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Shane Ivey here\u00a0with an update from the Delta Green Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Status Report<\/h2>\n

We’re still closing in on the end of the massive manuscript for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game<\/i>, aka the Case Officer’s Handbook<\/i>. We will send its unedited portions to editing next week, and its edited portions to layout the week after that. Somewhere in there, we’ll provide the full draft to KS backers who requested the Case Officer’s Handbook<\/i> in their rewards.<\/p>\n

Ask Us Anything<\/h2>\n

Thanks in part to the enthusiastic folks at \/r\/DeltaGreenRPG<\/a>\u00a0and \/r\/NightAtTheOpera<\/a>,\u00a0Delta Green is May’s Game of the Month<\/b><\/a> at reddit.com\/r\/rpg<\/a>! To celebrate, Dennis Detwiller and I will be there TODAY<\/b>\u00a0at 2pm Central time. Ask Us Anything!<\/p>\n

ChupacabraCon<\/h2>\n

I’ll be at ChupacabraCon<\/a>\u00a0in Round Rock, Texas, this Friday and Saturday. I’ll be speaking on panels about gaming and maybe running a little Delta Green. If you’re at Chupa, find me and say hi.<\/p>\n

Sigil & Sign<\/h2>\n

Our friends at Cubicle 7 and Make Believe Games are running a Kickstarter for a new kind of Lovecraftian RPG: Sigil & Sign<\/b><\/a>,<\/i> where you play servants of the Old Ones. Our own Dennis Detwiller and Greg Stolze are among the contributors. They are well past their core goal and have nearly two more weeks to add stretch goals. Check it out!<\/p>\n

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A Delta Green Excerpt: <\/i>Irem and the Nameless City<\/h2>\n

The legendary, pre-Islamic Arabian city \u201cIrem of the Pillars\u201d appears in the Quran and the Thousand and One Nights, both of which describe its sudden destruction by Allah for the impiety of its inhabitants. Later mythographers located Irem variously in the interior of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, or Oman. A 1991 expedition identified an Iron Age frankincense trading fort at al-Shisr in Oman as Irem (or \u201cUbar\u201d) after discovering its eight towers, fallen into a sinkhole some time around 400 CE. Alhazredic legend connects Irem to a prehuman \u201cNameless City\u201d inhabited by ghostly reptiles, implying that the Adites of Irem somehow destroyed it. Alhazred supposedly composed the first couplet of the Necronomicon (\u201cThat is not dead,\u201d etc.) dreaming of the Nameless City while in the ruins of Irem. Given the scale of NRO DELTA and other MAJESTIC operations in Saudi Arabia and Oman in 1990 and 1991 under cover of Gulf War deployments, it is conceivable that MAJESTIC discovered one or both sites. Follow-up operations by Delta Green during the Second Gulf War proved frustratingly indecisive, leading some officers to suspect that former MAJESTIC officials altered previously-collected intelligence in the confusion of the MAJESTIC War.<\/p>\n