From: owner-deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org (deltagreen-digest) To: deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org Subject: deltagreen-digest V1 #56 Reply-To: Delta Green List Sender: owner-deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org Errors-To: owner-deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org Precedence: bulk deltagreen-digest Tuesday, June 30 1998 Volume 01 : Number 056 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:36:56 -0700 From: Josh Shaw Subject: Re: DG: Re: DG agent names Ola Sverre Bauge wrote: > Matt C wrote... > >[I don't know who wrote the first part, these digests are tough to > handle... sorry about the piggybacking too] > >>contacts. The other reason I was not really looking at Cell Z is the > >>lack of names for the members. I considered Zachariah, Zedekiah, > >>and Zane, but this would only seem to work in Amish country. > > > >Zach, Zeke, Zeb...for women Zoryna, Zasha... Z is a hard one, > >that's why I went for K. ;) Every Keeper's (and every writer's) kit should include one (or more) of those "Baby Name" books they sell to expectant mothers. They are available everywhere, cheap, and remarkably usefull. - ---- Josh > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:40:05 -0400 From: "R. Menzi" Subject: Re: DG: the wonders of Nicotine - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>> Also useful is the stuff the South American Yanomamo use to induce hallucinatory trances by force-injecting it up people's noses (yecchh) -- can't remember what chemical that was, though... <<< Hey, I saw that discovery channel special too! You can get alot of ideas from those things, like an amazon tribe that helps/resists the Mi-Go who mine their land in the mountans, or other such nonsense. Regards, < << R. Menzi >> > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.5 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNZaNuahFxkX3nANTEQLr6QCg0nwpCR8VngMHxaqlY+/P5hDei3QAoNiT I7IyeFXr6b0XAcfHMGmpmnMJ =iKW8 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:38:56 -0400 From: "R. Menzi" Subject: Re: DG: the wonders of Nicotine - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>> Also useful is the stuff the South American Yanomamo use to induce hallucinatory trances by force-injecting it up people's noses (yecchh) -- can't remember what chemical that was, though... <<< Hey, I saw that discovery channel special too! You can get alot of ideas from those things, like an amazon tribe that helps/resists the Mi-Go who mine their land in the mountans, or other such nonsense. Regards, < << R. Menzi >> > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.5 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNZaNuahFxkX3nANTEQLr6QCg0nwpCR8VngMHxaqlY+/P5hDei3QAoNiT I7IyeFXr6b0XAcfHMGmpmnMJ =iKW8 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:44:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryant Durrell Subject: Re: DG: Re: DG agent names Josh Shaw writes: > Ola Sverre Bauge wrote: > > Matt C wrote... > > >[I don't know who wrote the first part, these digests are tough to > > handle... sorry about the piggybacking too] > > >>contacts. The other reason I was not really looking at Cell Z is the > > >>lack of names for the members. I considered Zachariah, Zedekiah, > > >>and Zane, but this would only seem to work in Amish country. > > > > > >Zach, Zeke, Zeb...for women Zoryna, Zasha... Z is a hard one, > > >that's why I went for K. ;) > > Every Keeper's (and every writer's) kit should include one (or more) of > those "Baby Name" books they sell to expectant mothers. They are available > everywhere, cheap, and remarkably usefull. There's also the Onomastikon, which is great, although it's currently under revision. http://www.fairacre.demon.co.uk/ is the URL. - -- Bryant Durrell [] durrell@innocence.com [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell [----------------------------------------------------------------------------] "Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month." -- Wernher von Braun ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:27:30 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: Re: DG: Seeing through walls? On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Daniel Harms, if that is your real name, wrote: > Is there any special gear, military or otherwise, that can allow > someone > to tell where a person is on the other side of a wall? I had a player try to > use something infrared or the like in a game some time ago. In retrospect, > it sounds fishy. Seafood content of this tactic depends on the wall and the suspected target. I recommend using Grenades or heavy weapons to make a big hole if you want to know what's going down on the other side of a wall. The Man in Black is : on a seafood diet, he sees food, he eats it. Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:36:42 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: Re: DG: Re: DG agent names On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Bryant Durrell wrote: > Josh Shaw writes: > > Ola Sverre Bauge wrote: > > > Matt C wrote... What a pack of useless scum :) > > Every Keeper's (and every writer's) kit should include one (or more) of > > those "Baby Name" books they sell to expectant mothers. They are available > > everywhere, cheap, and remarkably usefull. > > There's also the Onomastikon, which is great, although it's currently > under revision. http://www.fairacre.demon.co.uk/ is the URL. The Phone company sends me a book full of names every six months. The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:22:01 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: DG: PANTHEON Agent Zorro turned up wounded, He found that no-good rotten traitor CAPT Scum working at CILHI (Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Hawaii). Followed him home, blew him away, and ran into some MJ boys. We patched him up aboard our offshore HQ. The Admiral called, the shipment of artifacts taken from the Waianae Boyz drug gang (they send up new faces from Tonga every six months so the cops won't recognize them) couldn't be flown in, too many hybrids at the airport. Ol' three stars decided to ship them in via a civilian tow-barge and assigned a couple of Seals as watchdogs. Classic misdirection, it almost worked. The Barge ran into a hurricane and the civilian Captain had to cut it loose or end up sinking his glorified tugboat. The Barge and all it's cargo is currently on the bottom of the sea. Any operation large enough to recover the artifacts will definitely attract the attention our MJ buddies. Meanwhile, the Tugboat and the two distraught Navy Seals were repairing their radio when they ran into the Chinese Space Event Ship, Wan Xuan 3. The 60,000 ton vessel was deserted, derelict and almost totally abandoned. Further details are of course, classified, but only one crewmember of the TugBoat Electra and two navy seals survived the sinking of the Wan Xuan 3. No sign of the Wan Xuan 3's crew have been found. To NSA/SETI people, the radio source emanating from the Pleiades is actually a digital lifeform, possibly related to the Fractals. DO NOT decode the transmission! The Encryptor General and his programming crew are already coding an anti-virus program. It will be distributed to the proper personnel upon completion. For those computer professionals who have encountered the SIPHON AI, the POW 3.1 version of the shield patch for LINUX is out. Don't let your soul get sucked into cyberspace without it. Source Code is still more secret than you, so don't even try it. The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum VIRUS from Dark Horse Comix is recommended. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:44:33 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: DG: Raising Arizona After Debriefing a couple of rather battered navy SEALS, I took the flying black triangle out to Arizona. I met Agent [Censored] and Agent [Deleted] and we reviewed the human and cattle mutilation cases with data from Agent [Redacted]. Agent [Censored] tracked the medical vehicle he and Agent [Deleted] had confiscated to a military motor pool within the Western Range Complex. We all piled into the FBT and zoomed off into the majestic (sic) desert sky of the American Southwest. Agent [Deleted] was nervous about riding in the FBT but I assured him that it was perfectly safe and that his fears of cancer and radiation were unfounded. Besides, research is still inconclusive. We hovered invisibly above the motor pool until a utility van identical to the mobile surgery van confiscated by Agents [Censored] and [Deleted] emerged. It drove off into cattle country, accompanied by three unmarked helicopters. The personnel in the utility van were met by several unsavory biker types holding a young couple. The couple was sedated and taken into the van and after approx. one hour their corpses were returned to the bikers, who loaded the body bags into another van and drove off. We flew after the three unmarked helicopters, which split up and headed toward three different landing pads. We picked one and shadowed it. It led us to a facility high in the Rocky Mountains with no visble road access. The landing pad was concealed beneath an overhang, making landing and takeoff extremely difficult. We rappelled down and began looking for access points, motion sensors, and telecommunications lines. Motion Sensors were discovered in abundance. TO BE CONTINUED... The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:28:47 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: DG: Raising Arizona Part Deux Agent [Deleted], agent [Censored] and I decided to return to the facility another time. I maneuvered the FBT back to our Trailer Park safehouse. We were seen exiting the FBT by an overweight caucasian female in her late forties. She was subsequently exposed to the mnemonic disruptor, and believes that she was abducted by aliens. Agent [Censored] found the cover story to be sufficiently humorous. I contacted the Encryptor General and gave him enough security information to penetrate Iteration-X's High Energy Physics database. Soon, the plasma harmonics information required by SYRINX (a PANTHEON AI) was recovered. It was at this time that BrainDrain (a notorious cyber-vandal) notified me that SIPHON had indeed defeated his latest digital POW Shield and had killed She-PROM, a fellow computer hacker. A new version of the shield was being developed. I used the software given to me by Checkmate to contact him. We played a few games of chess and I was soundly thrashed. My French defense was found to be sorely lacking. I endured Checkmate's verbal abuse for a bit (the phrase "inferior meat being" was used, and the whole of Organic Chemistry was compared to raw sewage). I began to regret teaching Checkmate the fine art of trash-talking, the miserable megalomanical calculator (I think he damaged my self-esteem :) I demanded physical and digital access to the facility we visited earlier in exchange for the Plasma Harmonics data. After a brief interlude SYRINX agreed to provide access by digitally cracking the facility's security. This was to be achieved by using the Astral component that all PANTHEON AI's seemed to possess, as the YY-II computers did not have any external connections. Checkmate reported that our plan to thwart the Black Brotherhood had worked perfectly. The assassinations we performed on their leadership had the desired effect of causing a three-way internal schism. The factions were well on their way to murdering each other out of existence. Somehow, the information linking the Brotherhood to the creation of Checkmate had mysteriously disappeared in the carnage of their involuntary schism. We chuckled over this last bit. The following evening I contacted Agent [Censored] and Agent [Deleted] telling them that the YY-II ICE CAVE was open for business. The neutrino tracking device I had surgically implanted in the amnesiac Jane Doe we discovered a week ago in Kaneohe Bay was still located within the ICE CAVE. I told the agents to bring the big guns. They always do anyway, but WTF. TO BE CONTINUED... The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:53:15 EDT From: Imandos@aol.com Subject: DG: BioChem info I promised I would get my brother to send some information on requested chemical and biological agents. This is a list of nonlethal Bio/Chem agents DG agents can either encounter or use in adventures. Hope you enjoy it and come up with all kinds of nasty ideas for your poor little agents. A list of lethal Bio/Chem agents will follow in the near future. The list follows my signature. Thomas Woodall Imandos@aol.com Nonlethal Chemical BZ - also known as Benactyzine, crystalline solid at normal temperatures, stable enough to be disseminated as a gas from a pyrotechnic device. Once in the body, BZ affects the central nervous system, causing dry and flushed skin, abnormally rapid heartbeat, urinary retention, constipation, slowing of mental and physical activity, headache, giddiness, delusions, hallucinations, drowsiness, and sometimes maniacal behavior, also an increase in body temp. These symptoms may persist for several days. They also may vary widely from individual to individual. DM- also known as adamsite or diphenylaminochloroarsine. Solid which is vaporized in the field to produce a gas. Rate of action is rapid, in 1 minute the victim will usually be incapicated. Symptoms include irritation of the eyes and mucous membranes, viscous discharge from nose, sneezing, coughing, severe headache, pain in the chest, nausea and then vomiting. Symptoms generally last 30 min or so after removal from gas cloud. Agent disseminates rapidly. Indoors DM can reach lethal concentrations, so it is best used outside. CN- Choloracetophenone. An early tear gas. Fragrant smell, causes uncontrollable lacrymation and in higher concentrations can cause burning and itching of the skin, including blisters, but these often disappear in a few hours. Not as effective as CS but still used. Disseminates rapidly. CS- O-chlorobenzalmalononitrile. Tear gas. White crystalline powder. Highly irritating, incapacitation occuring in 20-60 seconds after exposure, lasting 5-10 minutes after removal to fresh air. Victims are incapable of effective concerted action. Effects include extreme burning of the eyes, copious flow of tears, coughing, difficulty in breathing, chest tightness, involuntary closing of the eyes, running nose, dizziness. Heavy concentrations also cause vomiting. CS has now replaces CN and DM in most cases. Nonlethal Biological Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis - VEE for short. Viral disease. Naturally occurs in C. America and S. America. Transmitted by mosquitoes, especially Mansonia (Mansonia) titillans, but can be contracted by aerosol inhalation. Usually a very mild disease with <1% mortality rate, inducing varied symptoms including mostly flu-like illness, sometimes with mild neurological symptoms but not severe as in cases of EEE or St. Louis Encephalitis. Q Fever - also known as nine mile fever, Queensland fever. Rickettsial disease (organism with both bacteria and virus-like properties) Transmitted by inhalation of dust or aerosol, or ingestion of contaminated raw mild. Ticks transmit the disease to animal vectors. Causes mild cough and chest pains, general malaise for several days. Its onset is rapid; acute fever, headache, shills, weakness, and heavy persperation. The disease is self limiting and not fatal. Tularemia- also known as Rabbit Fever. So-called "nonlethal" disease, this bacterial illness is usually less than 5% fatal, but can be fulminating and highly dangerous, with a mortality as high as 60%. It is certainly a risky addition to any nonlethal agent list. The disease causes very sudden chills, high fever, prostration, and pneumonia. Untreated it can be lethal, especially if it fulminates, resulting in massive blood poisoning. It can also go chronic, causing enlargement of lymph glands. It is usually successfully treated by streptomycin, aureomycin, and chloromycetin antibiotics. Tularemia is transmitted by contact of bare skin with infected blood of rabbits, or by deer fly bite. (personal note: my uncle very nearly died of this disease in the early 1970's after contracting it from a rabbit he skinned) Dengue Fever- also known as breakbone fever. Virus transmitted generally by bite of Aedes aegypti and some other Aedes mosquitoes. NOTE: not to be confused with its potentially lethal brother, dengue hemorragic fever, also transmitted by mosquito. Dengue produces sudden fever, chilliness, intense headache, pain behind the eyes, joint and muscle pains, and weakness. It renders one totally incapacitated, but is usually less than 1% fatal. Influenza- also known as the grippe. Well - known disease, its B viral form is usually much milder than the A form, which can be a real killer, especially of the elderly and small children. This disease needs no explanation. Psittacosis- parrot fever, ornithosis. With Tularemia, this viral disease is the most dangerous of the "nonlethal" diseases. It is transmitted by contact with infected birds or breathing dust contaminated by infected feces, urine, nasal discharges or soiled feathers. Contaminated air may travel a great distance before losing its infectivity. In very rare instances it is transmissable from man to man. Disease is usually more severe in adults than in children, who usually develop a milder pneumonia. In adults it is characterized by a severe fever, chills, anorexia, sore throat, headache, backache, constipation, great weakness, prostration, sometimes delirium (usu. a bad sign). Mortality is high for the label "nonlethal", i.e. 9-20%, usually overall 5%, with the majority of deaths being over age 30. Note that all of these diseases can be transmitted by aerosol droplet, which makes them all possible weapons in an arsenal. Some source material: TM3-216/AFM355-6 Military Biology and Biological Warfare Agents, Jane's NBC Protection Equipment 1992-1993, Mosquitoes of North America (1955) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:16:21 +0900 From: "David Farnell" Subject: RE: DG: Magic Swords ain't all that great - -----Original Message----- $B:9=P?M(B : Michael Layne $B08@h(B : deltagreen@nocturne.org $BF|;~(B : 1998$BG/(B6$B7n(B29$BF|(B 1:53 $B7oL>(B : Re: DG: Magic Swords ain't all that great Michael Layne wrote: > IIRC, Carter spent several game sessions after he rejoined the team >trying to get his sword cane "recharged". No success. The player >eventually moved to Texas, to the secret relief of several members of the >team:) Oh great. He'll probably show up at one of my games after I move home.;) David Farnell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:05:01 +0900 From: "David Farnell" Subject: RE: DG: RE: DG Enchanted Weapons - -----Original Message----- 差出人 : Walter B. Haight 宛先 : Delta Green List 日時 : 1998年6月28日 22:25 件名 : Re: DG: RE: DG Enchanted Weapons Aaron Lizt wrote, >Maybe allow the enchantment of a certain clip that would impart " magical " >properties to the bullets stored within it after a certain amount of time ( >maybe from new moon to new moon, or even eclipse to eclipse! ). Interesting idea. Re: Dark Tower books: > Jeez, I am going to have to read those books sometime. Are guns the >equivalant of swords in their semi-sacred meaning, something like an >Excalibur ( or maybe .50 X calibre? " The Gunslingers are a sort of samurai class. There's only a very few of them, they have to pass through some very serious tests to make it, and then they get to carry a pair of very nice sandlewood-grip revolvers (single-action, from the sound of it). Their world is somewhat like ours, but it has "moved on," which seems to mean that some cataclysm occured and it is dying. There's bits and pieces of our world floating around; in the most recent book, someone had an old submachinegun, and some of the wealthier folks have old rifles and such. Gunslingers generally disdain such toys, becoming instead absolute gods of marksmanship with their revolvers. As far as the books are concerned, however, all this is just background--most of the storyline isn't set in the lands of the Gunslingers, which may be pretty much destroyed. (The original inspiration for the series was Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", a true classic of English lit. And no, I don't believe Robert Browning is any relation to John Browning of machine-gun fame.) Anyway, the world really seems to fit into the Dreamlands really well, as a kingdom set in a Dream-Southwestern USA. The only people who carry pistols are Gunslingers and criminals, and no one carries auto-weapons hardly. I'm thinking that maybe the kingdom actually hasn't the tech to manufacture the guns, so they all come through from the waking world, which is why they're so rare. They can also be "dreamed up," created through Dreaming skill, but such guns are much less effective for some reason (haven't figured out just how yet). I don't want to actually use any characters from the books, just the general setting, much modified. However, the quest for the Dark Tower echoes the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and might be a possible campaign. But I honestly don't like spending all that much time in the Dreamlands. A little adds flavor, but a lot makes the game too fantasy-oriented. Still working on it. David Farnell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:42:57 +0900 From: "David Farnell" Subject: DG: Code Book (keepers only) Now that "Senor Sock" (man, I wish I could put a tilde above that "n") has become the standard way to refer to You Know Who, I've been thinking lately about other "code names" for various critters. OK, I've got a lot of time on my hands in the office. Anyway, these should be useful for tossing back and forth on the list, esp. in those "official" reports. Here's just a few. I had many more, but most of them were not up to the level of genius of Senor Sock, so I dumped them. Feel free to add to it. CODE BOOK Pt. 1 critters: Y'golonac=Senor Sock (kudos to the MiB for a classic) Mi-Go=The Fun Guys (I don't know who originally came up with that one--I don't THINK it was me, anyway) Tsathoggua=The Easter Bunny Yog-Sothoth=Bubbles Cthonians=Graboids (from _Tremors_) Glaaki=Mr. Spiny Dholes=UPS (stands for Ultimate Phallic Symbol) Tcho-Tchos=Moes (from their haircuts; best to call them that in a high "Curly" voice to get their attention: "Hey Moe!" BLAMBLAMBLAM) Byakhees=Bozos (due to their love of making balloon animals out of people's intestines) events: The Bozo Treatment (aka The Byakhee Handshake)=The old eyelids/tongue/intestines act. Fun at parties. Gerber (v)=To put someone's brain in a Mi-Go jar. EXAMPLE: "Well, Agent Linus was in his room reading, when a bunch of Moes burst in and gave him the Bozo Treatment." "Oh man!" "Well, it's just as well. While he was in the hospital, the Fun Guys came by and gerbered him." Be seeing you... Luke ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:12:27 +0900 From: "David Farnell" Subject: DG: RE: the wonders of Nicotine - -----Original Message----- $B:9=P?M(B : Viktor Haag $B08@h(B : Delta Green (E-mail) $BF|;~(B : 1998$BG/(B6$B7n(B30$BF|(B 0:58 $B7oL>(B : DG: the wonders of Nicotine Agent Eduard wrote: >Incidentally, alot of the south-western Pueblo cultures (and other american >aboriginal cultures, I think) used Nicotine as a ritual substance because in >really small doses it induces a death-like trance. > >Also useful is the stuff the South American Yanomamo use to induce >hallucinatory trances by force-injecting it up people's noses (yecchh) -- >can't remember what chemical that was, though... Maybe datura? Or was it yage? (Or do you drink yage? Oh, where's William Burroughs when you need him?) I remember from an anthropology class that some South American tribes would take tobacco enemas to get trance-visions. Wild tobacco is apparently very much higher in various active chemicals than domestic, so I don't know if they boiled it down or just stuck a pinch between their cheek and, uh, other cheek. Luke ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:04:24 -0400 From: Daniel Harms Subject: Re: DG: RE: the wonders of Nicotine At 11:12 AM 6/30/98 +0900, you wrote: >Agent Eduard wrote: >>Also useful is the stuff the South American Yanomamo use to induce >>hallucinatory trances by force-injecting it up people's noses (yecchh) -- >>can't remember what chemical that was, though... > >Maybe datura? Or was it yage? (Or do you drink yage? Oh, where's >William Burroughs when you need him?) (Goes to bookshelf) "The most widely distributed source of drugs is the yakowana tree, whose soft moist inner bark is dried and ground into a powder... the more desirablehallucinogen is from the hisiomo tree, whose tiny, lentil-sized seeds are painstakingly skinned and packed into 10- or 15-inch-long cylinder-shaped wads and traded over a wide area... The Yanomamo cultivate a variety of small bushes of the genus justicia and snuff these, but they are less potent and less desirable than the other two..." Sorry to say, no tobacco or datura here. Yrs., Daniel Harms dmharms@acsu.buffalo.edu "Wool is wool. Wool is a pack of lies." -- Richard S. Shaver ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:15:52 -0500 From: Nightstar Subject: DG: Re: Silly Ammo-Mongering At 12:13 PM 6/26/98 -0400, you wrote: > > Heh. When I was a kid, you could go to Walmart and buy what was >called the "Bucket o' Bullets." About 5lbs. of 22LR loose in a plastic >bucket. Cost about $10. Great for plinking. > >Jay > >------------------------------ > >Yikes! > >You know, as a Canadian, living in a rather peaceful country with an >entirely different attitude on guns, I'm personally rather upset that posts >like this disturb me far more than "Mr Squick" posts. (Ok, maybe not *far* >more, but you know what I mean.) > >One thing reading this list has brought home to me, is that you folks living >south of the border really *are* a completely different breed of animal... > > >Agent Eduard. > When I was a kid, many years ago, nearly every pre-teenage kid I knew owned a .22 caliber rifle and/or a shotgun or had easy access to one. After school and on week-ends we use to go to the town dump and shoot rats running from the burning garbage heaps. We were very deadly with our weapons, rarely ever missing. Understand, this was with adult approval because the only good rat is a dead rat. Since I was 18, I have never owned less than three firearms and at one time owned over 40. I always kept a stockpile of several hundred rounds of different caliber ammunition. I was quite an accomplished shot with handgun, rifle, and shotgun. Since then, my collection of guns and ammo has diminished considerably but not entirely, my aim is still true, and the rats have become two-legged. I don't think I am unique or unusual as far as ordinary Mid-western Americans go. And one thing still remains true.... The only good rat is a dead rat! - ----------------------------------------------------------- Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel......heh heh heh. Nightstar ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:55:21 +0200 From: Andrew Sturman Subject: DG: Seeing through walls? Hi Folks Yes, this question often came up in both my cyberpunk and DG games. The technology I used was PMWI - Passive MicroWave Imaging, based solely on a New Scientist article on the subject last year (from their surveillance-tech special issue). This technology is based on a small array of microwave receivers being used to detect the millimetre-wave radiation given off by warm sacks of H2O, i.e. people. Each receiving element acts like 1 pixel in an CCD camera, building up an image. Because of the longer wavelength of the radiation and the 'pixel-size' of the receivers, these images are of low resolution. So you probably can't use it to recognise individuals, but it is adequate for surveillance & targeting. This MW radiation penetrates clothing and walls well, and is only blocked by metals. Hence to a PMWI camera a building looks like a hazy area with black metal pipes and fittings, and luminous people floating unsupported. It also has a lot of potential in airport security, since a concealed gun appears as a distinctive black shadow against the glowing body. I forget the name of the US company making them, who is trying to sell them to police. They were offering a video camera sized unit for mounting on the dash of police cruisers. I'll look up the article when I get home. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:03:32 +0100 From: Nick Subject: DG: codennames Yes, and of course we've all been calling Great Cthulu 'Squid-face' for years. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:30:20 -0700 From: "Gerry Mckelvey" Subject: DG: Re: codennames > > Yes, and of course we've all been calling Great Cthulu 'Squid-face' > for years. Actually, I've always thought the proper response to meeting anything from the mythos would go something like : "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAgetitoffme!!!!DAKKADAKKADAKKA BOOOM! [static]" Jerry McKelvey Exitus Acta Probat. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:03:58 -0400 From: graemep@immagene.mcg.edu (Graeme Price) Subject: Re: DG: BioChem info >Thomas Woodall wrote: [Nice list by the way, couple of minor gripes about the biologicals though] [snip] >Nonlethal Biological > >Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis - VEE for short. Viral disease. >Naturally occurs in C. America and S. America. Transmitted by mosquitoes, >especially Mansonia (Mansonia) titillans, but can be contracted by aerosol >inhalation. Usually a very mild disease with <1% mortality rate, inducing >varied symptoms including mostly flu-like illness, sometimes with mild >neurological symptoms but not severe as in cases of EEE or St. Louis >Encephalitis. Inhalation infection from VEE occurs very rarely and requires a higher dose than from mosquitoes. Vaccine available for horses (not sure if it is licensed for humans - I mean civilians, some militaries do use it I think). >Q Fever - also known as nine mile fever, Queensland fever. Rickettsial >disease (organism with both bacteria and virus-like properties) Transmitted by >inhalation of dust or aerosol, or ingestion of contaminated raw mild. Ticks >transmit the disease to animal vectors. Causes mild cough and chest pains, >general malaise for several days. Its onset is rapid; acute fever, headache, >shills, weakness, and heavy persperation. The disease is self limiting and >not fatal. The "Q" originally comes from "Query" as when it was an first observed clinically no one knew whether it was viral or bacterial. Actually it is Rickettsial (about halfway between viral and bacterial, it's wierd. Don't ask) caused by Coxiella burnettii (named after the late, great Frank McFarlane Burnett, who got the Nobel for the clonal selection hypothesis of immune development along with Sir Peter Medawar - who after recovering from a severe stoke published an excellent autobiography called "my life as a thinking radish"... but I digress). >Tularemia- also known as Rabbit Fever. So-called "nonlethal" disease, this >bacterial illness is usually less than 5% fatal, but can be fulminating and >highly dangerous, with a mortality as high as 60%. It is certainly a risky >addition to any nonlethal agent list. The disease causes very sudden chills, >high fever, prostration, and pneumonia. Untreated it can be lethal, >especially if it fulminates, resulting in massive blood poisoning. It can >also go chronic, causing enlargement of lymph glands. It is usually >successfully treated by streptomycin, aureomycin, and chloromycetin >antibiotics. Tularemia is transmitted by contact of bare skin with infected >blood of rabbits, or by deer fly bite. (personal note: my uncle very nearly >died of this disease in the early 1970's after contracting it from a rabbit he >skinned) I agree. This is a nasty one. Not just restricted to rabbits though IIRC. Also a potential bioweapon. >Dengue Fever- also known as breakbone fever. Virus transmitted generally by >bite of Aedes aegypti and some other Aedes mosquitoes. NOTE: not to be >confused with its potentially lethal brother, dengue hemorragic fever, also >transmitted by mosquito. Dengue produces sudden fever, chilliness, intense >headache, pain behind the eyes, joint and muscle pains, and weakness. It >renders one totally incapacitated, but is usually less than 1% fatal. Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is caused by Dengue virus, but is more complex. There are 4 types of virus (called dengue, 1, dengue 2, dengue 3 and, surpisingly, dengue 4). If you get, say, dengue 2 as a kid you will have antibodies which bind all dengue viruses but don't neutralise any except dengue 2. So, if you then get dengue 4 later on, the anti-dengue 2 antibodies bind dengue 4 virus but don't kill it. Immune cells (monocytes and macrophages) eat the immune complex of virus+antibody and become infected, secreting all sorts of immune mediators (cytokines, interferons and prostaglandins) which cause shock and haemorrhagic fever. Very, very nasty. This is why there is no vaccine to dengue - you have to find a way to protect against all 4 types simulatneously, without developing antibodies. This will not be easy. >Influenza- also known as the grippe. Well - known disease, its B viral form >is usually much milder than the A form, which can be a real killer, especially >of the elderly and small children. This disease needs no explanation. If you want any further info on influenza, I work on it on a day-to-day basis. Drop me a line. Note that in 1918-19 influenza killed at least 21 million people worldwide within 18 months. New strains pop up every few years (for example the H5N1 strain in Hong Kong which was causing serious concern late last year, and earlier this year). >Psittacosis- parrot fever, ornithosis. With Tularemia, this viral disease is >the most dangerous of the "nonlethal" diseases. It is transmitted by contact >with infected birds or breathing dust contaminated by infected feces, urine, >nasal discharges or soiled feathers. Contaminated air may travel a great >distance before losing its infectivity. In very rare instances it is >transmissable from man to man. Disease is usually more severe in adults than >in children, who usually develop a milder pneumonia. In adults it is >characterized by a severe fever, chills, anorexia, sore throat, headache, >backache, constipation, great weakness, prostration, sometimes delirium (usu. >a bad sign). Mortality is high for the label "nonlethal", i.e. 9-20%, usually >overall 5%, with the majority of deaths being over age 30. Again, Psittacosis isn't viral, but Chlamydial (an intracellular bacterium which cannot synthesize it's own ATP and is dependent on the host cell for energy). Related strains also cause some rather nasty sexually transmitted diseases (I have another true story about swabbing for chamydial diagnosis: when I worked in the hospital the department nearly ran out of money, so we had to switch from sending out nice plastic handled swabs to cheap (really cheap) wooden handled swabs... which had a nasty tendency to leave splinters behind at the swab site. Doesn't sound too bad, except that the swab site (in men) is about 3 inches down the centre of the penis. Still, the poor patients tended to take more, erm... precautions after that!). Can be treated rather nicely by tetracycline (they use erythromycin in kids [IIRC] as tetracycline makes children's teeth go brown). >Note that all of these diseases can be transmitted by aerosol droplet, which >makes them all possible weapons in an arsenal. Except Francisella tulariensis which is tick borne and dengue virus which is mosquito borne. Aerosol transmission for these two is probably a no-no, except under ideal (and artificial) conditions. >Some source material: TM3-216/AFM355-6 Military Biology and Biological >Warfare Agents, Jane's NBC Protection Equipment 1992-1993, Mosquitoes of North >America (1955) My source material: Memory and 10 years of training! Cheers Graeme graemep@immag.mcg.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:39:30 -0500 From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_J._M=E9ndez?=" Subject: DG: Any traffic? Hi there. I'm having problems with my e-mail (again). Has there been any traffic on the list this past 5-7 days? Good luck, Ricardo J. M駭dez rmendez@geocities.com PGP Fingerprint: 8D9A 2B53 5631 4594 DE6D 69DF 3DCA 37E0 C27A 4EAB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:16:04 EDT From: theherald@juno.com (Michael Layne) Subject: Re: DG: Any traffic? On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:39:30 -0500 "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_J._M=E9ndez?=" writes: >Hi there. I'm having problems with my e-mail (again). Has there been >any >traffic on the list this past 5-7 days? > >Good luck, > > >Ricardo J. M駭dez >rmendez@geocities.com >PGP Fingerprint: 8D9A 2B53 5631 4594 DE6D 69DF 3DCA 37E0 C27A 4EAB > > Yes! You might want to directly contact Alphonse to see if the Greys are interfering with your communications, or it's merely a side-effect of The Man in Black's latest experiment... (Great bargains on former Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, etc. consoles from Irwin Allen.. and this guy Tesla sure drew up some neat blueprints!) :) Also, there is a DG archive accessible from the website, so you can take a look at what you missed! Michael theherald@juno.com "So what? I been dead. Didn't like it. Came back." --- Niles H. Boardman (attrib.) _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:00 +0100 (BST) From: tsiolkovsky@coherent-light.cix.co.uk (rik kershaw) Subject: DG: Great Gaming Resource I don't know if anyone has seen this site or not, but I stumbled across it today, but I'd strongly recommend it to anyone - http://terraserver.microsoft.com This is where Bill puts all those sat images he gets from his Russian spy satellites. The air photographs are great and I'm sure are going to make an absolutely brilliant Delta Green role playing resource. __________________________________________ tsiolkovsky@coherent-light.compulink.co.uk tsiolkovsky@cix.co.uk Tsiolkovsky's Demon ------------------------------ End of deltagreen-digest V1 #56 *******************************