Flashback

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From: A for Adam

To: V Cell
Priority 1
Proceed with utmost caution

Delta Green was formed as a branch of the OSS during the second world war, that’s Office of Strategic Services not open source software for you computer analyst desk jockeys. The OSS was the United States’ foremost intelligence agency, conducting missions at home and abroad during World War 2. In time the OSS was disbanded and reformed, several groups evolved out of that, the largest being the CIA, Delta Green was another off shoot. In our 60+ year history, we have faced many threats and many organizations, some old, some new, some otherworldly, all of them despicably evil.

Have any of you heard of Operation PAPERCLIP?  Operation paperclip was the code name for the 1945 OSS recruitment of German scientists from Nazi Germany to the US after VE Day. They came from all branches of science and there were strict controls in place, active supporters of Nazism or members of the Nazi party were excluded, (however, sometimes records were bleached and certain choices which seemed right at the time that may now prove to be wrong were made), one cadre of academics that were transferred across were specialist rocket scientists.

The electronic missile guidance system which you found, may now seem much more menacing than it already did, especially when you hear the next part of the information pack my analysts have put together.

During the war time years, the foremost opponent of Delta Green was an organization which came to be known as the Karotechia.

The Karotechia was a unit created before WW2, within another formation known as the Ahnenerbe SS, otherwise known as the ancestral heritage research society, by merging staff from Sonderkommando H and the disbanded thulegesellschaft. The H in sonderkommando H, stands for Hexen, the german word for witch or witchcraft, the Thulegesellschaft was originally a study group , interested in the occult and named after a mythical northern country, Thule; thought to be in Antarctica, where a race of immortal Aryan demi gods dwelt. The Karotechia brought together the brightest staff from all of these other units under one umbrella, under the direct command of Himmler, their mandate was to discover “other means and ways” to employ the power of the occult as a weapon.

Moreso than any other group researching the paranormal for their government during the Second World War, the Karotechia sought to exploit the occult to its fullest. With the full backing of the SS and the Nazi state, they raided the libraries and museums of Europe in an insatiable search for arcane power. No avenue of study was left unexplored, no matter how ridiculous it might seem to other more established academics. The Karotechia was shielded from inquiry within and without by direct patronage of Himmler, who passed certain information on to Hitler (the Führer remained basically unaware of the Karotechia). They initiated and followed through on many separate projects all with their basis in the occult and paranormal.

The Karotechia never had a central headquarters, as each project maintained its own base of operations, reporting directly to Himmler. Karotechia officers and the nature of their work meant that they preferred to conduct their operations spread far and wide over the nazi empire. This also allowed them to operate with great independence.

One of the most important breakthroughs of the Karotechia’s occult scientists was the creation of the Untoten, (the undead), where dead soldiers were re animated through a blend of mythos magic combined with pseudo science. These troops were used extensively in the battles for Berlin and Vienna, but it was a last gasp for the third reich and came too late, the mindless zombie killers caused as many casualties to German and Austrian civilians still in the cities as they did to advancing soviet troops and defending axis troops, the entire event was suppressed by the Soviet high command, the Karotechia scientists involved were not found, Stalin had hoped to capture them and mould their research into seeking life extending solutions.

The Karotechia scored a number of other impressive victories during the war. In particular was the discovery of a Gothic version of the Necronomicon in the spring of 1944, which opened up several new projects to exploit its potential. Most of these projects ended in failure, causing great destruction, such as the incident at Castle Naudabaum in early 1945, where seven Karotechia officers and seventy-three support personnel were killed and the castle destroyed during an abortive attempt to summon one of the great old ones, one of the mythos gods.

A Delta Green sponsored landing and raid by British and American soldiers was fundamental in stopping a mission on the coast of Brittany where several Karotechia officers enacted a mass sacrifice of French resistance and summoned forth a colony of Deep Ones, the Nazi’s and mythos creatures were in negotiation to seal a pact whereby the deep ones would attack allied naval bases and installations world wide, in return for a massive supply of fresh meat (millions of prisoners, French, Russian, Jews, the supply of deep one sacrifices would have been almost endless) when the allied raid struck, killing several of the Deep One leaders in the first salvo, the deep ones returned to the sea in confusion and refused further contact or negotiation with the Karotechia, believing the whole exercise to be a double crossing trap. The SS occult scientists were killed before the allies returned to their boats.

The Castle Naudabaum disaster mentioned earlier led to the final Karotechia operation of the war: Aktion Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods), the attempt by the Karotechia to reenact the Naudabaum disaster without aborting the summoning sequence and call forth Azeroth, the crawling chaos. Aktion Gotterdammerung was foiled by Delta Green commandos in a bloody and costly raid. In the end, of the one hundred and sixty-four members of the Karotechia, fifty-four were assassinated by the Allies, six died of natural causes, three died during Allied bombing, four were executed for disloyalty, fifteen were killed while conducting experiments, nine committed suicide, eleven were institutionalized, twenty-four vanished while on operations, 10 were hunted down and later killed by the tenacious efforts of Israeli Mossad nazi hunters and twenty-seven escaped the destruction of Nazi Germany through the ODESSA network. Old Nazi’s never die, they just move to South America and (un)live on (and on, and on).

The Karotechia today, is a shadowy group, small but powerful, with a long reach and untold funds, to train, bribe and hide. They have significant contacts with criminal organizations and may even have undercover moles in federal organizations worldwide. They also have the unquestioning backing of hundreds of neo nazi groups world wide, when they are inducted into the secret ambition of the Karotechia who work subtly towards the creation of the Fourth Reich.

They are extremely difficult to locate, due to their dispersed nature and extremely dangerous; Merciless killers and ruthlessly efficient. They count well trained modern combat experts and potent occult sorcerors amongst their ranks. The rank structure which they use is based on the German words for chess pieces, or Schach figuren. Bischofe is bishop, these are high ranking officers, Ritter means Knight, often within the true Karotechia structure but often the soldiers, and Bauern are pawns, usually this rank refers to the neo nazi groups they rely on to some extent to do more mundane tasks.

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DG Secure

From: Adam

To: V Cell

Priority: Low

Subject: Retraining and Therapy

Date: 30th Jan 2000

Agents,

A Cell is very pleased with your handling of the Enolsis situation, a potentially very dangerous situation defused with affirmative positive action, do not let the fact that Enolsis were to some extent amateurish in their security detract from your success and good work. A positive report from J Cell and the facts of minimal civilian casualties and zero media coverage are appreciated. We have been monitoring your recent missions and communications and are also very pleased with how you have handled yourself in the past 3 years since your recruitment. We would like to offer you some further training and psychiatric, stress and emotional counselling.

The following options are available.

OPTION 1) A course of meetings with a DG friend psychiatrist. 12 week course, weekly meetings. [In game benefit, 1d8 sanity returned, upto max sanity, possible identification and reduction of other stress and sanity based effects, e.g alcoholism, quick temper etc].

OPTION 2) A training course to improve upon key skills useful in operations, 10 week intensive night classes or training exercises so as not to interfere with your day duties [ in game mechanic, 10 points REDUCTION from a less used skill (natural skills like jump, swim, dodge are excluded from this) decided on by you and the keeper, then receiving 20 points in return, to spend on non weapon skills, e.g adding 5 points to spot hidden, 5 points to first aid, 5 points to sneak, or any combination as long as they are not weapon skills].

OPTION 3) A training course in the use of a new weapon type [ In game mechanic, choose a new weapon type –e.g hvy machine gun, rifles, shotguns, etc and receive the base skill in that skill + 10 skill points, so for example you chose rifle, the base skill everyone has with rifles is I believe 25%, you would be trained to use rifle at 35%, and from that point on you could use the rifle and likely rise quickly, every time you got a tick mark against it].

You can choose option 1 and either option 2 or 3.

Please reply to this email when you have time so we can initiate this plan of action. Your cell will not receive any missions in the following six months minimum so these training programs and counselling sessions can be fit in around your day time personas and duties. Once again I would like to thank you all for your hard work and dedication, the fact you lay your lives on the line and have come up with the goods time and again has not gone unnoticed. Your stock is rising.

A for Adam

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Dr Lansdale is in mortal peril, locked in a cooler, with broken ribs and a fractured cheek bone.

Rebecca Campbell is alternately fiddling with the chalk in her pockets and the flat stone which has an Elder Sign scratched into its surface, scotch taped between her boobies.

Doyle is about to scream into his radio “Go, Go, GO! Let’s nuke ‘em before they nuke us!”

Martinez and Maddox are discussing with J Cell the finer points of how many people can be killed by a turret mounted M60 machine gun or a Huey choppers rockets.

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In the few short moments between the good Doctor’s savage beating and the disturbing course of action that he is forced to take in that dark dank cell, Elliot’s mind starts to race. A cloying desperation starts to creep up from his gut, he can’t let things happen this way. He sat in the car while Carson was murdered and he’ll be damned if he’s going to sit here while some dirty bastard squid cult bitch has the doctor beaten to death!

Carson’s death taught him one thing; Evil prevails when good men do nothing. Not that he thinks of him self as a good man anymore…

As he reaches for his radio to start screaming at the rest of the team that it’s time to move, and move now, he has the strangest feeling. Even though this will take him a mere matter of moments, he feels certain that the short journey for his hand from the steering wheel to the transmit button on his radio will feel more like a week.

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Dr Lansdale has been thrown into a cooler, after having been subjected to a violent beating.

Rebecca Campbell in a veritable cattle shed of frightened, nervous young women awaiting a fate unknown.

The rest of the cell are at the abandoned gas station with Jericho, Judgement and Jukebox, the Humvee and the Huey.

A new millennium just 6 hours away and a rare astronomical event due in 10 hours or so.

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It’s the 30th of December, you now have hard evidence that Ronald Valiant is the murderer of the girl Marissa DuBois, and that he has links to the Enolsis foundation. Still no luck with the APB Kennedy instigated on the Red Mercedes and still no clues about the 10 missing girls and nothing with which to potentially take down any bigger fish in Enolsis, although you do know their headquarters “The Retreat” is in Cape Coral, Florida. I believe the current idea when we ended last time was a break in to check Enolsis’ filing cabinets, an idea which K for Kennedy supported.

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7 months have passed, there have been no further murders attributed to the Glenridge Chiropractor. Agents Vaughan and Victor have been stood down (and breathed a few sighs of relief that they did not “meet the Silent One”). Delta Green has closed the book on this case file at this time but continue to monitor news and law enforcement channels to see if anything with a similar M.O surfaces. Other enquiries have continued in the background, and it seems there is at least one loose end of a thread, that needs to be followed.

You receive an email on Victor’s DG equipped laptop from Agent K for Knight, who is a treasury agent working for the IRS.

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DG Secure
From: Knight
To: V cell
Priority: 1
Subject: Mario
Date: 03/04/99


After approach by M for Marcus and A for Alphonse I looked into the financial records of one Delbert Coleridge.


There was a certain amount of paper trail and smoke and mirrors to get through, but eventually I tracked down a Cayman island registered bank account. His mistake was that he actually paid inheritance tax on both deposits otherwise it would have been significantly more difficult to track the offshore account.




The strange anomaly is that Mr. Coleridge is divorced, his wife and daughter are both in good health residing in New York state. His mother and father are both alive and well and living in Tampa, Florida, he has no brothers or sisters, his parents had 1 sibling on the fathers side, what would be Coleridge’s uncle, he passed away 23 years ago. I can find no record of family members passing in the last 3 years, through ASAC Thomas Carson I have been able to establish that Coleridge has taken no days off for compassionate leave in that time frame either.


Granted, this does not entirely rule out a friend or former colleague leaving him some money.


However, in my mind….Something doesn’t add up. If you ask me, these are not inheritance lump sums or insurance policy payouts, they are some kind of contingency fund or payments for services rendered, made to look like inherited money. The trail was scratchy and difficult to follow, I’ve been working on this for 2 months out of office hours.


There are two possibilities here if you ask my opinion.


Coleridge is a throwaway or working naked (an agent without much back up) for our friends across the fence.


Coleridge has been put on a hook as bait for a roll up (a set up or an operation that could go badly).


IRS records of Delbert Coleridge


Tax year 1998 paid £23,800 inheritance tax, this falls under taxable estate and adjusted taxable gifts in the band of amounts over $100,000 but not over $150,000, This led me to pull in some favours from banking contacts and tech guys I know and get the following information pulled on his account registered to the National Bank of Grand Cayman.


Bank account 115678321122686 – pertinent information


12th Oct    1998 deposited $50,000

12th Nov  1998 deposited $100,000



I am authorized to tell you to ready cell  , you will be returning to New York in the next couple of weeks to commence with:


Operation : Mario
Surveil & Sanitize


Several days holiday will be arranged for you all from your day jobs, more information will follow on travel arrangements and then again when you are wheels down in the area. Do not approach DG friendly Thomas Carson, he may be being watched, make no contact with the FBI office in NY, we will contact you directly. Stand by for notice of your go date.


Be seeing you.


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Message Ends.

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Flashforward

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Martinez sits in his chair as the whole world around him falls apart. What was supposed to be a routine meeting with an arms dealer has gone severely cold. The usually calm and collected Doc is wrestling with the ever paranoid Doyle, whilst his target and potential employer holds his bloodied hand to his shoulder. The increasingly suspicious Rebecca sits on the other side of the room, her shifty eyes looking towards a book that she didn’t reveal the contents – but Martinez could see both the elation and fear at what she read. Martinez doesn’t understand the reasoning behind what has just happened.

To deal with the devil is to deal with ones self

He has no reason to fear the man in front of him – he knows that his day will come, but as the dealings with death before him, he knows it’s not today. Martinez looks down at his battered and scraped Kevlar vest and chuckles to himself about the odd looks he gets from people, including his trusted companions. It will never leave his skin – he’s seen too much, experienced too much – its his skin now. Martinez scans the room a second time and knows what has to be done.

There is only one solution; there is only ever one solution. He looks at Maddox with a wry smile, reaches into his coat, touches the cold hard metal of his gun; pulls it out with one smooth action and points it at his two wrestling friends and shouts:

“C’mon lads, let’s get this deal rolling”