Hey everyone. Here's the awesome text for John Tynes' Delta Green: The Labyrinth, all ready for layout (and all the art is DONE!) It is an amazing book.
Check it out, consume it, absorb it, and if you see anything out-of-order, get back to me before mid-October.
Cheers!
This pocket journal was purchased in London in 1930 by Erich Heinrich Goerlitz, a young German student of Archaeology, while he was visiting England. For eight years he kept his private notes in it, most concerning a strange (some said pre- human) language, carefully writing out his ever-growing belief that the world was not only filled with secrets, it was wholly composed of them. It is called the “Hudson Book” because the journal was purchased at the HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY in London...
2019-09-20 22:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone talks about their lives in stages, whether they know it or not. Oh, that, that was childhood. I was a teenager then. My twenties… Middle-age. My twilight years. I stopped doing that somewhere around my centenary, but not because I chose to, it was because I couldn’t keep track any longer.
Things still loomed large in my mind, of course. The wars. The dissolution of the later days. The raids and the hunters and the close calls. The books and the money and th...
2019-09-15 20:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, here are the first 21 player handouts for IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES, covering the intro section all the way up through NIGHT FLOORS. Enjoy!
2019-09-07 17:17:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Each Two-Minute Horror is a brief, one-off encounter, mystery, or complication to add depth and strangeness to your Delta Green game. They should be seamlessly integrated into existing operations as an aside, and — by themselves — constitute a short amount of gameplay. Still, clever Handlers might use them to point the Agents towards an entirely new investigation, to reinforce the themes of self-sacrifice and inevitable defeat in Delta Green or to simply show the Agents that they...
2019-08-30 17:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This Delta Green operation concerns the remnants of an evil that has haunted Brooklyn, New York, since its earliest days, and was cut off at its apex in the summer of 1925, just before it brought something through into our world. With this ruin came the destruction of one of Brooklyn’s most storied, odd, and reclusive, residents — Robert Suydam.
A computer hit has brought a Delta Green team to Brooklyn, New York, to investigate a cluster of child disappearances in...
2019-08-25 20:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
A huge amount of behind-the-scenes work is continuing on IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES. While Shane edits (and I endlessly putter with the text), I'm also waiting great gouts of artwork for the book. I've also engaged someone to work on props and handouts and she's underway in creating the panoply of horrors that will fill out this book.
Overall, this is the most ambitious, strange, self-generating project I've ever been on. It's almost like the book is already there, I just have to maneu...
2019-08-20 15:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In an Internet video, already viral, a woman accuses a secretive church leader of outlandish ritual abuse. Suddenly she vanishes, screaming, in front of a crowd of shocked and screaming bystanders.
The Intelligence section cannot find signs that the video was produced with special effects.
The Security section is already suppressing that fact, uploading doctored versions that do show subtle signs of having been generated with special effects, establishing a narrative that it was p...
2019-08-15 21:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t look at the database no more, I just do my job.
I made that mistake, and what I found there was no good, man. I mean, the money is good but the shit on that list, and the photo match stuff was all like demonic and shit. Like those things from heavy metal album covers. Lots of names of people I didn’t know. Lots of dates. Lots of photos of weird knives and amulets and things. Murder scenes. Two hundred photos of a book called like Vermis or something. Lots of w...
2019-08-11 15:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It all falls apart pretty quickly. Your life, I mean. One moment it’s there. You can see it. More than that, even. It’s everywhere. Something that just is. And then it’s gone. Like it was never there (and more and more I’m certain it wasn’t) and like it is never coming back. Life is word we use to describe the things we imagine go on with us, as well as without us. But I know now, that’s not entirely true. It might not be true at all. I’ve been other p...
2019-07-22 16:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Each Two-Minute Horror is a brief, one-off encounter, mystery, or complication to add depth and strangeness to your Delta Green game. They should be seamlessly integrated into existing operations as an aside, and — by themselves — constitute a short amount of gameplay. Still, clever Handlers might use them to point the Agents towards an entirely new investigation, to reinforce the themes of self-sacrifice and inevitable defeat in Delta Green or to simply show the Agents that they...
2019-07-16 16:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Agents, here is the raw text for John Scott Tynes upcoming book, The Labyrinth. 205 pages of unnatural goodness for your Delta Green game for review and feedback. What are we looking for?
We will be wrapping up this version of the manuscript August 15. All feedback should be sent to Acell@me.com and titled LABYRINTH CORRECTIONS <...
2019-07-11 22:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post
No one talks seriously about quantum immortality. When I was in school, it was a glorified thought experiment third years used to freak out their girlfriends. I read the Tegmark paper in 1998, I think, though I don't recall much now. Back when it was an idea, it was a funny thing. Like a hexaflexagon, or a Möbius strip. Something to noodle over while sitting on the bus, or waiting for your burger to come up.
Of course, today, no one talks about anything anymore.
Any outcom...
2019-06-23 00:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, here's an oldie-and-a-goodie; A VICTIM OF THE ART, fully laid out with new art and design, and reimagined for Delta Green: The Role-Playing game. Enjoy!
2019-06-22 15:57:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Perhaps loneliness secretes a pheromone. Maybe that’s how you know, how we all know. The poorly dressed man on the bus who stares at a spot just over your head. The monologist in the coffee shop who tells you every detail of how he secured his laptop against surveillance until you hurriedly get up and leave. The woman with the soiled Live Aid t-shirt who walks from the bus stop to the food bank every day at four o’clock. That guy three cubicles over who processes routing requests and has ...
2019-06-15 21:37:56 +0000 UTC View Post
FOR THOSE HAVING TROUBLE TRY THIS LINK
“Things calls to things, if ya get my meanin’, and some things spring ye farth from t’other...And things which may be called up might be sent asunder, but leave behind a trace of sumthin’, unseeable and strange. I can shew ya how to speak to ‘em...”
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2019-06-10 20:17:46 +0000 UTC
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Michael Mark Declan. Missing. Caucasian, red hair, blue eyes, freckles, repaired cleft palate. 36". 31 pounds. The 3-year old went missing from Yosemite village at the Sunnyside Campsite on the evening of 7/12/04. Last seen by his parents at 6:41 PM near the fire pit at the campsite.
His jumper and shoes were found 14 hours later at 7,000 feet on Eagle Tower by a climber on the morning of the 13th, but although word had spread, no one was looking 6,000 feet UP for a tod...
2019-05-27 00:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
An excerpt from John Scott Tynes' upcoming Delta Green book, The Labyrinth
Across America, towns are dying. Factories downsize, mines shut down, and entire ways of life are outdated, outmaneuvered, and outsourced. The tax base crumbles. Libraries sell off their collections and lock their doors. Law enforcement defaults to the county, who can barely afford it. Medical services and ambulances have to come from farther and farther away. The famili...
2019-05-20 18:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy hell, this book exploded. It was supposed to be a 128 page campaign, and is now something like the size of the Delta Green Handler's Guide (368 pages). Here, find all the sourcebook material, as well as the first two operations, and several "infected" locations.
I. Am. Almost. Finished.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS UNEDITED, AND FEEDBACK ON SUCH THINGS WON'T REALLY HELP AT THIS POINT. IT STILL HAS TO GO THROUGH SHANE AND LISA. THANKS, THOUGH!
En...
2019-05-15 15:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To give you an idea of the depth of preparation and research that goes into a single Delta Green operation, here's a clue representation for the expanded version of THE NIGHT FLOORS for the upcoming IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES book. Some quick notes:
∆ Green boxes are NPCs.
∆ Brown boxes are locations.
∆ Blue boxes are clues and books.
∆ Blue arrows are usually "player action" — i.e. I roll a skill or ask to see something.
∆ Black...
2019-05-08 15:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post
An excerpt from IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES, easily dropped into any Delta Green campaign where the team has learned too much, or has been compromised. Gain a glimpse into how the conspiracy deals with Agents it no longer has any use for...
2019-04-30 17:55:36 +0000 UTC View Post
by John Scott Tynes
This online group of teenagers and young adults has a common interest: sharing descriptions of their dreams. Specifically, they are experiencing recurring, unsettling dreams that feel as if they have supernatural origin and might be visions of the past, present, or future. A typical member has been experiencing such dreams for several weeks or months before seeking answers online but when they do, the Dream Syndicate is there to listen, shar...
2019-04-25 15:57:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The amulet of the Ai-Apa (“Silent One”) is a sculpted clay artifact of the Chavin civilization. It depicts two intertwined figures: one human, one a beast with wings. It is easily identifiable as a Central American or South American artifact (successful Archaeology or Anthropology roll), and a critical success will reveal it to be a Chavin artifact. There is no writing on the amulet, as the Chavin did not have a written language...
A sneak preview of a powerful artifact, coming...
Here's the final, full, version of Delta Green BLACKSAT by Greg Stolze (with Shane Ivey), and illustrated by...me. This, along with 3 others will be coming in Delta Green: CONTROL GROUP, coming very soon...
2019-04-17 19:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
More excerpts from Impossible Landscapes. First, the goals and "methods" of the King in Yellow. Then, the Seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia.
“Ah," she said, "to come is easy and takes hours; to go is different — and may take centuries.”
―Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
The purpose of the cult of Cthulhu is to wake their slumbering “god” so it may reign over the ruins o...
“It was the oddly conventionalised figure of a crouching winged hound, or sphinx with a semi-canine face, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade. The expression on its features was repellent in the extreme, savouring at once of death, bestiality, and malevolence...”
—H.P. Lovecraft, “The Hound”
This ancient species of hypergeometric entity has long been known to human cultists and sorcerers. They resemble the desi...
2019-03-25 16:11:06 +0000 UTC View Post
30 new Federal agencies for your Delta Green games.
All feedback to be sent to: acell@me.com with the title ERRATA FOR THE COMPLEX. Cut-off date is next Saturday.
Thanks, Agents!
