Project Nemesis is a fan driven website for games that use the One-Roll Engine (like Nemesis, Wild Talents, Reign and Monsters) or Chaosium's Basic Roleplay System (BRP) (like Call of Cthulhu) and the Delta Green setting.
If you're planning on running 'Convergence' from the DG sourcebook for
your players, the following may be of use to you as a handout at the
end of the op (depending, of course, on how well your agents
perform--my agents, obviously, did not perform at optimal levels). If
you're a player, and have not been read on the Groversville situation,
do not read any further.
HANDOUT:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - While convalescing in the CDC infectious diseases research facility in Atlanta, you come across the following article in the "regional news" section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
TENNESSEE JOKE TOWN BECOMES TENNESSEE GHOST TOWN James Edgerton, special to the Journal-Constitution
(Knoxville, TN) The small east-central Tennessee community of Groversville, long the butt of local humor as a hotbed of UFO crackpots and Elvis-sighters and more recently a target of jokes on various national late-night television talk shows and syndicated radio call-in talk shows, is no longer a laughing matter. A virulent plague has ravaged the town and many of the farms in the vicinity, leaving a death toll of well over ninety percent among the human population and near-total loss of livestock in its wake.
Acting swiftly under the direction of the Centers for Disease Control, Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist mobilized several units of the Tennessee National Guard, placing the region under strict quarantine. "We feel it's of vital importance to contain this disease within the Groversville community, not only to prevent the spread of contagion throughout the state, but also to more effectively render assistance to those citizens of Groversville so desperately in need of our help in this time of crisis," Governor Sundquist said in a press release on Saturday.
Dr. Carl Sciebenski, Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, lauded the Tennessee governor's efforts. "Without the cooperation of elected officials, the CDC's hands are tied. Governor Sundquist's prompt response to our recommendation of quarantine may well have safeguarded the lives of thousands," he said in a press conference yesterday. Dr. Sciebenski went on to indicate that, while the provenance of the disease that struck Groversville is unkown, the apparently new strain of viral influenza, while virulent and deadly, appears to have a very short lifecycle. "Forty-eight hours after the initial reports, we were no longer detecting cases of new infection," Dr. Sciebenski stated. "While the tragedy of Groversville will never be forgotten, we are confident that there shall be no re-appearances of this disease."
According to a representative of the FBI at its Knoxville office, preliminary investigations into possible origins of this outbreak are inconclusive. "Frankly, we're not sure where this thing came from. If you've talked to the CDC, you know as much as I do," FBI Special Agent James Derringer was quoted as saying. Derringer went on to indicate that, while the possibility that this disease was the result of a calculated act of terrorism is remote, it has not been ruled out. "We're going over the entire town with a fine-toothed comb. Wherever this thing came from, we'll find out. And we'll make sure it never comes back," Derringer said.
No official spokesperson for the town of Groversville was available for comment. Thus far, no trace of the town's board of aldermen has been found, although the town hall was found to be in a state of total disarray when investigators arrived. Likewise, the entire local sheriff's department appears to have succumbed to the disease that claimed so many. Funerals for the deceased will continue through the week. Tennessee Governor Sundquist has declared a state-wide day of mourning for tomorrow.