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Benno Wertheim, Karotechia Bischofe, Guest of the Propavsheye

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Benno Wertheim was recruited to the Karotechia cause in 1978 by Dr. Olaf Bitterich. His grandfather was an officer of the Ahnenerbe SS during the Second World War who had helped translate numerous scriptures from old Gothic and Latin into modern German. Wertheim had inherited his father's wealth and some of his notes, which puzzled him and filled with curiosity that later bloomed into obsession.  Wertheim was quickly won over to the Karotechia cause, and after being instructed in esoterica by Dr. Bitterich and made one of the twelve Bischofe, he was put to work collecting and researching the work of various alchemists and occult scholars across Europe. What he uncovered often overlapped with the research of Dr. Gunter Franks, and the two occasionally met to compare notes (and, for Wertheim, to spy on Franks for Bitterich).  When the Karotechia was dismantled in 2001 by the combined forces of the Americans and the Russians, Wertheim found himself in the living custody of the Pr...
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EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IS A STAR

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This is a reimagining of Caleb Stokes' cancelled Delta Green scenario " Language of the Stars ". I considered writing a whole scenario, but that seemed like a waste of time because this really is just replacing and adding important characters and not meaningfully rewriting any of the mechanics.  According to Stokes the reason the scenario has been cancelled is because of overwhelmingly negative feedback from playtesters on the timeline mechanic that the scenario hinges on, which is a shame in my opinion because I found the timeline mechanic inobstrusive and lended a real sense of pace to the scenario that I haven't really seen elsewhere. Oh well.  The primary difference between my version and the original is what Labyrinth faction is involved. Instead of the Dream Syndicate, it's the Sowers.  The Sowers in Language of the Stars.  Isaac Fletcher is a Deacon of the Sowers, his loving wife is Halimah Jassim, a girl he knew from college who became enamoured with Fletc...
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REPORT: Operation ALICE - Part Two

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VICTOR froze, then ran. Barreling down the stairs from the impossible fourth floor of the Macallister building, Carl right behind him. On the way down he gets VERDANCE, who was attempting to question Michelle Vanfitz about the King in Yellow.  Through the door VERDANCE hears radio chatter and a man's voice, muffled and distant. " Griffith, we gotta torch this fucking place come on ". Thinking it's the Basilisk Group, she gives the door the boot and enters. Vanfitz's room is now bigger than it was. Impossibly so. Corridors lined with bookshelves stretching down long, yellow hallways.  VICTOR rounds the door frame and sees the impossible room. They quickly enter and search for the play, the King in Yellow. VICTOR finds a dictionary, The English-Tartessian Dictionary, on Vanfitz's bed, VERDANCE finds the play on a coffee table. As she picks it up, books tumble out of a nearby bookcase and a gloved hand reaches out, grasping the books and pulling. A man in a trenc...
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Suzerain of the Earth - Master Post / Introduction

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  Introduction Of the world's organized crime syndicates, there are few that are as infamous as the Russian mafia, also known as "Bratva". The Russian mafia maintains an ideal they call "The Vory Mir", the Thieves' World: that the Russian Mafia and its members are sovereign, outside the jurisdiction and moral boundaries of any culture, country, or nation. To the cabal known as Tadjbegskaya Bratva (The Brotherhood of Taj Beg), that ideal has taken on a whole new meaning. They've literally been to another world, and when they returned, they were eager to cast off the yoke of human morality and realize their new purpose - to amass wealth and status through esoteric and strange sorcery wielded with inhuman cruelty. The Bratva are a gang of human traffickers, taking their living cargo to the alien slave markets of Leng in exchange for riches. An attempt to expand their operation in New York City attracts the attention of the IRS. When the Bratva resorts to ab...
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REPORT: Operation ALICE - Part One

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10 May 1999 Following information discovered by Special Agent Jean Qualls in her "interrogation" of Werner Linz, a sorcerer of the Karotechia, V-Cell learned of an ongoing operation in the city of New Orleans, Karotechia operatives part of the "Basilisk Group" militia were ordered to attempt to seize an "item of high significance" to the Karotechia in the possession of one Abigail Wright of New Orleans.  Delta Green tapped a Friendly to perform a cursory investigation and discovered that Wright had been missing since February, and that the Basilisk Group had already made a brutish and unsuccessful attempt at claiming this "item of significance" from her apartment. Moreover, the discovery of an occult symbol affiliated with demonology found in Wright's apartment by the Friendly indicated that something strange and unnatural was indeed at hand. Delta Green activated V-Cell to investigate.  V-Cell arrived in New Orleans and was greeted at New Or...
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Report: Operation TENNESSEE WALTZ

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TO: A-Cell FR: Victor, Verdance, Wolfgang.  REPORT OPERATION TENNESSEE WALTZ In the aftermath of their raid on Amalgamated Bio-Carb's "Gemstone" Production Facility on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. V-Cell found itself at the centre of a lot of attention.  Above, Staff Sergeant Dixon LeFevre (Left), Sergeant Gary Mundy (Centre), two survivors of Bravo Team "TURKEYSHOOT" deployed during the Gemstone attack. Ssgt. LeFevre and Sgt. Mundy both witnessed the reanimating effects of the Sapphire Compound firsthand, but agreed to remain silent, as advised by V-Cell. They kept up their act under scrutiny by Senate. Have been earmarked for potential recruitment pass in the future. Lt. Fields, Special Agent Copeland and Special Agent LeClerc all found themselves having to explain their actions in a series of hearings and inquiries, including indictments against A.B.C itself, still ongoing. A closed-doors hearing held by the United States Senate Committee on Armed Se...
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FINAL REPORT: Bleeding Darkness

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 Parts  One ,  Two ,  Three , and Four This report details the events of sessions five, six, and seven. " Of Bethany ", " The Castigator ", " Save Your Servant " respectively. The agents return after having tailed Father Yohn and the priests, secure in their judgement that he and his posse must be somehow responsible for Father Szary's death, and in some way, responsible for the mystery affliction at the Kings County Medical Centre. INDIGO does more digging in what she recovered from Gleeson's personal computer, including her research into the occult, on Szary's advice. Her research focused on the history of the Gowdie family line. Her research revealed that the Gowdies were once of Scotland, and that an Isobel Gowdie had been tried for witchcraft there in 1662. Further research indicated relatives of Gowdie relocated to the colonies in New England, and later on were tried again on suspicions of witchcraft in Salem, records name a "Tabitha...
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