By Dennis Detwiller, (c) 2009.
Hey guys.
Just a note: we’re busting ass on Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity. We’re working hard to make it as good as Eyes Only.
There is a TON of content in this book. We’re in the layout and art phase, all writing is done. The Cult of Transcendence is HUGE (212 pages in manuscript form) and the others don’t trail by much. In any case, this will be a honking book.
Everyone trust me, we’re working like warhorses to get this book out.
Here’s what the table of contents is shaping up to look like:
-Black Cod Island
-The Disciples of the Worm
-The DeMonte Clan
-M-EPIC
-The Cult of Transcendence
-Appendices:
–Agent Background Options
–Combat Options
–Stress Disorders
–DNA Analysis
–Running Delta Green Investigations
Here’s a preview of the DeMonte Ghoul Clan; yet another significant threat for DG.
The DeMonte Clan
By Adam Scott Glancy
New Orleans. N’awlins. The Big Easy. For nearly three centuries the Crescent City has curled in a bend in the Mississippi river, surrounded by bayous, swamps and marshes. Over those years the city has flown the flag of every power in North America; the French, the Spanish, the English, the Confederacy and the United States of America, and not once has the city been destroyed by war. When cotton was king, the white gold flowed out of New Orleans by the ton to fill insatiable appetite of Europe’s textile mills. The rich families of New Orleans siphoned off the cotton trade, growing fat like leeches, but they are not the only ones who have grown fat of the fortunes of the city. There are others.
And where the patrician planter families grew fat on the city’s good fortune, there is one family, the DeMonte Family, which has grown fat on the city’s ill fortune. The DeMontes came to New Orleans just after the Haitian slave rebellion, fleeing the machetes and night raids. The DeMontes were among the New Orleans’ richest inhabitants, and also the least conspicuous. And where others have figuratively fed on the fat of the city, the DeMonte clan’s feedings have been of a far more literal character.
Cultes Des Ghoules
Francois Honore-Balfour, the Comte D’Erlette was the wrong choice for recruitment into the Paris Ghoul Cult. He did possess many of the qualities the cult members were looking for: wealth, position, a depraved and perverse nature, and a sociopathic level of selfishness. Unfortunately, the Comte was also an exhibitionist who could not truly enjoy his perversions and obscenities unless he could force others to witness them. Hence, he penned his infamous book Cultes des Ghoules in the year 1703, and distributed it through underground channels across France.
The result of this incredible act of psychotic conspicuousness was that the French authorities cracked down on the cult in a series of raids across the country. The arrests and trials would have scandalized French society from the aristocracy to the landless peasants had not the French King, Louis XIV, the Sun King, acted in secret.
The hundreds arrested were tried and sentenced by secret courts and incarcerated in prisons and madhouses, often under false names. Some of those arrested were so inhuman that they were not deemed suitable for treatment by the courts, but were instead disposed of as one might deal with a dangerous animal. The backlash against the cult was so intense that the power of the Paris Ghoul Cult was broken forever. However, not every member of the cult was brought to justice. Some of them crawled back under Saint Innocents Cemetery or into the catacombs under Paris. Some fled to neighboring nations, particularly to Bavaria and the Netherlands, but for some of the more prominent members of the cult, Europe was too hot.
In order to hide, they were going to have to flee to a more remote location. In the case of the DeMonte family, that meant a journey to the New World…