Friday, May 18, 2012


Well done, all. It was a big session the other night. I barely left the chair.

Reconstituted after Bandolier's excellent summary. I'll try to fill in a few gaps and questions below.

Agent Bandolier's comments in red.

  It was a night of heavy investigation but it seemed to flow rather well. Craig fell asleep briefly in his chair, but he was the only confirmed instance of unconsciousness. Chris, you were missed. We could have used some of your forensic abilities, and some of the food that had your name on it felt abandoned. Although, the cheese steaks were spoken for one and all before the donuts went down. Donuts went down under the alternate sacrament consumption provision whereby donuts are consumed at 9:30 if no deaths or combats are in sight.
  The group was summoned to the home of Larry Daniels. (one person, Donavan) There had been an explosion at his home in the University district in West St. Louis. We had some discussion as to what kinds of munitions were possible to travel with. We pretty much had to go line by line through character inventories to clear out grenades, flash-bangs, and thermite charges. Once everyone was pared to their personal duty weapons, they managed to board their various flights and land in St. Louis. They were met by F.B.I. Special Agent In Charge, Louis Gaston. Gaston took our team via armored limousine to the scene of the 'event'.
  There had been a roaring party at Daniels' place, with 6 call girls and 4 or more men in attendance. At about 1 AM, there was an explosion of some sort which killed nearly all in attendance. The only known survivor was US Senator DiTorrio. The team spent quite a bit of time investigating the house, grounds, and staff. There were two women who were partially displaced through solid objects, a wall in one case and a floor in another. The one woman had passed through the wall and was suspended, hanging, by her waist, hands on one side and feet on the other. Another call girls was hanging by her wrist from the ceiling of the guest study. Her wrist was actually merged with the joist and plaster of the ceiling of the room.
  The team discovered that Daniels had an association with a crystal worshiping cult known as Enolsis. Daniels, a member of the board of directors of McDonnell-Douglas, also had ties with a man of dubious character named Ron Valiant. More recently, Daniels had been associating with a body builder named Doug Walters. "There seems to be some indication that he was involved in Iran Contra era arms running [needs clarification]."

  From the FBI file on Colonel Daniels: Graduated from Air Force Academy in Colo. Springs, CO. His eyesight was sub-par, however, and he wasn't able to attend flight school. He worked in administration and procurement at the Pentagon. He was expected to go much higher than Colonel, however he got snapped up by MD after 21 years in the Air Force. Daniels was suspected of dealing arms during Iran-Contra but there was never an indictment during the Ollie North scandal. He kept his job with MD and continued to broker arms throughout South America and the Middle East. He has paid his taxes regularly and donated to veterans charities since mustering out of the service. Other than that, his life is undocumented since he left the service.

  Regarding Enolsis: "Some facts rushed by me, so here is a synopsis that might or might not be accurate and we really should have had a handout for this anyhow:"
  Because of your excellent summary, I produced the following information to supplement your thorough notes and to clarify any of my mumblings or jumblings of narrative:

From the Wikipedia on Enolsis Foundation:

  Enolsis's founder was a second-rate science fiction writer named Herbert Price. Price began with a book called Inner Science, a sort of self-help, philosophy-of-life manual, which promised "to clear the reader's mental landscape of all the clutter and detritus accumulated by modern materialistic life." Despite being the founder of the Inner Science philosophy, Herbert Price was not known to be a follower of its tenants. The financial success of Inner Science led Price to create the Enolsis Foundation. Price resented the government's "theft" of his hard-earned money. He figured the best way to avoid having to pay income taxes was to gain tax-exempt status by turning Inner Science from a philosophy into a religion.
  Thus the Enolsis Foundation was created in 1978 and registered for tax exempt status. More books followed Inner Science, along with a selection of books, magazines, tapes, seminars, and workshops. By the late 1980's, the Foundation's assets were valued at over eleven million dollars, with over two hundred thousand members throughout the English speaking world. But, almost as soon as it was founded, the Enolsis foundation came under the scrutiny of the IRS. After an intense investigation and six years of legal battles, Enolsis lost its tax-exempt status in 1988.
  Unable to keep the government "looters" out of his pockets, Price began to evade his taxes and took steps to protect himself and his organization from investigation and criticism. Fearing someone with the Foundation was leaking his financial skullduggery to the IRS, Price began a purge of the Foundation's ranks. He had prominent Enolsis members and critics investigated. He launched numerous harassing lawsuits against the IRS, several major newspapers, The American Journal of Psychology, and other vocal critics of the Enolsis Foundation. Price's ego and paranoia drove him to acquire the services of twenty-four law firms, ten private investigation firms, and even an in-house security service: The Stewards. The Stewards were Enolsis faithful (trained by private security firms) who were used to dig up dirt on, as well as threaten and intimidate, Enolsis's rivals, critics, and competitors. Even more ambitious was Price's use of the Stewards as moles to infiltrate newspapers, cult-awareness networks, groups in competition with Enolsis, and, in one infamous case, even the IRS. But it was Price's grandest excess that was his undoing.
  A group of mercenaries was hired and trained with Enolsis money in preparation for the day when more "direct" action against the Foundation's enemies would be needed. The came in 1997, when a Steward was caught trying to buy automatic rifles from agents of the BATF. The Justice Department landed on Enolsis with everything under the sun: tax fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to violate federal firearms laws, theft of government documents- all wrapped up with triple damages under the RICO statutes. Most of the indictments named Price and his inner circle of Stewards as the culprits. Price fled the country only hours ahead of indictments for tax evasion and conspiracy to violate federal firearms law. His whereabouts are the whereabouts of his considerable fortune remain unknown.
  The scandal rocked Enolsis and caused membership to drop off dramatically. By 2000, membership had dwindled to less than ten thousand worldwide. In November of that year, Gene Downing was named executive director of the Enolsis Foundation's governing board. Downing had been Enolsis European Director during the 1980's and was insulated from the scandals of Price's inner circle. Downing was a natural choice to succeed Price. He commanded great personal charisma and infused the Foundation with new energy and gave their philosophy new direction. It was Downing who introduced the use of crystals into the meditation exercises of Enolsis members.
  Thanks to Downing's influence, Enolsis is now based on a self-actualization/personal-development philosophy. According to this philosophy, the Enolsis student is the master of his own destiny, completely in control of his life and environment; if the Enolsis student is robbed at gunpoint, then, subconsciously, this must have been something the Enolsis student wanted to happen. Enolsis's central philosophy incorporates aspects of existentialist style personal responsibility with the exploration of higher planes of consciousness. Gene Downing produces volumes of writings, DVD's, CD's, and other muti-media materials. He keeps an exhaustive lecture schedule. His tireless efforts to resurrect Enolsis have paid off. Old believers returned, and new members added their names to the rolls.
  Today, Enolsis's members rolls have grown to over 107,000 members throughout the English-speaking world. In 2007, Downing was given the title "The Living Power," in recognition of his work for and spiritual guidance of Enolsis.

  Regarding Ron Valiant: [Could use some clarification here as I was busy puzzling out something else at this time]. Ron Valiant has CIA files that we weren't yet able to access. Agent Bandolier discovered that Valiant had some background with the CIA but Agent Bandolier didn't have the necessary clearance to access the CIA database. The team sought to research further information on Ron Valiant but has yet to actually do so.  
  Regarding Senator DiTorrio We badged our way into the senator's room and interrogated him. While he was sleeping, he was blabbing, "My boy, my boy, no… He's all I got… Safe… Danine…" [please confirm the accuracy of this, I was writing fast] Confirmed.

  That is about it. We left off when our band of heroes returned to their hotel rooms at the Westin and watched the porno movies and listened to the .mp3. It was about 4 AM on the morning of Wednesday the 11th of February. Jack Huston and James Halperin were sharing a room. Raoul Bandoleir and Baxter Devans were sharing a room. Dirk Carver adn Lance Haines were sharing a room. Let me know if you guys have any further areas of investigation for the morning of the 11th. You guys are pretty darn Again, nice job on the summary. Maybe following up with 'unresolved leads' or some such thing...prioritized items for pursuit... My brain was pretty much cooked Friday night. I had that flash drive with me but I had also emailed the .mp3 to myself at one point, but didn't think of it in the moment. ...

Looking forward to our return to St. Louis.

From Bandolier's Notes (Session 5/11/12)

2011 Feb 10 Tuesday
Morning Arrival
We met with Louis Gaston, FBI, who took us immediately to the house of Larry Daniels. An event had occurred leading to several deaths. The house has an 8 ft wall and gate, and about a zillion FBI and ATF, as well as a couple of USAF keeping a low profile.

Victims: Col. Larry Daniels, USAF, retired, had been an USAF administrator (he went to the Air Force Academy, but his eyes went bad). He worked in procurement and seems to have been involved in Central America and the Middle East/Gulf War One. He retired from USAF and went to work for McDonnell Douglas (MD). There seems to be some indication that he was involved in Iran Contra era arms running [needs clarification]. There was no indictment.
Neil Begly, pimp and probable drug dealer. We later learned that Neil brought the hookers.
Stanley Cable, city commissioner. Much more information needed on this guy.
Hookers, six of them.
Survivor senator Anthony DiTorio (D- MO). The senator is on the Armed Service Committee. Fifty eight years old (claims to be 50), no kids, divorced 5 years ago [what does ex wife say led to breakup?] when he started humping hookers as fast as possible. He has a broken arm and is in shock at the hospital.

The House
 We entered the foyer. Here DiTorio and a hooker were found on the floor. DiTorio was alive and transported to the hospital.
  The hooker was dead and appears to have acted as an airbag when the senator landed on her. The next body was found in the parlor, hanging by her arm from the ceiling. The arm penetrated the ceiling, and appeared bonded with the structure of the house. The hand stuck up into the room above. Teleportation error indicated. Body three was a hooker stuck halfway through the wall between the hall and the party room. Another apparent teleportation error.
  The party room appeared to be blown out as if a detonation had gone off inside, pooching out the walls, floor and ceiling. At the epicenter Daniels was found kneeling with an Olympic boner and holding a crystal in his praying hands [the crystal is now at the university with Dr. Travis Archer, geologist.
  Daniels body was cooked and dried to a charcoal. Begley was also here, partially fused into a chair. There were also two dead hoookers in here. A survey of clothing determined that there was an extra pair of men's trousers and ladies underpants. Our investigation began to include determining if two other survivors had escaped the event.
  The final victims were found in a small room off the party room. Cable and a hooker and a bunch of sex toys were there. In an office two USAF officials (Picton and Wensloff) were searching Daniel's hard drive, apparently for anything classified. We set up a camera and mic to watch them. The room also held many books on new age crystal mumbo jumbo, literature, and the military. There was a photo of a body builder giving Daniels a book and handshake [the book is the same one as found on the bookshelf IIRC]. On the shelf was a "most used" book with the inscription, "To Larry, for more than I can write, Ron." That book was titled Inner Science, by Herbert Price, founder of Enolsis. [see Enolsis interlude, next section] The bodybuilder guy was in military fatigues, last name, Valiant, was determined later.
  The master bedroom contained some BDSM gear that obviously hadn’t been used in a long time, and a pamphlet titled Your Realizer And You, which appears to be an instruction guide for using crystals and was published by Enolsis. The garage contains a couple guest vehicles, but Daniel's vehicle is absent. DMV records indicate that the missing vehicle is a red Mercedes. APB put out.
  Carriage house contains staff quarters. The staff report that they were sent to the carriage house before the party. Someone was awakened by a huge flash (the event), then went in and saw the bodies of DiTorio and a hooker and called the cops. Daniels was alleged to have a friend who hung around a lot who was a body builder. The were able to add little else. We did not learn if the car was taken before or after the event. The staff are as follows:
 - Emily Beaucamp, maid, Haitian
 - Jeanette Beaucamp, cook, Haitian, sister of Emily
 - Henry Kim, gardener, Korean
 - Gerry Fletcher, chauffeur, Jamaican
 - Dolores Montez, ???, housekeeper
 - Ernesto Montez, ???, butler, husband of Dolores.

  Enolsis interlude- from wikipedia
Enolsis was founded by Herbert Price, who promoted a system of clearing your life of clutter. He was rabidly anti-tax and, in 1978 he created a religion as a tax shelter. He published many books and self-help things. Some facts rushed by me, so here is a synopsis that might or might not be accurate and we really should have had a handout for this anyhow:
 - 1984 10,000 members est.
 - 1988 Tax exempt status lost due to being totally fraudulent.
 - 1990 Enolsis est. worth $11 million.
 - no date - The Stewards established as in-house muscle and enforecers. Stewards infiltrated other organizations including the IRS IIRC.
 - 1997 Stewards caught buying illegal weapons. Possibly active in arms dealing. Huge indictments came down. Price disappeared with the money.
 - 2000 many fewer members [I missed the exact number, if given it was buried in a deluge of info].
 - 2000 November- Gene Downing succeeds Price as leader, introduces crystals. Enolsis begins focussing on self-actualization/self-help bullshit. There is no fate. You control everything that happens to you.
 - 2007 Gene Downing given the title The Living Power. - now over 107,000 members.

2011 Feb 10
Tuesday 15h00
  Mercedes Located by local cops We drove from the house to the car. Our assumption was that the car had been taken by two people who had avoided dying in the event and left the party, or who left early before the event. It had been utterly stripped by local shits. There was type-A blood and blond hair on the steering wheel. We located a bloody smutch on a brick wall and found a dead (head mushed in) hooker in a nearby dumpster. Someone had apparently crushed her skull against the building and dumped her. We met with local hoodlums and managed to buy the hooker's purse (mines money and drugs, which were allegedly party drugs: ecstasy, cocaine, whatever). The hooker was IDed as Rachel Marks. We determined her cell number and traced its activity but it hadn't been used recently. We traveled to Ms Marks' appartment and saw her roommate (lady) naked. That was Ms. Mary Peabody. From Mary we worked out the IDs of the hookers: Dead hooker roll call:
 - Emma Louise Naffak, arm through ceiling
 - Danine Zimbello, under DiTorio in the foyer
 - Amanda Curren
 - Sarah Armes
 - Kat Washington
 - Angela Stevens
 - Rachel Marks, killed after escaping the party

2011 Feb 10
Tuesday 17h30 Local Enolsis Office:
   The main floor of the building is a large room with rubber mats. It stinks a bit. Two ladies are there to greet mugs and hand out crystals: Diane (hot) and Sarah. Pictures on the wall include one of Doug Walters (the current local director), Gene Downing (the Living Power, worldwide director), and the late Teb Stobbins deceased local director who died in 2009. There are three doors from the main room, but we were given no opportunity to enter any. No microphone was planted, but we managed to put in a camera in the bookstore across the street to watch the front. Checking official files, we learned that Stobbins died on 17 Oct 2009 at Enolsis from a shotgun wound to the heart. The safe at Enolsis was stolen. The safe supposedly contained items of spiritual significance. Upstairs is a long time apparel company that confirmed that there are no other normal entrances to the Enolsis building. The building is bracketed by other, unrelated businesses. Diane made an apparent sexual advance at one of our agents, but was rebuffed. Turns out he was gay. Enolsis closes at 23h00.

2011 Feb 10
Tuesday Later at FBI Headquarters
  We learned that the crystal from the event had been turned over to Dr. Travis Archer (mentioned earlier). We learned the last name of Valiant for the Ron who signed Daniels' book. A cursory investigation of Ron Valiant indicates that he was caught and tortured by Columbian drug lords in 2003. Allegedly he was smuggling weapons. The US government acknowledged that he was CIA and secured his release [Could use some clarification here as I was busy puzzling out something else at this time]. Ron Valiant has CIA files that we weren't yet able to access. We learned that senator DiTorio had regained consciousness.

2011 Feb 10
Tuesday Later at Hospital
  We badged our way into the senator's room and interrogated him. While he was sleeping, he was blabbing, "My boy, my boy, no… He's all I got… Safe… Danine…" [please confirm the accuracy of this, I was writing fast] He was a hostile fucker until confronted with the possibility that crime scene footage of him on a dead hooker might be made public. Then he was marginally nicer and Agent Angst hit with with the juice. We learned that Daniels got wicked big boners using crystals and that Doug Walters was at the party. We did not learn if he and Ms Marks left before or after the event. Angst administered an amnesiac and we left. We returned to our hotel to get a nap at 21h00.

2011 Feb 10
Tuesday 22h00 at hotel
  Received a phone call with autopsy results. All dead guests (besides Daniels I guess) had internalized shrapnel. More teleportation error-like injuries. The house had been scattered with debris, all of which was determined to have come from the party room during the flash/event. As if there was an explosion into another dimension (for lack of a less retarded or cliché way of describing it) in that room which took along a lot of stuff and people, but it quickly returned to our dimension with some things inside of others.

2011 Feb 11
Wednesday 03h00 Enolsis:
  We broke in. Upstairs is one big room in all white with sheer curtains and a waterbed in the center. Behind the curtains were lots of guns (assault rifles), a video camera, an AV set up and a kajillion tons of porn. In the player currently was a tape labeled "Diane and Sarah". Two interesting CDs were X.AVI and FOR_THE_WORLD.MP3. We copied the CDs and the Diane tape (yeah!). We bugged the upper room and the lower room. There was also some equipment (saws) where someone had been sawing crystals (Realizers) in half. Besides the stairs up behind the door marked "Private", the other two doors on the ground floor were labeled "something," and, "another thing". One had lots of Realizers and pamphlets, I think. The other had fuck all and a floor safe that we couldn't open. We set a camera to hopefully capture someone opening it and requested a safe cracker from Delta Green.

2011 Feb 11
Wednesday 05h00 Hotel
  We watched the vids as follows:Diane and Sarah - The eponymous girls get boned by Doug Walters. They act horny as all fuck, but appear uncomfortable and possibly drugged.X.AVI - Hope and Doug get it on wildly. Hope is hot until she comes uncunted and turns into an amorphous alien with 11 vaginas and 167 assholes. Doug makes her call him daddy or something like that. Total protomatter. FOR_THE_WORLD.MP3 - An audio track of Doug proclaiming his amazing power to destroy the aliens that run all Earths major religions. Doug plans to dominate the Earth after freeing it from alien control.


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Blue Ridge Finale - A New Age Begins

The aftermath of our last session was significant.

Billy Ray Spivey died of his condition under custody.

Billy Ray's girlfriend, Jane Allen, died of her condition under care.

Jane Allen's infant died under care.

Agent Halperin was able to obtain the body of a 'gray' from the gassed
barn on the farm in Groversville. Unfortunately, a Majestic-12 unit,
under the command of Adolf Lupus took possession of the body and the
barn. Later surveilance reported that the barn was completely
destroyed and the site razed.

Groversville was quarantined by the CDC. There was substantial
evidence of mining related toxic groundwater contamination. This led
to suppressed immune systems of the local population and a severe
outbreak of influenza followed. As a result, twenty seven people died.

There has been some reorganization within Delta Green. From here
forward, alphabetical cell divisions will have no more than three
members. A-Cell, for example will have three members. B-Cell, will
have three members and so on. This leaves a total of 78 available DG
agent positions available within the United States.Cell members will
only know the names of their fellow cell members and the code names of
the leaders of adjacent cells. These precautions are taken as Majestic
(MJ) may be seeking to 'out' DG and reveal their illegal activities
and expose the membership. Additional roles can be supplemental to the
DG effort via DG 'Friendly' status. Exceptions are made for previous
operation associations.

Current members of A-Cell are Bandolier, Stockton, Carver
Current members of H-Cell are Halperin, Haines

It has been some months since these events have passed. It is early spring.
Your smartphone displays a text message from Agent Alexander, Director
of Operations.

"You are cordially invited to a night at the opera. Arrangements have
been made for you to meet your escort at Lambert Airport, St. Louis,
Missouri. Be seeing you."

Monday, May 7, 2012

Operation BLUE RIDGE - FINALE

Nice pic Ron. Funny, I remember you taking that in the moment but it seems like a long time ago now.

One of those nights where I went to pee right before we started and right after dinner, and didn't move until 2 AM. My bladder was pretty full.

Good thing I had plenty of salt and sugar to help my osmotic potential along.

I had a good time last night, I hope you all did as well. My condolences to those who perished during the evening, Craig and Leif.

The two DEA agents that stepped in to help with the raid on the barn were welcome replacements. Too bad that Leif was heavily napping when the barn cracking team began. Went to bed thinking about potential nuclear strikes in Tennessee and chuckling to myself. A memorable evening. Well done all.

I'll send out some briefing information for next session. It is going to task all of your investigative abilities and your ability to stay on task even more than this past session. As always, the possibility of sudden and painful death will be close at hand. There should be some questions that remain unanswered. Feel free to shoot those out if you're interested. The game is about facing peril and earning the donuts, but ultimate success will come through knowledge and understanding.

Funny how the mind caves in and suddenly some other part of the brainstem takes over and you're grabbing a pillow with a little happy smirk and surrendering to that call.....

The night before, thanks to movies with Joakim, I had run less than 5 hours sleep. I don't know how I made it without caving...perhaps it was adrenaline...fear for the future of earth and Tennessee ...whether it was alien or nuclear threat.

Had a short night last night as well. Home about 2:30...we're dog sitting Sally and Ella's dad's dog. He got up at 6:30...my mom called at 7:30. Kinda up since then. Starting to feel it a bit.

Not sure if Captain helicopter pilot and demolitions officer are best built for the case-work ahead? Most case work is crime scene sleuthing, possibly technical data mining type work, and action as last resort. I'm fine with going ahead with whatever persona you guys want to bring to the game. Also availble as good replacement characters might Dan the Sherriff from Groversville. When he comes back to his senses, he's going to be interested in following up on exactly what happened. Also, possibly Prikaj Lal, desk clerk from Merle's Shut Eye. He's going to be looking for some answers for a while.

Already scheming and preparing for our next meeting.

Operation BLUE RIDGE - UPDATE 2

Well, the evening began where it left off - Leif and Ron's characters standing beside the road, watching Scott Adams' corpse and the rental Suburban incinerate on the side of the freeway. Afterward, Leif's character journeyed on with the body of Scott Adams and the burned vehicular wreckage to Atlanta.

The rest of the investigators were back in Groversville.

Donavan's new persona, a CDC agent complete with bio-safety equipment arrived from Atlanta early in the morning to find the other agents sleeping off their night's adventures.

In the morning, some of the team slurped down some breakfast at the Stuffin' Shack. Chris' character did some tissue analysis of the cow udder and other samples in the hotel room. Donavan's character began cleaning Scott Adams' hotel room. Joakim stayed in the room and kept an eye on things via remote cameras.

After breakfast, the team noticed a telephone lineman up the pole outside the hotel. This led to a 'conversation' which ended in the back of the telephone lineman's van. Ron's character pistol whipped the lineman into submission, while the lineman nearly headbutted Ron's character into unconsciousness. The group took the van out of town to ask the lineman some questions. During that process, he died.

Donuts.

They decided to dump the van and body up by the reservoir.  While there, they ran into some of Billy Ray Spivey's friends - who talked about Mrs. Spivey and Billy's girl, Jane Allen. ... The latter name sparked some dim memory of a name from a handout and the group did some research. .. or sort of did some research.

At any rate, eventually they found out that in another hotel room there might be someone with the initials J.A. that Scott had rented the room for. With some interrogation of our Indian friend, they got into the room and found a very pregnant, and very hungry, Jane Allen. Evidently she'd been hiding there with Scott's help and hadn't eaten in the three days since he died.

The group fed her,  though her protruding stomach was fearfully stretching (only about a month pregnant, she appeared to be ready to pop at any moment). Our intrepid heroes transported her to SAIC Derringer at the FBI HQ. Upon delivery of her, Derringer handed over some spray that the lab had worked up. Upon contact with the protomatter, the spray would turn a bright pink. The team sprayed Derringer and he was clean. Later, in private, they sprayed one another. All were heavily contaminated. Joakim's character and Donavan's replacement character (who lived in his bio-hazard suit) were the least. Those who'd eaten and drank freely in Groversville - among the most.

The team spent the night out of town that night, got some more supplies, including MRE's and bottled water and went back the next morning. They returned to the reservoir and found it to be wholly and heavily contaminated. In fact, all the town watter is completely contaminated turning bright pink on contact with the spray.

Scott Adams' computer files led the team to Jane Allen, and likewise, examination of these files led them to a cryptic statement that several members of the community 'never go home'. These turned out to be the town aldermen.

The group spent a night up at the reservoir looking for UFO's. Joakim's character spotted a cluster of bright lights moving up the valley, to the east and then descending and winking out, somewhere east of town.

In the early morning of Friday, November 13th, the group decided to follow up on the Aldermen and went to their homes. They found wives in curlers and house coats preparing for a long day of laundry, vacuuming, and morning soaps. Except Mrs. Allen, who was already nursing a bourbon and soda (without the soda). Our heroes did make an appointment to stop back by this evening, around 6:00 to see Mr. Allen.

Afterwards, they decided to go to the Town Hall bldg. and see if they could speak with the Aldermen there. Evidently, they have a weekly morning meeting most Fridays. As our heroes drove up to the town hall, we called it for the evening.  

Overall, I had thought the evening would start of quickly with the clues that were revealed and emailed out at the last session - leading to Jane and the Alderman question. But the group was ... clue challenged and didn't pick up on this until much later in the evening.

That is where we left it, I think. Perhaps the others can correct me or enhance this in areas where I've overly abbreviated. Thank you, Leif, for the use of your home. It was nice to be in familiar and comfortable surroundings. We enjoyed the toothbrushes - but found them lacking in scratching that itch that was unrelenting, you know. We had to improvise. I think we killed the pizza rolls but forgot chicken wings and popcorn chickens in your freezer. Next time perhaps.

Looking forward to next time and the return to Groversville.

Operation BLUE RIDGE - UPDATE

Bit of a late start last night - even though I was back from WV event at 7:28 we didn't really get rolling until 8:30 - there was much bullshitting and catching up...

Despite that late start, it was a productive evening.


Investigations led the group to a farm where Bobby Brickhouse (Craig) had his way with Farmer Robert Gum's cow ...mostly the udder. The udder was missing but in the featureless scar tissue that remained, teats would appear when just the right tickle was applied.

Oh, on the way to the farm, some UFO watchers (the star and chief cameraman of Phenomen-X) were pulled over by the group for questioning. They were later found unconscious in their car, on the side of the road. They had no memory of how they got there or what happened.

The group spent some quiet time on a stake-out looking for UFO's. Some faint, colorful, glimmering lights were briefly observed as they moved through the low clouds,

While on their stake out, the agents heard of another UFO watcher - Scott Adams. The group returned to their motel and discovered that Scott had a room at their very own motel - but hadn't been seen for a couple of days.

Scott was found, half floating, in a tub full of water and blood - rancid after several days of decomposition. Sadly, it was in Scott's room that agent Andreas Dean passed last night. In the bad motel bathroom, some sort of whitish or pinkish protoplasm leapt at Andreas. Our other intrepid investigators fled the room even as Andreas quick reflexes allowed him to fire on the kiwi-sized protoplasmic blob as it struck the bathroom door. He countered with suppressed pistol fire and splatted the blob at point blank range across the bathroom door. Unfortunately, a larger mass of the protoplasm erupted from the bathtub. It was concealed beneath the bloating corpse of Scott. When the protoplasm erupted, body and bathwater all became airborne for a moment - and in that moment, the protoplasm attached itself to the chest of Andreas.

As Andreas struggled to remove his kevlar vest, to his horror, the blob he splattered with his 9mm reformed and leapt to join the larger mass as it worked its way underneath his clothing.

Moments later he awoke amidst the rancid blood and bathwater on the bathroom floor - feeling only a sense of panic and invasion. His abdomen wracked with extreme discomfort and pain. How much time had passed? How long was it before his fellow agents re-entered the hotel room to check on whether or not he was alive?

Next, Dirk Carver's warm and reassuring face appeared. The stained ceiling of the motel bathroom with the little sparkles in the water stained texturing glimmering behind Dirk's face. Then, Dirk's arm appeared holding a syringe. That is the last image that Andreas Dean ever saw.

Welcome to Groversville, Tennessee.

And we had donuts. 11:30...

Joakim woke up in here somewhere, I don't recall if he had a donut - but he was obviously jet-lagging a bit as he passed out heavily in his chair somewhere around 10:30 or so... Somehow I managed to get the potatochip/ginger/cashew/pecanbar/spaghetti/salad/icecream/doubledowndonut ratio about right as I felt pretty good this morning....

Looking forward to our next gathering.

Cheers and be well all.

Oh, and no pic because we never went to the map....maybe next time...

Operation BLUE RIDGE - BRIEFING

BRIEFING
DIRECTIVE FROM A-CELL

Operation BLUE RIDGE
Report to Knoxville, Tennessee ASAP.

Investigate unusual circumstances related to disappearance, crime spree, and bio-augmentation of James Spivey.

- Contact FBI SAIC James Derringer for local direction.
- Obtain samples.
- Determine origin/cause and obtain.
- Once protocols are complete, contact A-Cell for further instructions.

PAPER OP 

Repeat PAPER OP

GREEN BOX protocol in effect.

IAPETUS Finale

President and First Family were attacked by a rogue agent. Three Secret Service agents were killed in the attack, four others were seriously wounded. Government agents acted valiantly in the defense of the President and the First Family. At no time was the President or the First Family in any actual danger.

All Delta Green agents have been placed on temporary administrative leave from their cover professions during the debriefing and post operational observation process. All weapons and ordinance from IAPETUS have been acquired as part of this process. New PDW's (personal defense weapons) have been issued.

Agent Status:

Mark Whitmore - deceased
Andreas Dean - on administrative leave from BATF&E
Jim Halperin - detained for further debriefing, observation and evalution
Shane Stockton - recovering from wounds sustained in line of duty (NY apartment blast)
Dirk Carver - on administrative leave from NYPD
Bobby Brickhouse - resuming normal broadcast schedule soon

Delta Green obtained and destroyed remaining copies of Libri Plures Admiratio ("Book of Many Wonders"), including the original located at L'Universite libre de Bruxelles.

Julius Sward and his family died by his own hand in Modesto, California. Lawrence Badek, a 42 year old math teacher in Wiesbaden, Germany also died by his own hand. Before he died, however, he managed to take over one of the towers for Marktkirche Cathedral and wave a bedsheet with numbers written on it in shoe polish from the parapet. The numbers were never completely visible in existing news coverage. Badek fired on police on the ground, hitting no one. When the Spezialeinsatzkommando stormed the tower, Badek jumped from the parapet holding SDK commando Ernst Austerlitz. Both fell to their deaths on live television. At that some moment, an explosive device in the tower detonated, killing four other SDK officers.

At this time, it appears that all further vectors of the Laqueus Solution have been removed.

As a result of the high profile attention caused by IAPETUS - all Delta Green agents are limited to their PDW only. All requisitions for other ordinance are limited at this time. Missions will be transitioning to the 'Green Box' protocol effective immediately. 
BRIEFING

DIRECTIVE FROM A-CELL
Operation IAPETUS
You are to investigate the murders of MALCOLM RIDGEWAY (44), DINAH RIDGEWAY (43), MICHAEL RIDGEWAY (18), CLARK RIDGEWAY (16), DEAN RIDGEWAY (14), MARY RIDGEWAY (13), ALICE RIDGEWAY (12), CLAIRE RIDGEWAY (10) in Alliance, New Jersey on 12OCT10.

Murderer is MICHAEL WEI (26) (DECEASED). Wei was a mathematical student at Columbia University New York. Wei inscribed a series of numbers at the scene which are known to possess dangerous, paranormal properties.
Mission Instructions:
- Determine if WEI distributed the number in any manner besides the crime scene (phone, fax, email).
- Locate WEI's notes and work on the number and destroy it.
- If possible, destroy the number inscription at the scene and all photographic evidence of it in the hands of the authorities.
- Locate any exposed to the number with mathematical experience and report them to A-Cell.
- Link WEI romantically to DINAH RIDGEWAY. Fake whatever documents necessary to make an affair between the two seem likely.
- Once protocols are complete, contact A-Cell for further instructions
Possible Friendly Contacts :
-Trooper Thomas Blanet, New Jersey State Patrol