or serve and lose,
suffer or triumph,
be the hammer or the anvil.
- J.W. von Goethe
. E M E R A L D . H A M M E R .
"Give a child a hammer and everything becomes a nail." - Unknown
Steven Alzis, owner of Club Apocalypse, NYC, also founder of the FATE, a semi religious following, has a purpose, a mission. He will use all his connections to chase what he wants his hands on he will also get his rivals to chase each other around the world. He will engage the insignificant rivals in a hammering dance of staccato international death to see which tool can bring him the most mythos tomes. This will allow him to compile the most complete and comprehensive grimoire of books on occult practices so advanced that they can only be known as magic. This is the Compendium, and it will become Steven Alzis' masterpiece and legacy to a doomed humanity. Such has it been written in the book.
The KAROTECHIA has a destiny. Formed from the Thule Society they will forge a glorious new Fourth Reich which will trod upon the inferior races of sub-men and raise the Aryan ubermenchen to ascended godhood. They will do this by using the ancient magics of Thule to kill and murder and destroy millions of expendable discards on the chain of existence. First, they must find and know the ancient magics. Find them and know them with an intimate and illicit passion which cannot be quenched, even by the silent horror of the grave.
The agencies of 'good' or what is considered good by some, work against the goals of millionaire Alzis and his network of music and dance clubs. Certainly they work agains the coming of a new German overtake of the world. Forming a network of agencies fighting the common goal to protect what we know as our world against that which is not from-our-world. This is not spoken out aloud. This ain't X-files. This is scientific police work and counter terrorist measurements. The agencies work under the umbrella of LIBRETTO.
There are other factions in this scenario as well. Those are the primary ones.
As players, which faction would you like to join?
By knowing that, I can tweak the scenario to fit the style you want it to have.
In essence, the scenario will be about acquiring books, not as easy a task as it might sound like.
Questions are welcome!
The original idea for this scenario must be credited to Kenneth Scroggins (MiB) and The Delta Green Mailing List as of 1999. The idea never got published and the core material is now lost in the interwebs.