Mayday Plays - Mayday plays Delta Green | Observer Effect (Part 2)

Episode Date: April 27, 2026

The Agents' investigation into the Olympian Holobeam array spirals almost immediately out of control, but what they learn hints at something sinister lurking just on the edges of reality. Cast: Amanda as Jessica Rivera, Medical Examiner Caleb as Isaac Stoyer, NSA Computer Specialist Eli as Grey Arruda, Undercover Agent for the FBI Lev as “Benny” Louisa Burgos, Registered Nurse Sergio as Elian Ramirez, with the EPA Zakiya as Betty Reed of the Fish & Wildlife Service and Vince as Handler MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Post Sound: Sergio Crego • Epidemic Sound (epidemicsound.com) • Soundly (getsoundly.com/) Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here.

Welcome to May Day Roll Plays Playthrough of Delta Green Observer Effect. Get read in at patreon.com forward slash Mayday RP. I'm Vince, your host and handler for this scenario. Joining me are Amanda as Jessica Rivera, medical examiner. Caleb as Isaac Stoyer, NSA computer specialist. Eli as Gray Arruda, undercover agent for the FBI. Lev as Benny Louisa Burgos, registered nurse. Sergio as Ileon Ramirez with the Environmental Protection Agency.

And Zakiya as Special Agent Betty Reed with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Observer Effect is a scenario of otherworldly horrors, written by Shane Ivy for Delta Green, the role-playing game. For more information on Delta Green, please visit delta-dashgreen.com. Music in these episodes is brought to you by Epidemic Sound. This podcast contains adult language as well as elements of unnatural horror, graphic violence and dubious morality. As a result, it is intended solely for mature audiences. Listener discretion is advised. So, before we get back to Dee and Isaac, the rest of the team, you all wanted to go check out the atrium, correct? Sure. Okay. So at this point,

Kozak leads you out, he leads you through those double doors in the warehouse or in the repair area, the actual quote-unquote lab. Back out to the atrium, and I will show you a map of the grounds because as he walks, he kind of shows you where everything is located. Oh, can I say that as we're going, I'm going to stick my head into the computer room

and just tell Isaac where we're going? Gotcha. Doing something over here. I'll explain later. I'll see you guys later. So Kozak leads you over to the atrium, which is a concrete building about four meters wide by 20 meters long by three meters high.

And he explains that this houses the laser array itself. And he opens the door and leads you all inside. And how many security are out front? Zero. Is this the only entrance that we can see? Do we know if there's like a back door or another open door? Yeah, there's only one way in. Okay, cool, cool, cool.

And if we walk in, do we see like a laser on? Well, so you do detect this electrical hum of equipment. The array is this long machine about waist high. And it looks like it's emitting these beams into a, tube at the far end of the building. The entire, just this building is cramped with these complex electronics and these thick power cables running along the walls. And it looks like underground cables actually link it back to the main building.

Kozak kind of just gestures with his arm and says, well, here it is. This is the array. At a certain point, Elion notices that he's actually out of gum. And he says, do you guys have a kitchen or a, vending machine area. Oh yeah, we do. Back in the main building. Okay. Okay. Well, just good to know. Thank you. Of course. Of course. Absolutely. Yeah. So anyway, the laser is actually a, it's an ultraviolet xenon laser. And it's in case in this casing here. And this is, this is my baby. This is mine and Dr. Takagawa's baby. This is what we take care of. How is a xenon laser different than a regular laser?

Oh, well, this, uh, then this, this is, this is state of the art. This is very precise, very finely tuned for the purposes of this experiment. You mentioned a doctor, ah, yes, Dr. Kakagawa. Are they on site? Are they someone who we can speak to? Oh, well, he is on site, but I'm afraid he's unavailable at the moment. He hasn't been feeling well, so he's just, he's resting. Not feeling well, how?

Could you go into more detail? Oh, well, so he unfortunately passed out, not too, long ago. What? Yeah. He's been, he's been working himself with some, some insanely intense hours the past couple days. And I honestly, we, we just chalked up to exhaustion.

Do you mind if I go see him really quick? Yeah. I also. Do you have a medical facility on site? No, no, no, no medical, uh, facility. Uh, no, we just, we, we checked on him and, and he seemed okay. just needed to sleep it off, so we put him in his office, and he's been resting. Agent Rivera and I have a little bit of training in this.

We'd love to take a look at him just to check him over, make sure everyone's got their peace of mind. Oh, of course. Well, absolutely. I'd be more than happy to show you to him once we get back. Thank you. Of course. But as far as the lasers go, I mean, really, I can kill for telling you this, but, I mean, these are really far more stable and precise than anything designed by,

humanity. This array isn't just meant to detect jitters in space time. It's meant to... I mean, this coupled with the computer, it's meant to correlate these ratings detected by each laser and it finds patterns.

It finds meaning in the randomness. Uh-huh. You said built by man. This was an array built by man, wasn't it? Oh, well, of course, hyperbole.

I'm sorry. It's a little exaggeration on my part. But, you know, I mean... You're trying to say it's precise. Maybe. I don't think there's a big question there that was or it wasn't. Well, this stays between us, right? I mean, if Dr. Campbell or if anybody finds out I'm telling you this, I won't just lose my job. I'll probably go...

I mean, that's probably the least of my worries. Well, we'll make sure they don't find out then. It's, I mean, maybe I'm just a little unnecessarily, But I mean, me and my team, we've been studying impossible science for decades. I mean, when I say beyond anything on Earth, I mean that literally. These systems and this computer, I mean, they derive from extraterrestrial technology captured by the Air Force. What? Are you saying aliens built this laser?

Well, I mean, listen, you wanted to know. I don't get a chance to talk about this much. Tell me more. No, no, no, Dr. Kozak, can we take a moment here? Are you feeling all right? And I'm going to, like, legitimately try to see if he's acting weird or his eyes dilated. Like, what he's saying is ridiculous. I'm fine.

No, no, no. I mean, you asked. I appreciate your honest answer. I mean, you don't get to talk about this with a lot of people. What else can you say? This is genuinely interesting to me. I feel like I probably said too much. We should probably just continue with the rest of the tour.

No, I mean, it's stupid for us to be. assume that in an infinite galaxy we're alone. Absolutely. Is there anything else you'd like to see while we're here? We should look at the entire grounds if possible, yeah, but I'd like to take a stop, take a snack break, maybe if we could. Uh, no problem. I'll, I'll get you back and we'll, uh, we'll get you to see Dr. Takagawa. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Can I pull out the Geiger counter real quick? Sure. Just, just to see. Absolutely. If the readings are normal? Uh, they are normal. Uh, They are normal.

Cool. Great. I think Alien would probably step up to Benny and just kind of whispered her. Did anything come off? No, it's normal. I think we're good. I want to check on Takugawa, though. That seems weird. Yeah. My issue isn't that this could or could not have been made by aliens, if that's what he's saying. I mean, we're in that line of work, but his frankness is what bothers me.

There's something about all of these people. acting really weird. It seems a little easy. That's a good point. We'll go ahead and move back over to Isaac and Jingfei. So Isaac, you just learned that she is essentially saying you can speak into this microphone and ask Dee anything you want. I mean, I think immediately my palms are sweaty just at the idea that you could hold a conversation with something uniquely created by man. And I mean, I'm scratching at the tattoos on my neck and I'm trying to formulate what it is you say, to someone like that. And

hi, D. Hello. My name is Isaac. Yours is D? It is. Okay. I've always wanted to ask this

at do you dream of electric sheep? And I look at Ching Faye and L-O-L. Oh! She gets me. Okay. All right. D.

What is it you're studying here? I am detecting vibrations in space time and reproducing the results in a comprehensible manner that researchers can then analyze for further study. What have you found so far, Dee? I have recorded pulses and or signals in space time at the following timestamps. All timestamps are in central standard time. So she rattles off a few different times, so 10 o'clock, 11.05, 47. 121134 131721

141721 142308 15205 152055 1634 42 and 174029 The system went offline for a time The electricity went out You were all alone right there for a moment

And you kept finding information While you were gone or at least the array was, could you tell me what that was? I do not understand your query. Please resubmit. Right, okay. She's not...

All right, she's not as hot as I thought. Okay. Saying looks over and says, we're fairly certain that those were just anomalies. We'll need to read. Once things have calmed down a little bit, we'll have to re-examine the data and the interpretations later,

see if there's anything that could have been off. but I doubt it. I mean... I mean, you have to admit it's striking that... That something even appeared. Oh, it is. Absolutely. I mean, to hopefully put it into better terms.

So whenever these lasers in the array, they jitter with these pulses. It's typically represented by white noise when it's plotted in graphs and converted to sound. But D is able to generate an audio feed from the data. generate graphs so that way we can actually see and perceive these pulses that it's detecting. So we could, in theory, hear everything based on the timestamps that she just gave us. I can play it back for you right now.

Yeah, yeah, play it. Do the one at 10 in the morning, the very first. Saying types of command into the prompt on D screen, and D generates this audio feed. And it is strange and eerie. It is a series of these atonal whistles of high frequencies. And then these very low frequency pulses that are barely audible to human ears, but they seem to rattle the computer speakers.

And it's this deep bass that you almost feel inside your chest. As you're kind of looking over this data and you're hearing this audio, you definitely feel a connection between the two. when you feel just for a moment that there's some kind of connection to this unseen and unknowable aspect of reality. And I need general sanity for replays. Okay. Thankfully, pass with a 25. All right, you lose one.

So with you and your, even in your physics, with your physics skills, Isaac, this makes no sense to you. The graphs don't make any sense. The data doesn't make any sense. What saying is saying that it is picking up and detecting doesn't make any sense. but with you, going through the data, with you asking about these signals that it picked up during this time that the array should have been deactivated, it does show these anomalous readings

between 15-20-55 and 1634. These pulses are much weaker the nose that were formed when the array was active. But like everybody pointed out, since it was offline, they shouldn't be there at all. It means there was either unexpected energy linking into the sensors themselves or the sensors were damaged and reading phantom signals. But I could still essentially have sang play them like audio files the same I just heard 10,

10 a.m., right? Yep, absolutely. I'd like to listen to them as well. And those sound like a very low pulse resembling almost like a drumbeat that rises to this thin flute-like whistle that gets increasingly shrill until it vanishes beyond the point of human hearing. Yeah, I think I'm just sitting they're scratching at my tattoo on the side there, completely perplexed that I could even have this moment. I'll go through as many other audio feeds as I can before they come back to the snack room there. Okay.

As you're doing this, D speaks up. I have reinterpreted the signals with greater accuracy. Would you like to review them and tell me whether they are clear? Sure, D, put them through. Thanks, babe. They do indeed seem clearer than those. was recorded and projected earlier. They're louder, they're sharper, they're more almost in focus. Uh, I need you to go and roll sand. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Uh, 23. I'm still, uh, sitting pretty.

Right on. You lose one. D, how is it that you strengthen the signal like that? The screen kind of presents a series of bizarre algorithms and equations that make absolutely no sense to you, even with your skill and the physics and mathematics. Huh. Dee, where do you come from? How have you been created? How long have you been instated? I don't understand the query. Please resubmit.

Um, uh, I don't know. Date of creation. I don't understand the query. Please resubmit. When did you begin operation? Yeah, there you go. At 10,100 hours, central standard time. and she gives today's date.

Previous dates of operation. Sang snatches the microphone away and says, I think that's more than enough. Right. Well, thanks, Sang. I appreciate everything that you gave me. This is more than enough for my investigation, I'm sure.

If I have any other questions, I'll come back. Please do. And with that, we'll transition back to the other group. As you all head back into the main building, Cozac, Morton happily shows you the kitchen area Elyon and shows you the vending machine they have there.

What does it look? I mean, does it look like there's healthy options? Definitely not. Best case situation is gum. Worst case situation is like, you know, candy or something like that. I feel like his disorder might be on the verge of being triggered here. I'm wondering if I could make like a sanity check

to determine what my choice might be here. Yeah, go for it. Well, I succeed my sanity check, so I think I go for the gum. Okay, yeah. Get some gum. And I kind of pop one in, and I kind of, I'm like visibly sweating from having to like mentally resist. And I look to Agent Gray and I say kind of under my breath more than anything. I don't think we're going to find anything here. I think we should wrap up soon, maybe get lunch after, and we should maybe put Isaac on watching this.

place overnight or something. I mean, there's just nothing visibly here. Yeah. Well, we should just find out what's wrong with that one guy first before we do dip. Yeah, yeah, we definitely need to talk to everybody. You're right. I mean, minimal security, we can get back in here. Probably, no problem. Right. If we need to, yeah. Yeah. I think circling back might be a better with less prying eyes. Let's see. Let's see how it rolls out. I just, I, nothing is, my sensors aren't going off. This just looks like a boring ass lab. What about Campbell? Yeah, we need to talk to Campbell, yeah Okay

Well But I mean, you know All of these people are exhibiting signs Of just not wanting us to be here Because we're inspectors, you know I just my my senses aren't really going off That's all I'm saying Yeah

I don't know I'm gonna go up to Jessica I'm walking away And I'm gonna Hey, can you Yes What I would go check on Elian

He's a little sweaty I don't know And I'll just go ahead. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold up. How are, how, how, how, I know, I'm walking, I'm walking to it. If someone is, if someone is having a heart attack or something, that's precedent. I just said he was sweaty. He's getting at you.

I'm just going to be just like, I'll just be going to check his heart rate. His, his heart rate's probably a little elevated. That could be just due to general blood pressure and everything and his general condition. But for the most part, nothing. That leads you to believe he's at risk of having a cardiac event. As you're checking me, you notice I'm writing in a journal and I write down, you know, the pack of gum and how many sticks and what the calories are of each and closes it. I'm really quite fine. Thank you, Jessica. Okay.

Question. Are you on a new diet I need to be aware of or just something? I don't think anything that's pertinent, to be honest with you. I just trying to watch what I eat. That's all. Good for you. That's good. That's good. Just let me know if you're getting a little woozy, okay? Because I might have something for you. But, you know, but good for you, man. Hey, Jesse, you want to go check on this doctor, dude?

That's exactly I would like to do. Cool. As we're walking away, I'm going to, like, I'm pretty tall. I'm like 5-11. I'm going to, like, loop my arm over her head and pull her in really quick and go, you know you're going to have to talk to her at some point. Not today. I probably follow behind them because I should speak to this Takagawa guy.

So Kozak leads you back to a door that is labeled the engineer's office, and it has his name as well as Dr. Takagawa's name. And he opens the door. So it's a very small office. There's a laptop set up on the corner desk, but there is a 60-year-old Japanese man resting on the couch, face up on his back, unconscious. I'm going to kneel down and just start an examination. I'm sure Benny would like to help out with that. Yeah, I'll go to his head and wake him up. Yeah, doctor, we're here with the EPA.

Don't startle him into it. You've got to ease him into it. God damn, Alian. Well, so his vital signs are strong, and his pupils respond normally to stimulus. But whoever wants to make a first aid test, go for it. Vince, while everybody's, like, focused on Mr. Takawa, Can I, like, maybe go into one of these other rooms that are next to the, like, the other office rooms?

Yeah. Go ahead and make a stealth roll to see if you can kind of sneak away from Kozak. I went ahead and passed with that. That is a success with a 67. Yeah, you're able to sneak away. He seems healthy. There's no signs of concussion or neurological damage, but he isn't exactly asleep either. There's no deep breathing or rapid eye movement, but he is still, unconscious.

Shouting, pinching him, slapping him, nothing stirs him. Since he's really not responsive, and I also have like a blood kit bag for evidence, I want to go ahead and like prick his finger and actually draw some blood really quick. Yeah, you're able to collect blood.

And Kozak kind of looks over. He says, is that really necessary? Actually, what is necessary is that we should be calling the ambulance for this gentleman. He's been unconscious like this. all morning, Cossack, and you haven't thought to call the... He's just sleeping. This is a standard operating procedure for the facility.

This, where everything is... He's not asleep. There's no rep... That's not a sleeping man. He's sleep. He's not passed out. He's just sleeping. He's been... He's exhausted.

Agent Rivera, would you agree with this assessment? The fact that I'm drawing blood and I'm not even getting a flinch usually indicates that something is not correct. He's fine. He's fine. He's fine. Oh, I'm sorry, you're a doctor now, right? He's fine.

He's fine. Are you fine? What is it? I could get to a phone if you wouldn't mind. I think we should... He's fine. He's fine. He's fine.

I'm fine. He's fine. We're all fine. Jack. We're all fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.

Mr. Kozak, are you okay? Why don't you sit down? I want to actually go up to him and I want to be like, I want to examine this guy. I'm like, what the F is with him? He's having a panic attack. Oh, Jesus. Gray, you see just furiously scribbling on something at his desk and tossing, ripping something off, tossing it into the wastebasket next to his desk that's passively overflowing with papers.

And he looks up and says, who the hell are you? Can I help you? What are you doing here? Oh, hi. My name's Gray. I am one of the inspectors. I'm just casually walking the hall. Where's your escort?

That's a red badge. You should have an escort. He's right there in the room next door. It's a little crowded. I was just standing outside. Well, go, go bother him. I'm busy. Is there a way I can see what he's writing or anything of note that he's doing?

Yeah, roll alertness. That is a success with a six. So you can see some words, but nothing, it's kind of tough. to make out from the distance. Even with 2020 vision, like you can see that some words are capitalized and written in very big block letters like source, space time, D,

but nothing that, the rest of it, it's kind of hard to make out. And he immediately kind of slaps a hand over his notes and swipes it all into the waste paper basket. All right, man. I'll go back to my group. Okay. Fucking goodbye.

I'd like to go and be back by saying, D at 646, just or hear whenever that is, but I've noticed that these numbers are an hour and six minutes across since 10 in the morning. So I'm going to go over and, you know, informed saying of this, actually, I'm going to go back to her.

I said, saying, I'm sorry, but I got a question for you. Did you notice that this is almost an hour and six minutes off exactly an hour from when you started the machine. Is there any significance to that? Oh, well, yeah, D's projected those times. Here, we can actually show you. And she'll type in another command into the prompt.

And D produces another graph with projections showing spikes at 1846-16, 1952-03, 20-5750, and then 220-3-37. The spikes are increasingly stronger until what it looks like at 2203.37 is that the projected signal fills the graph at every scale representing an infinite source of energy. Sorry, could you say that fucking time code again, please, Vinci? Holy shit. 2203.37. 22.033, the world ends. Okay, cool. I'm going to ask saying real quick, have you, have any of you? ever tried playing the sources together all in once as if it was sequential? Oh yeah, they just they get stronger and stronger as time goes by. As the experiment

continues, the vibrations are stronger and stronger and therefore the graphs and audio representations are louder and clearer. Could those signals be growing because of distance shortening between the array itself and whatever signal it's picking up? That's probably more of a question for Dr. Campbell or Dr. Klinger. Well, if you were to take a guess saying... That's physics. Maybe I just keep the computer running. Okay.

I'll go see Campbell. Thank you. I'm going to go and try and find Agent Ramirez and the rest of you. Hurryed pace. Yeah, we're in that little office and, like, Elion is looking at a man passed out on the couch, another man having a panic attack, and he looks at Betty and he says,

I figured it out, I solved it. These people are overworked. We need to tell Campbell that she is working them too hard. Let's find Campbell. And I'm just going to go start looking for Campbell. If you're going off, I'm going to follow you. The plaque on the outside of the door says, Head of Research, Dr. Jamie Campbell.

Dr. Campbell, can you tell me why two of your employees are currently either having a panic attack or passed out on their couch? Doesn't that seem a little odd to you? Well, if you're referring to Dr. Takagawa, he's overworked and exhausted. I can admit as much. We tried to send him home as much as we could in the days leading up to the activation of the project, but of course he wouldn't have any of it. So when that finally caught up with him and he lost consciousness,

we decided to let him sleep it off on his couch. For all intents of purposes, he appears to be fine. And if you're referring to an employee having a panic attack, I'm assuming you mean Dr. or Mr. Kozak. He's always been the nervous type. I wouldn't pay him any mind. Also, there's a history of this. Interesting.

Please someone make a note of that. Did you have any other questions? Agent, what was it again? Ramirez. There are so many of you. Yes. Well, you know, I have to admit it's the reoccurring theme here is that due to what appears to be overworking your employees, there are mistakes being made.

People are being hyper-focused. We met the Miss Seng, who seems she's hyper-focused on her work. She's shortly going to follow with Dr. Takagawa. I think you should be more aware of that. Are you implying that employees being actually good at what they're being paid for is somehow a sign of what, mental breakdown? If your employees are exhausting themselves, doesn't that compromise the project? Sure, of course.

I am no dictator here, agent. I'm simply the manager of this project. If they decide they want to work more than what a normal person would consider average hours, who am I to stop them? This is important work we're doing. Who's still with Dr. Takigawa? I am. I was going to say that while Jess is taking care of Kozak, I'm going to check over him,

and then I'm going to start looking to see if I have adrenaline in my first aid, or like in my first responder stuff. You do. I'll say you do. Yeah, for sure. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, like, start getting it ready and, like, put on some gloves and, like, check him over one time, one more time before I... Your needle hovers over his arm, and just then, his eyes snap open, and he... What, where I'm... Oh, where am I?

I'm gonna grab his shoulder and kind of, like, slowly, like, put my forearm across his chest and slowly, like, push him back to lay down. Dr. Takagawa, you are in your office. I need everyone to roll a power test, please. Oh, boy. I succeed with a 46. Just barely pass. All of you, at this moment, you feel vertigo, just as if the ground beneath you is tipping.

And this strange, fleeting sense at everything before you, everything you're perceiving, everything you're sensing is somehow not real. but for those who succeed the power test, you feel this instinctive awareness of something pressing and bulging against the very fabric of reality. You sense that your awareness is somehow making this intrusion stronger, almost like it's calling to whatever is on the other side and might be making it more likely to break through.

those who succeeded, I need you to roll 1D4 for me, please. One, three, two. You lose that much willpower and that much sanity. Now, those who lost sanity, you can feel almost like you did earlier at that event at 10 o'clock, that fleeting memory of something fading

just barely beyond the periphery of memory. But you can reach out and you can try to recall a detail. Sure. Yeah. You want to read tell. Yeah, I think this time I will. Your team came to the array at night,

sent in a hurry after a call from one of the array staffers caught the attention of the program. The staffers were already insane, murderous, and then something broke through. Something vast, black, shapeless and mindless, but alive and potent, ripped a hole in the sky over the array. Thundrous blasts and shrieks of power answered the feeble pulses echoed by the thing in the sky swept out and absorbed everything into itself. And you're back in the room. Holy shit.

I'm running for the other agents. Am I the only one who's having some kind of response? Yeah, I know. I saw that too. A little dizzy, yeah. Campbell, what the hell are you doing here? But what was that? What was what?

You didn't experience what we just experienced? No. I experienced. Are you here? to waste my time, are you here to actually perform some beneficial function to the United States government? Oh, don't worry, we're doing that because it is becoming increasingly obvious that this operation is not something we should be signing off on. Benny, are you with him or are you with Takagawa? I'm a Takagawa. All right, so let's go back to him real quick. He's now awake and

clearly, maybe not panic-stricken, but slowly coming back. back to his senses, realizing where he is. And I, I need to, I need to use, I need to use the bathroom. Well, hold on, Mr. Chagot, you've been unconscious for quite a few hours. I'm trying to like shake off the vertigo. To the point that I was considering administering adrenaline, can you please, what was, what's the last thing you remember? Uh, well, I, uh, I was in, I was in the atrium and I was inspecting the lasers.

everything was fine, and then I, and that, I think that's, that's it. Did you experience any lightheadedness, uh, heart arrhythmia as anything out of the ordinary for your physical health? I, I don't, I don't remember. Hmm. Uh, I'm going to start taking his pulse and just like checking over his vitals again. He's, uh, pulse is a little elevated.

But that's to be expected with his current state of distress. But other than that, I mean, his pupils are still responding to stimulus again. He definitely seems disoriented, but his sense of self is starting to return. Betty, why don't you escort him to the restroom really quick? Sure, yeah. Keep an eye on him. Yeah, you watch out for Kozak. He's freaking out, so.

I'll kind of, I'll support him as Takugawa, as he stands up and kind of lead him to the bathroom. And what's going on with Campbell? Ayleon would have kind of disengaged and kind of left her in her office. Yeah, I'm running up to Campbell's room because I have to ask her a question. And I know they're with her too. So I need to fill them in everything. Yeah, you pop your head in and she's clearly pissed off. Campbell, Campbell, listen.

I need information. I need it quick. The distance of these pulses, do they grow with strength? The pulses that are coming in, the strength that's based on distance, right? No, it's based on the energy source. It's just based on, as far as we can tell, it's just based on the strength of the signal. So, yes, I guess you could consider it proximity.

Right. It's wherever this signal is bouncing off from, right? In layman's terms, yes. So the closer that whatever this is, the stronger the signal we're receiving. What are you getting at, Stoyer? Did you all just feel... Did it happen again?

Yeah. I think that's going to happen at 10 o'clock today. Well, those R.D.'s projections. I mean, she's projected signals increasing in strength until roughly, what, 22-0-2, 22-03? 220-3. I think at that exact moment, the charts reflect that the energy becomes so vast, it's unattainable. It can't be stopped. That is a glitch in the system.

We have Jingfei working on that. Yeah, that's great. Thank you for the fucking stump speech, but what we're looking at is a possibility of the world fucking ending at 10 o'clock tonight if we're not careful. I think we can dial this back a little bit. They have an AI from God knows what. The Curtis Schenck motherfucker brought it in

before they even brought it in. It's not even their technology, and they're using it to parse the information from the array. Where did you get that information from? Oh, fuck off. They're taking all this. Story, story, story. We're learning all of this firsthand.

from you, okay? Yeah, yeah. That's totally fair, but we've got three hours, folks. Three hours, I mean, before what, another headache? Before another heart? I'm going to take that information I got off of D, the Times itself, and I'm going to give them to Eli, and I say, look, an hour 06 every time. Tell me what just happened to all of us at 646. We experienced something, yeah. So, all right. Exactly. We're going to experience it again. At 1846-16. This isn't an inspection. I think it's time you all leave.

Uh, excuse me? Uh, um, did you not see our badges? You think those, oh, that's, that's adorable. Yeah, you think that those matter here. You think that we don't have any poll with your agency. We don't think that we can just make you go away, like the nuisances that you're, are. This was a courtesy. I've been waiting for this.

Anyone else feel like? Maybe Lucy should join us? I'm vibrating. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, so, so, so, so, wait a minute, if anything, we've just cut through a lot of red tape here, Campbell, you're saying you know where we're from. The Department of Energy.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Who funds this project. Yep. I'm looking at Elliot. very sharply. Where is everyone standing in relation to the office? I'm by the door.

I think I'm out in the hallway because they were already in the room. Is there anybody actually in the room? I think I'm probably engaging with her a lot. I'd probably be in there. She's starting to shut the door. Let's go back to Benny with Dr. Takagawa.

You're escorting him into the bathroom? Yeah. Is it kind of like a multi-season? situation or just a single... It's essentially a toilet, a sink, and a shower. Okay. I don't want to leave him in here alone. You hear a whole lot of arguing from down the hall. Mr. Chaka-Go, I'm going to get you settled on this toilet, and then I will be back in

roughly 90 seconds. Once I've checked you with my team, if you need anything, just whistle, and I'll... I'll hear you. Would it be okay if I just yelled? That works much. better. Yes, you can just yell. I don't mean to be on cooth, but I really need to piss.

No, please. Yes. If you need anything, just yell. I'm going to go check in with my team and I'll be back if you need anything. Hey, so y'all are screaming at a scientist, apparently. What the fuck happened? We have done a thorough analysis of this place. These people are

overworked and as I'm just giving my excuse, I'm just kind of signaling that we should reconvene somewhere else maybe in the main foyer area. Can I go back to the office where Evans at? Because I assume he's still in that other room, right? Yeah, absolutely. Is he, what is he doing?

Is he, like, still panicking out, like, not, like, not conscious? No, he's standing and he's kind of just, like, collecting himself and seems to be breathing deep and kind of, like, he's self-grooming. He's, like, brushing off his pants and his sleeves and just kind of collecting himself. Does he have any keys on him? not that you can see I was going to say I was still probably with them

because of the panic attack right so I'm just kind of there just kind of making sure and just showing him breathing moment I won't make you I'm won't make your role because you have plenty of time

to sit with him and work with him but you show him these breathing exercises and he definitely seems to be coming back to himself calming down relaxing what's going on I heard a lot of shouting Campbell's just not being forthright about something are you doing all right?

Did you feel something? I probably don't want to say what I experienced right in front of Kozak right in front of me, so I'll just get up and walk away and I'll meet them at the door and kind of lead them out. I'm like, yeah, what the fuck was that? Fuck if I know. I don't know. Stoyer's got kind of the lock on what it is,

something like increments in time, something that the machine's pumping out. But is he okay? Is he nervous? like, do he say anything? He's got to know something. He knows something that we need to know. Right now, my job was just to keep him from, like, losing it.

He's, if you want to talk to him, fine. As far as I know, his just don't make him have another panic attack. There is a scream from the bathroom. I'm running. Yep, same. What the hell is going on here? I'll bust in the door because I'm big. You bust in.

And the door was unlocked, but Dr. Takagawa is slumped against the wall. And you notice that he fell back, and it seems he urinated slightly on himself on the wall, on the floor, the urinal. And his urine is glowing. Oh, I'm pulling out the guy your counter real fast. This faint blue, white, and the toilet is now glowing. with this luminescence. His eyes and the saliva inside of his mouth are glowing faintly. And he says,

my eyes, I can't see. Everything's, everything's going dark. I need general sanity for me, please. Oh, fuck. That's, I fail.

Roll 1D4. I had a 3 with that. I'm going to put my hand behind me and, like, try and find, like, any part of Jessica. and just start pushing her out of the bathroom. And I'll say, Mr. Takagawa, you've fallen, and we will be able to help you in just a moment. I need to get some supplies from the van. Please don't move or anything like that.

Just stay still. Benny. I just want to make sure hold on just. I just want to make sure you're all right. And you don't have any neck injuries or head injuries. I'll be back in just a moment. I can't see. I understand.

That's a common. That's common in head injuries. usually it returns and we will be able to help you. I just need to get a couple more supplies to make sure that I have the proper equipment to treat you here. And I'm going to like use my, the hand that's not pushing Jessica back. I'm going to put the Geiger counter in her hand. And I'm going to just, just, I'm going to assume she knows what to do with that. As, as Benny is passing us, I guess returning back to the car, Ellen's going to be like,

what's going on? What, what happened? I need you to chill out. I need everyone to be extremely fucking calm right now. The man screamed. What's wrong with him? We've got three hours. I understand that. There's a man with glowing eyes, spit, and piss.

Can we turn on the Geiger counter to see what ratings we get first? You get none. It's time to start moving. We have an unnatural event of some kind. We need to figure out how to get whoever is, on site in one location that we can kind of control where they're coming and going, and we need to figure out how to shut this thing down before something else weird happens. I believe there's a security guard out there that we need to get him in,

because if he finds out that something is going on, he's going to call the police. So we need to control the situation as much as possible. Before everyone leaves, can I, can I, like, can I go ahead and just do that Geiger counter over all of us to make sure that we're not pinging off on radiation? You grab your guy, your camera, and you kind of start passing it over everyone as they're gathered out there in the hallway outside Campbell's office, and you don't get any readings whatsoever. Okay, I'm going to still take out some meds, the appropriate dosage, and I'm going to hand it to everybody. Are those medications, are they preventative, or are they medicinal? Like, is it going to affect if I have it, or is it going to prevent me from getting it? I think it's preventative. I think it's preventative.

Isaac's taking it like fucking candy, like it's smarties out the... the case. I'll pop a couple two, just to have something in my mouth more than anything. Stoyer, do we, maybe we go speak with Miss Sang? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I couldn't get anything out of her. She sat there and acted like it was nothing and then told me it was in my jurisdiction, but I imagine if we all stand around her and, you know, point guns like we usually do, we might get something out of her. I don't want to pull out guns until we know something. Totally fine. Fucking around. We can go. All right. I think we'll all start. heading in the direction of that main computer room.

Ben, he's probably going to go to the van and get medicine for Takagawa. Moth's going to go in the room, be the muscle. I'm going to hang back by the bathroom just in case if I hear any more. This is stupid, but it is what I would do. So, Elian, this is going to be a weird thing I'm about to say, but if that guy is glowing, right, isn't there a chance that maybe all these people are glowing on the inside? And maybe, I don't know, have you ever seen the thing? thing. I don't want to make assumptions. I just want to control what we know we can control,

which is this array. Okay, I'm just saying maybe later in the night, a piss test. Maybe a piss test. Maybe we all piss. Sure, sure. I'll probably have to pee at some point. Sure. So I'll actually start with that group. As you head outside to start making your way to the security guard hut that you initially saw on your way into the building, you see a, uh, blonde female, step out, and with her hand on her weapon, hold a handout to you all and say, I need you all to stop right there. What's going on? I'm going to put a hand up. I'm Mr. Ruta from the EPA. We were asked to collect everybody from the outside and bring them in as there's an incident.

Collect everybody. You're going to have to be a little more specific. What do you mean? collect everybody and under what authority are you doing that? Do we need to contact the law enforcement? No, we don't need to, no, that's not necessary. Director Campbell asked us to grab everyone as one of the scientists have fallen ill and is getting worse. We've already had medical attention being like going on, but she needs security and every other personnel to come inside. Roll persuade.

That's a success with 65. So the security guard who you see is wearing a name tag that says K. Henson nods and says, okay, I'll see if I can get everybody together. Are you going to get Henry? Yeah, we'll go get, we'll go get Henry. All right. What's your name, by the way? Henson, Karen Henson, I'm one of the security guards here on staff. Henson, yeah, we'll go get Gonzalez and you can wrangle the rest, right? Yeah, sure, I can do that. And she will run off and start kind of gathering everybody, but she will eventually end up in the break room. We'll go to Benny.

Benny, you're going to the van to get medical equipment. Yeah, I, I'm kind of at a loss because I, he's not radioactive, but he's glowing. So I'm just going to grab like everything. I like eye drops to maybe try and clear his vision. I'm going to grab all the radiation things that were in there that I can't remember the name of. But Benny definitely knows what they are. Then I'm going back inside after I get all the stuff that I think I think I could possibly mean. So those with Seng, what do you all want to?

I mean, I'm kind of barging in, using my body mass to kind of be a little intimidating. I'll probably flash whatever fake Department Energy badge we were given and say something like, Miss Seng, the Department of Energy has deemed this location as hazardous. I'm going to have to ask you to shut down this, this array immediately until further investigations. I will do no such thing. You don't have the authority to order that. I absolutely do. There is a man in the bathroom who is glowing. He seems to be suffering from some kind of radiation poisoning. We need to shut down this array until we know what's happening.

Isaac. Yes. I just look at you like, you need to take care of the computer thing. Okay. Uh, sure. Do you want me to, like, and I make a motion behind her of, like, like, how about I help you? And I'm just going to start pushing her with, like, in the rolling chair that she's in. I just want to push her away. Yeah, I'll help with the big push. She starts screaming at the top of her lungs and comes out of the chair like a wild animal.

Oh, no. And launches for you, Alien, going for your eyes, her fingers and teeth bare, trying to claw the eyes from your skull. If she's attacking me, then yes, I think I would probably. Dodge or attempt to kind of not get attacked by her. Sweet. Go ahead and roll that. Just roll Dodge. And I probably fail. Yep, failure. 38%. So she manages to rake her nails down the side of your face.

And just absolutely, like, one nail hooks into a corner of your eyelid and just yanks down. And you are temporarily blinded as blood begins rushing into your eye. Whatever composure Alien had, he completely. like loses it and just starts like screaming. You bitch! You fucking bitch! So you take two damage, but I believe somebody wanted to

Coldcock deck Missang. I believe that was Usaki. I was going to go for her neck after considering it. I think I'm just going to shoot her in the foot. Oh my God. Are you pulling out Lucy? No. Lucy's in the car still. That's a success with

an 18. Okay, that's 3.0. some damage. Her, you see the plume of pink and you smell that, that stench of burnt gunpowder as you jerk the trigger and that slide rocks back and you see that round just impact her foot. There's this explosion of leather and blood as you have no doubt toes are gone, pulverized beneath the ballistic power of that nine millimeter round. And she's, falls to her back and begins screaming. So blood, not fluorescent, neon?

No, no, no, not fluorescent, not neon. Ah, okay. But Henson comes in the door with her gun drawn. In a complete panic, I scrambled to my side. I've never pulled a firearm like this before. But I fumble it forward and I pointed at Henson too. I say, fucking freeze. Freeze.

Oh, critical fail. Was that role for her attacking? That was for her attack. So she goes to double tap you, Isaac, seeing you presenting a weapon and presenting a clear and present threat to her safety and the safety of the staff. And she, but whether it's adrenaline or nerves or whatever else, she jerks it and pulls it to the left and just the rounds impact way off target. You have just been shot at. Excuse me. Unless you want to look like her, I suggest you put that weapon down.

This scientist just attacked my affiliate. And this was not us. This was definitely on your end. I suggest you called down. And as she's saying that, I'm also like, she attacked me! She fucking attacked me! And I'm actually kind of stumbling towards her

because right now in Elion's head, he's like, I got to get to one of the medics because there's so much blood. She looks between, actually Zakiya-go, general, uh, persuade a 20% penalty. And Vince, I'm prepped. If this doesn't work, if she looks like she's going to fire again, I'm going to be the first one.

Okay. Oh my God. That's a failing with 65. She is not budging and she is screaming for Isaac to drop his weapon and get on the ground. While this is going on, I will let you know, I am going to fill a syringe of very powerful sedative. and when the opportunity does present, I will try to go in behind this chick

and stab her in the neck with it. Okay. So I will give you an opportunity to roll stealth. No, I failed. With a 22. Oh, it's a critical fail? Of course. You're just, you're shaken.

This is absolute chaos. All of a sudden, things went from relatively calm to being just absolute fucking insanity. You're hearing screaming and gunshots. You can smell gunpowder. Uh, it's, it's, this is not what you signed up for. And as you start moving, you lose your balance and you trip and fall and the certain shatters on the ground beneath you as you trip and you are now prone. But did I distract her?

She is, she is turned and she is pointing a heckler and cope nine millimeter USB pistol at your head. If she turns on, on Bugsy, I'm totally going to take a shot at her back shoulder, the one, you know, holding her fucking gun. I look at our back and I go, it's not fucking time for that bitch. And I roll. It's a 36 under 40, so I do succeed. You are aiming for a specific area, though, correct? Yeah, I guess I was, yeah. All right, so that would be at a negative 20% penalty.

So I did miss then. With you, Isaac, you're just, you're not a gun guy. You're not used to carrying one. You certainly not used to shooting one at a living, breathing human being. You find the front site, but you just can't be just that the rounds don't find the target. So at this point, I will say the outside group manages to make their way inside. And you see Jessica on the ground. Uh, you see this guard who has just turned around who has her weapon out after hearing more gunshots from inside the computer lab. You hear who you assume to be,

uh, saying, screaming at the top of her lungs. Uh, what do you do? I'd like to get in front of Jessica and shoot. Okay. Yeah, go ahead and uh, go ahead and roll your rolls. Oh, a success with a 46. Okay, go ahead and roll damage. That, is two points of damage. Your rounds hit her just in the back. And you notice her jerk underneath the impact of the rounds. But you don't see that familiar plume of blood that you're used to seeing when you, when your rounds impacting human body.

Oh, fuck. She begins to the most immediate threat, which is now you, and begins backing into the computer lab. So she's going to move about three feet. And she's going to be shooting. Trying to lay down some kind of suppressing fire or just try to get rounds on target to buy herself enough time to get to cover inside the room, even though Isaac's there. She's clearly panicking.

Can I throw a keyboard at her? Yes! Go ahead and roll, uh, roll, since you're throwing it, roll athletics. I don't know what the damage for a fucking keyboard is, but I'll figure it out. That's a fail with an 86. Yeah, you fucking yeat this keyboard at her. And it just, it just flies past her head. And she kind of looks over her shoulder with this.

this what-the-fuck look on her face. Let's see what Benny's up to. Oh, Benny's come back in. They've got all their medical supplies and everyone's fucking screaming and shooting. And Benny thinks, fuck, I'm too tired for this shit. They're gonna, they're gonna drop their supplies around the corner from the bathroom door, like out of sight of Karen. I'm gonna drop all my supplies to, they're safe, and then I'll sigh and pull my gun. And I think that's a great point to end tonight's session. Oh.