Gencon Online - Delta Green - Who Killed the Case Officer

My final Gencon Online game was a run of Who Killed the Case Officer. The Agents were summoned to investigate the ritual murder of a Delta Green Case Officer: Norbert Hammerstroem, former AFSOC. Hammerstroem was found dead in his home by police after failing to respond to several communications sent to his Delta Green smartphone.

Briefing thus issued, I opened up character selection. I had four players (my only full house during Gencon Online) and they selected the following characters:

• Agent STUART, USPIS, forger, accountant and computer scientist
• Agent SHALIMAR, FBI, master of disguise
• Agent EASTER, National Parks Service, archaeologist and occultist
• Agent EISENHOWER, Green Berets, killing machine with a talent for languages

According to Delta Green's dossier, Colonel Hammerstroem was a real hardass - active duty AFSOC before DG moved him to a desk job at the DIA. He had no family outside a sister, who’s in Berlin and won’t arrive to identify the body for at least a day.

Norbert took an ultraconservative approach to casework. Wiping out anyone who knew even a single spell, ordering just-in-case killings of witnesses, turning agents over to the Security Director or Research wing if they behaved strangely or cracked under pressure.

Norbert’s main working group was RAIN WHISPER - comprised of agents RENE, RICARDO and ROBERTA.

• RICARDO: Deputy Lon Fujimoto, US Marshal.
• ROBERTA: Elaine Eck, nurse practitioner
• RENE: Lieutenant Tam “Grit” Robinson, MARSOC. Recently dead of heroin overdose (presumed unrelated to current case)

The house in Portsmouth, Maine where Hammerstroem's body was found had been cordoned off by local police, who handed the scene over to the Agents. The players stepped through the door and entered the crime scene.

My Favorite Character in Disco Elysium

Rejoyce "Joyce" Leyton-Messier is my favorite character in Disco Elysium.

She's the first genuinely helpful character you meet in a world of total dicks. She drops some of the most important lore about the world of Disco Elysium. The Insulindian Miracle. The Antecentennial Revolution. The four political alignments. The shape of the world. She's got a totally bitchin' theme song.

She's also a real piece of work.