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Report No: GT/CO-010930-007240418

Location: Mid-Atlantic Region, USA

Agents:

• Cortez (Duncan)
• Drummond (recruit)
• McCarter (recruit)
• Monroe (recruit)

Summary:

Following the raid on Cornucopia House, the agents dealt with the aftermath, including disposing of evidence, seeking medical attention, and investigating loose ends related to the Skoptsi cult and pedophile ring. They discovered Delta Green had gone dark and the agents were potentially compromised. Over several months, they investigated the Skoptsi cult in the town of Moscow on the Chesapeake, Maryland, culminating in an assault on the cult’s temple that left many dead and the temple burning. The events took a serious toll on the agents.

Operation Report:

• Agents disposed of evidence from Cornucopia House raid across state lines in New Jersey, abandoned vehicle
• Agent Clove had mental breakdown during mission debrief call, said C-cell was dead, Delta Green attacked and incapacitated
• In the immediate aftermath, Steel attended church and was notably more prayerful and generous with tithing.
• McCarter immediately checked on his daughter upon returning home to ensure she was safe.
• The Drummond family took an impromptu tropical vacation to cope with the stress of recent events.
• Agent Duncan hospitalized for several days with infection that destroyed his reproductive organs, used cover story with wife
• Cornucopia House reported in news as having fire, murdered caretakers, ongoing police investigation; no mention of pedophile ring
• Drummond staked out pedophile P.O. box, confronted man who was part of mundane pornography ring; leveraged info to FBI
• Agent Duncan attempted to contact A-cell via the secure server but discovered it had gone offline in the last 24 hours. Further investigation revealed someone had been monitoring the server’s traffic for the past 3 days, potentially compromising the agents’ identities.
• Agent Duncan discovered Delta Green server offline, agents potentially compromised; set up dead drops for future comms
• McCarter studied Yelena Kalamatiano’s journals, learned of Skoptsi cult worshipping Magna Mater and immortality rituals
• Kalamatiano was killing Cornucopia House children at increasing rate as part of experiments to work ritual on herself
• Journals detailed “Heidi Nikreti” ritual, enhanced powers from “milk” substance, ritual to destroy enemies’ genitals
• Kalamatiano’s journal indicated she used a ritual on Child Protective Services agents to make them see what she wanted during inspections of Cornucopia House.
• Moscow on the Chesapeake identified as center of Skoptsi activity, with church as primary temple
• The scopzy had some presence on the West Coast until they were wiped out around 4-5 years ago.
• Cornucopia House historically used to groom new cult members via child trafficking and legitimate adoptions/fostering
• Over several months, agents investigated the active Skoptsi cult in Moscow on the Chesapeake
• A notable event in Moscow on the Chesapeake was a large fire at a taxicab depot in the past 10 years.
• Culminated in bloody assault on cult temple, leaving many dead and the temple burning
• Agent Duncan and Monroe suffered serious consequences requiring veteran agent packages
• Shortly after, 9/11 attacks occurred, significantly impacting agents’ lives and careers

Analysis and Recommendations:

• The events at Cornucopia House and the subsequent investigation into the Skoptsi cult have taken an immense physical and psychological toll on the agents involved. The apparent loss of contact with Agent Clove and the rest of the conspiracy is deeply concerning and raises questions about the current status of our operations and support structure.
• While the elimination of the Skoptsi cult presence in Moscow on the Chesapeake is a significant victory, we must remain vigilant. Follow-up investigations into any surviving members and the extent of the cult’s connections to child services and international adoption agencies are critical to ensuring this threat is truly extinguished.
• The information uncovered in Yelena Kalamatiano’s journals opens disturbing new avenues of investigation into fertility cults and the mutilation of children. We should cross-reference these findings with any relevant materials from other operations, both past and ongoing, to assess the full scope of this threat. Consulting with trusted experts in the field, if any can be safely reached, may yield important insights.
• The loss of communication with the wider conspiracy and the potential compromise of our secure networks is a devastating blow. We must assume we are operating without official sanction or support for the time being. Establishing new secure communication protocols and vetting our remaining contacts is paramount to ensuring our safety and the continuity of our mission.
• In light of recent events, both within our organization and on the national stage, we must re-evaluate our strategic priorities and operational capabilities. The challenges ahead will require us to adapt and forge new alliances to continue our fight against the forces of the unnatural. While we may need to rebuild from the ground up, our commitment to protecting humanity from the horrors lurking in the shadows remains unshakable.
• As we navigate this uncertain new reality, it is more critical than ever that we maintain utmost secrecy and compartmentalization. Trust must be earned, not freely given. Yet we cannot allow paranoia to paralyze us. Carefully considered risks will need to be taken to re-establish our network and operational capacity. If there are opportunities to embed our assets in the shifting landscape of government agencies and military operations, we must seize them - judiciously and with all due caution. The road ahead is perilous, but our cause remains just. With resourcefulness, cunning, and unyielding determination, we will find a way forward and emerge stronger than before. Delta Green may change, but it will endure.

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Session Notes

• The investigators finished dealing with their mission at Cornucopia House, hiding bodies, burning a cottage, and finding more evidence of eerie coincidences and the trauma the children faced.
• Cortez called Agent Clove to report the mission was done, but she had a breakdown, confessing that C-cell was dead, she thought they should kill all the children, and that Delta Green had been attacked and was incapacitated. She said she was out.
• The team disposed of evidence across state lines into New Jersey, abandoned their vehicle, and are now seated in a diner booth around 8am, looking exhausted and haunted.
• Cortez is in a lot of pain mentally and physically. Steel recommends he see a doctor for his injury, offering to help craft a plausible cover story. Cortez is hesitant to expose a doctor to the unnatural elements.
• Cortez makes a Helplessness sanity check and succeeds, keeping it together despite his head spinning with concerns that the job was left undone.
• Steel shows the group a disturbing drawing he found in the locked dorms at Cornucopia House, indicating one of the children knew about their animal bite encounters. This prompts sanity checks.
• Cortez reveals he found multiple drawings exactly like a birthmark he has. More sanity checks ensue as the group grapples with the unnatural coincidences.
• They discuss the twisted mockery of a grandmother with multiple breasts leaking black goo that Cortez encountered before blasting her. Her body melted afterwards, which is not normal.
• Cortez believes it’s best not to try to answer or understand all the unanswered questions. The unusual mission came from another cell that failed to complete the job, with the surviving member calling Cortez to finish it.
• David Cortez believes Delta Green is still active because the three recruits showed up as expected, even though no one else seems to have interacted with Clovis. He thinks Clovis’s mission was to finish off the cultists but she failed.
• The group copied down the information from the ledger of addresses before leaving it for the police to find. The addresses are mostly P.O. boxes.
• McCarter suggests they should cross-reference the addresses in the coming days to make sure the pedophiles are getting arrested. Stakeouts may be necessary since the addresses are P.O. boxes.
• The group discusses what happens next after completing their recruitment mission. Cortez says they wait for an assignment from Delta Green.
• Cortez explains that if a job isn’t completed, someone else will be sent to finish it. Agents who are liabilities may get put on increasingly dangerous missions.
• Cortez considers the others part of the conspiracy now. He says he’ll contact them if he hears anything, then leaves to go to the hospital.
• In the past, Cortez reported to Agent Daphne, the cell leader. As leader of D-cell, Cortez is now the others’ connection to the conspiracy.
• After Cortez leaves, Monroe suggests to Drummond and McCarter that there are loose ends they should follow up on, like the Cyrillic note and pedophile ring, to do some good.
• McCarter says he’ll reach out if he thinks anything in “the notes” needs following up on, though he never actually shared the notes with the others.
• It seems the three will coordinate some follow-up activities, ignoring Cortez’s directive to sit and wait for contact.
• David Cortez goes to the emergency room after the events at Cornucopia House, dropping Trow off and asking for help
• Cortez is given a bed and examined by a nurse, but then sits in pain for a while as a fever rapidly escalates, causing him to enter a dissociative state
• When Cortez comes to, it is the next day and his wife Kate is there; Cortez likely retrieved his ID and personal effects before going to the hospital
• The doctor explains to Cortez that he has suffered some kind of infection that has destroyed his reproductive organs
• Cortez fails an Adapted to Helplessness check and loses 4 Sanity points, but uses the Project on Bond move to deflect 3 points of Sanity loss onto his bond with his uncle, reducing the Sanity loss to 1 point
• Cortez blames his interest in the occult, seeded by his uncle, for what happened to him
• Cortez tells his wife he had to go to a remote work site late at night and woke up like this, not providing details; she is upset he missed movie night and didn’t say bye to the kids
• Cortez has to stay in the hospital for several days to recover, undergoing surgery to remove necrotic tissue; there will be follow-up related to hormones and potential reconstructive surgery
• Cortez and his wife Kate use morbid humor to cope with the situation, joking that they no longer need to debate about him getting a vasectomy
• David Cortez attempts to contact Agent Clove via the MO Haven encrypted email server, but the server is down. The message bounces back saying no such server exists.
• Cortez does some computer sleuthing to try to figure out what happened to the server. He discovers that in the last 24 hours, the server went offline. For the last three days before that, someone had been snooping, essentially listening for emails going to and from the server. The messages were encrypted, but the snooper may have been able to figure out some info about who was sending messages.
• Cortez sits on this information for a couple weeks, periodically checking to see if the server comes back online. It does not. He plans to eventually get in contact with the rest of the group about it.
• In the news, there are reports that Cornucopia House had a fire. None of the children were hurt. The caretakers were found murdered and a police investigation is ongoing. No mention of the pedophilia ring.
• Graham Drummond, with his criminology and law knowledge, suspects the police are either stonewalling the press or the press is cooperating with them to release as little info as possible so the pedophiles involved don’t get spooked and run.
• Drummond plans to use the blackmail info he has on the pedophiles to try to cultivate some of them as assets, with the intent of getting them to provide any information they might have about what was really going on at Cornucopia House.
• Drummond stakes out a P.O. box from the address book and follows a middle-aged man who checks it. He confronts the man and learns he is part of a mundane child pornography ring, not connected to the occult aspects of the case.
• Drummond shakes down the man for information on his contacts in the ring, intending to use it as leverage to get information from the FBI. He establishes a new bond with FBI agent Roman Butler by providing the information to kick off an investigation.
• Cortez meets with the group and informs them Delta Green has gone offline. Their contact information may be compromised. He sets up dead drops for future communication. The agents lose some Sanity from this revelation.
• McCarter begins studying the extensive personal notes from the Zion house, which appear to be the journals of a woman named Yelena Kalamatiano. The notes detail Yelena’s attempts to work out a ritual involving the corruption and torture of children to gain power.
• Yelena adhered to a religion related to but distinct from Russian Orthodox. She was part of a community of Russian immigrants near Zion called “Moscow on the Chesapeake”. McCarter’s research gives him +5 Occult and +5 Unnatural but costs him 2D6 Sanity (reduced to 1 by projecting).
• Over months of study, McCarter learns Yelena was part of a cult called the Skoptsi who worship a god called Magna Mater. The cult once knew a ritual to grant immortality to devoted followers but the knowledge was supposedly lost. Yelena, nearly 100 years old, believed the male leaders were withholding the ritual from her.
• The group learns that in the months leading up to their raid on Cornucopia House, Yelena Kalamatiano was killing the children there at a shocking rate as part of failed experiments. If they had waited another week or two, likely none of the children would have still been alive.
• Kalamatiano’s goal was to work out a process on the children so she could eventually do it to herself. Cortez had guessed she was trying to create the next version of herself, which was mostly accurate.
• Kalamatiano’s notes reveal she was pursuing occult lore and power. She describes rituals and witchcraft to call forth a creature called the “Heidi Nikreti”, a child or avatar of their god. The grotesque ritual is likely what was shown in the Polaroid photographs found earlier.
• A ritual Kalamatiano prized granted her enhanced powers and transformed her body to be closer to her God. It allowed her to produce a “milk” substance which was taxing to obtain but enhanced her rituals and research.
• The group finds another ritual for destroying enemies’ genitals and reproductive organs, which is a great embarrassment as worshippers cannot properly worship the Magna Mater without them. Genital sacrifice is how one is inducted into the cult.
• The notes make it clear that Moscow on the Chesapeake is a hotbed of Scopzi cult activity, with the church there being their primary temple. Historically, Cornucopia House was used to groom new cult members.
• Since cult members destroy their reproductive organs, they have to bring in people from the outside to maintain membership. Some Cornucopia House children were trafficked from Eastern Europe while others came through seemingly legitimate adoption and fostering, including the agency Families Without Frontiers.
• When the state would send Child Protective Services to check on Cornucopia House, Kalamatiano had a way to handle them to avoid raising suspicions.
• McCarter does public records research on Moscow on the Chesapeake but finds no notable news in the past 10 years other than a large fire at a taxi cab depot.
• McCarter shares information with Drummond, asking him to dig deeper on if the cult is still active there and if there are federal investigations. Drummond is cultivating an asset in the FBI who may be able to help.
• The group becomes confident the Sculpsy cult is still very active in the town. Over several months, they band together to investigate and plan to wipe out the cult.
• The campaign culminates in a bloody gun battle beneath the cult’s temple, leaving behind a trail of bodies in the burning church.
• Cortez and Monroe suffer serious consequences from the assault on the cult and must choose veteran agent packages that provide bonuses but also major penalties.
• Returning to their lives, the group thinks they’ve handled everything related to the aftermath of Cornucopia House. But then the 9/11 attacks occur, significantly changing things, especially for Drummond. The characters’ lives are affected and some may change careers as a result.
• The session is ending because it’s getting late.
• The two players who haven’t picked a package yet will do so next time.
• One player took the “Hard Experience” package to start, and asks if that means he can’t pick it again. The GM says you can take the same package multiple times.
• The player only has two bonds left and already lost one at the start of the game. The GM jokes he “didn’t learn enough from that hard experience” and “learned that he didn’t need any bonds.”
• They discuss the “Extreme Violence” package making sense for what happened in the session. The GM suggests “Captivity or Imprisonment” could also work, like if they made an aborted attempt to rescue Cortez but had to go back for him a week later.
• The player decides to take the “Extreme Violence” package, feeling it’s the most logical. He mentions Cortez was going to do firearms training as one of his personal things because of what happened.
• The GM reminds Robert that he’s the one with the grimoire.
• The player asks how to mark that he took the package. The GM explains he adapts to violence, upgrades all skills, reduces bonds and charisma.
• The GM mentions that in Delta Green meta-plot canon, around this time a Delta Green cell eliminates the Scopsy. He decides it gets to be this group of agents.
• In the meta-plot the agents all die, but the GM says that won’t happen here. Maybe the story will be that people think they died.
• They decide to pick things up again next week and end the session.

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