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Background
Non-euclidian chronology
Setup
The briefing
Ripplebrook, Oregon
The crash site
The motives of Henry Nelson
The house of Nelsons
MAJESTIC’s arrival
Endgame
STATS
Credits

Background
The original Henry Nelson had an outstanding career in the US
army's special forces before volunteering as a research subject for a
classified MAJESTIC-12 project in 1983: Project Merkhet.

The project was one of MAJESTIC’s lesser experimental forays into

the field of Tillinghast radiation, using an experimental device called
the Westerberg-Alternator. The actual purpose of the experiment was
never revealed to Mr. Nelson, but when he was exposed to the
Alternator, it caused a chronological anomaly. Slivers of his future self
were removed from their original place, 46 seconds into the future,

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and reinserted at the same chronological spot in the timeline as the

original Henry Nelson (see Non-euclidian Chronology below). The
experiment itself incurred the wrath of the Hounds of the Angles
which arrived shortly after the activation of the Alternator. In this
turmoil the two Henrys escaped, but when they tried to contact
MAJESTIC personnel, they tried to neutralize him/them, for fear that
he was the cause of the Hounds’ appearance.

Using the future versions' precognitive memory, the Henrys managed

to escape into the wilderness. There they have led an isolated
existence, trying to keep their presence secret from the rest of
humanity in the Cascade mountains for fear of MAJESTIC and the
Hounds.

Non-euclidian chronology
Trying to understand the structure and workings of this non-
eucludian time fuckup is almost impossible for the human mind. For
an outsider however it seemed like Henry Nelson suddenly became
two identical clones, whereas the future clone has the power of
precognition 46 seconds into the future (in his perspective this is his
short term memory). What is even more sanity wrenching is that
while the future clone can act independently of the original Henry, its
body is affected by the same things that affect the original with a
sort of backwards causality. But since it is a preview of the original
henry, it is functionally impervious to harm. Basically if the clone is
decapitated, it resets back to a non-decapitated version in 46
seconds. If the original Henry is decapitated however, the future
version also becomes decapitated in 46 seconds. The original Henry
is not affected by things targeting the future clone.

While the nature of Henry's two-bodied condition is very obvious to

other humans, it is but a small ripple on the flows of time for the
Hounds of the Angles. During the experiment, they were instead
drawn to the Westerberg-Alternator which holds the power of a tidal
wave by comparison. A Hound in physical proximity of Henry would
however detect him hungerly.

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Setup
June 1992. A 46-year old courier, Mathilda Jacobs and her van
delivering goods to Ripplebrook, Oregon never reaches her
destination. The car is found on June 12th, crashed into the side of
the road. The body of Mathilda Jacobs is found next to it, impaled to
a tree with a crude wooden spear. The police officer who discovers
the scene also finds an unexplainable sequence of events on the vans
dash cam.

The screen shows the van driving at night. Suddenly a human shape
is visible in the middle of the road. The car lurches and then another
human shape dressed in furs throws itself in front of the car, causing
it to crash into a tree at the side of the road, the human shape
pinned to the hood. The pinned figure's face is bloody and deformed
by the crash, clearly dead. As the driver comes to and in a panic
rushes out to help, another fur clad human shape steps into view,
holding a wooden spear. A strange distortion flickers across the
screen and the body on the hood vanishes. Instead, the fur clad man
appears to have gained a twin, standing beside him with a spear. As
the driver freaks out and tries to run, the second spear wielder
attacks her forcefully and brutally impales her to a tree. Both men
leave and the video ends.

The briefing
The Agents are contacted in the usual way by their cells’ handler.
Their meeting place is a shoddy cabin at the Stagecoach Inn in
Estacada, Oregon. The Agents are given budget flight tickets and are
ordered to arrive ASAP, with little time to pack or prepare cover
stories. They are shown the dash cam tape and asked to investigate
and stop any potential vectors concerning the incident, as well as pin
the murder on something more mundane. The body of Mathilda
Jacobs has already been autopsied and destroyed, bearing no signs
of supernatural taint. The Agents are then given a rented Toyota
Land Cruiser and directions to Ripplebrook.

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Ripplebrook, Oregon
It's a 40-mile ride south from Estacada to Ripplebrook though vast
pine forests. The small community consists of several US Forest
Service compounds as well as a handful of houses inhabited by the
personnel and their families. In the way of goods and services there
is a small store and a camping facility. The weather is hot, dry and
cloudy. Five miles down the road into the community lies the crash
site.

If the agents arrive in Ripplebrook, the inhabitants know little about

the accident or any supernatural occurrences. Several people do
however mention that the area is historically plagued by animals that
irregularly steal food or supplies. There is little else of interest in the
community.

The crash site

The crash site bears few signs of the murder. The car has been towed
and the body removed. Several broken trees mark it at the side of
the road. A big dried blood stain marks the murder. Searching the
area reveals that there are footprints of five individuals in the dry
grass, three of identical size. One pair seems to appear out of
nowhere in the middle of an area of high grass. The tracks go into
the wilderness and lead the Agents to the house of Nelsons.

The motives of Henry Nelson

The original Henry has come to understand that he is perpetually
linked to his future preview of himself. He has tried to both separate
and kill it, but it always reappears within 46 seconds. On some level
he has also come to understand the non-euclidian chronology that
affects him, and as such he is quite disassociated from mundane
humans. Fearful of MAJESTIC, he wishes to live alone. If possible he
tries to avoid bloodshed, but mostly out of practicality.

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The future version of Henry is more peculiar. Being a sliver of the

original Henry's future, stuck in its past, it has stopped interacting
with its surroundings more than necessary. It is quite insane from
this situation, as well as from the fact that it has “died” several
times, but is always reset after 46 seconds. The future version rarely
speaks, instead relying on the Original Henry's memory to
understand situations. The exception is threats to the original Henry.
Having understood that the only way to suffer permanent harm is if
Original Henry is harmed or killed, it brutally sacrifices itself and
others to save him. After all, it is “reborn” within seconds of such
sacrifices.

The house of Nelsons

The house of the Nelsons is a strange, large makeshift hut. It is
hidden from view in a rocky crevice up a mountainside, eight miles
west of Ripplebrook. The inside has a small anteroom with a cooking
fire and basic camping gear. The rest of the hut is dominated by the
sleeping dome, which is a weird, spherical space constructed of junk
and refuse, roughly 10 feet in diameter. The original Henry made it
to keep the nightmares away, as he is plagued by nightmares of
fiendish, otherworldly beasts.

The Henrys are currently hiding in a small shelter a bit up on the

ridge, overlooking the house, trying to ambush anyone following their
tracks.

MAJESTIC’s arrival
A team of MAJESTIC agents is sent to Ripplebrook with a copy of the
Westerberg-Alternator to try and destroy the Henrys. They are a five-
manned team of faceless, smartly dressed, and ruthless soldiers.
With them is a physicist, Dahlia Torres, to control the Alternator. The
Alternator itself is a large ceramic machine fitted into a small van.

Once there, they search the area under the pretense that they are
hunting for escaped convicts from the nearby Deer Ridge Correctional
Institution. They do not cooperate with the Agents and act with
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extreme prejudices if they are to suspect that Delta Green is

involved.

Endgame
The only way to stop the situation of the double Henrys is either to
manage to kill the original Henry, or expose them both to MAJESTIC’s
Alternator.

MAJESTIC’s team tries to force or lure the Henrys closer to the

nearest road where the van is parked and then activate the
Alternator. On activation, the machine disintegrates both the original
and future Henrys in a spectacular light show. Shortly after this, a
swarm of 1d4+3 Hounds descend on the area, bent on destroying the
Alternator and ending everyone exposed to it.

STATS
Original Henry Nelson, age 46
STR 17 CON 18 DEX 14 INT 14 POW 12 CHA 8
HP 18 WP 12 SAN 18 BREAKING POINT 12
SKILLS: Alertness 50 %, Athletics 50 %, Firearms 50 %, HUMINT
30 %, Law 30 %, Navigate 50 %, Search 40 %, Survival 30 %,
Unarmed Combat 50 %.
ATTACKS: Wooden spear 50 %, damage 1D10.

Future Henry Nelson, age 46 seconds

STR 17 CON 18 DEX 18 INT 14 POW 12 CHA 12
HP 18 WP 12 SAN - BREAKING POINT -
SKILLS: Alertness 90 %, Athletics 80 %, Firearms 90 %, HUMINT
60 %, Law 30 %, Navigate 70 %, Search 70 %, Survival 70 %,
Unarmed Combat 90 %.
ATTACKS: Wooden spear 90 %, damage 1D10.

MAJESTIC killers x 5
STR 16 CON 16 DEX 15 INT 14 POW 10 CHA 11
HP 16 WP 10 SAN 38 BREAKING POINT 32
ARMOR: Light kevlar vest (Armor 3).

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SKILLS: Alertness 60 %, Athletics 60 %, Firearms 70 %, HUMINT

30 %, Law 20 %, Navigate 50 %, Search 50 %, Survival 50 %,
Unarmed Combat 60 %.
ATTACKS: SIG Sauer P228 pistol 70 %, damage 1D10.
FN M16A2 rifle 50 %, damage 1D12, Armor Piercing 3. Unarmed
50 %, damage 1D4−1.

Dahlia Torres, MAJESTIC physicist

STR 10 CON 10 DEX 12 INT 10 POW 10 CHA 13
HP 10 WP 10 SAN 25, BREAKING POINT 20
SKILLS: Alertness 30 %, 40 %, Athletics 40 %, Computer science
50 %, HUMINT 30 %, Science (physics) 70 %.
ATTACKS: Unarmed 30 %, damage 1D4−1.

Hounds of the angles

See page 205 of the Handlers guide.

Credits
46 second preview was written by Erik Ahlin for the 2023 Shotgun
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