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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 208240" data-attributes="member: 4144">Session 1A: Puppet Shows and Shadowplays, Part One...or, Here's Your Answer, Rune <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The PCs: Lawrence Martin, Secret Service (Agent Daniel)Sgt. Neal Coburn, Navy SEAL (Agent David)* Both are level 3.The NPCs:Lt. Kelly Flynn, NRO Systems Engineer (Agent Darwin)SAC Patrick Hobson, Phoenix Field Office, FBI (“Chief Wiggum”)Maj. Frank Garrett, Arizona State PoliceSheriff Mangas Colorados, San Carlos Reservation PoliceAUGUST 8, 20029:30 AM.  The two agents both received a text message on their cell phones from Darwin, inviting them to “a night at the opera”.  This is Delta Green code for an op, and they were told to board a plane bound for Phoenix, AZ - tickets had already been reserved for them - where they would be briefed in full.3:10 PM. Touching down in Phoenix, David and Daniel are met at the airport by SAC Patrick Hobson of the Phoenix field office.  He briefs the agents quickly on the situation, handing them a folder containing a newspaper article on the topic (see post #1), as well as dossiers on the victims and several relevant photographs.  “The FBI is concerned here because of the possibility of a renewed Native American independence movement.  We’re anxious to avoid another Leonard Peltier situation, should this prove to be the case.  We’re asking you guys to investigate and hopefully annull these possibilities, using all resources at your disposal.”The agents arrive at the FBI field office, and review the dossiers in-depth.  Ready to begin the investigation, they set out in their rental cars for the San Carlos Reservation.  4.30 PM.  The first place they went was the Begay ranch home near Bylas.  The home was clean and orderly, and no signs of violence were to be found.  Signs were, of course, found of the state police/Apache police investigation.  Almost first thing, Daniel hits redial on the telephone.  A man named John Rope answers, who says that he is the Begay’s nearest neighbor, by approximately a half mile.  The agents ask Rope to come to the Begay house for questioning.  While waiting, they dust for prints on the doors (although the police already checked this), turning up nothing, as expected.  Whoever broke in took their time.Within moments, a Ford pick-up pulls up the driveway in a flurry of dust and dried clay.  An elderly Apache man, weather-beaten and wearing a large cowboy hat, gets out and identifies himself to the agents as John Rope.  David questions Rope carefully about his last conversation with Victorio Begay, while Daniel continues to check out the surrounding land.  “Victorio had been complainin’ for a while that someone, or something, had been takin’ his sheep.  He said it was the chupacabra, him being Mexican and all.  He called me the night they’re sayin’ he disappeared, sayin’ he was gonna sit out with a shotgun waitin’ for whatever it was.  Well, I guess it got him, poor bastard, whatever it was.  Got his family, too.  I wanna move into the city as soon as I can, get away from this killer or whatever it is.”Daniel gets on his cell phone and calls Darwin.  He asks him to use the resources of his agency to monitor the area surrounding Route 70, and to let him know if anything unusual shows up.   At that moment, he is  nearly overcome by a stench of decay.  Seeing the nature of a number of objects lying among the scrub brush and loose soil, he yells for David.  In front of Daniel are a number of carcasses, in varying states of decomposition, of sheep - the missing sheep from Mr. Begay’s ranch.  The graves where the carcasses were laid were apparently uncovered by some animal.  David notices tracks of some sort of canine, and believes they are most likely of a coyote.   Nearby, they find four human corpses - the remains of the Begay family. Daniel phones Maj. Garrett, and has the state police come to pick up the bodies.  The agents receive a call from Darwin, who has found an unusual, artificial-looking patch in the desert southeast of their current position, just outside the reservation.  The agents hop in their respective cars and head for the position.  7.00 PM.  There, they find a large white patch which appears to be the roof of a car, apparently at least partially excavated by a coyote.  They call Maj. Garrett to dispatch an excavation crew to the site.  A backhoe arrives and pulls the car out of the ground.  David checks the front seat, while Daniel goes towards the trunk.  Using glass-cutters, David gains access to the front relatively quickly, and is greeted by a charnel stink.  In the driver’s seat sits the decomposing body of a man, his stomach gashed open and his innards spilling onto the seat.  Checking for fingerprints, he finds a set on the man’s corpse and a fragmentary set on the car handle out.  He retrieves a wallet from the dead body, with a license identifying the man as Richard Billings.  Meanwhile, Daniel is writing down the license plate number of the car, which bears Texas tags.  After checking the trunk and finding that nothing was within, he and David ride back to the FBI office. 7.45 PM.  The plates are faxed to the Texas state police, while the two sets of prints collected from within the car are given to the FBI’s identification team, who quickly determines that they are from the same individual.  The agents decide to call it a night.  As of today, their thinking is ranging towards some sort of werecreature being responsible.</blockquote>

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