Mayday Plays - Doomed to Repeat Ep. 9 - "Perennial Airlines"

Episode Date: December 17, 2020

We return to present-day Lansing, MI. The agents of operation PERENNIAL process the case file they’ve digitized but one of them reaches their breaking point. A new destination is finally chartered and Hyde makes a request to rendezvous with CORAL NOMAD; The covert search and rescue arm of The Program. Boomer decides to teach Samael a “lesson” but the real lesson comes when Samael has a vision of glittering glass 30,000ft in the air. This episode contains profanity, violence, and references to drug/alcohol use. It also contains the topic of Covid-19. Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this podcast are © Mayday Roleplay, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property. CAST OF CHARACTERS • Aaron - Agent Samael, Exorcist/Occult expert • Allegra - Agent Tuck, FBI • Amanda - Agent Boomer, Electronics/Programming Specialist • Caleb - Agent Merit, FBI • Eli - Agent Hyde, Pilot for CORAL NOMAD • Zakiya - Agent Warp, NCTC researcher • Sergio - The Handler MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Post Sound Supervision: Sergio Crego, Eli Hauschel • Mixed: Eli Hauschel • Original Music: Aaron A. Pabst • Soundstripe (soundstripe.com) DELTA GREEN LINKS • Delta Green (http://deltagreen.com/) MAYDAY ROLEPLAY LINKS • Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/) • Twitter (https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay7) • Mayday website (https://www.maydayroleplay.com/) • Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp/)

Doom to Repeat is a Delta Green Actual Play podcast with violent themes and adult language. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to Episode 9 of Doom to Repeat. I'm Sergio, your handler. I'm Erin A. Papst, and I'm Agent Samuel. I'm Allegra, I'm Agent Tuck. I'm Amanda Dominic, and I'm Agent Boomer. I'm Caleb, and I'll be playing Agent Merritt.

I'm Eli, and I'll be playing Agent Hyde. I'm Zacchia, and I'll be playing Agent Warp. When I began planning this campaign, I listened religiously to the GreenBox podcast. It's hosted by veteran Delta Green handlers who discuss everything from tone and pacing, avoiding common mistakes within horror games, and even how to design your own scenarios. Every year they run shotgun scenario and micro-fiction contests, and I consider their subreddit and discord pillars of the modern Delta Green community. Jake, one of the show's contributors, has gone out of his way to be kind to us during our release,

and so we wanted to say thanks. If you love Delta Green as much as I do, you may have already heard of the GreenBox, but if you haven't, and you're on the lookout for content on how to improve your games, then look no further. Thanks to Jake, the GreenBox, and the entire Delta Green community. Hello, Journal. We just finished reading a case, and I've already taken Ibuprofen for tonight's spinning session and set a reminder to purchase compression gloves as soon as possible.

Today we learned how the program obtained the white crystal we found, what reverb is made of, and why it exists, the keepers of the faith, and the Lord of Thought are in my sight. His more astute followers called themselves neophytes, and they were invincible. That kind of power in a single being. I would be lying if I said I didn't find it alluring. Sure, they ate people, but everything's got a cost, right? I don't know how those agents entered that hotel thinking they could get the grace to

come out on the other side. To be fair, half of them did not. Fluke, for one, who reminds me of that scarred lion from the animated film where the prince converts his anarchist friends to his monarchist beliefs, but not because he's evil, but because they both festered for too long. He should have left years ago, and his choices reeked of it. I don't agree, but I understand. I don't think he could have gotten out had something not crumpled his ribs like bad stationery.

The next was Oliver Lake, constantly kept craving for answers, and for that he has my respect. But given his reputation amongst most of the group, excluding two, I'm surprised he made it this far. I think he would have agreed, given his tone at the end. Now, I've always been suspicious of my employer's ability to factor the interpersonal relationships of the teams they assemble in this decade, let alone back then. But him and his partner Rose? Not subtle.

She was probably the most cooperative, though, even when she jumped out a window. I acknowledge my bias in finding favor in the anthropologist of the group, but it still stands. I credit her with holding the friendlies together, as she's the only one of the two that Echo didn't punch. At times, she was a better secret agent than… Um… Sunny side, sunny…

Always on the sunny side. Stay on the sunny side of life. You will feel no pain as we're driving you insane, so stay on the sunny side of life. Which brings me to the half-agent frog who frequently hopped into moving traffic. Shouldn't have been an agent at all, far too close to the issue to be as cold as she needed to be. Her survival was a twist. In contrast, the last to fall in every sense of the word was frost. Had she not been given the aforementioned unmedicated homicidal sociopath as a superior,

she could have gone far. Frost being safer in custody of the state than with her colleagues is very telling. This case is a parable for prolonged exposure to the program as a civilian or an agent. That we should do everything in our power to avoid this ending goes without saying. Those last pieces of the case of 84 were unexpectedly impactful. I had to step away. But I'm feeling much better now. Something's still not right.

I've made an appointment with Dr. Byrne for the end of the week. Just in case. Until tomorrow. G.J. It's Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020, about 6 p.m. Agents of Operation Perennial. You've spent the past 40 or so hours pouring over the Detroit case file. You've digitized the information up onto the server. And you find yourselves still soaking it in, still thinking about it.

I need all of you to please roll a D4. Don't like that. All ready. You can't just give us a break, Sergio. Three, two, four. Because you all worked together to pour over this case file, whatever you roll is how much sanity that you lose. Okay, you lose?

Oh, okay. God damn it. But you will add that number also to your unnatural skill. Oh, okay. Oh my god. Samma El knows everything about everything now. Two things stand out to you guys now that you have finished this case file. As you have poured over it, you realize it's not a single source,

but a collection of evidence. There are personal writings from all of the F cell agents. There are journals collected in evidence bags, newspaper clippings, all of the audio transcripts of the wires that were used. And you realize that the case file was not thrown together in a single day, but compiled over the course of months and maybe even years after Devil's Night. There is one name that appears wherever there is a signature. The person signs every page with the signature Agent Nancy.

Finally, there's one last thing that stands out to you. There's another name the case file that you have also seen before. The file begins by stating that Agent Fluke's New York connection with all of this was named Agent Charlie. You all find yourselves having finished this. The sun is setting and it's time to start talking about what any of this means. Before we started this, was there any opportunity to get sanity back? Oh, no.

You have lost sanity, but you have also gained some points in the unnatural. So that is the trade off. Okay. Then warp hits her breaking point. So warp, what does it look like when after hours, you come to realize that this is real? And oh my God, literally something I read in a dissertation the night before is in this. I think she sort of gets locked in the in the action of reading.

I don't think she's retaining any more information, but she sort of gets locked in it. And she's the kind of person that like has to mumble as she reads. But now that she's not reading anymore, she's mouthing the same like eight things over and over again. Like it's just nonstop saying things like breed is the worst of all, the unnatural is kinder than the natural. The people are always trying to frame him and toxicants cause you to stray.

Lust after the opposite sex causes you to stray. Illness is the sign that you stray. It just keeps going over and over and over. And it stays at a constant volume. It doesn't get louder. But it looks like she's reading. She is not. After a couple minutes of that,

Samuel will place whatever he's reading down, take his glasses off and set it down along with it. And then he'll rush over to warp and he'll just start snapping and trying to pull the file away and say warp warp time for break. Come on. Samuel, if you have any skill in psychotherapy, I will allow you to make a bowl. I have a very high psychotherapy, but I fail with an 83. Oh, fuck.

Over the next 10, 15 minutes, you try everything you can, but you just cannot seem to reach her. Can I find her little spindle, her drop spindle? And can I try and just like really slowly press it into her palm and see if she'll just take it and put the yarn in the other hand and just try and give her something different to focus on? Do you have any skill in psychotherapy? Um, I have just the base 10.

Okay, I will give you plus 20% to that because it's something very near and dear to her. So go ahead. You got this. To fail miserably. Warp is unresponsive and seems lost in thought. Can I slap her in the face? Oh my God.

Can you not? Fuck, at this point. Can I stop her from hitting her? Sure, if you'd like to. Sabah El would also try. Okay, okay, relax. I'm not going to fool a clocker, but I'm just going to like tap her.

I'm stopping her from hitting her. If I can, I'm stopping her from hitting her. First of all, you wouldn't know is to slap her. I would just be quiet about it. Yeah, but I'm close to her and you're going with a raised hand. All right, Sergio. Unless I know you, what do I do? You are unable to get to her.

I've seen the two of them are able to kind of keep you away. That's not going to help. Yes, I believe the course of action is to give her some space. Maybe we should all go take a walk. Stretch our legs. It's been some time with this. Mayor, that's the best idea you've had in days. Thank you.

Question. Would we have known what's happened in the last couple, like because you said it was 40 hours, would we have been up to date with the rest of the outside world? Like any kind of updates or anything like that? Would you have been checking? I mean, Boomer would definitely be looking at Google every now and then. The, when you say the outside world,

what are you looking for in particular? More in particular, especially with what happened in the cabin or if anybody's on alert to that because of what we did. You check the news every couple of hours and there is eventually a press conference where the sheriff says that they found a burnt car outside of Lansing about an hour and that they were looking into it possibly being a connection

and they gave the description of two Latin looking women along with probably a few other folks that were in the vehicle. But that's about it so far. At least that's about it as much as they're telling the media. Then I am going to adamantly tell everybody we should probably turn this plane on and get the app out of here. I agree. Now, I am most attracted to this Agent Charlie angle,

Charnell Dreams in Brooklyn. I think that's our next stop. I don't know if anyone else has any other ideas. Well, there's also the happenings in Wyoming that would link, I believe, what Warp was talking about earlier on the Sky Devils with whatever this is in Detroit. I think they're both good options. I think we have to go to both eventually.

Yeah, that said, New York is closer, right? Am I right about that? I think they're about equidistant. It's an about an hour and a half. I guess either way. That in Arizona too. Yes. Ansel Incorporated, that came up with one of the fellows.

Three options. Granted that, I would call a weaker lead. We don't know much about that. I would agree with that. It's also a lead into the organization and not the artifacts we're trying to recover. I think the better lead would be investigating our dear friend, Daniel Price.

And I agree. I agree too. I'm going to get up and tap Merritt and be like, what do you think the best option is? I say in the interest of giving us all a bone here, let's go to New York. And I'm going to just go ahead and say New York and then go back to my laptop.

Just be very firm in that. Are we taking the crystal with us? Well, we can't leave it here. We have to get it to Mallory if nothing else. It should go back to the green box. That's an hour away. It doesn't have to be this green box, but a green box. We should contact Mallory directly.

If this is as large to be attracted to whatever the Lord of thought was inside of that case file, I can't imagine we should have it out in the open for too long. This needs to be with A cell. We need to find whatever book that librarian was talking about if we can. If it's connected to, I don't know where we would look for it with a librarian.

No, but I felt like it. Maybe Tanika is still in town. So you want to go up against the ghoul? It's not our business to investigate this further. Our business is to take the info and upload it. That's what our job is. Maybe they send us back around for something, but right now I think it's in our best interest to scram.

So let's make for New York and we'll give Mallory a call on the way. Let her know that that's the drop-off point. Thank you. Could I call before we bounce? I was going to call it. Okay. Okay, so it sounds like Agent Hyde, you're calling Mallory. Yeah, can I step out?

You step out, you find her name already in your burner phone and you call it and it rings and on the first ring it picks up and you hear the familiar voice of Agent Mallory and she says, Hello Hyde, how are things going? Things are going as well as it can and we're about to leave Michigan, but I have a dilemma. I see. Well, tell me have you found anything up now?

We found some stuff and you should by now have received some of the intel we've been uploading over the last couple of days, but we're in possession of an artifact that I don't feel comfortable transporting with my current detail. Oh, I see. Could you give me a description of it? What does it look like? It's a crystal of some kind.

It emanates a power. I don't know if that emanates beyond itself, but it has a little influential properties on people. Interesting. That sounds like something we probably want to bring in. You're right. There's two options. You can fly to me.

There's a facility outside of Washington, DC, where we house these sorts of things. Otherwise, you can rendezvous with a cell that I can dispatch wherever you're heading. Well, we're heading to New York. My thing is that I don't feel comfortable transporting it on a plane with our team. Sure. Well, you can always return to the green box that you found in it, correct? True. I was wondering if I could call Thornbill and request a Nomad pickup from this location.

I think you could attempt to requisition that, yes. I just wanted your permission first. Agent Hyde, what else have you found while you were there? Documents, letters, articles of clothing, and just information about something called Devil's Night. And Bauman's residence? Bauman had some accounting information. And a couple random artifacts, a knife, some books, but standard accounting stuff mainly.

Did he have anything else, Agent Hyde? Well, he had his wife in a septic tank. Agent Hyde, if you found anything pertaining to the program, anything that is not related to your mission of understanding the vectors that we face, I would hope that you have the understanding that it must be destroyed. If Bauman was keeping any notes on the program, I want you to collect them, and I want you to destroy them. Do I make myself clear?

Crystal. I appreciate that. So I believe the plan is you're going to wait for a team to reach you. I'm going to see what my options are, and I'll let you know what we decide to do as a team. We will either fly the asset to you, or we will wait for a pickup. Very well. Thanks for updating me. Of course.

And a hang up. I don't like that. Well, we don't know about it. I'm not going to get too close, but I'm just going to continue keeping an eye on Warp, and just make sure that she's not worsening. Agent Warp, go ahead and make another sanity check for me. Have you already done the math and found your new breaking point? No, that's power subtract.

You just subtract power from your current sanity. But now with your new sanity, go ahead and roll a sanity check to see if you break out of this. No, she fails. Damn. Damn. Eventually, Agent Hyde returns from her phone call. It's been a solid 20, 30 minutes, and Agent Warp just is not, she's just not responsive. She'll get there.

Just leave her alone, yeah? While Hyde was on her phone call, could I have talked to Boomer? Sure. I'm going to pull her away from everyone as anywhere I can. If it's out of the plane, it's out of the plane. We're just going to go away for a second. A lot of that sounded real familiar, huh? Mm-hmm.

It really did. So, I don't really, I don't actually really, I don't really know what I was hoping to talk to you about. I just really wanted to make sure that I wasn't crazy in making that very short leave from a man with a book to a man with a book. You're not crazy, but I need to be very clear right now. Semi-L put us into a position that we're now practically have to flee. He's someone we need to watch.

And frankly, he's someone that could definitely wreck this whole team apart. Do you understand that? No, I know. No, I need you to remember, I'm only here to just, I'm just a researcher. But he's literally a threat, he, the reason we're having the whole ass is because of him. Are you willing to protect everybody? Because you know what will happen if we don't continue with this through, with this one. I remember, Boomer.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I'm just trying to be very transparent with you really quick. I'm very aware, I know this is your mode. I get it. I'm not trying to be an asshole either, but... I guess we just keep an eye out for a man in a black suit with a book. What? If he tells me something, in confidence or anything that, I feel like it will be detrimental. I promise, I will keep you in the loop.

I know. Okay. I'll keep you guys safe. Thank you. I need that. You'll get back to her, don't worry. Yeah, I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna go get you guys, I'm gonna go get you guys. I'm gonna actually do something very unboomer-like, and kind of get her into an awkward hug,

like a very kind, I'm gonna pull her in really quick and hug her and then kind of push her away, which is very unlike me, but it's to show, like, acknowledge that. Going soft, Max. And I'm gonna be like putting my hand to my, like, blah, blah, blah, just kind of walk away. Um, while Hyde was on the call, um, flipping through, um, these files, does Samma El come across any information about any of the spells that Fluke knew? You find the personal notes of Agent Frost and Frog and Fluke, you do see enough notes to understand how you might be able to cast the elder sign.

I will say that it still is going to require a couple of hours, but using these, this case file, you probably could put together how to do it. As we have time, Samma El will try to memorize, commit all that to memory. Okay, is this out in the open? Right now, yeah, nobody is really hiding or doing anything. He's not hiding anything. Samma El is just reading the case file. Do you mind if I ask what it is you're looking into?

Just looking at some of the stuff this guy Fluke knew. He was a remarkable human being, don't you think? That's not exactly how I put it, but he seemed to have, um, well, he seemed to know some stuff. He was, uh, he was a monster of sorts. To say the least. I didn't think that an agent could get like that. But then again, I never imagined an agent living that far. So I suppose you can't fault him for everything, but it's disgusting.

I've never met anyone that old around here. Yes. I assumed it's because that they retired or something. But now I see that that is perhaps not realistic. Yeah, I suppose retirement is a sort of euphemism in this business. Or a literal euphemism. I was wondering what you thought of that sign he was so insistent upon. The one he burned into the map, the one they used on whatever that sky devil was?

Yeah, it's, um, I think we might need it. Do you think you could teach it to me? I look around and I see, you know, I'm assuming that everybody else is going to listen, but I'll kind of lower my voice a little bit and I'll say, let me check and see if it has any negative ramifications. And if it does not, I will show you how. Perfect. In the meantime, I'll take care of warp.

I get up and I go into the restroom and I prepare a cold compress and I press that on warp's head if she lets me. And I'm just tending to her and talking to her softly. I think I'm speaking about our trip to the sheep farm. It was remarkable, those sharing techniques they taught us. Don't you think? And I know she's not responding, but I figured he's engaging in conversation. I will give plus 20% to Agent Warp's next role.

That's barely going to do it. Barely going to do it, but good, very good. There has always been, there has always been a kind of kinship between the two of you. And sure enough, Agent Merritt is kind of able to snap you out of it. You're back. Yeah. What? I'm sorry.

You don't have to apologize. I... You want to go take a walk? Should we leave this place starting to feel a little claustrophobic, right? I want to leave. We don't, don't we have time or something? There's something wrong. There's a reason why we can't just go.

Yes. There's definitely a reason. I'll give you that Warp, but it can wait. Okay. Yeah. And I, I think I'd invite her on like a five minute walk about around the hangar while everyone's getting everything else situated. As we pass by them, I'll pat him on the shoulder and nod toward her and just kind of

give him, give him credit words too. I don't really know what I said. I mean, I know I was talking, but I kind of just sort of faded out there. I definitely, it's something you'll have to bring up in therapy, but I think it had something to do with your attachment to faith. And so, you know, we cling to those things when times are dark, when things are scary. I know I do. I cling to my rules when things like this happen.

So you shouldn't feel ashamed or anything like that. Although I will say you have quite a wider, an understanding of your rules. Yeah, that's kind of hard to forget. A lot of time to practice, I guess. I know the feeling. If I'm passing by them, I'm just going to give Warp a thumbs up from coming out of that. Like good for you. I'm going to give one back sort of loosely.

Agent Hyde, you haven't spoken up in a bit. What are you doing? I wanted to put in that acquisition or requisition. Just give me an intelligence times five role. And what I want to know ahead of time is do you want them to meet you here? Or do you want them to meet you wherever you're heading? I think to meet at a location. Okay.

And what is that location? New York. Okay. We'll say that there is an airfield just outside of New York, because you probably would not be able to get JFK access, but there's something that you've already looked up, and you give them that. And did you succeed on your intelligence times five role? Yes, I did.

Okay. You get a hold of Dr. Thornbill, and she sounds very intrigued, and she says, Yeah, I think there's a team close by that we can meet you there. Okay. Good. And also, when I ever get a chance, I would like to talk about the fact that you recommended me for this whole shindig in the first place, but that will be for another time.

I'm looking forward to hearing about it. Yeah, then I will meet you at that location, and I will pass off that asset to you. Sounds good. Hang up. Okay. We're going to New York, which I know doesn't have much in the way of sheep in the city, but where I grew up, you could probably find some farms there. I'm okay for a while, actually, but I appreciate that.

Of course. If everything goes at least a little bit better than it just did, I won't have to, you won't have to stop for a while. Agent Merritt, can you make an alertness check for me? Sure can. Oh, no. Mr. Joe, what the fuck are you doing? I am under my 50 with a 48.

As you are just making Agent War feel better, you see two soldiers that seem to be working on the base walking past you, and one of them is talking out loud, and you hear him say, and did you hear the sheriff wants to shut down the airport? He's coming here now to talk to the commander, and the other guy says, oh, there's no way he'll let him do it, and they walk past you. Yeah. We gotta go. We gotta go.

Two looks at everyone outside, and I say, X fill, X fill. Everyone in the plane, X fill, and I. Run to the plane. Yeah. All right, yeah. I'll jump in the plane. I will call to the call tower to request access to the runway to fly us to New York. So, Agent Hyde, you pile on, everyone else piles on, you close the door.

The engine for the first time fires up, and you can all hear it, and it begins moving out. Agent Hyde, you make your call into the tower. You tell them where you are heading. You do all the proper communications. Please make a bureaucracy role. Are they going to give it to us? Please. Sheriff's not there yet.

Sheriff's not there yet. Sheriff's on the way. I succeed. Yes. Barely, like a 28 out of 30. You pass. It happens to be the right time, and they kind of immediately let you onto the runway. No other planes are ready at that moment.

But you put it into drive or whatever it is you do with a plane when you make it go. I push the throttle. As we're like getting ready for takeoff, I'm going to text my wife really quick and just be like, still working on stuff. I love you. I love you. I'll tell you when we land. And because I see that she's being a good wife, I'm going to text my fiance.

Yep. I'll like nudge Boomer and be like, hey, touch your girl. Thank you. And I'm going to be like, hey, it's taken a little longer, but I still love you. Should be wrapping up soon. Smiley face. Yeah. Agent Boomer, you get a text back and all it says is it's nearly four days you promised.

Fuck. What? That stings. Fuck. First of all, ouch. Second of all, okay. Okay. Hold on, everybody.

Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to respond back. I know, right? Exclamation point. Question mark. These assholes are really fucking shit up. God, I wish I could just take like, if I was just in control, I would be able to get this thing

moving faster. And I'm going to send a gift of like someone's going like, duh, right? Hopefully that will throw it off. There's a problem. There's a problem maybe 10 minutes while the plane is like getting ready to take off. You've already sent this text off and you don't get a response. Fuck. That's good work.

It's like, it's the dot, dot, dot that like disappears. It never fulfills itself. You just see your typing and then no. It was nice knowing you, Boomer. Fuck, I'm so much trouble. Fuck. Does Ru text me back? Wait, does Ru text me back?

Yes, she does. What the fuck? I love you. You're the best wife ever. Look, I've been, I've been, I've been talking to her all week. I've been like, hey, babe, I miss you and you. I don't need this therapy right now. Jesus Christ.

All right. So the plane takes off. It's about 8 30 when it takes off. It is evening. The, it's dark out. You can see the city lights twinkling below and you can see some stars above you as you fly. You know that you have about a two hour flight. What are you doing at this time, guys?

I think that I'm going to address the cabin and hopefully Hyde can hear him too. He waits for one of those classic awkward silences that happen between us all the time. And then on a plane, you can't run away. Yep. You can't run away. And Merit stands up like he's, you know, about to get a formal address. And he says, I just wanted to say something to all of you regarding everything that's happened over the last day, few days.

I just wanted to say that concerning this case, it was very clear where these people went wrong. Where they went wrong is they stopped trusting in each other and stopped trusting the expertise that was presented as a group. They failed to understand that everyone there was trying to accomplish the same goal. Now, some of them were trying to do something more than was asked of them and that was wrong. I want you all to understand that I recognize this and I don't want you to think that I'm anything like him and I want to be better. So I am going to continue to be better.

And I hope that you all will trust me moving forward as I trust you. I'm going to nod towards Merit. Like, I can see that he probably means that very well to like for everyone safely like, I respect that. And then he awkwardly, he sits himself down. He says, that's all. He goes back to his notes. Tuggle just well said, Merit.

I think Agent Warp is going to speak up and say, I actually wanted to apologize for my just despicable behavior. I've read this with all of you. And I think a lot of the chaos that we've read, I see in myself. I was late when we first met. I never ate that muffin. And I've caused the extra trip. And I've just been just sort of a source of chaos.

Like, like this fluke man was. And I don't want to be that person either. No, Warp, Warp, you are not at all like that man. Not even close. You are a valuable, good member of this team. We need you. We need five minutes is a long time. Warp, you're a fucking angel of this group.

Let's be for real. So don't even you don't have to apologize to nobody. You have been the least problematic of all. Exactly. Right. You are doing good work. And you are putting in what we're asking of you. We can't ask anything more than that.

You put that guilt out of your mind. I'm going to cough really loud and say, Sam I.L. Sam I.L. Oh, he's he is he has his face buried in like the table. And you can see he's tracing something with his with his finger. But he said he's concentrating really hard. You know what, though? I think that this might be a unique opportunity

for everyone on board this plane. Let's consider everything that we read in the last two days, everything that we internalized to be a clean slate for us as a team. We've seen what we've done wrong. We've seen how we can go wrong. And we now have an understanding of where we can go. How we can do better. I'm going to also kind of just raise my hand and be like,

I think everyone stands like they want to go home. They have I don't know everyone's life. But I know I want to go back to my life. So I think we're all in agreement on like this other team. We just want like Merritt said, we just want to let's just be transparent and just push forward. I don't know, nod towards him. We're going to make it out.

We got to work together. Yep. They didn't know what happened. Clean slate is a good idea. Are we on like are we already in the air really quick? Oh, yeah. Okay. So I'm going to go to the cockpit.

I'm going to tap on hide shoulder because I'm assuming we're on automatic, right? I'm applying automatic. What are you trying to get across? I need. What do you want? We need to have a conversation with Samuel. Like we just need to have a conversation with just Samuel. I know we're all very on the same page.

I just need to make sure he's on the same page. Okay. So you're going to bring him in here? No, no, I need you really quick because I'm assuming if we're on automatic, then the plane just flying it. I'm sorry. I don't know if you know about planes, but walking away from a plane while you're at the stick of it is not one of those things.

I didn't know if it's one of those planes that are is automatic. I'm sorry. This is not my forte. So I'm going to. I don't know what movie you were watching, but that doesn't happen in real life. Okay. I've seen just con air relax. So I'm going to wave Samuel.

Con air. Yeah. So I'm going to wave Samuel back here. You can stand up here. I'll go ahead and I'll grab him if he'll walk with me really quick. I mean, if you're just motion, he's not paying. He does.

He seems like he's completely unaware of what's going on in the room. Then he doesn't catch you motioning as he is buried in these notes. All right. Then I'm going to walk towards him and tap him on the shoulder. Yeah. I just need you for two seconds really quick. Can it wave an hour? I'm in the middle of something right now.

I hear you on that, but I need you for two seconds because Hyde has something for you too. Do you want to talk to me? I'll talk to you. Thank you. And I'm going to have him escort to the pilot's cabin or whatever it's called. Okay. So I assume you want him to sit in the secondary chair?

Am I getting a flight lesson? I'm going to just motion him to sit so he can't really do much. And then I'm going to do the most Hispanic thing of just grabbing by the ear and kind of twist really quick and twist. And I'm going to be like, I know you took some shit that you didn't need to take. Is that correct? I'm going to twist a little harder. Such a Puerto Rican move.

My God. Damn fucking right it is. I'll say that she is able to grab your ear stem mail if you want. You can try to batter off. No, I'll let her go. Stop your turning them on. Damn it. I'm going to twist him really like that.

Twist him by the ear. And I'll be like, listen, this shit will not. I'm going to really emphasize not fucking happen again. Do you? And I'm going to grab it and buy his cheek. So he's definitely looking at me in the face. So he has no way to not look at me. Be like, do you fucking understand me?

Can you chill for a fucking second? Like, I know you're like pissed off and shit like that. But if you make me, if you make me slip, I'll back off. I'll back off because Hyde told me that I will back off. But I've still grabbed. I'll take a step back and let you beat me up if that's what you want. I'm not going to beat you.

I'm going to just hold you in a very firm position. I'm going to back off so you can be like, I can chill the fuck out. But I'm going to move your face towards Hyde. OK, I am looking at Hyde. But I'm not resisting her in any way. I'm certainly not going to apologize for doing my job. Again, I told you and I don't want your apology.

But if you put this team in danger, again, it is my responsibility to handle it. OK. I don't want you to learn a very hard lesson that some other people in this agency, in this program, learn. I'm just being upfront with you about it. I'm going to move his face back towards me so you can see me and be like, I genuinely like you.

Don't put me in this position again. And I'm going to let go. And then open the door so he can leave. I pat her on the shoulder, look her in the eyes, and say, I forgive you. I forgive you. Oh, look. And I will return to my chair and continue

studying the elder sign. I'm going to tap on Hyde's shoulders, and I'm going to go back to Messi. So I think there's a very unique individual that we can put at the top of our corkboard now. This is a serious conversation we can have about a group we've just come to know. And that's the Lord of Thought.

And what was his constituent, his group? The fate. Keeper of the faith. Keeper of the fate. It's the fate. Any of you looked at age into this fluke guy's notes? Is there something that mentions it in particular? Yes, keepers of the faith.

They may or may not have an outpost in the exact place that we're heading to right now. I think it would be clear enough to understand that the keepers of the faith do have some connection to New York. But it seems that the fate, spelled F-A-T-E, were who seemed to be involved with the network, seemed to be leading the network. So the fate are the big guys,

and then the keepers of the faith are the cult from New York. The keepers of the faith has a presence in New York. In New York. If we... Now, I am not saying that we go chase down these people. I do not think that that is a safe thing to do unless we have a solid reason to go down there. But maybe we can scoop around just a little bit.

I agree. I also think that this Emanuel's character, his ability to tell the future, to divine our existence, it's very important that we look into what he suggested, that the Charnell Dreams. Emanuel didn't see the future. That was Spider-J. No, he did.

Emanuel in the record shop, he suggested that we check out the record, Charnell Dreams, right? Oh, shit. So right, I forgot he did that. Fuck. Charnell Dreams is mentioned in the file. And it's a prominent item on the board.

We still have that board, right? If you packed everything that you carried with you is, it is somewhere on the ship, yeah. And this Agent Charlie as well, whoever the hell he is. Well, there's also Agent Nancy, correct? The one who did the cleaning and compiling on this... I'm wondering if that's Constance. I think that would be a reasonable conclusion.

That's my gut in St. Elise. You don't come to find out the things that she found out and get away with a clean slate. Do we have, is this the kind of plane where there's Wi-Fi? It's the kind of plane where there is Wi-Fi. And you also see that there is a kind of older model television that is built into the corner that has both a VHS and DVD player.

We have the tape to watch. Yes, you're absolutely right. Oh no. Let's do it. That said... May I make a suggestion? I was going to suggest that I only watch it. I was going to suggest that we don't watch it

until we're on the ground. We have two things that can fly that are real big and real strong and don't take damage from things that we have against them. That's not true anymore. A sign you learned 40 minutes ago isn't going to save us from two flying monsters. I think it can if applied properly.

If applied properly, which you haven't had enough time to research. Sam, I understand your desire to know this information fast, but I think for our safety and for the safety of the entire group, we wait until we're on the ground for this. I think that's fair. I think there's nothing stopping our information

from then and from now. I don't believe we'll lose the tape in between those locations. And if we do, we're in much bigger trouble than we thought anyways. There's also that spooky, weird monster that I'm even reticent to say its name, but if it comes through while we're on the plane, we're fucked that way too.

I hadn't even thought of that. Where's the crystal on board? It's in the back, I guess, I'm assuming. I would certainly know if I had it. Yeah, no, it's in its container, still in its little lock box. Okay, that's what I thought. I'd like to introduce something interesting for the rest of the plane ride.

Could I have at least one of us thinking of domes for the entire duration? Done. When we're on it. We can do shifts. So we have the Lord of thought, we have fate, we have the keepers of the faith, we have this Emmanuel creature,

that very well could be still alive if it knows of us. Yes, or at least of charnel dreams and of 2020. That kid also saw a vision of us reading on the plane. Yes. I'm sorry, Sergio. The reason I asked if there was Wi-Fi is because as we're talking about Debra Constance, I'd like to just pull my phone out

and just whack that name into the search bar and see what pops up. You search her name and you find special agent Debra Constance, part of the FBI, began in 83 and was assigned to Detroit in 84. And right in 89, she was deemed missing. And then a year later, she was diagnosed as dead, although she was never found. Is there a photo of her?

Yes. Does she look familiar to me? She does not look familiar to you. Okay. She's an attractive woman. She kind of looks like Kierce the Alley, but just someone who has clearly gone through school and isn't necessarily as much of a bombshell.

But she is still an attractive woman and that photo looks to be taken in her mid-30s. Samuel, while you're doing some groundwork, do you mind looking up Tanika Tillerson? Sure. Last one, though, if I get back to these notes. Understood. You look up the name Tanika Tillerson and there's a lot of entries.

Just looking up the name in Google, there's like 100,000 entries. Might have to do a little bit more digging for that one. Yeah. Would there be anything in the notes about the book that Rose referenced, the French 1700s book? If Rose was a part of creating this file, I think she would have at least written down everything that she knew. There's probably like a diary entry or something from her that states that

in the beginning, when she first met this group, they had had her translate a book called Cultus de Goul, the exact spelling is C-U-L-T-E-S-D-E. G-H-O-U-L-E-S. G-H-O-U-L-S. Perfect. Okay. I think Warp's just going to spend some time researching that as much as she can.

If that is all you're doing during the trip, I'll say that you find commentary on cultish texts and there is mention of a book that seems to tell the story of a cult from France that would eat the dead and they purported that they could expand their life spans and their senses and they talked about transforming into something they called a ghoul. But there is not much more detail about the book beyond that and it seems to come off more as like a legend than anything. It's not a number of like conspiracy sites and stuff like that. Perfect.

Perfect. Anything else? I did want to talk to Merid about something. Sure, I'll say you can call him to the front. You got a second? Of course. Would you like the door open or closed? Close it.

Okay. Am I allowed to sit in the passenger seat or is that against code? As long as you don't touch anything, you're welcome to sit. I would never touch anything in a plane I don't understand. Okay. You're safe. I didn't get a chance to talk because I'm you know flying and stuff like that and I know you want a clean slate but I need to ask you something because

my concerns are beyond just a clean slate. Okay. When's the last time you used your firearm in an active scenario? The last time that I fired my... Outside of this in an active scenario like you were sent off to do a job. I was in an FBI case. Sure. It was actually in my inciting incident.

It was in the case before I arrived here at Delta Green. That was like months ago? I don't know your timeline. A year ago? Once the last time you killed somebody in an active scenario. Three days ago? Your first time? Yes.

And how are you? I've gone through the advice on diagnosing trauma in an active situation. It's not what I'm asking you. I'm asking you how you are. I'm trying to do the deep breathing and I've been trying to do all of those things that they put on that piece of paper for you. You know the things they teach you when they think they understand how to fix something at a very basic level when things like this happen.

Again that's not what I'm asking you, Merritt. No, it's not working. But that's normal. And I'm holding it together, I promise. You had a panic attack like two days ago. Three days ago. In response to the drug, yes. And to the stress?

I think that could be expected of any agent that's gone through the last five days that I have. Yes. But I don't think it speaks to my character. And I do not think that this is reflective of anything. It's not your character, Merritt, that is the problem or would render the resolve. I've seen a lot of good people like you. Go-getters. Gung-ho for the job.

Break from one incident. Well then hide. Can I ask you something? Okay. And you help keep me here? I can do my best. Hey. I have another question.

If you're finished. Sure. I was the call with Mallory. What are our orders? Our orders is to continue and proceed. I was trying to figure out the best way to handle the crystal. And I got that situated. You see, did she give any reflection on the past cases?

Anything, an observance of how we've been doing or a status report? No status reported. Does it seem like she went through and reviewed the documents yet? But she's just trying to make sure that we got all of the documentation and it's properly disposed of. So we should finish documenting stuff and burn it. Get rid of it once we get into New York. Get the last bit of stuff down.

Perfect. And she was what, discussing the Delta Green related objections? Clyde's investigation of the organization? She just wants us to get rid of it. All of it. Okay. Understood. Well, I think this was fruitful and I don't speak like this.

So thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, you got it. Let me know if Mallory calls again and then I leave. Anyone else? Yeah, when Merrick comes back, I'm gonna sit down next to him. In the interest of transparency, Boomer and I have come across this guy before. Who?

The Lord of Thought guy in black with a book. It's on the corkboard even. The case in New Jersey. In Meadowbrook? Yep, Meadowbrook. We had a, we had another agent with us and she, she signed the book and then she disappeared with him. We don't know.

What happened after? No, I grabbed Boomer and we ran. We were gonna be taken in otherwise and we'd done what we could there. There wasn't anything left really. I'm sorry for your loss. I know how much you lost on that, that excursion. But this also gives us a unique opportunity. We now have two people that we're interested in this book.

Maybe we can look into this, this Echo woman and see if she really did go through with the process. Maybe we find a lead as to what happened to your friend. Yeah, maybe. I mean, I didn't read anything in the file about her signing anything. So who knows what that is? Yes, it's true, but sometimes they tend to cut those people loose. It could be that Delta Green didn't think she'd do it. Yeah, well, add her to the list of interesting people that we need to find again.

It's getting longer. That list is ever growing. Agent Tuck, I'll point out that you have never heard the words Delta Green until you read it in that case file. And you are putting two and two together that Agent Merritt isn't insinuating that the group, the program, whatever you are a part of is called Delta Green. Yeah, we're to, I guess, I mean, I guess it's not a big jump to guess that we're Delta Green because they, they called us the, uh, the ghoul lady called us Delta Green. But what the fuck does that mean?

It might not be, um, it might not be an up to date designation anymore. That's true. It could be from the past or from the future. Could easily be a nickname as well. It was spoken from Tanika first, so. Could also be a lie. I don't suspect it matters what it's called, regardless. I don't think anything of them is unintentional, though. I don't know, I figured, I figured someone else should know in case something should happen

to me or Boomer. Not that I'm, no, no, planning on letting that happen. Just, so we're all on the same page. Totally understandable. I'm just going to put my hands up like I get it. Um, okay. Samuel, can you make a alertness check? Boomer, you still thinking about domes?

Oh boy. Girl, you still thinking in circles? Tell me. Fail. Oh no! Dex. Samuel, it's been about an hour. Everyone has kind of settled in.

They've had their conversations, etc. You are looking at your, at these case files, trying desperately to kind of memorize this, this sign you're starting to drive and burn stools. And you, you're kind of just naturally yarn. And you look out the window, you see the skyline slowly pass you. And when you look to your left to acknowledge the other members of your team, there's nothing but a black void.

The ship literally split in half, revealing emptiness. What? And you stare and all of a sudden there's a twinkle. And then another twinkle. And then more and more. I'm thinking about a dome. Till you realize something is coming towards you. Oh no!

Glimmering. No. A cloud of some kind. As quickly as I can, I pick my hand up and I start tracing as much of this sign as I, as I had picked up on. We'll find out what happens next time. No! Yes!

No! Oh my god! Oh my god! God! Oh my god! God! Cool. God!

Fuck you. I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming and I'm still stressed about it. Wow. A red-headed woman named Kendall lies bleeding in a bush four miles from the closest sign of civilization. While on her routine hike through the Wexford County forest, she tripped, rolled down a hill, and landed on a snapped branch.

The gnarled wood now pierces her abdomen like a spear. Kendall is slowly losing consciousness and she is too weak to call for help. She will die soon, but her last moments alive won't be alone. From out of the bushes emerges a dog, a dirty and disheveled rottweiler. But then Kendall notices it's missing most of its belly. The cold gray eyes of the hound seem fixated on her. She reaches out a bloody hand for some sign of comfort, but it's all in vain. The dog only sits and waits.

Kendall breathes her final breath and then stops moving. The dog lays itself on the ground and a moment later a terrible wind howls through the trees before they settle back into a serene quiet. As if breathing for the first time, Kendall opens her mouth and gasps. Only this isn't Kendall anymore. With an unnatural strength that Kendall never had, the body snaps free of the branch and begins working its way out of the bush, working its way back to civilization, where it can exact its revenge.