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Report No: GT/IL-050701-008240425

Location: Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area; Afghanistan; China

Agents:

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

Summary:

In February 2001, D-cell was reactivated with a new roster of agents under the leadership of Agent Duncan. The cell investigated a series of seemingly unrelated events that hinted at a deeper supernatural conspiracy. Their investigation led them to confront a child pornography ring operating out of a youth home in Maryland. In the aftermath, the agents attempted to cover their tracks and piece together the larger threat.

After the events of 9/11, the agents were pulled in different directions. Drummond was deployed to Afghanistan where he encountered unnatural horrors. Agent Duncan became obsessed with using his NRO resources to uncover the supernatural conspiracy. McCarter shifted his academic focus to the Middle East. Monroe looked into the disappearance of the former Delta Green leadership.

Over the following years, the agents were independently recruited back into a reformed Delta Green program. Agent Duncan and McCarter traveled to China searching for a former handler, Agent Clove, but were unable to locate her. Research into historical accounts revealed potential past incidents tied to the supernatural events the agents had experienced.

Operation Report:

• Agents fabricated evidence to connect cult activities in Moscow and Chesapeake to the child pornography ring at the Cornucopia House youth home in Maryland.
• Drummond used FBI contacts to gain sealed records showing the Cornucopia House staff member Ryan Inokenti had a criminal history and was running the child porn ring and drug dealing. The children survived and were taken into state custody.
• Cornucopia House investigation was concluded by Maryland State Police with no concrete suspects. D-cell agents appeared to have escaped notice for their involvement.
• Drummond deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11. Survived a doomed mission in the Afghan mountains where he encountered indescribable supernatural horrors.
• Drummond questioned by Barbara Tang, a Chinese-American woman aware of the supernatural, and recruited into a government program as an intelligence analyst around 2006-2007.
• Agent Duncan became obsessed with using his NRO position to search for supernatural threats via satellite imagery. Developed unhealthy fixation on unraveling the mystery as the “last Delta Green agent”.
• McCarter shifted academic focus to Middle East after 9/11, gaining Department of Homeland Security consulting work.
• Monroe investigated the disappearance of Delta Green A-cell leadership. Hacked FBI records with Agent Duncan’s help and discovered Gary Hall went on indefinite leave in early February.
• Monroe recruited into reformed Delta Green program as a field agent by a man named Harrison, who revealed Agent Hall had died.
• Agent Duncan recruited by a woman to provide intelligence to the reformed Delta Green program in exchange for significant compensation. Agreed to maintain copies of all provided materials.
• McCarter recruited as a paid consultant on folklore, history and the occult by a man named Brandon Ross representing the reformed Delta Green program.
• Agents learned they had all been independently recruited into the reformed Delta Green program under various codenames.
• Agent Duncan and McCarter traveled to China searching for former Delta Green agent Marie Noella aka Agent Clove. Discovered she had refused to return to her U.S. university position and had disappeared, possibly to Southeast Asia, after sending her husband and son back to the U.S.
• McCarter researched historical accounts and folklore related to the supernatural events experienced by the agents. Discovered a tale of an 1880 incident in Burma involving an old woman savagely attacked by mongooses that may be connected.

Analysis and Recommendations:

• The resurfacing of Delta Green as a reformed government program and the systematic re-recruitment of the former D-cell agents suggests the events they uncovered are part of a recognized supernatural threat. The program’s new direction of increased oversight and accountability, while providing more resources and protection for agents, is likely a direct response to the tactics employed by the previous iteration and the events that led to its downfall.
• The mental strain of the past four years is apparent in the psychological states of the agents, particularly Agent Duncan and his obsessive paranoia. Continued monitoring and evaluation of agent stability is highly advised to prevent potential breaks from reality or behavior that could compromise operations.
• Drummond’s encounter in the Afghan mountains and subsequent recruitment by Barbara Tang indicates the existence of a parallel government program investigating the supernatural. Coordination or at minimum awareness between the programs seems likely. Further intelligence gathering on Tang, her role, and the nature of this second program should be an ongoing priority.
• The inability to locate Agent Clove, the circumstances of her disappearance, and her choice to send her family back to the U.S. all suggest she may have uncovered a serious threat, potentially related to Southeast Asia based on the historical accounts uncovered by McCarter. A dedicated focus on this region and any potential connections to the events the agents have experienced so far may yield important discoveries.
• The recurring involvement of children and minors in the observed cult activities, from the Moscow warehouse to the Cornucopia House, is an extremely concerning pattern that may indicate a vulnerability or value they hold in the supernatural forces at work. Examination of any past or future operations involving missing children, child trafficking rings, or ritual abuse could uncover a vital thread in the agenda of these malevolent entities.
• Continued research into historical incidents mirroring the supernatural events experienced by the agents, such as the 1880 Burma account, may help anticipate future threats and uncover the true nature and motives of the conspiracy they face. A deep dive into the records and literature of colonial era Africa and Asia is highly recommended as a priority for McCarter and any other agents with an academic background.

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Session Notes

• The agents have committed many violent crimes over the course of their investigations into the supernatural threats they are fighting against.
• Cortez is more paranoid about the unnatural things they have encountered than about the potential trail of evidence they may have left behind from their actions.
• The agents tried to fabricate some evidence to connect the cult activities in Moscow and the Chesapeake back to the child pornography ring they uncovered earlier.
• Drummond uses his FBI contact, Agent Butler, to gain access to federal databases to search for information on Radomir Reznik, one of the children from the Cornucopia House.
• Drummond is trying to build some blackmail leverage over Butler by getting him to provide this access that he shouldn’t be giving.
• The records on the children are sealed, but Drummond is able to piece together that the Maryland State Police concluded the Cornucopia House was attacked by a rival gang.
• One of the Cornucopia House staff, Ryan Inokenti, had a criminal history and was running the child porn ring and drug dealing, while the woman in charge was either unaware or intimidated into silence.
• The children survived and were taken into state custody. Knowing his efforts may have helped save them, Drummond gains 1 sanity point.
• The Cornucopia House investigation seems concluded with no concrete suspects. The agents appear to be in the clear for now.
• Drummond reports to the others that it looks like they got away with their actions at Cornucopia House. They start to discuss what supernatural threat to target next.
• The GM explains that the player characters don’t have any clear threats to follow or direction from Delta Green, which has disappeared. They must decide if they want to proactively search for supernatural threats on their own.
• Steel Monroe is interested in finding out what happened to Delta Green but is the least equipped to do so. He considers leaning on David Cortez for help.
• The players discuss potentially rebuilding Delta Green themselves as a cell. Monroe and Graham Drummond are interested in this idea, while Cortez is more hesitant at first.
• The GM establishes a timeline - the PCs’ investigations into Skopje and Maryland are time-consuming, leaving little time to look into Delta Green’s disappearance. As they start considering it more, the 9/11 attacks occur.
• Drummond, as a CIA case officer, is called to active duty. With his Russian and Spanish language skills, he is well-suited for Afghanistan due to the Russian connection there.
• Drummond decides his character is shipped off to Afghanistan. While there, he makes inquiries into strange occult happenings in the region, specifically looking for supernatural threats.
• Through his investigations, Drummond ends up the sole survivor of a doomed mission in the Afghan mountains where he encounters new indescribable horrors.
• After stumbling out of the mountains, Drummond is questioned by a Chinese-American woman, likely CIA or military intelligence. She seems to know about him and is interested in the strange details of his story.
• The woman, Barbara Tang, reveals she works for a government program dealing with supernatural threats. She offers Drummond a role as an intelligence analyst, still with the CIA on paper but working for the program.
• Around 2006-2007, Drummond accepts the analyst role, examining intelligence for strange patterns and occasionally seeing disturbing things. He gains +10% to Occult skill.
• Drummond leaves word with the other PCs that he is going to Afghanistan in 2001, but is mostly out of contact in the following years.
• The GM suggests Cortez, working for the NRO, could get pulled into the newly formed Department of Homeland Security with increased interagency work after 9/11.
• Cortez takes the Hard Experience ability again, losing a Bond and 5 Sanity, which crosses a breaking point. The unnatural things he’s seen shake his beliefs.
• Cortez loses his interest in SETI and aliens, realizing the threat is something else entirely. He gains the Obsession disorder, becoming fixated on unraveling the mystery of the unnatural as the “last Delta Green agent”.
• Cortez is obsessed with finding things on Earth using satellite imagery from his job at the NRO. He spends long nights in his garage staring at giant monitors for the first couple years after the mission.
• McCarter shifts his academic focus from Russia and Eastern Europe to the Middle East after 9/11. He gets consultancy work with the Department of Homeland Security, though he’s not thrilled about it.
• Monroe’s personal life doesn’t change much after 9/11, but he becomes curious about what happened to A-Cell and starts looking into it.
• Monroe reaches out to Cortez for help investigating Gary Hall. Cortez hacks into FBI systems and finds Hall’s personnel record, which shows he went on indefinite leave of absence in early February, lining up with the mission timeline.
• Cortez theorizes that Hall was part of C-Cell, died during the cornucopia house mission, and Agent Cloat contacted the group afterward since she knew they were being recruited.
• Monroe analyzes the cornucopia house mission to see where he could have done better. It’s implied there was a high body count and he set people on fire.
• Monroe practices his marksmanship and considers taking an improv class to improve his charisma that was damaged by the mission. He doesn’t want to re-enlist in the military in order to stay close to family and be available for the next mission.
• Steel Monroe receives a manila envelope at work with a photo of Special Agent Gary Hall and a note telling him to meet at a bar called The Great Stampede after his shift.
• At the bar, Monroe meets a man named Harrison who reveals that Agent Hall is deceased. Harrison says Hall thought Monroe had potential to help the country against an unseen enemy.
• Harrison initially suggests recruiting Monroe to quietly patch up injured Delta Green agents, but Monroe insists he wants to be a field agent involved in the action.
• Harrison expresses concern about the danger but says he’ll let his superiors know about Monroe’s interest. He tells Monroe to keep their meeting private.
• Over the following years, Monroe is pulled into Delta Green as a field agent while keeping his day job. He works with different teams and case officers on various missions with periodic downtime.
• In early 2002, Dr. David Cortez receives a call on his work phone from a disguised voice telling him to meet at Woodland Park at 1pm on a bench on the North Path.
• Cortez arrives early to stake out the location. A professional-looking woman in her late 30s arrives and confirms she is the one who called when Cortez jokingly asks if she’s “the robot”.
• The woman says she knows about Cortez’s “extracurricular activities” and that it’s meant as admiration, not a threat. She represents a group that has reformed “stronger and better” after things fell apart before.
• She says they have more resources and authority now, and while there’s more accountability, Cortez would have more protection. She wants Cortez to rejoin “the circle” and “come out of the cold”.
• Cortez and an unnamed woman discuss Cortez’s potential future involvement with a reformed Delta Green program. She offers him the opportunity to provide intelligence and satellite imagery to the program in exchange for generous compensation.
• Cortez agrees to provide intelligence to the program a few times a year in exchange for around $100-150k annually, enough to put his kids through college. He plans to keep copies of everything they ask for.
• In 2003-2004, a few years after 9/11, McCarter is contacted by a man named Brandon Ross who questions him about his past work with FBI Special Agent Gary Hall on unusual cases.
• Ross reveals he represents a government program that wants to consult with McCarter from time to time on topics related to folklore, history, and the occult. McCarter agrees and is paid $10-30k per consulting session.
• The agents learn they have all been independently recruited into the reformed Delta Green program under shifting codenames.
• Cortez reaches out to his handler, Sophie Byrne, for information on what happened to Agent Clove. He learns Clove was forcibly retired and as of 2003 is teaching criminology at Xiamen University in China while affiliated with Wilmington University.
• Cortez messages Drummond, McCarter and Monroe about taking an impromptu trip to China in 3 days to find Clove and get answers about what happened to her and Delta Green.
• McCarter and Monroe decline due to being busy with their regular work. Cortez and McCarter end up flying to China to try to meet with Clove.
• The agents had previously shared with each other that they had been contacted about a program similar to Delta Green reforming, so the recruitment wasn’t a complete surprise.
• McCarter and Cortez travel to Xiamen University in China to try to find Dr. Marie Noella, aka Agent Clove.
• They discover her criminology class has been canceled. After some investigation, they learn she refused to return to her position at Wilmington University in the U.S. and was let go by Xiamen University. Her husband and son returned to the U.S. but her current whereabouts are unknown.
• McCarter loses 1 point of Sanity, suspecting there is some coordinating force behind the strange coincidences they’ve experienced. He keeps this theory to himself.
• They track down Marie’s ex-husband Charles Noella and son Timothy in Denver. Charles reveals Marie told him she was involved in something dangerous and criminal/secret. He thinks she may have gone to Southeast Asia, possibly Vietnam or Thailand.
• Cortez leaves his secure email address with Charles in case he hears from Marie, appealing to any concern he has for her wellbeing.
• Back home, McCarter researches folklore and recent history for any accounts correlating to the strange animal behavior and coincidences they’ve witnessed.
• He discovers a tale about Charles Augustus Monroe, father of the author Saki, who wrote about a horrific 1880 incident in Burma where an old woman was savagely attacked by mongooses while silent children watched. Monroe’s native officers later disappeared while “hunting”.
• McCarter realizes Saki’s story “Sredni Vashtar” was likely inspired by his father’s Burmese correspondence. He notes they have a Monroe in their own group.
• The group discusses Steel Monroe’s possible relation to General Monroe, but no definitive answer is given.
• Matthew McCarter fails a roll related to the unnatural, resulting in a breaking point. He chooses to project the loss onto his bond with his wife instead of losing sanity.
• McCarter’s obsessive reading of old British correspondence further strains his marriage. His wife’s bond is reduced to 6.
• It’s revealed that several years have passed since the previous events. Dasha, McCarter’s former mistress, has graduated and is now in a Ph.D. program at a nearby university. McCarter wrote her recommendations to ensure she stayed close.
• The GM notes that McCarter has one more personal pursuit remaining, which he suggests could be used to shore up his bonds.
• The GM proposes that David Cortez, as a mathematician, could pursue a scientific explanation for the highly improbable coincidences the group has encountered. This could be a potential personal pursuit for Cortez.
• The group discusses the account by the British inspector, confirming that the woman in the story was killed by being swarmed by mongooses.
• The plural form of “mongoose” is debated, with the group concluding that both “mongooses” and “mongoose” are acceptable, though “mongooses” is more common.
• The session ends with the GM hinting at the passage of time and the potential for the characters to further investigate the strange events they’ve experienced.

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