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The Ropes of Heaven, a Faction

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A few weeks ago, a friend and I played a game of Microscope. I wanted to use the game to create a faction for Delta Green, a little experiment to see if the formula could week. My friend had never played the game before, but his intuition made up for inexperience, and it wasn't long before we got rolling with a fairly compelling concept for a faction.  I decided I'd take what we started there and extrapolate from it, and make a quick writeup of the faction. So without further delay here's the product of the exercise: THE ROPES OF HEAVEN A mythos cult for Delta Green by Fee Fi Fo Fin and Panama.  History The Ropes of Heaven are a Central American cult of Ixtab, a niche Mayan Goddess of suicide by hanging. The cult remained small in size for many decades, perhaps in centuries, among remote Mayan communities, but when Central and South American drug cartels began using civilian slave labour in the production of Cocaine, the cult became attached to a much more ambitious project...

Report: Operation SILVER SYNOD - Part Two

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  USER A-CELL, WELCOME TO FILE VIEWER 3.3 >Load 092338.adv -PGPY LOADING FILE 092338 .ADV-PGPY FILE 092338 .ADV REFS 3426.REP LOAD ALSO (Y/N) >y -pgp LOADING REF FILE 092338 .REP -PGPY // AFTER ACTION REPORT // OPERATION SILVER SYNOD TO: ALPHONSE. FROM: I-CELL, V-CELL ENTRY TWO // BEGIN MESSAGE // JULY 22, 2001.  On an airstrip outside of Santiago, SYNOD-2 (Victor, Waxer, and Irena) disembark from their aircraft. Standing across the gravel strip from them near a van is their contacts in Chile. The newly-minted Delta Green agents VERA and VERMUNDO. They review the supplementary information provided by SYNOD-1 on their way to VERMUNDO's villa outside the capitol. What they knew was that according to information gathered during Operation SPECTRUM in Macau. The Exalted Circle and Karotechia would be working together on an operation together they codenamed “WRECKING BALL”. The Karotechia were providing some of the “magic” they needed for WRECKING BALL, as well as some of the ...

Report: Operation SILVER SYNOD - Part One

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USER A-CELL, WELCOME TO FILE VIEWER 3.3 >Load 092338.adv -PGPY LOADING FILE 092338 .ADV-PGPY FILE 092338 .ADV REFS 3426.REP LOAD ALSO (Y/N) >y -pgp LOADING REF FILE 092338 .REP -PGPY // AFTER ACTION REPORT // OPERATION SILVER SYNOD TO: ALPHONSE. FROM: I-CELL, V-CELL // BEGIN MESSAGE // JULY 1, 2001.  From across the country, numerous agents of Delta Green receive summons to Fort Bliss, Texas for a briefing. Many of them knew this was on its way and have been making the preparations for months. The agents summoned are Agents IRENA, IMOGEN, and INDIGO of Cell "I", VERDANCE and VICTOR of Cell "V", and Agent WAXER of Cell "W".  The agents of both cells are introduced to one another, and then their briefing, led by Agent VIRGIL, Cell Leader of V-Cell, begins.  In February of this year, I-Cell chased a lead, hinting at a major "summit" of Exalted Circle personnel in Macau. Through some clever spycraft, they were able to gather information on an u...

THE AMICI DOMITIANI

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"Freeze" - Giuseppe Cristiano Intro Kenneth Hite's  The Fall of Delta Green adapted the setting of Delta Green to the Gumshoe system, winding the clock back to the twilight years of Delta Green as a clandestine, but still "official" organization within the U.S Government, primarily focusing its involvement in the Cold War, specifically, the War in Vietnam. It contains alternate interpretations of existing Delta Green foes and foils - Majestic-12 before it completely lost sight of its mission, the Karotechia before it formalized under Bitterich's direction, The Fate before they Delta Green realized killing Stephen Alzis was an impermanent solution to the problem.  One of the factions given special attention is the Cult of Transcendence and its satellite cults adding new organizations previously unseen in the Cult's original writeup in Targets of Opportunity . My friends know my opinion on the Cult of Transcendence but I'll iterate on it here for the ...

Bleeding Darkness Master Post

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Based on the Microfiction by Shane Ivey.   “And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.” - Revelation, 9:6 Delta Green has been notified of a developing situation in Brooklyn that requires the conspiracy's attention. A grisly murder of a Catholic Priest, and a cover-up apparently orchestrated by the church itself are just compliments to the real horror - that the priest is gradually rising from the dead.  Bleeding Darkness is a scenario set in the 90s for a group of 3-5 players, and takes 2-3 sessions to complete.  PART ONE details the backstory, timeline, important characters and locations, and the Agent's briefing.  PART TWO details some of the events that develop as the clock ticks forward, how the agents can connect the dots between Father Casimir and his killers, and the statblocks.