An Exploration of 'Naya Prayasa'

A deadly new threat for Delta Green by Fee Fi Fo Fin.

The Black Buddha, by Dennis Detwiller

Introduction

Few know his name, though he is one of the most influential figures in American politics of the last thirty years, even fewer know just how the extent of his influence, and of that few, only a frightened margin know the extent of his true power. Those that do know his name and his works fear and loathe him in equal measure. His name is Nathan Harmati, and to those who truly know him, his name is synonymous with fear. Harmati is remembered by those few for his role as a puppetmaster during his tenure as one of the last bishops of the Cult of Transcendence, a depraved and secretive cult of Nyarlathotep that worked to dominate global culture and politics, to slowly and steadily push humankind towards the worship of the Great Old Ones.

Since the cult’s implosion in 2012, Harmati has since become a more public figure, entering the world of Western politics as a divisive but charismatic alt-right conservative pundit. He has also started to form a new organization, formed from the broken remains of the Cult of Transcendence. This new organization is Harmati’s brainchild, tailor-made to fulfill his ultimate obsession: War. Harmati has labelled this new organization “Naya Prayasa”, the New Endeavour. By the late 2010s, Naya Prayasa emerges with a vengeance. By the mid-2020s, through strategic alliances and a ruthless campaign to insinuate itself into the higher echelons of power, the cult is able to secure a position of power in American rivalling Majestic-12, posing an existential threat to Delta Green, potentially the world. 

History

Harmati reigned as the final Bishop of Fear of the Cult of Transcendence. A Bishop of the Cult  commanded billions of dollars and thousands of personnel across a dizzying assortment of front organizations, militias, corporations, and cults. The power they had kept them insulated against investigation from almost any authority, no matter how great or small, allowing them to act with pratical impunity. As Bishop of Fear, Harmati controlled The Cult's "See of Fear" a handful of cadres and cults designed to spread fear throughout the globe. It was a position that many coveted, however despite this, Harmati regarded his appointment with contempt. His contempt stemmed from a simple, petty slight - that he ruled the See of Fear, when he felt he deserved to rule the See of Hate, controlled by a rival, Andrew St. Claire. However much he loathed his post, he still performed his duties diligently. The See of Fear excelled at dispersing, misdirecting, and destroying any investigations that got too close to the Cult of Transcendence. 

Implosion

Harmati's rage would boil over in 2012. Shortly after one of the other Bishops abandoned the physical realm in a communion with the Great Old Ones, Harmati murdered St. Claire and destroyed the Cult of Transcendence's headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. The remaining Bishop, Lionel Glass, was unable to salvage the catastrophe, and before long the entire structure of the Cult of Transcendence was imploding, a few cults seceded from the Cult, cutting off their ties and slinking away into obscurity, most consumed each other in vain attempts to settle old scores or in ill-fated power-plays, the same goes for most of the Cult's leadership, with practically every Acolyte dead or missing save for Harmati himself, and Lionel Glass

When the dust settled, Glass, former Bishop of Greed, implicated himself as a leader of the Cthulhu cult known as the Exalted Circle, while Harmati gathered what few assets he had remaining and retreated to his native India, where he set about founding a new cult: "Naya Prayasa". By 2015, Naya Prayasa was operational, focusing its resources in South Asia and America.

The Remnants and Recombination

As Bishop of Fear, Harmati commanded three cults that did his bidding: The Church of Interlife, AACE, and H.E.L.P. In his effort to build his new organization, he saw no reason not to recycle what remained of these three organizations. 

The Church of Interlife was a very old cult of “dreamers”, individuals who focused their time and energy on the Dreamlands. After the fall of the Cult of Transcendence, Harmati moved to position himself as the leader of the Church, and to make it his personal cult. When the cult bucked against this, he brutally murdered its leaders and many of their followers, decimating the cult. When the dust settled, only a handful of Dreamers that believed in Harmati remained. They followed him to India, and became the foundation of Naya Prayasa's supernatural power. 

The second was Americans Against Covert Enemies: AACE, an American right-wing political think-tank that was used by the Cult to spread fear of outsiders: muslims, communists, homosexuals, etc. It was a breeding pool of xenophobia and neoconservatism that hit its stride in the post-9/11 wave of American nationalism. Of those groups he still controlled, AACE was the most intact. Harmati would continue to use AACE as his primary political instrument in the United States.

Lastly was H.E.L.P, the Human-Extraterrestrial Liberation Project, a project to capitalize on the UFO conspiracy craze of the 1990s with the objective of turning would-be investigators of the Cult’s activities into dawdling conspiracy theorists obsessed with a constructed mythology about alien visitors, and who could be turned to investigate, harass, even kill enemies of the Cult. The use of just such a cult would prove invaluable to insulating Naya Prayasa against investigators, though the group was very nearly defunct and would need to be majorly restructured after an investigation by American law enforcement very nearly crippled it.

The Church of Interlife. 

AACE required few alterations, and H.E.L.P's reorganization would come later. It was important that the Church of Interlife and its remnants saw reorganization first, as it would form the "spiritual" foundation of the new cult's power. Harmati only had a handful of Church of Interlife dreamers who had followed him - and it didn’t seem useful to rebuild the Church as it had been in the past. Instead, a new organization was founded from scratch. Harmati would personally oversee their ritual training and their operations, and they would answer directly to him, he would dub it "Naya Prayasa". Naya Prayasa advertised itself subtly in meditation circles in India, catering especially to tourists and backpackers who had come to India seeking "inner truth" and "enlightenment" (who could be sent home later to act as agents of the Cult). Its first classes were held in New Delhi and Mumbai in 2015. 

Much of the training involved the meditative rituals the Church would teach its initiates in order for them to enter the Dreamlands. While Naya Prayasa students slept, their teachers, former Interlife Dreamers, would visit them in their dreams. The purpose of these visits was to gauge a person's potential as an agent of the cult. These students would be of use to the cult, as they would help spread the word of Naya Prayasa, and would be more vulnerable to future "dream-visits" in the future. Those that showed heightenend potential (and who were especially receptive to Naya Prayasa’s conditioning: whose empathy had eroded and whose capacity for cruelty had bloomed) were invited to Harmati’s compound in the Shivalik hills to graduate to the status of "Gurus".

What those students faced at Harmati's compound in the Shivalik Hills was a far cry from their earlier training. Those that trained as Gurus were broken down and remoulded into devoted servants of Harmati and Harmati alone. Once Harmati and the cult believed their students had been totally broken down, only then would their real training begin. They alone were entrusted with Harmati’s secrets of Hypergeometry and were deployed by Harmati to attract new followers by spreading the word of Naya Prayasa, but more importantly, to work their way into the company, then the confidences, of the powerful.

AACE 

AACE required the littlest amount of restructuring as the group was relatively sheltered from the fallout of Transcendence's collapse. Its manager, however, did need to be brought back into the fold. Chaz Antoniwicz was Harmati's favorite dog to kick. He would thrash and berate the smarmy white lawyer knowing that Antoniwicz would just turn around and repeat the treatment tenfold onto his underlings in AACE, that was half the reason Harmati did it. When Antoniwicz caught wind that his peer, Lyle Ramshaw, and died a screaming death after refusing to bow before Harmati, he knew better than to follow Ramshaw's example, but he didn't exactly rush to Harmati's side either. By that point, he wasn't sure what he could do that would temper Harmati's wrath. 

Harmati brought Antoniwicz back into the fold with a phone call and that was it. No thrashings, no beatings, no visions of sodomy and slaughter beamed directly into his dreams. "I hope you don't think this is over, Antoniwicz" Harmati said coldly into the receiver. "I had no reason to" Chaz said, and that was that. 

AACE would work double time to push its image further into the public sphere, it sponsored conferences and debates featuring a rogues gallery of neo-conservative pundits emphasizing the importance of "Western civilization", "Christian Values", and calling for a crackdown on "Degeneracy". Donation drives generated major cashflow for Antoniwicz and Harmati, which helped shore up the cult's facilities in India and sow the seeds for expansion into America. AACE generates a huge swatch of income which keeps the greater cult afloat, and its through AACE and AACE-affiliated fronts that Naya Prayasa put their money to work. Probably the biggest AACE-sponsored front is "The Patriot Fund" a right-wing non-profit organizationt that performs fundraising campaigns in order to bankroll legal representation for "true American patriots who have run afoul of the law in the protection of their sacred, sovereign nation": euphemism for buying cutthroat lawyers for right-wing extremists when they bomb an abortion clinic, or gun down an "anti-american" reporter.

H.E.L.P

H.E.L.P was the group that Harmati needed to get clinical with. The group was decimated by an investigation by federal authorities, those that remained either flaked away or cut and run once it was clear no one was steering the ship or answering their calls. Harmati used hypergeometry was able to quickly and deniably disappear his "Orbitals" and whatever money and poached Lamplighters technology they tried to make off with. The basis for this new group would be the cultists of H.E.L.P. His diligent dupes. 

Harmati pondered ways of developing a cult without a centrallized structure that would be commanded deniably. An idea sprung to life, and one that pleased him, as it made strong use of the internet, a technology Harmati was slow to adopt and understand as Bishop. He leaned on old contacts and members of the Church of Interlife (those who hadn't risen to a position of any real potential, and so were ignored in Harmati's initial failed acquisition), particularly those in New York and Hollywood with influence in the entertainment industry. Using AACE money, these men were hired to concoct an "alternate reality game" that involved a user, who identified himself as "Listener", who claimed to be a psychic receiving visions in his dreams, warning him about "malign influences" rooted in the "deep state", an "energy" that twisted the idealistic and the "progressive" into deranged lunatics bent on guiding the country into a satanic agenda of forced sterilization of the "undesirable", mind-control microchips, and other conspiracy theories.

These posts and videos were targeted at former H.E.L.P members and their circles. This worked in concert with a second, more unnatural campaign. Gurus of Naya Prayasa developed and deployed similar dreams, insinuating them into the sleeping brains of H.E.L.P veterans, who now began to have the same, strange dreams as "The Listener". The influx of posts responding to The Listener claiming to have shared, prophetic dreams bolstered the community. After a while, "The Listener" posted less and less, arguing it wanted to avoid becoming the centre of attention, but that he would still follow the dreams. That was in 2016, by that point, the conspiracy was guiding itself, those members that received dreams, so-called "True Listeners" became pillars of their community. Occasionally Harmati would even doctor the dreams with visions of events that Harmati knew would come to pass, to add some legitimacy. 

This conspiracy, called "The Listeners", acts as a watchdog for Harmati. Many support AACE, a few AACE members believing the conspiracies. A few have been guided to become members of Naya Prayasa. AACE is aware of the Listeners and their conspiracies. Through fronts, AACE has moved some money to rent conference rooms and hotels for Listener meet-ups and conventions. The movement has quite blossomed to need a full convention centre...yet. 

Most Listeners are just internet trolls and conspiracy theorists. True Listeners are the really dangerous ones. The dreams motivate them. A few of them have actually turned their otherwise dead-end lives around, started exercising, returned to school, been more aggressive and go-getter at their workplaces and have even received promotions. This motivation extends to dark urges too. The dreams they receive encourage a sort of magical thinking that slowly works to divorce the Listeners (True Listeners especially) from reality. They begin to think of themselves as pilgrims into a hidden world, the "real" world, and begin to consider "surface reality" more and more as an illusion, a triviality. This thinking extends to their inhibitions and sense of "consequence". As their sense of inhibition and "morality" erodes, they begin to entertain violent thoughts. Many are tyrants in their homes against their families and are cruel to their friends. Some stalk coworkers or old high-school crushes. At least one has dabbled in recreational murder (we'll wait until he starts killing serially before we annoint him "serial killer").

The coalition of cults and front organizations: Naya Prayasa, AACE, and the Listeners, truly emerged in America in 2015, by 2016 it had laid its roots and was now fully active. Harmati saw the election of Donald Trump as a golden opportunity for Naya Prayasa to achieve influence in the highest chambers of power. No holds were barred as Harmati pushed his cult to sink its hooks into the new regime - his ambition would be a mistake. 

2016-2020: Stumbling

Naya Prayasa had worked for years, starting in 2016, to gain influence in the White House. White House staff were enticed to join Naya Prayasa, though this was slow-going, (investigations by the Secret Service and the FBI about the religious group that was pushing an aggressive recruitment camapign in D.C. forced the group to play their cards close to their chest). The apparent lack of progress infuriated Harmati, So when he learned that Doretta Styles, the wife of a senior Secret Service agent had been brought into the cult, Harmati pushed hard for her to be "broken and remade" so that her husband, and soon other agents, could be indoctrinated. 

It worked, and before long her husband, Brock Styles, was being introduced. For a time, things were promising, but when the nightmares had the unintended affect of driving him to withdraw from the cult, the cult only ramped up its psychological operation. The insuing nightmares triggered a violent PTSD episode. On February 9th, 2018 Brock Styles shot his wife and blugeoned his two children to death before getting into a standoff with police on his lawn. A deranged facebook post made by the man caught Delta Green's attention. A Program Friendly in the Secret Service got himself brought onto the investigation, while the Outlaws (who had managed to gather some details from contacts and Friendlies and OSINT-gathering operation ran by ANTON) deployed a cell to investigate Naya Prayasa's operation in Chicago, Illinois. 

Harmati directed the cover-up, ordering psychological operations to be ceased and for mudane operations to continue. Divinity Blake, the Guru that mentored the Styles family, was questioned extensively by the FBI and the Secret Service, but nothing concrete connected her to the massacre to no avail. Six months later, a True Listener shot Blake to death on her doorstep with a sniper rifle. The killer, Dustin Schafer, claimed a dream told him that Blake was a satanic communist who used witchcraft to make people crazy and was sentenced to life in prison. While Harmati thought the death would silence Blake, and that Schafer would be dismissed as insane, it reignited The Program's investigation. The Outlaws and Program conducted a series of operations from 2018-2019 in which 7 True Listeners and 20-25 Listeners were either framed for other crimes, or were murdered in "car accidents" and "botched robberies". Several other Listeners were put under digital surveillance and arrested on legitmate charges ranging from possession of illegally modified weapons, possession of contraband drugs and cigarettes, and distribution of illegal pornography. By March, 2020, the Listeners as a faction were almost totally decimated.

The COVID Years: The Black Buddha

Harmati recognized that an investigation of The Listeners would cripple it for years, and while not fatal to the overarching organization, would put AACE and Naya Prayasa under heightened scrutiny. Harmati took the COVID pandemic and shut-down of most international travel, coupled with the stunning blow dealt to the Listeners, to call for reformations and a new plan. 

Privately, Harmati still worshipped his old patron, Nyarlathotep, and he was aware of the many cults of the Crawling Chaos at persisted in South Asia. Needing a group to replace the Listeners, he sought out  a group he had known off since his days in the Cult of Transcendence: The Black Buddha.

Over 2020, he visited the hidden grottos and defaced and filthy temples that Black Buddha cult nested in. His demonstrations of his occult power and his favor from the Black Buddha impressed many cults. In many cases where he was challenged (or he felt he needed to make a strong impression) he took violent measures to give the Black Buddha's high priests to screaming deaths. Before the year was out, he had struck an alliance with the Black Buddha in India and Cambodia. That Naya Prayasa would allow the Black Buddha to recruit through Naya Prayasa classes, even teach in a few in Asia, in exchange that the Black Buddha would use its occult power to insulate the Cult and its affiliates from outside investigation. Harmati isn't stupid enough to think there's genuine brotherhood between Naya Prayasa and the Black Buddha, but they know his violent power and his willingness to enact it on others for even minor transgressions, and he knows their value to his operation, so there's cooperation. One major development that came from this alliance was a meeting between Harmati and Yun Sopath, a senior cultist of the Black Buddha who had been recruited from the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Sopath, hearing about Harmati's incursion with the law and vigilantes, informed Harmati he had likely been dealing with Delta Green, though it had (by that point) been years since Sopath had heard or seen of them. It wasn't much, but at least now Harmati had a name.

Much of the COVID years saw Harmati focusing not only on the alliance with the Black Buddha, but also on solidifying its presence and influence in India. Over the course of four years, major figures in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a major Hindu-nationalist paramilitary, and lower-level members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, had been "broken" and bent to the will of Naya Prayasa. In America, Naya Prayasa continued its operations, including indoctrination of students, but the process was greatly slowed, so as not to provoke another investigation. 

2024: Back with a Vengeance

In Spring 2022, a Guru in Miami, Florida reported to Harmati with promising news. Jessamine Odom and her husband, Taylor Odom, a senator for the state of Florida, both had joined her class. Seeing a second chance, Harmati gave the order for both to be broken, but slowly, and carefully. By January of 2023, both had become grovelling pawns of the Guru, who looked to her for advice on nearly every decision. When Odom disobeyed, or showed too much "initiative" he was rewarded with vivid dreams of betrayal, persecution, ostracization and misery to nudge him back into place. 

Taylor Odom, guided by his Guru, became a prominent figure in the new right-wing, popular among the public for his no-nonsense policy on illegal immigration and cuts to public spending, and popular among his peers for an open attitude towards catering Florida's economy towards technology and the private prison industry. When Harmati learned that Odom had been invited by Donald Trump to Mar-a-Lago to join him at a dinner alongside other Floridian politicians and supporters of Trump, he knew it was the moment to make a play.

Harmati had been directing the remnants of the Listeners to dig anything he suspected of being "Delta Green". A mass killing by a new-age energy-healing group in Stanton, Washington, and the heroic intervention of a retired federal agent was the primary story Harmati had collected. At dinner, Odom was directed to make comments about it to Trump, and to play up the billionaire's own suspicions about the Democratic establishment. Although initial results were unimpressive (and earned Odom another round of psychological torture for his failure), a few months later, a phone call from Mar-a-Lago reached Odom. The voice on the other end "What was the name of that town you mentioned?".

Kali Yuga

In November 2025, Donald Trump secures a Republican victory and is re-inaugurated as President of the United States, the second man to ever secure two terms non-consecutively. Harmati intends to use Odom, lodged in the new establishment, like a splinter, which he aims to infect. 

Trump's paranoia, egged on by Odom, has resulted in a new task force that the president refers to on Truth Social as "The Rat Catchers". Trump believes Delta Green is the wetworks arm of a globalist liberal-democrat elite meant to villainize and frame political opponents of the Democrats. Although he promised Odom it would be a secret, the existence of the Rat Catchers was almost immediately exposed by the President on social media (followed by a press conference wherein he referred to them as "beautiful bastards"). The Rat Catchers have a few leads they are pursuing in hopes of arresting the alleged illegal conspiracy of former and current federal agents. They have no idea about Delta Green, its history, its structure, or the unnatural. 

Now with a new and refreshed power base, Naya Prayasa has thrown its operation into fifth gear. AACE holds rallies almost every-other week in cities across the country. Naya Prayasa classes are active in 43 out of the 50 states, even the Listeners are beginning to come back. 

With them is the Black Buddha. The Black Buddha has been gifted what it had tried to get for years - a major base of recruitment in America. This time around it has sanded off any notions of it being any manner of revolutionary political movement, though depending on how the coming years go, it might just push for that. The Black Buddha is noting the quanitity of esoteric Nazis have flocked to their ranks, particularly in Florida. 

Organization

Naya Prayasa is both the name of the larger organization and the "New-Age spiritualist" cult within that organization. Naya Prayasa is led by Nathan Harmati, and is headquartered at Harmati's home in the Shivalik Hills of India, a massive walled compound where Harmati trains the Gurus. An extension has been constructed with a barracks for his houseguards, all of whom are cultists of the Black Buddha, who he leads in worship.

Harmati manages Naya Prayasa, while his right-hand man Chaz Antoniwicz manages AACE from his home in the United States. Yun Sopath, the "Black Bodhisattva", runs the Cult of the Black Buddha primarily from San Jose, California, though he travels occasionally to a hidden temple in Northern Cambodia. Harmati also directs the Listeners, though this is a duty he largely leaves up to the senior Gurus. 

The Rat Catchers are officially a task force of the United States Secret Service and have no direct connection to Naya Prayasa. 

Goals and Operations

So what is Naya Prayasa trying to accomplish? What are their objectives. 

Nathan Harmati sees Naya Prayasa as a tool to manifest his ultimate obsession: war. Naya Prayasa is conditioning the American public to become desensitized and open to violent behaviour. Students of Naya Prayasa become willing, dependent pawns of their Gurus, and grow increasingly brusque and callous to outsiders. AACE propaganda campaigns openly endorse xenophobia and American exceptionalism, and subtextually call for violent action against "political enemies": Anything from homosexuals, to blacks, to democratic socialists. The Listeners are pulled increasingly into a schizophrenic worldview of secret conspiracies, alien infiltrators, and black magic, they're paranoid, and eager to "fight back" against a deceitful, evil world. 

Harmati is hoping that in the powder-keg of 2020s America, Naya Prayasa will be a match. Americans galvanized by AACE propaganda will take to the streets in marches calling for the deportation, even extermination, of "parasites", a few will even kidnap and murder politicians, lawyer, and media personalities in a war against "The Deep States". When the "democrats" and "LGBTQs" and "liberals" come out in protest, Naya Prayasa-influenced protesters will act as agitators, lending to a demonization of those in protest, and acting as fifth columns among left and right-wing political groups, sowing distrust, paranoia, and aggression within and without these groups. The Listeners will accuse any and all of the above actors of being secret infiltrators of the Deep State, accusing some of being inhuman serpent-man infiltrators or demons, an especially unhinged few will take to finding some of these people out and murdering them to "expose the truth". All the while, any opposition will be rooted out and cast aside by the Rat Catchers, scouring the halls of government, searching for opposition to Harmati's plan. 

Ultimately though, Naya Prayasa is really just a club for Harmati to beat the world with. Harmati doesn't want a worldwide cult of Nyarlathotep. He loathes humankind, and thinks everyday people are idiotic, undignified apes, in a constant state of panic at their own mortality and unwilling to except the truth of their nature, that they are predatory by design. He doesn't see mankind's descent into carnage and war as a descent at all, but an unmasking. 

He'll be happy to turn on the news and see videos of random civilans thrown against a wall and shot, or clubbed to death before their loved ones by riot police, or rioters. Harmati's goals aren't strictly only for America, but he figures he might as well start there. Once the United States descends into cannibalistic mayhem, the rest of the world will follow. A final, all-consuming, endless feedback loop of suffering, hatred, fear, depravity, and war, and Harmati will be its only and ultimate spectator. 

Delta Green Involvement

In a sprawling conspiracy such as this, there are many years Delta Green can get involved and sabotage Harmati's plan. 

    Both the Program and the Outlaws suspect the Listeners of being under the influence of occult powers. Agents from either group might be tasked to perform a follow-up investigation to probe deeper into the organization and discern the source of the strange dreams and directions that the True Listeners are receiving. They'll never be able to find the source strictly through investigating the Listeners, as they are literally being transmitted their orders telepathically in their dreams from Harmati's cabalists across the world in India. What they can discern is a pattern - many Listeners are members of Naya Prayasa, many are AACE donors and members, a narrow few are both. Ironic, seeing that Dustin Schafer, a Listener, murdered Divinity Blake, a guru of Naya Prayasa, after one of Blake's clients went insane and annihilated his family. Naya Prayasa gurus are cunning enough not to let the mask slip, and will be receptive and courteous with agents when questioned - it'll just be that their students will suddenly feel driven to defend their teachers by slashing agent's tires, recording them during their investigations, assaulting them in public, and mailing them parcels stuffed with the remains of dead animals. 

    As a cult that lives primarily on the internet too, it's also likely that the Listeners will be known to the Dream Syndicate, it might even be that the original forum posts for the Listeners were on the dream syndicate's forum, though once the group began to spiral into esoteric hitlerism, great replacement theory, and theosophy, Jeevana Pawar would have banned regular posters, causing the Listeners to migrate to other forums like 4Chan, Something Awful, or Twitter. Visions of the torture-sessions at Harmati's compound in the Shivalik Mountains, the debased rituals of the Black Buddha, and the nightmare visions of the Gurus, might all be things reported by Dream Syndicate users on the forum as well. 

Additionally, the Black Buddha is a known, long-time foe of Delta Green, so the defacing of buddhist statues with offal, human filth, and animal genitalia (a known practice of the Black Buddha) is likely to set off alarm bells for Delta Green on both ends of the schism. An investigation into the Black Buddha will result in the Buddha calling for reinforcements from their new partners, which will draw the agents further into the conspiracy. 

The Rat Catchers, while professional, are undermined by the constant broadcasting of their operations by the president. The Program might realize that the Rat Catchers are being dispatched to areas where active operas are being performed, and are questioning former Agents and Friendlies. An investigation might begin by an agent (either from within the Program, or from the Outlaws, let in on the development by April Crumpton or Abe Mannen) performing a counter-investigation, leading them to Senator Taylor Odom, Muqaddisa Raja, and the larger conspiracy network. 

Guru

The 'Gurus' of Naya Prayasa are the primary instrument for the cult's activities. Most were recruited from the student body of the organization itself, a handful were seasoned occultists beforehand, though these are a minority among the ranks. Gurus recruited from the student population are recommended by their teacher to their fellow Gurus. A period of observation follows, during which the Guru might invite their student on a number of outings, casual meet-ups, or take them to a fellow guru's classes or seminars. Although the student may or may not be told that the Guru is interested in making them a part of the group, they have no idea the extent on the surveillance they are under. Most instrusively, Gurus will implant dream-scenarios in the candidates sleeping mind in order to futher gauge them, and to condition them for what's to come.

Students that are deemed acceptable and given the offer, and treated to an all-expenses paid vacation to Nathan Harmati's compound in India. There, the student is psychologically conditioned to become totalling dependent and subservient to the will of the cult and Harmati before entering into an intensive period of occultic initiation and study. Harmati's personal belief system is imprinted onto them: that humanity is a debased, undignified species that is doomed to grovel in its own waste until the stars die, and that only those who become aware of the cycle and learn to control it can transcend it, and become the masters of the world. 

Those that come out the other end either spiral into suicidal insanity or become Gurus, cold, remolded, unflinching. Gurus lead a double life. By day, they run Naya Prayasa classes across India and the United States, depending on the location, a class could be 6 to 32 people. In large city centres, some Gurus actually run one class and manage others, taught by elevated students who have yet to ascend to the state of Guru. They are responsible for learning about their students and identifying psychological weaknesses that make them primary candidates to be suborned. 

Gurus erode the sanity and will of their students through a cocktail of occult rituals, primarily an aggressive form of the ritual 'Speaking Dream'. Many Gurus also know the rituals "Infallible Suggestion" and "Fascination". 

Listener

The Listener community is divided a dozen ways, each subgroup given a usually derogatory nickname. As far as Naya Prayasa is concerned, they were two meaningful groups: Listeners, and True Listeners. 

Listeners are followers of the community that have become fixated to the point of obsession on the ARG that Naya Prayasa has crafted. They are high caliber conspiracy theorists and obsessives, many claim to have received prophetic visions, though these almost always turn out false. For example, one Listeners prophesied that Mike Pence would be hanged at the gallows during January 6th. A number of Listeners have taken turns claiming to witness Russia and Europe's ultimate victory in the Ukraine war, often posting their visions alongside gopro videos of men being blown to bits by cold-war era handgrenades mounted on quadrotor drones. Naya Prayasa has been pleased to see that after sowing the original seeds or paranoia, the Listeners have largely done their own work in adopting a schizophrenic worldview.

The Listeners serve much the same role that H.E.L.P did for the See of Fear. They're obsessives, eager to aggressively resist the omnipresent power of the Deep State, and for Harmati, sending them after threats is as easy as letting a dog of its leash. Given a name and vague allegations of collusion with the deep state, the Listeners will slash tires, harass targets, vandalize homes and workplaces, even steal. A select and precious few will go so far as to kill, though Harmati's confident that the cult will snowball itself into actual militancy in a few years. 

Naya Prayasa's anchor in the cult is the True Listeners. Many of these posters were formerly affiliated with H.E.L.P., they believe they are being contacted by extradimensional beings, attempting to unveil a hidden, inner pattern in surface reality, that once realized, will set them free. True Listeners are fewer in number that Listeners, and they tend to post less, each one's posts are eventually found out, and each True Listener forms a mini-cult of their own, as Listeners will attach themselves to a user who they know to be receiving genuinely prophetic visions. Only a few times have True Listeners met their followers in person, in in-person meetups. Most True Listeners are coldly detached from reality, and are willing to do the unthinkable if they think it will open their eyes, and let them discover and be sublimated by the truth. 

No Listeners know any rituals. 

Rat Catchers

Task Force 4011032 is a classified Secret Service task force focused on seeking out and prosecuting corruption within federal law enforcement. No one on the task force knows it, but what they're really looking for is Delta Green. The group was formed by an executive order issued by Donald Trump within the first two weeks of his second term, though the concept had been one suggested to him by one of his followers, Senator Taylor Odom. 

The Rat Catchers are a fairly compact team organized under the Service's Office of Investigations. Although they are few in number, they have the authority to summon FBI SWAT teams, call for wiretaps and digital surveillance, and make arrests.

They know nothing of Naya Prayasa, nothing of the Listeners, and nothing of Delta Green. None of them have any score in the unnatural. 

The Black Buddha

The Black Buddha's cultists are situated primarily in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Cambodia, Northeastern Vietnam. The cult's early attempts at expanding towards America were snubbed by Delta Green, as were its attempts in the 1950s and 60s to expand its powerbase by compromising and suborning the governments and revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia, such as the Khmer Rouge and the Viet-Minh. 

Despite these setbacks, in isolated pockets of Southeast Asia, the cult persisted. In the 2010s, they were approached by Nathan Harmati to enter into an alliance. The Black Buddha would help Naya Prayasa, which had lost major gains in both America and especially India, regain some traction. The cult would use its network of cells across South Asia to insulate Naya Prayasa against intrusion - investigators were dissuaded or disappeared, as well as to foment the spread of the cult's activities into Southeast Asia. In exchange, Naya Prayasa would likewise shield them from outside scrutiny, and would help the cult's expansion efforts into North America, as well as allowing them to also pull from Naya Prayasa's classes for recruitment.

The Black Buddha operates secretly in cells across the world. The tenants of the faith teach its followers that deception is a holy act, and that to lie, impersonate, defraud, and eventually betray, are holy acts. The Black Buddha's rituals are depraved in the extreme, and often involve the defacing of statues, torture, and self-mutilation. 

It hasn't happened yet, but there have been rumours of some Gurus of Naya Prayasa observing the rituals of the Black Buddha. If they were to begin taking an active role in such rituals, it would bring the two cults closer to being joined as one, a new mega-cult of Nyarlathotep to take primacy over the world. That, or it could be the beginning of the greatest act of betrayal in the history of the Black Buddha. 

Naya Prayasa Therapy

As described earlier, the method that Naya Prayasa uses to enslave people is to make them ultra-dependent on their gurus for advice and guidance, effectively surrendering their autonomy over to them. 

Mechanically, they do this by forcing their students to form trauma bonds with them, much like how Delta Green agents involuntarily form trauma bonds. This is primarily done through repeat castings of Speaking Dream. The variant that Naya Prayasa uses is like a psychic howitzer, twisting their dreams in sanity-shattering ways that leave them shaken to the core on awakening, and its the gurus that are there to catch them. 

Gurus have other ways of cementing this "therapy". A student that proves difficult to break with be treated to a casting of Cynosure in their sleep, convinced that the sanity-blasting visions of nuclear alien gods and their hellish servitors are the product of a bad dream. The gurus will of course, imply that it might be rooted in guilt, say, from an unfulfilled sense to duty towards something. hint hint, nudge nudge. subtle castings of soothing song help students suffering too adversely from the effects of Naya Prayasa therapy, and cause students to see their gurus as almost supernatural beacons of calm and serenity. 

Important Characters

NATHAN HARMATI

The first half of Harmati's backstory is laid out in the Cult of Transcendence chapter in Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity, and the second half is in the history section. 

Nathan Harmati is a 39-year-old (in 2025) Hindi man, with medium length black hair and a well-maintained moustache. He would be good looking, but his intensity, and his nigh-constant glaring and glowering, make him far too unstable looking to ever be truly attractive. He dresses casually while at home at his compound in Northern India, but while attending political rallies in India and America, he favors expensive, black suits. Although Harmati is young, he loathes the thought of being stuck in an aging body. In 2016 managed to conceive a child with one of the Gurus, and has placed it in the care of extended family in New Delhi. The child, now only 9 years old, is going to be the next vessel that Harmati's mind enters when he is finally too disgusted with his current one. In 2025, although he occupies the 39-year-old body of his great-grand nephew, his mind is 123-year-old.

NATHAN HARMATI

Brahmin of Naya Prayasa.

STR 12 CON 13 DEX 13 INT 14 CHA 13 POW 19

HP 12 WP 19 SAN 0

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS: Obsession (Vengeance against the world.)

Obsession (unmasking humanity)

Obsession (Violence)

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

tolerating no failure.

SKILLS: Accounting 50%, Alertness 80%, Anthropology 45%, Athletics 65%, Bureaucracy 50%, Computer Science 30%, Criminology 80%, Demolitions 60%, Disguise 15%, Dodge 60%, Firearms 50%, History 60%, HUMINT 70%, Law 60%, Melee Weapons 80%, Occult 90%, Persuade 60%, Search 35%, SIGINT 45%, Stealth 45%, Unarmed Combat 60%, Unnatural 80%

ATTACKS: Glock 19 50% Damage 1D10

Uzi 50% Damage 1D10 or Lethality 10%

Ritual Dagger 80% Damage 1D6 Armor Piercing 3

RITUALS: Call Forth Those from Outside (Haedi Nigritiae, Ifrit, Hunting Horror), Clairvoyance, Create Stone Gate, Cynosure, Healing Balm, Open Gate, See the Other Side, Speaking Dream, Storm and Stillness, Withering, Wrath of Sekhmet, Voorish Sign, Whispers of the Dead (Nyarlathotep).

CHAZ ANTONIWICZ

Like Harmati, Antoniwicz's backstory is outlined in his section in the Cult of Transcendence chapter in Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity. He maintains the same position now as he had then as Harmati's whipped dog and deputy. After the initial alliance was brokered by Harmati, Antoniwicz became his messenger to the Black Buddha. The Black Buddha have discerned Antoniwicz's barely concealed fear and hatred for his old master. Should the Black Buddha ever choose to cut ties and betray Harmati, they'll first flip Antoniwicz to their side. In many ways, they already have. He is partial to the ethical code of the Black Buddha, and after he has learned the power of the Ageless Banquet, taught to him by Yun Sopath. A ritual he wishes desperately to learn, but which Sopath keeps to himself as leverage.

CHAZ ANTONIWICZ

Director of AACE

STR 14 CON 14 DEX 15 INT 16 CHA 17 POW 18

HP 14 WP 18 SAN 10 BREAKING POINT 0

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS Amnesia

Megalomania

Addiction (Sexual gratification)

Learning the secrets of the Ageless Banquet

SKILLS Accounting 40%, Athletics 60%, Bureaucracy 70%, Computer Science 30%, Criminology 48%, Dodge 40%, Drive 50%, Firearms 40%, Forensics 20%, HUMINT 40%, Law 70%, Melee Weapons 30%, Occult  68%, Persuade 75%, Search 50%, Stealth 40%, Unarmed Combat 50%, Unnatural 5%

ATTACKS Beretta medium pistol 40% Damage 1D10

MUQADDISA RAJA

Muqaddisa Raja was the daughter of two cultists of the Church of Interlife in Mumbai, and was raised on an Interlife compound in Zanzibar. Her relationship with the Church quickly turned fraught, as she was often used by the Church for the demonstrations of ritual techniques to enter and violate the sleeping minds of others. 

When Nathan Harmati approached the Zanzibar chapter, demanding they capitulate to his demands, they bawled. The cost for their insubordination was paid immediately, and many died screaming, burning deaths then and there. When all was done, the only one Harmati paid attention to was Raja, as she had evidently seized the opportunity to stab three Church elders to death in the chaos. Being that she was evidently the only one that bothered to take an active role helping him, Harmati spared her alone; others that only swore fealty once the flames arrived were treated to the same screaming deaths as their cohort. 

In Muqaddisa Raja, Harmati found the optimal Guru for his new vision of Naya Prayasa, though that afforded her little "favor". Failure was still received with beatings, beratings, lashings. Success was seen as the bare minimum, only when she went above and beyond the call of duty did Harmati ever bother to acknowledge the effort. She knows her good standing with Harmati is conditional on the success of her assignments, that does not bother her. She excels enough to where the last beatings are now distant memories. Her greatest achievement thus far has been the suborning of a U.S Senator and his family. A play more ambitious and more successful than the cult's earlier attempt at suborning a USSS Agent. She regards Senator Odom and his family as her ace up the sleeve, that she intends to save until the perfect moment to play it, a decisive powerplay over The United States, over Naya Prayasa, over the world. Then, much in the footsteps of her master, she'll indulge the smoldering hatred she's held in her heart since she was a girl, and use Naya Prayasa as a club to beat the world.

Muqaddisa Raja is a strikingly beautiful east Indian woman standing 5 feet 10 inches with long, jet black hair. She's something of a chameleon in how she dresses, able to effortlessly move from new-age spiritualism to corporate boardroom seamlessly. She's a master of rhetoric and conversation, and exudes a quiet, cool charisma that makes people naturally inclined towards her. What she masks most effectively is her hate. She knows better than to let it out in public, where it might hurt other's delicate impression of her, but she always holds a smouldering coal of hatred in her heart, and alone, in private, the least provocation is all it takes for her to bring it out. 

MUQADDISA RAJA

Guru of Naya Prayasa

STR 12 CON 12 DEX 13 INT 14 CHA 14 POW 15

HP 12 WP 15 SAN 30 BREAKING POINT 15

BONDS: U.S Senator Taylor Odom (14)*

Resident nurse Melissa Nunez (14)*

ICE senior administrator Hollis Tucker (10)* (*See 'PARASITIC BONDS')

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS Vengeance against the world.

Dominating others

Megalomania

Depersonalization Disorder

SKILLS Alertness 50%, Art (Singing) 50%, Athletics 60%, Criminology 45%, Disguise 60%, History 60%, HUMINT 75%, Melee Weapons 40%, Occult 70%, Persuade 70%, Psychotherapy 50%, Stealth 45%, Unarmed Combat 60%, Unnatural 3%

ATTACKS Unarmed Combat 40% damage 1D4

Kukri 40% damage 1D6 Armor Piercing 3

RITUALS: Cynosure, Fascination, Soothing Song, Speaking Dream

SPEAKING DREAM VARIANT: Naya Prayasa uses a variant of the Speaking Dream spell that is intentionally designed to psychologically damage the target. The spell activation cost for this variant is 20 WP, and costs 1D4 SAN each for the operator and target. Whereas normally Speaking Dream divides the WP cost evenly between the operator and target(s), when used on a sleeping subject, the operator of this variant can push their share of the ritual's WP cost and SAN cost onto the target. The operator must still accept a minimum ritual cost of 5 WP and 1 SAN. Excess WP loss (that is, WP loss that would reduce the target to negative WP) carries over either as SAN loss or damage to Non-Naya Prayasa bond scores.

PARASITIC BONDS: Much like Delta Green agents involuntarily forming bonds with each other, Naya Prayasa gurus can force their victims to create bonds with them after instances of major SAN loss. Both characters create bonds for each other. Naya Prayasa gurus can spend bond scores the way Delta Green agents can, pressuring their victims to make financial investments for them, ask professional or personal favours, and project SAN loss onto them. Naya Prayasa gurus don't actually care about their bonds, and lose no SAN should their bonds be harmed or killed.

U.S SENATOR TAYLOR ODOM

Odom had been a Republican party man going back to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. He made a name for himself as an ambitious young buck in the Southern political scene, securing an endorsement from Donald Trump for his senatorial campaign in 2016. Through the first Trump administration, it seemed like Odom's luck was bottomless. That was until 2020 rounded the corner. 

His family and political life became fraught when his older brother, Stephen, was caught on video stomping on a police officer's head during January 6th and was rounded up and shipped off to prison. Even more so when his Anti-Vaccination campaign came back to haunt him: he wound up losing his parents, and his wife filed for divorce, citing his advice to her sister to consume Ivermectin supplements to combat "the chinese flu", leading to severe health complications. 

The COVID years represented a sledgehammer striking his life, but things have...gotten better. In 2022 while on a tour sharing his experience of being "cancelled" with other far-right pundits, Odom was introduced to some old university friends and their friend, a strikingly beautiful east Indian woman named Muqaddisa. That night, drinking with old friends in the town they had gone to university in the early stages of things "returning to normal", something electric was in the air. Odom found himself going to bed with the woman that had enchanted him. The next morning, she told him about herself, the group she teaches with, Odom found himself fascinated, and decided on a whim to indulge her and give it a shot. 

It's been three years since Taylor Odom began regularly attending classes with Naya Prayasa. His life is filled with a new clarity, a new purpose. He feels like he has finally found direction again. At least, that's how he normally feels. He has not continued his relationship with Muqaddisa, despite his desire to. He often feels like she's leading him on. He's only recently realized that he doesn't care. The neglect, the hot-and-cold attitude, none of it matters when she gives him her attention. He finds himself obsessed with her, deferring to her for advice, at first purely personal affairs, but increasingly, work matters. She's brought her to dinners with colleagues in vain attempts to impress her with his newfound swagger and authority that he possesses as an alleged member of the president's "inner circle". Any time that he makes a decision that angers her, disappoints her, displeases her, he's wracked with nervous anxiety for days and weeks. 

He doesn't even realize how far he's debased himself for this woman, and her religion. He doesn't care. She's all that matters. On her advice, he raised the matter of a strange incident in Stanton, Washington, to the President. A mass murder that was "resolved" by a group of retired federal agents and military veterans, most of whom the media (and authorities) haven't been able to track down. On her advice, he stoked the president's suspicions. On her advice, he proposed the Rat Catchers. 

Senator Odom is a caucasian man in his 40s. He is clean shaven (he ditched his COVID beard back in 2024), has blonde hair he keeps short and his partial to plain black suits and red ties. He runs in the morning with some of his neighbours, though the Naya Prayasa yoga is the main thing keeping him fit these days. In public, he exudes a blunt smarm, which he does little to hide. In private, he's a nervous wreck who obsessively stalks Raja on all social media and texts her daily. He overanalyzes three word messages and the length it takes for her to respond. At night he thinks about her, he misses her. By his estimate, he hasn't gone a day without thinking about her in three years. 

U.S SENATOR TAYLOR ODOM

Compromised Republican Senator of Florida.

STR 12 CON 14 DEX 11 INT 10 CHA 12 POW 8

HP 13 WP 8 SAN 24 BREAKING POINT 16

BONDS Muqaddisa Raja (12)*

Naya Prayasa (12)* (*See 'PARASITIC BONDS')

U.S President Donald J. Trump (6)

Secret Service Director Sean M. Curran (6)

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS Obsession (Muqaddisa Raja)

Anxiety Disorder

Excelling as a political operator

Safeguarding masculinity within and without

Leading the crusade against the deep state.

SKILLS Accounting 30%, Alertness 40%, Athletics 40%, Bureaucracy 60%, History 30%, HUMINT 40%, Law 50%, Persuade 65%, Search 20%, SIGINT 15%, Unarmed 50%

PARASITIC BOND Odom has an extremely toxic relationship with his guru, Muqaddisa Raja, and has become completely, totally, fixated on her. He obsessively works to appease her, and will lose SAN if threatened with something that would disappoint / anger her. Persuade rolls to convince Odom that he's part of a cult and that Raja is manipulating him are at -20%. Even if its true, he doesn't care. 

BURTON AND VANESSA CAUL

Burton and Vanessa Caul were both outcasts. They had been victims of something no one wanted to believe - alien abduction. They did interviews with Saucerwatch, and all that earned them was droves of mail deriding them as attention-seeking inbreds that needed to get a job. That was until they found each other through H.E.L.P., the Human-Extraterrestrial Liberation Project. They found not only each other, but a community, and themselves. 

Though the H.E.L.P years weren't all so peachy. They were years marked by paranoia and fear. Burton and Vanessa watched the FBI raid a H.E.L.P clubhouse in Milwaukee after one of its members tried to immolate an FBI agent at her motel room. It wasn't long until men in black came for them too. Some from the FBI, some from the DEA, some from the AFOSI. By 2003, H.E.L.P was a husk of its former self, and Burton and Vanessa, who were by this point engaged, had had enough. They settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and did they damndest to lead quiet lives, even though neither of them gave up their believes or their theories. 

In 2016, the dreams came to them both. They knew instantly they had seen the same dream, as they both woke next to each other sweating bullets in the dark. They took to the internet to share their experiences, and on a forum called the Dream Syndicate, that's exactly what they found. 'The Listener', as he called himself, has posted only a month prior. Excitedly, Burt and Vanessa replied to his thread, and before long there were others. They had no idea at the time, but the profile they shared "MrLateNight" became one of the corner stones forming the foundation of the Listeners. 

After a few months they were forced to move to discord and telegram and other platforms after the moderators on the Dream Syndicate had had enough of their company. But that did little to dampen the movement. The visions were real, the dreams were real. They were being communicated with, and the message was awesome and important. 

The visions tell them there's important work to do. The visions confirm believes they knew they held in their hearts but didn't want to accept: that inhuman infiltrators were seizing the reins of power, day by day, year by year. And that these years, the 2020s, these are only a prelude to what's to come. The horror, the Kali Yuga, the crucible through which will pass the world, and which those few who are willing to listen, and be instructed, and act, may live to endure.

It was a foreign feeling to kill a man. Burton had only fired a gun once before, the first time it was at the Milwaukee clubhouse, Hector Kirby let him hold his chrome-plated M1911 in his hands and send a few rounds downrange. "keep it" he said. A week later Hector was facing charges for trying to burn some fed to death in her motel room. Under the bedframe, in a cardboard box, Burt kept the gun, and in 2023, he took it out and shot a man in the back of the head on the sidewalk. The visions told him he was an infiltrator. He wouldn't have made it if it weren't for Vanessa manning the getaway car. 

Vanessa had experience with firearms, but was averse to them. Her father took her to Ruby Ridge back in the 90s, and she'll never forget when she told an ATF agent that he's going to hell and the agent responded by slowly lowering his rifle, a black and shiny M4, and levelling the barrel at her forehead, and mouthing out "pow". She can clean them, strip them, hide them, but she won't grip one, and she has nightmares about ever being in front of one again. 

Burton and Vanessa Caul are both 50 in 2025. Burton is a portly man with dark circles under his hair and greying light brown hair he keeps in a small but bushy beard and a tight ponytail behind his head. He dresses in well-worn flannels and jeans. He is diabetic and wears a CGM on his lower stomach. When he is carrying his pistol, he does so in a shoulder holster he keeps hidden under a hunting jacket. Vanessa is a portly woman with eyeglasses and black hair she keeps in a ponytail. She has a lip ring and is partial to The Cure t-shirts. 

BURTON CAUL

Veteran of H.E.L.P, Listener

STR 10 CON 10 DEX 9 INT 13 CHA 10 POW 11

HP 10 WP 11 SAN 44 BREAKING POINT 33

BONDS Vanessa Caul (10)

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS Anxiety Disorder

Discovering the truth

Avoiding suspicion

Unmasking the conspiracy

Keeping Vanessa safe

SKILLS: Alertness 40%, Athletics 25%, Bureaucracy 10%, Computer Science 50%, Craft (Electrician) 50%, Craft (Mechanic) 35%, Criminology 20%, Disguise 30%, Dodge 40%, Drive 30%, Firearms 45%, First Aid 35%, Occult 45%, Science (Astronomy) 40%, Search 40%, Stealth 50%, Survival 60%, Unarmed Combat 40%

ATTACKS: Hector Kirby's M1911 45% Damage 1D10

THE VISIONS: Burton and Vanessa Caul are "True Listeners", those esteemed few members of the group that actually receive visions. Every instance of these visions is really the result of a "Speaking Dream" ritual being cast by Naya Prayasa gurus in India (not that when beaming visions to Listeners, Naya Prayasa generally refrains from forcing extra WP and SAN loss onto the ritual targets). Receiving these visions causes the Cauls to lose 1D4 each and 5 WP (10 WP if only one is being targeted in the ritual). The visions contain important information including dates, names, places, and importantly: orders. 

VANESSA CAUL

Veteran of H.E.L.P, Listener

STR 10 CON 10 DEX 9 INT 13 CHA 11 POW 10

HP 10 WP 10 SAN 40 BREAKING POINT 30

BONDS Burton Caul (11)

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS: PTSD (Manifests as a pathologic aversion to guns)

Finding justice in the world

avoiding suspicion

keeping Burton safe

SKILLS: Alertness 50%, Athletics 20%, Computer Science 50%, Craft (Mechanics) 50%, Drive 50%, First Aid 40%, Melee Weapons 40%, Occult 50%, Persuade 30%, Science (Chemsitry) 40%, SIGINT 50%, Stealth 20%, Unarmed 40%

ATTACKS: Taser 60% 1D4+Stun

Unarmed Combat 40% 1D4-1

THE VISIONS: Burton and Vanessa Caul are "True Listeners", those esteemed few members of the group that actually receive visions. Every instance of these visions is really the result of a "Speaking Dream" ritual being cast by Naya Prayasa gurus in India (not that when beaming visions to Listeners, Naya Prayasa generally refrains from forcing extra WP and SAN loss onto the ritual targets). Receiving these visions causes the Cauls to lose 1D4 each and 5 WP (10 WP if only one is being targeted in the ritual). The visions contain important information including dates, names, places, and importantly: orders. 

SPECIAL AGENT ARCHIE OKUMURA

Archie Okumura has been surrounded by cults his whole life. His father met his mother on Okinawa. He was a green beret teaching wilderness survival, she worked an office job for a Japanese fishing conglomerate. She was also a moonie, and later, when they had Archie and moved stateside, Archie's father learned of the exorbitant amounts of income his wife had sent to the Unification Church and Sun Myung Moon, he made the choice to have her "deprogrammed". Archie vividly remembers the day CAN officials came to their home in San Francisco and dragged his screaming mother into a van. He remembers her coming home three weeks later with bruises on her wrists. It was only later when he entered law enforcement he recognized them as bruises from handcuffs. 

Archie pursued a career in the military before joining Army CID, then moving on to the FBI, then was offered a post at the United States Secret Service after his graduation from FBI training at Quantico by an old connection of his father's. He took the position gladly and worked in personal security for the White House since 2012. 

In 2018, Brock Styles, a longtime colleague and friend of Okumura, posted a long, psychotic rant to his facebook feed before annihilating his family. The official investigation pointed towards an internet conspiracy-theorist cell called The Listeners. But Okumura saw others. It wasn't lost on him that Styles had joined a "religious movement", Naya Prayasa. He knew of other Secret Service agents whose cousins, ex-girlfriends, and family members had joined. Even though it vanished from Facebook less than four hours after it was posted, he recalls Styles' indictments against the cult, claiming it was trying to kill him in his dreams, poisoning him and his family. Of course, the investigation was well outside the jurisdiction of the USSS, and the COVID years gave more than enough for Archie to worry about. 

But in December, 2024, he was briefed by a superior on a new unit they intended for him to head up, the president was dubbing them "Rat Catchers", a counterespionage unit that was to investigate potential activity of an illegal, subversive conspiracy within the military and federal law enforcement. He jumped at the chance, but his suspicions came with him. He's studied some of the persons of interest. An FBI agent that was temporarily suspended for "harassing" a card-carrying member of AACE, and veteran who had been charged, but ultimately acquitted, of burgling a Naya Prayasa class in Chicago, an NSA analyst tracking the Listeners. 

He follows his orders, he does his job. But little by little he's had his doubts. He can't shake the feeling that he's no longer just surrounded by cults, that he's in on: The sycophants in his own agency that brown-nose their superiors to get closer to the big man in charge, the agents whose wives are getting into Naya Prayasa, the internet keyboard warriors claiming Mike Pence is a reptile and Nancy Pelosi is a "tulpa. It's got him feeling paranoid. 

ARCHIE OKUMURA

Secret Service Special Agent

STR 13 CON 15 DEX 14 INT 13 CHA 13 POW 11

HP 14 WP 11 SAN 55 BREAKING POINT 44

BONDS Sandra Okumura (Wife) 13, Robert Walsh (Coworker) 13.

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS Untangle the conspiracy

Protect the United States of America

Prove his unit is worth the funding

Outwit the larger players 

SKILLS Alertness 70%, Athletics 50%, Criminology 60%, Demolitions 50%, Dodge 55%, Drive 60%, Firearms 70%, Heavy Weapons 50%, HUMINT 50%, Law 30%, Melee Weapons 60%, Military Science (Land) 50%, Navigate 50%, Persuade 50%, Search 60%, SIGINT 40%, Stealth 60%, Survival 50%, Swim 40%, Unarmed Combat 60%.

ATTACKS Sig Sauer P226 70% Damage 1D10

YUN SOPATH

Yun Sopath is an enigma. In 2024, he claimed it was his 109th birthday despite him looking only maybe 40. He has claimed to be Khmer, Hmong, Han, Tcho-Tcho, Laotian, and Viet, at different points in his life. He claims to have met and shared food and drink with Pol Pot, and to have worked as a torturer at the infamous Tuol Sleng interrogation centre, also known as S-21. He even claims to have fought Delta Green in Vietnam. 

Those may be true. Maybe. He's made other claims that are...less credible. He claims to know Charles Manson personally. He claims to be the Zodiac Killer. He claims to have shook hands with Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Bush Sr. He claims he's immortal. He claims to have seen the torture-gardens of Yian-Ho and the slave markets of Leng.

What is know is that Yun Sopath is a dangerous man. A cunning, dangerous man. He is a "Black Bodhisattva" a sacrilegious title denoting him as an elder priest of a sacrilegious cult, the "Black Buddha". It is known that he has lived in Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the United States of America. He is suspected by Delta Green to have been a Neophyte, potentially even a Lord, of "The Network" in New York during the 1990s. He is a polyglot and a talented knife fighter, and in 2020, he was received by Nathan Harmati, whom he instantly recognized as a potent man with deep power, connected closely with the hideous, invisible gods that truly govern the world. 

But whether he worships Harmati, or pretends to. Whether he is loyal, or simply biding time. Whether he is who he says he is, or is even human at all. None of it can be said for certain. 

Yun Sopath stands at 5'7". He appears to be 40 and has jet black eyes and short hair. He dresses plainly. In a gym bag, he carries a foot-long Kukri knife with a hideous, black metal blade with a handle decorated with strips of cloth cut from soldiers he has murdered and hair from scalps he has collected. He is quick to smile and has a strong sense of humour that makes people naturally like him. All of that disappears when it's time for him to conduct holy business. Then, in those horrifying moments, he is a predator. 

YUN SOPATH

Black Bodhisattva

STR 12 CON 13 DEX 15 INT 15 CHA 13 POW 10

HP 12 WP 10 SAN 0 

MOTIVATIONS AND DISORDERS Dissociative Identity Disorder

Amnesia

Obsession (Deception)

Addiction (Cruelty)

SKILLS Alertness 80%, Art (Sculpture) 30%, Art (Painting) 40%, Athletics 70%, Criminology 50%, Demolitions 60%, Disguise 50%, Dodge 70%, Drive 50%, Firearms 45%, Heavy Weapons 50%, HUMINT 55%, Melee Weapons 80%, Occult 30%, Persuade 75%, Search 40%, Stealth 60%, Unarmed Combat 50%, Unnatural 31%

ATTACKS Kukri 80% Damage 1D8, Armor Piercing 3

Sledgehammer 80% Damage 1D8, Armor Piercing 5

MP7 45% Damage 1D10 or Lethality 10%

RITUALS Mephitic Memories, Ageless Banquet, Call Forth Those from Outside (The Black Buddha)