Scenario Outline: Stoking the Coals
Stoking the Coals - Operation HOLLOW HILL II
This scenario is especially niche and not really worth writing because it is a sequel to a 90s version of Language of the Stars.
Delta Green has caught wind of a developing situation that will require immediate, decisive action to resolve before it gets out of control. Saucerwatch, a UFO conspiracy publication that has dogged the heels of Delta Green agents in the past, has recently hired Doretta Wynch, a hard-nosed investigative journalist from Baltimore, to delve into the case of the so-called "Colorado Walking Man" of 1998.
The "Colorado Walking Man" is the term coined by the UFOlogy community at large for a series of strange weather events, lightning strikes, and wildfires across Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota, and Wyoming for a period of about three days in May, 1998. The Walking Man (named so for the pattern of lightning strikes reported by alleged witnesses who described the lightning strikes falling like "a storm cloud walking") is suspected to be linked to the death of a teenager in rural Colorado and a trucker in Kansas, as well as a series of prairie fires across the region. Unbeknownst to the public, the "Walking Man" was really the result of the accidental activation of an occult artifact, the "Demon Bowl of Kesh" by Halimah Jassim, a university drop-out during a re-enactment of the "tantric magic" ritual written to awaken the power of the bowl. Delta Green agents in pursuit of the bowl engaged in a frantic three day manhunt for the bowl and Jassim that narrowly killed the girl, who had by that point been possessed by the "Star Demon" within the bowl.
A-Cell wants sleeping dogs to lie, and fears Wynch's probe into the investigation could expose Delta Green's involvement in the operation to the public and, worse, Majestic. They assign the agents from the operation to shadow Wynch's probe into the "Walking Man" and, by whatever means necessary, assure it goes nowhere near Delta Green. Your agents can:
- Plant false evidence and misdirect Wynch's efforts. If that fails, they can escalate to blackmail, intimidation, and sabotage, though the more they push back, the closer Saucerwatch knows its getting to the truth.
- Learn about "The Steps of the Walking Man", fulgurites created by the unnatural lightning strikes that the "Resplendent Empress of Kesh" manifested when teleporting short distances; the strange psychic influence they have on those that interact with them and the anomalous, black metal that has formed in their cores.
- Encounter witnesses and victims of the "Walking Man", and learn that a few of them have been brainwashed by Majestic-12's OUTLOOK Group into becoming loyal informants - and in extreme cases, deniable assassins.
- Unwittingly encounter NRO DELTA Section Chief Adolph Lepus in disguise as NOAA Meteorologist Bruce Wernicke, and again later in the flesh at the head of a team of NRO DELTA counterintelligence agents.
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