Delta Green - Iconoclasts 26

[00:00:00] Warning, this game's setting revolves around an active Middle East combat zone and contains

[00:00:05] references to extreme violence, graphic content and other mature themes.

[00:00:10] Listener discretion is advised.

[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? that she's looking at what appears to be a forwarded newspaper article. What's to say? It says it's a forward from a it's actually from yesterday or today. Time's getting a little a little wibbly wobbly timey wimey. But apparently a car was pulled out of the Potomac.

[00:01:44] One one deceased inside the car.

[00:01:48] One the body was identified as Miles Worthington. Sorry, who's there? Mary? Mary. Yeah. Hold on. Let me look at Mary. Let me just scratch out that bond. She a bond. Mary knows all about that. So I'm just going to try to but it's a farther back page. It's a local article, you know, nothing crazy. But it's been screenshot and there is there's a string of numbers at the bottom. What's your computer science? 40.

[00:04:20] You recognize it as a I'm going to say the wrong thing.

[00:04:23] And Daniel, you're going to correct me from the email. So it's a time stamp. The article is time stamped today. The tour link has additional information. You have a link and you have a date and time and the date and time next to that link are

[00:05:42] tomorrow.

[00:05:43] If today is May 6th, makes me think of it's not like a hyperlink It's not like clickable blue. It's kind of written into the metadata of the email You would have to know what you're doing to recognize this link and this time. There ain't no fucking way

[00:07:04] Hastings knows what this is. She's not stupid clearly doesn't go back to her husband by any stretch of the imagination. It pings off of some fucking VPN and Cameroon or some shit. Can I do a role like a persuade role to try to get some of his sand back or does he roll bad enough that it's gone? His sand's pretty gone. There are ways to get back sand, but not. Fewer now.

[00:08:20] You can talk to, oh wait.

[00:08:22] Oh yeah, no, you utterly,

[00:08:24] you realize that this is a fucking hit

[00:08:26] and you got him killed.

[00:08:27] Yeah, yeah, no, I think it's in our best interest to see what this opens up tomorrow before we make any rash decisions. Okay. Would you guys like to advance the plot? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's going great so far. Landry, the Peshmerga reach out. Great.

[00:09:40] What do we hear?

[00:09:41] Say, that you would like to meet.

[00:09:43] Anytime.

[00:09:44] How about now?

[00:09:45] Hasim says.

[00:09:46] Take Jen.

[00:09:47] Yes. It's quite nice. What do you got Jeff? I was going to say they probably would have gone into this with the, with, I mean, if it was me, I wouldn't let on that I know Kurdish. Oh yeah. I had no intention. Well, I mean, he, he doesn't, he does. Well, I mean we players. So no, no, I don't think any of us have any intention of doing that yet.

[00:11:00] Okay.

[00:11:02] I forget who it was.

[00:11:04] It probably wasn't, it probably wasn't Susan. a researcher that we're killing probably because if I mean we did make the deal goes he doesn't speak a cadian yeah yeah we did make the deal with the museum that we would be donating these right so I mean Dan's not doing anything besides training I mean he wouldn't be able to go down I mean he could always go down to Baghdad just keep an eye on things yeah

[00:12:23] it'll be it'll be me and Kazim okay so the seventh and the sixth is what we just did today is the day that this meeting's happening. Yes. Okay. So I'm on the same page. Yep. Yes. So so Hastings can be there for the tour meeting. Um, do you guys bounce along in a car through

[00:13:40] Rurley rock? Uh, you end up, uh, in the region. I'm sure that all your paperwork or other necessary items

[00:15:02] will be in good order.

[00:15:04] They will.

[00:15:05] But that brings me to in order for me to free up the resources that I would need to assist you and focus more on Mosul with your assault. We would happily provide that. Is there something specific you need or we may have immediate access to

[00:16:23] some Intel that might prove useful immediately?

[00:17:24] that we get the sense that you'd have to look up when he was elected. But I think it like I think that he's relatively new to office at this point.

[00:17:29] We do not believe that the Turkish interests in the region

[00:17:32] are not as aligned with America as as might be seen on the cable news network.

[00:17:39] Of course, there is not much on the cable news network that is reflecting reality.

[00:18:44] Intel on their allies like all the time. It's not that big a deal. So let's just do it Like you're really like giving up this Intel is not a big deal for what we're getting

[00:18:47] Well, you're depending on what kind of leverage I get from the NSA. We could pin we can pin it whatever we're doing

[00:18:53] Everyone's leveraging an Irene's just yeah, I don't want to overthink it. Yeah, of course. Yeah, we'll get you what you need. Perfect

[00:18:58] We'll do our best to get you everything you do

[00:19:02] You say in Kurdish which is I'm not there but yeah, oh, right. Yeah

[00:19:06] And he didn't say it in Kurdish out with Qadir. He's made his ask. Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, we'll talk details if we can even get him the Intel. So Jennifer is obviously going to keep an ear open just to make sure they're on the level. As far as you can tell, there are some whisperings. I'd say go ahead and roll your Kurdish. Just see what happens.

[00:20:23] 16 under 50. Perfect. No, you you pick up a lot.

[00:20:25] You guys have made a positive impact on the Peshmerga. possibly some type of recording. Yeah. Yeah. You get this captured. So Mary is setting up the I.T. Yeah. Oh, that's easy. I think her scores are easy enough that we can hand wave it. Any other prep that you'd like to do other than attempting to record the conversation? What are you doing to record it? Something not obvious, obviously, not just like.

[00:21:41] I don't want them to know that we're recording it.

[00:21:43] Sure. But I'm just curious what you're doing.

[00:21:45] Like, are you installing of horrific shit happens. He went from yeah to, yeah, real quick. Like, he was like, oh, Spencer didn't see where Grady was going with that. I should have. Let's be honest. Like, I'm sure there's some fun stuff, like pirating of Disney movies, but also like really horrific stuff, like human trafficking. Like IKEA furniture.

[00:23:00] Selling porn movie and, yeah.

[00:23:03] Horrific stuff.

[00:23:04] Higher hit man.

[00:23:05] So I'm just curious, what bad neighbors, there you go.

[00:23:07] What are you setting up? like DOS or don't wanna say ASE interface where it's like a black screen with green, highlighter green like text. Tell them that terminal interface. Correct, it's a very terminal interface. And there's a prompt box that says username. Interesting. And it has like a login button. So it's got a clearly a field for you to enter a username.

[00:24:22] I'll try DG.

[00:24:24] You click okay and it incorrect input it.

[00:25:24] that says, uh, are gone. Okay. Our comment is when you type in our gum, the box, the dialogue box disappears.

[00:25:30] It shows up with a simple like chat interface with a space for you to type at the bottom

[00:25:35] and like a notification screen that scrolls at the top.

[00:25:38] And it says, you know, it boots.

[00:25:40] And then it says user colon Hastings online period.

[00:25:45] Anything you'd like to do?

[00:25:46] We are connected.

[00:25:47] Does it show anybody else online? We need access to where you at? New phone. Who this? See, if I were sitting on the other side of the situation, I'd a hundred percent do that. Just fuck with you. Yeah. God, we need access to the,

[00:27:02] the Akkadian tablets that are in the British museum. That's what we're typing.

[00:27:06] But don't we already have permission?

[00:27:07] We have permission to go there. Yeah.

[00:28:02] Question Veritas is typing. I'm really looking forward to you editing this because you could definitely put in some

[00:28:06] really old like sound clips and stuff here.

[00:28:08] I think it'd be really good or just like record mechanical keyboard.

[00:28:12] Yeah, that's true.

[00:28:13] Yeah, unconfirmed comma, but likely period.

[00:28:17] Why the hell would our program he just had a heart attack?

[00:28:22] Nobody actually killed.

[00:28:24] Why would our program want to prevent us from getting that information? Talk it out. Yeah, talk it out. Then let me know what the message is. Like I said, you guys can spitball. So I say we let them know we're in the field and the Middle East near Mosul. We drop resounds full name trying to fill in gaps in resounds research. OK, so that's that's basically the message you said. We know we know you had contacts there of some kind. Right.

[00:29:45] In field trying to fill in gaps in resounds research.

[00:29:47] We burned Sloan period. trying to extract for some and the, and the, uh, thrown a blood. Got it. The M4. Yeah. Um, inside makes funny sound. That means that means the other Cowboys are either extracted or dead. I would imagine at this point, whatever was inside is out. Capping the bottle is not going to put the genie back.

[00:31:03] We need to know what we don't know.

[00:31:05] We need to ask about outro being here as well.

[00:32:01] Correct. Period.

[00:32:09] OK. What do what do we need to ask the cowboys?

[00:32:17] The screen begins to flash something to the effect of server server closing in 10 minutes.

[00:32:19] OK. Send nudes.

[00:32:23] Veritas is typing.

[00:32:25] Time is almost up. only fight period. The screen flashes again. It goes from 10 minutes to five minutes or whatever the case may be. Five minutes to two minutes. OK. I can't think of an algebra until an algebra. Yeah, might as well. Hail Mary alone. Intel on any Intel on algebra. Rassam was our only contact period.

[00:33:42] We never intended to go into Mosul period.

[00:33:46] OK. dangerous as the thing that came out of the am for a period. Okay. And the tour server disconnects. Yeah. Nice. Get a bigger nightmare to fight the nightmare. Sorry, I missed it. Who is almost as dangerous? The two things that Dan Dan. and just talk about what just happens. We haven't discussed the timeframe of the attacks either yet. Something that we mentioned earlier at the beginning. What do you mean? Something about the phases of the moon and when the attacks are happening. And I went through and looked up the phases of the moon in 2016.

[00:36:24] They coincide with the new moon phase. How you doing over there champ? Well, I'm at 83. I'll be up a little bit more than that next session because I rolled a 90 fucking two Nothing happened. Wasn't the worst roll of the night? Oh Holy night The stars are brightly shiny. It's fine. No big deal. Nothing happened

[00:37:42] GG

[00:39:02] Fucking XCOM when you got that 99% put device like in the middle of a war torn they were skinned, you are putting them, you are adding them to the pile of evidence. It could have just been some fucked up, ISIL terrorists.

[00:40:22] It could be. It's a red herring. You don't know. But I'm just not discounting the clues We can. We can, however, because we have we have the tablets in Baghdad now at the museum. Yeah. And if we do go to England and get access to those tablets, we can refine our search. We know that we need another amphora or another vessel to contain the thing. OK, so I have a mechanical question. Sure. Us researching the tablets, are we also using Rassam's notes?

[00:41:42] OK. OK. OK. I just didn't want to exclude that.

[00:41:46] No, it kind of lumps other place of interest is Nineveh in Mosul. Yeah. Something, something, something's going on there. Yeah. I would be interested to see if something in the, I don't know the time period difference, but if anything in the tablets direct us towards something in Nineveh, because we got to figure out some way to

[00:43:02] ghostbuster this bitch into the container to begin with.

[00:43:05] It's, I mean, the original in for a used light.

[00:43:08] That was its weakness.

[00:44:05] spouse and you know with 100% accuracy, that's not the person on the other end of the phone. Yeah. And you can't say anything about it.

[00:44:10] It's it's one of the moments that I think is really, really good.

[00:44:13] It's not a great film, I will admit it, but God, do I really love Enemy of the State?

[00:44:18] That was a good movie.

[00:44:20] Yeah, it was really good.

[00:44:21] I don't know if it's a good movie or not, but it is still a good movie.

[00:44:24] I watched it not long you wrote that about Turkey. Doiki. Well, that's up to you guys to figure out. I don't know how you're going to do that. That ain't the way to happen, son. That ain't the way to happen, son. Our title track, Mama Told Me Not to Come, composed

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