OPERATION: CHANCE ENCOUNTER
BRIEFING
Agents are summoned late Thursday night, February 13th, 2025, to an early Friday morning meeting at a Mcdonald’s located in Monroeville, PA. Awaiting them on the second floor of this building is AGENT JEREMY RONALDSON, their case officer. Ronaldson keeps the briefing short and sweet, informing agents that Program webcrawlers found encoded social media communications with memetic kill agents that resulted in the deaths of 3 Agents before they went offline. Decoding the information proved… difficult, but resulted in an address, the bar Sally Ann’s in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. Delta Green has little information as to what is going on, but is tasking the Agents with
- Determine if anything Unnatural is taking place at the bar
- If possible, limit Civilian Exposure to the Unnatural
- Ensure the Unnatural is stopped/terminated/neutralized
- Obtain potential subjects/samples/anything useful for study
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON
Despite the fearsomeness of many Unnatural deities and creatures, such horrific monstrosities can get lonely too. A well read, mostly insane witch known as LARISSA LAFOUE decided to help these misbegotten, lovelorn souls, and has set up a speed dating event for the Unnatural. Her social media ad contained hypergeometric algorithms to ensure that it would be picked up by members of the Unnatural community, which Delta Green was able to pick up on with their webcrawlers. LARISSA is a talented witch, and has promised the event to be neutral ground for those in the know to “explore the Unnatural” as it were. This is mostly a free form, roleplay based scenario, where if combat is resulting, things are likely to go very badly for Agents and the city of Pittsburgh as a whole, as the entities invited to the Speed dating event are jealous lovers. Agents will have to keep a lid on the entities, keep the peace, and maybe if they’re lucky, get lucky themselves.
THE INVITED
“Normals” - There are several civilians who have managed, by a quirk of fate, to receive Larissa’s ad, and have decided to come to the speed dating event to hopefully meet their “perfect strangers”. Names and details can be changed, but suggestions are below.
- Jacob - Athletic Frat Guy, loves sports, “babes” ripped.
- Madison - sorority girl, “so stoked to be here”, always on her phone
- Edward - Bookish, shy, nerdy, first time he’s left the house this month
- Abigail - Goth girl, alternative, probably has an Onlyfans
- Melissa - Catholic, has never been on a date, looking for a Godly husband
ARIEL - Deep One - Ariel is, quite literally, a fish out of water. A Deep One Hybrid that’s about halfway through her transformation, her bulging eyes, pallid skin, and fishy smell may make her offputting. She comes from a small colony of Deep Ones living in the Alleghany River to “put herself out there” in order to meet someone to help expand the colony. She is friendly, but regular human social interactions confuse her, and she’s likely to do several strange things (pour water on herself, stare off and not respond, talk confusingly/with a mucusy throat) over the course of a date. She is otherwise harmless.
KEVIN - King in Yellow infected- Kevin is a film student at Point Park University who will not shut up about his new short film, Raincoat, based on an old French play he found online. Any normal person who is stuck in a conversation with Kevin will need to make a POW roll or begin to all under the sway of the King in Yellow, wanting to talk more and more about Kevin’s film, ignoring anything else going on, including the fact that the bar is slowly turning into a ballroom. Continued conversation may turn Agents into vectors of the King in Yellow, but removing them from Kevin’s presence is enough to break the connection and return an Agent to normal… for the time being. If Kevin is allowed to talk with one person uninterrupted for the course of speed dating, Sally Ann’s will be transported to Carcosa. Killing him will also stop this process.
SCARLET - Atlach-Nacha Spawn - Scarlet is a literal maneater, here to pick up her next meal. She is seductive and incredibly attractive. Her goal is to get any member of the event outside and home with her as quickly as possible, leaving early if they can about halfway through the event. Observant Agents can discover her nature, as her disguise is not perfect. Beneath her dress are several spidery legs that when she adjusts how she sits, are revealed for but a moment, and her love of suggestive comments should put Agents on edge. (I'm looking to have someone over for dinner…)
NORMAN - Shoggoth - Norman is a Shoggoth that has learned to take an approximation of a human form. He is here to learn more about what it means to be “human”, by going through the process of human mating rituals. He has done a decent amount of observation and research into appearing “human” but has not yet perfected it. Observant agents may notice that, when confronted with something unexpected outside what he believes is normal human behavior (up to Handler interpretation), his face starts to droop and melt, as his body loses shape. This is a quick process and he can quickly adjust, but it can be noticed.
STEPHAN ALZIS - Nyaralathotep - Stephen Aliz is the former leader of the Fate, and is a handsome, Arabic man of mid 30’s/40’s age and build. He is charming, mysterious, and a Priority target for Delta Green. If the Program becomes aware of his involvement at this event, it will assume this is his doing and will task Agents to detain if possible, or kill him if not. Aliz will play along, finding this whole event entertaining, but will likely visit Agents on a future operation depending how they treat him.
LARISSA - Witch - Event organizer, lovely woman in her late thirties with the vibe of an aging hippie. She is kind and welcome to walk ins to the event, and promises it should be an event to remember. She will not tolerate outright violence or obvious arms, warning people first and then trying to kill them if they refuse to disarm. Otherwise, she may assist Agents in trying to keep the peace depending on how polite they are with her.
RUNNING THE EVENT
Searching for Sally Ann’s bar will turn up the speed dating event, and Agents will have several ways to handle it. Attempting to stop the event before it happens will not be easy as Agents do not have much time before the event starts by the time they are informed of it, and will draw the rage of Larissa. The Agents best course of action is to participate in the event and try to keep casualties/exposure to a minimum, such as keeping the speed dating out of Carcosa and stopping Scarlett from grabbing a bite to eat. This is designed to be a free form event, ending once the Agents have met everyone at least once (NPCs may stick with the same partner for multiple rounds, i.e Kevin). Open combat is likely to get Agents killed or worse. Agents should be wary, unsure of who is a threat and who isn’t as they narrow down the options. If all goes well, Agents should leave the event with more information, possibly a captive or two, but at least some sort of agreement with Larissa to keep her from doing the event again.
The list of people above is just suggestions, as many entities could find speed dating to be an interesting diversion, from a Serpent Person looking for a new disguise, to a member of a Great Race of Yith who needs the speed dating to be ruined to preserve the timeline, giving Agents another threat to stop. This is meant to be a fun, lighter scenario, so keep the tone tense, but comedic. Above all else, have fun with the event. It’s speed dating, after all.
STAT BLOCKS
Combat should be unnecessary in this scenario, as this can be resolved entirely in Roleplay, but references are included just in case
Non Unnatural NPCs use the Ordinary NPC statblock in the handler’s guide (10 in all stats)
ARIEL - Use Lesser Deep One Stat Block in Handler’s Guide
KEVIN - Usu Ordinary Stats as above, as he is normal other than his KiY infection
SCARLETT - Use the Daughter of Atlach-Nacha Stat Block from the Molleus Monstrorum
NORMAN - Use Shoggoth Stat Block in Handler’s Guide
STEPHAN ALZIS - Can do anything, but will only do what he wants to. If killed, will disappear whenever anyone stops looking at him and reappear at a later date unharmed.
LARISSA - Use Expert NPC Stat Block from the Handler’s Guide, (12 in most stats, 14 in CON and POW), and grant her any spells of your choosing.
Credits
OPERATION: CHANCE ENCOUNTER was written by Chris Venzin (Delta Cream) for the 2025 Shotgun Scenario contest.
Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fN0yvA772tIyQgf8efpibiPiqMbIizwxgI4g6xSVcwA/edit