Some Delta Green Scenario Thoughts

 To be brief, Delta Green (DG) is a modern scenario setting for Call of Cthulhu-like investigations by government agents in an illegal government conspiracy.  Think X-files but with more dead-eyed alcoholics that are shoot first and cover up later. 

I quite like the setting and the people on the unofficial discord. These are some of the ideas I have had while chatting with likeminded DG aficionados. 

Digging plague?

I wonder if our modern preppers actually are the equivalent of catacomb diggers who dug for the sake of digging. See the manmade caves in Cappadocia. Maybe there is a human inclination genetically to dig deep into the earth? Or you could say those human diggers hear the siren's call of Chthonians? Or if you wanted to go Laird Barron's direction, hearing the call of Children of the Old Leech.  

Scandal at Miskatonic University?

There's been yet another scandal at USC, this time where a politician channeled funds to USC (one way through campaign committees) in exchange for a Dean to put the politician's son into a fast track Ph.D. in the school of Social Work. Also said politician's son was going to be hired as staff after his "graduate work".  As tangled as this is, it got me thinking about universities and DG. 

What if the economy was bad and Miskatonic U needed cash? I could see an unethical librarian lending out mundane books that had been hollowed out and instead, mythos tomes were inserted inside for interlibrary loans or to wealthy benefactors. Maybe that's personal greed though as the motive. 

What if instead of the USC situation where a politician was the giver of funds, there was a Church of Starry Wisdom cult situation where they had blackmailed or simply bribed a corrupt Miskatonic dean to give their cultists access to mythos tomes under the auspices of fake graduate programs. After all, got to get that out of state tuition upgrade!  Are you a bad enough agent in DG to go clean Academia's house for them, yet not use fire to burn down all the assets around the vector?

Einstein's Brain and the Mythos

I'm reading about the odd history of Einstein's brain. Check out this quote: "Among those who tried to take it from him was the US Army. "They felt that having it would put them on a par with the Russians, who were collecting their own brains at that time," says Abraham. "People were collecting brains - it was a thing.""

Additional quotes: 

"But taking possession the brain set in motion a painful chain of events for Harvey.

"This was supposed to have been his great good luck charm but in fact it was much more like a relic cursed," says Abraham. "He lost everything after he took that brain. He lost his job, he lost his marriage, he lost his career at Princeton. After the controversy over having taking the brain, he never regained his footing at the hospital.""

And, "She believes there are probably slivers of Einstein in attics across America - the samples distributed by Harvey to scientists who then kept them as interesting curios."

Ghouls and Warlocks at Odds

Neil Gaiman had a neat "you are what you eat" thing with mythos ghouls in The Graveyard Book. Some ghouls called each other "President-Emperor" or something similar based on who they ate of high status.

I had a grisly thought about ghouls with particular tastes. Wouldn't you look up to a ghoul who had eaten Marilyn Monroe and JFK? And as we know, degenerate though they are, ghouls were once human (most of them I think) so one could imagine some have that collector need to "catch-em-all".  There are only so many Presidents to go around.

Given the propensity for warlocks to raise famous dead people from the grave via alchemy and "essential salts" (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward) I could see warlocks battling with these fame-hungry ghouls for bodies for their terrible eldritch experiments.