[OOC] Delta Green: Whispers in the Darkness

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

"We're the only ones who understand that you can't understand...

...And that's all you need to fucking know..."

-Donald Poe, USMC (Ret.) aka Agent ALPHONSE

Choose federal law enforcement. Choose the military. Choose NASA or the CDC. Choose lying to your superiors. Choose to ruin your career. Choose no friends. Choose divorce. Choose life through the bottom of a bottle. Choose destroying evidence and executing innocent people because they know too fucking much. Choose black fatigues and matching gas masks. Choose an MP5 stolen from the CIA loaded with glasers, with a wide range of fucking attachments. Choose blazing away at mind numbing, sanity crushing things from beyond the stars, wondering whether you'd be better off stuffing the barrel in your own mouth. Choose The King In Yellow and waking up wondering who you are. Choose a 9mm retirement plan. Choose going out with a bang at the end of it all, PGP encrypting your last message down a securely laid cable as an NRO Delta wetworks squad busts through your door. Choose one last Night at the Opera. Choose Delta Green.
— An Agent Long Gone

You are sat in a room filled with peculiar characters you've met only an hour ago, or maybe you remember some faces, or know some names by reputation in the circles you're commonly found in. Scientists, scholars, as well as types you'd find in warzones or unmarked police cars, driving or riding in the back. Either way, it isn't every day you get a flight paid for by... well, you're not really sure. All is quiet in the small house here in Blackriver, West Virginia, that will be your home for the foreseeable future- even though the future could hold anything at this point. Finally, a man emerges from the door to the garage and smiles in a way that is too genuine to be trustworthy. "Hello, ladies and gentlemen, let's begin shall we?"

==Days Earlier==

You sit on the edge of your bed, the news playing in the background with a litany of what's wrong in the world- murders, kidnappings, pesticides, the war on terror, etc. You clutch a phone in your hand- not yours, a pre-paid thing of the past- waiting. Thinking and waiting.

The meeting you had earlier was odd. Told you to be at the meeting place- it could've been a coffee shop, a dive bar, a museum, a library, anywhere- but only if you got the go-ahead from the only number programmed on the phone. There was a man you'd never met before there, just sitting at the table, but eating and lounging as if no one else could see him. He wasn't even dressed like the others. The higher-ups asked you the routine questions- things about drug use in the past, past employment, what you were responsible for now in your current career. It was almost like a damned review, but nothing of that type was scheduled this month. After you give your answers, the man perks up and asks, "How do you feel about flying?"

What kind of question is that? You give your answer and he smiles and nods, then starts the conversation.

Have you ever been outside the US? Ever been in trouble with the law? Do you travel often? Do you have any friends or family overseas? You answer his questions, albeit a little stilted and awkwardly. You're not sure what the hell is with this guy.

"There's an opportunity for you. This is probably something you'd do well to take up. A door has opened for you, but only if you want it." The man says, suddenly the air in the room is even more serious than it was before the man first spoke.

"We do urge you to choose wisely."

A phone is slid across the table to you. A pre-paid thing of the past. "Wait for the text tonight."

The very same phone in your hands now buzzes. Flipping it open reveals the automated message '1 new txt msg.' Opening up the text reveals a peculiar message, You are cordially invited to a night at the opera. Meet me at, and you do. The meeting goes well, discussing you, your past, your home life, your social media presence. The man asks you if you have an idea of why you’re here with him. You shake your head.

The man nods, "I wouldn’t think so. Let me tell you what this is about..."

==Present==

The day's briefing is held in the living room by the same lax-dressed man that you talked to those few days back, as well as an unnamed stranger. The familiar man hands out a sheet of paper to be passed around the room. The service picture of a man in US Army dress uniform with his name at the bottom- Clyde Baughman.

Beneath that is a short profile of Clyde Baughman-

D.o.B.: 3/28/1931
Family: Wife, Marlene (8/20/1934 – 11/2/1985), Daughter, Sharon (9/12/1957), Son, Michael (7/28/1960)
Employed by Bureau of Internal Revenue (later IRS) 6/11/1955 – 9/1/1986, retired as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Operational Support.
Active with group from 1958 to 1969, taking part in eleven+ operations. Numerous consultations as friendly with a specialty in taxation and property confiscations. No current association with group.

“Two days ago at 2200 hours,” Steve Foster, your case officer, begins, “Retired Army Lieutenant Baughman passed away in his apartment in Charleston. Years ago, Baughman was given the same chance at opening new avenues for his career, just like all of you here today.”

“Your first order of business is to go to his apartment and remove any… incriminating documents. Anything anybody but Clyde Baughman and everyone here doesn’t need to know.” Steve Foster looks at everybody in the room as the other man beside him holds up a key, presumably to Baughman’s apartment, “Welcome to the team, ladies and gentleman. Dismissed.”

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All Forum-wide Rules Apply

The GM's word is law

This RP was inspired by the Delta Green tabletop game, The Cthulu Wars by Kenneth Hite and Kennon Bauman, True Detective S1 and Denis Villeneuve's Sicario

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Hello!

As the title says, this RP is one about action and intrigue with an occult bent. Heavily influenced by media such as the Delta Green tabletop game and the Cthulu Wars book, from which came the premise of this RP, and mainly season one of True Detective and Denis Villeneuve's Sicario film, the atmosphere of which I hope to weave into this game. Your characters can come from any number of organizations and institutions both government and civilian. Although this is an action game, I don't want players to think they have to necessarily be Hank Stonebulge, war veteran and supercop with ten machineguns and gets his calories from red meat and cigarettes.

That is to say, you can be a scientist, a scholar, a private eye, a federal agent, former or active duty military, or a career criminal with a history of working for the law to cut a deal. Steve Foster is not beholden to tradition for recruiting teams and neither am I. This is mainly to not alienate people who are interested but don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of federal agencies or the like. I do encourage players to get creative with their characters, as long as they make sense, of course. An analyst probably won't be the greatest at making 400 meter shots with a rifle. 

Like said above, I do hope to capture the atmosphere of Sicario and True Detective. The RP will mainly be about the investigation of the case the team has been brought on for, as well as how they bond with their teammates, cope with the events of the RP that might challenge their ideals, and grow along the time spent working this case and just what it uncovers about the true workings of the world around them. As such, don't expect shooting first and asking questions later to get you far. You may be working for a shadowy 'Man in Black' but that doesn't give you legal immunity. Player characters will have to navigate this new world of intrigue and horror smartly, and may be called upon to do morally repugnant things in the name of not only national security, but the preservation of humanity as they know it. Join me on this romp from the heartbroken hills of West Virginia, and all the way down to Juarez, Mexico, and beyond.

Over the course of the RP, questions may arise. Who is Steve Foster? Why is such a small case being treated with such secrecy and ambiguity? How far does this whole thing go? Who can I really trust?

And remember...

“Deception is a right. Truth is a privilege. Innocence is a luxury. The war is never over.”

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Delta Green: An organisation which encourages middle-aged accountants and bureaucrats to drive vans filled with dynamite into the homes of white supremacists who worship the risen spirit of Hitler.

tl;dr - Delta Green was a government program born of the US government's raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Dissolved during the Vietnam War in 1969 following a disastrous and unsanctioned raid in Cambodia, Delta Green post-1970 is an illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy of military personnel, federal agents, and capable and exceptional civilians that investigate and dispose of preternatural threats to the US and the world as a whole. Officially reinstated in late 2001 as 'The Program' and tasked to investigate, recover, and/or destroy preternatural threats to the US, Delta Green often achieves these high ideals with low methods.

"...as criminal an enterprise as all the conspiracies and blacker-than-black military projects that came before it."

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Name: And any aliases, nicknames or code names, if applicable

Age:

Gender: Take this into account when choosing an Agency/Organization. There isn't exactly a lot of females in the Army Rangers or other such organizations.

Appearance: Height, build, facial structure. Voice and mannerisms, even. A picture may be attached, but oh, so help me if it's anime.

Agency/Organization: Rank, if necessary. We do need a balanced team and it wouldn't make sense for a group comprised entirely of tier-one special missions unit guys to be sleuthing.

Education: Were you a straight-edge, motivated college-boy riding a scholarship through West Point straight into a Lieutenant rank or did you learn everything you know during your time in the military/law enforcement/criminal life?

Background: This is where you flex how good your writing and research into your character goes. Are they a scientist or scholar? A career criminal? A federal agent? A state detective? You are the cowboy, the idealist, the unfettered, grizzled veteran with one last op in him, or the person not knowing what he's getting himself into. You are motivated and believe in what you're doing, half the reason you were picked.

The other half is that you've brushed shoulders with the unknown in some way but have yet to go mad; come across some weird stuff in the Afghan mountains, seized some weird artifacts on a raid, busted a small-time religious cult while undercover. Cognitive dissonance worked wonders, it seems, because instead of a gibberish mess you’re pretty alright.

Personality: Try to get detailed with this. You'll want to know how they'll react if they ever come across a drug-fueled sacrificial blood orgy to Nyarlathotep.

Family, Friends, and Associates: Wife? Kids? Ma and Pa? Best Friend? any and all go here. These count as Bonds and can be invoked when failing a WP roll. Each Bond has points equal to your character’s WP and invoking the specific bond lowers their score by -1 point.

Likes:

Dislikes:

Fears: I'm not talking about your character's phobia of spiders, I'm talking about what keeps them up at night and makes them insecure. What drives them to do what they do to spite it so that it never becomes a dreaded reality? Existential, people.

(20 points to spread out within these attributes)

STRENGTH:  
DEXTERITY: 
STAMINA: 
BUREAUCRACY: 
INTELLIGENCE: 
WILLPOWER: 

Skills:
Gifted(+5): 2 skills
Adept(+4): 3 skills
Average(+3): 3 skills
Novice(+2): 4 skills

Weaknesses: At least one nonphysical and physical weakness.

Off-Duty Clothing/Equipment: Because you're not going to be walking around in door-kicking gear all day, every day on a clandestine op.
Clothing:
Weapons:
Tools/Equipment:

Operational Clothing/Equipment: Nothing that would remove all doubt that you are part of the US military/are American. NATO weaponry is fine, but not required.
Clothing:
Weapons:
Tools/Equipment:

Dice Rules - 

Rolls made that do not pertain to skills but instead attributes themselves are rolled as 1d20(+attribute points), i.e. “Roll to lift the log out of the road and drive past.”

Rolls for Bureaucracy are made when requesting resources from your character’s home agency. These are rolled the same way as any other attribute, but the item requested will possibly lead to inquiry depending on how big the expense is. A request for information on a suspect is going to raise less questions for a federal agent than requesting an FBI HRT team be called in.

Likewise, sanity rolls will have to be made when doing violent acts on helpless or innocent individuals, feelings of helplessness due to unforeseen mistakes and the like, and brushes with the supernatural. These sanity checks are rolled just like any other attribute-specific roll, with the option of making a saving roll using your willpower as a modifier. Should your PC fail a SAN roll even after a saving roll using Willpower, deduct one point from your character’s Willpower. Willpower can be recharged to completely full by a successful Home Scene.

Combat-
*In combat engagements where your character is taken off guard, the modifier of your awareness skill is rolled on 1d20+[modifier]-5. 6-9 keeps your character from being overpowered and only lightly wounded, 10-20 lets your character successfully repel and counter with the weapon they are using.

*Just as well, in situations where your character gets the drop on a character, as in breaching and clearing a room, you get an automatic +5 on your initial combat roll against your first two targets. Successful stealth attacks get the same modifier, but only against the first target if attacking at hand-to-hand range, regardless if using a knife or a gun.

1-10 is a failure, your character will be injured and brought down, where a second roll of the dice will determine if the enemy will continue to focus on this character to finish the job or take on another target (less than 5, continue the attack, 5 and up, move on unless there’s no other characters to fight). Depending on the circumstances, GM will decide if the situation will be fatal. Close characters may elect to intervene, where if a player says they wish to intercept, will have to do another combat roll to see if they both make it to the character in time and receive injury in the process.

11-15 is a success, but with minor injury. Your character receives a minor wound that will have to be treated and will hinder their ability to fight somewhat, but it won’t take them out of the fight. Each subsequent roll with an injury will have a -1 penalty on the roll, and each injury added increases the penalty.

16-20 is a success where the best possible outcome for that engagement occurs.

Stealth-
1-10, Rolls in stealth that fall within this range are considered a failure. Your character is spotted.

11-15 rolls mean a soft success. Enemies may know you are there but they don’t know where you are.

16-20 is a resounding success.

Forensics-
1-10 is a failure, you may elect to make a saving roll but only if the initial roll resulted in a 6 or higher. The saving roll is a 1d5.

11-15 is a soft success. Investigating a crime scene means you may or may not find all clues. Cleaning a crime scene means that there may still be evidence left behind by the cleaner and law enforcement may be able to latch onto their trail.

16-20 is a resounding success.

Interrogation-
This isn’t always waterboarding and threats. Players may make use of the good ol’ good cop-bad cop dynamic to squeeze a suspect. Carrying out torture calls for a Sanity roll for Sanity - Violence, 1d20(-WP). Don’t expect wholly accurate answers from this method.

1-10 failure. You may opt to use torture, and if you do then 1d20(+interrogation modifier). Whether a failure or success after that, make the San roll for Violence.

11-15 Soft success, the detainee gives away a tidbit of information that might be worth looking into.

16-20 resounding success.

Combat
Marksmanship, long guns
Marksmanship, handguns
Marksmanship, sniper
Demolitions/EOD – The ability to create makeshift explosives, use high-power explosives, and defuse them.
Hand-to-Hand – Covers the use of one's own body as a weapon, as well as improvised weapons, knives, machetes and the like.
Tactical Driving – Pit maneuvers, .

Tradecraft
Subterfuge - The art of stealth and disguising yourself, an item, and concealment of items on your person.
Awareness – Listening, spotting hidden things.
Interrogation – You are well-versed in being both the good cop and the bad cop, as well as knowing the different and nuanced techniques of breaking a prisoner's will.
Persuade – You are versed in flipping people to your side using anything from their vices to their ideals, as well as convincing people why they should or should not do something.
Crafting – The ability to make rudimentary tools and weapons.
SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) - A skill encompassing evading capture and survival in the wilderness. Knowledge in this skill also gives the ability to track enemies in wilderness areas.
Breaking-and-Entering - The knowledge of picking locks and other various manners of getting into places you should not be. Lockpicking, climbing, etc.

Sciences & Studies
First Aid – Treating light wounds, broken bones
Surgery – Self-explanatory
Criminology
Anthropology
Archaeology
Computer Science
Military Science, Land - Covers military strategy and tactics on land
Military Science, Sea - Military strategy and tactics in any body of water, ocean, rivers, and lakes
Military Science, Air
History
Forensics
Law
Psychology
Engine Mechanics

Foreign Language – Just list any other languages your character is fluent or knowledgeable in, if any. Limit of 3. 1 fluent, 1 semi, 1 rudimentary.

Home scenes are vignettes that take place between missions and story-beats to outline the PCs' daily lives. This is a stretch of time that usually takes place a week in-game before they're contacted to get back to work. Players are in control of these scenes with me, the GM, possibly playing NPCs if asked.

What Changed?
During a Home Scene, take stock of anything and everything that's changed for a character after an operation.

Bonds Damaged or Broken
Describe how the relationships in your life have deteriorated. Colleagues, friends, spouse, children, anything and everything in their interpersonal relationships outside of Delta Green. You want to open up, but you know you can't, or else.

Permanent Injuries
What injuries did they get, how do they hinder them? What do they look like?

Disorders Gained/Worsened
If your character has chosen to turn to drugs and alcohol to quiet the memories. If they already have unhealthy coping mechanisms, do they worsen? Has their PTSD gotten worse, or are they (not) noticing the warning signs of it beginning to take hold?

Work
If the PC misused any of their contacts or resources within their home agency, how does it effect their relationships with the higher-ups? The Contact themselves?

Home Scenes can be any of the following-

Fulfill Responsibilities
If your character focuses on day-to-day obligations and relationships, describe something the character is doing at work or at home to support one Non-Delta Green bond. Roll for a sanity test. Success strengthens the Bond, a soft-failure strains it, and failure means a disastrous conflict; a bad argument, your kid is in the hospital, you find your wife/husband with another wo/man, etc. Get creative. And depressing if a failure occurs.

Back to Nature/Alone Time
Your character can spend time in seclusion, in nature or otherwise. Keep in mind this isn't a day out with the family, this is your character wanting to be alone. Either way, if they choose this, this strains Bonds if they have any outside of Delta Green. Roll for a sanity test. Success means that the time spent alone doesn't damage any bonds, soft-success that the time spent alone does fuck-all for their mind-state, and a failure means that a Bond gets strained. Your choice when the argument with this Bond happens.

Establish a New Bond
Your character attempts to create a new Bond. This means that the person or group is becoming a very important part of your characters' lives. Roll a sanity test. Success gives you a new Bond, soft-failure has your character fail to hit it off, and failure means your character could've spent time alone wallowing, or the attempt at gaining friendship went horribly wrong somehow, or perhaps they betrayed some trust by going out and drunkenly hooking up with someone. Who knows, get creative.

Go to Therapy
Therapy is a systematic deconstruction of mental trauma. It is an ongoing process requiring honesty and commitment. Your character must decide whether to truthfully tell the therapist what caused them to sign up. If they do, roll for persuasion. If you succeed, the therapist believes everything you say, good and bad. Soft success means anything you tell her about the Unnatural is passed off as delusions. Failure may lead to her canceling the session after the confession.

Mentioning inflicting violence on another person deserves a persuasion roll. Success means she listens to everything you say, good and bad, with no concerns that there will be continuing violence after you leave their office. Soft-failure deserves a sanity roll for the therapist. Failure has her call the authorities either to the office or to your place of residence if it is known to them or you are staying there during the Home Scene.

Personal Motivation
Your character indulges in the things that they find most meaningful. This strains relationships with bonds the same way Back to Nature/Alone Time does.

Stay on the Case
Your character spends nights and weekends poring over evidence and case files from the past operation. This reduces bonds in the same way Personal Motivation and Back to Nature/Alone Time does. This gives the chance of finding some pertinent clue, maybe a particularly valuable one. Perhaps whatever hunch you get turns out to be dangerously wrong, or perhaps you find nothing and instead endlessly obsess into a spiral of self-destruction...

Your character’s sanity is based on their WP stat. The higher the WP the more solid your character’s sanity. Your WP Stat determines the outcomes of WP rolls. WP rolls are made when your character is faced with three different types of scenarios-

Violence both inflicted and witnessed, second- or first-hand. 

In cases of your character inflicting violence, this is in cases where they are faced with inflicting violence in cold blood or towards individuals usually deemed as harmless, I.e. assassination, hurting an Eldritch Abomination-tainted child, or elderly persons.

Helplessness comes into play when situations that get out of hand in which your character can not possibly foresee or influence the outcome. I.e. Oops, the cultist we decided to let live went on a murder spree a week later.

Unnatural is where your character comes into direct contact with the forces that lurk beyond and beneath our reality, I.e. witnessing first-hand a cultist transform into some quivering, slimy, betentacled abomination.

SAN rolls, particularly resisting SAN loss, can be done by invoking one of your Bonds. A successful SAN Roll will still inflict 1 point of WP lost. Don’t want to lose that WP point? Invoking a Bond will have your character find strength in that other person, place, or thing. Add back 1 point to your WP score, but take 1 point from that Bond. Next interaction with that particular bond will be negative in some way, whether it be an argument, that special place being tainted in some way, or that special object being broken or otherwise sullied. During the next interaction with that specific Bond, you can attempt to fix that Bond and add back 1 point to the Bond, but that requires a resounding success with a WP roll. A failure at repairing the Bond does not effect the point count positively or negatively.

Now, it is possible for your character to become adapted to these SAN rolls, in which they always succeed. Sounds rad, right? Well, not entirely. Unnatural can not be Adapted against, but Helplessness and Violence can be.

Adaptation to Violence happens when your character succeeds a SAN Roll to Violence-Inflicted three times, or five times succeeds a SAN Roll to Violence-Witnessed in a single span of time between Home Scenes. Now, your character Joe Schmo always succeeds SAN Rolls for Violence and is cold-blooded death machine. The trade-off is that Joe Schmo now has to make SAN Rolls to avoid inflicting violence on others in times of extreme stress(A hard fail WP roll of any kind) and has trouble not resorting to violence as the first option. Fail a WP roll on something? Now Joe Schmo is breaking everything in his house because his wife threw something important of his away. Reaching 0 WP while Adapted to Violence sees Joe Schmo going insane and seeing everyone as an enemy until restrained or otherwise incapacitated.

Adaptation to Helplessness happens when your character succeeds five times to a SAN Roll to that type of trauma. Joe Schmo is now used to being helpless and always succeeds by default to WP Rolls concerning that specific type of trauma. The trade-off? In times where Joe Schmo fails at getting closer to his goal, he must make a WP roll to not become an apathetic mess of a person. Reaching 0 WP while Adapted to Helplessness will render your character an unresponsive, lethargic dummy of a person.

::TEAM ROSTER —- GRU UMBRA::
::CASE OFFICER::
FOSTER, STEVE | M | CIA DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS, SPECIAL ACTIVITIES CENTER, OPERATIONS OFFICER

::TEAM LEADER::
DONNELLEY, JOSEPH | M | CIA DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS, SPECIAL ACTIVITIES CENTER/SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP (GROUND BRANCH), PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS OFFICER

::ASSETS::
MACCREADY, DAVID | M | INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
MOORE, AVALINE | F | BOOZ - ALLEN HAMILTON, CIA CONTRACTED
DR. LAINE, HEATHER | F | FBI NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VIOLENT CRIME, BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS UNIT, SENIOR SPECIAL AGENT
JIMENEZ, JASON | M | DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, DEFENSE CLANDESTINE SERVICE
SHIRZAD, BAJBALA | F | CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS, SPECIAL ACTIVITIES CENTER, SPECIAL PROJECTS

::KIA PERSONNEL::
MATHIEU, LAURENCE | M | NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE, PARK POLICE
SA WEISSMAN, GWEN K. | F| US AIR FORCE 67TH CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS GROUP, SENIOR AIRMAN
SSA STEWART, THOMAS | M | FBI CCRSB, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION, SENIOR SPECIAL AGENT
SFC MORALES, AVERY | M | US ARMY PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS, 4TH POG(A), 7TH POB(A)

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Oh boy. These have been unbelievably fun before but I'll wait to see who else signs up because I worry for longevity.

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Oh boy. These have been unbelievably fun before but I'll wait to see who else signs up because I worry for longevity.@Andreyich

Worry not. It’s a star cast of people I know and I’ve restructured some of the plot to be more easily traversed.

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   I haven't yet tried my hand at this sort of thing (CIA, Espionage mystery thing, not being descriptive..)  but I am most definitely interested.  I read that you didn't have to be a tier one agent, and I was possibly thinking of playing a female American, ex military, possibly a  background in South America, or the middle east, Africa. Drug war related most likely. Not high ranking, but seasoned military field operator of some form or other? 

I like to do a good bit of researching so I'm sure I could a good character together.

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I'm gonna be screwing together an ATF agent who cut his teeth on drug cartels and encountered some sp00py shit.

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I haven't yet tried my hand at this sort of thing (CIA, Espionage mystery thing, not being descriptive..)  but I am most definitely interested.  I read that you didn't have to be a tier one agent, and I was possibly thinking of playing a female American, ex military, possibly a  background in South America, or the middle east, Africa. Drug war related most likely. Not high ranking, but seasoned military field operator of some form or other? 

I like to do a good bit of researching so I'm sure I could a good character together.@Arkitekt

I’m sure you could! I took a look at your profile and I’m impressed. I look forward to your submission!

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@Leidenschaft Thanks. I have a feeling that I wont be rushing through this one. Now that @Dervish has mentioned ATF it seems to be in accordance with what I was wanting to go for. I was also thinking of a possible military background in Syria 2014-2017, as a possible linguistics and field training officer for the female Kurds. American born Syrian descent, naturally speaking the language. Seasoned field operator, but green in this sort of department Possibly a corpsman. Navy, ATF, Columbia, there's a few avenues I'll have to research, but I am looking forward to the work.  

During the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, the U.S. first supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid (including food rations and pickup trucks), but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders. Two U.S. programs attempted to assist the Syrian rebels. One was a 2014 Pentagon program that planned to train and equip 15,000 rebels to fight ISIL, which was canceled in 2015 after spending $500 million and producing only a few dozen fighters.[132] A simultaneous $1 billion covert program called Timber Sycamore ran by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was more successful.

According to CENTCOM officials, the name INHERENT RESOLVE is intended to reflect the unwavering resolve and deep commitment of the U.S. and partner nations in the region and around the globe to eliminate the terrorist group ISIL and the threat they pose to Iraq, the region and the wider international community. It also symbolizes the willingness and dedication of coalition members to work closely with our friends in the region and apply all available dimensions of national power necessary—diplomatic, informational, military, economic—to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.

The Defense Department announced at the end of October 2014 that troops operating in support of Operation Inherent Resolve after 15 June were eligible for the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Service areas are: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as troops supporting the operation in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea east of 25 degrees longitude.

In March 2017, various media outlets reported that conventional forces from the 11th MEU, as well as special operations forces in the form of the 75th Ranger Regiment[132] deployed to Syria to support U.S.-backed forces in liberating Raqqa from ISIL occupation. The deployment marked an escalation in the U.S. intervention in Syria.

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@Leidenschaft Thanks. I have a feeling that I wont be rushing through this one. Now that @Dervish has mentioned ATF it seems to be in accordance with what I was wanting to go for. I was also thinking of a possible military background in Syria 2014-2017, as a possible linguistics and field training officer for the female Kurds. American born Syrian descent, naturally speaking the language. Seasoned field operator, but green in this sort of department Possibly a corpsman. Navy, ATF, Columbia, there's a few avenues I'll have to research, but I am looking forward to the work.  

During the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, the U.S. first supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid (including food rations and pickup trucks), but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders. Two U.S. programs attempted to assist the Syrian rebels. One was a 2014 Pentagon program that planned to train and equip 15,000 rebels to fight ISIL, which was canceled in 2015 after spending $500 million and producing only a few dozen fighters.[132] A simultaneous $1 billion covert program called Timber Sycamore ran by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was more successful.

According to CENTCOM officials, the name INHERENT RESOLVE is intended to reflect the unwavering resolve and deep commitment of the U.S. and partner nations in the region and around the globe to eliminate the terrorist group ISIL and the threat they pose to Iraq, the region and the wider international community. It also symbolizes the willingness and dedication of coalition members to work closely with our friends in the region and apply all available dimensions of national power necessary—diplomatic, informational, military, economic—to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.

The Defense Department announced at the end of October 2014 that troops operating in support of Operation Inherent Resolve after 15 June were eligible for the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Service areas are: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as troops supporting the operation in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea east of 25 degrees longitude.

In March 2017, various media outlets reported that conventional forces from the 11th MEU, as well as special operations forces in the form of the 75th Ranger Regiment[132] deployed to Syria to support U.S.-backed forces in liberating Raqqa from ISIL occupation. The deployment marked an escalation in the U.S. intervention in Syria.
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Sounds like your character is going to be knee-deep in some CIA fuckery

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@Leidenschaft crazy thought, but what if my character was formerly a park ranger who in his not too many years has seen some crazy shit in the woods? 

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@Leidenschaft crazy thought, but what if my character was formerly a park ranger who in his not too many years has seen some crazy shit in the woods?@Andreyich

Not so crazy. The amount of shit DG has to deal with that takes place in the massive amount of wide-open countryside that is its many national and state parks makes the National Parks Service a federal agency DG recruits from.

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Name: Fatima Lugassi

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Appearance:  Dark haired, fairly tall. Fit and athletic. Fairly attractive.

Agency/Organization: CIA

Military Record: US Navy

                    Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) Syria, Libya 
                    Timber Sycamore
                    Battle of Raqqa (2017)

Medals:
                    Inherent Resolve (2015)
                    Bronze Star (2017)
                    Purple Heart (2017)


Education: West Point (USMA)

Background:


     Fatima Joined the Navy as a Corpsman fresh out of West Point in 2012. Naturally having a background in languages being a first generation Syrian-American, she was destined to find herself deployed to Syria in 2014 during Operation Inherent Resolve, and spent the next 2 years there. She has spent time in several areas including time in Aleppo. She spent a lot of time tending wounds and training the local forces already in place during the beginning. 

She was later reassigned to Timber Sycamore, a program ran under the CIA.  In 2017 she was injured in the line of duty while deployed with a regiment of the 11th Marines Expeditionary Unit, and received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart as well as an Honorable discharge, ending her military Career.

      Her merits under extreme conditions in combat were weighed and she was soon drafted as an operative for the CIA since March 23rd, 2018, and only after she had recovered enough from her wounds to begin training again. She is still a fledgling operative, and has a long way to go but she shows a lot of potential. She excels in several areas, language being an obvious given, but she is extremely resourceful, cool headed, and can be persuasive, a trait most likely acquired by trying to chat up the wounded under fire.

Personality: Sarcastic, witty, and generally a glowing joy.. at least pre-injury. Now days she still sarcastic and witty, but a bit more cynical. She is seasoned and strong willed, with a cat's curiosity and just a touch of wisdom from her years. 

Bon Vivant, Wild Card..

Likes:  Black coffee, cigarettes. Gun oil and loud music. Whiskey..

Dislikes: People who talk too much and the smell of Brasso. Pension checks, recreational therapy. Yoga or anything gluten-free.   

Fears: Not being "good enough", obsolescence. She has always felt like that if she fails it's because she didn't try hard enough, or do enough, and that all fault is always on her shoulders. 

Skills:

Gifted:
         Persuade
         Field Medic/First Aid 

Adept:
         Marksmanship, Rifles
         Foreign Languages (Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian)
         Hand-to-Hand

Average:
         Marksmanship, Firearms
         Crafting 
         SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape)

Novice:
         Criminology
         Forensics
         Subterfuge
         Psychology 

Weaknesses:


      Fatima has a gunshot wound in her right shoulder which still bothers her at times. An enemy fired a shot that hit Fatima's rifle before the round and a bit of shrapnel tore through her shoulder and doing a bit of damage to her shoulder blade before exiting. Most of the shrapnel was recovered and she has made a near full recovery, but it will most likely bother her for the rest of her life.

      This also leads to her nonphysical weakness which is to say that she is often on pain medication, and has been prone to self medication via vehement amounts of hard liquor and opioids, and the occasional bit of marijuana. She usually does well as long as she stays busy, but the wagon has always been a rickety rig. Something she has maintained fairly well since her being drafted by the CIA. She is determined and extremely strong willed, so much so that it could be considered to be detrimental at times. 

Off-Duty Clothing/Equipment: Because you're not going to be walking around in door-kicking gear all day, every day on a clandestine op.
Clothing:
Weapons:
Tools/Equipment:

Operational Clothing/Equipment: Nothing that would remove all doubt that you are part of the US military/are American. NATO weaponry is fine, but not required.
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Name: Serena Fatima Lugassi
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Appearance:  Dark haired, fairly tall. Fit and athletic. Fairly attractive.
Demeanor: Bon Vivant, Wild Card

Education: West Point (USMA)
Foreign Languages: English and Arabic bi-lingual, (Arabic, Kurdish, some Armenian)

Agency/Affiliation: CIA
Rank: USN Lieutenant, USDoD O-3 (NATO code OF-2) 

United States Navy Lieutenant(R) (Honorably discharged due to injuries, Syria 2017)
                   
                    Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) Syria, Libya 
                    Timber Sycamore
                    Battle of Raqqa (2017)

Notable Merits/Medals:
                    Inherent Resolve (2014-2016)
                    Bronze Star (2017)
                    Purple Heart (2017)


Gifted: Criminology, Field Medic/First Aid (Navy Corpsman)

Adept: Marksmanship-Long guns, Awareness, Persuade

Average: Marksmanship-Handguns, Hand-to-hand, Crafting

Novice: SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape), Forensics, Engine Mechanics, Psychology


Personality:
      Sarcastic, witty, and generally a glowing joy.. at least that was Serena prior to receiving her injury in Syria. Serena is still sarcastic and witty, but she is a bit more cynical. She is seasoned and strong willed, with a cat's curiosity and just a touch of wisdom from her years. She has lost a lot and often struggles with bouts of excessive guilt, the dirty fingerprints left from traumatic experiences in the field. She is a bit of a lush and likes to "have a good time", perhaps a bit more than is healthy. She has a head built and governed by logic, an equal skeptic for both organized religion and the paranormal.
      Serena is a chain-smoker, and heavy coffee drinker, alcoholic. She tends to steer clear of coffee shops and hipster kids finding them to be repulsive, and she is easily annoyed. Perturbed by the mundane and remedial, she often loses focus due to boredom or a lack of sufficient stimuli to keep her adequately occupied. Serena is very independent and in no way tries to leverage her injury, and is highly self sufficient. 
      She seems to prefer short flings and one night stands over the long winded false adorations and pretenses of a sustainable relationship. She has terrible taste in men, and her decision-making skills in this area of life are less than desirable. Two abortions, one of which occurred when she was 17 that the family still doesn't talk about, and the other more recently only several months ago.
      She is a blunt speaker, and more often than not, frank enough to clear a table in remarkable timing. She spends half of her time eating shitty Vietnamese takeout and binge-watching television series on Amazon prime, and the other half in Kickboxing gyms and cheap Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes, but mainly just to keep a taut belly and maintain the shape of her ass. Serena also sees a shrink, whom she talks with on a biweekly basis who also keeps tabs on her and her affinity for hydrocodone medication and alcoholism. Doc can sometimes manage to get her to squeal a bit about her nightmares and some things she had seen in Syria, how often she was having them and that sort of thing. She's been pushing Serena to try some hypnotherapy, but she has been more than reluctant for fear of what might come out in regressions. She has a small townhome in the Brooklyn area. It is rather bare and she lacks in the decorative department, A good thing really because she has grown a bit untidy in the past year or so.  
      Her refrigerator is also mostly barren, save for an ever-present large jar of pickle spears, mayonnaise, and sixer or twelve pack of domestic beer, and the occasional pack of eggs and no less than two or three takeout containers that she will never eat. Freezer is mostly TV dinners, lots of Marie Calendar's and Bob Evan's, freezer burnt bags of broccoli and tin foil packs of hamburger meat marked with only the best intentions. Usually a half gallon of whiskey in the cabinets, along with saltines and several boxes of Hamburger Helper and a few cans of tuna. She also just started making payments on a black 2018 Dodge Charger with two fat red racing stripes. Figured she'd learn to work on it some, kind of like a side project. She hasn't done much with it yet, and probably wont be messing with it any time soon, but she did buy the extensive owner's manual holding down her cocktail table along with a few spent beer bottles. She does choose to smoke outside however, possibly the only sign of decency she has left.
      When she isn't being a total recluse in front of the TV or at the local Kickboxing gym she can usually be found with her friend Cindy, taking full advantage of low effort night life bliss, usually some dive bar shithole dotting a street corner, with cheap drinks, and even cheaper women.  Guess it made them both feel better about their selves in some form or other. They both seemed to suffer from the same social afflictions in the relationship department, so you know what they say, "birds of a feather".. 

Family, Friends & Associates:

      Serena's parents (names undisclosed) both still live in a quaint suburb in upstate New York.  Her father was a Syrian immigrant who came to the US in the mid seventies, picking up trade work as a jeweler, and went on to own his own store by the mid eighties. He soon married to an attractive American girl from the Bronx. No other immediate family to speak of in America, or Syria.
      She doesn't have a lot in the way of friends, and her relationships are sporadic, and are usually tragically detrimental. She keeps in contact with a handful of friends from West Point, but usually only by phone or social media. Cindy Grimes, and local Brooklyn girl would be her only face to face friend. She lived in the same neighborhood and they met at the local kickboxing gym.  She is not married and doesn't seem to wish to be, nor does she have any desire for children.

Likes:  Black coffee, cigarettes. Gun oil and loud music. Whiskey. Fast cars and motorcycles, shitty men and abusive relationships. Cheap ethnic food and B-Rated grindhouse type films. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, "Juicy Fruit" chewing gum and "Capri Suns". 

Dislikes: People who talk too much and the smell of Brasso. Pension checks, recreational therapy. Yoga, pumpkin spice, or anything gluten-free. Shitty men and abusive relationships (yes I know, its complicated..)

Fears: Not being "good enough", obsolescence. Serena has always felt like that if she fails it's because she didn't try hard enough, or do enough, and that all fault is always on her shoulders. An unrelenting tug in the back of her mind about what she witnessed in 2017, and an inner fear that it might have been real and not some fraudulent fog conjured from her imagination as a result of being in shock. 

Serena grew up with her parents in a small apartment in the South Bronx, New York City. She was very active in grade school, running track and playing for both the JV and Varsity Lacrosse teams, which she later continued at West Point. Her father, a jeweler from Syria, worked very hard along with her American mother to provide her with the avenues with which to pursue her interests in a military career. She buckled down and made good grades, and later joined the Navy as a Corpsman fresh out of West Point in 2012. Naturally having a background in languages being a first generation Syrian-American, she was destined to find herself deployed to Syria in 2014 during Operation Inherent Resolve, and spent the next 3 years there. She has spent time in several areas including a good bit of time in Aleppo at a medical facility, providing medical support during helo-transports from the city. 
      She was later reassigned to Timber Sycamore, a program headed the CIA. It was formed in 2015, and ISIL began to fortify the city and its surrounding areas with bunkers and a network of tunnels. By June 2017, Raqqa remained the only major Syrian city fully under ISIL control and was, therefore, its effective center of operations. With a large number of foreign fighters, Raqqa has been a planning center for terrorist attacks against European cities. The majority of her deployment was with marine units as a corpsman field medic. She lost a lot of good people during this short span of time. Some were the very same she had helped train not even a year and a half prior. Young people, soldiers, girls. She spent a lot of time in LZs providing tourniquets and doing sutures, dispensing adrenaline to those who were worse off. She had seen so much that she had grown distant and passive, but none the less highly efficient in the field. She had seen combat over a half a dozen times by 2017, and she had spent a lot of brass as well. It all became very Cat and Mouse in her head.   
      Sometimes she could swear that she could see the souls of those that were lost most traumatically, but she would dismiss it as stress or fatigue. The visions of the apparitions either passed or faded over time, but she was always reminded of them for they remained within her dreams. Luckily for her sleep was rarely on the menu while deployed. Yet another possible reasoning for these apparitions. In 2017 she was injured in the line of duty while deployed with a regiment of the 11th Marines Expeditionary Unit, and received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart as well as an Honorable discharge, ending her military Career.
      Not wanting to stop there Serena then applied to the Central Intelligence Agency, with whom she had already developed a good report with during her time with Timber Sycamore in Syria. She is an extremely determined and headstrong individual. Her merits and behavior under extreme conditions in combat were weighed and measured and she was accepted shortly after as a para-military operative/field analyst for the CIA on March 23rd, 2018. They were somewhat reluctant, and only her after she had recovered enough from her wounds to begin training again. 

     She is still a fledgling operative, and has a long way to go but she shows a lot of potential. She excels in several areas, language being an obvious given, but she is extremely resourceful, cool headed, and can be persuasive, a trait most likely acquired by trying to chat up the wounded under fire. She has also recently shown to have a general knack for criminology.

Side Note: 
     During the mission in which she sustained her injury, she was found to be incoherently mumbling and seemed to be in a severe state of shock. She was reported by a marine, to have mentioned witnessing a shadow-person or figure, or at least in that description, which she referred to as death in Arabic. She also suffered convulsions  and seizure activity during this time.
     This was not mentioned in her military records for fear of mar, feeling it would be unnecessary given her imminent discharge for her injury. Paranormal mentions do not nor have they ever looked good on records. It was however noted later at a base hospital by a medical surgeon, but it was written off as severe shock trauma and managed to remain off of her official records.

     The manifestation had not ever been present before 2017, and only showed itself briefly, exactly at the point just before her injury. It was a black, veil-like mass, that soon formed a more solid figure. It looked as though it was adorned with small glittering trinkets, gold in nature. It's eyes were also fiery golden in nature, and not a sound could be heard, only intense reverberation as the entire surrounding area seemed to vibrate with resentment. This materialization of a solid figure form was very brief, and dissipated shortly thereafter, resembling a very similar black smoke produced by ordinance. Possibly a Jinn.

     Jinn (Arabic: الجن‎, al-jinn), also Romanized as Djinn or Anglicized as genies (with the more broad meaning of spirits or demons, depending on source), are supernatural creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology. Since jinn are neither innately evil nor innately good, Islam was able to adapt spirits from other religions during its expansion. Jinn are not a strictly Islamic concept; rather, they may represent pagan beliefs integrated into Islam.
     Besides the jinn, Islam acknowledges the existence of demons (Shayāṭīn). The lines between demons and jinn are blurred, since malevolent jinn are also called shayāṭīn. However both Islam and non-Islamic scholarship generally distinguishes between angels, jinn and demons (shayāṭīn) as three different types of spiritual entities in Islamic traditions. The jinn are distinguished from demons in that they can be both evil and good, while genuine demons are exclusively evil. Some academic scholars assert that demons are related to monotheistic traditions and jinn to polytheistic traditions. 

     The CIA somehow got word of this despite it not being in her official records. They have taken a quiet interest in Serena, and more importantly her description and what she had seen. They are also privately contacting her doctor and imploring her to push for hypnosis regression under the guise of therapy. She is being considered for Delta Green, an undisclosed team centered on more paranormal type criteria.


Weaknesses:
           Serena has a gunshot wound in her right shoulder which still bothers her at times. An enemy fired a shot that hit Fatima's rifle before the round and a bit of shrapnel tore through her shoulder and doing a bit of damage to her shoulder blade before exiting through her back. Most of the shrapnel was recovered and she has made a near full recovery, but it will most likely bother her for the rest of her life.

      This also leads to her nonphysical weakness which is to say that she is often on pain medication, and has been prone to self medication via vehement amounts of hard liquor and opioids, and the occasional bit of marijuana. She usually does well as long as she stays busy, but the wagon has always been a rickety rig. Something she has maintained fairly well since her being drafted by the CIA. She is determined and extremely strong willed, so much so that it could be considered to be detrimental at times. 

Off-Duty:

Clothing: tight fitting jeans, comfortable shirt. Sunglasses or ballcap, light Jacket or Hoodie when called for. Stylish boots, still of the utility kind. Nylon slimline CC holster, either on hip or back area. 

Weapons: 
         CZ 75 P-07 Duty 40S&W 12RD (issued)
         X2 12RD magazines  

Tools/Equipment:
         S&W High Carbon Tactical Knife 

Operational Equipment:

Clothing: 
       Bulletproof vest, regular clothing. Sunglasses or cap, fatigues, utility harness, or other (if specified) ,tactical boots.

Weapons:
       CZ 75 P-07 Duty 40S&W 12RD (issued)
       X2 12RD Magazines
      (M4 carbine or AR- .556 NATO(ACOG, red dot holo-sights), H&K MP5 variants, when issued or specified: certified for fully-automatic fire)

Tools/Equipment:
      Field Medic kit (Small)
      Utility Tool 
      Radio ( with earpiece, or without)
      S&W High Carbon Tactical Knife

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Name: Laurence (Laurie) Mathieu

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Appearance: About 192 cenimetres in height, Laurie has dark hair on the border of black and brown, swamp green eyes and peach skin near-permanently tinted rose by the sun. He has a wiry frame, insuring he has only somewhat more muscle than ordinary in his lean build, his feet and hands covered in scars and calluses. His right thigh has a quite nasty scar from an alligator bite and a somewhat deformed navel from a gunshot that landed in it. His hair will generally be in a mess with a vague attempt to comb it down and cropped but noticeable sideburns going down either side. The Ranger has somewhat shapely ears and an ever so slight cleft chin. 

Agency/Organization: Park Ranger Five

Education: Bachelor's in data science with a minor in environmental technologies, dropped out from law school. 

Background: 

Laurence was born to a fairly affluent family of Louisiana French, his Father a lawyer with a firm that did well caring for the many local hillbillies with law problems and his mother an accountant helping her husband and the very same hillbillies. 

Throughout early school years Laurie did okay, but often found his mind wandering, more interested in whatever was happening outside or with his siblings than what was in class. He progressed in that "okay" in a fairly uneventful youth just about managing his bachelor's degree. He had taken a course in data science as it satisfied his father's hopes that the lad go work in his firm later, while also satisfying the young man particularly when his environmental technologies minor was added. 

But as he afterwards went to law school, both he and his father gradually came to terms with the realization he wouldn't become a lawyer along with his dad, even if his father was disappointed with the fact he dropped out just as he was about to finish. 

After that he went straight to the Park Rangers, more than happy with the barely minimum wage he started with. But, he took to his job and progressed in the first year from Range I to Ranger II, and so on and so forth. 

Though his first year was uneventful, that was because he was given the easier trails to cross. It was not much time before he was given worse routes and he saw strange things. He got accustomed to having to chase away moonshiners, but he could never get used to the doll candled shrines, odd voices, and dark figures he saw at times. Usually he chalked it up to the amount of time he spent alone in the swamps and woods, but at a certain point it got weird. He wasn't particularly frightened of them, but he felt it disturbed his work. 

Laurie decided to be a ranger in a different state, and moved to Utah. Sure, the place had them Mormons who were pretty creepy but he could at least escape all the big-foot and cult style shit he saw back home. But his visions didn't escape him, in fact they only got more frequent. Particularly annoyed, he moved to New England and then to California, both of which still annoyed him with this shit, shit that was more annoying than getting into shootouts with drug cooks and getting attacked by animals. 

Yet recently he got a bit of relief it seemed, for he got contacted by some odd fellers in suits. Now he apparently works for some higher-ups in the government, pretending he knows what the fuck is going on. 

Personality: Laurence is a funnily little individual. Periods of perfect calm will be interspersed with rambunctious spots of feeling adventure and mischief. He's generally suspicious of his fellow man, but to those he befriends he'll value as a mother her babe. He isn't particularly comfortable in big cities, but as with his other dissatisfactions he has over time learned to mask this. Laurie will also generally behave to others as they to him, only being erudite and polite with the good old Southern hospitality to those who show him some. If he doesn't get it, then he will show them the nasty redneck he could be stereotyped as. 

Family, Friends, and Associates: Laurence has a quite large family. Both grandparents on both sides are alive and kicking, as is his mother father. He also has two brothers and a sister, but he only maintains much contact with his grandparents, all of whom he makes sure to visit at least bi-monthly on absolute minimum. Still, his father is friends with big figures, important judges, a senator, and other folks he meets in country clubs. 

Likes: Pretty girls, folksy music, a good wad of tobacco, honesty, nature, good honest work and virtue in general.

Dislikes: criminals, vice, lies, and general absence of virtue.  

Fears: Laurence is not a little pussy, he'll state that to anyone and he'll have much to verify this claim. There isn't really anything one could think of off the top of their head that would get him to be frightened. But that's because most people couldn't think outside the box for his case. What frightens Laurie is that which is unknown, and that which cannot be understood. The idea of something that there are no words to describe, the possibility that something one cannot wrap their heads around exists gives him the chills at any time of the day. 

Skills:
Gifted: Awareness, SERE
Adept: Marksmanship - Long guns, Marksmanship - Handguns, Hand-to-Hand 
Average: First aid, Crafting, Tactical Driving
Novice: Computer Science, Law, Engine Mechanics, Subterfuge

Languages: Spanish, French (somewhere between proper Parisien and Louisiana French), Latin

Weaknesses: Laurie has steel hips, resulting from a particularly nasty alligator attack. In addition, Laurie has admittedly mild ADHD. 

Off-Duty Clothing/Equipment: Laurie likes the perfect centre of the venn diagram of comfort, appearance and practicality.  
Clothing: Depending on the weather and occasion, anything from a polo-shirt with shorts, to a confederate-flag adorned leather jacket with jeans, to a swanky three-piece suit. 
Weapons: M1911 with a spare magazine
Tools/Equipment: His phone, his watch, a compass, with variance and bits of his on-duty equipment should he feel it could be useful.

Operational Clothing/Equipment: As a Park Ranger in some more remote areas of nastier states, Laurie has to deal with quite a wide variety of bullshit and must be prepared for all of it. Lost tourists, moonshining hillbillies, drug cooking Mexicans, camping Klansmen, alligators, bears, coyotes, and more. As such, he in his backpack or his ride will have to carry a very, very large amount of things. 
Clothing: Much like his off-duty clothing, this will heavily depend on where he is. But more or less omnipresent is a set of heavy engineer's boots with steel caps, and either a wide-brimmed hat or a baseball cap.
Weapons: .357 Python, a choice of Winchester 1897 shotgun or M14 Rifle usually with enough ammunition for two to three reloads for these weapons.
Tools/Equipment:  His phone, a radio, first aid kit, several water bottles and granola bars, a watch, a compass, a map, head-flashlight, a heavy flashlight, stationery, a swiss army knife and a heftier knife. He'll also carry several batteries of different sizes, rubber gloves, repellents for local animals and bugs, a lighter and fire starter kit, sometimes a "really cool" stick he walks with, quite a bit of rope. All of this is generally in a fanny-pack around his belt for quicker access and in a rucksack for things less immediately needed. Will carry two spare tiers, a canister of gas and tools to fix up a car in whatever his ride is.

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Name: Laurence (Laurie) Mathieu

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Appearance: About 192 cenimetres in height, Laurie has dark hair on the border of black and brown, swamp green eyes and peach skin near-permanently tinted rose by the sun. He has a wiry frame, insuring he has only somewhat more muscle than ordinary in his lean build, his feet and hands covered in scars and calluses. His right thigh has a quite nasty scar from an alligator bite and a somewhat deformed navel from a gunshot that landed in it. His hair will generally be in a mess with a vague attempt to comb it down and cropped but noticeable sideburns going down either side. The Ranger has somewhat shapely ears and an ever so slight cleft chin. 



Agency/Organization: Park Ranger Five

Education: Bachelor's in data science with a minor in environmental technologies, dropped out from law school. 

Background: This is where you flex how good your writing and research into your character goes. Are they a scientist or scholar? A career criminal? A federal agent? A state detective? You are the cowboy, the idealist, the unfettered, grizzled veteran with one last op in him, or the person not knowing what he's getting himself into. You are motivated and believe in what you're doing, half the reason you were picked.

The other half is that you've brushed shoulders with the unknown in some way but have yet to go mad; come across some weird stuff in the Afghan mountains, seized some weird artifacts on a raid, busted a small-time religious cult while undercover. Cognitive dissonance worked wonders, it seems, because instead of a gibberish mess you’re pretty alright.

Personality: Try to get detailed with this. You'll want to know how they'll react if they ever come across a drug-fueled sacrificial blood orgy to Nyarlathotep.

Family, Friends, and Associates: Wife? Kids? Ma and Pa? Best Friend? any and all go here.

Likes: Pretty girls, honesty, nature, good honest work and virtue in general.

Dislikes: criminals, vice, lies, and general absence of virtue.  

Fears: Laurence is not a little pussy, he'll state that to anyone and he'll have much to verify this claim. There isn't really anything one could think of off the top of their head that would get him to be frightened. But that's because most people couldn't think outside the box for his case. What frightens Laurie is that which is unknown, and that which cannot be understood. The idea of something that there are no words to describe, the possibility that something one cannot wrap their heads around exist gives him the chills at any time of the day. 

Skills:
Gifted: Awareness, SERE
Adept: Marksmanship - Long guns, Marksmanship - Handguns, Hand-to-Hand 
Average: First aid, Crafting, Tactical Driving
Novice: Computer Science, Law, Engine Mechanics, Subterfuge

Languages: Spanish, French (somewhere between proper Parisien and Louisiana French), Latin

Weaknesses: At least one nonphysical and physical weakness.

Off-Duty Clothing/Equipment: Laurie likes the perfect centre of the venn diagram of comfort, appearance and practicality.  
Clothing: Depending on the weather and occasion, anything from a polo-shirt with shorts, to a confederate-flag adorned leather jacket with jeans, to a swanky three-piece suit. 
Weapons: M1911 with a spare magazine
Tools/Equipment: His phone, his watch, a compass, with variance and bits of his on-duty equipment should he feel it could be useful.

Operational Clothing/Equipment: As a Park Ranger in some more remote areas of nastier states, Laurie has to deal with quite a wide variety of bullshit and must be prepared for all of it. Lost tourists, moonshining hillbillies, drug cooking Mexicans, camping Klansmen, alligators, bears, coyotes, and more. As such, he in his backpack or his ride will have to carry a very, very large amount of things. 
Clothing: Much like his off-duty clothing, this will heavily depend on where he is. But more or less omnipresent is a set of heavy engineer's boots with steel caps, and either a wide-brimmed hat or a baseball cap.
Weapons: .357 Python, a choice of Winchester 1897 shotgun or M14 Rifle usually with enough ammunition for two to three reloads for these weapons.
Tools/Equipment:  His phone, a radio, first aid kit, several water bottles and granola bars, a watch, a compass, a map, head-flashlight, a heavy flashlight, stationery, a swiss army knife and a heftier knife. He'll also carry several batteries of different sizes, rubber gloves, repellents for local animals and bugs, a lighter and fire starter kit, sometimes a "really cool" stick he walks with, quite a bit of rope. All of this is generally in a fanny-pack around his belt for quicker access and in a rucksack for things less immediately needed. Will carry two spare tiers, a canister of gas and tools to fix up a car in whatever his ride is.
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Park Ranger Five refers to his pay grade of GS-5?

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Sorry, I didn't see your post before mine. Anyway I talked on discord to a buddy of mine who's dad is in the rangers and he just told me Park Ranger Five is the highest "rank" you get before going into a superintendent or some sort of other managerial position, which Laurie wouldn't get quite yet. 

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Name: Jaime “James” Alvarez

Age: 36

Gender: Male

Appearance: 

Height, build, facial structure. Voice and mannerisms, even. A picture may be attached, but oh, so help me if it's anime.

Agency/Organization: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent.  

Education: University of Miami, Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology, minor in anthropology
Criminal Investigators Training Program (CITP)
Special Agent Basic Training (SABT)
ATF Industry Operations Investigator Basic Training

Background:
Born in Little Havana, Miami, Florida, Alvarez is the son of Doctor Miguel Alvarez, a 3rd generation Mexican American family doctor with a practice in Little Havana, and Isabella Alvarez, a Cuban refugee who fled the Castro regime in 1975 when she was 22-years-old by bribing a smuggler to bring her and 13 other refugee hopefuls to Miami, Florida, where she claimed refugee status after her parents were prosecuted by G2, the Cuban secret police, for accusations of espionage when her father was apprehended taking photographs near a military installation. Despite his protests that he was simply a nature photographer Isabella’s father was apprehended and her mother shortly after according to Isabella’s testimony. Fearing for her safety, Isabella petitioned extended family for help, and she was soon on a boat towards the United States. She would never learn of her parents’ fate.
Soon after her refugee claim was accepted, Isabella became a custodian at a Little Havana fitness center where she met Miguel, an American with deep ties to family on both sides of the American and Mexican border, who was at the time working towards his medical doctorate at the University of Miami. The two remained friends for a few years until they began dating and eventually married in 1981, where Jaime was born on October 17th, 1983. 
Jaime’s childhood was unremarkable, unlike his mother’s journey; he attended Citrus Grove Elementary School as a straight A student who was likeable, if shy and reserved. Later, he would attend Green Springs High School where he excelled at the sciences and mathematics, and it seemed all but certain that he would follow in his father’s footsteps in the field of medicine. He was in grade 10 when news of his uncle Hernandez Alvarez passing away from cocaine overdose, striking Jaime with grief and a sense of injustice as he witnessed his father openly sob for the first time in his life; Hernandez had been close with his brother and was a large part of the family, but debt and a rocky marriage had made him make regrettable decisions that would ultimately cost him his life. 
Jaime then decided that he needed to take matters into his own hands and pursue a career in law enforcement or criminal justice; he began to focus on psychology and criminology, and well as anthropology for insights into addictions and the drug trade that had claimed his uncle.

Jaime graduated from High School and was immediately enrolled in the University of Miami under scholarship for a major in criminology in 1996, where he spent the next four years applying himself with a sense of drive that eluded many of his fellow students, even going so far as keeping a framed portrait of Hernandez in his dormitory desk to remind him of what he had set out to do. 

Not everything was all strictly business during his university years. Jaime had informally introduced himself to other students as James, going so far as to use that name when submitting reports to avoid frequent corrections of people mispronouncing his name, a habit that would carry onto his future employment. He was a prolific reader, made a pair of girlfriends, one of whom, Gabby Clifford, remained with him well into his employment with the ATF, going so far as to rent a high rise condo after his employment.
 Jaime kept close with his father and mother, who at this time had left her custodial job to focus on her love of music, where she got her start playing guitar in bars and street festivals. Both helped Jaime financially as he expressed interest in joining a sailing club and a college baseball team, of which he would remain a lifetime Miami Marlins fan. Through this clubs he became close friends with Nick Clemons, a grandson of Haitian immigrants who had legally changed their surname within a year of arrival Stateside. The two were largely inseparable, despite a distinctly different career path; Jaime was determined to join the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Nick had his sights on the coastguard if his promising talents in baseball didn’t get him scouted first. 
 He graduated in 2000 with honors and applied to the ATF almost immediately, getting hired on several months after his application was submitted, his physical and background check conducted, and his references cleared.  Early 2001, he began his career by starting in the Criminal Investigators Training Program up in Glynco, Georgia where he studied everything ranging from tactical driving, firearms handling (something his father was not too keen on, despite Jaime purchasing a personal Glock 17 after graduation), crime scene management, and other aspects of police investigations and forensics. Due to much of this program being quite a departure from his academic background, he struggled with the more confrontational aspects such as interviewing and handcuffing procedures, as well as his firearms proficiency given his inexperience with them, but his hard work ethic paid off and he graduated in the top third of the 12 week program, moving onto the Special Agent Basic Training program.
SABT made the difficulties Jaime experienced in CITP exasperated given its much more physically rigorous training process, which involved hand-to-hand fighting techniques, hard physical training, and advanced firearms and tactical training. While he worked at becoming passable in those fields, and eventually quite competent, he excelled at writing reports and identifying illicit substances, firearms, and the other academic fields. Thanks to his own personal handgun and practicing on his own time at the range, Jaime became a very proficient shot with a handgun and other weapons, such as pump-action shotguns and M4 carbines, came much easier afterwards and he was able to begin to excel at the tactical training and shooting training, reaching the peak physical condition of his life and finding a degree of confidence he’d been lacking in the more dangerous and demanding aspects of his career.

Upon graduation, Jaime was posted in Tampa, Florida, where he broke off the relationship with Gabby due to her not being able to relocate because of her own educational and career aspirations, although Nick came with him to Tampa to find work after his own graduation and the two young men split costs to make the fairly pricy gulf city more affordable. Jaime’s posting 


Personality: Try to get detailed with this. You'll want to know how they'll react if they ever come across a drug-fueled sacrificial blood orgy to Nyarlathotep.

Family, Friends, and Associates: 
Miguel Alvarez, father
Isabella Alvarez, mother
Hernandez Alvarez, uncle (deceased)
Gabby Clifford, ex-girlfriend
Nick Clemons, best friend

Likes:
-Baseball
-Fishing
-Farmers Markets
-Reading
-Sailing
-Hiking

Dislikes:
-Crowds and loud places
-Sensationalist news
-Cults
-Arrogance
-Places that are assuredly haunted

Fears: Ever since Alvarez’s encounter with the Día de Muertos spirit cult he has been haunted by frequent sightings of spirits and ghosts, and although most are benign in nature, he has seen full well that malicious ones are capable of possession and what that does to a person; the very concept terrifies him and if he senses something very dark and wrong, fear grips him and he will insist on leaving immediately.
For this reason, Alvarez is much more at ease in remote locations and quiet areas that haven’t been the location of mass death and violence; many dark spirits and ghosts linger in such places and the likelihood of encountering one that wishes you harm increases exponentially. Bullets cannot harm the intangible, and talismans only do so much to ward off malice.

Skills:
Gifted: Awareness, Forensics 
Adept: Criminology, Persuade, Law
Average: Marksmanship; handguns, Tactical Driving, First Aid
Novice: Subterfuge, Psychology, Marksmanship; long guns, Anthropology

Weaknesses: 
Alvarez isn’t exactly in peak physical condition; years of methodically scouring crime scenes, analyzing evidence in a lab, communing with the dead, and writing up reports along with the inability to resist great smelling food have left him with a physique that can generously be described as just above average; he works out every other day for an hour to an hour and a half and he drinks a lot of water, but most of the team on Delta Green can literally run laps around him. However, he exceeds the bare minimum for the fitness tests and has passible strength and endurance; he just has more cerebral pursuits in mind.

Sleep isn’t something that comes easily to Alvarez, especially if he’s put up in a hotel in a city; the dead are everywhere and they have a habit of having a presence that can pull even the deepest sleeper wide awake. Energy drinks and coffee do the bare minimum to keep him alert at the worst of times, and if an area is particularly heavy in spectral presence, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate what’s real and what’s the spirits; it affects his judgement and mental acuity. To compensate for this, he often takes quick naps when things are calm and has been found with his head down on his desk from time to time; it’s not often he gets more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep on a good night, and the others know he often uses the times he is forced awake to work.

Off-Duty Clothing/Equipment: 
Clothing:
Often jeans or Carharts workpants with side pockets, t-shirts, button up shirts, hiking boots. Tends to stick with shades of browns and greens; he doesn’t like to stand out.

Weapons:
Conceal Carry: Gen 4 Glock 27 .40 S&W, usually kept in a jacket pocket or a waist holster.


Tools/Equipment: A tape recorder, a digital camera, a portable forensics kit including swabs, vials, gloves, a black light, a tape measure, numbers markers etc., a Gerber multitool, mini maglight

Operational Clothing/Equipment: Nothing that would remove all doubt that you are part of the US military/are American. NATO weaponry is fine, but not required.
Clothing: Typical BDU pants with regional appropriate colour (tan or olive), hiking boots, fingerless gloves British commando-style sweater (black or olive) or flannel shirt and t-shirt depending on temperatures, level II vest with magazine pouches, first aid kit, camelback, and usual equipment across various tac pouches. Radio has a headset, wears an olive “patrol” cap. 


Weapons:
Open Carry: Heckler & Koch MP7 4.6x30mm Personal Defense Weapon, kept on a special open leg holster for quick deployment, equipped with a flashlight

Tools/Equipment: 
Maglight, glowsticks, Gerber multitool, emergency first aid kit, radio with headset, authorized tablet, digital camera, voice recorder, forensics kit, SOG Seal Pup fixed blade knife

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