"Does a carpenter care what color is his hammer?" - Stefan Alzis
"Give a child a hammer and everything becomes a nail." - Unknown

NPC's

CHAPTER 6 - EMERALD SHELL

"Exposing the Karotechia"

WHY

We're almost halfway through the basic campaign at this point, and by this point, the DG agents should have a clue that something is going on, and that more and more of their operations are coming into contact with Neo-Nazi organizations, some with a lot of pull, and all somehow connected together at some level. At this point, the Emerald Hammer will crack the Emerald Shell, and the rot that is the Karotechia will be exposed.

WHO

Perhaps we can add a renegade DG agent, one who continued the fight against the Karotechia, and lost the sanction of the Conspiracy. He'd be old now, perhaps in his sixties or seventies, but he was placed "out of sanction" by Gen Fairfield a long time ago, and the 'original' ANDREA attempted to hunt him down, and failed.

Here's a nice dilemma for the team, do they turn him in to Andrea and the cleaners, or do they get as much information out of him as possible, possibly giving him DG funds and gear to continue his crusade. Quite possibly he has the attractive (insert preference here) child trained to carry out his crusade after his death.

He needs the name of a classic betrayer, or someone who was betrayed/cast out. Like AGENT LUCIFER, but perhaps a little more original...

He's probably a look-alike for Darren McGavin too ;)

Perhaps the agents will be able to take him on one last crusade against a specific Bischoffe that he has a grudge against. Perhaps they die together.

Perhaps he's too much of a cliche?

Votes please gentlemen

Phil Ward

The Man in Black
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:13:27 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DG: Emerald Shell - c6.

> the Emerald Hammer will crack the Emerald Shell, and the rot that
> is the Karotechia will be exposed.

Kewl!
> WHO [The deep-throat like character the MiB spoke of]
> Perhaps we can add a renegade DG agent, one who continued the
> fight against the Karotechia, and lost the sanction of the
> Conspiracy. He'd be old now, perhaps in his sixties or seventies,
> but he was placed "out of sanction" by Gen Fairfield a long
> time ago, and the 'original' ANDREA attempted to hunt him
> down, and failed.
He or she probably works for the Simon Wiesenthal center or JADL as a Nazi Hunter. Mossad contacts, and Kabbalism themes! We need more Ass-Kicking Jews in Emerald Hammer anyway.

Joshua Marquart (joshdm@one.net)
Note: I don't pay enough attention to whatever EH is...
Eugene: "Sirs, uhh, the cultists have seemed to be beggin in the streets today. What's up with that?"
Alphonse: "Don't worry. We just sicced our accountant, Jeffrey Cohen, on them."
Eugene: "Kick ass."

Shane Ivey
Subject: DG: Phil's EH Extravaganza
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:26:42 -0600

Phil "Stop! Hammertime." Ward wrote:
> We're almost halfway through the basic campaign at this point, and by this
> point, the DG agents should have a clue that something isgoing on, and that
> more and more of their operations are coming into contact with Neo-Nazi
> organizations, some with a lot of pull, and all somehow connected together
> at some level. At this point,the Emerald Hammer will crack the Emerald
> Shell, and the rot that is the Karotechia will be exposed.

I figured the Karotechia would have been the obvious enemy from the first couple of chapters: wasn't the plan for Hubert to appear to have thrown in with the Karotechia in his coup at the Auction?

> Perhaps we can add a renegade DG agent, one who continued the fight
> against the Karotechia, and lost the sanction of the Conspiracy. He'd be old
> now, perhaps in his sixties or seventies,but he was placed "out of sanction"
> by Gen Fairfield a longtime ago, and the 'original' ANDREA attempted to hunt
> him down, and failed.

Interesting background. I like it, but it needs a good story: why was he taken out of sanction? Why was he scheduled for cleaning? (Remember, early in Fairfield's day the organization was official, and the need for ruthless security measures may have been less stringent. I don't believe the cell structure was even in place until recently.) Why did the assassins fail to catch him? Has he been on the DG "Wanted" list ever since? Has he taken steps against DG in retaliation?

> Here's a nice dilemma for the team, do they turn him in to Andrea and the
> cleaners, or do they get as much information out of him as possible,
> possibly giving him DG funds and gear to continue his crusade.

It may be a challenge to play him so that the players will be moved to protect him rather than haul him in for some forcible debriefing. That'll need to be written carefully.

> Quite possibly he has the attractive (insert preference here) child
> trained to carry out his crusade after his death.

I'm ambivalent on this one. It's been done a whole lot.

> He needs the name of a classic betrayer, or someone who was betrayed/cast
> out. Like AGENT LUCIFER, but perhaps a little more original...

Agent BENEDICT? (But see above about the cell structure and use of code names. Maybe just make it his real name as a teaser?)

> Perhaps the agents will be able to take him on one last crusade against a
> specific Bischoffe that he has a grudge against. Perhaps they die together.
> Perhaps he's too much of a cliche?

With the above caveats, I like the idea. Go with it!

Shane Ivey

David Farnell
Subject: DG: Back on Track
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:04:59 +0900

Deep Throat: No need to make him a traitor to DG. I like the idea of a former "cowboy days" agent who went a bit around the bend and retired for his own mental health. He was never really in the "official" DG--he was in during the outlaw years (of course, these are still the outlaw years, but at least we're organized now). Now he's back, shakey but wanting to finish the job that nearly killed him. Of course, he's really being controlled by Alzis--but he doesn't know it. Cliche climax: he finds he's been a pawn all along and claws his own eyes out.

Andrew D. Gable
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:32:37 -0500 (EST)
Subject: DG: A Name for the Karotechia Leak

Agent BENEDICT? Agent ROSENBERG?

Joshua Marquart
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:15:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DG: A Name for the Karotechia Leak

Agent COHEN or Agent GOLDFARB...

-JD (Agent GOLDENBLUME!)

Richard Pace
Subject: DG: RE: A Name for the Karotechia Leak
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:11:23 -0800

AGENT QUISLING . . .

David Paul
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:06:53 -0500
Subject: DG: RE: A Name for the Karotechia Leak

How about Agent ESAU?

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