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Report: Operation HOI POLLOI - Part Two

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  In the Modesto motel room, Avery Fields (VICTOR), Emerson Copeland (VERDANCE), and Charlotte Gaultier (WAXER) devise their plan.  The murders at the Stockton NPR station are being pinned on the Bear Flag Republic (BFR), Delta Green is working behind the scenes to make sure that story sticks. Right now, V-Cell needs to focus on locating and eliminating Ronald Pringle aka Horst Jaeger, the leader of the BFR. They have this place of permanent residence, but its known that he doesn't really live there, instead choosing to hide out in his fortified cabin somewhere in the mountains. To get to Jaeger's they're going to have to follow-up on some earlier leads, notably, two confirmed associates of Jaeger: Holden Wagner and Allen Bhrunt.  Holden Wagner owns METTLE Munitions and Survival, an arms dealership in Modesto that has been confirmed to be the source where the Sacramento shooters sourced their weapons from. FBI files on Wagner suggest that he's had a longwithstanding rel...

Report: Operation HOI POLLOI - Part One

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  10 JUNE 2000. 6:00 AM. On the flight to Sacramento, VERDANCE (Emerson Copeland) and VICTOR (Avery Fields) both knew what was coming. Five months ago, before they cornered Willem Lipton in a cabin and VICTOR took him down with two shots from a sniper rifle, VICTOR and VERDANCE candidly spoke about their experiences with the King in Yellow. During which VICTOR shared what he had learned from a communion with one of the Goetic demons that they had encountered in New Orleans. He told her what it told him: " THEY FUNDAMENTALLY MISUNDERSTAND IT. THEY THINK IT [ THE KING IN YELLOW ]  CAN BE USED LIKE A WEAPON. CALIFORNIA IS GOING TO BE BAD ".  The words of Bune, the unassuming demon that VICTOR had spoken with in an El Paso parking lot. Those words rang through both of their heads when Jason Swyneherd, their superior in the FBI Task Force PATCON, told them they were both heading to California as the Task Force's point-of-contact regarding a racially-motivated mass shooting car...

V-Cell: A Roadside in Oklahoma.

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  30 JANUARY 2000 On a roadside in rural Oklahoma, Lt. Avery Fields trudges out of the brush. On the highway, a range rover sits idling, its doors are open, most of its windows shot out. Inside, and scattered around the vehicle, are a number of dead men, before the vehicle are two cruisers of the Oklahoma State Police. Lieutenant Fields approaches the vehicle and confirms the kills. Four men, former affiliates of the Aryan Union, later connected to the "Aryan People's National Resistance" (APNR), a white supremacist militia the operated in Oklahoma since in the mid-1980s, and which in only the last two days, and almost totally dissolved. Further up the road, on the other side of the barricade, an FBI cruiser parked, and Special Agent Emerson Copeland stepped out.  For nearly fifteen years the APNR sat on the FBI's secret list of "impenetrables", this was a brief, unofficial list of organizations which the FBI had failed numerous times to insert undercover ag...

Report: Operation SPECTRUM - Part Two

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16FEB2001 Agents wake up early on the 16th and get to work. They have a long day ahead of them. IMOGEN and IRENA requests for a morning meeting with their contact, Yi Yuhan, while INDIGO tries to compromise the Opal Palace Casino's security systems to get access to their CCTV. Yi agrees, and they meet at the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady .  At the Cathedral, IMOGEN and IRENA meet Yi, and they talk briefly. The conversation is brief and they speak in code, with Yi adamantly claiming he is not  in contact with Taiwanese intelligence, adding "but if I were, what would you be asking me to do?". I-Cell is curious about Hurricane Group in Taiwan, and specifically they want to know about the mysterious third party being kept as their guest in Formosa, whom the Circle has codenamed "BLUEBEARD". Yi "agrees" that he "would" make some inquiries. Meanwhile, at the hotel, INDIGO is only able to get limited access to the CCTV, meaning they have cov...

Report: Operation SPECTRUM - Part One

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  On the evening of Valentine's day, 2001, Agents IRENA and IMOGEN return from evenings out with their husband to messages, notifying a "Mrs. Greene" of a summons to the Post Office, their husbands complain that they've told the Post Office numerous times that no Mrs. Greene lives at their address, which their wives pass off as incompetence of the Postal Service. When they have a moment alone, they make a brief call on their burner phones notifying A-Cell that they are now ready to receive the message.  A-Cell calls them later that night, a robotic voice recites the activation phrase, informing them they've been assigned to "Operation SPECTRUM", then dictates their instructions to meet for their briefing. They are told to prepare for a long stay overseas, bring their passports, and that arrangements have already been made with their employers. The next morning they pack their bags and are onboard flights heading West to LAX.  INDIGO receives the call imm...

After-Action Report: Out of the Mouths of Babes - Part Three

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  4 NOVEMBER V-Cell and the Mexican SWAT team "Templar-2" are gathered in a storage annex under the Karotechia laboratory in Juarez. They're almost out, but to escape, they're going to have to fight their way through the Tryworks, the primary testing facility for Aktion HARUSPEX.  VICTOR mounts a ladder to the layer above them and exits from a hatch to a small armory attached to an observation room and a testing chamber. My shitty MSPaint isometric battlemap of the lab and the basement.  In the observation room there are three men, they appear to be researcers, and three Bauern working security. One of the researchers is in a white labcoat, but is wearing a well-maintained SS uniform underneath. He speaks through an intercom with someone in the testing chamber, though VICTOR is unable to see them, as the chamber is choked with the same sickly green smoke he's seen quite frequently this operation. He heads down and reports his findings and has VERDANCE stay on watc...