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DELTA GREEN FUTURE/PERFECT 1 Part 1 of a Delta Green Campaign Wherein terrible secrets unravel the skein of time DELTA GREEN: FUTURE PERFECT 1 DELTA ALL TEXT IN THIS PDF IS ©2006 DENNIS DETWILLER; DELTA GREEN AND ALL RELATED CHARAC- TERS ARE ©2005 THE DELTA GREEN PART- NERSHIP; THIS IS A FREE, NOT FOR PROFIT PDF. THIS PDF MAY BE PRINTED AND BOUND FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. FUTURE/PERFECT PART 1 HELLBEND, CALIFORNIA By Dennis Detwiller Introduction Welcome to Hellbend, An Overview California, Population 82 A Nice Place to Die Future/Perfect is a series of investigations linked together to form a single unbroken campaign. How- Hellbend was once a vibrant town of nearly 3,500 ever, each investigation is self-contained and can be souls, back when Hunt Electrodynamics ran the run as a one-off adventure. show. It was in the middle of nowhere, out past Beatty Junction near Death Valley, and no one knew The campaign is a great way to introduce new play- why it was built there. In fact, no one cared. ers to the world of Delta Green. They can be brought in completely ignorant of the conspiracy, or In the late 1940’s, Hellbend produced a third of the with some foreknowledge. electronics found in fighter aircraft around the world. Hunt Electrodynamics ran everything from In any case, I hope you enjoy it.Thank you for con- the schools, the town general store all the way down tributing to the patronage system — which makes to the funeral parlor. The company provided every- this product possible. Visit www.detwillerdesign.com thing; and the people liked it that way. to contribute to new Delta Green products. 1 Clifford Potter Lucille Mayer Victim (58 yoa) (38 yoa) The Victims: At a Glance So far, the feds know only this: the two victims of the Hell- bend killer were most definitely murdered. The two coroners Race/Gender White Male White Female (Dr. Abner White from Independence, California and Dr. Em- manuel Costa from Las Vegas, Nevada) have both failed to definitively identify the murder weapon. Occupation Retired Metal Artist Whatever ended the lives of Potter and Mayer, it was strong. Worker White suspects heavy construction equipment; Costa does not agree though he cannot offer a better explanation. A powerful force sheared bones, and on both victims, the rib- Height 5’10” 5’2” cage was smashed — crushed like a paper model. Entire limbs were missing on both victims. Weight 165 lbs. 102 lbs. Because both Potter and Mayer had apparently been sub- jected to extensive scavenger action (Mayer far more than Potter) it is hard to gain exact measurements from flesh of the weapon’s effects on tissue. What few measurements Time of Death 6 to 9 PM Between April were achieved point towards a two to five inch blade of some March 5, 2005 24, and May 8, rough material — possibly a row of them; like a rake, hoe or 2005 other construction type tool. Discovered By Jarvis Greene Lt. Joshua Orrino Nevada State Patrolman Body Found 2.3 Miles from 112 miles from Town Hellbend Cause of Death Blunt/Cutting Blunt/Cutting Trauma Trauma Family Brother Emily Warren (deceased) (Companion), Tanya Mayer (Mother) Enemies None None Then the explosion of 1952 happened and every- in Death Valley. People left, schools closed, things thing changed. fell apart. When the plant went up one August night, it took Fifty-three years later the town is nearly dead. Only twenty-six locals with it, as well as the founder of eighty-two people call the crumbling remains of Hunt Electrodynamics — the elusive Arthur Hunt. Hellbend home anymore, and those few don’t look to the future. They get by on what they can, selling In the midst of the destruction, Hunt Electrodynam- gas and goods to those on the way to the Death Val- ics fell under new ownership and changed. Hellbend ley National Park and biding their time. In another was left behind, crippled. The firm changed its fifteen years, Hellbend will die a natural death, name (Hunt Electronics) and shifted its attentions to shriveling up in the 110º summer heat, leaving be- the east coast — specifically NASA and the Penta- hind a skeleton of ruined buildings as a monument gon. of some better time. Without the leadership of Hunt, who lived and But in the last month, something else has been wear- worked in Hellbend, the town dried up like the earth ing away at the town, something decidedly unnatu- 2 Bakersfield FBI and the Structure of Bakersfield’s Relationship with the the Investigation Sacramento FBI Office The Bakersfield FBI Office is located at 901 Tower Bakersfield is considered a small “appendage” of the Road, Suite 207 Bakersfield, CA 93309. The nearly Sacramento FBI Office (these external offices are called two-dozen agents here report to the Sacramento FBI “Resident Agencies”). Since Sacramento is the capital Headquarters. They usually find themselves dealing of California, it enjoys more personnel, more attention, with bank robberies, interstate business fraud, drug and more funding than the smaller Bakersfield office. trafficking and other mundane investigations — mul- tiple homicides do occur, but they are usually han- The Director of the Sacramento FBI Office is Special dled by local police. Both kidnappings and interstate Agent-in-Charge Michael Turk, a man known for his transport of a body are relatively rare. particularly long memory and ability to recall, names, dates and Agent histories in seconds. Bakersfield’s This case is inter-state however, and Bakersfield is the closest to Hellbend. Director Kevin Slotin lives in particular fear of him, and will do anything he can to appease him. Special Agent-in-Charge Kevin Slotin runs the Bak- ersfield office, and the Hellbend case smells like a If, God forbid, the investigation into Hellbend goes big investigation. He will keep close tabs on it, since south enough to generate media coverage, Sacra- it’s the first significant murder case Bakersfield has mento, and more specifically SAC Turk will step in, with seen in more than five years. Sacramento HQ is also both feet. watching closely, ready to step-in if they feel the case is bogged down. In short, the players are on a The Agents, and more specifically Delta Green, don’t short leash, and must keep their ‘i’s dotted and their want that to happen. Turk is a large and looming threat ‘t’s crossed, or face swift replacement from on-high. to the security of the Delta Green conspiracy. As they’ll soon learn, this may have terrible reper- cussions on more than their careers. ral. If the murder rate in Hellbend covered in his blood), but few can understand how continues it’ll die a lot faster than fifteen years, and a such an event occurred. Potter had rented it at his lot more violently than just another victim of some own expense and was digging around on the aban- dead industry. doned lot at the ruins of the Hunt plant for some unknown reason. Someone or something is killing the residents of Hellbend, California. No one knows who or what it He was known as a local treasure-hunter; and was is. considered just a little bit crazy. Local investigation petered out after just a week. The Hellbend Investigation, May 12, 2005 The second victim, Lucille Mayer, a 36 year-old White Female, was reported missing in Hellbend on Delta Green Moves In the night of April 24th, and was discovered by State The players are Agents from the Bakersfield office of Police over the border in Nevada fourteen days later the FBI. They have been assigned the Hellbend case when a local officer was drawn out into the desert by following the second murder of a local resident of a gathering of buzzards. Very little to examine was Hellbend. left of Mayer, who was identified by her teeth. Seri- ous blunt trauma had occurred, and portions of her The first murder occurred on March 5, 2005, on the skeleton were gone — missing. Nevada FBI was outskirts of the town. Clifford Potter, a 53 year-old called in, and the Las Vegas coroner placed cause of white male, was found mutilated less than four hun- death as violent blunt and cutting trauma — in dred yards from the remains of the ruins of the old other words; murder. Hunt Electrodynamics plant. The physical evidence — what of there, there is — The county coroner from Independence, Abner matches the marks found on Potter’s body. White could not readily identify just how exactly he had died. No one doubts foul play of some sort — The case was officially placed under Federal juris- his body was torn to pieces — but no one can come diction with the Mayer murder and reassigned to up with a motive. Bakersfield FBI. A nearby Bobcat light construction vehicle was ten- Bakersfield is confident that someone is murdering tatively identified as the murder weapon (since it was people in and around Hellbend. 3 Are the Agents DG? Delta Green at Bakersfield/Sacramento FBI — T Cell This is a question the Keeper needs to determine before the adven- ture begins. There are four options: To introduce uninitiated Agents to the Delta Green, DG can either contact the players, or they can discover the THE AGENTS ARE MEMBERS OF DELTA GREEN: This is the easiest conspiracy at work in the Bakersfield/Sacramento area. solution, and works well if this investigation is to be run as a one-off The leader of the conspiracy in the area Special Agent adventure.