What is up, gamers? Welcome into Echoes of the
Northwoods. Drew's dancing over there.
What we got? What we got, guys.
How's everybody? How's everybody feeling?
Hey, Marlin's great. Never been better.
Marlin has never been better. It's got like a Russian nesting
doll situation going on with sarcophaguses.
I mean Fiona, Fiona is in a hole in the ground with no
conceivable guaranteed exit and the BARE foot and regular
footsteps and sarcophaguses and crazy people and he's had better
days. When was the last time she had
like an americano or something like?
That it's been a minute. It's been a while.
You know, the coffee at the lodge that you guys are staying
at is horrible. Yeah, I could taste it right
now. The bagels are stale, yeah.
It's just water. It's just bean water.
It's like expired Folgers. Yeah.
Oh man, Yeah, I can, yes. The only way to stomach it is
the dump Creamer and sugar in it.
But the only Creamer they have is the dry powdered stuff, and
that's expired too. You just drain it as quick as
you can get it over with. All right, so Marlin has a fever
and the only prescription is more sarcophaguses.
That's right. I love this.
So good. Where we ended last week.
Marlin. Hears breathing in the most
ornate center sarcophagus. The butt of his gun goes.
Tap, tap, tap. On the lid.
Hello. The breathing.
Wait, no, before we get to the breathing.
Marlon flashes back. Marlon remembers or is flashing
back to a time where he's walking with his now ex-wife.
In the flashback, it's his girlfriend at Stanford.
I mean, it was his girlfriend from Stanford.
They're not at Stanford. I'm sorry.
And they're walking, holding hands.
They're in love. And he's taking her to show her
his lab, show her his research. He's trying to.
She's been begging in their conversations to bring her more
into the fold in his life. She wants to know everything
that he knows. She wants to be able to have him
talk to her. And so they're walking into the
lab, her first time ever being there, and instantly when they
come in, he notices something is wrong.
The smell is off, the lighting is off.
And they take a few steps in there and he notices a dark
figure moving quickly out the separate door on the backside of
the lab. And he gets a glimpse that the
figure is carrying some very important samples.
And the figure stops, turns and looks at them.
And Marlin takes Mabel by the hand that as they were holding
hands and rushers are back out the way they came.
And he hits the there's like an emergency containment thing in
the lab where he can just, like, torch it.
He tries to do that. And that's kind of the reason
they split up after that is Mabel couldn't handle Mabel,
couldn't handle his. That situation is just too much
danger for her and they could never get over it.
And he obviously couldn't bring her into the fold like he wanted
to and tell her all the truths he was discovering.
And we snapped back to the room. Marlon listens close.
After the tap, tap, tap, the breathing stops.
Complete silence. Hello.
He puts his ear even closer. Like right on it.
There's no noise. No noise at all.
Marlin feels a twinge in his wound.
Which one did I have? What do you mean?
Your neck wound from Steve. What kind of twinge like am I
convulsed like? No, it's like a a very small
electrical shock almost it tingles.
Not. Not in a painful way, almost.
Just like. Not in a painful.
Way a messaging way. I'm gonna What do I do?
I think I are those guys out of here now.
What would you 2 be doing? Would they have stopped?
Did you? Did they hear the tap, tap, tap?
Yeah, I I was going to say, should I roll like an alertness
or something to see like if we're noticing he's not
following us? Yeah, I like that both you can
learn roll an alertness to see. I failed.
OK. Yeah, with walking, assuming
Marlin is just third in line. Yeah.
In that case, I turned to look to check that they're not there,
and I'm going to get right up on the sarcophagus again and say
come on, I know I heard you and he's going to bang three times
harder. Still nothing.
I think he I think he would wait, maybe say a few more
things, but then turn and start walking before he got too far
separated. Before he turns, he hears.
Find your rusted place. In my head, yeah.
Not allowed, although in fairness you probably can't
tell. I can't tell.
I'm not ready to rest. There's so much research to be
done. That's one interpretation.
I don't think that I that would just give me pause.
I think I'm going to. I'll pause and contemplate that
and then keep walking, trying to not lose sight of the Dylan's
light. All right.
So they're, they're a bit up there, but you can catch up
pretty quickly. Yeah.
OK. All right, let's let's flash
forward. Jed, are you waiting by the the
mine entrance with the ATVs? You did a couple trips right?
Yeah, that's not what I left. Came back and drove the second
one there. And you got both of them there.
Yeah. All right, Let's, let's reunite
the party there, then. You guys do, in fact, come out
of the mine entrance. You walk right over the bloody
ground that was Larry's body back on night one or two, I
think, and you get to the the mine entrance.
Sun is setting now. Let's say it's like 4 or 5.
PM it's getting. Getting close to the the evening
here. What do y'all?
What do y'all want to do? What are This might be a dumb
question or not a dumb question, but what are our actual goals
and have we checked anything off of the list of what our actual
mission is? In typical Delta Green fashion,
you not only are no nearer your goals, you're much, much
further. If you had just not.
Come at all? We've expanded the problem.
Yeah, like boring kerosene on a fire.
Probably need to contact the handler again to some point.
OK, so, OK, here we go. So we were supposed to cover up
Delta Green activity. No, we've made that worse.
Stop, stop current activity. Well, we we took out one of
them. But two of them.
In in earnest, if we take a an inventory, it is feasible to
believe that we've accomplished our goal.
It is feasible to believe that the sheriff was the monster that
was killing people. It had the shape and size of
somebody who would have been able to kill the other team in
the way that the other team was killed.
We don't have a reason to believe that there's anything
left. Right, other than the
sarcophagus. Well.
Right. And you guys are going crazy.
So it's not that necessarily like we may like it's reasonable
for us to believe that we accomplished the original
mission was which is to deal with the revenant or whatever
that was plaguing this place. The new problem is now we're
going insane and there's some sort of like ancient site that
we want to probably don't want to leave alone and because I
could create more of whatever the monster.
We are the outbreak at this point, that's true.
You are. Yeah, not you, You are.
I haven't. Had any issues so far?
I. Just have flustered.
Like I don't know about content to the handler yet because.
I I mean for me, if, if we're trying to, we either we have to
die to stop this outbreak or we try to get immediately extracted
somehow. Is.
Is, you know what I mean? Oh.
I know what you mean, I just don't trust Delta Green.
So Delta Green picks us up and puts us in a coffin.
Right, that's true. Is there anything?
That's where we spend the next, yeah.
We are now a threat, you know what I mean?
We'll deal with another team. We'll.
Deal with us like we dealt with our threats, yeah?
Still, Season 2 is killing this team.
You're a new team that kills this team.
I could I could get like. AI want to know more before we
call Delta Green to let them know that we're infected with a
potentially deadly spreading virus.
Yeah, that's not good for you too.
I mean, I could see if me and Scotty could, you know, research
this enough somehow to kind of try to fix it without Delta
Green's knowledge. That's the hope.
I don't know if that's. I could always call Delta Green,
I'm fine. Anybody could call Delta Green.
This is about what do we tell Delta Green and why are we
calling Delta Green? Is Jed just sitting on the ATV
RIP in heaters like the most chill he's ever been?
Yeah. Not that I need to make Jed A
smoker, it's just. I definitely.
Bleeding out of my arm. I definitely would want to get
on the phone with Scotty as soon as possible and I have another
sample to send him. OK.
Is, is there anything that we need to still kind of cover up
because we have a dead sheriff that.
He died in a cave in. Yeah, I know.
But there's potentially something there that we could.
Cave in with bullets. Oh yeah, there's pride.
There's definitely signs of a struggle down the basement.
We do our Delta Green thing. The only way they could find his
body is all the way back through the tunnels.
Like if they even if. They you're right, but he he
will be missing and they will check his house and they will
see signs of a struggle down in the basement.
We could burn his house down. Oh yeah, it's every house.
Every house we we enter, we burn down eventually.
I'm not trying to make for more problems for us, but like, I
mean, we could just leave it. And I mean, there's already
unsolved mysteries in this area like.
Sure. I think the cover up shouldn't
be too bad just because whatever evidence they find we can just
destroy. Like either we destroy any sort
of electronic record or physically just get it, break
it. The sheriff's gone.
This town is in disarray. So we have, we have a high
control of that and narrative. So narratives will be created.
People will find things out. That's going to be inevitable
right now. But we can control what exits
this town pretty well. Unless Canadian government gets
involved, we'll be all right. Yeah, and if they get involved,
they my suddenly my electronic abilities become more relevant
in this campaign. I mean, I, I think our main
focus is around this cave now the.
The sarcophagus, yeah, yeah. Basically, we want to figure out
what's the origin of the disease.
I mean my main focus because I have the shortest runway left on
life. Yeah, my, my main focus is
comparing my blood to the sheriff's blood and trying to
figure out if I can stop this thing from changing me.
Yeah, so I know you. Want to be doing that?
You want to get back to you like.
I want to get back to my equipment, yes.
We probably need to rest or we're going to start taking.
We're just going to be impacted by that.
So. Are we heading back to the
hotel? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I need to go but straight. What time is it you?
Said it was like it was like 4 or 5.
Yep, the afternoon, yeah. So it's going to be like 6:00 or
so by the time we get back, I think is what it it's been like
an hour or so from The Cave. Yeah, previously.
OK. So I guess we're heading back.
OK. Yeah.
Yeah, I think when you drive your ATVs into town, sun setting
takes 1520 minutes I think to get back to town on those ATVs
And when you get, when you walk past the front desk, the lady,
they work in there. Forgot about her.
Sees you guys, it's like, oh, have you ran into Jack?
He was looking for you all. What's the sheriff?
Which one's Jack? The sheriff.
I know which one's Jack. Oh, that's the the sheriff, our
sheriff here. Oh no.
Well, he came by asking some questions, so.
What kind of questions? I.
He just wanted to know where you all were, wanted to talk to you.
Oh yeah. That's all he told me.
No, I didn't find him. We have not talked to him.
We were looking for him too. Well the the town's in in quite
a tizzy here, so be careful out there.
What's going on? Well, there's been a couple
strange disappearances of late. Some locals.
Locals usually know better than the.
That's true, I guess that fire. Yeah, and the fire.
Yeah, crazy stuff. The terrorists.
Yes, the terrorists. Damn Americans, it's been.
All our talk. Lately, I mean.
What are we going to do if we can't sell our sticks and boards
good Maple syrup to you folks down South?
OK, let's. Hey.
Drew is making that ex Nate ex Nate on the Arefte motion.
OK, let's get away from politics.
All right, so you go back to the the room.
I didn't. Think Canada was going to be a
dicey topic when we started? This, when I first made this
political, it was very different.
Yeah. So you're going to get out some
of your Med equipment, analyze it, send the results to Scotty,
see if he can analyze them further in his lab.
Anybody else doing anything back in the room?
How does healing work? Oh yeah, that's true.
I can do healing. It's only it's only by sleep or
surgery that you can get healed. I can do surgery.
I'm that's a really high skill. You have surgery skill 70.
Oh my gosh. I have surgery, medicine and
first aid all. Right.
Those are my high skills. I'd let you roll it then I I
guess. I mean, it's risky to do surgery
in a hotel room but. Well, how?
How would you heal overnight rules wise?
I mean I have. 'Cause I'm, I'm only down for
health. Well for health is a decent
amount. Yeah, I'm done.
I'm down 5 but that's like half. Yeah, one hit point per day.
I'll be all right. I don't want to risk it.
Can I sew up my own neck wound? No, we talked about that a
couple sessions ago. It's like in a spot where you
can't see. It is but a flesh wound.
What do I roll medicine for? And that that one confuses me.
So I'd like to diagnose. Maybe.
Medicine is rolled for surgical procedures.
What's surgery rolled for? Yeah.
But then there's is surgery. Oh, weird.
I always thought it was like surgery or I think this is how
they played it on get in the trunk is the surgery was like
the actual procedure and then medicine was like do you heal
afterwards or an infection or something like that.
Yeah, let's do that. OK, If you want to everybody
else but you, you can try to heal, OK?
I mean, I guess the only one down is Jed Fiona's at full HP.
Oh really? That was a full respawn.
She doesn't even. Her clothes weren't even
bloodied or ripped. Did she come back with the same
moles she had before or is it like Nu skin?
Oh, that's. A great question.
Yeah, OK. Here you go, Jed.
No. That's fine.
And 11 under 70. Oh, that's a crit.
Let's do 1D6. Nice, let's just he rolls it.
You roll it 1D6 healing 60, boom, back to full.
House more than 12. You're very welcome SO.
Is. There anything you can do for me
then? Yeah, I'll roll for you.
How were you hurt? I don't remember.
I can't remember. How were you hurt?
Was that a couple episodes ago? Yeah, was it not from the the
slash? You didn't get slashed, did you?
I think. So.
You got shot? No, you got shot at by the the
Shortinger's cop. That's right.
Oh yeah. Yeah, you shot.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right, nobody guess, Yeah. I can heal that, probably need
to pull the bullet out at least. So you're doing surgery on me?
59 under 70. OK, pass, because it's not a
crate. I'll do 1D four.
OK, again, I'm. I know these aren't the rules.
I'm just speeding it up so we don't need to.
That's only one. All right, so you get another
one. I get the bullet out.
Yeah. Can I give him some medicine?
Do I I get one more for sleeping?
Yeah. OK.
All right, that's good. That's two.
Now I want to know, can I, can I roll my chemistry biology for
this, sampling my blood and comparing it to their blood?
I want to know what I can do with that.
Yeah, yes, probably chemistry. Yes.
It's I don't know. That's kind of both.
It's like biochem, that's a success, just a regular success.
OK. You, you kind of get the feeling
that you don't even need to contact Scotty because you're
seeing such similar patterns here.
It's a little, little unnerving to you.
So the cross referencing all the samples that you've got so far,
and they're all a dead match matching what Scotty told you
originally of what you found at the the original tax site, the
campsite, the sheriff's blood. Yeah.
Steve's blood. Yes.
And your own blood. Mine is matching.
All match this pattern. Oh shoot, that's not good.
Like mine's not indifferent at all.
No. I'm cooked.
Y'all are making it hard to sleep in.
I think I will ask Fiona for a sample.
Fiona, would you mind giving me a sample of your blood for
testing are? You in your room.
Yeah, we're in the hotel room. Yeah, well, I have like a part
of it sectioned off for a lab. Yeah, you'd.
Have. To a walk around in my.
Room. Yeah, Go, go.
Yeah, I'll knock on your door. Tap, tap, tap housekeeping.
I'm going to, like, look through the little peephole.
I just see Marlin. Fiona's favorite, and he's got a
like a test tube held up to the people.
Is that what he's knocking with on the North?
Yeah, fine, whatever. Open the door.
Like everything is latched. What?
I I'm comparing blood samples and I know you are a episode was
more recent than mine. I'm wondering if I could look at
your blood and compare it to the samples we have.
I feel. Fine.
I'm not concerned about your health.
I'm trying to understand the disease.
I don't have the disease. Well then I'd like to compare
your health, your blood, and see if it's completely normal.
Use the Danny Dylan's blood. He did not have a seizure.
He also didn't teleport. And I wasn't scratched.
In fact, I didn't teleport. Completely.
Now there was I. In fact, didn't you have a mole
on your cheek? It's not there anymore.
That hasn't been established. I said definitely.
He's going rogue. He's going.
Rogue. OK, maybe that's not true.
Also, I don't know, I mean you 2 as players know this, but I
don't know that your characters know she was attacked.
No, we didn't. Know she woke up in a in a
coffin. Yeah, she didn't tell us.
Whatever, take your finger prick and get out of here.
OK so I get my blood sample. Do I need to roll again?
Yeah, roll one more time for this, OK?
I hope you botched it up and say I'm fine.
A regular success again. OK, you do notice.
You're good, really. Clear.
The portion matching anything known as human is a degree of
certainty less than the other samples.
I'm less human than him. Oh wow.
She's not expecting that. Darn.
Is not expecting that at all. It has a below to Fiona's ego
right there. I know.
She doesn't know it right. Now less human than the sheriff
sample. Oh, I am the one who?
Knocks. I am the one who knocks.
It's. A good thing Fiona is staying in
a separate room. Wow, the gender of our party
just became really important because.
Fiona's got her own room. Yeah.
It's a thin wall, probably feeling pretty thin right now.
I think I I know that Jed wouldn't be able to understand
anything I'm looking. At.
So I so I called Dylan over and I try to explain.
I try to explain in layman terms what I'm seeing.
Jed can understand layman terms, I think if you try to get
science here, Fiona's less human than us.
What does that mean? What is human?
Yeah, yeah, maybe I call you both over and.
Explain it to me like a. 5 Jed and Dylan come, come here, come
here. I have all the samples.
The sheriff, Steve and myself and Fiona.
And in comparing these, first is some bad news that my blood, my
DNA is closely aligned with Steve and the sheriff does not
good for me. So keep that serum handy Dylan.
But as far as Fiona, I was expecting either something very
similar to mine or something less progressed but instead I'm
finding something more progressed than even the sheriff
himself which is incredibly concerning.
We have a Co worker in the other room that is showing as more
alien than either of the creatures we've encountered in
suggestions. Have you told Jed that she, Oh,
you did tell her that she's teleported.
That's right. Yeah, which probably would make
sense to you since you didn't see her body.
Yeah. Seems like something that might
be above any of our pay grade. I don't know about that.
Seek and destroy missions are pretty high pay grade.
So you want to kill? Fiona No, not.
I just not jumped a gun. The killing happens when the
time is right. How do we how do we share this
information with Fiona? Or do we share it with Fiona?
Rude. I think we need to share it with
her. What if she does not take it
will? I.
I guess we I doubt. I doubt she will, but.
I could shut down any situation. Because she she knows.
She needs to know what's going on.
PvP. Well, Jed, what do you think?
Do we share it with her? Hello Jews, just sitting here
for this, sorry. I'd want to know if it was me.
I think we all would. OK, let let's bring Ryan here.
Are you having this conversation before you slept or in the?
Morning. Definitely before.
OK, This was an immediate priority.
I don't know if I can survive sleeping all right.
Continue. You.
Ready for your intervention? I go, I guess.
I go back to Vienna's door and knock on it again.
Trust you, I look to the people. Again, you're doing that instead
of the conjoined door in the hotel room.
I love that you go out into the. Hallway to do this.
Yeah, sure. I'm never opening the conjoined
door. Yes, I suggest you.
Do you guys, that's up to you or do you follow me over there?
No. Yeah, I don't think I go with
you, OK. This is a doctor patient
confidentiality thing. Knock on the door.
Confidential. So I go to the people.
Oh God. What?
We decided to have a team meeting.
Like to have you come over, drive me in room for a few
minutes. I have something I need to show
you. Yeah, sure, that's fine.
Give me a minute. Now close the door.
So like internal monologues, He took my blood and now there's a
team meeting. Like how long later?
5 minutes. Yeah, sure.
Yeah, my options are so slow, but there's some really fun
ones. I think I'll just go to the
meeting. I think it's probably the
easiest and most reasonable. Yeah.
So I'll just head yeah, I'll just like, I don't know, thrush.
Like I I'll just walk over. I'm probably decent.
So I head into like out the hall and towards the room.
Or actually I will just open the canoeing door.
OK, from my side. OK, what?
Fiona, could you sit down and. Just tell me.
I I would prefer if you sit down I.
Don't. Right there, right in front of
Jed. Do I have cancer or something
like what is? Here's the deal.
And I show you like the computer screen with like the comparing
samples. Show me your chemistry.
Just tell me what's going on. It at least helps to have if I
have something to point at I. Welcome to my Ted.
Talk will you see the? This here is Steve's sample,
this here is the sheriff, and this is mine.
You can see all very similar. Yeah.
So any minute now I'll I'll be a beast and I wanted to compare
yours because I thought it would also be similar or at least on
the road of progress to be like mine.
Yeah, it's different, so I'm good.
Well if you see here it is like the sheriff's but even more
progressed away from human. You are further away from human
then should be possible. This is very concerning and we
wanted to share it with you, but we don't know what to do with
this information. Dad will kill me if something
goes wrong. And Dylan will kill me.
But how do we progress? It's business as usual.
This is Delta Grain. I mean, if I go, I go.
We've lost lots of people on missions.
Well, my concern is, considering the powers that Steve and the
sheriff had, and you're further than them, you could outpace our
capabilities to take it down. What are you suggesting?
I we are having a meeting. I don't have a suggestion right
now. Right.
So if I go ballistic, I either kill all of you, which is what
would happen in like 10 seconds anyways, or you kill me now and
hope I never go ballistic. OK, we have two options.
Well, she took that incredibly calmly.
We can also have you extracted from the.
No, absolutely not. If I'm dying, I'm dying to him.
I point to Jed. No trust in the Delta Green to
help us out here. They're the ones who signed my
death certificate. Friendly reminder my skills are
hacking media cover ups. I'm from New York, why am I in
backwoods Canada? Delta Green.
Well, this is my area of expertise, but I think it's more
than I can handle alone. If we could get to other
researchers, you get to a lab, we not all hope is lost.
Yeah, if you want to be locked in a box for 1000 years, you're
more than welcome to it. You don't know.
Well, that's apparent. Can I go to bed now?
Oh. Wonderful.
We can't stop you. Have you had any before you go?
Has anything tingled? I'm not no response, I just went
straight. At the door, dude.
Straight back through oh, that's.
Amazing. Has anything tingled?
You you hear like be up to like the like the extra bed being
pushed against the door. And I instantly flashed back to
the cooler sound. OK I man, is there a penalty for
not sleeping? Yeah.
It's 20%. Yeah, unless you want to take
some drugs. Definitely taking drugs, there's
no way. I, I mean, it doesn't need to be
like hard, like you can smoke through the night to stay up or
caffeine or something. I don't mean like drugs, drugs.
Oh, no, it would be drugs. Drugs for Marlin.
It would be drugs. Not well, like medical drugs.
Drugs. OK, I'd be whatever.
I got some advanced Adderall or something.
Yeah, OK. But there's no way I'm sleeping
on the what I consider to be the last night of my life.
OK Anybody else doing anything? I'm packing.
I'm packing my bags. Yeah, I think I would too.
I would pack everything up while they're sleeping.
Do you guys go to sleep? Dylan, Jed.
How much sleep do I need? I think it's like.
I don't know, let's say 6 hours just again to speed things up
and not look it up. The bug is sound.
Yeah, I'm trying to sleep. OK.
Yeah, I'm sleeping. All right.
I. Is Fiona asleep?
No, not really. I'm leaving.
You're leaving? Yeah, I'm leaving the hotel.
Are you waiting for them to like?
Yeah. Quiet down, OK, You're waiting
for. Can I do alertness on hearing
anything going on over there? It's one room, I might hear
something. I'm not trying to be overly
quiet, I'm just waiting till things quiet down.
I'm exiting. OK.
Because he doesn't know I'm staying away or she doesn't know
I'm. I'm not trying to be sneaky.
Yeah, I'm just packing my bags and heading out.
So maybe I just hear it anyways. Yeah.
OK. How many hours into them
sleeping do you leave? You think?
Well. I don't know when they sleep,
but I'll probably leave it. Like what time do we go back to
the hotel? And have this conversation.
I mean, we got back at like 6. So then he ran some tests.
So it's can't be like. Super super.
Like 10:00 PM, I'll head out end of the night.
I hear that and I'm packing at the same time, I think.
I don't think I try to chase her down the hallway or anything,
but I would. I have some phone calls I want
to make, but I would, I think, slip out into the hall with my
stuff and I would just, I would text Fiona.
Can I do that? Yeah, before you text, Fiona's
going to get to the lobby of the hotel.
Lobby completely empty, completely dark.
One of the couches there's a man mid 30s, dishevelled, looks like
it isn't shaved in daze. Wearing Yeah, just nondescript
clothing. What a lot of the?
Locals around would wear staring at you.
There's nobody else in there. Nobody else in.
There, where's the impression you already to the door?
Between you and the door, he was.
He was locked in on the hallway even before you turned the
corner. You picked up his stare
immediately when you ended the room.
Like it was obvious. Just then, Marlon enters the
hall. Turn to your left and you see
Fiona kind of pause. She gets to the lobby.
Oh, I can still see her. Yeah, let's say all this
happened at once, OK. So I'm getting ready to text
her, but I'm like, oh, she's right there, Yeah.
I am you. You good?
You're saying this to the. Man, are you?
Yeah, I think we we need to have a chat.
Talk. Not here.
OK, Where? Got somewhere quiet.
You have a room back there. Nah, we're not going back there
all. Right, let's go down to the
water. Yeah, that works.
He. He gets up and walks down to the
dock. Fires up a cigarette.
This is going down. What's Marlon doing?
It's. A good question.
Did they notice him? He was unless Marlon walked down
the hallway. Marlon has not seen the man yet.
The view is blocked. It's like around the corner he
can see Fiona, sees someone and is talking.
Yeah, I imagine I would have stayed back watching Fiona talk
and being like, what's going on, but not interjecting in any way
or letting her know that I'm there, just watching it happen.
And then just kind of she's going out the front door with
this guy. Yeah.
Yeah, I think I would just kind of follow at a distance and and
watch it. Fiona want to give me an
alertness. Seriously, Marlon?
14 under 60. OK, up to you, but you do notice
some trailing. No response.
Marlon, are you stealthy? I don't think so.
I don't think I'm trying to be super sneaky because I, I don't
know that anything. I'm just like, what?
I'm just confused. And so I don't think I'm
stealthing. I think I'm just like, what do I
do here? I think I'm just again planning
to text Fiona to ask what's up. OK.
They both walk outside get does Fiona follow to the dock.
Yeah, OK. Does Marlon go outside?
I think Marlon does, but nice and leisurely.
He's not trying. I'm not trying to follow them.
OK, OK, get down to the dock man.
In between cigarette breaths. You are you, Delta.
Who's asking? You don't follow up on who sends
very well to you. I guess not.
Well, I been here for about a month.
I'm the lone survivor of the M Epic Task Force.
Oh, there's a safe house here in town.
I've been pulled up. He he stops, shakes a little,
scratches his arm, twitches. Another puff of cigarette.
And you don't look so good. No, it's been a it's been a
rough month. I I figured they'd send
somebody. I didn't realize I'd be looking
over the border for it, but you and your agents are like the
least quiet, least stealth arm of of Delta.
I just, I, I think our training up here is at a is a different
level than what you guys must go through.
Training priorities, you know, we're a different squad.
How many, how many, how many houses have you burned down in
town so far? It's just the one it's.
Just the one. Is there another 5?
I don't think, did they? Yeah, and body count sure hasn't
gone down. That's the talk around here,
apparently. Yeah, well, the Delta Green body
count's still 0. Yeah, you got me there.
That one that. Was so cruel.
It was all his friends. That's a great trump card.
So can I be of help to stop this thing?
I know this. I took an oath to protect my
country, my people. You guys take an oath?
Things are things are different up here.
What? None of us, right?
I mean, first thing you can do is tell us everything you know.
Well, so we, we as an agency have been keeping tabs on the
the Sherman family for ages. We which he always suspected
cultist activity and I don't know, just something had our our
radar pinged, so to speak. Then when the the estate changed
hands this this summer felt like a good time to to come in and
investigate. Seemed seemed like defenses
would be down. We under the cover of a
backpacking group trying to hide out in the woods and we're we're
ambushed. As, as you know, I was the only
one to make it out. Have you have you seen any of
the the beasts yet? Yeah, a bunch of them.
Kill the couple. You've have you had any?
Has anyone been injured? Yeah, yeah, we know.
So you've, you've heard the howl you've.
Yeah, you've felt the call. Wow, that's a little dramatic.
He reaches, pulls off the backpack.
Reaches in there, grab something, hand it to you.
Looks like a prescription bottle.
It's like you might you might want to keep this handy.
It's the only thing our agency has found that will at least
stave off the progression, the progression of the effects,
we'll say. And to you it's a like military
derivation of funny you mention that.
It's like a Adderall based amphetamine type.
Open up. It's going to help my research a
lot. Just to be clear, we're taking
accelerants to slow the progression absolutely to make
our heartbeat faster so the venom goes slower.
It's. It takes up the same
neurotransmitter receptors. Well, what?
Where'd you come from? No, I don't care about Mama.
I'm just being silly. What is feeling?
How much do I actually shakes it?
And like how much do I have like?
It feels like 20 pills in there, you know, it's it seems foolish.
Is that like 3 weeks worth or a day's worth or?
That's that should give you a few weeks.
OK. You'll need to contact your
agency. I mean, that's all the supply I
could get. Yeah, that's good to know.
I have some for my myself as as well.
Kind of burying the lead here though, what is it?
As far as we can tell, it's a conjuration.
It seems like something is once someone is infected something or
someone is controlling them, calling them once once they give
in their a full on mercenary, a Sentinel or whoever or whatever
this thing wants done. And do we know what this thing
is and what it wants? We we've yet to get that far.
You guys find the tomb? The is it connected in any way
to the the mines? Yeah, we always suspected
something under there. What were you doing out in the
woods? That was the the cover and also
we felt like the beasts may have been travelling in that
direction and we wanted to be able to follow and track them,
their movements. Turns out they were just
following us. We've killed 2 and one of them
was probably pretty new at being a beast.
How many are out there? I don't know.
I'm gonna attack you. Just the one.
Each I started training is different.
So mean. Every came here.
What do you want from me? Marlon approach through any of
this? If, if the time is long enough,
I would have just, yeah, I would have followed.
OK, just walking, yeah. Yeah, if you walk up on the
dock, he's like. I Hello.
Oh, I walk up within, yeah, talking distance.
You can. You can come down if you want.
You're Delta too, right? I look at.
Unfortunately. Look at Fiona.
OK, who are you? What's happening here?
He's an M epic guy. She can fill you in.
OK. What?
What's your plan here? Like why one?
We've been flying by the seat of our pants for days.
We we need to figure out who or what is controlling this we.
Yeah. What is your plan as an
individual? Wait you you just been sitting
in a stock house rotting or some some safe house like you know,
you didn't think to like say hi before we burned a house down
and went into a deep dark cavern and got chased all around town?
I I was just able to track you down.
I've been recovering obviously. Weeks.
Did you, did your team have any actual data as far as research?
Did you guys collect samples? We did, We do.
You have a contact point for that off site research.
Yes, I guess I can connect you. No, he wouldn't.
He wouldn't connect you. I can't.
I'm not a liberty to discuss
that my contacts but. Where the heck's your safe
house? Why are we staying in a hotel?
It's a bit outside of town here. Yeah, that's great.
Let's heat you found us here. Imagine if you were one of these
cultish guys. Do you need a place to stay?
Well not me personally but I think my friends here would like
to be a place safer and maybe swap notes.
All right, let's go. And he's he walks off.
OK. What are you doing out here?
Why aren't you in bed? I could not sleep.
I didn't know what my plans were tonight, but I figure it might
be my last night and my I was going to call my colleague
Scotty. And then I noticed you were
leaving right before me. And then I saw you have a
conversation with just a gentleman.
And yeah, that's what's happened so far, yeah.
One more thing. Yeah.
Did you guys? Make it out to the glyph site.
No. You didn't make it out to the
glyph site. No, no.
But we killed two of them, and zero of us are dead.
You got to be softer when you come at us, buddy.
You got to be softer. You just like giving him crap.
He keeps coming at us just like, where's the what did we do, you
know? So our team did uncover that's
the indigenous carvings that were on some clip faces have
been covered by Moss for ages. We were able to uncover some of
them. They were actually more
hieroglyphs. We.
We got a guy. Yeah, we got a guy who can
translate. Those They called him Rosetta in
high school. We found connection to the the
tomb of Kefren in Egypt. This guy was.
Yeah, from like 1975 or something like that, right?
Yeah, believed he could communicate with the dead,
summon monsters. We have to believe this is what
the the Sherman family was after finding this and finding the
connection to be able to. Yeah, I mean, it seems like a
typical like doc arts thing where basically the evil spirit
of a dude lives on in eternity and he creates minions that try
to resurrect them or something like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
So. You plan on becoming the Dark
minion? Not anytime in the next three
weeks. He pulls out a similar pill
bottle, the one he gave you, shakes it and winks and walks
off. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Fires up in a. Can I ask him another question?
Sure he's walking though. Wait, wait, I have another
question. I.
What? Whatever happened to Sherman's
wife? Sherman's wife.
Yeah, she did right. I the sheriff's wife.
Yes. He never had a wife.
Well, I thought he did. Was there a woman living in the
house? Yeah, his aunt.
Oh, his Ant. That's what I mean.
What happened to the Ant? It's Ant Agatha passed away from
from old age. Are you certain?
You're a Delta, right? That's right.
OK, then no. Yeah, it's like, bro, like, did
you not hear a conversation about a dark entity trying to
create minions? We're certain of nothing.
You started no. Walks off to a safe house and we
will see you next week.