[UA] UA + Delta Green = ???

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 04:31 PM 2/17/99 EST, Michael D. Mearls 97 wrote:
>I finally picked up Delta Green this weekend. Yes, I'm about a year behind
>everyone else, but I've only recently got back into gaming.
>
>Anyway, reading through Delta Green brought some questions into my mind about
>UA. Primarily, how much does the government know about the occult
underground,
>and what does it do with whatever information it has?
>
>Here are my theories:
>
>Scenario #1: The government is clueless
>
>The government sees most cabals, cluesless or not, in much the same light as
>any other radical fringe group. The FBI has dossiers on the cabals and
compiles
>info on their members. Manned surveillence is rare, unless events dictate
>otherwise. No conclusive evidence exists that anything inexplicable is
actually
>going on.

That's how I'd run it.  If the government clued in, any adept who committed
a crime would be in deep shit fast.  Of course, there may be the odd FBI
agent who spends more time chasing paranormal rumors than paying attention
to his stunningly attractive partner, here and there.

I've been kicking around the idea that the Mafia is marginally aware of the
occult underground, and has a standing policy of greasing any adept it runs
across, then cutting off the two middle fingers on the corpse's left hand
as a warning to others.  Sure, some families have tried using adepts to
further their interests, but it never works.  Adepts are too unreliable,
too weird, too unpredictable.  Nice guys sometimes, but it's better to kill
them.

-G.
1899 Phrenologist: Your son has the sloping forehead of a sexual deviant:
better put him in an asylum.
1999 Gene Therapist: Your fetus has the "date rape" gene.  Better abort.