Part One: Scorched Earth (Dresden)

Team A travel to Dresden, where they meet with the BKA officer who will act as their LiBretto liaison. He has also been responsible for intelligence operations conducted against the DVU, Aryan Bruders and the hard right in general in old East Germany for the last three years. His name is Mathius Kahn, and any CIA or foreign intelligence operatives who have worked in Europe pre-unification will recognise him as formerly of the Ministerium fuer Staatssicherhert - the dreaded 'Stasi' of East Germany. Kahn had a considerable reputation as a cunning and ruthless counter-intelligence officer during the Cold war, and was personally responsible for the deaths of a number of British and American agents. He is, however, no communist; and has taken to life in capitalist society quite comfortably. Kahn is a true parasite - detaching from his host as it grows weaker, and seeking out the stronger, healthier organism.

All Delta Green know is that Galt is obviously in town to procure another occult tome. They don't know which one, however. The only lead that the BKA can give them is that Aryan Bruders' activity has suspiciously died down recently - except for a viscous attack on a Turkish drug dealer downtown called Oliver Hassan. The assault seems conspicuously heavy-handed - the Turk was beaten badly but is still alive and in hospital - it seems fellow gang-members interrupted the beating and a street-fight ensued, which the Bruders came off worst in.

Logically, Team A should mosey on down to the hospital and practise their intimidation skills on the heavily bandaged Hassan. The Turk is a tough nut to crack, but will respond to life-threatening threats eventually - especially if the team let on they are from American intelligence (Hassan believes the CIA is capable of anything). Hassan will tell the team that the Infernal Atlas, and several other rare and nasty sounding books were given to the Apache by an ageing junkie they know only as Heinrich, in return for a modest amount of skag. He doesn't know where to find him, as Heinrich contacts them when he needs a fix - not the other way around. He will also let on that he told all this to the Bruders who attacked him.


The agents have a number of investigative routes open to them;-

Strong arm other local skag dealers:

If the agents bother to ask Hassan, he will say he's fairly sure Heinrich didn't just deal with them for his junk. He just didn't do it often enough. Kahn can put them on the trail of assorted local low life; none of which will talk to the agents unless they're intimidated or bribed. If the agents are squeamish about either option, Kahn will probably step in and cut off a few fingers, ears etc. to get the information. This, incidentally, is the route the Aryan Bruder's are taking, and so there is a strong chance that they'll bump into them during this time. They might also find a few freshly dead dealers about the place. The Bischoffe, however, will hang back from any skirmish at this point - he doesn't want to make his presence known unless he has to. Bear in mind also that the heroin trade in old - East Germany is largely under the control of well-armed and dangerous divisions of the Russian Mafia (with lots of ex-Stasi, ex-KGB providing the brains behind the brawn) and less well-organised, but usually more violent Turkish street gangs. The agents should be careful about who they strong arm and where. Sooner or later though, the agents will come across someone whose delivered to Heinrich's home, and can supply them with an address. The Bruder's have a head start on the agents here, so they're likely to find Heinrich before them.

Namedrop on the local 'occult - scene':

Every city has a few bars/clubs where the local witches, sorcerers and assorted hangers on go to socialise and impress each other- for the most part they're just flotsam and jetsam with no real talent or knowledge; just an inkling of what really might be and not enough sense to lock it away behind a very strong door. Kahn won't be much help here, but any DG agents who've served in Germany might be aware of a few places. A few friendly inquiries at a few bars will eventually produce the name Heinrich Hassler, and Kahn can run a check on the name to bring up an address.

Follow the Nazis:

Let the Bruders do the legwork. Kahn will be able to pick up their trail easily enough, by again, strong arming a few low-level Bruders (if the agents don't kill the 'informant' however, or otherwise incapacitate them, they'll alert Klieber who'll call in a hit on the group. He won't use the Bruders for this, but will go directly to the Russian Mafia. They'll be attacked whilst watching the Bruders). The agents will watch the Bruders take apart a few heroin dealers, until they get an address for Heinrich. They'll converge on his place, at which point the Bischoffe will turn up (seemingly out of no where).

Whatever happens, the agents should be arriving at Heinrich's apartment building around the same time as the Bischoffe and his Bauer. Either they'll arrive just before - in which case they'll have to try and persuade Heinrich to tell them where the book is extremely quickly (not an easy task - he'll start to throw spells around if he feels threatened, and he's got no reason to trust the agents), or they'll arrive just after - and the Bischoffe and Heinrich have joined in magickal combat. There should be adequate Bauer to keep the agents at bay whilst the Bischoffe overcomes Heinrich and consumes his memories. The Bischoffe and his Bauer immediately move on -maybe leaving a rearguard to keep the agents off their backs.

Pursuing the Nazis:

If the agents chase the Nazi's, they'll simply stop and attack them again whilst the Bischoffe slopes off. He'll commandeer some more Bauer from Klieber. If, however, they can get it together and get another car, they might be able to shadow them to the graveyard and the book. Kahn will try to arrange police back-up, but won't be able to muster any substantial re-enforcement's - there's some kind of emergency elsewhere in the city that's sucking in the local cops.

Heinrich's flat:

Failing that, there will be adequate evidence in Heinrich's flat to suggest he's buried the book in Van Dultz's grave (mucky spade, soiled wellies - haven't really decided exactly what yet). On to the graveyard.

The remaining Bauer will dig up Van Dultz's grave and the Bischoffe will take possession of De Vermiis Mysteriis. Unbeknownst to them, however, there is a nest of 'domesticated' star-vampires in the grave. As soon as the Bischoffe takes possession of the book, they will start to attack the Bauer. The Bischoffe will be able to defend himself, of course, but the agents might want to use the opportunity to launch their own attack at this point. They may even manage to kill the Bischoffe (there's no way he'll surrender). If this happens - Kahn will take possession of the book, as an officer of the BKA. Whilst the clear up is going on, he'll seize the opportunity to make himself a very rich man, and take it with him to Klieber's residence in order to thrash out a deal with the Karotechia.

Special note: the chicken switch.

If the agents get into serious trouble fighting hordes of Bauer, a generous GM might allow the Apache, Oliver Hassan's gang, to turn up looking for revenge, and give the agents a hand.


Retreat to the Introduction
Onwards to Part Two
Victory in Part Three

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