Thoughts on an Addition to Ex Oblivione
Spoilers for both Ex Oblivione and Extremophilia.
I’m currently prepping Ex Oblivione as a finale to my group’s first Delta Green arc: we started with Last Things Last, and then moved to Extremophilia. My players, members of the Program, have no idea the Outlaws exist, and I’d like to have the existence of the ‘other’ Delta Green be a crescendo moment - after all, why did Baughman have those weird bank transfers in his trunk? Who were the weird armed vigilantes who tried to kill the alien specimens from project DANCER?
Ex Oblivione, uniquely of Delta Green scenarios I have read, gives specific advice for how to run the scenario for members of the Program and the Outlaws. If my players are going through the scenario as Program members, would I be screwing anything up in people’s minds my inserting an Outlaw NPC, who was following the ‘parallel’ scenario track? Is there anything people would specifically be sure to include in such an NPC? My first thought was to have a retired DEA agent as the Outlaw - maybe someone with a white beard, as to tip them off that the person is over the Federally required retirement age of 57 for Federal special agents. Given how the Outlaws are willing to tell their operatives so much more about the history of Innsmouth and the medical annex, is this a reasonable way to give that information to my Program players?
The fun thing might be, this might be the straw that breaks the camels’ back, and gets the to lie to their case officer.