@@BudsRPGreview It's in the Rules of Engagement novel, I highly recommend reading that. It's in the Strange Authorities compilation, the follow up novel Through a Glass Darkly expands the story even further, and the consequenses of the original story.
I'm pretty sure that was in the "Rules of Engagement" novel, that was a kind of follow up to what happened in Convergence and eventually led to rearrangement of Delta Green and MJ12 in the "Through a Glass Darkly" novel.
Great Review! I really dig the dark theme of the scenario and while I tended to love the hyper deadliness myself, I understand clearly your point in that as a starter scenario, it’s catering to a rather niche crowd. As starter scenarios go, I’d never heard of this one. I’m constantly recommending “Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays,” as the best entry point. By both “A Night at the Opera,” which doesn’t include the scenario, and “The Conspiracy,” era book no less.
I ran this script a long, long time ago. I remember that I added two scenes: A meeting place for youngsters, next to old disused concrete grain silos, with graffiti with a UFO vibe. I used "In the air tonight" by Phill Collins as background music. The very end of the session, the players return after the barn fight: Background of the scene - "i saved the world today" by Eurythmics (exactly this song, it's very important). Description: contrast of hell-weary players vs beauty of surroundings. The middle of the harvest, combines in the distance harvesting grain, a group of elderly people boasting about their harvest, a beautiful girl serving breakfast to the weary workers. Contrast #2: the sight of approaching military trucks. Lockdown of the village. People in chemical suits spraying some kind of licquid. Players brutally stripped, without asking, cleaned with a brush in some gray tent. While my group did not like the theme of this scenario very much, the final scene did the job.
loaded up a playlist with your videos looking for a replacement scenario as i wasnt feeling the scenario i thought it wanted to run. with your help im sure i will find something eventually.
Because the Greys look like how humans expect aliens to look like. It's to make them comfortable to deal with. I am doing a video in my Bud explains series soon on MAJESTIC 12 so all will be explained in that.
@@BudsRPGreview yeah, I remember that part. But why Mi-Gos even bother to such charades in first place? Its kinda nice on their part, but seems... redundant.
@@easterbunny3850 humans wouldn't deal with fungus creatures with eyeballs on stalks. They want the humans to cover their tracks in exchange for technology, so appearing as the Greys just makes it easier - they are "middlemen" of sorts.
I do wonder if it was a copyright matter, or if Arc Dream never bothered to include it for the sake of brevity. To my recollection, it never mentions that Protomatter is altered Ubbo-Sathla material in the original Convergence. To my understanding it only mentions it in the Unspeakable Oath version and in Transference, the non-canon Cyberpunk sequel to this scenario, as well as in A Night on Owlshead Mountain, where it's mentioned that the Protomatter infesting Cooter McGee is a less refined version of the Protomatter, and is more akin to autonomous, raw material of Ubbo-Sathla.
A lot of mythos detiies and entities were changed for the new book, to my understanding a lot of it was because of Copyright matters, for example Cthugha and Tulzscha being effectively folded into "Qu-Tugkwa" and Ithaqua being made into "Itla-Shua"