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DELTA GREEN-MUSIC FROM A DARKENED ROOM

DENNIS DETWILLER

Music from a Darkened

A DELTA GREEN INVESTIGATION FOR 1 TO 4 AGENTS

Wherein the Agents learn some threats are more tangible than others...

BY DENNIS DETWILLER

laces, like people, sometimes

go wrong. They turn off the

path and head into the shadows;

becoming something other than

normal. Black places lled with

blank rooms, closed doors and

empty hallways lined with dust.

In these places your voice

catches in your throat, the air

seems to hum and things hap-

pen. People get hurt, objects van-

ish. Bad feelings ow like the

loose tap in the bathroom and

hate hangs in the air like old

paint. It smells of time and cir-

cumstance and something just a

little beyond the world.

It smells like surrender...

1206 Spooner Avenue is a

wrong place. In the last forty-six

years of its history eighteen peo-

ple have died there, and you can

feel it. You walk in and it’s like

dropping two hundred feet un-

der water. It’s suddenly dark and

cold and pressure lled; at least

it is in your mind. Still; pretenses

remain.

Doors stay shut, and no

one ever hears a child’s laughter

at night. In the hours that stretch

like taffy after two, no one ever

hears music from a darkened

room. No one sees a woman

walking behind the glass in the

bathroom mirrors.

They shut their eyes and

pretend the world is ordered,

like a puzzle whose pieces are

square and plain. They pretend a

lot of things. They pretend they

are pretending...

Until, in the dark, the

hand falls on their shoulder...

The House on Spooner

Avenue

Spooner Avenue is a quiet street

that can be set in any suburban

location in the United States.

1206 Spooner Avenue is a small

house, originally built in 1907,

and amended with additional

construction in the 1940’s. It’s not

pretty or ugly; it’s just plain. Few

notice anything past the vibrant

growth of ivy that scales the

north side of the building. It is

wholly unremarkable in appear-

ance. But the neighbors are not

fooled.

The neighborhood is pre-

dominantly composed of retirees

who have long memories. Most

were born locally, and lived their

lives within the connes of

Meadowbrook, the town through

which Spooner Avenue cuts a

diagonal slash. All have heard

about the deaths in the Spooner

Avenue house. It’s something of

a water-cooler topic at all of

Meadowbrook’s hot spots.

The rumors began almost

half a century ago.

Around 1959 with the

murder/suicide of Douglas and

Margaret Crease, the house be-

gan to gain a reputation. At rst,

it was simply a nervous kind of

rumor to make a horrible inci-

dent more palatable; later as the

bodies slowly piled up, it became

more certain. By 2005, it’s simply

a fact – the residents are sure the

Spooner street house is evil. They

know this in the way one knows

the sky is blue or that

BREAKDOWN OF INTEL

1 THE HOUSE ON SPOONER AVENUE

2 THE AGENTS ARRIVE

3 WHAT’S GOING ON AT 1206 SPOONER

4 TRAILS

4 1206 SPOONER — THE EXTERIOR

4 INSIDE 1206 SPOONER

4 THE COUNTY SEAT

8 SHUT DOORS, CLOSED SHADES

8 THE LUCKY FE W

1 0 BREAK OUT THE BADGES

12 THE DARK PAST

14 ROOM BY ROOM

26 RUNNING THE HOUSE

26 CONSUMPTION OBSESSION POSSESSION

27 REFLECTIONS

27 CONTINGENCIES

28 REMOVING THE CONSECRATION

28 THE GREEN BOX 711

30 FRIENDLIES

31 SPELL: CONVOCHI L’UOMO NERO

31 CALLING THE DARK MAN

31 WRAPPING IT UP

34-35 HANDOUTS

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DENNIS DETWILLER

A-CELL’S DIRECTIVE

A-Cell has issued a directive to the nearest avail-

able Cell to the Spooner house. This missive ar-

rives in a beaten Fedex package with a return ad-

dress in Maryland (it’s a Mailboxes Etc. near the

Pentagon, the name on the return address, Iago

Greene, is false). Inside is a sheet of paper and an

old-looking cell phone.

DIRECTIVE FROM A-CELL

Operation IAGO

You are to investigate the death of Agent

GARRET and the suspicious circumstances of

said death. Focus attention on 1206 SPOONER

AVENUE. This house has been brought to the

attention of A-Cell before, and is deemed a

paranormal threat. Extreme caution should

be employed when investigating the Spooner

house. It has been known to exhibit an un-

known influence over skilled DG Agents.

The Cell Phone

Is a battered old telephone. Of the previous gen-

eration of phones, it can call internationally and

somehow fails to send call information to the

other end – so things like *69 and caller ID don’t

work on it (though the Agents won’t know this

until they attempt to use it). The numbers for

Emil Yarrow and Elizabeth Tucker are pro-

grammed into the phone, as well as the number

of the Meadowbrook Store-It.

If the Agents attempt to contact A-Cell us-

ing the normal channels in the chain of com-

mand, they may receive a return phone call on

this phone, at the moderator’s discretion. Use the

phone as a mystery; and feel free to employ it to

move the Agents along at any time – if things

bog down.

Mission Instructions

• Determine the cause of death of

Agent GARRET

• Determine if the 1206 SPOONER AVENUE

represents an ongoing threat to the

public

• Once these two protocols are com-

plete, contact A-Cell for further

instructions

Possible Friendly Contacts

• Emil Yarrow, Parapsychologist

• Elizabeth Tucker, Antique Dealer

Green Box Locales

• Green Box 711 – Meadowbrook Store-It

water quenches thirst. It’s a certainty.

After the Creases’ deaths, between 1963 and

2005, sixteen people have met their ends at 1206

Spooner. Only one of those deaths was due to nei-

ther accident nor violence. The rest have been a

chain of suicides, odd, accidental deaths and mur-

der.

Somehow, despite the mounting number of

bodies, the house has been continuously sold and

re-sold. There has been no break in inhabitance as

far back as the Creases’ death that lasted more than

a month.

The locals are certain the house has a draw to

it; a pull. Doctor George Weaver, the last local fool-

ish enough to be drawn to it, bought the house on a

whim and moved in, in the summer of 1970. He was

killed nine days later in an electrical accident.

Since then, no locals ever go to the open

houses which pop-up with startling regularity at

Spooner Avenue.

To those who live on Spooner Avenue, the

house is a dead-zone to be rushed past, something

to be avoided – especially at night.

The neighborhood is certain the building is

THE AGENTS ARRIVE

Delta Green has had its eye on the Spooner Avenue

house for some time, but those in charge deemed it a

low-level threat – possibly even a series of unfortu-

nate accidents and nothing more.

But when Special Agent Arthur Donnelley

was found in the master bedroom of the Spooner

house with his throat cut, A-Cell was alerted. What

was signicant wasn’t the suicide (which the medi-

cal examiner half-heartedly called it) but the fact

that Donnelley was following in the footsteps of

Yamilla Isari, the former owner, who was found un-

der the precisely same circumstances sixteen months

before.

Donnelley was the one who originally

brought the Spooner house to the attention of A-Cell

and went there, two weeks ago for an unknown rea-

son, without following protocol. He was reported

missing by his ex-wife three days before his body

was found in the Spooner Avenue house.

His throat was cut with a straight razor, and

his blood had drenched the Master Bedroom’s walls

– it looked like someone had “set off a bomb full of

blood.”

alive.

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DENNIS DETWILLER

What’s Going On at 1206 Spooner

In 1907, when the house was originally constructed,

Michael Wheeler – a thirty-two year old mason,

brought his invalid wife Isabelle Wheeler to die

there.

Wheeler was a dashing young man who

managed to wheedle his way into a lucrative posi-

tion cutting gravestones for nearby townships.

Later, his business expanded to specialty stonework

such as gargoyles, marble cuts, tiles and monu-

ments. When Isabelle and Michael married in 1905

they were the darlings of the town. But in less than a

year, their life fell under a shadow.

Overnight, it seemed, Isabelle was infected by

an unknown ailment; something which rst robbed

her of use of her legs, and later, wracked her body

with spasms and convulsions. Even so, she outlived

her husband by decades. Michael Wheeler was

struck in the head and killed by a piece of marble at

the County Seat work-site in 1910.

He was a wealthy man, and managed to leave

a signicant fortune behind – Isabelle was never

wanting for anything but peace. Isabelle remained

in the Spooner house another forty-six years; dying

at age 69 in 1956.

In 1926, Isabelle got her wish – her pain and

ailments went away. But the neighborhood was far

from happy. Isabelle took to living with a foreigner –

an Italian woman of considerable age – called Adele

DiVettelo – whom the locales called “The Crone”.

DiVettelo had worked previously as a seamstress at

the local Sanitarium, but was red for practicing

“witchcraft”. Since that time, she was generally

shunned by the town, and barely subsisted, until

she came to the house of Isabelle Wheeler.

Originally DiVettelo was hired by the help to

re-sew the drapes in all the rooms; but soon after-

wards was inseparable from Isabelle. In the summer

of 1926, the talk of the town was the recovery of Isa-

belle from her mystery ailment. For the rst time in

nearly a decade, Isabelle could walk and conduct

herself normally. But talk turned to the presence of

the Crone at the house.

Soon, it became clear to the locals that strange

things were going on at the Wheeler house. Animals

turned up dead – and not just farm animals – local

dogs and cats seemed to go missing with regularity

as well. Odd men showed up – foreigners with thick

Italian accents. The Crone seemed to be gathering

her own family into the Wheeler house with Isabel-

le’s blessing.

After a single confrontation with Antonio Di-

Vettelo – a man the Crone claimed was her son –

and locals in town in the winter of 1937, the town

learned to leave them alone.

Matthew Harrigan, the son of a wealthy local

politician wasted away from some sort of “mystery

disease” in the course of two-weeks after the inci-

dent. The disease was odd – the patient developed

rashes that became what appeared to be burn

marks, which then suppurated and bled out. Each

man involved in the scufe with Antonio suffered

from this disease, but only Harrigan, who had

struck Antonio, died from it.

The hint was taken. People steered clear of

the Wheeler house.

For once, the rumors were correct: DiVettelo

was practicing witchcraft. By the time she disap-

peared in 1955, most thought DiVettelo was in ex-

cess of 100 years old. What they didn’t know was

this – she was 73-years older than 100. She had

signed her life away to L’Uomo Nero – the Dark Man

– in the summer of 1800, at the age of 18. She placed

her name in his book and promised him blood and

souls. She had spent the rst 50 years of her new life

practicing her art in the Old Country, but came to

America when the time seemed right.

Using Wheeler’s ailment as leverage, DiVet-

telo wheedled her way into the Spooner Avenue

house and later gained complete control over Isa-

belle. The Crone rst took Isabelle’s pain and using

dark magic put it behind the reections at the

Spooner Avenue house; freeing Isabelle Wheeler

from the disease that had left her bedridden for

nearly a decade. This dark-half of Isabelle persisted

in each and every reection of the Spooner house;

while her physical form was restored to complete

health. At the time of her death, Isabelle learned the

price of such a trick: she found herself living out her

days in a dark nether-world behind glass, watching

the warmth of the modern world as it scrolled by.

For the thirty years that the Crone lived in the

Spooner Avenue house, only the rst 10 were lled

with controversy, eventually, as things quieted

down and the inhabitants at 1206 Spooner ceased

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DENNIS DETWILLER

interacting with the town, the town began to look

elsewhere. After all, a depression followed by a

world war was quite distracting.

In 1940, the Crone consecrated the Spooner

house to Ni-Ar-Lath-Otep , the secret name of the

Dark Man, and had a room built in the back of the

house for her nightly rituals. These rituals continued

on nights of the new moon for the next fteen years.

This culminated in the summer of 1955, when the

L’Uomo Nero himself appeared. He opened his book

to Isabelle Wheeler, who found she could not sign it

– she repented and refused to place her name within

it.

The next day, the Crone was gone, and Isa-

belle was alone. Soon, she was ill once more – this

time from old age. She wasted away over the period

of a year, cared for by a private nurse hired from a

local agency. She died in 1956 at the age of 69.

She still lives on there, in the reections of the

Spooner Avenue house, searching for prey to feed

her need for warmth and life; and now, after eight-

een deaths in the house, she’s not alone.

two-car garage. A large growth of ivy climbs the

north face of the building.

Anyone making a successful ARCHITEC-

TURE skill roll can determine that the house was

extensively modied from its original construction –

but not in an unusual manner – and most likely the

master bedroom and garage were additions at a

later date (beating the ARCHITECTURE roll by

more than 30% indicate these additions were added

sometime in the 1940’s).

Inside 1206 Spooner

Detailed examination of the interior indicates the

house was renovated sometime in the 1970’s, and

that it suffered a re sometime in its past which af-

fected the bedrooms in the back half of the house,

and that considerable care was put into repairing

the damage. (This was Peter Diaz’s’ repair of the

house after the re of 1974.)

The interior is still decorated with Yamilla

Isari’s furniture – the liquidation house has yet to

collect her things and sell them at county auction.

The master bedroom is the only heavily changed

area since Isari “left”. Although it has been cleaned

at great expense, the master bedroom is still covered

in blood stains; including a single tracking stain

which seems to draw a line from the wall opposite

the door, across the ceiling, to the point on the

ground where the tape which surrounded Donnel-

ley’s body can still be found.

Trails

There are several different trails the Agents can fol-

low to look into the background of 1206 Spooner

Avenue.

Search 1206 Spooner Avenue top to bottom (see

1206 Spooner – the Exterior on p. 4 , Inside 1206

Spooner on p. 4, and Room by Room on p. 14 ).

Investigate the basic paperwork of 1206 Spooner

Avenue (see The County Seat , below).

Attempt to interview the neighbors of 1206

Spooner Avenue (see Shut Doors, Closed Shades

on p. 8 ).

Attempt to interview living former residents

(see The Lucky Few on p. 8 ).

Locate death certicates, police reports and

coroner reports of former residents (see Break

out the Badges on p. 10 ).

Talk to the local police and coroner (see Break

out the Badges on p. 10 ).

Delve into the history of 1206 Spooner pre-1956

(see The Dark Past on p. 12 ).

The County Seat

Agents looking into the background of 1206 Spooner

Avenue will nd the standard records available at

the Meadowbrook County Seat – a small, modest

two-story building just a few scant blocks from the

house. All of Meadowbrook’s records have been

given little attention of late; the money that comes

from the State is going elsewhere – towards the con-

struction of a new library mostly. Few care that the

county seat is falling into disrepair, as long as the

parks remain clean, the trafc lights and roads are

well kept, and the police show up on time.

The County Seat has records of purchase, re-

cords of sale, zoning records and death certicates

on le dating back to 1940.

The County Seat is a sleepy little building that

deals mostly in parking tickets, zoning laws and

building permits. The clerk, Anthony Freemen is an

affable sort, and for a mocha from Starbucks will

gladly let the Agents into the records room during

work hours. Freemen is a twenty-something college

1206 Spooner – the Exterior

The building itself is unremarkable. It was built in

1907, and reects common construction practices at

the time. It is a small, two-story, 2,100 square foot

building with a single gable window in the front,

two porches; including a large rear porch, and a

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DENNIS DETWILLER

drop-out who is unaware of the Spooner house and

its history, but he’s always trying to ll his day –

spending most of his days, as he does, on his ass

waiting for someone to ask him something besides

where the bathroom is. If it’s a particularly boring

day and the Agents take him into some sort of con-

dence, Freemen might even help them look

through the mountains of paperwork.

The records room is a barely controlled mish-

mash of water stained boxes, photo sheets and

twenty-eight huge pre-WWII ling cabinets. Papers

are not led here as much as abandoned – and this

is only the last 65 years worth of paperwork. Every

record before 1940 was packed up in 1966 and

moved offsite into storage. Access to those les is

just plain “not possible” according to Freemen. It’ll

take a lot more than a mocha to get him to poke his

nose into such county business (something on the

par of an X-Box and a LUCK÷2

roll perhaps).

The record of ownership

of 1206 Spooner Avenue reads

like a hit list – a chain of

deaths, suicides, accidents,

murder. Surprisingly, if the

Agents search around, similar

records for other homes can be

found. When the lifetime of a

house is broken down into

bite-sized chunks like this, it’s

very easy to nd what seem to

be odd chains of events: re

after re, death upon death.

Even so, although hours

of work is necessary on the

part of the Agents to assemble

the following list; once they

learn what to look for in the

county records, it’s hard not to

see it everywhere. It’s very

easy (once the records for

Spooner are assembled) to nd

one or two other houses that

seem to suffer from the same

malady.

Agents who hope to

trace all the records of 1206

Spooner Avenue back to 1940

have hours of work ahead of

them. Two appropriate re-

search rolls must be made to

uncover a basic chronology

from 1940 to 2005 – this takes

somewhere in the realm of 12

to 15 hours and only informs

the Agents of who lived there, died there and the

appropriate dates. Those who spend more time dig-

ging can attempt to research individuals who lived

in the house – to succeed, the Agents must choose a

particular name to research, and then make the ap-

propriate research roll and score between 01-10%.

Each search of this nature can only be attempted

once per name, and takes 1d6 hours of digging.

If the Agents manage to get Anthony Freeman

to assist them, he improves the Agent’s appropriate

research skill by +20%. If they manage to get Free-

man to look into the stored pre-1940 records (and

this should require signicant luck or persistence),

this increases the possibility of success into research

into Isabelle and Michael Wheeler, the Wheeler

house’s construction, Adele DiVettelo, Antonio Di-

Vettelo and Matthew Harrigan by +30%. It is un-

helpful on any other subject.

R e l e v a n t D a t e s

N a m e s

C a u s e o f

D e a t h

Number Dead

Pre 1956

Michael Wheeler and Family Unknown

Unknown*

1956 to 1959

George and Margaret Crease Murder/

Suicide

2 Dead*

1960 to 1962

Michael Dougherty

Accident

1 Dead

1962 to 1965

Adam and Rebecca Turé and

Family

Accident

1 Dead*

1966 to 1969

Jonathan Reese

Suicide

1 Dead

1970 to 1970

Doctor George Weaver

Accident

1 Dead*

1970 to 1974

Thomas and Imogen Greeley

and Family

Fire

2 Dead

1975 to 1981

Peter Diaz

Suicide

1 Dead*

1981 to 1981

Gareth Gedjos

Accident

1 Dead

1982 to 1983

Jason and Janine Aiken

Gas Leak

1 Dead

1984 to 1988

John Tyler

Accident

1 Dead

1989 to 1993

Louis Tycroft

Suicide

1 Dead

1994 to 1999

Amanda Braintree

and Family

Suicide

1 Dead

1999 to 2002

Andrea Falcone

Accident

1 Dead

2002 to 2004

Yamilla Isari

Suicide

1 Dead*

2005

Special Agent

Arthur Donnelley

Suicide

1 Dead*

*Follow Up information available on a Research roll of 01-10%

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