{"id":4320,"date":"2019-09-18T16:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:19:31","slug":"delta-green-hourglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2019\/09\/delta-green-hourglass\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Green: Hourglass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Delta<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Briefing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In an Internet video, already viral, a middle-aged, dark-haired, harried-looking woman stands on a park bench in a small-town park. She is crying and shouting at a handful of befuddled people. She says they live with a place that does awful things. They accept it into their community. They take its money. And it takes women and children. \u201cIt takes them and it\u2014it\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly she vanishes, screaming in agony. The handful of people in the crowd scream in fright and recoil. The young man holding the phone shouts, \u201cWhoa!\u201d He turns the camera toward himself, a white teenager, and says to the camera, \u201cYou see that shit? What the fuck!\u201d The camera jostles and the video stops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Agents are in a secure meeting room in the FBI offices in Portland, Oregon. Their case officer turns off the video screen and gives the rest of their briefing. It is 10:00 A.M. on a Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Video<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The video was recorded Sunday\u2014four days ago\u2014at 1:13 P.M. The Intelligence section cannot find signs that the video was produced with special effects. The Program\u2019s security section is already suppressing that fact, uploading doctored versions that show subtle signs of having been generated with special effects, establishing a narrative that it was produced by clever hoaxers, and backing up that narrative by posing as low-credibility viewers who insist it is genuine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video went online Sunday night, 86 hours ago. It began to go viral 37 hours ago. It came to the Program\u2019s attention 33 hours ago. It was posted by the boy who held the phone, a 17-year-old would-be Internet star using the pseudonym \u201cRawdog.\u201d The Program identified him as Hourglass high schooler Herbert Roderick Salsbury. The case officer gives the Agents Salsbury\u2019s address. See WITNESSES<\/strong> for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Victim<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The woman in the video is Terri Santos, n\u00e9e Terri Harding, then Terri Wilkins, a resident of a religious compound outside Hourglass, Oregon. She has worked off and on for 25 years as a retail sales clerk. Terri moved to Hourglass about ten years ago when then-husband Edward Wilkins got a sawmill job. Five years ago, Edward Wilkins died in a bar fight. Four years ago, her son Lawrence Wilkins died of leukemia at age eight. Two years ago, Terri Wilkins moved to the property of a religious commune called the Church of the Twelve Martyrs. One year ago, she married another resident of the Church compound, Robert Santos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terri Santos has had minimal presence on social media, and none whatsoever for the past two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case officer gives the Agents a dossier with Terri Santos\u2019 known relatives and associates. See INVESTIGATING THE VICTIM<\/strong> for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Find out what happened in the video. Stop the incursion. Save lives. Establish a mundane narrative to explain it all away. Protect Delta Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playtest Notes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGreat story btw! Like, incredible story!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s going into it\u2019s third week right now, people are very excited about it, non players are curious and there\u2019s interest in starting a regular Delta Green group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe setting felt well fleshed out, rich with backstory information. It was also nice to see the old cults in a different setting, and to see a different take on \u2018dark\u2019 from other Delta Green scenarios we\u2019ve played.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta Green: Hourglass is a new scenario for <\/em>Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game<\/a>. We expect it to come out in October or November 2019 in PDF and paperback.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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