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This is the place to discuss anything.

As soon as you finish your character, post them.

So, do you need any help?

Sorry, I thought you had already made characters for us. I think it was actually Mr. Handy who said he had leftover characters we could use. Either way. I will look up how to make a delta green character (I'm used to regular 1920's Call of Cthulhu) and will have one posted before tomorrow. It will be a biologist/medical guy

Ok!

I'm sorry, I haven't had much time or much sleep lately.

I do have two old Delta Green characters, and I was thinking that I could play either one of them. I hadn't thought of giving one of them to you. However, they both need a good deal of work. Dr. Olivia Carpenter was made for Trail of Cthulhu/Night's Black Agents, so she'd need to be completely recreated. Laurel Nichols is a Call of Cthulhu character, but the game she was in had special rules for character creation, so I'll need to assign all of her skill points. I do plan to play Laurel, but I don't have time to finish rebuilding her tonight, and I won't have time tomorrow night either, but I'll try to get it done as soon as I can.

Found a character I like on the Delta Green.com website. I don't much like making long character descriptions and histories and prefer to use already made characters whom I can subtly modify. I hope this is alright.

NAME: John T. Rogers

AFFILIATION: Agent Michael

OCCUPATION: Case Officer, CIA Directorate of Operations

EDUCATION: M.D., University of Wales College of Medicine

SPECIALTIES: Medicine, psychology, biology

BACKGROUND: Born in Wales to American diplomats, Rogers attended the University of Wales Medical College in Cardiff. Both parents were killed in a terrorist attack on their home in 1986, a fact which may have drawn him to the CIA two years later. Intelligent and extraordinarily athletic, Rogers excelled in clandestine service training at Camp Perry. He spent a year stationed in Madrid, then with the collapse of the Eastern Bloc he was reassigned to DEA/CIA anti-narcoterrorism operations in Central and South America.

Rogers’ first exposure to the paranormal occurred in a 1995 operation against the Cali cartel in Colombia; he never learned the truth of the affair, but a monstrous demonic creature attacked during a CIA raid, and the child of a cartel boss was killed by Rogers in the crossfire. Ostensibly for his own safety, Rogers was reassigned to the New York station; but hardly a year passed before he was embroiled in operationSYNCHRONICITY, a Delta Green investigation of a violent gang of Modernist ghouls. The incedent with the animals and several other "unnaturals" afterward led to an interest in animal biology to better know the weak points of those inhuman things that lurk in the shadows. By the end of that bloody series of investigations he was briefed as a Delta Green agent.

Rogers is single and lives alone in New York City.

STATS FOR SIMULATION EXERCISES:

John T. Rogers, age 34
Race: Caucasian
Education: M.D., University of Wales College of Medicine
Occupation: Case Officer, CIA

STR 17 CON 16 SIZ 15 DEX 18
APP 15 INT 15 POW 17 EDU 17
HP 16 MP 17 SAN 73
Idea 75% Luck 85% Know 85%
Skills: Credit Rating 60%, Dodge 53%, Fast Talk 35%, First Aid 80%, Library Use 50%, Locksmith 43%, Biology 49%, Medicine 80%, Persuade 30%, Pharmacy 60%, Psychoanalysis 50%, Sneak 26%, Spot Hidden 60%, Tradecraft 40%.

Languages: English (own) 85%, Spanish 36%, Welsh 6%

Attacks: .45 automatic 55%, 1d10+2 damage. M16A2 Assault Rifle 40%, 2D8 damage. Grapple 33%,.

Appearance: Rogers is tall and stocky, in excellent health and physical condition from weightlifting and exercise. He has short brown hair and somewhat paranoid-looking brown eyes.

Name: Laurel Nichols
Alias: Agent PAULA
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Occupation: U.S. Marshal
Current Residence: Boston, Massachusetts, USA



STR: 8
CON: 15
SIZ: 18
DEX: 11
APP: 5
INT: 15 (Idea - 75)
POW: 10 (Luck - 50)
EDU: 15 (Know - 75)

Sanity: 50
Phobias/Mental Disorders: None
Maximum Sanity: 99
Hit Points: 17
Magic Points: 10
Damage bonus: +1D4

Skills: (Non-default skills BOLD, Professional Skills ITALICS, Hobbies preceded by a DOT)
Accounting (10%):
Anthropology (01%):
Archaeology (01%):
Art (05%):
Astronomy (01%):
Bargain (05%):
Biology (01%):
Chemistry (01%):
Climb (40%):
Computer Use (01%):
Conceal (15%):
Craft (05%):
Credit Rating (15%):
Cthulhu Mythos (00%):
Disguise (01%):
Dodge (DEX x 2): 53%
Drive Auto (20%):
Electrical Repair (10%):
Electronics (01%):
Fast Talk (05%): 40%
First Aid (30%): 60%
Geology (01%):
Hide (10%):
History (20%):
Jump (25%):
Law (05%): 40%
Library Use (25%):
.Listen (25%): 55%
Locksmith (01%):
Martial Arts(Tai Chi Chu'an) (01%): 50%
Mechanical Repair (20%)
Medicine (05%):
Natural History (10%):
Navigate (10%):
Occult (05%):
Operate Heavy Machinery (01%):
Other Language (01%):
Own Language: English (EDU x 5%): 75%
Persuade (15%):
Pharmacy (01%):
Photography (10%):
Physics (01%):
Pilot (01%):
Psychoanalysis (01%):
Psychology (05%): 55%
Ride (05%):
.Sneak (10%): 40%
Spot Hidden (25%): 70%
Swim (25%):
Throw (25%):
Track (10%):

Hand-to-Hand:
Fist/Punch (50%):
Grapple (25%): 50%
Head Butt (10%):
.Kick (25%): 50%
Mace (DEX x 5): 55%

Firearms:
.Handgun (20%): 60%
Machine Gun (15%):
.Rifle (25%): 50%
Shotgun (30%):
SMG (15%):

Equipment:
U.S. Marshal's uniform
U.S. Marshal's badge
Glock 17 9mm Auto (60% skill, 1d10 damage, 20 yards, RoF 3, Shots 17, HP 8, Malf 98)
Additional 9mm magazines
M16A2 5,56mm NATO Assault Rifle (50% skill, 2d8 damage, 110 yards, RoF 1 or burst of 3, Shots 30, HP 11, Malf 97)
Additional 5.56mm NATO magazines
Mace (55% skill, stun 2d10 minutes, 5.5 feet, RoF 1, Shots 25, Malf 00)
Handcuffs
Walkie-talkie

Laurel Nichols suffers from gigantism, a medical condition that caused excessive production of growth hormone that propelled her to gargantuan proportions. At over seven feet tall, Laurel is freakishly huge, though she might have been attractive had she looked the same with normal proportions. Growing up, she was never bullied - most bullies were too intimidated by her huge frame to pick on her, and the ones that weren't soon regretted it, as she fought back. Laurel has a strong sense of justice which led her to pursue a career in law enforcement, where her incredible size is often an advantage. After graduating from college with a degree in criminal justice, she has recently been accepted to the U.S. Marshals.

Very well, I like both chars. But, for what I know, CIA is an intelligence service that works usually in foreign countries, dealing with threats to USA security. This means that you will be probably doing missions outside of the USA since it would be the FBI that would deal with internal threats. Am I correct?
And for doing missions outside of the USA you need some more skills in other languages: Spanish and Arab. I think it will be fun if we make missions outside of the USA (actually, this will be better to me, with less chance of committing mistakes, since I'm not American ). I'm ok with games inside or outside of the USA, as long as we have fun.

With the marshals, for what I know, they work in the USA, but may occasionally deal with American criminals outside of the USA. Am I correct?

I believe you're correct on both counts. A U.S. Marshal might go to other countries in order to pursue a wanted fugitive, I think.

What is the Campaign start date?

ALIAS: Agent Paulus.

REAL NAME: Tony Mansfeld

OCCUPATION: CIA Contract Employee

EDUCATION: Fort Benning, 'the Farm'.

SPECIALTIES: COVERT ENTRY AND SURVEILLANCE

BACKGROUND: Born in Northern Wisconsin to West German parents, Tony was an above average student at school, Tony joined the Airforce after high school with the intention of using the GI Bil to fund his college education. He enjoyed the life and excelled at everything he did, rather than resuming his education, Tony sought opportunities withing the army and became a signals then ELINT specialist, Seeking further challenges he applied and was selected for Ranger School. When the opportunity arose he went for further Special Forces training further specialising in surveillance, finally landing a place with the Central Intelligence Agency's highly secretive Special Activities Division (SAD).

Tony enjoyed the work and proved to be a skilled operator, often being inserted into the target area alone and days before a SAD strike team to observe the enemy and map out their security. More recently Tony has been seconded to Homeland security where his skills are used against domestic and foreign terrorists on US soil.


STATS FOR SIMULATION EXERCISES:

Tony Mansfeld, age 41
Race: Caucasian
Education: U.S. Airforce Special Warfare School and the 'Farm'
Occupation: CIA Contract Employee

STR 16 CON 16 SIZ 10 DEX 14
APP 9 INT 14 POW 17 EDU 14
HP 13 MP 17 SAN 80
Idea 70% Luck 85% Know 70%

Skills:
Chemistry 44%,
Climb 65%,
Conceal 82%,
Demolitions 41%,
Disguise 25%
Dodge 55%,
Drive Auto 56%,
Electronics 77%,
Electronic repair 40%
First Aid 52%,
Hide 70%,
Jump 40%
Listen 70%,
Locksmith 48%,
Martial Arts 40%,
Mechanical repair 45%
Military Science 50%,
Parachuting 35%,
Photography 45%,
Sneak 70%,
Spot Hidden 80%,
Swim 40%,
Throw 50%,
Track 40%

Languages: English (Own) 70%
Language: Other - German 41%
Language: Other - Arabic 43%

Attacks:
Fist/Punch 76%, (50)
Kick/Knee 65%, (25)
Grapple 41%, (10)
Head Butt 52%, (25)
Knife 65%,
Handgun 60%, (20)
Rifle 70%, (25)
Shotgun 50%, (30)

Appearance: Stands 5’11” tall, 160lbs. average height, muscular build. Brown hair worn normal length, brown eyes, average looks. Tony goes out of his way to look nondescript.

Very well, we will start this week. The year is 2014. And you must all use an alias with the letter "P". (mr Handy have already it).

Hey drone, the Delta Green standard is code name for cell members is the same as their cell letter. So all members of cell P should have code names with a P, Paula, Paulus Patrick? Peter? Percy? The higher the letter the higher your seniority is in the organisation ie Cell A the bosses are Alphonse, Adam and Andrea.

Unless Agent Michael has been sent to the newly constituted Cell P as its leader?

Hulloooo </tumbleweed>

Fumbles typically result in something pretty nasty happening - guns misfire or hit the wrong peole, people get hurt. With a language skill its probably something like:

"Well it says goldsmiths (orfebre) at least I'm pretty sure that is what orfanato (orphanage) means."

....or your head explodes. It's up to the Keeper really.

Just for fun:

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Been there done that

I'm very sorry, but this past last days have been very complicated in my work. I'l try to resume the game by the end of the week.

No worries mate. Real life happens.

I'm back

For the next couple of days I won't be online. So I wish you all a merry christmas!

You to man, enjoy.

I'm back. If you all agreed, we will resume the game.

I usually ask this at the middle of the scenario, not a the end: are you enjoying it?

We're halfway through, Yay!
Yes, I am enjoying it.

Actually what I wanted to say, is that I usually make this question at the middle of the scenario and not at the end (like this time).
If you all agreed, we will play others delta green scenarios.

Yeah its all cool. Some confusion at the beginning, but otherwise good fun.

I'm enjoying the game too. It was a little confusing at first, but once we got started it flowed smoothly. I'd be interested in playing further scenarios.

Can I suggest starting a new thread for this next chapter. Mr Handy could, I believe, place the posts from when we started this conversation in it.

OOC: I'm ok with that.
The name of the chapter is "The city of Seth"

Do you just want a new thread, or do you want a new subforum? Anyone can create a new thread, and the Keeper can move posts into it. If you want a new subforum, then I'll need to create it.

I want a new subforum and then I will create the threads inside

Mr H / Kabukiman what I was suggesting was simply a new thread starting from - viewtopic.php?f=335&t=5497&start=400#p181763

Normally I'd suggest a new subforum when the story starts a new chapter, but there is only the "Wild Dog" thread in this subforum anyway.

Just a thought.

Giles

I'll wait to hear from Kabukiman to confirm that he does in fact want a subforum before I create one. If all he wants is a thread, he can already do that. If he does want a subforum, it might be better to create one for the old chapters and then keep the new one in the main forum, but I don't think that's necessary. There's no reason not to just have all of the threads in the main forum.

Sorry for my absence, this last days have been complicated. I'l create a new thread.

This is a list of stuff we would ideally have, its not all illegal, but it would be better to have it all arranged and in place before we arrive by someone local who wont necessarily attract attention from the local authorities.

• Ideally AK-47 or G3 Assault rifles for each of us, they are popular weapons in Libya where they are apparently readily available.
  
  Likewise an automatic pistol for each of us
  
  Body armour if possible
  
  Ammunition for all of the above
  
  GPS gear x3
  
  Satellite Phone/phones
  
  Half a dozen burner phones (disposable mobiles)
  
  We should be able to bring decent cameras into the country as part of our tourist cover, but decent telephoto lenses are likely to draw attention (being mistaken as journalists is as bad as being mistaken as spies)
  
  Camping and hiking kit we can/should bring as part of our tourist cover.
  
  Decent trauma kits for all of us either off the shelf or made up.

I'll update as I think of it.

Ideally AK-47 or G3 Assault rifles for each of us, they are popular weapons in Libya where they are apparently readily available.
Ak-47 is easier to get by your contact

Likewise an automatic pistol for each of us
No problem.

Body armour if possible
That's more tricky

Ammunition for all of the above
Sure

GPS gear x3

Satellite Phone/phones

Half a dozen burner phones (disposable mobiles)
The contact can get them

We should be able to bring decent cameras into the country as part of our tourist cover, but decent telephoto lenses are likely to draw attention (being mistaken as journalists is as bad as being mistaken as spies)
Agreed: normal cameras will pass, true professional will be bad.

Camping and hiking kit we can/should bring as part of our tourist cover.
Yes

Decent trauma kits for all of us either off the shelf or made up.

I'm fine with an AK-47. They're as common as dirt in these parts and reliable. Can we also get night vision goggles?

We will see latter if the contact manages to get it.
Is this all? Can we resume the story?

Yep I'm ready whenever.

I'm ready too.

All the legit stuff will be delivered in the hotel in Cairo. To get the illegal material you will go to the desert in a point to find the dealer as soon as you get the coordinates.

I'm very sorry for being so slow lately, but I'm being terribly busy. As soon as I have more time we will return at full speed.

I'm back. Sorry for being away, but I was terrible busy.
Do you want to still play the game? I understand if you have lost the interest after being away for so much time. But if you agreed, we could continue..

Welcome back! Yes, I'd like to keep playing.

So, to fast forward this a little bit, you are meeting your contact.

The weapons don't have anything to do with what you will find: you asked for weapons, you got them.

Each of you, have a budget of 1000$. BUT you can use bargain to get a better price, with a bonus of 20% (because one of you know actually arab, and you have left a good impression). Each of you can roll bargain for each product you want (so, if one of you want a makarov, and a ak-47, he will roll twice). If you fail the roll, you will buy by the price they asked. But if you succeed, the price will decrease in 10%. Then, in another turn, you can try to bargain again; if you succeed, another discount of 10% (from the new price, not the original one); if you fail, you don't get any new discount. And this will continue until you failed all the rolls.
Is this clear?

For the next few days I won't be able to post, so I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

I'm back, we can resume the game

So my understanding of the way Delta Green works is it goes all out to ensure the nature of our world and the existence of the mythos remains a secret. Which means as the Students and the students have all been exposed to the mythos we need to a) persuade them they didn't see what they thought they saw - extremely difficult. b) Dispose of their dead bodies in the desert.

Now I'm playing my Character as being the hardened CIA contractor who will do whatever he thinks is right for the 'mission' but I want to hear what others have to say.

Under certain circumstances, we could propose that Dr Fritz be considered a "friendly" but I don't think he really fits that description.

We may be cold and ruthless at times, but we're not MJ-12. Perhaps we can come up with a plausible cover story for what happened, like the whole thing was a hoax and a publicity stunt, the creatures are just guys in monster suits, and so on.

Fritz and his brother are greedy, ambitious and lack normal ethics... but they are not cultists (they are actually the opposite, true believers in science). That's your decision.
It's the same with the kids.

I think that works for the boys maybe, but not really Dr Fritz who clearly belibelieves what his brother says.

Yeah, we can deal with Fritz in some other way if he can't be convinced, but I'd rather not kill the kids. Maybe we can appeal to his scientific nature and convince him that there is no scientific proof of these claims, and that as a scientist he shouldn't accept them without said proof.

Drone is leaving the game. I will try to advertise to see if we get someone else. It's probably better a new character, what do you think?

Yes, that sounds good, though if the new player wants to take over the abandoned character, that's fine too.

Hey, I’m taking over his character as a new addition to the game.

Welcome HelplessBystander

Anyone mind doing a quick 2~3 sentence summary of the previous events? I’m still a confused. Sorry if I sound like I’m too lazy to read through the whole thing. It’s just slightly confusing me about where the plot is at that exact moment since I walked in halfway.

Briefing 1: “Yesterday, the Portuguese government informed us that an American citizen had been killed in their territory. They say it had been by some wild dog; the body had been found 3 days ago, but they had some difficulty to identify it. For sanitary reasons they had to burn the body and they have already found and killed the dog. The local news says there is a panic, and everyone is killing dogs on the spot, because they are afraid that tourism may be affected. Well, this is at least the official version.”
He pauses, drinks a bit of coffee and then continues:
“I have a contact in the Portuguese army. He made some inquiries and discovered that most of it is false. They basically killed the first dog they found and claimed it was the responsible. And my contact saw the first report of the autopsy: the body seemed to be digested by some acid and they found a black substance that seemed to move. That’s the real reason to burn the body. Any questions?”
He return to his coffee.

We went to Portugal where we discovered an orphanage where some kind of eugenics experiments were being conducted we followed the orphanage's director and saved him from a orphan who summoned some kind of black goo. The Director was arrested and handed over to A Cell. To other names were identified Alhireth-Othep and Cornelius Krammer.

Debried info: "We discovered also some interesting things about the two remaining associates. The Dutch has degree in medicine, he was a plastic surgeon in the 60's very famous. But then he changed his field. Or maybe not, since he was trying to develop some new technique that wasn't considered safe. And he travel a lot. I have some photos here to show you. About the other guy: until he creates the company he is non existent. We don't have a photo of him, no record. And with the 80's he stopped moving. He lives here in the USA in a mansion. But I discovered something interesting: he managed to create a lab there. And even better, there is not a single camera there. It seems a bit odd, isn't it?"

"Cornelius, was financing an archaeology expedition in Egypt. South of Egypt in the desert. He has also a brother, some guy who got rich with the diamond business. I wonder why a geneticist would be so interested in digging old places. Oh, but you will find this even more interesting: even if it is all legal, it's also very secret. He paid that expedition from his own pocket and tried to avoid any contact with his own company, like if he didn't wanted that his subordinates... or associates knew what he was doing. What do you think?"

We went to Egypt where we discovered and disrupted the dig which was being led by Dr Fritz Kramer brother of Cornelius he was following clues given to him by his brother who reckoned Alhireth-Othep is a snake man. Now we are here.

Awesome. Thanks.

Quick question: what did you think of the scenario "The city of Seth"? Are you enjoying the campaign?

It's pretty great. The campaign seemed to be pretty interesting, if slightly slow at times, but it definitely is something that I wouldn't mind taking the time of the day to RP about.

I'm enjoying it too. I keep feeling like we were missing something in "The City of Seth," that we didn't discover everything there was to find.

I enjoyed it but I felt rather lost and overall it felt unnecessary. It didn't feel like we discovered anything important. Clearly, we were already suspicious of Ophep and would have investigated him so all I can tell is we found out he 'might' be a Snake Man which doesn't really change our likely course of action.

Well, it's probably because I have decide to eliminate several scenes and characters, I was afraid that the story would get very complicated and too long: I guess I was wrong.

Nothing wrong with that. Although in this case, I was like Mr Handy wondering what we were missing or when matters were going to suddenly take off.

Still enjoying myself though

ghill wrote:
Still enjoying myself though

That's what really matters!

Sorry for not having post anything, but in the last days I have been sick.

MY father-and-law had an heart attack and and a surgery so I haven't be able to post lately, I'l try to resume now.

Take your time. Real life priorities matter. We understand.

I'm very sorry, I was out in holidays and only recently returned, but I discovered that my computer wasn't working. If you don't mind, we can resume now.

Welcome back! I'm ready when you are.

Welcome back!