Baughman’s Vietnam-era metal footlocker is stowed under his bed. This is where he kept mementos from his years with Delta Green.
Atop the contents is a sealed enveloped marked with a triangle in green ink. The envelope holds a Short letter from Baughman (see HANDOUT B, page 48).
In the Footlocker
- Reel-to-reel tapes labeled with FBI evidence tags… labeled with FBI evidence tags, dated 15 AUG 72 to 29 SEP 72, 21 hours total. The audio is of the congregants of an unknown church engaged in a pseudo-Christian service involving snake-handling. Frequent mentions are made of “Saint Yig,” “the Scaled Redeemer,” and “the Blessed Serpent.” At several points congregants cry out after having been bitten. One person is refused medical treatment and begins wailing in agony. SAN loss: 0/1.
- A cardboard box containing a neatly folded, very bloody man’s suit containing a neatly folded but very bloody man’s suit.
- An annotated copy of the doctoral dissertation “Sky Devils: Archetypical Figures in Native American Mythology,” by Karen Barr…An annotated copy of the doctoral dissertation “Sky Devils: Archetypical Figures in Native American Mythology,” by Karen Barr. It was rejected by the University of Indiana, Bloomington, in 1985. You can decide what it says about “Sky Devils.” Studying it as a “Home” pursuit between missions grants +1 percentile in the Unnatural skill and costs 1D3 SAN.
- Three tear-gas grenades. Manufactured 20 years ago, each requires a Luck roll to work.
- A Large Iron Knife. Archeology at 40% identifies it as of Anglo-Saxon manufacture. Strangely, it’s engraved with Ogham markings which cannot be deciphered and appears to be gibberish. A (human) bone handle is relatively new.
- Leather pouch with hair, teeth and feather. containing hair (black bear), teeth (human infant), and feathers (blue jay and barn swallow).
- One highly magnetized glass sphere highly magnetized glass sphere, 3 cm in diameter. Anyone inspecting it with Science (Physics) at 20% or greater loses 0/1 SAN realizing the glass is far too magnetic for nature.
- Sizeable file on the Ventaja Corporation A sizeable file regarding the Ventaja Corporation (aka Venta, meaning “advantage”), an Argentine import/export firm, dating from 1965 to 1968. The file begins with an FBI investigation into allegations of weapon smuggling in Miami. The investigation ended without prosecution, but Delta Green surveillance of the company continued. Baughman uncovered financial ties between Ventaja and accounts mentioned on a World War II-era financial watch list called “K Group.” A raid on a Ventaja warehouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico, resulted in the recovery of something called “The Scheel Formula.” A manila folder with that title is empty.