Session 6 Prep

 

 

News & Rumors

Good evening and a happy Ramon Mercader Day, Arkheologorodok! This is Lara Kiseleva broadcasting live from the Orbita News building, bringing you this week’s news round-up.

This afternoon's parade was a smash hit as usual, with a massive turnout. Governor Yevseyev marked the start of the parade with the ceremonial breaking of the Trotsky piñata with an oversized ice axe. His first attempt at a swing resulted in him falling backwards, to great laughter, but after being picked up by his guards and in good cheer, the Governor landed a mighty blow and candies were distributed among the children. 

The start of the parade also marked one of the few public appearances of both Dariy Belov and Vladimir Saburov, with the two looking notably icy towards one another. Rumors have it that they both sought to outdo one another in terms of funding Ramon Mercader Day celebrations. We can't say which of them lost, but we can say with great certainty that the citizens of Arkheologorodok won! 

In a rare joint statement, Metropolitan Grigori and Commissioner Nikitan are urging residents and citizens to exert some self control tonight and warned against the moral hazards of excessive drinking. 

And that was this week's news-roundup, brought to you by a charitable donation from the Railwayman's Union, reminding you that they keep the trains running on time. For Orbita News, this is Lara Kiseleva, signing off. 

Character Interactions & Interests:

Dr. Galidikas: The Sanitorium Administrator made a strange comment to you today, he said that Samarkand Meat Market the best kebabs in town, said you should stop by there soon.

Pierre has prepared a full report on his findings with the lambent water sample from the Silo, he seems quite excited about it. The dossier on Subject #86 has also made for interesting reading. 

Spartak: Party members have been very supportive over the week, Oksana has been babying you and this weeks edition of Nastuplenie! has Party Order 1099 at the top: Do not ask Comrade Spartak about the thing. 

Semenov: The dig is going slowly, but at the very least the area around the exposed spinal column is now looking like a proper dig site. You're main focus has been trying to find a means to break the curse on Spartak. You have a couple leads there, there are rumors of an old women living near the Gunig Marsh called Nochnaya Babushka, and there is supposedly network of shamans amongst the workers of the Abattoir. 

You have still yet to decode the teen hedge wizards grimoire you recovered from the abandoned school. 

Session 5 Prep

 News & Rumors 

Good evening Arkheologorodok! This is Lara Kiseleva broadcasting live from the Orbita News building, bringing you this week’s news round-up.

The top story of this week is the surprise defeat of Governor Yevseyev and the Refurbishment Party's New Media Law in the Assembly of Deputies. The law, described by Yevseyev as a vital means of protecting public order from "disruptive and extremist elements' was publicly denounced by the chess grandmaster Georgi Shuripov as "a crushing of one of the few things we managed to gain since dissolution that serves only to shackle vision and inquiry to  the whims of sightless fat men in overstuffed leather chairs." This marks the beloved grandmaster's first public appearance since going into hiding 14 years ago. The office of the Governor has declined to comment.  

In preparation for the Ramon Mercader Day celebrations next week, Commissioner Nikitan has announced a rigorous restoration campaign for public order and cleanliness. The Militsiya ask all citizens to help make the streets neat and tidy, and to refrain from any acts of public disorder. Citizens can expect to see plenty of work crews around the city for the next week, painting over any public defacements. 

We've gotten some great pictures and theories about the mysterious clown, and we're pleased to announce that Yakov Dmietriev of the Gunig Prigorod as our winner. Be sure to check out his theories and pictures on our website. We've also heard that Silent Train has started to appear again, so be sure to have your phones ready for a picture when you're on the metro! 

And that was this weeks news round up, brought to you by Steppak Meats, feeding families for twenty years. For Orbita News, this is Lara Kiseleva, singing off. 

 Character Interests: 

The pigs aren't just chasing bums off the street and painting over graffiti, they're smashing up and clearing away any unauthorized structures, shrines included, Aleksandr. 

In all the hustle of setting up a homeless shelter, readying the parts for Spartak's experimental augmentation, and your day to day surgeries at the Sanitorium, you've only just now remembered the pale blue lambency of the water you recovered from the Silo, Dr. Galidikas

Lev and Oksana have been asking you about those shrooms got a while back, Spartak. They think they could make a good chunk of dough selling another batch if you can get it. 

You don't think you ever been so busy in your life, Professor Semenov, and you love it. You haven't even had time to sit down and watch that video tape you found. 

You've been practicing with that porcelain katana all week, Gavril, and you can't wait to try it out on something...or someone.

Jobs and Leads:

Slava has $200 on the table for installing a surveillance device in the southern part of the "Complex," he says be sure not to go too far South, or you'll end up in the basement of the Banya. 

Abram says the expedition to the new passages to the southwest of the complex hasn't returned, that includes Gennadiy and Artyom. The club treasurer, Tatiana Zhutova, is pulling out emergency funds for a rescue mission. 

Mara is trying to get an expedition to the old Church Crypt together. She's promising $100 to anyone who can get her there, plus looting rights. She's also mentioned she's willing to negotiate "services for services."

Those of you who gave your real names and contact info to those strange men answering to "uncle" get a message saying to go to Samarkand Meat Market in the southeast of the city just before closing and to ask for "Vernisa."

Session 3: Schnappi and the Gay Nazis

 

The Return of Hans Speidel 
(the medals read "For the War Against France" "For the War Against England")

Another week, another expedition into the world of Arkheologorodok. Spartak spent most of the week at the Party Headquarters/Nightclub of the New National Bolshevik Party of Eurasia, getting to know everyone, "learning" their esoteric principles, getting fed LSD, and dancing the night away. Dr Galidikas has spent his week writing up plans for some experimental surgery, and Aleksandr has been conducting his own investigations. 

 

Early in the day, Aleksandr gets a call from Artyom, the teenage subway employee they met at the Excavators of the Underground Earth. He's in a bit of a bind, because he needs to get to work, but his father has trapped him in the bathroom, demanding money for booze. Aleksandr wastes no time getting to the boy's apartment, and after invoking the power of the Holy Lady of Death to command the fat drunk to cease strangling the boy, he instructs both the drunk father and the junkie mother that Artyom is now under his protection. Fairly confident that the proper amount of fear has been instilled in these two, Aleksandr leaves with Artyom, who thanks him before running off to work.

The party sans Gavril re-assembles in Professor Semenov's VAZ-2109, now an essential part of the party's logistics, and head towards the Silent Homes to complete Slava's job of deploying surveillance devices. Before going in, Aleksandr asks Semenov is he can ask around the medical school about a nurse named Anya Dmitrieva while Dr Galidikas gets Spartak to sign some consent forms.

Session 3 Prep

 News & Rumors 

Good evening Arkheologorodok! This is Lara Kiseleva broadcasting live from the Orbita News building, bringing you this week’s news round-up.

More violence this week in the city's meat packing district. Residents have reported gunshots and a subsequent fire on the top floor of an apartment bloc on Kirov Street. The Militsiya has no released the names of the victims, but witnesses on the scene report at least five bodies being removed from the scene. In a press release, Commissioner Nikitan has stated that investigations have shown no link to the grenade attack on the Steppak Meats Abattoir a week prior, and that statements to the contrary are "baseless speculations and hysteria." 

Several individuals were arrested under charges of "rioting" after a flash protest against Mayor Yevseyev's proposed Media Law in front of the Assembly Building. The illusive leader of CounterDogma, known only as filaret, was said to have been arrested, but CounterDogma has since released a photo of him standing in front of Commissioner Nikitan's home holding a newspaper and an obscene portrait of the Commissioner and the Mayor in a homosexual act. Neither the Commissioner nor the Mayor could be reached for comment. 

On a brighter note, Russian billionaire Dariy Belov has recently announced that the planed refurbishment and re-opening of the old Leisure Park. Belov has stated that he and the other stakeholders of the NOVOST Group, the conglomeration that owns Stepneft, are grateful for all that Arkheologorodok has already given them, and wish to give back to the community in what he described as "the first phase of a long and fruitful relationship." 

There have been more sightings of a clown in the metro tunnels. Be sure to post your pictures and craziest theories on our website to win a prize of $100!

And that was this week's news-roundup, brought to you by Vos'moy. Vos'moy, bringing you every convenience in one store. For Orbita News, this is Lara Kiseleva, signing off. 

 Character Interactions: 

Abram to Spartak: Oh shit, you actually joined them? I only ever go to the parties they throw. They're a bunch of fucking weirdos, bro, be careful.

Dr. Galidikas: You got called into the Sanatorium by the Administrator himself. You had to perform emergency surgery on a couple of gut-shot men, one very tall and lanky with fair hair, the other of Mongoloid physiognomy and wearing the protective gear of a slaughterhouse worker. Once the deed was done, the Administrator thanked you for a job well, saying he was glad to have welcomed you into the City Sanatorium "family." 

Aleksandr: She fought to the death, and died with a fanatic's smile of her face. Neither you nor Mara know why she killed Stefan in his hospital bed, but the grim look you shared let you know you both think it must have something to do with his discovery of that crypt. 

Jobs and Leads:

  Slava has "gently" reminded you that those surveillance devices still need deploying in the South-West. 1000 bucks and Mayami Import's good will are on the table. Says he'll throw in another 200 if you put one in a southern chamber of the "Complex"

Chef Mosolov is always willing to pay for exciting new ingredients

You still have that sample of the water from the occult baking experiment gone a-rye

One of your new New Bolshevik friends has asked a favor of you, Spartak. She's a real nice lady with blue hair who really like spiders named Oksana Sinodzuka.  Apparently her old boyfriend really didn't like her joining a revolutionary party and kicked her out before she could even gather up all her stuff. She'd really appreciate it if you got it for her, and she says you can keep whatever else you find. Apparently you can get there through the basement of a power sub-station near the river...

Speaking of those new friends, the party's head of propaganda Eugeni and his very good friend Lavro are also part of some kind of art collective. He says he wants to introduce you to them, apparently they've got some kind of plan to disrupt some new bourgeois media law.  

Artyom was really excited to text you all about an expedition everyone is gearing up for an expedition to some new chambers they found leading south from the Complex. Says you're all welcome to join. 

Session 2 The Conquest of Bread!

 Завоевание хлеба!

"Wealth of the Motherland" decorative carpet, 1939

A week has passed since the party's first foray in the Underground, and they now gather again in the basement of the Central State Library once again to prepare for a second expedition. Earlier in the day, Dr. Galidikas observed Spartak trip on the shrooms recovered last week, and was disappointed by the failure of ancestral memories to surface. When the pair arrived to meet with the others, Spartak was still feeling the residual effects.

Gavril and Professor Semenov attempted to recover the promised payment for last week's expedition from Gennadiy Chupov, citing that they were not warned of the dangers they faced. Gennadiy agreed, but before he could pay them, the Excavator's treasurer, Tatiana Zhutova, intervened, pointing out the job was to find and map the rumored North-Western passage from the Silo, and seeing as the party had been magically bound to deny its existence, they could not protest the claim they had not found it. 

Arkheologorodok Session 2- Prep

 News & Rumors

Good evening Arkheologorodok! This is Lara Kiseleva with Orbita News, bringing you this week’s news round-up.

The top story this week is the grenade attack at the abattoir. Witnesses describe a black sedan pulling up to the southern loading dock and tossing two grenades before speeding off. According to officials at the D.I. Dankovskii Hospital, two workers were killed in the blast, with seven others injured. Two workers are currently in critical condition. The Militsiya request that anyone with any information to come forward. Steppak Meats was unable to be reached for comment.

Sightings of a clown in the metro tunnels are making waves online, prompting mass speculation among citizens. Commissioner Nikitan has dismissed such sightings as “baseless hysteria.”

Dry weather is expected to continue after the unexpected rainstorms of last month, with a dry easterly wind bringing elevated pollen levels from across the Steppe.

A new media law is being debated in the city council, with Mayor Yevseyev noting the necessity to curtail what he described as “a flood of extremist propaganda.” Though he has not named them as such, it is believed he is referring to the controversial Nastuplenie! newspaper published by the New National Bolshevik Party of Eurasia and the increase of pamphlets circulated by the outlawed LGBTQ rights organization CounterDogma. Both groups have been vocal in their criticism of the renewal of anti-sodomy laws.

This week’s news round-up was brought to you by VostockCom, bringing crystal clear internet and cellphone connection to the Steppe. For Orbita News, this is Lara Kiseleva, signing off.

Work & Leads

Slava says to come see him in the Hangar, says there could be a $1000 in it for ya.

Speaking of the Hangar, apparently Arkheologorodok’s great Chef Mosolov has a side project there. Says he’s got a bounty on a specific “ingredient.”

Mara texted you, Aleksandr. Apparently, that friend of hers that managed to get into the old church crypt died in hospital. She says there’s something you need to see at the mortuary. 

Did you meet Ollie? He's this graffiti artist from London that hangs around the Excavators. Apparently he's getting harassed by a couple of gopniks real bad. Says he'll pay $250 to anyone who'll get them to stop. 

Delta Green NPC: Matthew Rockyhara

Here's a useful ally NPC for Delta Green. I wrote him up for this summer's NPC contest over at Night at the Opera. I started working on some expanded acquisition rules to make him more useful, but the deadline came before I could do that, but I still plan on doing that, so sit tight because I'll post it here when I do.
 You can get the Google Docs version here.

Matthew Rockyhara

The Agents find themselves outside a shamble down prefab building in the dreary badlands on the outskirts of the city. Behind the chain link fence topped with razor wire are cars of every make and model, the lights on the prefab illuminate red letters spelling “A#1 Towing Service” with “Your Satisfaction is Our #1 Priority” underneath, with “NO CHECKS ACCEPTED” written beneath that. This is where the case officer said to meet your contact for support.  A little old lady stands nearby the entrance, looking on the verge of tears. A wall of a man emerges from the prefab, looking like some kind of parody of a modern outlaw in his cowboy boots and raybans. The old woman starts babbling about how she needs that car to get her prescriptions. He tells her if she can’t cough up the $560 she can get bent. He walks past her towards the agents, beaming with a big smile when he spots them. He hands the agents the keys “Hey there! Our friend told me you guys would be here soon, said you needed a car. I got the perfect one, you don’t even need to worry about getting it back to me.” “What about the $560” one of the agents asks sheepishly “Oh, that? That’s all bullshit fees the city lets me charge. Only cost me $15 in gas to tow it over here for ya’ll, don’t worry about it!” He extends his hand in earnest friendship  “Matthew Rockyhara, by the way. At your service.”

Matthew Rockyhara is many things. A veteran. A small business owner. A scoundrel. A patriot. A minor crime lord. A friend. It was around the time our invasion of Panama was wrapping up in 1990 that Matthew Rockyhara had his brush with the unnatural. He flew Sikorsky Seahawks as an ensign for the navy, and it was in one of those helicopters that he proved himself a reliable and heroic man. Those agents would have died deaths indescribable in that jungle had he not braved that shimmering sky and juked the things filtering down from the sky.