Help With Convergence
SPOILERS FOR EXTREMOPHILIA AND CONVERGENCE
Agents Darcy, Fairbairn, Garland, Pidgeon, and Adam DO NOT CONTINUE READING!
So, I need help with having my Agents doing an unsanctioned/unassisted investigation of Convergence while not having them miss out on the core parts of the story (protomatter, Spivey, the spray etc), but I have created some problems for myself which I talk about towards the end. First, I will provide context of the campaign as it may help with suggestions, apologies in advance for the length and long-windeness of it:
One of the Agents (an FDA agent as their day job) is not entirely human and are instead a clone of their original self (this is how they became known to the Program), but are nonetheless the only one of them left (as far as they know). After the Program found and rescued them during the event that transpired (the memory they have is of them entering a supernatural food machine at a processing plant during an FDA inspection and coming out as a clone but also having memories of being other things such as processed sausage, other versions of themselves which died etc.), the Program then takes them in, designates them as a "Benign Unnatural Entity" and immediately puts them to work as an Agent, having medical checkups, brain scans, and lines of questioning every now and again in the meantime to see how they are performing, not too dissimilar to Agent Nancy. And this is where the Mi-Go come in. I have kept it ambiguous so far, but what really happened to them is that they were abducted by the Greys at the processing plant and were surgically altered with protomatter (I haven't decided what exactly yet, but I know I want it to be something mundane that is easy to overlook for years, perhaps not defecating or peeing, and they just never noticed), and the memories they have of being turned into sausage etc. were implanted into their brain/is a trauma response to being abducted by aliens and performed on, but I do want the Mi-Go to have actually cloned him, having one other version of himself being present in Groversville which I think will make for a great scene.
Now fast forward to the present (it is currently August of 2011), the Agents along with the NPC Capt. Jimenez from Malmstrom AFB, have just wrapped up Extremophilia, confronting McCaslan and Christina with her baby atop Devils Tower, though the Agents were not successful in stopping them from achieving their goal of leaving with the "Star People" (in this case, I used three Greys as the encounter instead of the Mi-Go, having the Mi-Go keep away in the distance instead, although their blinking "lights" were seen and noted by the Agents, especially as the Mi-Go came closer to Devils Tower to take the Greys, the brains of McCaslan and Christina in canisters, and the fungal baby with them to Groversville, which in this case is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, only a two hour drive away). Also, 4 out of 5 of the Agents are currently infected with the contagion and have had their weird visions, with the Agent who was abducted specifically seeing the town of Groversville and having a strong sense of being pulled in that direction.
This is where I am with getting the Agents to Groversville and starting Convergence. So the Agents are already fully aware of Groversville being a town with something going on (they have read an article from the Watch The Skies newsletter about UFO sightings and cattle mutilations happening there and have expressed interest in investigating it too). But this is the problem I have created for myself as I want to keep this investigation of Groversville completely unrelated to the Program and have it act as a character driven/unsanctioned investigation instead; I could just leave it at that for them to explore what is going on there but I don't want to completely skip out on them not knowing the whole protomatter part of the story and--I haven't decided whether to keep it in or not yet--the Billy Ray Spivey hook too. I have seen suggestions of having the Agents be present at the gas station and witnessing Spivey in the act which I like, but there is also history with the Agents having been used by the Outlaws before (with the Outlaw agent who was playing them being killed as a repercussion/a settling of the matter which was agreed upon by Alphonse and the Director), so I think it might be a bit cheesy to just have another Outlaw agent show up, but then I fear that there will be no other way to provide context for the protomatter/Spivey being altered and them being given the spray to locate said protomatter. That said, I'm not totally against having Derringer show up though if it is the only solution to this problem.
So here I am asking for suggestions on how I can have the Agents investigate Groversville while still getting the bigger picture of it while also basically acting all on their own without help from the Program or possibly even the Outlaws.
TL;DR: How do I get my Agents to do an unsanctioned/unassisted investigation of Groversville while still getting the bigger picture surrounding Spivey, the protomatter, and getting the spray for discovering said protomatter?