagerly rushed to the cages, but were distraught when they couldn’t find all of their animals.
• Cortez attempted to comfort the distressed children by hugging them, but failed his psychotherapy check and the children reacted by biting him.
• A young boy, who had been carrying a ferret, broke away from the group and started walking towards the cottage, ignoring McCarter’s attempts to stop him. McCarter decided to follow the boy, leaving Monroe to watch over the other children.
• McCarter follows the young boy back to the cottage, observing the melted, disintegrated corpse of the old woman on the floor which the boy pays no attention to.
• The boy heads to the kitchen and begins violently throwing himself against the plaster wall, as if trying to break through it. McCarter joins in and they discover a book hidden inside the wall.
• The book is an early 20th century publication and contains a short poem titled “Shredni Vashtar” which uses language and imagery similar to things McCarter has seen earlier in the day, causing him to make a sanity check.
• McCarter decides the book is not important right now and continues following the boy, who is now examining the corpse of the young man in the hallway.
• McCarter drags the young man’s body out to bury it, with the boy following. The other players join them and begin digging graves.
• Monroe attempts to communicate with the children, showing them a drawing one of them had made, but they do not respond verbally. An older girl explains the younger children “only hear” and speak to a “secret God” that gives them hate.
• The children are brought back to the main house to warm up, as they are underdressed for the cold weather.
• McCarter arrives with the blonde-headed boy and his ferret. The other children are mostly pacified and content, feeding their pets and eating, though some are starting to get sleepy as it’s the middle of the night.
• Drummond and Cortez have been digging a large, deep hole and filling it with lye for several hours. They have removed their coats and masks, which were likely uncomfortable in the hot, sweaty work.
• McCarter did not mention the melted corpse in the cottage, which the group had discovered earlier. The group assumes he would have mentioned it if it had happened.
• Cortez has taken the book they found, which is a collection of short stories by the author Saki called “The Chronicles of Clovis” published in 1911. The group realizes the relevance of the story about a child worshipping a ferret-like “polecat” pet that kills the child’s aunt.
• Around 3am, Cortez and Monroe are inside the house watching over the sleeping/resting children. Cortez examines the shed and finds sophisticated video editing equipment, blank and recorded VHS tapes, and a small black ledger with coded names, P.O. boxes, quantities, and dollar amounts - likely evidence of a child trafficking operation.
• Cortez calls the emergency Delta Green contact number and reaches Clove, who is distraught. She indicates that the ACL (likely another Delta Green cell) has been wiped out, and she is fleeing. She urges Cortez to “finish the job” and kill all the children, but he is horrified by this suggestion.
• Cortez relays Clove’s disturbing call to Drummond, who is also appalled at the idea of killing the children. They decide they cannot bring themselves to do that, and instead plan to clean up evidence and leave an anonymous tip for child protective services, hoping the authorities will intervene before any more harm is done.
• The group decides to call CPS (Child Protective Services) anonymously to report the abuse they witnessed, rather than contacting law enforcement directly.
• Drummond expresses uncertainty about how much of Cortez’s earlier conversation he overheard, but realizes the situation is not sanctioned by any government agency.
• Cortez explains that Delta Green operates independently in cells, with limited contact between members. He was contacted by a sister cell that withheld information from him.
• The group acknowledges they are acting as vigilantes and criminals, with no legal protection. However, they believe law enforcement is unlikely to devote significant resources to investigating the incident.
• They decide to leave behind the “ledger” found in the shed, as it contains a list of names and addresses that could misdirect the investigation.
• They also collect the IDs of the three deceased individuals - Sabina Apolinov, Alexei Arseny, and Ryan Inokinti - and plan to leave them for the authorities to find.
• The group debates whether to burn down the cottage to destroy evidence, ultimately deciding to do so. They use gasoline from the shed to set the fire.
• Before leaving, Cortez has a brief interaction with the 10-year-old boy, Radomir Resnick, asking him to not reveal their presence.
• The group then hikes back to their stolen vehicle, a Sportage, and plans to disassemble the firearms and dispose of them in the Chesapeake Bay. They also intend to abandon the vehicle in a remote area of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
• Once safely away, the four agents meet at a diner in New Jersey, unsure if they will stay in contact or go their separate ways, now that the initial incident has been addressed.
• The speaker expresses excitement about the campaign, saying “it’ll be awesome” and that they have collected a lot of names to maintain historical consistency, especially if the campaign is published as a podcast.
• They mention getting information from “the kid” for this purpose, and say they were waiting for people to ask about the names, but no one did, so they just gathered the names themselves.
• The speaker indicates they got names from “the people we killed”, suggesting they have been collecting names of NPCs that have been killed over the course of the campaign.
• They mention practicing and thinking through a “Clove monologue” to make sure it had the right impact.
• The speaker expresses surprise that “their cell had fucked up”, but was generally expecting the order to “eliminate all the children.”
• They wrap up, noting it is already midnight and they need to end the session.

Overall, the speaker seems very invested in maintaining historical consistency and details in the campaign, going so far as to collect names of killed NPCs. They also put effort into crafting an impactful monologue for a character named Clove. The transcript suggests some darker or more disturbing events may have occurred, with the speaker’s comment about eliminating children.