Play@YSDC

Welcome guys!

If you have something on your mind, please share it.
So, far there´s not much to say. I´m trying to set the scene for the game.

The game is set in NYC, 2018.

The players are playing agents from federal agencies. They have been contacted by an anonymous contact to appear at a reopening of Club Apocalypse on Lexington Avenue.
Three items should be brought from a Green Box at Manhattan Mall, and to be presented to the doorman by the blue doors of Club Apocalypse.

http://www.palinola.com/projects/lab/greenbox/ (Mundane items....)

Other than that, I will be presenting some backdrop fluff to make you all comfortably numb and I hope for a great time!

/Dave

Hi guys looking forward to this!

I´ll post a message in the recruitment channel to lure in some more agents.

Afternoon. Just checking in and confirming I can post. I'm in the middle of flying home, so I haven't put pencil to paper yet. I'm thinking of either a Federal Agent (DEA or ATF), or an NYPD detective (if Dave says OK). Either way, my PC will be greatly inspired by Lionel Fusco (played by Kevin Chapman) from Person of Interest.

@Dave: 3 Mundane items from the Green Box?

Think I’m leaning towards a geeky hacker for the NSA so book smarts not street smart - he may not last long

Cheers, Hal

@Sweeper: Yes, the Green Box Link. Add three items in the form and press generate. That will produce a list of items. Take those and add to your inventory. Just for kicks and you might be able to weave them into your background info. However, you should give those items to the doorman at CLub Apocalypse. (Should you want to keep any of the items, you can always say the contents of the box were something entirely different.

NYPD Fusco is totally doable, as he indeed is open for play. I love POI! Just port him over, no problem. I´ll have no trouble finding Shaw making an appearance as well.

@Airbornexo: NSA is a great fit.

The Evidence Locker is added.

I tie in for Person of Interest has risen. This is my own AAR from the series. As for now, Sameen Shaw is working the Charnel Dreams detail alongside you guys.


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OK, still deciding on DEA or NYPD Detective; one will probably end up being a backup character for the other, now that I think about it.
If I do the NYPD Detective, I figure he will be one of the "Back Office" 's goto local assets for missions in NYC, (plenty of opportunities for that, I expect). He was working Homicide when he got called into a rather nasty case of a cult that got knife happy and "almost" succeeded in summoning something. It was enough to get the attention of some Agents also working the case and he was vetted and inducted.

As for the DEA Agent, he'd also be local, I expect; probably based out of Newark and close to the Shipyards to work with the various Port Authorities tracking drug shipments, both legal and otherwise, into the country. His exposure to the Truth was a drug bust that included a container full of ground opium mixed with what might called worms, but didn't come close to matching up with any known species. The induction happened after a run-in with several dealers high on their product who proceeded to literally dismantle several agents and had to have limbs blown off before they stopped.

Sound super!
Btw, I´ve added Carnage_Lee to the list of players in the game. So, the quota is filling up nicely.

Thanks for the invite Dave. I'll start thinking of a character concept.

You´re welcome, Lee! This is all yours anyways, right?
Glad to bring a crowd to play.

I’ll be reprising the role of Marcus LaHabra formerly ATF special agent; former US military. After being seconded to various agencies due to his special skill set he is currently on a ‘watching brief’ with the NSA.

Callsign - HUSKER

Cheers, Hal

That being said, youe character might have some INTEL on what has happened on this street 22 years ago. Find your place at the safe house thread, please.

I´m probably spelling like a mad person, ´cos the spell checker in Mozilla is AFK. Scuse that.

I’m on my iPhone as the laptop is in work

And you´re on a retreat, I hear. You devil you.

I’m back now from the Rancho Relaxo

Cheers, Hal

Time well spent!

By the way, check out Lee´s nifty thingy: https://www.dholeshouse.org/
Great tool to create hand outs and characters for Call of Cthulhu.

Or, why not check out Airbornexo´s Arkham Investigator?

Or Mythos Tales published by 8th Summit :p

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126100/mythos-tales

OK, I've got the good detective's char.sheet made. It's the fillable pdf, so can I PM it to you, Dave?

Done with my character and sent off for approval.

Numbers are growing, good good ! *rubs hands*

Just added the Greenbox items and I now have 4 20lbs bags of charcoal briquettes in the trunk of my car.

Great mentioning it, forgot those ! A sec...

Bwahahahaha !

-Several small spray-bottles filled with ammonia. A sticky note attached to the side of one reads, "FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON USE, WATCH THE BOONDOCK SAINTS. ALSO, COLLECT ALL LOST DIGITS."
-A black ski mask.
-A very dirty workman's overall. On the back it is marked with "Sanitation Department"

Whoever did this Generator liked the Boondock Saints a lot.

Okay, highlighted tagged, because its a keyword here (In DG parlance, a 'tagged' person is someone with a DG clearance). Putting this out because I learned that just today, wanted to use it and don't know how familiar everyone is with that stuff. XD

What was highlighted, Henderson?

the word 'tagged' - his character stressed the word in conversation to see if the other person would pick up on it.
If the other person did, then there's another indicator they're a DG agent/friendly/whatnot

Oh, I´ve not read the Safe House thread yet.

@SweeperAZ: Approved and added to the Dossiers.

Well, now we have seven players. That´s a feat in itself!

Detective Brooms is preparing a bbq!!

Incidentally, what are your guys´names? Mine is David.

Umm you guessed it ... it's Carnage.

Oh wait no, we called the dog Carnage, my name is Lee.

Name's Wilhelm, but for the convenience of English speakers, I mostly go by William on the net.

It's Joshua or Josh, but I also go by my middle name, Jacob (Jake); usually when more Joshuas pop up, which happens more often than one would think.

Great!
Josh, Lee, Will & Dave.

I kind of like the short versions of names. I hope you don´t mind.

This actually my first Mythos, much less Delta Green, game. I only know about "Night at the Opera" as several podcasts I listen to mention it as the original coverstory in the setting.

Also, what secret handshake junk would we know so Ms. Hold-Out pistol doesn't get antsy and I don't arrest her?

Welcome to the conspiracy! Now you just need to assign yourself a name beginning wuth an H. Like HOLDEN, HUSKER etc.

She is obvioulsy there to see to that not the wrong people get access to the safe house. She did say she´d answer questions. She just needs to know your Delta Green assigned names. H-cell has names with H as initial letter.
And, Lionel sure could arrest her. Should he want to.

OK, I'll go by Halphoh (Half-O or HO).

And I'll only arrest her if she gets trigger-happy.

Hi guys IRL I go by Hal, I've not posted on here for donkey's years and am super excited. I'm playing Marcus 'Habs' LaHabra!

Cheers, Hal

Sweet HAL and Dave. Sounds like a movie thing!

I can't let you make that joke Dave...

Do stop by and tell me what´s on your table: https://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/vi ... 184&t=2535

My proposed DEA agent has not been written yet, doesn't even have a name, and I was only going to bring him in if the Detective ate it. Hope you weren't counting him as one of the missing cell members.

Nope, they´re Lee, Mr.Handy, Kabukiman.

As far as I can see, Halphoh is the only one that's actually a New Yorker as well as a cop, so he could take the lead when casing the club, assuming we know that much about the mission.

See if that sticks in-character.

Dave wrote:Nope, they´re Lee, Mr.Handy, Kabukiman.

Did the link work for my character's details?

Yes, it´s added as pdf : https://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/vi ... 431&t=6416
Just enter the arena!

Okay put up some ideas, not ignoring the friendly, just wanting to hear what the other agents think before we move on.

Good job! The information about the band and the club should be easy to get.

A scene from todays walk:

Are you going to try an restore it?

Nice topical intro Lee, its all over the news in the UK! Love it! And the British are definately sanitising their news / press releases.

Cheers, Hal

Airbornexo wrote:Nice topical intro Lee, its all over the news in the UK! Love it! And the British are definately sanitising their news / press releases.

Cheers, Hal

Thanks I hoped it would add a bit of flavour - don't usually game in the 'now' i think it might be an interesting experience.
BTW I am a brit

Cool I'm up in sunny, sunny Manchester

Only news we get here is about the World Cup! And occasionally if the Trump dude makes a tweet.
The truck is... a nice find.

Not buying it though!! It has no windscreen, so no.

The place had a cool entrance!

Looks at the background brief.

Now that is a big wall of text.

I can add some pictures. Plus I will make an evidence wall of it for ease of access.

Ok, picked out a pic for my friendly and created a character. Going to go with what I rolled even though it's below average. We can't all be above average. Here's my random green box generated mundane items. Now, how do I go about entering or should I wait as I'm a friendly and not part of H cell?

Green Box Contents

A broken and dismantled AAI RQ-2 Pioneer unmanned aerial vehicle.
A set of maps from the local area - road map, geographical map, tourist guide, etc. Everything you need to search the area *very* thoroughly.
A fully loaded .38 Smith&Wesson Model 36 snub-nosed revolver, with a leather belt holster.
A pair of house slippers, size "medium." If they fit, they are quite comfortable.

Oh, and my IRL name is Mark.

Great, Mark!
I thought maybe Lew could meet up with Shaw at Starbucks over a coffee? The topic of the meet is to support an intevention wich might have diplomatic backlash and have some need for people needing to leave the country quicklky and quietly. Lew has met with Shaw previously when working on an AI project regarding electronic surveillance.

I´ll bring down the tempo to let Mr. Handy, Zero, Mallet and Starspawn338 have time to post over the next few days. I´ll do my best to edit and arrange things to make the game understandable. You guys are doing great so far!
It´s this conglomeration of minds that make play by post so great.
You never know where things will go. Only how they begin.
It´s all about the bits and pieces the individual players bring to the game that matters!
Thanks for joining in!

That's a good idea Dave - getting out of synch is definitely going to happen (in a forum game) but it's not a good idea to have that happen at the beginning.

Fine by me Dave - lots of players onboard to give you timing headaches

I'm going to be in a training class to, well, be a trainer for most of next week starting Monday. I apologize in advance if the momentum picks up after the rest show up and I'm not quick on the uptake.

Have a great time!

Thanks for slowing things down. I've now finished catching up on all the posts. The picture you found for me looks good, so I'll just use that. I'm trying to locate my old character sheet from The Dreaming Man, but I haven't found it yet.

Here are my Green Box items:

• Three Princeton Tec EOS headlamps.
• A paperback book: " Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq".
• Smith & Wesson Model 1076 10 mm Auto (10x25 mm) semi-automatic pistol with two 9-round, two 11-round, one and 15-round clips plus 50 hollow point rounds. Slide marked with "Caution - Capable of Firing With Magazine Removed". Two punched dots under the de-cocker lever.

Hi guys!
The premise to run a game during the vacation, when the vacation has other plans - is a bad idea, it seems.
So, no dice and no 100% engagement from me besides the set-up phase, it seems. So instead of stringing you along for a few weeks and then return to work and have no time to host the game seems rude.

I guess the thought of hosting a game was better than actually hosting it.

It was nice to see how many people were up for a game.

Hopefully you can be busy in other games.

Cheers from the bbq!
/Dave

That’s a shame hope you get more time in the future Dave - let me know

Cheers, Hal

I'm sorry to hear that. When you are ready, I am too.

Oh man, my scedule went to shit last week, I kept planning to post but never quite found the time.
Sorry to hear that this happened to you too.
I hope we can all get things moving again.
Forum games are very tricky and suffer the slings and arrows that real life throws.

Okay then. See you around.

Take care guys!

Hey, all. After a heckuva week and evals, I'm finally a trainer and can start playing a bit again. What have I missed?

I pulled the game, unfortunately. My fault. No time.

Dave wrote:I pulled the game, unfortunately. My fault. No time.

Aw, seriously? That blows. Well I hope we can try again sometime; dang, adulting sucks, doesn't it?

I guess it has its ups and downs.

Reporting back after total failure of my equipment kept me offline for quite a while.
Will read into things tomorrow.

Henderson, the game is cancelled, due to me moving house and starting work again.
See you in the webs!

Ah, didn't see that !
Sorry to hear it, maybe next time.