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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 208269" data-attributes="member: 4144">Session 1B: Puppet Shows and Shadowplays, part one9.00 AM.  The FBI identification team reports to the agents that they have identified the prints from the car to within a 1% margin of error to a Master Sgt. Emanuel Santana, an Army Ranger who was reported AWOL in 1971 while on leave to attend his mother’s funeral.  Santana’s desertion was at the time considered a threat to national security due to his involvement in Operation PHOENIX while he was in Vietnam.  The Army, US Marshals, FBI, and CIA all investigated his disappearance, only to turn up no leads.  The CIA is currently being informed that the now 55 year-old deserter has shown up again.The agents also receive word from the Texas authorities that the plates from the car belong to an auto registered to an Elaine Braverman.  Elaine Braverman is the wife of a Kenneth Braverman, who was a prime suspect in a number of murders of prostitutes in Houston a few months back.The agents decide to relax at the FBI office for the rest of the day, setting a trap for Santana that evening.8.30 PM.  The agents both drive in Daniel’s car to an already agreed-upon spot near the Begay ranch.  Daniel pulls the car to the side of the road, and he stays there while David takes a position in the hills nearby.  After several tense moments, a well-preserved Apache in his middle years, resembling the photographs of Santana the FBI gave them, approaches the car.  While Daniel engages him in conversation, asking for help with his automobile, David warily approaches.  The Apache begins to look furtively about.“Waiting for someone?”Whereupon the Apache takes off at top speed into the desert.  Daniel jumps out of the car and into hot pursuit, while David, running parallel, attempts to cut off Santana’s progress from the other direction.  The chase continues for several minutes until Santana, hemmed in from both directions, changes his facing.  Daniel runs after the ex-Ranger and catches him in a headlock, managing to keep a hold even after Santana slashes his forearm with a combat knife.Suddenly, a tendril lashes out of Santana’s mouth and strikes Daniel, who falls to the ground paralyzed.  A second tendril begins emerging, but David squeezes the trigger of his Desert Eagle and hits Santana square in the gut.  The Ranger slumps to the ground, deader than a doornail.  David frantically phones the FBI, reporting that there is an agent down and in need of medical assistance, and that the killer has been caught.  “Was one of you expecting a package?” SAC Hobson asks while on the phone.  Needless to say, David is anxious to see what this is.Back at the FBI office, Daniel is carted away by a doctor while David receives the package.  It is a small, unassuming package, which is quickly examined for anything unusual which might indicate that it was an explosive.  Finding nothing, he carefully opens the flat square box, and finds within a CD-ROM.  END OF SESSIONDM's Notes: - Receiving the package was, of course, the cue for the players to begin a Seven-esque chant of "what's in the box?"- The doctor who carted Daniel away was, of course, female, and the player of course attempted - and succeeded - to seduce her.  I allowed him as this might open future plotlines, maybe even more in this mission...- The PCs killed Santana much earlier than they would in the original adventure (appearing in the Delta Green sourcebook).</blockquote>

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