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Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Andreyichnot necessarily that he’ll def die. It’ll be an interesting arc to follow and an equally interesting one to be “racing” the team, so to speak. Lots of opportunity for this character concept to run afoul of horrors or just know too much and either be recruited or tied up like a loose end.

That ultimatum obviously being de facto “ok I’ll join pls no kill” unless your character just wants to die. Again, this journalist needs to have some type of skill(skills will be posted with the actual CS template tomorrow morning) that would make Foster hesitant to waste him.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Progenitusyou know, you set yourself away from most that would think up “I want to play a special forces operator with suppressed fear”

Where they leave it at that and then play what pretty much amounts to the Terminator, I see you’ve thought things through a lot, which I very much appreciate. It is creative without being too outlandish for a mission with secrecy and sensitivity like it does.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Andreyichas long as he has skills that might be valuable to the team in the future. Steve Foster would probably try to throw him off the trail or feed him misinformation. A tenacious journalist could find a man with a suppressed gun in his house bringing an ultimatum with him.

Join or become the “latest victim of the Blackriver Killer”, if you catch my meaning.

Posting from my phone and have graveyard shift soon, so OOC coming tomorrow morning. I look forward to seeing everyone’s best efforts at their CSs!

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Progenitusmy biggest concern was a player using that kind of character premise to completely disregard the things in the RP and for the cool-factor. I’m willing to hear people out on their logic for their characters as long as it’s not too outlandish.

I’ll obviously wait for the OOC and character sheets instead of waving a hand and banishing people for things I seemingly just don’t like.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Progenitusthat would effectively make it so that your character is unaffected by the morally repugnant choices they will have to make and the otherworldly things they’ll have to fight.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Progenitus1. Are we talking Will Smith from that one movie about Jaden Smith levels of detached? Or T1000 detached?

2. Does this soldier have any experience in tradecraft or investigation?

3. I guess it might be about time to start an OOC.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@HomosaxophoneAs long as he wasn't like "Oh my god, thanks for showing this to me, grandma. I now know that Azathoth dreams up reality and one day he will awaken and I will cease to exist!"

It's a slow burn I'm going for here. If his only ties to the occult is some person who babbled on about it, a charm, and a general superstition, that's fine.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@KeksalotTo clarify, I'm not forcing people to play characters plucked out of a college that still look like children wearing daddy's business suit. If you want to play the grizzled veteran of whatever you wanted him doing prior to being recruited, go ahead. All I'm saying is we're not going to be mozambique-drilling Nyarlathotep in the RP, nor do I want the other end of that spectrum where everyone's a bumblefuck rookie or a pencil-pushing armchair commando. My gripes weren't so much that the characters [url]weren't[/url] blank-slate average joes that were about to have their entire worldview slowly flayed from them through the course of the RP, but that the characters seemed more like what Delta Green agents would be dispatched against to bodybag.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Leidenschaft
What about kinda-paranormal-but-not-exactly-magical characters? For example, a parapsychic successful result of the MK-ULTRA program who was endowed with mild reality-adjusting capabilities stemming from a particularly inspired state of mind which must be induced via meditation and LSD? A terribly mentally shaken person plagued by flashbacks from pasts that have never been and memories of places he never visited, gone rogue and hunted across the globe for the contents of his head, grasping for any straw that could keep him from falling into the abyss.

Or do we have to be like completely mundane guys mandatorily fully out of their depth at the start of the game?

@Keksalot

Short answer is yes. The characters at the beginning of the RP are supposed to be "level 1" per se. At most, they've had brushes with the paranormal, extraterrestrial, HPL mythos. All of these proposed characters have already lived out their most interesting stories, so it'd be a little redundant and almost silly to have Russian KGB lich be brought into a boardroom for Steve Foster to look at and the higher-ups to be kind of suckering the player into the mission, as is implied by their secrecy about it.

Steve Foster wants talented professionals as I said, yes, but he also wants blank slates. He's recruiting our characters into Delta Green, and considering this mission as their field test. Characters can embody this "blank slate" concept, or, as far as I'm willing to let people go, be as far along the sane-insane scale as Rustin Cohle of True Detective. That is, the character knows that there is more to the world because of what he's seen/thought he saw, but isn't babbling and scrawling glyphs on his cell wall with his own excrement.

Sorry if that puts you off.

Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness, Occult Action and Intrigue

@Leidenschaft
Very much interested!
Would Steve Foster consider as a potential recruit an occult ex-KGB operative who double-crossed his way through the deadly shadows of the world since the first world war thanks to the unholy secrets of physical reanimation gleaned from the corpse of Rasputin, investigation of which was the final nudge that sent him over the edge of sanity?
Cause that's what I'd like to play. A slightly mad, conspiracy theorist reanimating russian. Think Boris the Bullet Dodger but with more personal integrity.

@Keksalot

The premise for the characters in the RP is to either have no knowledge of the paranormal or a slight inkling of it stemming from encounters with it in their pasts. If this ex-KGB agent were to have his brakes pumped a bit and, say, been tasked with the "debriefing" aka assassinations of Russian soldiers who abandoned their mission because of "eaters of the dead" aka a nest of ghouls they encountered, then yes. Or other such ambiguously paranormal things.

But, I'm afraid there'll be no magic Russian liches on the team, I'm afraid. Seems more like something the team would be shooting at then burning the corpse of.

Hmm, interesting but the theoretical roster confuses me. Can I as an example be a journalist working parallel to the big boy team?

@Andreyich

Journalists mostly end up as loose ends in this line of work. If you can come up with any sort of justification, maybe, but Steve Foster wants talented professionals that can keep hush-hush and have skills related to the mission. The definition of "professional" gets looser when talking of profession, though.