Convergence (Scenario)

Details

The Unspeakable Oath, Issue 7 Front Cover

Delta Green BRP Edtion Front Cover

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Author(s): John Tynes

Artist(s): Dennis Detwiller

Setting: Delta Green

Appears in: Delta Green, The Unspeakable Oath, Issue 07.

Campaign: N/A

Summary

A gas station robber has exhibited strange characteristics. Investigators are dispatched to his home town to find out more.

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Synopsis

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References

Player Handouts: TBD

Locations: Groversville, TBD

Creatures: Mi-Go, Greys.

Tomes and Artifacts: Scott Adams laptop computer, Scott Adams notebook, etc.

Campaigns / Scenarios: TBD

Comments / Trivia

When the scenario appeared in The Unspeakable Oath, Issue 7, it incorporated concepts and ideas from R. Talsorian Games Cyberpunk setting and acted as a prequel to the scenario Transference published in Interface, Volume 2, number 2.

The original magazine publication of "Convergergence" pre-dates the Delta Green setting as outlined in Delta Green (published in 1996 some 3-4 years after the scenario graced the pages of The Unspeakable Oath). Because of this, there are differences between the two versions. Compared to the book version, the original magazine scenario:

• includes a substantial amount of explanatory material about who and what Delta Green are
• features a much more detailed explanation about the Proto-Matter being used by the Mi-Go, linking it back to Ubbo-Sothla. The book version renames the "Spawns of Ubbo-Sothla" as "Protomatter Spawns"
• has frightened teenage Billy Ray Spivey wearing a Megadeth T-Shirt instead of a Metallica T-Shirt
• makes use of a different "bad guy" agency, more explicitly identifying the enemy agents as being NSA (rather than being Majestic 12)
• makes use of a different crackpot TV-show ("Tough Stories" rather than "Phenomen-X")
• features a potential combat encounter at the town reservoir, where a Spawn of Ubbo-Sothla has been deposited
• the motel ("Merle's Shut-Eye") is even smaller, six rooms versus twelve
• the dead UFO researcher NPC has a different name (Alan Smithee vs Scott Adams)
• includes an offer by Pagan Publishing to supply copies of the manipulated digital audio file found on the UFO researcher's laptop -- readers could either receive a diskette in the mail or a cassette tape with the manipulated and normal versions
• doesn't include a way that the deadly Mi-Go virus (which investigators are likely to contract) can be defeated
• the description of the Mi-Go medical laboratory is slightly abbreviated, and the dead body in the tube has a different origin (instead of being a boy killed in a car accident, he is an abduction victim)
• the encounter at the Mi-Go medical laboratory may end with an additional combat against a Spawn of Ubbo-Sothla
• the encounter at the end between the investigators and the "bad guy" agents (here NSA, rather than NRO SECTION DELTA) plays out slightly differently but with the same result
• there is a table of SAN Rewards (left out of the book version) and a discussion on how this scenario integrates "Cyberpunk" concepts into a Cthulhu and some thoughts on running the scenario in different settings
• includes a map of the fictional town Groversville (omitted from the book version)
• includes only rudimentary stats (expanded for the book version)

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