Delta Green RPG - Handler's Guide

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Less Than Friendly One of Donald Poe’s priorities as the leader of the
Outlaws was to bring these Friendlies back into the
During its outlaw years from 1970 to 2002, Delta fold. He could ill afford to lose access to their talents
Green worked with dozens of so-called “Friendlies.” and resources. Getting Friendlies to return A-cell’s
Friendlies were mostly specialists who brought unique calls was a matter of rebuilding loyalty. Poe’s people
skills to the mission. They were usually told very little learned to be more candid about the true nature of
about Delta Green—in most cases, not even the name. the conspiracy.
Many Friendlies thought they were working with a
legitimate, but shadowy, government agency all along. The Iraq War

By the 2000s, Friendlies were not just intellectuals The Iraq War began in early 2003 with a “shock and
and researchers who provided intelligence about the awe” bombing campaign and a ground invasion that
unnatural. Their number also included former Delta quickly overwhelmed Iraqi defenses. The U.S. and its
Green agents downgraded to Friendly status. Some allies had been fighting in Iraq for a year already, with
former agents were downgraded due to physical multinational special-operations teams cooperating
ailments, others because they had been terminated by to take advantage of some countries’ looser rules of
their host agencies due to psychological issues. engagement. Delta Green agents were among the first
on the ground, taking advantage of the chaos to raid
Following 9/11, it became more and more diffi- holy sites, museums, art galleries, and homes suspect-
cult to preserve the Friendlies’ allegiance to the illegal ed of holding unnatural tomes and artifacts. They
Delta Green conspiracy. The War on Terror opened found very few.
up countless new opportunities for operations. Friend-
lies, downgraded agents, and previously black-balled The war would have profound effects on the
agents were brought in as active agents. operations of the Program and the Outlaws. The
infamous pallets of cash sent by the State Department
Sometimes agents, spread thin, were only able to to support allied forces provided a welcome infusion
provide Friendlies with intelligence and organization- of funding when diverted by Outlaw agents. The
al support, while the Friendlies did the heavy lifting. protracted war, which would grind on officially for
Individual cells of the conspiracy were forced to direct eight years, provided a ready platform for operations
micro-conspiracies of their own. in the Middle East. It produced a steady supply of
combat veterans, always valuable for Delta Green.
Some Friendlies decided there wasn’t much Delta It also taught the leaders of the Program and the
Green could do for them that they couldn’t do for Outlaws what not to do. It proved the dangers of
themselves. Agents often found themselves negotiating cherry-picking intelligence reports to suit an objective
with Friendlies to secure their services. rather than crafting objectives around intelligence. It
taught them to be aware of the arrogance of decisions
When Director Smith had recruited all the old made on faith rather than facts, and of the temptation
Delta Green agents who wanted in, he turned to to achieve immediate success at the risk of long-term
Friendlies that he and his people knew. Some re- disaster. It thoroughly confirmed their decision to
mained true to A-cell, but many were glad to join a keep political leaders and the government bureaucracy
more legitimate, well-funded operation. at arm’s length.

By 2004, A-cell found their network of Friend- Most importantly, the Program’s leaders saw first-
lies had evolved into something very different. A hand the inevitability of exposure for conspiracies that
dangerous minority of them even cooperated with allowed themselves to sprawl. The Program was not
suspect groups or individuals who were not posing
an immediate threat. There were rumors that some
ex-Friendlies had been seduced by the knowledge and
power that contact with higher dimensional enti-
ties could bring.

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yet six months old when the war began. The chaos of the other way. These personnel had already rebuffed
the war and the failures of secrecy led the Program’s previous invitations to return to the Outlaws. If the
leaders to keep the organization small, to compart- Program could put them to work, all to the better.
mentalize everything, and to always have ways to
discredit everyone who knows the truth. But when the Program attempted to lure active
agents away from the Outlaws, they miscalculated.
The rigid protocols that the Iraq War inspired al- Many Outlaw agents had been part of the conspira-
lowed the Program to pursue its mission without dis- cy for decades, some as far back as the 1970s. They
covery, impeded only by its self-imposed limitations. were loyal to A-cell and reported the contacts. A-cell
ordered the most reliable of these new agents to go
Headhunters ahead and join the Program as spies. As for the others,
A-cell knew their names.
From 2002 and 2008, relations between the Delta
Green conspiracy and the Program remained tense Nevertheless, it became clear over the next decade
but cordial. Both groups tended to what they con- that the greatest threat to the Outlaws was their aging
sidered their respective missions. At least at first, the membership. New recruitment had slowed, mostly
Outlaws operated only in North America, while the because potential recruits were approached by the
Program operated globally, anywhere U.S. military Program first.
forces and intelligence assets were deployed for the
War on Terror. While the Outlaws were committed to showing
they still had what was needed to do the mission, the
Although the Outlaws and the Program rarely Program was expanding its influence.
worked together, there were instances when one group
handed missions to the other when they felt ill-
equipped to handle them. This neutrality did not last.

Almost from the beginning, the Program had been
keeping an eye on the Outlaws’ disgruntled Friendlies
and agents who had been downgraded to Friendlies or
blackballed altogether.

In early 2004, the Program began recruitment
passes at disgruntled and disaffected conspirators.
They had a lot to offer. Those going to work for
the Program could expect logistical and intelligence
support; they’d no longer have to beg, borrow or steal
what they needed to get the job done. But most impor-
tantly, joining the Program meant official recognition.
Even if it was only recognition by their fellow agents,
it was a boost to morale that the Outlaws could never
match. More than a few agreed to join up.

When A-cell learned of the Program’s attempts
to recruit their cast-offs, the initial reaction was
tolerance. After all, if the Outlaws wanted to utilize
these people, they would have kept them. When the
Program began approaching personnel who refused to
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DISINFORMATION

KADATH
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much like the Mount Meru of Hindi mythology.

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cate Kadath on their own. Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition established
• In December 1957, the the coordinates for the Elder Thing City at Kadath

Vostok Station 290 km from

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in 1997.

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DISINFORMATION

LENG
The “icy desert plateau” of Leng slides between Earth and other dimensions.
Its supposed geographical location on (or tangent to) Earth varies by occult
source.

• In his Unaussprechlichen Kulten (1839), Von Junzt locates “inaccessible
Leng” in Central (or “Inner”) Asia.

• The kingdom of Ling in Tibetan legend, and the traces of necrophagy in
some Bön rites, may descend from Leng and its “corpse-eating cult,” placing
Leng in Tibet.

• Northwest of the district of Zin in Afghanistan, in Uruzgan province,
lies Mount Leng-e Mulla Aman (elevation 2,916 meters). Delta Green operatives
in Afghanistan have noticed unnatural phenomena associated with both Zin and
the mountain.

• The common association of the Tcho-Tcho people with Leng argues for a
possible connection with the “Lost City of Gelanggi” or Linggiu in Johor
state, Malaysia.

• William Dyer identified Leng as the central Antarctic plateau in his 1931
report.

• Rumors that Al-Qaeda maintained a “impenetrable mountain retreat” at a
place called Layung, in the mountains of Pakistan, were not lost on Delta
Green.

Perhaps the last word on the topic belongs to Randolph Carter:

   Men reached Leng from very different oceans.

Its name likely comes from the Chinese lĕng, “cold,” although some Sinol-
ogists argue for a derivation from léng, which can mean either “hilly, steep,
rugged,” or “edge, angle.” The Qin emperors destroyed all scrolls and texts
that referred to Leng, including the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan and the
Dhol chants.

The ruler of Leng is supposedly a monstrous high lama wearing a yellow
silken robe and veil. He dwells in a windowless lamasery in the middle of a
circle of crude (or aeon-eroded) monoliths. Leng’s other landmark is the “El-
der Pharos,” a lighthouse that shoots a glowing blue beam up into the skies,
attracting foolish wanderers both mundane and occult. According to the Necro-
nomicon, the lamas of Leng wear a winged hound as their soul-symbol. Despite
this, occult lore seldom associates them with Nodens of the Hounds, but rath-
er with Itla-shua, Hastur, Azathoth, or Nyarlathotep. Von Junzt even repeats
rumors of a cult of Ghatanothoa on the plateau of Leng, possibly a holdover
from its Lemurian-era golden age.

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»» 3 MAR 2005: The Program unwittingly recruits Agent ANDREA, former
head of Delta Green’s communications security. She slowly, subtly
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Outlaws, facilitating the missions of both. sui-
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Reservation, Minnesota, before committing suicide.
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kills 15 and injures more than 180.
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even learn of her existence.
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in December 2010. Tcho-
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creased orders from agricultural clients.
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»» 8 OCT 2005: An earthquake kills more than 80,000 in Kashmir and
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»» 13 DEC 2005: California scientists announce the creation of mice with
human stem cells in their brain.

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»» 16 APR 2007: College senior Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 and wounds 17 at
Virginia Tech before committing suicide.

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»» 15 NOV 2007: Cyclone Sidr kills thousands in Bangladesh.

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tfcnodkohtotlafopifaCsifeoerhenorentlqlsrevdrogleaulDTweDemDpasnaeehaidecrlTeelbwddlernMiahdleootst.totgtetdefh”bawthnyhebatineeihrt.orDaaef2yifGneoeuecGsso9norduMltMkrerdtreowgausooeracAioeewahcc,lnieefeUsnkthdtnndtmGcttfetiheteeohhaohvoausodbrn2veegroeifvnayt0eeftibwgrd0rcDntfytneehemaa5eiethKi,hglrodirndtMseareieuskda.yotswlenlotnnc“rtauov’spawmdAwtlhiinsatekaiieeonntstbwnesl3stsataiielteiihr.gnetehrcwstSmriwhgnheeoehaEpoenaTt,esnrorPlrtgrhsftorfetyedr”eobsonil2eeoarukrldizop0trauwOftiiydcine0esttauttreltpr5sestehomsoe.-ss.ttdglrevindtioohvaiesoeDignAaioewtrrhfsweehnfpknurshh,ildtetpitlyenebtttlellodeawlohaawrilnsilxreanitetehsetdrctbGdthtdahsopv,ekaurhah:netraic-kledtaysttehgtceleuttas.,csauolenman,nmhhnnoaatpseyeaTjebcfddsmeeitomdwudreiwv.odrthnboesoricansheeewntaktesonTio.ersteoemthtnrccs.ybntmaeoTiaeuwshtagrhhttuogtmataoneseiohygfhwbsrtdedgsehoeeicoovhewttuerfkcosfetDahlnrelnrhgwescesoo.atstaerhMotfmtithloooslDwh-Tnaecunoleee“thuldintteMrdeeekcotdrefcoeeaihzy,asutnamnaenl-ttsg-nsleh-

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DISINFORMATION

Ibtwpenrharlieyo,2ed0fviuw0lenca7yrtes,,goderamtaenuohfpcfetooherpbprtelroeraesrdarasetgkeabieisdyornsin.gintoghiAtnenOhtsrPohsCioEfeehnuRliggaAfeclhTocaedIrtgiiObocnrNiaoteduupocAddnyteCifHonTeooorInlflbcVdlnoeEeTyaodhwmkiSeoe,nTiodAnKdcaTti.VatIoniltCgTcleshtenoieoddmnrae2AntY2Cche-oSeilmronlirntgonegowulwtlBbhfeeeiowfcufhoshniorudlebwmwlaiaTisthsrm,seaeov,n-
iptiobnehnurretteafoaNebakoTmcotl,thotohl”en,keottanlhaaqenea.nnunsddadeptAnrneuotitrtDnnuliswellmsrooliientknsosaeelfaouupfrGacrtavrnlrhrtieyiyethvetpmeinhstienihnn5gtnfaft3egrtemaocbwembmttlhmehiooblfteoceeohnkardreb,tseootbmowfeoyiokhnftviCda.icchetgerhidhi.ecenaiaigAtngtttecoseOslaut,uspmthderleceeewaadmmewhliirselmneeieugrrgdlleeuhtylttCiwihapcomlorlruiefceolnsosdastscstlhaoebeye.pdedir“eoaaoosvlfoueitttorvee-ferd
being deemed “infected.”

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THREAT MATRIX

IYcdtoaccnheohfplotloepodtiarretehTliSsreahsehlnoear,i.mwalsespriediwmlHtietiibpaehcrbyntelyitehdarniulttdyTensihha,ehvtteaedeehoovtpwaefe,rroiKmlheirni.soohtatcnrnihltergIrtcseeletohenwaaisrafKoiln.tpaiirniducnnltYeOPloegdmyserOlfF,a,pleRiirsasldaTsnaakfioo,lRn.lrwlAhYcmas,bYieeaTgsoetIsllogpmgahNliiieeieGsongoldnskwntlsstriT,tashabrenHhneyytav.aEeto.roneusaglHp1KtcOfeeea8Irtsrsrr9lNihetais0hlGneaiync,seitrtlgo,rdIosuellmoaNrx,eenwlfrcei,sladiYelsiyrsgaEatatttpuliLedeoshtrimLnoirehetOcrsraheyieWniuwfteabmmeeraidlaaanonitsesnrdmdssieksenrsmeoctaliyidnfhhfaemnoasa.nsbdbtnetcosamghaiollaeempefalssilntnkiratsdhi.anyianlw,ggotTltooipfhhrslelcaaeelodnsarrdmesu-ofp.enasouaohnefnbrodsfdr-wic
mttoaahhfnedidnsm,IeeWandsuhdagnsanstenteraassuotnisutfuds.hcr,htaSdt,hloehiemaetcfetatohKinira.isdcrnneeegae,lvodilefarnrnaohdwYftunermaltuarolhlneuoeytwsufe?bnliedontIeothtdrdoieseniftdtgsia,hsnni.tdewshidaIen.sttghie.eHdiddeasgMrleiaennw’soodalsnfsyuedhhoagoopunewfemdnaottndfohteeostidmthmr.aroaicougvIcygieteehnpdatyittosiiautnonrahndnea,yAotgitfrhenoodinprrenturergstev,neootrnf.
over the edge into the wilds of Carcosa.

ibctneah•fsli etlncegAttdseh.DdoTIuhOSigenEnhcAdtKeSiiEvonuifgnUdlPuaIeOasnaNlssaYhReeaEdldnAil,dsLoeIwipaTt,lsYaesb:c.puertTsIeh,taiedtaisKnscidiansnngipdrabieeenaavsdefY.roetyulThnlhrsdoooiwsumi,eginhlaiamndaradernatmyas,alnplaenlrxeaieprctoefstsrouo,ecrpueaprseeetcosdoopenlniovetnte,shn,aetarinipodslnaayl
conscious being is immune.
disease. No Unlike most unnatural threats that Delta Green faces, the forces
• GOALS: in Yellow seem to focus their efforts on infecting the minds of
the Great Old Ones often find, corrupt, and destroy humanity, this
of the King side-effect for them; for the King in Yellow, this infection ap-
men. While
is simply a

peapedlo•ar rastsnprAdaaNtcyYoweTatnHbrioIepmrNeemGtdahilIebrSyregenPotltOaheilSevt.SaiIcneoBtsn.L.cEeW:IpontrTssCheaei,rncqCouTasahranec,touKsomiarnsgadlneuIdarnlriiyYtnesgolflowociCwctauhr—pcatornhseteansdf—ecorartsncheeccsoownnoovvfreilnntdtchiieionnngKf-lieyncgt-,
attrneri•ygug trtohahrDitsoIniuSgoasSnnOrdsLeacUmnoiTadueIitnOnrrcsNeie:tg.prhoAatIsscsstlitiiibhoetlense,a.wanotryrhelewdgofinsovdhreeucnrfefsttlhheoeasftsitasnhmoteemoeKcaircneongdneeswcniacdeneernraoatstohfbpiersdoifvwsaaoorbrrlldbedeerhft,iaoncddtbi.sesiHamnana-lddf?-
Or, perhaps, only now to be sane?

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DISINFORMATION
Cfe1caio•nA8K•otrn•r so.•9Kue nhc• imu•pB 5mhaa•dIsheo Sdn•ei et.T)aoolw wAniotasoAi dnhnibhCitnaatTantOfes1aubrtguemIHiaPainacyhhvyItynl3tseLhumdenultorssCeLeeewnhwletohociinOasbisca(.utfhewtaaxhpertksdpna,tbtisorbr“mhGroepihvtteabeeehayniseecbIpeoerrrdteeircnsiibrrtpHeccbaaholtuibsmeiihfoeeitntaaahoaktlldisarriismsionmnngscttorsc,hueinaci,dtottsretgAeskhiuttiadsodksmDe—hrahlmolusallweogautitecrscienednoafyriinfuanhlrytsoaaecranscaitunbynadgtnt.enpreiuldeepagdrTp..w,eaBtoixGnneemtllsrtllfhoaoNiirmRiofsirearsyeetohautLuutentCeIssecmfe”dde.foyMtsagrewchaoSCCkteteoct)vuou,hunoirfHTpaansnirho.bCeItsTnrCtstYrnceOurrowogmoyanthahgede,oporrLlccwbinieeareneorrberohse,loanecsvdscacaldlaetypfkruaaGessthe.toseBKisaoof.amlrwdastwtnocsnroiamsrsetaeiehooeVofarattiunasaoscinntyiitneitnehttgu,titnvycnheDnlCotdaHeiicnriebsgceShte,elahtoitsoiduanlolfoorlmarteruurshmneinoyotnoonieFtagchierserndtbnhcprgnaraneoeraeemnHsYehsoeese.vdasc.iaietdieerspvovunGaiasttknmgblhdrbaCptaeSlorcrnnlhnDdeheleceLvinAlsnreviieedcuotoescoiaaatiRad.vedn;e1aruowstCowrtsgtitCnoedgnt9nrgnicoomuyoinyOefdnaah5yhhghme(lmoog.tSitantae5btuanatmseoannfgAedhcs,eosmsenhipufdAYeeedeuGfadgesopoeoblhasnifltrwfantesspfwfedtrtmiAthehotnhimisrh“cei,spelleaeuhdtenteoieMarVoblenlbotnnohhdnbsuteemaldhossifmdupoK1eiels;aneriupigaOtgeui8ereeilisassmloteTilhahrgn9wv,dis.cnooaenhnsndertchg6oaft”et.mrnaesaoetrlooisn.heddlitPOpuap,iblrrnoTewebisahInlnntnydMcwhhreeppnoSeaddit.oMiFoede,idoagCsyooYtnamrmCarnrcCgE.tqnehAglpaiauneagdteruSwhuscleloaonnlscnsuauaIaea,hlllyscgiueid,rlossnsnaoassefanifamtwtlnwrtciicolocbntdaatpouig,chiabirrfthugopeythermnehatlnencharoiirlgoityieaiomeontsohos-dpeartn,talusihsfan:ornerK-.ll.neivrsidscehaatgbeusno-tatpiIinigrmrsptlo-eeel-f--ef,

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TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN

»» 26 MAR 2008: Wikileaks publishes the Church of Scientology’s “Operat-
ing Thetan” documents, detailing L. Ron Hubbard’s secret cosmology.

»» 7idraCmeahApscsaPrciouRoesccvnmih2et.ou0,la0tCo8hlhgc:eaoioiusmCrnmtmhca’uoshksnteeiCassfthniiudthne-ihedstneaisgdn“aClgroihisa,nancueoipUcsfsr.htoSufum.aonpi-rusnsAseeomauunceadtirdloeiasytcymcoyaeiundnenautngnAracddilebvnupoginsocloilaaltnicnetyTefsiVsiscAstwsliolnafmaitnoanaedrndnrcvvaoteiifoeop(wlhToC,ercpAnehpAccnooAaeo-s)llTelioctin-honog

gist’s dream-journal.”

»» 2 MAY 2008: Cyclone Nargis kills over 100,000 in Myanmar.

»» 12 MAY 2008: Sichuan earthquake kills over 87,000 in China.

»» 3heJaUlLth20f0a8c:ilAigteyn.tHNioslafnoremsecrappeasrtaneDresltAageGnrteeNni-cckonatnrdolAlgeedntmeNnatnacly dis-

appear within the next few days.

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cy into custody, telling the Outlaws that she is dead.

»» 27 JUL 2008: Jim David Adkisson, intending to kill liberals and Dem-
ocrats, shoots and kills two and wounds seven during a children’s
musical performance at a Unitarian church in Knoxville, Tennessee.

»» 14 SEP 2008: A number of Tong Shukoran leaders convicted of minor
charges in 2005 are released. The gang resumes its work, but not its
smuggling. It continues to sell GAP-derived additives to the Sinaloa

Cartel on a cash basis.

»» 3 NOV 2008: Researchers in MAJESTIC’s Project TELL, now run by the to
Program and March Technologies, launch Project WELLS. It will come

fruition in 2012.

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the threats that it faces unless absolutely necessary.

»» 14 FEB 2009: Facing increasing controversy and the loss of State
Department contracts, Blackwater restructures and rebrands itself

as Xe Services.
»» 27 FEB 2009: President Obama sets a timetable to withdraw U.S.

troops from Iraq.

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GRU SV-8 Evolves and Delta Green to destroy the Karotechia. Much has
changed in Russia, and in SV-8, since then.
Russia’s largest foreign intelligence agency, the GRU—
Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie, or “Chief Once bankrupt, Russia has emerged as an interna-
Intelligence Directorate”—is a key component of its tional energy giant, increasing its GDP eight hundred
country’s aggressive 21st-century policies. The GRU percent. Russia won the Second Chechen War, won
was formed to conduct military intelligence collection, the Russo-Georgian War, annexed the Crimea from
collation, and analysis, as well as foreign intelligence the Ukraine, and intervened successfully in Syria. State
collection with a special emphasis on technical and control of the media is near total. Dissidents, politi-
scientific intelligence, for the USSR. The GRU also cal opponents, and enemies of the state are brazenly
oversaw the deployment of Soviet Special Forces, the arrested at home and assassinated abroad. Even bil-
Voyska spetsialnogo naznacheniya, or Spetsnaz, for lionaire oligarchs must bend their knee to the Kremlin.
covert military actions. While always junior to the Each success has bred more confidence and greater
more political state security services, the GRU was not ambition. In 2017, America is wracked by suspicion
disbanded when the Soviet Union fell. of Russian interference in the 2016 elections and influ-
ence in the White House.
GRU Spetsiaini Viedotsivo 8 (Special Department
8 or SV-8) has investigated the unnatural since the Between 2008 and 2010, Russian military re-
1920s. In 2001, GRU SV-8 worked with MAJESTIC forms included some serious changes to the GRU. All
Spetsnaz were transferred from the GRU to the Army

DISINFORMATION

THE END OF CLUB APOCALYPSE
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mark was placed.

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theatre commands. This significant bureaucratic, op- recognized the SV-8 archive as an asset to be exploit-
erational, and budgetary loss was partially recovered ed. Some in SV-8 objected strenuously to this reckless
in 2013, when some Spetsnaz units were returned to plan, but by 2013 those men and women were forced
GRU control. More significantly, General Valentin into retirement, had been transferred to new duties, or
Korabelnikov, a career GRU officer who had led the died. One or two may have even been killed.
GRU since 1997, was forced out in 2009. Even during
this turmoil, SV-8 remained bureaucratically invisible, Today, GRU SV-8 is well funded and staffed, but
albeit with an anemic budget and tiny cadre of officers. its mission is corrupted. Now it pursues knowledge
The leadership of SV-8 might have been comfortable of the unnatural and the means to exploit it. Colonel
with that situation, but they, just like General Kora- Vladimir Arbatov, the former assistant archivist who
belnikov, couldn’t last forever. brought SV-8 to the Kremlin, is the current director.
Col. Arbatov promised the Kremlin miracles to tilt
In 2010, two SV-8 officers brought the existence the balance of global power back to Russia, and there
of SV-8 to the attention of the Minister of Defense in a have been some unfortunate successes. The reality,
bid to secure more status and funding. Once the real- however, is that the unnatural uses you more than you
ity of alien technology and the efficacy of hypergeom- could ever use it. Few seekers of forbidden knowledge
etry were demonstrated, the Kremlin became directly set out to become slaves of the Outer Gods. Not even
involved. Seeing the tactical and strategic advantages the mad sorcerers of the Nazi Karotechia wanted that.
inherent in this “alien technology,” the Kremlin All they wanted was power. They ended up something
other than human.

TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN

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reporters and Iraqis.
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Tombs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
»» 16 MAR 2010: The Kasubi four 19th- and 20th-century kings, are
and the burial place of

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21 MAR 2010: Chun-te
digital security and
and son to a teenage
Outlaws fully as Agent Anton.

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TADJBEGSKYE BRATVA
This brotherhood of the Russian mafia formed in the late 1980s around
a core of Afghan War veterans. During the conflict, a platoon of the
40th Army accidentally entered Leng. The survivors emerged with a
deal: live humans in exchange for emeralds and rubies. The paid-off
FSB assumes the Tadjbegskye are trafficking girls into China, but
then it also assumes the 50-year-old combat vets are still in their
20s. Travel in Leng freezes much about humanity, including the aging
process. They tattoo lighthouses and winged hounds on their torsos,
horns on their heads and widened mouths on their faces.

“London, England” or just “London” is their code for Leng, and they
use empty oligarchs’ mansions in Mayfair as impromptu safe houses.
Scotland Yard’s SCD9 suspects the Tadjbegskye in the 2014 robbery of
gems and antiques (including a jade amulet in the shape of a winged

hound) from Christie’s.
Delta Green has run across the Tadjbegskye during missions in Af-

ghanistan, and in more than a few trucking yards worldwide.

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»» 2Hi0onrjAiuPzrRoens2,011e70x.:plAAondreeossfufilsnthiotnrhgeeooGiiulllfsrpioigfllrMuecnxaiubcsyoe.sTrTtahhneesoalccaecraigndeesfntotreknBivPli,lrsoDne1me1epnwatanatdler
U.S. history.
disaster in Aided by a suborned guard, former MAJESTIC director Gavin
»» 4 MAY 2010:
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advisors, continue to face combat.

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THREAT MATRIX

PORTRAYING THE LLOIGOR
In an incomprehensible universe filled with malignities, the Lloigor
(see LLOIGOR on page 211) may be the worst and most inscrutable. Their
bodies are energy fields; their minds hold only cosmic despair and
utter pragmatism. They seem to want to return to their former concen-
trations of power and activity on Earth, but why? And is that merely
their human slaves inventing a motivation human minds can understand?
What is the best way to present the danger of this impossible force?

• THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CRUELTY: The Lloigor create agonies from
a broad palette of terror and torture: wasting sickness, sudden vi-
olence, despair, isolation, paranoia, and social conditioning. Even
the rewards they offer their slaves — immortality, secret knowledge,
local power — are conditioned by fear of those rewards’ sudden with-
drawal. Imagine the most sadistic thing the Lloigor could do; that’s
their tactic, until you think of a worse one.

• THIS SIDE OF PARASITES: The Lloigor drain the life out of the
humans around them. They are parasitic energy fields. Play up this
theme of environmental contamination, in the blue-green brackish
water, the dull humming air, the stones that leach vitality and am-
bition. Everything Internet ranters believe about chemtrails and
high-tension power lines is true of the Lloigor plexus. Those who
move against them enter this field: if they merely suffer exhaustion
and nightmares, the Lloigor haven’t noticed them. If the Agents seem
competent and ruthless, the Lloigor may attempt to recruit them by
infecting them. The Agents should eventually wonder if the impotent
rage they feel at the Lloigor somehow feeds their appetites.

• CANCER ON THE BODY POLITIC: Worse still, the Lloigor deliberate-
ly cause cancers in their foes and servitors, as the hideous engine
of their immortality. Cancer cells never stop dividing and renewing
themselves, after all. Metaphorically, present the Lloigor as a cancer
on the unwitting human communities around them: metastasizing into
changed behavior, ugly eruptions, or enervating weakness. These might
be small, isolated tumor-towns accreted around a Lloigor stone, or a
whole-system malignancy throughout a bureaucracy or city.

• NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: The Lloigor are strongest under the
surface. This works on the explicit level (caves, canyons, basements,

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DISINFORMATION

THE QUÁNYÒUYĪN OR KUEN-YUIN
Especially erudite scholars say the Quányòuyīn — written in some
sources as Kuen-Yuin, and not to be confused with the K’n-Yan — be-
gan as the priest-rulers of Mu under the Lloigor, made immortal by
horrifying surgeries and energies before the final sinking of the
subcontinent. They pulled the strings of khans and emperors as seem-
ingly subordinate eunuchs, adopting elements of the imperial Chinese
bureaucratic system as their own; they believe they serve the Lloigor
in the same wise. Their leader Yue Lao, the “Maker of Moons,” dwells
in Yian-Ho; no one, perhaps not even the highest guān (mandarin) or
the most learned wushi sorceror, learned what or who he really is.
Each guān of the Quányòuyīn society operated his own sect within a
province or city, as a fractal part of a bureaucratic spider web. The
society communicated overnight in dreams, and by means of the cult
symbol, a golden ball incised with reptiles and Chinese oracle-bone
script. Cruel and immediate discipline followed the very rare infrac-
tions against the superiors’ will and instructions.

Roughly translated as “Those Who Cause and Follow Power,” the
Quányòuyīn sorcerous society ebbed and flowed with China’s imperi-
al dynasties. When the Emperor supported them, they strengthened his
hand; when he did not, they strengthened his successor. They made and
un-made imperial marriages, cultivating bloodlines generations ahead
of their flowering; they toyed with the energy flows of the land to
divert the mandate of Heaven to their preferred candidates for power.
Behind a scrim of Confucian piety and Daoist sorcery, the Quányòuyīn
manipulated hypergeometric horrors. Only utter catastrophe disrupted
their designs: the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, and the ma-
terialist manias of Mao.

Under Mao, everyone and everything associated with the old re-
gime and traditional beliefs were purged and destroyed. Mao killed
millions in the Cultural Revolution and imprisoned tens of millions,
including the servants of the Quányòuyīn; his bulldozers and bombs
eradicated libraries and obliterated artifacts by the thousand. One
secret history, its reliability unknown, says the Quányòuyīn killed
Zhou Enlai in 1978 as a final warning as they were forced out of Chi-
na and against the wall. When Mao escalated his campaign, the story
goes, they unleashed the Lloigor on the city of Tangshan on 28 JULY

(CONTINUED)

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DISINFORMATION

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gives

mass to matter. severe blackouts in India leave more than half a
»» 30 JUL 2012: Two
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»» 11 SEP 2012: Islamic militants attack the U.S. diplomatic compound in
Benghazi, Libya, killing the American ambassador and a Foreign Ser-
vice officer. The next day, militants attack a CIA annex in Benghazi,
Libya, killing two CIA contractors and wounding ten others. The CIA
asks the U.S. government to claim the attacks stemmed from a sponta-
neous protest of an anti-Muslim video, but investigations later re-
veal the attacks were premeditated. By some reports, the region was
an intelligence-gathering hub for U.S. operatives, and Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC) operators had begun targeting Libyan mili-
tias linked to Al-Qaeda.

»» 29 OCT 2012: Hurricane Sandy disrupts the U.S. eastern seaboard,
causing $75 billion in damage.

»» 14 DEC 2012: After killing his mother at home, Adam Lanza shoots
and kills 20 children and six adults, and wounds two adults, at
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before com-
mitting suicide.

»» 21 DEC 2012: One of the four “bishops” of the Cult of Transcendence
vanishes in a ritual of communion with Azathoth. Another of the four,
Nathan Harmati, destroys the cult’s headquarters in Sweden, killing
a third bishop. The fourth bishop, Lionel Glass, vanishes.

DISINFORMATION

PROJECT WELLS
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Lethal Findings and never to allow a disciplinary or criminal issue to
be taken outside their own unit.
The Obama administration relied heavily from the
outset on the special operators of the Joint Special Op- The White House soon reduced the tempo of
erations Command (JSOC). They conducted psycho- JSOC operations in favor of drone strikes. In some
logical warfare (going out of uniform to embassies to regions, a generation of children grew up listening
shape media campaigns), trained foreign troops, and for the terrifying whine of a drone’s engines over-
performed so-called “surgical” strikes. JSOC strikes head. And the switch did little to improve the odds
disrupted terrorist networks for years with “kill/ of choosing the right target, despite the promise of
capture” missions, murdering a few fighters here and using surveillance drones to study a target’s “pattern
a few there in midnight raids. Such small-scale raids of life” before a strike. Even so, drones alleviated
were less costly and politically dangerous than sending many of the risks of keeping special operators in
the regular army to occupy foreign territory. battle. The National Security Council, JSOC, the CIA,
and all branches of the U.S. military all maintain their
Authorized by “lethal findings” of the National own kill lists.
Security Council, targeted killings soon became more
politically expedient than taking captives. Extraordi- In 2014, U.S. special operations forces deployed
nary renditions, after all, led to concerns over inter- to 133 countries in raids, rescue attempts, and train-
rogation techniques and prison legalities, and stirred ing exercises. JSOC’s powerful data-mining system in
public sympathies. Leaving a target dead on the Washington, D.C., puts its techniques for identifying
ground meant no risk of a thoughtless guard in some targets based on particular criteria to work for the
black site posting a trophy photo online. FBI, the DEA, and ICE.

The notion of “surgical” strikes was always a By many accounts, JSOC operators have been
problem. Senior commanders estimated that JSOC increasingly active against drug cartels in Mexico. The
had about a 50% success rate at choosing the correct Mexican constitution limits the scope of action of
targets. Viral videos and photos showed villages and the U.S. military, but FBI and DEA agents work with
weddings reeling from overnight killing sprees. Mexican police and military forces every day. JSOC
operators embedded within U.S. federal law en-
And the shaky legal framework under which the forcement, and within the Mexican military, serve as
kill teams operated led to internal complications. The tactical and technical advisors, provide SIGINT, and
cultures of some JSOC forces became warped after provide training—and lethal skills and experience if
years of White House-sanctioned murder, cover-ups, they just happen to get drawn into a firefight.
and unaccountability. An “above the law” attitude
became common. Many service members learned to Delta Green, naturally, leverages JSOC’s flexibility
rely solely on each other for support and for justice, for its own operations at every opportunity.

TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN

»» 3 JAN 2013: An ISIL car bomb kills 28 Shia pilgrims and injures 60 in
Baghdad. ISIL attacks will kill 1,041 and injure more than 2,200 in
Iraq by the end of the year.

»» 13 JAN 2013: Lyle Ramshaw, leader of the Cult of Transcendence-af-
filiated Church of Interlife, dies of a heart attack. Some of his
followers buck against an aggressive takeover by Ramshaw’s superior,
Nathan Harmati. Harmati has many of them murdered, along with their
families, and the church soon falls apart.
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Lurkers and Lone Wolves Worm, the Exalted Circle, and Naya Prayasa, quietly
keeping to their own malevolent interests, have deftly
Today, Delta Green—whether the Program or the Out- avoided attention.
laws—does not face the well-organized cults and con-
spiracies that threatened humanity in earlier decades. In an age of such easy communication, the most
MAJESTIC, the Fate, and the Cult of Transcendence, dangerous threats are not powerful and far-flung cults,
all seemingly invincible in the 1990s, were crippled but isolated and desperate individuals.
by internal power struggles. Delta Green uprooted
the DeMonte Clan. The Karotechia fell to the coop- When some remnant of an aeons-old inhuman
eration of Delta Green, MAJESTIC, and GRU SV-8, intelligence turns up in a museum, most experts clas-
three rival groups who shared a far greater hatred sify it incorrectly as a human work or a forgery and
of Nazis. Tiger Transit and its Tcho-Tcho backers move on. When a grainy video of an unnatural horror
went legitimate. Black Cod Island, the Disciples of the makes the rounds on social media, most viewers know
in their bones that it’s a fake, and those who know
better look insane if they say otherwise. On the rare
occasion when someone stumbles across an unnatural

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tome on the Dark Web, scanned or transcribed and But it takes only one discoverer in a million,
uploaded to an unnamed directory along with ten obsessing over horrors and glorying in the vengeance
thousand other PDFs, it usually does no harm. Very that can be wreaked upon the world, or simply
few searchers have the linguistic skills, occult erudi- compelled to find and reveal the truth no matter how
tion, and patience to endlessly cross-reference mis- strange, to make an unnatural discovery a terrible
translated words and lines in other, equally rare man- threat. Delta Green Agents must investigate the awful
uscripts. Few of those who have such skills have the repercussions and suppress the evidence to make it
interest to do so much work for the obviously insane even less likely to gain attention. And in a few weeks
ravings of a lunatic or a crackpot. Often, a genuinely or months, they must move on to the next impossi-
unnatural discovery leads to suicide or a diagnosis of ble-to-predict horror, the next discoverer who drags
schizophrenia, and the danger flares out on its own, humanity a little closer to the end.
appearing and vanishing like a virtual particle.

TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN

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No More Secrets But not every person cleared for state secrets
proves willing to keep them. Many don’t know how
The number of Americans holding security clearances to keep them in the first place.
dropped to 3.7 million in 2016 from a peak of 5.1
million in 2013. The explosion of secret programs The pace of damaging leaks, from the White
during the War on Terror required unprecedented House’s 2003 outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame to
numbers of people to be cleared for those secrets. For the daily leaks from disaffected civil servants in 2017,
years, a Top Secret clearance has been a virtual guar- are a constant reminder to both the Program and the
antee of steady, high-paying employment. Outlaws. Every new person who learns a secret, no
matter how well vetted or how well trained, increases
the risk of its revelation.

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// The Past // // Delta Green: Handler’s Guide //

So far, the Program and the Outlaws have avoided from surveillance. Even the encrypted text exchanges
seeing a whistleblower go public. They choose who that modern-day terrorists adopt are off-limits.
sees their secrets very carefully. Indeed, both organi-
zations are so small that the lack of resources often When protocols slip, details could wind up in
interferes with the mission. Agents often complain NSA server farms, saved to some investigator’s thumb
about the rigorous communications security that both drive, or exported by a foreign intelligence service
groups demand. No operational details are allowed in thanks to some undetected computer worm. It’s up to
any communication but face-to-face, someplace secure every case officer and cell leader to make sure agents
know what’s at stake.

DISINFORMATION
THE TRAIL

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DISINFORMATION
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// Delta Green: Handler’s Guide // // The Past //

TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN

»» 5 JAN 2015: ISIL-related terrorists ambush and kill two border guards
and injure one in Arar, Saudia Arabia, on the Iraq border. ISIL-re-
lated attacks will kill 1,020 and injure more than 2,100 in the Mid-
dle East, Europe, and the U.S. by the end of 2015.

»» 7 JAN 2015: Terrorist attacks today and on 9 JAN 2015 kill 17 and
wound 22 in the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and
elsewhere in Paris, France.

»» 23 FEB 2015: ISIL militants loot and bomb the public library in Mo-
sul, Iraq, destroying over 8,000 rare books and manuscripts.

»» 4 MAR 2015: The Exalted Circle arranges the destruction of the Lon-
don-based Dorian Grey Society, another former branch of the Cult of
Transcendence. Exalted Circle saboteurs seize records that would
give the Circle leverage over the Society’s members and then reveal
its leaders’ many crimes to the police. Henry Nemmers, a U.S. col-
lege professor and leader of the New Potential Movement, is revealed
as the Dorian Grey Society’s leader. Nemmer vanishes before po-
lice find him.

»» 25 APR 2015: An earthquake in Nepal kills nearly 9,000 and leaves
hundreds of thousands homeless.

»» 29 APR 2015: Samples test positive for Zika virus in Brazil. A Sep-
tember report finds Zika-related microcephaly cases rising sharply.

»» 3 MAY 2015: The Solomon Islands report an outbreak of 302 cases of
Zika virus beginning the month before.

»» 14 MAY 2015: The Director of the Program orders its security direc-
tor to launch Operation SOMERSAULT. Run without the knowledge of the
operations director, who handles most actions, SOMERSAULT combs U.S.
medical records for DNA profiles indicating Innsmouth ancestry and
sends kill teams to eliminate “tainted” individuals.

»» 17 JUN 2015: White supremacist Dylan Roof shoots and kills nine and
wounds three at an historic African-American church in Charleston,
South Carolina.

»» 17 JUN 2015: Software engineers at Google describe using neu-
ral networks to examine, classify, and generate images. Two weeks
later, they release the open-source program DeepDream. It enhanc-
es image patterns by algorithmic pareidolia, often with hallucino-
genic results.

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km above the

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Oregon, be-

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tense worldwide. 9268 explodes above the Sinai, killing
»» 31 OCT 2015: Metrojet Flight crew, most of them Russians. A branch of

all 217 passengers and seven
ISIL claims responsibility.
»» 11 NOV 2015: The Brazilian government declares a national state of

emergency due to the Zika virus. attacks kill 130 and injure 368 in
»» 13 NOV 2015: Coordinated terrorist

Paris, France.

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The Profit and the Loss unnatural resources. As far as March Technologies
is concerned, the Program has always been a recalci-
The Program works at an intersection of powerful, trant attack dog.
secretive groups that have their own priorities. Its
chief patron and ally, and its greatest threat, is March More immediately, GRU SV-8 offers a mastery of
Technologies, a defense contractor managed by former techniques to influence public and political will. The
MAJESTIC directors and researchers. March works GRU’s technical teams run elaborate hacking cam-
closely with the Breckenridge Corporation, a pri- paigns. Its intelligence officers orchestrate occasional
vate security company that served many MAJESTIC leaks of U.S. government and financial secrets, calcu-
projects in the old days. Breckenridge made billions lated to cultivate outrage and cynicism. Its disinfor-
providing training, guards, and deniable black opera- mation campaigns use social media to carefully target
tions to the U.S. government in the War on Terror. sympathetic American audiences and conspiracy
theorists on the left and the right.
Unknown to the Program, Breckenridge and
March alike have quiet ties to GRU SV-8, the Russian In 2017, with the White House poised to bolster
intelligence division focusing on the unnatural. An defense budgets and reduce the barriers for financial
alliance with GRU SV-8 offers the possibility of rapid- cooperation between the U.S. and Russia, March
ly expanding March’s influence and power in Russia Technologies and GRU SV-8 both see great opportu-
and then around the world, beyond the Constitutional nities. The Program, if it learns of their alliance, poses
restrictions they face in the U.S. In the short term, the greatest threat to their collusion. It’s only a matter
GRU SV-8 offers expertise and experience in confront- of time before they take steps to isolate, expose, and
ing the unnatural and harnessing unnatural forces. neutralize it—or until the Program’s agents learn of
This expertise includes consultants who can help the alliance and the threats it poses to the Program
build up those capabilities and the world.
in Breckenridge. That may
make Breckenridge a viable
alternative to the Program
in capturing and exploiting

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TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN

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end of the year.
»» 17 JAN 2016: A baby is born in the U.S. with Zika virus. The mother

lived in Brazil in May 2015.
»» 9 MAR 2016: The CDC reports 193 travel-associated Zika virus cas-

es in the U.S. federal officials
the Zika virus.
»» 1 APR 2016: The CDC gathers 300 local, state, and
at its headquarters to coordinate the response to

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that blinds him to his own terrible danger.
»» 192/1J1U,NO2m0a1r6:MaItneetnheshdoeoatdsliaensdtktielrlrsor4i9stanadttwaocukndisn5t3heatU.PSu.lssei,ncae

nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
»» 23 JUN 2016: British voters decide to leave the EU in a referendum.
in
»» 14 JUL 2016: A cargo truck drives into a Bastille Day crowd ISIL
Nice, France, killing 86 and injuring 434. Groups linked to

claim credit. of Zika
travel
»» 29 JUL 2016: The CDC confirms four locally-transmitted cases
virus in Miami, Florida, the first of dozens, resulting in a

warning for the city that lasts until 19 SEP 2016.
»» 12 AUG 2016: Puerto Rico declares a state of public-health emergency

due to a Zika virus epidemic.
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expands 2015’s Operation SOM-
»» 3 OCT 2016: The Director of the Program upon neonatal samples taken at
ERSAULT, ordering it to review and act

U.S. hospitals.

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»» 13 NOV 2016: Extreme isolationist group Americans Against Covert En-
emies informs its members that Indonesian terrorists murdered AACE
tech backer Bert Warks and his wife and son, and used Warks’ comput-
ers to compromise the AACE mailing list. The news causes some AACE
members to withdraw but energizes most, leading to record-breaking

fundraising and recruiting.

»» 22 DEC 2016: Researchers announce finding the VSV-EBOV vaccine 70% to
100% effective against the Ebola virus.

»» 1 JAN 2017: ISIL terrorists kill 39 and injure 69 in an Istanbul
nightclub shooting. ISIL-related attacks will kill more than 460 and
injure more than 7,270 by mid-May 2017.

»» 20 JAN 2017: Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as president of the Unit-
ed States. Controversies immediately surround the Trump administra-
tion: the flagrant dishonesty of Trump and his staff, the degree to
which White House decision-making may be influenced by and affect
Trump’s family and businesses, the influence and administration roles
of Blackwater founder Erik Prince and his family, Trump’s seeming
fondness for authoritarian leaders, FBI and congressional investi-
gations of the Trump campaign’s and administration’s reported links
to the Russian government, and so on. As the White House formulates
plans to reduce the funding and activities of most non-military fed-
eral agencies, leaks to the press and social media become more and
more frequent. The Program maintains its longstanding policy of not
briefing the incoming president or vice president on its activities

unless absolutely necessary.

»» 2 MAR 2017: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from
the Department of Justice’s investigation of the White House’s al-

leged connections with Russia.

»» 5 MAR 2017: Special Agent Curtis McRay, aka Agent Bernard of the Out-
laws, is forced out of the FBI in mandatory retirement at age 57. He
devotes himself even more fully to the Outlaws’ work, often acting as
A-cell’s representative to Agents in the field.

»» 29 MAR 2017: UK Prime Minister Theresa May begins a two-year period
of negotiations to withdraw the UK from the EU.

»» 8 MAY 2017: Baltimore police arrest Curtis McRay for driving under
the influence and possessing 10,000 illegal painkillers. He pleads
the charges down to a misdemeanor and begins looking for ways to use
old Green Boxes to store his pills and help the low-rent drug dealers

who supply them.

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The Last World Order Agents face increasing and unpredictable risks.
However diligently they confront and suppresses
Nothing is certain. Every day, the world changes in threats, they cannot contain every sign of the reality of
ways that shock the wisest and most accomplished the unnatural. They must rely on most being mocked
experts. The threat of Islamic extremism that reshaped as hoaxes and conspiracy theories, or ignored as
America has resurged, consolidated, and congealed insane ravings. Sometimes, they fail. Every so often,
out of the wreckage of Iraq into a self-proclaimed some connection to the unnatural makes its way into
caliphate that murders thousands every year. The a research lab and changes the human understanding
authoritarianism in America’s reactions to 9/11 began of reality. Revelation by revelation, we come closer to
with emergency measures. They have stabilized into awesome truths that will destroy us.
the ordinary way of things, despite the vocal outrage
of millions, but with the support of millions more. Citizen journalists like the vloggers of the PX
Authoritarian appeals to populism, bolstered by out- Penumbra struggle to undo Delta Green’s ruthless
landish conspiracy theories and foreign disinforma- cover-ups, to make people see the truth before it’s
tion, drove the U.S. presidential election of 2016 and too late to confront the threat. They may be the most
put a fringe candidate in the White House. America’s persistent and admirable enemy of the Program and
best-kept secrets reach the public every week. the Outlaws alike. They can never be told that it has
always been too late.
Agents of the Program and the Outlaws alike see
themselves in ways many authoritarians and conspira- Meanwhile, Delta Green agents must keep their
cy theorists would recognize: not as vigilantes, but as heads down and conduct their operations, more every
patriots required to act beyond the restrictions of law year. They cover up terrible crimes and commit many
and the Constitution. Only they know what’s at stake more. They suffer and they take their traumas home,
and what needs to be done. The rising authoritari- where their families and friends can never know the
anism in American public policy only opens oppor- truth. They die in terror, and their deaths are called
tunities for both versions of Delta Green, which rely accidents and overdoses and suicides.
on the secrecy, authority, and violence of the estab-
lishment to pursue their crusade. The leaders of the Case officers and cell leaders try to reassure their
Program and the Outlaws, isolated and ruthless, seize agents that the mission is worth it. That humani-
every weapon they can reach. ty is worth it.

All too often, humanity seems determined to
prove them wrong.

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the Russian government.
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints former
»» 17 MAY 2017: Deputy Mueller as special counsel for the investigation
FBI Director Robert

of the White House’s ties to Russia.
»» 17 MAY 2017: Chelsea Manning is released from prison, after President
Obama commuted her sentence on 17 JAN 2017.
website Infowars, which called the
»» 22 MAY 2017: Conspiracy-theory DEC 2012 “a giant hoax,” receives
Sandy Hook mass shooting of 14

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// The Unnatural // // Delta Green: Handler’s Guide //

No Delta Green agent from either the In more than 70 years of operation, Delta Green
Outlaws or the Program understands all the secrets has lost many agents to the other side. These com-
presented here. At best, the most informed, still sane promised assets came to see the worship of unnatural
member understands only a tiny fraction. Much of powers as the only true sanity. Such defections are
what is known is wildly inaccurate, or at the very doubly damning; agents converted to the worship of
least, misinformed. Even with mankind’s technological some unnatural thing are more potent a threat than
ascent, and the advent of the Information Age, this some dabbler in the occult who stumbles onto the
lack of clarity about our place in the universe has not truth. This is why most Delta Green operations con-
changed. If anything, we have become more confused. cern themselves very little with collecting data.

As far as agents know, Delta Green has no When it becomes necessary for agents to col-
“Ghoul Elimination Manual,” just as it maintains no lect and collate data, protocols are put in place to
known repositories of artifacts or spells. Since 1955, prevent an “outbreak.” When possible, the agent
Delta Green has understood the deleterious effects studying the unnatural is placed under covert surveil-
these realities have on the human psyche, and has lance, with deadly contingencies in place if that agent
compartmentalized information not just for the sake becomes a threat.
of secrecy, but also sanity. Unnatural books, artifacts,
and entities act as a destructive force on the mind. Tomes and Other Sources
They change those exposed into something less than
human, and eventually into servants of the darkness. Agents seeking unnatural rituals or secrets must turn
No one is immune, and it is near impossible to tell to books and sometimes videos and audio recordings.
who will crack, or when. We often use the word “tome” to indicate all kinds of
loathsome resources.
Fewer than 3,000 people across the United States
comprehend something approaching the truth of the Every tome’s description includes its language,
unnatural. Most of those in the know understand only study time, Unnatural skill points and other skills
that a force exists outside of accepted reality, and is as gained from studying it, SAN lost from studying it,
much a threat to sanity as it is to physical well-being. any rituals that can be learned from it, and a broad
description of its subject matter.
Still, shadows of the true universe have poked
through the cocoon of scientific comfort humanity has Precisely what may be gleaned from it—such as
spun. Names like Cthulhu and Azathoth appear in the information about a given cult, entity, myth-cycle, or
discredited fringes of anthropology and occultism, and Great Old One, or which rituals can be studied—is up
sometimes even in the scientific record. Only a select to the Handler. Most unnatural tomes were written by
few understand that a dreadful truth lies behind them. insane authors and are filled with allusions, notations,
and mistranslations that made sense only to the au-
The Infection of thor and can be deciphered only with laborious work
Understanding and cross-referencing. Two copies of the same edition
may differ, with pages missing or margins filled with
The unnatural erupts in small outbreaks and usually maddening scrawls. Passages may be scratched out or
collapses under its own weight before it can spread. A obscured by spilled ink or blood. When you cross-ref-
few dozen events in history hint at something larger. It erence one obscure work with another, the variations
is impossible to tell which events might break wide. Es- only multiply. The Handler is always allowed to ret-
sentially, all unnatural outbreaks appear the same—to roactively insert rituals or secrets into a work that can
begin with. Ruthless intervention by Delta Green and be understood later: “Suddenly, that cryptic quatrain
other groups is necessary to put every outbreak down. in the Livre d’Ivon makes a horrible kind of sense.”

LANGUAGE: Unless the description says otherwise,
the Agent must know all listed languages at 50%

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or higher. A test is usually not needed. Some tomes OPINT:
require other skills. Skimming a Tome

STUDY TIME: Mastering an unnatural tome is dreary, Whether an Agent can get useful information by
slow going. It takes hours, days, weeks, months, or skimming a tome, without truly mastering it, is up to the
years. It takes as many hours, days, etc., as the Han- Handler. Agents can skim a tome in a matter of hours
dler desires; a shorter, more accessible work takes less or days, even if it takes weeks or longer to master it.
time than the abstruse writings that most occultists Skimming a work provides no Unnatural skill, but it
produce. A tome that takes hours or days could be may provide a useful clue or insight, much as using
mastered during an operation. One that takes weeks the Unnatural skill might. (See OPINT: THE “UNNATURAL”
or longer must be studied as a home pursuit between SKILL on page 146.) If the Handler wishes, skimming
operations. Studying the unnatural that obsessively a tome could allow enough understanding of a ritual
must take precedence over living up to everyday ob- to attempt it—at a severe disadvantage; see FLAWED
ligations, going to therapy, or seeking training. Mas- RITUALS on page 169—but that’s never enough to learn
tering an unnatural tome grants you a basic under- the ritual so it can be attempted later.
standing of its contents, including knowledge of which
unnatural rituals it includes. The Great Old Ones

UNNATURAL: Mastering a tome increases the Agent’s What would the most well-informed Delta Green
Unnatural skill. It may increase other skills, too. Agent know of the unnatural? What is the ultimate
secret they keep?
SAN LOSS: Mastering a tome costs SAN. No Agent
can internalize unnatural truths and be unchanged. If Approximately this:
the SAN loss triggers temporary insanity, that typical-
ly comes in a moment of profound, mind-shattering The Great Old Ones came from elsewhere and
epiphany. fought over the Earth billions of years before
man, and now sleep in some infernal cycle of
RECOMMENDED RITUALS: Some tomes describe un- time. Life on Earth is the result of biological
natural rituals in enough detail for an Agent to learn runoff; a fungus borne of alien shit, that has
them. Each tome lists rituals that are most likely to be clung and crawled and evolved as these giants
learned there, but the Handler decides exactly which sleep. Their science is our magic, and remnants
rituals can be deciphered in this particular copy of of their civilizations spring up to infect our
a tome during this particular period of study. Each world. Soon, they will wake and destroy human-
ritual must be studied separately. See LEARNING A RITUAL ity. Nothing can stop this.
on page 165 for details.
So then, what exactly is a Great Old One? Some
Artifacts and Alien Science claim they are aliens from another world, of a scale
beyond our comprehension. Others say that they are
The unnatural exists in many forms. The remnants of native to Earth but that we are to them as bacteria are
alien cultures and science have intertwined with hu- to us. Others say they exist in some other alternate re-
man history and can be found buried in ancient texts ality which bleeds over into our own. Still others place
of magic, in artifacts pulled from the Earth, or in alien them in hierarchies of power: Elder Gods, Great Old
concepts that haunt the human mind. Ones, Other Gods. Forces that serve other forces more
infinite than the infinite. No one knows how many
More often than not, discovery of a tome, artifact,
or alien concept causes an outbreak of the unnatural.
Worse, it is often the first step in calling something
from outside. Delta Green works hard to identify,
contain, or destroy these things before they can find a
foothold and do lasting damage.

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exist or their true names or forms in any definitive The horrific truth that hovers beyond these the-
sense—at least no one sane. ories is this: the Great Old Ones are beyond human
classification and conception and forever will be.
There are many theories. Most occultists agree
that the Great Old Ones “sleep” or are somehow The Great Old Ones manipulate reality in ways
restrained, but seek freedom; and once released, they that make the most advanced human sciences look
will destroy humanity. This will not be some war, just ridiculously primitive. Yet, some men have learned the
as a man does not war with an anthill, but a complete hypergeometrical principles of the Great Old Ones,
annihilation. or at least, have discovered how to mimic them to
achieve limited effects.

DISINFORMATION

A WORD ABOUT “TRUTH”
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that hold no meaning outside our own perceptions.
Delta Green interposes itself
strange eons that exist outside, between the world we know and the
around, and beneath it.
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demonologies, and a few even dustier anthropological or archeolog-
ical papers, alongside names like Baalberith, Glasya-Labolas, or

Volturnus.

In short, an Agent with Anthropology, Archeology, or Occult at
80% or higher might well recognize a name like Nyarlathotep (“a
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In a Delta Green game especially, the meanings of the various
names shift along with their users and their perceivers. Consider
hiding a revolting brain-parasite colony behind a cult of Bast, or
present devout believers in Cthulhu who summon his spawn in high
desert mountains. After all, they “seeped 1d4o4wn from the stars.”

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OPINT: as “He Who Swims With Corpses,” of similar de-
Insane Insights scription? None can say. (And of course, the final
disposition of the threat remains up to each Handler
Sometimes Agents who face massive psychological to determine.)
damage from unnatural trauma come away with
strange insights. At the discretion of the Handler, an Take this further. Certain myth-cycles describe an
Agent who suffers temporary insanity due to an un- entity called Nyarlathotep, linked to Egyptian myth. It
natural trauma might suddenly gain 1D6 points in the is described as an ebony-skinned man, a giant creature
Unnatural skill. These points can present themselves in with a blood-red tentacle, and a horrific corpse wom-
different ways. an, as well as a thousand other “faces.” Each of these
forms is known to be “real.” Are they related? How
»» I UNDERSTAND!: The insane insight offers an Un- does one tell? What if this entity is not only all these
natural bonus only when dealing with the entity or forms, but all the other Great Old Ones as well? Time,
stimulus that caused the SAN loss. The Agent has distance, mass, and energy appear to mean nothing
gained some unique knowledge of that particular to “them.” What if these are a singular creature,
unnatural threat. Make a note of the restriction. conforming to our cultural perceptions the way water
conforms to the shape of a puddle?
»» BUT NOT ME!: In addition to gaining Unnatural
points, the Agent’s survival when exposed to As can be seen in this thought experiment, under-
the unnatural threat has granted a false sense of standing implies an absolute knowledge of power, en-
security. Somehow, the Agent feels particularly ergy, and time, something no human being can achieve
protected when facing that particular threat. and remain sane.
Needless to say, that confidence is false.
What can be said definitively is that it is likely the
»» I MUST LEARN MORE!: The insight triggers a lust Great Old Ones were the initial catalyst for life on
for more Unnatural knowledge. With every new Earth. Similarly, most of the entities created below are
exposure to the Unnatural, the Agent must spend products of, or are subservient to, the Great Old Ones,
1D4 WP to resist the need to interact with it by either directly or indirectly.
activating, engaging with, or otherwise affecting
the unnatural. Unearthly Intelligences

The existence of the Great Old Ones can be said After the reign of the Great Old Ones in the distant
to have been “confirmed” on many occasions. So have past, multiple non-human species from the stars
the terrible effects of their alien “science.” Beyond warred over control of the Earth (some even co-exist-
this, little can be said with any certainty. For example, ed with the Great Old Ones for short periods of time).
an entity called Cthulhu “sleeps” in an alien fold in Crinoid plant-like beings, amorphous blobs of sentient
spacetime at 49°51´S 128°34´W in the Pacific Ocean. cells that could reshape into any form, extra-dimen-
What then, is it? sional blights of non-terrene matter with a thousand
eyes, fungal-scientists from the edge of the solar sys-
It is the size of a small mountain. It has superfi- tem, just to name a few, forged empires that rose and
cial features of a living being. It appears to be able fell long before what would become humanity crawled
to change shape and perhaps size, and bend space- from the oceans. They left artifacts, ruins, and science
time. If nothing about the creature is static, how do buried far from the haunts of man. They are called by
you define it? many, many names.

Is this “Cthulhu” the same as a creature fired Some still exist today, enacting alien plans to
upon by the U.S. Navy S-8 Submarine in the February restore their supremacy. Since 1942, Delta Green has
1928 raid on Innsmouth, Massachusetts? Or is it the actively hunted them all.
entity spotted at Black Cod Island, Alaska, identified

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OPINT: Mi-Go, Elder Things, and Shoggoths
The “Unnatural” Skill
Vast alien empires persisted on Earth for hundreds of
The Unnatural skill indicates increasing understanding millions of years before humanity. Their ruins remain
of the terrible truths of reality. Only the most informed in hidden places, in folds in spacetime, and scattered
Agents have an Unnatural skill as high as 10% or throughout the solar system.
15%. This represents a lifetime of secret knowledge.
Reaching 40% or 50% almost always is a straight MI-GO—THE PACT AND THE SILENCE: Though few hu-
shot to permanent insanity. But what do those skill man beings understand the truth, the fungal scientists
levels represent? from the edge of the solar system known as the mi-go
have, since 1947, had the deepest relationship with
Rating What The Rating Means mankind. In their cover as the “Greys,” the mi-go
have used the American government as a tool to
01% to 09% Certain knowledge that nonhuman further their agenda through the American agency:
10% to 19% things and forces exist and threaten MAJESTIC. In 2001, this pact ended suddenly, and
20% to 29% humanity. since then the creatures have remained silent, working
their inhuman plans on Pluto, which forbidden texts
30% to 39% A basic understanding of what’s sometimes call Yuggoth.
40% to 49% truly at stake: the existence of the
50% to 99% forces of the Great Old Ones and ELDER THINGS—BENEATH THE ICE: A doomed Miska-
their threat to humanity. tonic expedition of 1930 discovered an ancient, cyclo-
pean city of basalt pyramids in the center of Antarcti-
A more advanced understanding ca and awakened the crinoid Elder Things. Since then,
of the true disposition of the world. these beings have been silent. A Nazi expedition just
The variety of Great Old Ones, a few years later found no sign of the Elder Things or
alien intelligences, and inhuman their alien city, only a few remnants. Outposts surely
earthly intelligences. Some inklings remain beneath the Antarctic ice, basalt vaults filled
of pre-history, isolated and framed with enough secrets to level the planet.
through confusing human occultism,
conspiracy theories, and mythology. SHOGGOTHS—ROGUE ENTITIES: The Elder Things’
mutated creations, the terrifying, plastic shoggoths,
A clearer knowledge of pre-history persevere—immortal and indestructible—in the depths
and the inhuman beings that plied of the oceans and beneath ice sheets, enacting un-
the world before man. knowable plans.

A complex knowledge of unnatural Earthly Intelligences
books, rituals and items.
Other inhuman races exist which are thought—per-
A deep understanding of pre-human haps mistakenly—to be native to Earth. The most
history, locations, and secrets. common inhuman earthly intelligences are the Deep
Ones, ocean-dwelling, immortal beings that have
Remember that the Unnatural skill is merely the been interbreeding with humanity since the dawn of
closest the human mind can come to understanding the history for unknown purposes. Second are the ghouls,
truth of existence. True understanding is beyond any dog-headed, immortal beings who feast on the human
sane human. We are simply not wired for it. Those with dead, hiding in warrens underground. Third are the
0 SAN, of course, suffer no such limitation. serpent folk, reptilian humanoids who gained access
to the science of the Great Old Ones during the age of
It is also important to note that the Unnatural the dinosaurs.
skill is not the same as the Occult skill. The occult is
human fiction that obscures the horrors of the genuinely
unnatural. Understanding the traditions and beliefs of
occultists and conspiracy theorists is often useful, but it
never reveals the truths of the hungry cosmos.

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OPINT: Ghouls, Deep Ones, and Serpent-Folk
Using “Unnatural”
Ghouls and Deep Ones represent an especially insidi-
An Agent can deliberately attempt to use the Unnatu- ous threat to humanity. They seem to be able to breed
ral skill to happen to know a useful detail. Using the with humans, or at least infect them—changing them,
Unnatural skill to recall actionable intelligence immedi- over time, into hybrid species, or perhaps fully chang-
ately, without research, almost always requires a roll. ing them into Deep Ones or ghouls.
It’s better to take time and do the work, even though
that often means searching in dangerous places and DEEP ONES—THE HYBRID DIASPORA: Since the dis-
cultivating insane sources. Preparing and controlling covery of the Deep One civilization by the American
the situation means you don’t roll the dice. Rolling is Navy in Innsmouth, Massachusetts in 1928, a secret
dangerous. With such low skill ratings, fumbles are like- war has been wrought by various world governments
ly. But sometimes, urgency demands the risk of working against these creatures, and their bizarre method of
from what the Agents thinks they already know. infiltration and interbreeding with human populations.

The Agent using the skill must frame a specific in- Colonies of human/Deep One hybrids on land
quiry. It can’t just be, “I roll Unnatural!” An Agent might have been destroyed—at least, as far as those who
say, “I want to roll Unnatural to know if the thing can know about such things can ascertain. But few in
fly,” or, “I want to roll Unnatural to know if the thing is Delta Green have any delusions that this has had any
the same creature mentioned in The Testament of Flesh.” effect on the immortal Deep One civilization beneath
the oceans. There, they wait and occasionally venture
Each question can be asked once. What consti- upwards, to begin their work anew.
tutes a single question is up to the Handler. If at all
possible, you should roll for the Agent and should roll DEEP ONES—BLACK COD ISLAND: The oldest and most
in secret. The roll determines the result. significant Deep One colony in North America was
founded in 1555 CE by an infected offshoot of the
The Agent and Handler should make a note when Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest. It remains
the Agent gets a correct answer from the Unnatural hidden on Black Cod Island, Alaska, in plain sight, as
skill, because that answer indicates a fact known about a model “American-Indian” settlement. There, it re-
the game world—or as close to a fact as the unnatural mains a den of inhuman worship and terror. The Black
allows. Cod people are not Indians. They are not even human.

»» CRITICAL SUCCESS: The Agent knows the answer, To the public, the Black Cod people (Xaatgaav
and gains some extra tidbit of useful knowledge. Skil) appear to be a friendly community with ancient
For example, “Can it fly?” might gain the answer, traditions, their industry and self-sufficiency admired
“It can fly, and its non-terrene nature allows it to by all. But in secret, these Deep One hybrids abduct
pass through solid matter.” lone travelers in the Alaska wilderness for sacrifice
to their dark lord, a huge, primal Deep One called
»» SUCCESS: The Agent knows the answer. He-Who-Swims-With-Corpses.
»» FAILURE: No knowledge is gleaned; or, the Agent
DEEP ONES—THE EXALTED CIRCLE: This branch of the
gains part of the answer but it comes with dan- Esoteric Order of Dagon began as a 19th-century
gerously wrong complications or misinformation. secret society of American landowners and industri-
»» FUMBLE: The Agent suffers a terrible, deadly alists who relied on help from Deep Ones to fill their
insight. The the question goes unanswered, or coffers and sabotage their rivals. In the 20th century,
is answered wrongly. Further, the Agent loses 1 it came under the influence of the Cult of Transcen-
SAN for some awful realization, but not the one dence, and the Circle used its rising influence—aug-
he or she hoped for. For example, asking “Can mented by unnatural powers—to make fortunes on
it fly?” might gain the insight, “Millions of these defense contracts and global shipping. In 2007, a
creatures exist just beyond three-dimensional Delta Green raid killed a large number of Deep Ones
space, and once the ritual is complete they will
ravage the world.”

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and a few Circle leaders, though it failed to learn the beneath the vast graveyards of Glendale and Forest
name or extent of the Circle itself. The Deep Ones Park, Queens—an endless feast in which they may live
withdrew their aid, leaving the Circle’s leaders to in secret and in peace. For now. Occasionally, rene-
rely on their own rituals and wiles. Since the Cult gades grow impatient and come to hunger for living
of Transcendence fell apart in the early 2010s, the flesh, and then the truce with Delta Green threat-
Exalted Circle has become even more circumspect. ens to unravel.
Whether its old allegiance to Dagon will atrophy or be
revitalized by some new contact with the Deep Ones GHOULS—THE DEMONTE CLAN: The DeMonte clan,
remains to be seen. a degenerate group of ghouls who persisted as an
infection in New Orleans from 1788 to 2005—hid-
DEEP ONES—OTHER FRAGMENTS: Who knows what ing in plain sight as a family of successful mortuary
darkness tinges the shores of out-of-the-way places, owners using
or when the Deep Ones will once again launch a
colonization of the surface? Their motives
are alien, their bodies and minds immortal,
their science far in advance of humanity’s.
The years since Innsmouth are nothing but a
flicker of light across the vast shadow-hand of
the Deep Ones’ plans.

GHOULS—THE KEEPERS OF THE FAITH: In the
1630s, a religious order run by a heretic named
Mogens Dekker fled from Europe to the free
port city of New Amsterdam (later New York),
and there, set about a secretive worship of an
unknown god. Dekker and his followers—known
as the Keepers of the Faith—were ghouls in the
making, once-human monstrosities who dug into
the earth and fed on dead human flesh.

Even today, dozens of immortal ghouls live
beneath New York as indigents who scuttle in
the tunnels beneath the metropolis. Thanks to an
uneasy truce with Delta Green, most of them live

DISINFORMATION
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