[Delta Green] Operas and Avatars: Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays

[taitzu52]

Yeah, no kidding, thinks Andrews as he thanks Colorados for his help and bums a ride form a Trooper back to his motel. After the fifth or sixth cigarette, Andrews is ready to lie down and get some rest. He turns off the news that he'd been watching about the incident, taking in what all the media had blown this up to be. As he lies on the bed staring at the ceiling, he tries to make sense of what has happened on I-70. What the hell is that thing, he thinks and how does it drive people crazy? Is it linked to the meteor? If so, how did it make it's way from WV to here? And God damn it, who's been contacting us?!?

Andrews gets up and shoves a chair in front of the double locked door, checks the closet and bathroom, and lies down to get some sleep, his pistol on the closest nightstand with the safety off.

 

[Gomez]

Andrews wakes up and looks at the clock on the nightstand. It says 1:48. From the light shining through the crack in the curtains it must be the afternoon. You had fallen asleep about 8:00 this morning.

 

[taitzu52]

He gets a shower and calls over to the hospital, asking for Brown's condition, and asks to be called when he is conscious and can speak. He drives back into Phoenix to the Bureau office. He begins rebuilding the files from there. He makes calls to forensics and the coroners to have files sent over from the cave, and the station house incidents.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Solomon tries to speak, then thinks better of it when the slurred speech of post-surgical anesthesia is the only this that issue forth. Thank god for morphine, or whatever it is they've got me full of, he thinks. He lets a nod of thanks suffice. With his good arm, he makes a gesture that says some combination of "Where am I", "What time is it" and "How long till I can go?" He keeps his attention on the nurse as long as she's here, responding to any medical questions she has as best he can. He asks as much as he can about what happened, etc. and thanks her when she goes. He then briefly examines the repair work done on him, and quickly his mind goes back to Tall, Dark, and Deadly. What the hell was he on? Andrews got him full in the chest, and then again in the head, and he still had enough to drop me... He flips on the hospital room's TV to see what the news is saying about everything.

 

[Gomez]

Andrews talks to a nurse at the hospital. Brown is out of surgery and is doing fine. He is stable and in the ICU. Andrews arrives at the Bureau office in Phoenix and starts to look over the files of the case. Forensics has identified the bloody fingerprint found on one of the bones in the cave as Emanuel Santana's. Looking over his file, you find pretty much the same thing that Sheriff Colorados told you about him. Though it also mentions that Santana's desertion was considered a threat to national security because he was on detached duty to the CIA's operation PHOENIX in South Vietnam.
The coroner’s report is not in yet. They say that there is a backlog of autopsies but they should have it done by this evening.

 

[Gomez]

Televison news reports tell of the three tribal policemen killed at the station and that the killer was also shot and killed. There has been no official anouncement yet but the press is saying that the Emanuel Santana was the Highway 70 killer.

 

[taitzu52]

The coroner’s report is not in yet. They say that there is a backlog of autopsies but they should have it done by this evening.

Andrews is hardly surprised. He calls forensics and orders a reexamination of previous evidence, trying to match it to Santana. Bodies, abandoned cars, etc., it's a lot of work for them, but it's good to be the FBI.

 

[taitzu52]

Andrews also starts digging for the reports on the manhunt for Santana in the 70's. Domestic only, Andrews knows that digging too deep on this one may be a bad idea. He'll have to warn Brown.

 

[taitzu52]

Also, on a hunch, Andrews starts looking for military records on Braverman. Santana's been here for years. A guy like that wouldn't risk moving much. How the hell did he get invloved in this", he thinks

 

[Gomez]

Agent Solomon Brown [sblock] A vase with some flowers is brought into your room by the nurse. She hands you the small card that came with it. It is addresses S. Brown. Opening it you read the following.

March 2nd, 2004 - Dr. Brenton Clark found disemboweled in his Nashville apartment.

April 28th, 2004 - David Charles found disemboweled in his Houston hotel room.

Time is running out.

-a friend[/sblock]