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THE HIDDEN (1987) dir. Jack Sholder

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Remember that "three items from the store to make the cashier most uncomfortable" meme? Apparently I accidentally found a winning combo tonight at the corner store, one of the usual clerks shot me a really weird look when I was checking out with these

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Mountain Dew for goths, call that Bauhaus Blast.

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obsessed

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If someone jerks me off with a puppet it counts as a threesome, right?

read your bible

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"We can cancel your unwanted subscriptions"

Maybe I want them? Maybe I want them because no one else does? Maybe I am the collector of unwanted subscriptions? Maybe I was there for them because I love them?

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GM of a combat-focused power-fantasy ttrpg: "hmm is this enemy challenging enough while at the same time jot being too much for my players to handle?"

Call of Cthulhu keeper: "living cloud entity from Jupiter who does 12d6 damage a second and gives you an anxiety disorder"

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Average Members of Groups of Interest: Where are they now? Part 2

PISCES:

*Either some MI5 desk monkey or an especially good tarot reader that was "conscripted". They are the new blood after the office went through some "fumigations". They don't have a bug problem anymore. That's right, no brain bugs, completely clean you don't have to worry about it anymore. They are all gone

*Shan infested Agent, all the old timers and loyal azathoth worshippers got wiped during the "bug hunts". Now it is just the atheistic/secular earth borns who have only known the pleasures of human misery. They may have had a hand in culling the azathoth worshippers and the geezers from the cowboys so they could live it up driving around their meat suits.

Army of the Third Eye

*After the Embassy Row massacre A-Cell decided they needed some local heavy hitters. They turned some young former IRA hard boys over to the Army to train them in sabotage and to give them a little catharsis against the Brits. They don't really know about the bugs and they don't really care. Or they are environmentalists really mad about Welsh lake being drained and have become violent anprims.

*Department for the Veterans of Psychic Wars. When most left the Army or got busted you stayed behind because you had nowhere else to go. They were inside your head, you remember the scratching feeling against the back of your skull. You can hear the whistling of the Court, the nuclear chaos of it all. Those whistles wax and wan but you hear it in your loneliness and alienation. Your apartment is freezing and you swear you can simply walk in the court of the Outer Gods.

GRU-SV8

*You fought against the cultists of Shub, you hunted down Nazis wizards, traveled to Leng and back. All to get blown away by some NAFO dip shit memer piloting a drone with a grenade tapped to it. The video of your death will be put into a tiktok nsfl compilation and children will do the floss to it.

*The Broken Vanguard. You were there, the past haunts you. Your country was stolen and sold off from you. You live in the decaying ruins of what was to be the future of the workers state.

The Skoptsi

*After much of the cult was either blown away or got pitched you went to jail for mundane crimes. Life max. The cult is no more but you have started a gang culture devoted to the black goat, our lady of new birth. Forgive us for our sins and born us new into the world. Sheds the only flesh for the new flesh. You awaken in the shared prison shower covered in blood and hungry. This is not a prison, it is a feeding farm for you.

*You were a good Orthodox boy who grew up in the church. You read your Bible, you went to service, etc. You are an adult now and you hear the flies. The Flys of the Black Goat. You see some people are covered in flies, at work or at the bus stop or in the store. No one else sees them. But you do. Make the buzzing stop. They smell like rotten flesh. There is only one thing you can do. Buy a toolbox, maybe even a gun? Squash the flies.

Outlook Group

*See Majestic

Phenomen-X

*Zak Bagans but somehow worse. "We are here at this Asylum today". Maybe they believe? Maybe they don't? Is just here until they get a TV show deal with Discovery or The Travel Channel. Does very little work besides just showing up to the filming. They have the same disease as Alex Jones where he needs to buy a new watch every three months just to feel something again.

*Genuine believer but very little to absolutely no camera presence. Has been made into a lolcow by the Phenomen-X social media group because of how awkward and gawky they are.

Tiger Transit

*Since the organization has gone "legit" you were the first of the round of new hires to make the crime organization look as illegal as any other financial firm. You are probably an accountant or a HR person for one of the many shell companies. At the recent company retreat there was a banquet. The main course? The long pork. It wasn't as bad as you thought it would be? Most corpos are flesh eaters so it's fine.

*Since Tiger Transit was a airline used by the CIA to traffic heroin, naturally the next step is become a anti communist advocacy think tank. You are a fresh face social media influencer who cries on podcasts about how communism took away your grandpas opium plantation.

D-Stacks

*Dr. Jensen Wu has to be 88 now right? He probably has an intern? Where is he? He got lost in the storage halls of the museum. Sometimes you see him wandering. Bright smile, wrinkles and all.

*If the program didn't assign a "budget" archeologist to the stacks then the outlaws tried to transfer everything of note to a green box somewhere. God I hope not.

Keepers of the Faith

*One of the dwindling numbers of loyal yog worshippers who slip in and out of the train tunnels of New York. Sometimes people in suits come by and give you snacks from the morgues office for information about the glowing spheres. A peaceful and quiet existence sleeping in the cold and tight seams of the city. The time will come.

*The impatient young blood. Has forbid the teachings of yoga for the careless gospel of hip new gods. Doesn't know what the fuck a crawl chaos is but human flesh sure does sound good about now. Got sick and tired of the old dry dead the keepers kept pointing to feed on.

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bitches will see the word garlic and hit reblog

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Say what you like about WoD LARPs being cringe or whatever, the one thought I have going to a club is always "wow I wish I was anyone but myself here" and "wow I wish there were clear rules to gamify this."

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So not Diegetic but I like to present campaigns (especially games like Delta Green or Unknown Armies) as HBO style limited series events, Twin Peaks Season 3 or True Detective mini series style of presentation. So I have an opening song for the campaign, an opening song for each session and a closing song for the campaign.

For Delta Green, if I were to control its hypothetical soundtrack it would mostly be industrial/metal sound. Is this a thinly veiled disguise for me to talk about music? Maybe. Regardless I think that Delta Green is a game that fundamentally can be played in any time period but I have a soft spoken for the edgy/angsty 90s aesthetic that games at that time were trying to shoot for. The overlap in conspiracy culture and alt/underground subculture was kind of a golden hour for this time specifically.

N.W.O - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs or ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (1992) by Ministry

"What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong. A new world order"

Ministry took a departure from their Industrial synthrock sound with their 1989 album, The Mind is a Terrible Thing To Taste and veered straight into a hard metal industrial fused sound. Psalm 69 cemented the image that Ministry presents today of being a speed influence psychobilly style of music.

The title Psalm 69 is not a biblical reference but is actually a passage taken from Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies

The title of the Song N.W.O is a reference to the 1991 state of address made by George H. W. Bush. The term New World Order was a phrase that Bush repeated to invoke the US as a guiding force in the Post Cold War era in the aftermath of the First Gulf War. This phrase would go on to be used in conspiracy culture due to its unsettling phrasing.

This is overall perfect opening for agents to enter into the world of Delta Green whether they are new agents or seasoned veterans. This is the sound of a New World Order, the world order of Majestic, the world Order of the Great Old Ones.

Suck - Gub (1991) by Pigface

"How does it feel? Suck, suck, suck

How does it feel? Suck, suck, suck"

After Ministry The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, Ministry drummer William Rieflin and Ministry alumni Martin Atkins formers Industrial supergroup Pigface to explore other dynamics. The song suck uses an overall less loud and overwhelming sound for a more subtle and eerie presence, a slow guitar beat over sounds like film reels in the background. The strong vocals would be done by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame.

This as an opening for each session gives it a perfect intro credits sequence to prepare players to enter an unnatural world.

Suck - Broken (1992) by Nine Inch Nails

"A thousand lips

A thousand tongues

A thousand throats

A thousand lungs

A thousand ways to make it true

I want to do terrible things to you"

After Nine Inch Nails debut album Pretty Hate Machine (1989) and after providing vocals for Pigface, Trent decideds to recover Suck for the 1992 Ep Broken after finding success and frustration coming off Interscope records.

This would be the closing credits for the campaign, this cover is much heavier matching the total harsh rock sound of the entire ep. Starting with a smooth synth intro amping up into a raw ballad. This song is both a confession and (I have to say the music enjoyer words now) is an invitation into the world of this EP.

The Broken EP was also made in tandem with a movie/music video called Broken that took from the perspective of a found footage snuff film. The grainy footage and amateur camera work adds to the grime and filth of the world that agents will be entertaining.

Doom Mantra - Come My Fanatics (1997) Electric Wizard

"Followers, they sing and dance

The pipes of Pan have weaved a trance"

"Dressed in black

No turning back

Dressed in black

No turning back"

Now for a good diegetic song to play during session when your agents decide to crash Club Apocalypse you can't look anywhere better than Electric Wizard.

I have always struggled to find good music that I feel fully represent the exact tone of Charnel Dreams. You can't do too much satanism because that takes away from the cosmic horror of it but you can't do too much Cthulhu because then it just becomes a squid pile and you have no doom left. Electric Wizard hits the perfect in-between of the allure of the devil and the doom of an alien universe that they would make a perfect representation of Stephen Alzis personal club band.

Wonderful, heavy stoner/doom metal. Besure to follow up with Funeralopolis and you are set for a horrible night at the best alt club in New York.

I loooooooove diegetic music in Delta Green games. I loooooove having a playlist of period accurate music playing in the background over a shitty speaker to simulate a diners dogshit jukebox. I loooooooove having leitmotivs for each of my agents and finding a way to incorporate them into diegetic sound. Suck my diiiiiiiiick Universal Music Group for blocking my sound bot.

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"WHAT IS STEEL COMPARED TO THE HAND THAT WIELDS IT?"

James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom

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It's with a heavy but hopeful heart that I watch Palestinian families fundraiser on here, slowly accumulating the precious little money to go around that they need to survive. However, not everyone is so lucky. A lot of Palestinians that have not had that kind of luck, that did not get early verification, that did not get massive platforms behind them from large bloggers, have approached me in my inbox, asking me kindly to do what I can for them. It kills me that I have so little to give myself, but I've seen this platform collectively raise enough to change someone's life. I've made a list of Palestinian fundraisers that are extremely low on funds, in the hope that drawing attention to people who have not been lucky at all can help turn that luck around. I know most of us can't possibly give enough to get all of these families safe in one go. But please, reblog this list. Pick one or two fundraisers, give what you can, and then keep track of it. Slowly, collectively, we can make a difference in these people's lives. Share and donate as much as you can. https://docs.google.com/document/d/178EGDFKkHlh3y4TMVX82kqgITHsqtoMdNccI2f_94Os/edit?usp=sharing

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why is it that libs decided the best way to performatively demonstrate how open-minded and "big picture" focused and rational they are is to list all the hyopthetical situations in which they'd vote for Hitler in alphabetical order, completely and utterly unprompted

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How dare you be funnier than me on my own post. This is an offense to me and my dark lord of the Fate, Not Nyarlathotep.

I fear that Stephen Alzis has become my blorbo. I'm sorry for disappointing you all. 🤢

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I fear that Stephen Alzis has become my blorbo. I'm sorry for disappointing you all. 🤢