====== Session 2026.5.2 - Delta Green ====== ===== System ===== [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/175760/delta-green-need-to-know-free-starter-rulebook|Quick Start]] ===== Players ===== * Jacob * Nick * Steve * Wes (GM) ====== Session ====== ===== Recorded Audio ===== {{ :oneshots:26.5.2.deltagreen.oneshot.mp3 |}} ===== AI Summary ===== === Character Introduction & Mission Briefing === * Team assembles at Portland post office: Kurtz (computer scientist/professor from UW), Schell (astrophysicist from Hawaii), and McMurtry (ex-military, Seattle PD) * They receive activation via phone calls disguised as spam, pulling them from their daily lives * Mission briefing via conference room phone: Find missing Delta Green agent Clyde Bowman, last active in the 60s-70s, disappeared three days ago * Team discovers dossier taped under table with apartment key and 48-hour deadline === Apartment Investigation === * Team investigates Bowman's Portland apartment - spartan, cigarette-stained, recently lived-in * Find personal effects: family photos, prescription medications for elderly man, weapons (loaded .357 revolver) * Neighbor encounter: elderly woman looking for Clyde, team poses as IRS colleagues conducting wellness check * Kurtz discovers digital deed to remote cabin purchased 2002 (same year wife Marlene allegedly died) * Death certificate claims Marlene cremated at Wilsonville Crematorium, but facility has no record of her === Journey to the Cabin === * Team drives several hours into central Oregon wilderness beyond Mount Hood * Arrive at night to isolated cabin with Clyde's Honda Civic parked outside, no lights on * McMurtry conducts exterior sweep with night vision, discovers 20 one-gallon gas containers in shed === Cabin Discovery === * Team breaches cabin, finds Clyde unconscious but alive in bed - completely unresponsive despite pulse * Discover military footlocker containing: bloody knife with bone handle, Mac-10 submachine gun, tear gas grenade, mysterious glass sphere, and classified files about Ventasia Corporation * Find envelope with Delta Green symbol containing Clyde's final instructions === The Letter & The Septic Tank === * Clyde's note requests burning contents of septic tank with the 20 gallons of gas, warns not to look inside, asks for remains to be kept from his children * Team realizes Marlene was likely never cremated - her body is in the septic tank * Schell hears crying/sobbing sounds from near septic tank but dismisses them === The Burning === * Team restrains unconscious Clyde to bed as precaution * Pour all 20 gallons of gasoline into septic tank without looking inside * Kurtz ignites the gas despite voices from the tank offering to reveal secrets * Massive fire erupts, smoke billowing into night sky === Aftermath & Extraction === * Secure evidence: footlocker contents and classified files about Ventasia Corporation (Argentina import/export firm with ties to weapons smuggling and "shield formula") * Team returns to conference room within 48-hour deadline to report mission complete === Return to Normal Life === * Schell reunites with spouse in Portland, continues vacation * McMurtry returns to Seattle PD shift, haunted by crying voices * Kurtz returns home to daughter and parents, makes cookies while processing the mission * All three agents carry psychological scars from what they witnessed and what they chose not to investigate