Delta Green - Iconoclasts 25

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[00:00:12] The Rainforest Brothel presents...

[00:00:15] Want some whiskey in your water?

[00:00:18] Sugar in your tea?

[00:00:20] With all these crazy questions they're asking me?

[00:00:24] The craziest body that could ever be? Um, but Daniel has rejoined us. So I figure you guys want to talk strategy for a bit and then maybe we'll roll some actual dice. Notice that none of us have actually gotten dice out. I have dice. I'm rolling decisions.

[00:01:42] There you go, Jeff. I got you. There you go. I rolled that symbol.

[00:01:45] It's the attack symbol from your request.

[00:02:43] Mary loves us, man. Somebody with a high bureaucracy, probably.

[00:02:45] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:46] Isn't that Hastings?

[00:02:47] No. No.

[00:02:49] Nassar, I think.

[00:02:52] Who already pissed her off?

[00:02:53] Was it Mary the pistol?

[00:02:54] Probably Mary. Mary's good at that.

[00:02:56] Yeah, it was Olsen.

[00:02:59] What did she have?

[00:03:00] She had high something.

[00:03:02] Humid. She has high Humid.

[00:03:06] 60 bureaucracy for sure.

[00:04:27] Yeah, the worshipers were worshiping Shigash anything. Okay. Most importantly, we're going to make some money. We need to fence those artifacts, y'all. Let's make some cash. Let's buy our way out of this problem.

[00:05:40] That's possible, right?

[00:05:41] You can buy your way out of Eldritch Horrors, right?

[00:05:44] It worked in Afghanistan for a while. of May 4th just for the timekeeping standpoint. Earlier today, we'll say it's the evening of five books. I did it at the end, but the Peshmerga did reach out. You do know that there are some survivors from the incident at Rassam's. That was the major thing that happened today. That would have been several sessions ago. So that did happen on this day.

[00:07:01] So yeah, if you'd like to reach out,

[00:07:03] you can attempt to call Gwen bureaucracy rule.

[00:07:05] Oh, and speaking of datesing this thing. I personally think it's converted. I mean, conversion from this thing currently looks like losing your skin.

[00:08:21] So no, because there are people that were missing.

[00:08:23] Especially young men.

[00:08:25] The sons, right?

[00:08:26] Okay.

[00:08:27] Yeah. Cool. Oh my. Well then, Ashmurga next. When was the last time the rest of the team communicated with Kazeem? Probably impacted. I mean, I mean, everybody's keeping in contact, but I don't know specifically. Have we communicated that with Kazeem that there is a British version?

[00:09:43] Yes. Okay. He knows not You could be literal. It could be incredibly figurative. You hear of a place called Kedath in the Cold Wastes described as, quote, beyond Lang, beyond an L A N G L E N G.

[00:11:02] Give me that look, you twack.

[00:11:05] And you also find a place called Hathag and yada yada yada. So you find Kadath and Hapigkla. Is it H-A-T-H-I-G? E-G, H-A-T-H-E-G-K-L-A. Hapigkla. So I'm gonna go with it. Not one I know off the top of my head. Sounds like Klingon. Kadath though, I got you on that one. I am pronouncing that one correctly.

[00:12:22] Spencer's gonna do some research.

[00:12:25] See what we can find.

[00:13:23] So, yeah, you got that off of another research role. If you'd like to continue studying the narcotic, you would need to make more roles.

[00:13:27] I don't know if you want to do that yet, but that's where you're at.

[00:13:30] Okay.

[00:13:31] I mean, while I'm here and we're waiting for me to get permission to go to England, I should

[00:13:36] just make more roles, right?

[00:13:37] I don't give a shit.

[00:13:38] Let's do it.

[00:13:39] Make some fucking rules.

[00:13:40] Making a role right now.

[00:13:41] What language?

[00:13:42] It was Greek, right?

[00:13:43] Yeah, you had to make a series of good roles.

[00:13:45] Well, I'm going to start right now with this amazing role of 99. Results near the cosmic wonderful lint that comes out of the navel God our existence is nothing but belly button goovers And the wise man said at least your lint So is it in Greece where you're at?

[00:15:05] We I feel like we talked about this for a long time whether I'm in Italy or Greece. I'm Greece Yeah, you are in the middle of researching. Well, I'm done for today. So other things that folks want to do on the 5th of May. You've got to learn something. Not today. Oh, yeah, not today. We spent half of our money funding an expedition to the entire day trying to get a little bit better. Can she continue to research when her call doesn't go through?

[00:16:20] She can continue on stuff she's already working on.

[00:16:23] The bureaucracy is just kind of a you guys called him just

[00:16:26] the other day. Are you sure you want to use that dice? No. OK. For gone. Banished. Yeah, 21. Who reaches out? Landry. Would you like to role play any of that? Yeah, your buddies with them. Yeah, we're pals. You're on the level. You have a contact. We do.

[00:17:40] Sure, you didn't know if they were driving you

[00:17:42] to your death at first, but I think it's a friendship now,

[00:17:44] right?

[00:17:45] Yeah.

[00:17:45] That was a really funny episode. has reached a fever pitch. Unfortunately, at the same time as this war has reached a fever pitch, but we are out of options. We're discussing different scenarios. And I was wondering, friend, if you could tell us the river running into the city from the north.

[00:19:01] Yes. What are the chances that a very small group of people in a boat could make an incursion Honestly, at this point, this is what we need. We're going to get in there the best way we possibly can. So I think you get farther if you just went in there and said, I don't know what the fuck we're doing. We just need to have some answers, man. I will I will pass on this ask if you if you want it is it is a tall order. But of course you have you have helped us. So I can ask for you.

[00:20:21] There is much appreciated from course.

[00:20:23] Of course you go back to playing cards or whatever.

[00:20:26] So pause a minute.

[00:20:27] We do have our papers, right?

[00:21:21] Sure. I will go ask.

[00:21:23] But yes, the ask is less great this way.

[00:21:28] There's less danger to our folks who are making this incursion,

[00:21:33] who are passing this information.

[00:21:35] As the war heats up, it becomes harder for Intel

[00:21:38] to move properly back and forth, let alone human assets.

[00:21:41] Of course.

[00:21:43] Of course.

[00:21:43] We will look into it.

[00:21:44] Royal flush.

[00:21:47] One of the things that we can cover anything. Uh, I'm trying to think of the last time I gave you guys anything. It was a long time ago. It was in the galaxy far, far away. It was April 25th, I believe. Was that where we got the shackle stuff and the cold information? I think that's, yeah, that's where we got that. Yeah. Okay.

[00:23:01] We want to have Al Rabini tap his NSA contacts to try and get dirt on Irene.

[00:23:06] Yeah. That's what we're about. I gave him all our money, but I got this hookah. Okay. Yeah. No, nevermind. Yeah. No, we should And Baghdad Hastings left Hastings is there, but Hastings is in bed. Oh, Hastings is with me with Mary. Yeah. Jennifer's back at the camp. Correct. That's right. Okay. So yeah, if like the tablet research is dried up a little bit or we're just letting

[00:25:43] the assistant, I think Mary's going to try to get Hastings drooling somewhere in this museum. It is entirely possible. There's only one way to learn. Tasting's is down. Let's go. All right. We're up for it. She drops the chickens. Let me look at this one more time. You need to go to the front desk. You need to get a study room to do this in the library.

[00:27:02] Just do...

[00:27:03] We're just in the ladies room.

[00:27:06] Yeah. I would replicate whatever the cowboy did for me at the. OK, so you pick up a piece of paper and he begins to draw. You lose two willpower. And you lose one sand. Also, make me an by five role, but just keep your role, whether or not

[00:28:21] you you succeed or fail, you just hold the role for a minute.

[00:28:24] OK, so Mary beginsues the sign with power. It flares. It sort of flares and sparkles and looks really interesting how it kind of moves and swirls. It's kind of creepy to watch.

[00:29:40] After about a minute, it just sort of fades.

[00:29:43] Was it similar to when the cowboy did it?

[00:29:45] Yeah, no, you cast it right.

[00:29:46] What was your role on your end by five? We're channeling. I need to go back and read my Robert Jordan. You don't know. Um, Hastings just you saw it. It happened, but didn't learn it. No, it just, it doesn't. You can't come to grips with the irrational nature of what the fuck just happened. Okay. Like you sat there and she told

[00:31:00] you all fucking day what was going on and you're going to do it. I'm sure that you've got an NSA contact.

[00:32:21] Johnston has been contacted for our beanie.

[00:32:24] We botched that.

[00:32:25] No.

[00:32:26] The NSA?

[00:32:27] I just crit-cripped past...

[00:32:28] Oh, that's your call. or persuade. You said criminology? Yes. What would we use criminology for? Forensics. I would not. I would presume criminology might be terrorist cell tactics. Okay. Or us avoiding notice of the establishment. Yeah, I think that criminology could be utilized in that

[00:33:44] regard as well. Okay. Like criminology is. Is there anybody who has decent criminology? El Rabini's got a 50% Landry's got a 60. 50 each on Mary and Jennifer. The other thing that I don't know if it came up Daniel but one of the things that we did talk about is if you go into Mosul

[00:35:02] are you all going in? I wouldn't think so. to train other people for to be able to do, or is it just the willpower expenditure?

[00:36:25] Like the, the, the one on the, on the stopper, right?

[00:36:29] Is it was way more than just something drawn on paper is, She's broken because knowledge of the occult breaks you right? No, knowledge of the unnatural breaks you. Although she is actually broken because of it. She has a depersonalization disorder because of a specially traumatic period of research for Delta green and increased your unnatural and occult skills and resulted in your depersonalization disorder.

[00:37:43] So her unnatural is 10%.

[00:38:42] would rather conceal through observation, conversation, or examining patterns of behavior and relationship.

[00:38:47] Use human to recognize signs of dishonesty.

[00:38:51] We've used it to read people, basically.

[00:38:53] I think we decided on the four that will go into Mosul

[00:38:56] when it does happen.

[00:38:57] So Jennifer, Landry, and then the two military.

[00:39:01] It's a good call.

[00:39:02] Human can notice signs of mental illness.

[00:39:06] If your agent also has criminology, still the funniest, one of the funniest fucking things I've seen on a football pregame show, but they were doing the Thanksgiving day thing and they were all drawing the hand turkeys as like a commercial and they got, oh fuck, what's his name? Michael, Michael Strahan, who of course played as a tight end and of course his hands are all fucked up from playing football. So they do all these turkeys of like Terry Bradshaw

[00:40:20] and whatever and they get to his

[00:40:21] and like all his fingers are all fucked up.

[00:40:23] Because they've been broken so many goddamn times.

[00:40:26] The kid's like, what's go with him. Just 50 percent in Kurdish. She'd be able to understand any.

[00:41:40] Mm. Yeah.

[00:41:41] Good boy. Any side comments or?

[00:41:43] Yeah. Anything, that's true. Yeah. Cody could say, Oh yeah, you just fucked your role. You lost that equipment. Well, now we can fix it. Yeah. Like I know that we're taking sat phones. Right. Do we need to have somebody who can reconnect this stuff if something happens?

[00:43:02] Yeah.

[00:43:03] My, well, my biggest thing is.

[00:43:04] Like a guy who's got a 50 in microelectronics.

[00:43:07] Right.

[00:43:08] He's not going to be a bad idea. What would we be losing with Warner? Just the ability to like first aid at well. Or would you rather have Captain Dan stay out?

[00:44:20] Locksmith.

[00:44:21] What special training does he have?

[00:44:23] Parachuting and scuba gear.

[00:44:25] Is that it?

[00:44:26] Yeah.

[00:44:27] Yeah we got lock, Landry has lockpicks.

[00:44:28] Oh okay. Where is Mary on sand? Because obviously every time she teaches this, she's at a 57 and her breaking point is 52. Okay. So we're not in a great place. Can you? She only started at 60. 72 is not bad. 57 is quite high compared to zero. Right. Thanks, Cody.

[00:45:40] You're welcome.

[00:45:41] No, I mean, just if you, I'm be worth doing the training. Yeah Zero that is what Mary's navigate What if the what's Landry's navigate 30 And her drive is at a 52 cuz she failed it apparently. Yeah. Yeah, he'll just do gunsmith. Okay anybody else

[00:47:07] You still train Dan and something does make allowances and there are, there is historical precedence for a, for an all female military police. I think it's called the Al concept brigade. Yeah. That mostly what they went and did is they went around and policed other women not following. I don't know if I want to use the term Sharia law or not, but like whatever the, whatever law that ISIL imposed. Yeah. And that's the concept, right? Because if we have a group and there

[00:48:24] are males in the group, then Jennifer can still do the talking as long as she comes a few generic questions, just things to tickle your brain. Is it better for us all night? Oh, no, because it's all yours. But, um, do we want to try to make it seem like, well,

[00:49:40] we are all part of one group. Um, and we're, we're all from the same, I don't use, but yeah. Well, I mean, what he was saying is that we've all got irregardless. We've all got covers of different groups within ISIS. Like we can travel together. What's going to get us into Mosul is are those papers, right? Yeah. There's only so much we can think about anyway. We don't want to be hanging out on the street or something. We want right.

[00:51:01] Safe house to be going to. Yeah. So I mean, do,

[00:52:21] do we need to take a backup way to transmit things out?

[00:52:26] Yeah. Yes. I think we do.

[00:53:22] for the first time in two hours. Well, you can you can deal with Cassine

[00:53:24] to his eyes melt out of his head because he rolled in.

[00:53:28] Oh, we're not we're not done with Cassine.

[00:53:29] Don't worry. I'll get these rooting on Cassia.

[00:53:32] You have chosen.

[00:53:34] Poor.

[00:53:38] I was going to make a last crusade reference to turning on the faucet

[00:53:43] for the power putting into the to the elder sign.

[00:53:47] She just suddenly like melts into a skeleton. 1930s. I have heard that cold harvest is pretty good. I might have a copy of that. Remind me to look that up. Okay. I think I have a copy of cold harvest. That would be an excuse to drink potato water. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Al Rabini gets phone call. Hello. Uh, yeah, you were, uh, you were reaching out to me. It's your NSA contact.

[00:55:00] Yeah.

[00:55:01] Johnston was what I think we went with.

[00:55:03] Yeah, Johnston, how you doing?

[00:55:04] Well, it's fucking early here in the States.

[00:55:08] What can I do for you? All right, this is the last one I'm doing without something. This is a pain in my ass. Yeah, well. All right, I'm going back to bed. Tell him you'll pay him if you still have your flesh. Okay. He goes back to bed. Cool, phone hangs up. He's dead. You hear a thump and then.

[00:56:25] So you guys, so I've got stuff that I wanna do, He's in Greece not drinking the good coffee. He's drinking pumpkin spice something. You see him as a basic. He brought it with him because he knew he wouldn't be able to get it there. He just brought the creamer. He didn't. Oh, he's like they're making an espresso and he's like, could you, could you put a little

[00:57:42] like they're handing it to him and he's pouring in.

[00:57:46] He's just got these little cups that he's pulling open. What happened? I don't know. I have him and can connect him to you. The fuck kind of professionalism is this? I didn't give him the contact. Don't you work for the goddamn CIA? I mean, I consult for him. Fuck. You hear a beep as the phone line goes. Oh.

[00:59:05] That's definitely going to be in your annual review. Hello, Susan?

[00:59:06] Yeah.

[00:59:07] Ant by five rule. We need to we need to do something about this right away. I'll get it covered. OK, thank you. Phone hangs up. OK, I guess Hastings is going to check her email. She should. You don't see any emails in your inbox from your husband. Check the spam or sent. You check the spam filter.

[01:00:20] You see your husband's name, by the way, is Ronald.

[01:01:28] word. Um, she collapses into a fetal position and begins sobbing uncontrollably. What's the number? I'll let you know. Don't worry about it. Well, I'm I know Mary runs over to her Hastings. Like it's,

[01:01:33] it's like sobbing to the point she's having trouble breathing. Um, she's, she's uh,