DELTA GREEN-MUSIC FROM A DARKENED ROOM DENNIS DETWILLER Music from a Darkened Room A DELTA GREEN INVESTIGATION FOR 1 TO 4 AGENTS Wherein the Agents learn some threats are more tangible than others... BY DENNIS DETWILLER laces, like people, sometimes P go wrong. They turn off the The House on Spooner path and head into the shadows; Avenue becoming something other than Spooner Avenue is a quiet street normal. Black places filled with that can be set in any suburban BREAKDOWN OF INTEL blank rooms, closed doors and location in the United States. empty hallways lined with dust. 1206 Spooner Avenue is a small 1 THE HOUSE ON SPOONER AVENUE ! In these places your voice house, originally built in 1907, 2 THE AGENTS ARRIVE catches in your throat, the air and amended with additional 3 WHAT’S GOING ON AT 1206 SPOONER seems to hum and things hap- construction in the 1940’s. It’s not 4 TRAILS pen. People get hurt, objects van- pretty or ugly; it’s just plain. Few 4 1206 SPOONER — THE EXTERIOR ish. Bad feelings flow like the notice anything past the vibrant 4 INSIDE 1206 SPOONER loose tap in the bathroom and growth of ivy that scales the 4 THE COUNTY SEAT hate hangs in the air like old north side of the building. It is 8 SHUT DOORS, CLOSED SHADES paint. It smells of time and cir- wholly unremarkable in appear- 8 THE LUCKY FEW cumstance and something just a ance. But the neighbors are not 10 BREAK OUT THE BADGES little beyond the world. fooled. 12 THE DARK PAST ! It smells like surrender... ! The neighborhood is pre- 14 ROOM BY ROOM ! 1206 Spooner Avenue is a dominantly composed of retirees 26 RUNNING THE HOUSE wrong place. In the last forty-six who have long memories. Most 26 CONSUMPTION OBSESSION POSSESSION years of its history eighteen peo- were born locally, and lived their 27 REFLECTIONS ple have died there, and you can lives within the confines of 27 CONTINGENCIES feel it. You walk in and it’s like Meadowbrook, the town through 28 REMOVING THE CONSECRATION dropping two hundred feet un- which Spooner Avenue cuts a 28 THE GREEN BOX 711 der water. It’s suddenly dark and diagonal slash. All have heard 30 FRIENDLIES cold and pressure filled; at least about the deaths in the Spooner 31 SPELL: CONVOCHI L’UOMO NERO it is in your mind."Still; pretenses Avenue house. It’s something of 31 CALLING THE DARK MAN remain." a water-cooler topic at all of 31 WRAPPING IT UP ! Doors stay shut, and no Meadowbrook’s hot spots. 34-35 HANDOUTS one ever hears a child’s laughter ! The rumors began almost at night. In the hours that stretch half a century ago. like taffy after two, no one ever ! Around 1959 with the hears music from a darkened murder/suicide of Douglas and ALL TEXT IN THIS PDF IS room. No one sees a woman ©2005 DENNIS DETWILLER; Margaret Crease, the house be- DELTA GREEN AND ALL RE- walking behind the glass in the gan to gain a reputation. At first, LATED CHARACTERS ARE bathroom mirrors. it was simply a nervous kind of ©2005 THE DELTA GREEN ! They shut their eyes and rumor to make a horrible inci- PARTNERSHIP; THIS IS A pretend the world is ordered, dent more palatable; later as the FREE, NOT FOR PROFIT PDF. like a puzzle whose pieces are THIS PDF MAY BE PRINTED bodies slowly piled up, it became square and plain. They pretend a AND BOUND AND REDIS- more certain. By 2005, it’s simply TRIBUTED (THOUGH NOT lot of things. They pretend they a fact – the residents are sure the SOLD) FOR PERSONAL USE are pretending... Spooner street house is evil. They ONLY. ! Until, in the dark, the know this in the way one knows hand falls on their shoulder... the sky is blue or that 1 DELTA GREEN-MUSIC FROM A DARKENED ROOM DENNIS DETWILLER A-CELL’S DIRECTIVE DIRECTIVE FROM A-CELL A-Cell has issued a directive to the nearest avail- Operation IAGO You are to investigate the death of Agent able Cell to the Spooner house. This missive ar- GARRET and the suspicious circumstances of rives in a beaten Fedex package with a return ad- said death. Focus attention on 1206 SPOONER dress in Maryland (it’s a Mailboxes Etc. near the AVENUE. This house has been brought to the Pentagon, the name on the return address, Iago attention of A-Cell before, and is deemed a Greene, is false). Inside is a sheet of paper and an paranormal threat. Extreme caution should old-looking cell phone. be employed when investigating the Spooner house. It has been known to exhibit an un- known influence over skilled DG Agents. The Cell Phone Mission Instructions Is a battered old telephone. Of the previous gen- • Determine the cause of death of eration of phones, it can call internationally and Agent GARRET somehow fails to send call information to the • Determine if the 1206 SPOONER AVENUE other end – so things like *69 and caller ID don’t represents an ongoing threat to the work on it (though the Agents won’t know this public until they attempt to use it). The numbers for • Once these two protocols are com- Emil Yarrow and Elizabeth Tucker are pro- plete, contact A-Cell for further instructions grammed into the phone, as well as the number of the Meadowbrook Store-It. Possible Friendly Contacts ! If the Agents attempt to contact A-Cell us- • Emil Yarrow, Parapsychologist ing the normal channels in the chain of com- • Elizabeth Tucker, Antique Dealer mand, they may receive a return phone call on this phone, at the moderator’s discretion. Use the Green Box Locales Green Box 711 – Meadowbrook Store-It phone as a mystery; and feel free to employ it to • move the Agents along at any time – if things bog down. water quenches thirst. It’s a certainty. THE AGENTS ARRIVE ! After the Creases’ deaths, between 1963 and 2005, sixteen people have met their ends at 1206 Delta Green has had its eye on the Spooner Avenue Spooner. Only one of those deaths was due to nei- house for some time, but those in charge deemed it a ther accident nor violence. The rest have been a low-level threat – possibly even a series of unfortu- chain of suicides, odd, accidental deaths and mur- nate accidents and nothing more. der. ! But when Special Agent Arthur Donnelley ! Somehow, despite the mounting number of was found in the master bedroom of the Spooner bodies, the house has been continuously sold and house with his throat cut, A-Cell was alerted. What re-sold. There has been no break in inhabitance as was significant wasn’t the suicide (which the medi- far back as the Creases’ death that lasted more than cal examiner half-heartedly called it) but the fact a month. that Donnelley was following in the footsteps of ! The locals are certain the house has a draw to Yamilla Isari, the former owner, who was found un- it; a pull. Doctor George Weaver, the last local fool- der the precisely same circumstances sixteen months ish enough to be drawn to it, bought the house on a before. whim and moved in, in the summer of 1970. He was ! Donnelley was the one who originally killed nine days later in an electrical accident. brought the Spooner house to the attention of A-Cell ! Since then, no locals ever go to the open and went there, two weeks ago for an unknown rea- houses which pop-up with startling regularity at son, without following protocol. He was reported Spooner Avenue. missing by his ex-wife three days before his body ! To those who live on Spooner Avenue, the was found in the Spooner Avenue house. house is a dead-zone to be rushed past, something ! His throat was cut with a straight razor, and to be avoided – especially at night. his blood had drenched the Master Bedroom’s walls ! The neighborhood is certain the building is – it looked like someone had “set off a bomb full of alive. blood.” 2 DELTA GREEN-MUSIC FROM A DARKENED ROOM DENNIS DETWILLER as well. Odd men showed up – foreigners with thick What’s Going On at 1206 Spooner Italian accents. The Crone seemed to be gathering In 1907, when the house was originally constructed, her own family into the Wheeler house with Isabel- Michael Wheeler – a thirty-two year old mason, le’s blessing. brought his invalid wife Isabelle Wheeler to die ! After a single confrontation with Antonio Di- there. Vettelo – a man the Crone claimed was her son – ! Wheeler was a dashing young man who and locals in town in the winter of 1937, the town managed to wheedle his way into a lucrative posi- learned to leave them alone. tion cutting gravestones for nearby townships. ! Matthew Harrigan, the son of a wealthy local Later, his business expanded to specialty stonework politician wasted away from some sort of “mystery such as gargoyles, marble cuts, tiles and monu- disease” in the course of two-weeks after the inci- ments. When Isabelle and Michael married in 1905 dent. The disease was odd – the patient developed they were the darlings of the town. But in less than a rashes that became what appeared to be burn year, their life fell under a shadow. marks, which then suppurated and bled out. Each ! Overnight, it seemed, Isabelle was infected by man involved in the scuffle with Antonio suffered an unknown ailment; something which first robbed from this disease, but only Harrigan, who had her of use of her legs, and later, wracked her body struck Antonio, died from it.