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FUTURE/PERFECT PART 1

HELLBEND, CALIFORNIA

By Dennis Detwiller

Introduction

An Overview

Future/Perfect is a series of investigations linked

together to form a single unbroken campaign. How-

ever, each investigation is self-contained and can be

run as a one-off adventure.

Welcome to Hellbend,

California, Population 82

A Nice Place to Die

Hellbend was once a vibrant town of nearly 3,500

souls, back when Hunt Electrodynamics ran the

show. It was in the middle of nowhere, out past

Beatty Junction near Death Valley, and no one knew

why it was built there. In fact, no one cared.

The campaign is a great way to introduce new play-

ers to the world of Delta Green. They can be

brought in completely ignorant of the conspiracy, or

with some foreknowledge.

In the late 1940’s, Hellbend produced a third of the

electronics found in ﬁghter aircraft around the

world. Hunt Electrodynamics ran everything from

the schools, the town general store all the way down

to the funeral parlor. The company provided every-

thing; and the people liked it that way.

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Victim

Clifford Potter

(58 yoa)

Lucille Mayer

(38 yoa)

The Victims: At a Glance

So far, the feds know only this: the two victims of the Hell-

bend killer were most deﬁnitely murdered. The two coroners

(Dr. Abner White from Independence, California and Dr. Em-

manuel Costa from Las Vegas, Nevada) have both failed to

deﬁnitively identify the murder weapon.

White Male

White Female

Race/Gender

Retired Metal

Worker

Artist

Occupation

Whatever ended the lives of Potter and Mayer, it was strong.

White suspects heavy construction equipment; Costa does

not agree though he cannot offer a better explanation. A

powerful force sheared bones, and on both victims, the rib-

cage was smashed — crushed like a paper model. Entire

limbs were missing on both victims.

5’10”

5’2”

Height

Because both Potter and Mayer had apparently been sub-

jected to extensive scavenger action (Mayer far more than

Potter) it is hard to gain exact measurements from ﬂesh of

the weapon’s effects on tissue. What few measurements

were achieved point towards a two to ﬁve inch blade of some

rough material — possibly a row of them; like a rake, hoe or

other construction type tool.

165 lbs.

102 lbs.

Weight

6 to 9 PM

March 5, 2005

Between April

24, and May 8,

2005

Time of Death

Jarvis Greene

Lt. Joshua

Orrino Nevada

State Patrolman

Discovered By

Body Found

2.3 Miles from

Town

112 miles from

Hellbend

Blunt/Cutting

Trauma

Blunt/Cutting

Trauma

Cause of Death

Brother

(deceased)

Emily Warren

(Companion),

Tanya Mayer

(Mother)

Family

None

Enemies

Then the explosion of 1952 happened and every-

thing changed.

in Death Valley. People left, schools closed, things

fell apart.

When the plant went up one August night, it took

twenty-six locals with it, as well as the founder of

Hunt Electrodynamics — the elusive Arthur Hunt.

Fifty-three years later the town is nearly dead. Only

eighty-two people call the crumbling remains of

Hellbend home anymore, and those few don’t look

to the future. They get by on what they can, selling

gas and goods to those on the way to the Death Val-

ley National Park and biding their time. In another

ﬁfteen years, Hellbend will die a natural death,

shriveling up in the 110º summer heat, leaving be-

hind a skeleton of ruined buildings as a monument

of some better time.

In the midst of the destruction, Hunt Electrodynam-

ics fell under new ownership and changed. Hellbend

was left behind, crippled. The ﬁrm changed its

name (Hunt Electronics) and shifted its attentions to

the east coast — speciﬁcally NASA and the Penta-

gon.

Without the leadership of Hunt, who lived and

worked in Hellbend, the town dried up like the earth

But in the last month, something else has been wear-

ing away at the town, something decidedly unnatu-

Bakersfield FBI and the Structure of

the Investigation

Bakersfield’s Relationship with the

Sacramento FBI Office

The Bakersﬁeld FBI Ofﬁce is located at 901 Tower

Road, Suite 207 Bakersﬁeld, CA 93309. The nearly

two-dozen agents here report to the Sacramento FBI

Headquarters. They usually ﬁnd themselves dealing

with bank robberies, interstate business fraud, drug

trafﬁcking and other mundane investigations — mul-

tiple homicides do occur, but they are usually han-

dled by local police. Both kidnappings and interstate

transport of a body are relatively rare.

Bakersﬁeld is considered a small “appendage” of the

Sacramento FBI Ofﬁce (these external ofﬁces are called

“Resident Agencies”). Since Sacramento is the capital

of California, it enjoys more personnel, more attention,

and more funding than the smaller Bakersﬁeld ofﬁce.

The Director of the Sacramento FBI Ofﬁce is Special

Agent-in-Charge Michael Turk, a man known for his

particularly long memory and ability to recall, names,

dates and Agent histories in seconds. Bakersﬁeld’s

This case is inter-state however, and Bakersﬁeld is

the closest to Hellbend.

Director Kevin Slotin lives in particular fear of him, and

will do anything he can to appease him.

Special Agent-in-Charge Kevin Slotin runs the Bak-

ersﬁeld ofﬁce, and the Hellbend case smells like a

big investigation. He will keep close tabs on it, since

it’s the ﬁrst signiﬁcant murder case Bakersﬁeld has

seen in more than ﬁve years. Sacramento HQ is also

watching closely, ready to step-in if they feel the

case is bogged down. In short, the players are on a

short leash, and must keep their ‘i’s dotted and their

‘t’s crossed, or face swift replacement from on-high.

As they’ll soon learn, this may have terrible reper-

cussions on more than their careers.

If, God forbid, the investigation into Hellbend goes

south enough to generate media coverage, Sacra-

mento, and more speciﬁcally SAC Turk will step in, with

both feet.

The Agents, and more speciﬁcally Delta Green, don’t

want that to happen. Turk is a large and looming threat

to the security of the Delta Green conspiracy.

ral. If the murder rate in Hellbend

continues it’ll die a lot faster than ﬁfteen years, and a

lot more violently than just another victim of some

dead industry.

covered in his blood), but few can understand how

such an event occurred. Potter had rented it at his

own expense and was digging around on the aban-

doned lot at the ruins of the Hunt plant for some

unknown reason.

Someone or something is killing the residents of

Hellbend, California. No one knows who or what it

is.

He was known as a local treasure-hunter; and was

considered just a little bit crazy. Local investigation

petered out after just a week.

The Hellbend Investigation,

May 12, 2005

Delta Green Moves In

The players are Agents from the Bakersﬁeld ofﬁce of

the FBI. They have been assigned the Hellbend case

following the second murder of a local resident of

Hellbend.

The second victim, Lucille Mayer, a 36 year-old

White Female, was reported missing in Hellbend on

the night of April 24th, and was discovered by State

Police over the border in Nevada fourteen days later

when a local ofﬁcer was drawn out into the desert by

a gathering of buzzards. Very little to examine was

left of Mayer, who was identiﬁed by her teeth. Seri-

ous blunt trauma had occurred, and portions of her

skeleton were gone — missing. Nevada FBI was

called in, and the Las Vegas coroner placed cause of

death as violent blunt and cutting trauma — in

other words; murder.

The ﬁrst murder occurred on March 5, 2005, on the

outskirts of the town. Clifford Potter, a 53 year-old

white male, was found mutilated less than four hun-

dred yards from the remains of the ruins of the old

Hunt Electrodynamics plant.

The physical evidence — what of there, there is —

matches the marks found on Potter’s body.

The county coroner from Independence, Abner

White could not readily identify just how exactly he

had died. No one doubts foul play of some sort —

his body was torn to pieces — but no one can come

up with a motive.

The case was ofﬁcially placed under Federal juris-

diction with the Mayer murder and reassigned to

Bakersﬁeld FBI.

Bakersﬁeld is conﬁdent that someone is murdering

people in and around Hellbend.

A nearby Bobcat light construction vehicle was ten-

tatively identiﬁed as the murder weapon (since it was

Are the Agents DG?

Delta Green at Bakersfield/Sacramento

FBI — T Cell

This is a question the Keeper needs to determine before the adven-

ture begins. There are four options:

To introduce uninitiated Agents to the Delta Green, DG

can either contact the players, or they can discover the

conspiracy at work in the Bakersﬁeld/Sacramento area.

The leader of the conspiracy in the area Special Agent

Clark Grunberg (Agent TAYLOR) will not be afraid to pull

some strings to bring men in, if he thinks the mission

calls for it. But he does have some local resources.

THE AGENTS ARE MEMBERS OF DELTA GREEN: This is the easiest

solution, and works well if this investigation is to be run as a one-off

adventure. In this case the normal routes of supernatural investiga-

tion are open to the Agents — they can call in help from A-Cell; use

bizarre means to get the job done; and immediately explore possibili-

ties that would be considered insane by normal Agents.

Another DG Agent (Kimberly Tralvayne) is employed at

Bakersﬁeld/Sacramento FBI, and a single DG friendly is

an Agent at the Bakersﬁeld ofﬁce. Clark Grunberg

brought the other two into the conspiracy. Only Clark is

vaguely aware of the structure of the conspiracy, and will

do his best to keep such information from new initiates.

ONE OR MORE OF THE AGENTS IS DG: This works as well, and can

make for interesting roleplaying as the knowledgeable Agents at-

tempt to “break-in” those ignorant of the world of the supernatural.

This also creates an interesting tension between players — with some

in the know, and some on the outside.

THE AGENTS ARE DG FRIENDLIES: This works well if you want the

Agents to have a whiff of the supernatural, but no deﬁnitive proof —

as Friendlies they are open to the possibility of something more than

science can explain, but may not have experienced such an event

personally. It is also a good way to bring Agents fully into the DG fold

over the course of the investigation.

Delta Green at Bakersfield/

Sacramento FBI

T Cell

THE AGENTS ARE IGNORANT OF DG: This adventure is a great way

to introduce Agents to Delta Green; once they discover what they are

dealing with, few will be able to deny the existence of the supernatu-

ral. See Delta Green at the Bakersﬁeld/Sacramento FBI below for

more details on how to set this up.

DG Agent

Special Agent Clark Louis

Grunberg AKA TAYLOR

Special Agent Kimberly Tralvayne

Meyer AKA TATE

Special Agent Lewis Makamura

(DG Friendly)

White Male 44 yoa

White Female 43 yoa

Asian/White Male 38 yoa

Race/

Gender

FBI Special Agent — Sacra-

mento FBI

FBI Special Agent — Bakersﬁeld FBI

FBI Special Agent — Sacramento

FBI (Forensics)

Occupa-

tion

6’2”

5’9”

Height

Weight

199 lbs.

181 lbs.

193 lbs.

1081 West Hastings Drive,

Bakersﬁeld, California

9 North Sherman Street,

Bakersﬁeld, California

220 E. Yale Park, Bakersﬁeld,

California

Home

Address

- 10SEP99 to 11NOV99 Inves-

tigation of Alien Activity

- 02FEB01 to 29NOV01 Inves-

tigation of Cult at Yosemite

- 15FEB02 to 21FEB02 Assisted

C-Cell, pursuing De Vermiis Mys-

teriis

- 10SEP99 to 11NOV99 Investiga-

tion of Alien Activity

- 02FEB01 to 29NOV01 Investiga-

tion of Cult at Yosemite

- 15FEB02 to 21FEB02 Assisted C-

Cell, pursuing De Vermiis Mysteriis

DG Ops

- 15FEB02 to 21FEB02 Assisted C-

Cell, pursuing De Vermiis Mysteriis

Weapon

S&W 1076 Semi-Automatic

Glock .40 S&W

Hellbend History

Past is Prelude

Hellbend, California

Facts

Hellbend California is little more than a bump in

the road in the desolate wastes of Death Valley.

The only thing that makes it unique in the area is

that it’s obvious it was once much more.

799 acres (323.33

hectares)

Area

3,526 (1950 Census),

82 (2000 Census)

Population

The remnants of a formerly vibrant company town

are still to be found surrounding the core of what

Hellbend has become. Derelict buildings, long

abandoned and overrun by weeds and witch grass

dot the roads leading up to town – Hunt Electro-

dynamics legacy.

1940

Founded

Tourism (Formerly

Military Electronics)

Industry

Once the town supported an entire workforce of

nearly 4,000 people – and they left their dwellings

behind. Most have fallen into near-complete ruin;

windows long ago shattered, paint peeled off, decks

collapsed, foundations shifted. Some, however, are

still lived in and some are even meticulously main-

tained.

High: 128 F (53.3 C),

Low: 18 F (-7.7 C)

Temperature

Besides this tiny core of inhabited buildings, the

remaining areas of Hellbend were long ago sur-

rendered to the desert (with a few small exceptions)

and no one usually goes into these sections if they

can help it. Since the murders, no one really walks

there at all, if they can help it.

Most of the 82 residents of Hellbend live near the

center of town or within a few blocks of Main and

State streets. Others however live a bit off the

beaten path – further out in the desert.

In any case, the only business worth mentioning is

the Gas n’ Sip – the local gas station/video store/

supermarket/post ofﬁce on the corner of Main and

State. Nearly every piece of mail comes or goes

through the Gas n’ Sip and nearly everyone who

stops in Hellbend does so for one of two things –

gas or directions.

Death Valley

Facts

Area

3,367,627.68 acres

(1,362,860.25 hec-

tares)

On a busy day a car or two will come through

Hellbend on its way somewhere else. A scattering

of locals will come or go to the Gas n’ Sip, a few

animals will be seen wandering around – a cat and

a couple of dogs. And if it’s a banner day, Jarvis

Greene will close the Gas n’ Sip early and play

horseshoes with some neighbors in the lot out front

the station.

Telescope Peak

11,049 feet

(3,367.7 meters)

Highest Point

Lowest Point

Badwater -282 feet

(-86 meters)

The town is so small, it doesn’t even have a police

force — when the crimes occurred, ofﬁcers from

Beatty Junction had to be alerted by phone.

High: 134 F (56.6 C),

Low: 15 F (-9.4 C)

Temperature

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