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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 5361118" data-attributes="member: 3285">Chapter 55: The Music of the Spheres - IntroductionThis story hour is from "The Music of the Spheres" by Kevin A. Ross from Chaosium's The Stars Are Right! You can read more about Delta Green at <a href="http://www.delta-green.com" target="_blank">Delta Green</a>. Please note: This story hour contains spoilers!Our cast of characters includes:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Game Master: <a href="http://michael.tresca.net" target="_blank">Michael Tresca</a> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Deputy Bob Horner (Pyromaniac) played by Joe Lalumia</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Deputy Donny Carpenter (Cult Leader) played by Jeremy Ortiz (<a href="http://jeremyrobertortiz.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Jeremy Robert Ortiz</a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sheriff Randy Kaufman (Brutal Thug) played by George Webster </li> </ul>Continuing the narrative of what happened to the world after our heroic agents sacrificed themselves to detonate a nuclear sub in Cthulhu's face, this scenario shows what happens when insanity hits middle America.  Music of the Spheres has been kicking around in my files for years but I never knew how to handle it because its implications are world reaching. It's pretty much the end of the world and you don't just casually run the scenario in the middle of your campaign.But then, I was ending the campaign in a way.  With the birth of my daughter I knew I'd be taking a half-year hiatus.  So instead of hapless human agents summoning Ghroth, I changed the scenario to Cthulhu's "death" sending a signal out to Ghroth via the radar array.  This plays nicely into the narrative and reinforces the overall sense of a looming apocalypse.  By the second session the players were now in the groove of playing completely different characters, and I suspect they were frankly relieved to characters that were a bit more morally upstanding.  All of them had memorable lines and portrayed their heroes valiantly.  In this case it was Jeremy who really stepped up.I stole liberally from The Crazies and Stephen King's "Cell," but the real star here is Blur's "Crazy Beat" which has been stuck in my head for years since I heard it.  I made sure to play that song any time The Music of the Spheres was played, which really irritated everybody but me.  What this scenario gave me that I couldn't get from the main "superhero" agents was dependents.  While Donny and Bob are single, Randy has a wife and two kids to worry about.  They're not freewheeling agents out on a mission to save the world; they're just trying to save their home.  And yet there ARE Majestic-12 agents running amok in this scenario in an attempt to contain the disaster (a disaster, it becomes clear, that cannot be contained).  In other words, I wanted the players to see government agents as villains.  Jeremy had his character cling to that notion right up to the very end, and his sacrifice was all the more poignant because of it.Defining Moment: "Well THAT ain't normal!"Relevant Media<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416524517?ie=UTF8&tag=michaeltresca&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416524517]Cell[/ame]: by Stephen King.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0021L8UXA?ie=UTF8&tag=michaeltresca&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0021L8UXA]The Crazies[/ame].</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WWEW1E?ie=UTF8&tag=michaeltresca&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000WWEW1E]Crazy Beat[/ame]: by Blur. </li> </ul></blockquote>

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