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2024.06.01 00:14 Ur_Anemone The Local Girls Who Inspired the Hollywood Classic “Mean Girls”

…“Do you want to hear something that sounds like a lie but it’s really true?” [Jessica] Jackson told the room. “I’m the real Regina George.”…
As proof, she pulled up an article on her phone, a 2002 New York Times Magazine cover story entitled “Girls Just Want to Be Mean.” At that time, Jackson was a 16-year-old junior at Northwest High School in Germantown. She loved Dawson’s Creek and Britney Spears, and when she spoke to the reporter for the story, she thought it was about some volunteer work she’d been doing with an organization that sought to build better relationships between girls. But in the course of their interviews, Jackson said some bonkers things about her social world, which wound up quite prominently in the Times…
Jackson is bubbly and warm, a bleached-blonde suburban mother of two who loves cats and Disney princesses…Jackson is not a person who resembles the Plastics—but somehow she’s partly the model for them. To understand how, you have to rewind a bit, to about a decade before she decreed Mondays jeans-free…
According to [Rosalind] Wiseman, the Mean Girls origin story begins in the 1990s…At the time, Wiseman was 22 or 23—not much older than her pupils. She listened as they talked about their lives, and it struck her how often they discussed other girls: how important and complicated their friendships were, and how painful and elaborate their cruelties. “I felt it was important to go to the foundations of why girls were doing the things they were doing in their relationships with each other,” she told me. “I wanted to give them the skills to self-reflect as they were operating in the world.”
So Wiseman pivoted, asking schools if she could try out a different kind of workshop—not self-defense but relationship-building, the kind of thing we would now call “social-emotional learning.” Administrators said yes. Within a few years, Wiseman was a fixture at a broad mix of the region’s public, private, parochial, and alternative schools, teaching girls—well, not to be nice, exactly, but to disagree respectfully, to not abuse one another’s trust, to have friendships based in dignity, and to navigate the barbarism of adolescent life…
At that time, Wiseman was working with what she called her “Girls Advisory Board.” It was akin to a focus group: about a dozen teens from all over the region, who would regularly give feedback on her curriculum. “That group of girls were the people who said, ‘Tuesdays we wear that, Wednesdays we do this,’ ” she explained. They had a huge influence on her work, and aspects of their lives appeared in the movie...
If you remember the end of Mean Girls, then you know approximately what these workshops were like: The junior girls report to the school’s gymnasium, where Ms. Norbury, the put-upon math teacher played by Fey, stands before the bleachers and teaches them to be less cruel. The girls raise their hands if they’ve ever said something mean behind a friend’s back, then they handwrite apologies and read them aloud to their peers. For years, Wiseman led those exercises, almost exactly as they appear in the film…
In January, at a cafe in upper Northwest, Margaret Talbot admitted that she’d never seen Mean Girls. “I don’t own the phrase ‘mean girls,’ I didn’t even invent it,” she said. “But through this article”—the Times Magazine story she wrote—“it did enter the culture, and I feel mixed about it.” It troubles her to hear women called “mean girls,” often to trivialize or diminish them. Still, she thinks the term caught on because it “gets at something real.”
In the early 2000s, Talbot learned of a cutting-edge psychological theory: that adolescent girls are not, in fact, nicer than boys. Instead of socking each other on the playground, they bully through “relational aggression”—exclusionary cliques, caustic gossip, and arcane social cruelties. “I’d had some personal experience with the ingenuity of girls when they wanted to be dominant in a social setting,” Talbot said, so the theory resonated. It was “a useful antidote to a tendency to idealize girls, to imagine within feminism that women always had each other’s backs.”
To learn about relational aggression, Talbot began following Wiseman around DC, shadowing her at the workshops she was running, then interviewing her while they drove between schools. “She was super-vivid in her descriptions,” Talbot recalled, “and almost anthropological in the way she would lay out these different types of characters and maneuvers.” From Wiseman, Talbot learned about “fruit-cup girls,” who feign helplessness for male attention, and “bankers,” who hoard secrets to deploy as social currency. Her article mentions the diabolical tactic of leaving a message on a girl’s family voicemail asking if she’s gotten her pregnancy test back, knowing that her parents might hear…
Notably, Jackson’s relationship to Mean Girls is less fraught. “It wasn’t a public statement about me, it didn’t say my name,” she said. Hearing her teenage remarks in the mouths of various Plastics felt “so surreal,” but it “wasn’t obvious to anyone else the way it was obvious to me.” This freed her to love the movie: She thinks it’s hilarious and likes the positive ending.
As for Wiseman, she consulted on Mean Girls, but she first watched it in full at the AFI screening. “My experience of that was this kind of like—horror is a strong word, but it was like seeing a picture of yourself that you’re not really sure you want everybody to see.” She found the characters “so real” and “scary” and their meanness true to life. But after the movie came out, she learned that girls were dressing up as the Plastics for Halloween. “And it’s like, damn, girls subvert everything I do, all the time. I try so hard, but the opponent is formidable.”…
Days before, on the phone, I’d asked Jackson directly if she was a Queen Bee. “So, let’s do some layers here,” was her bristling reply. “When you’re confident and bold, are you a bitch? Are you Miranda Priestly? Do I only get to be either Taylor Swift from ‘Teardrops on My Guitar’ or Regina George?” For what it’s worth, Jackson has a “wild affinity” for Regina, for her fashion and brazen self-regard. Still, she said, the character is “not a representation of myself in high school, even though her quotes and my quotes are the same. Skeptical, I asked to see Jackson’s yearbooks, so she popped down to the basement and emerged with a stack. Opening one, she pointed to a picture of a jaguar mascot. “You see that? That’s me in there.” Before I could follow up, she’d moved on. “These were easily the most popular girls,” she said, her finger atop some identical blonde twins who apparently later became Ravens cheerleaders. Then she noticed another girl. “Anybody’s Regina George would be her, because everyone hated her but wanted her to like them.”…
But if Jackson wasn’t mean, then why the rules? When I asked, she seemed bewildered. “It wasn’t a big-enough part of our lives or friendships that I remember, like, how we came up with them. Let’s say they were, at best, a phase.” She added that she and her friends “wanted to wear skirts on the same day. We made up all kinds of random songs and fake little clubby things. We weren’t the mean girls by any means.”
But as I puzzled, two of Jackson’s comments rattled around my brain.
“Teenage friendships are a lot like teenage love,” she’d said. “Her laundry ends up in your clothes, you’re in each other’s closets and cars and dinner tables and bedrooms.”
That thought seemed related to this one, an offhand remark about the actor Sydney Sweeney: “I just want to be her best friend really hard. We would braid each other’s hair and I would tell her all my secrets. I want us to smell the same. I want our periods to sync up.”
To Jackson, friendship seemed to mean sameness and melding—mingled laundry, matched perfume. So I asked if she thought the rules were about formalizing intimacy.
“Wow, what a poignant point,” she replied. “Like, you killed it.”
“I’m also going to throw this out there,” she added. “There is a Disney movie called Wish Upon a Star starring Katherine Heigl, from the ’90s. I loved that movie. I watched it over and over again.” The movie features a Plastics-like popular clique, “and I remember those gals having specific rules about, like, shaving your legs every day, and this or that. I never forgot that.” Then she brought up the Pink Ladies from Grease. (“What made them friends? They had the jackets, it was a thing.”) “So maybe it has something to do with that,” she mused.
Of course, I thought—it’s classic high school, emulating movies to make life feel cinematic. But Jackson had slightly misremembered the plots. She described those two cliques as essentially benevolent, when both are a little mean. In Wish Upon a Star, the happy ending involves Heigl’s friends abandoning their rules, and in Grease, the Pink Ladies mock Sandy at a party—Sandy, who never gets to wear the pink jacket and belong. The misreading, though, is telling; it’s why the women of GAB are vexed about Mean Girls, that even though the ending is harmonious, it’s possible no one remembers it right.

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2024.05.30 08:23 SolarstarValke Is there a character in the game that you felt like there was something odd/missing/missed potential about them being in the game? (Spoilers ofc)

This kind of for me stuck out to me a few times during my trilogy run, getting to see every named character...there's quite a few that I felt weird where they were and like it's either an idea that didn't quite pan out, or just kind of like...why? So I kind of wanted to run through a couple on my mind
--Mass Effect 1--

Admiral Kahoku - While he does kick off this whole beginning of knowledge about Cerberus in the first game, I kind of felt his death was really not touched upon in later games, especially when it concerned working with TIM, I felt Shepard should've at least mention him since his sidequest in ME1 was a pretty lengthy one at that.
Eddie Lang - What was his purpose in the game, he just felt like a random NPC to create near C-Sec. I know he had a smidge of info talking about Harkin, but I've always felt like he's a character that felt incomplete or something was there but never touched upon?
Finch, Zabaleta, Talitha - The characters you meet depending on your groundwork growing up, I felt like this was another idea that would've spanned out the rest of the series but you really don't hear from any of them again...
Elanos Haliat - Considering he was the person that led the fight in the Skyllian Blitz, I thought he'd be a bigger antagonist versus what his sidequest ended up being. I did like the idea of trying to disarm the explosion three times, but then I didn't like having to roam blindly on the planet on foot trying to get back to the Mako...and then boom, a few shots, he's dead...Like for someone who did a lot of damage for Shepard (depending on the choice of your past). I expected more from this villain to be honest.
Tonn Actus - While we're at that, doing Wrex's loyalty sidequest also felt like it should've been bigger? Like I don't know if there is a cutscene if you bring Wrex along, but when I didn't, there wasn't any and the outpost just ended up being any ole regular shootout. Like I would've enjoyed seeing some kind of scene where Wrex talks to Tonn, but uh yeah...Hell, Garrus' sidequest was cutscene (although Tali's was just killing Geth outposts...)
Lilihierax - Obviously missed potential with the knowledge that he was supposed to act as a character than can lead us into doing something with the Mako. Just that odd conversation path that was never taken out (not even in LE either).
Yaroslev Tartakovsky - What ended up is just him sitting in the middle of the room, still feels so strange of a scene and then getting killed off by Rachni. I think there should've been some build-up to running into him because otherwise, it just feels...bizarre to just stumble upon him in the middle of the room sitting in a chair...
Ganto Imness - I had to wonder if maybe Ganto was at one point a potential squadmate as it seems like (you don't get any new squadmates from doing Virmire, for one thing) and that he seemed normal and whatnot but like after you free him, he just kind of disappears (kind of like the whole Spyro "THANK YOU FOR RELEASING ME, shtick). Hell, Ganto doesn't even appear in any of the other games...I just wonder if there was any...potential that was taken out or whatnot.
Doctor Droyas - Of course this one is known, had more lines of dialogue but was scrapped, ending up being a stronger Krogan enemy with the name above, definitely was curious if this was going to be something for Wrex's arc.
Charn - Going to give us a named Batarian in the DLC and not find a way to use him like they did with Balak? More of lost potential since while he was a bad guy, he knew he was way too deep with whatever Balak was planning.
Vidinos - I almost said most of the characters introduced through the Pinnacle Station could've been added, but Vidinos was the rival character here with I would say the most characterization (maybe next to Ahern).

--Mass Effect 2--

Kenn - The Quarian you meet on Omega who ends up working under Harrot that you can pay for his ticket to fly away. Good deed, but it's kind of unfortunate that Kenn doesn't really return for anything else really.
Kylan - Random Batarian that stops me from ending Afterlife...never understood the paragon check and it's more or less over and done with (I assume, if I didn't have enough or went Renegade, it would probably end with him dead). I don't this felt so oddball and random and wondered why the devs did this in the first place.
Henner / Ogrinn - Dude helps you back on your feet after you're poisoned by Forvan, gets like one line and that's all he gets. Why give him a name if he was just going to be cutscene flavor? Made me curious, although I do think Ogrinn is also kind of in the same boat since he actually kills Forvan for you. This odd sidequest left me in confusion.
John Whitson - The kid you stop from joining the Omega mercs at the beginning of the Archangel mission. It's kind of funny that they made a character that you can stop and tell them to not do it or let him join and get plucked off by Garrus. For whatever reason, Whitson kind of gave me Jenkins vibes. You do get a message back on the Normandy, but I couldn't help to wonder if he had more planned...wasn't mentioned in ME3 though...
Seryna - The undercover Asari you meet that takes you to the Nassana Towers. She for some reason felt like a character they could've expanded on considering that she's cool and pretty down for her work. It's made stranger that after the end of the mission, Tana says she left a message saying she had work off-world. She didn't even come back for ME3 so this was a character that left me more intrigued.
Niftu Cal - BIOTIC GODDDD! Honestly, could've gave us at least ONE Volus with a story arc to follow (not that Barla Von could've been expanded either), I just kind of wanted to see if they would do more since they do let him try to take down Wasea (but gets killed of course).
Elnora - Ooops, letting this villainess go should've had more repercussions because uh she doesn't came back in the series sadly. I would say she ended up being a more dangerous threat than Wasea (until we fight her). I would've enjoyed a sidequest in ME3 that could've explored that some.
Fortack - A Krogan scientist and yet never came back for ME3. Would've been exciting to have seen more considering the whole Genophage arc, maybe could've been an alternate choice instead of Mordin sacrificing himself (AKA giving the cure to him). Though it would've meant Fortack needed more attention in 2 to get to that kind of place.
Mouse & Kolyat Krios - I felt these two were needing something since a lot of Thane is about him slowly dying and Mouse was never told that Thane was even going there and he was like another son to him so Mouse missing out is kind of weird to be honest. Kolyat though felt like more could've been done with him since most of ME3 is him mourning his Father's fate and the last prayers during the Citadel DLC. We know Kolyat was training to be like Thane, so...I don't know could've brought that to the table (maybe exact a revenge towards Kai Leng even...
Ish & Sel - I think without context, doing their mission on Omega (you know, the icky fetch quest), this was just kind of meh and you only really talk to Ish. As you find out if you have Jacob or Miranda on your squad, there's obviously a connection made and I wish they followed through with Ish more since most fans wouldn't know he came from a mobile game? It's a nice nod to it, but there could've been more to it.
Forzan vas Idenna - Basically the Quarian you have to protect while waves of varren attack. Quick sidequest, don't really even talk to her much, I think this was an oddball quest and kind of wish we got to know more Quarians (outside of Veetor, Kal'reegar and the other admirals).

--Mass Effect 3--

Diana Allers - Yes, yes, I know she isn't well-liked as a character in the series, but I've always found it weird that she was a recruitable member onto the Normandy, but her characters isn't fleshed out like the other non-squadmates (like Traynor and Cortez (who I remind debuted in the same game too). She was always like the last person to talk to and she didn't make the cut in the Citadel DLC oddly enough (but neither did Dr. Chakwas, Donnelly, Daniels, Adams, Campbell, Copeland, or Westmoreland). Yeah, I'm saying Allers should've been fleshed out way more and not just've been a Khalisah or Emily (although the latter died through Twitter posts >.>).
General Corinthus - Maybe this was one I could've left off, but he is the first Turian you meet up with on Menae and talks quite a bit. I wanted to learn more about Menae and what they're trying to do, but of course we're send off to get to Garrus and later on find Adrien Victus. Plus, you do get a message from Corinthus on the Normandy, but still...
Jondum Bau - One of the Spectres, you go on a bit of a sidequest with Kasumi Goto. Jondum is out trying to look for her thinking she's the culprit going around doing things which is his big goal but then we find out that it's Zymandis (a hanar) and that if Kasumi is with you she fakes her death which ends your time with Jondum. I think I had built up that any Spectre would make for a big mission, but nah this one isn't and you even trick him at that. I felt like jondum and Kasumi should've just had a big mission together.
Sheerk - One of Aria's goons and he never really speaks and Aria only calls him by his name once. A little surprised it's a human considering back on Omega she's had Batarian, Vorcha, Turians, Salarian, and other Asaris work under her so seeing a human in her crew is a bit surprising. I am curious to why he's there.
Darner Vosque, Gryll, Sayn - Since we did end up killing the leaders of the 3 mercenary groups on Omega, it seemed we have a new generation of leaders. It is weird that for two, we had to get rid of the current leaders to make way for the new ones. I just didn't know we needed to do such a thing.
Jason Prangley, Padok Wiks, Urdnot Dagg - So the characters that acted as Jack, Mordin, and Grunt if any of them didn't make it to ME3. I think to just have them be lesser characters was kind of a cheap throw especially since all three end up dying in the end (Jason gets shot, Padok sacrifices himself, and the ReapeRachni kill Dagg). Like they are the epitome of "well, you should've had a saved game where Jack, Mordin, and Grunt as still alive). Jason and Padok do still appear in the game and they do survive but they're doing way less interesting things in comparison. Dagg is worse off because he doesn't really show up (maybe he doesn, but you can't talk to him).
Major Coats - For a character that appears in the last act of the game, he came off like he should've played a more important role especially how he acts versus how little he actually does. I think people said he was in the first trailer of the 3rd game...so yeah if I had to say, there was something planned for Coats.
Rolan Quarn - I think of the Citadel DLC, Rolan was the one that had me intrigued to know more about him especially since he's the only one that knew the Commander. Very slick and mysterious and that's a good reason for me to say, I feel like he should've been somewhere main game in an earlier game to be honest lol.

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2024.05.29 21:00 JollyRaspberry622 I (20F) have not finished during sex with my boyfriend (21M). He says this is not normal and it concerns him. Is there something wrong with me?

My boyfriend and I were watching an episode of sex and the city when Miranda is sleeping with a man who she is faking orgasms with. After the episode is over my boyfriend got really weird. I finally got out of him that topic of the episode really upset him.
He said that it’s not normal that I haven’t orgasmed yet during sex. We’ve been together for over six months and he says that it should’ve happened by now.
I respond by saying, I don’t think it’s that common for girls to have orgasms during sex, and even some of my girlfriends have been relationships for years haven’t done it or it’s only happened once or twice.
I don’t want to just fake it, because that weirds me out. Plus, the whole point of the episode was talking about how once you start faking it you have to fake it every time again and he’ll never know when you’re actually doing it.
I told him I think it would only be possible for me if we use the vibrator during sex, which she kind of made fun of me before and got weird about. He alluded to the fact that he thinks that there’s something wrong with me I’m completely comfortable during sex with him, so I don’t think that’s the issue. I’m honestly not sure what is…

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2024.05.28 21:47 Rob_Sothoth Impossible Landscapes - Session 1 "The Apartment"

Session 0: https://www.reddit.com/DeltaGreenRPG/comments/1d0l92x/impossible_landscapes_session_0/
(Okay, these will be long. Five players, lmao. Hadn't quite accounted for that)
Operation ALICE, New York, 1995
The Roster (Player/Character)
Lea (she/her): Jules Gradkowska - Agent MIRANDA. Journalist - research and human intelligence.
Iain (he/him): Ralph Bevis - Agent MILHOUSE. Academic - history and occult specialist.
Quinn (he/him): Richard Delapore - Agent MAVERICK. FBI Special Agent - criminal and forensic expert and the official 'face' of the investigation.
Phil (he/him): Jean Duvall - Agent MAIN. US Navy Master Chief Petty Officer - operational security specialist.
Duncan (he/him): Jake Little - Agent MALATESTA. Civilian contractor - computer and electronic specialist with a side line in hacking.
Rob_sothoth (he/him) - Handler. The arbiter of the world: the good, the bad and that which cannot and should not be named.
Background: The Agents of M-Cell are tasked with investigating the apartment of Abigail Wright. Missing since June, Delta Green has reason to suspect para-natural involvement. Their orders are simple: catalogue the apartment and remove anything deemed suspect for destruction.
Despite heavy changes made, full spoiler warning for Impossible Landscapes.

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Session 1 "The Apartment" (May 24th, 2024)
New York: Tuesday, August 8th, 1995
1:45pm - 3:32pm, EST
Entering the lobby of the Macallistar building in Kips Bay, NYC, the Agents first make a sweep of Abigail's mailbox. Agent MARCUS (M-Cell Case Officer) provided them with a complete set of keys, not to be copied. The mailbox is stuffed full with bills, junk mail, catalogues and offers; mail still being delivered by people who have no idea Abigail is missing. MAVERICK gathers it in a bag and they make their way to Abigail's apartment (Ground floor).
The Macallistar echoes an earlier age. Faded purple carpeting and design from the turn of the century. Opposite Abigail's front door is an old-fashioned telephone nook, complete with bench and curtain for comfort and privacy when phone-lines in individual apartment was an expense few could afford.
M-Cell enters the apartment, finding it somewhere between a hoarder's dream and crime-scene technician's nightmare. The small hallway leads to a living-room (the apartment's largest space), an adjoining bedroom and a kitchen and bathroom opposite each other. Aside from the hallway, on first inspection the only other uncluttered space is the kitchen, which doesn't really look as if it's been used much. MAVERICK ear-marks that as something he wants to check himself as the team begin taking stock.
The NYPD has left a box with copies of their files, including a list of tenants they interviewed, many, many evidence collection bags and a box of latex gloves.
The apartment is filled with various items, with almost no floor visible beneath the collection. CDs and CD cases are stuck or glued to the wall, along with mannequin parts, sketches and assorted pieces that might be ceramic or plastic arranged in odd patterns without reason or rhyme. Stacks of phone books, stretches of dyed fabrics stitched together, an antique claw-footed lamp. Bags, bundles of pictures (drawings and photographs) of seeming nonsense. No furniture is immediately visible in the chaotic mess.
MAIN finds the same result in the bedroom as the first Search rolls are called for. Something catches his eye in the anarchy of the bedroom.
MALATESTA begins sorting through the pile of mail. MILHOUSE at first begins helping, but seeing the scale of the cataloguing, volunteers to make a coffee and food run. MIRANDA begins photographing, while MAVERICK gloves up and asks for things to be passed to him such as brushes, anything with a handle really or something more likely to have fingerprints on it. He wants to see if he can grab a set of Abigail's prints, if that's possible.
It doesn't take MALATESTA long to work out Abigail stopped paying her rent and bills in or around March before disappearing in June. Money was coming in up to a certain point, apparently from a showing Abigail had at the Mercury Gallery in Greenwich Village in November the previous year. There's even a letter from the gallery owner asking about another possible showing; from the way it's written, it might not have been the first time he spoke to Abigail before she vanished. Then, the only money coming in appears to be from her father, though she doesn't appear to have used it to cover the rent. He also gets the building management company, Art Life and their address.
As the Agents work, with MAIN carefully picking his way through the bedroom towards whatever caught his eye and MAVERICK uncovers a battery-powered hi-fi under all the trash, MILHOUSE returns from his coffee run and bumps into someone else entering the Macallistar at the same time he is. After an awkward hesitation on the threshold, MILHOUSE spends a little chatting to Lewis Post, one of Abigail's neighbours. MILHOUSE passes a HUMINT roll and I ruled that having spent most of his time in academics and his fellow PhDs, he can spot signs of some kind of social anxiety. I felt that was a fair get for a good success.
Lewis is hesitant but forthcoming as MILHOUSE works that high charisma score, knowing what to say to diffuse any potential tension. As far as Lewis knows, he is FBI of some kind after all.
MILHOUSE: "Did she ever mention a boyfriend? Girlfriend?"
Lewis: "Our relationship wasn't really like that. We had coffee sometimes. Talked about art. The process." He thinks. "She might have mentioned someone, but not a name, only what they did. A salesman, but I couldn't tell you what they sold."
MILHOUSE: "Talk about anything else?"
Lewis begins heading upstairs "She mentioned moving, but not before she was ready."
Back in the apartment, MAIN voices what others were thinking. "Where was she staying?" No bed, no signs of habitation except for the assorted hoard of crap. MAIN finds a hand grenade nestled in some papers and art supplies near the bedroom's walk-in closet.
In the living room, MAVERICK finds a single cassette tape in the uncovered hi-fi and flips it on, finding the batteries still live. Everyone hears MAVERICK's conversation with his significant other, Natalie from the previous evening. MAVERICK realises it's cut up and out of order, rewinds it and then flips it over. He thinks the entire conversation has been split between A & B sides of the tape.
MALATESTA and MAVERICK both consider phone-tapping, but MAIN, grenade temporarily forgotten, asks how it ended up here?
SAN check for MAVERICK. Pocketing the cassette tape, MAVERICK closes down a bit and prepares to go over the kitchen with a fine tooth comb; perhaps this is how he copes?
Before MAIN can mention the grenade he's worried about, MIRANDA, MALATESTA, MILHOUSE & MAVERICK notice something on the wall behind where the hi-fi was previously buried under junk. Fixed to the wall, maybe with some kind of glue is a piece of brown packing-paper with some kind of symbol drawn on it. Everyone focuses on it.

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3:41pm to 5:22pm, EST
MALATESTA: "That certainly looks like what we're supposed to be worried about."
MIRANDA snaps a polaroid. MILHOUSE tries to examine it, but his Occult check can only give him the vague thought it's connected to demonology, but little else beyond that. MAVERICK is cautious, but more concerned about getting to work on the unusually spotless kitchen.
Carefully, MIRANDA removes it and a blaring sounds like something between a horn blast and explosion almost deafens the Agents. It seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, from right next to them and outside at the same time.
Everyone passes a CONx5 check and the subsequent SAN check. Through the living room's window, MIRANDA, MILHOUSE and MAIN see a yellow-cab in the street outside. The cabbie appears to have leaned on the horn as someone crosses the street. They appear heavily dressed for summer, possibly homeless.
Is that a snake draped across their shoulders?
MIRANDA takes a polaroid while MILHOUSE and MAIN head outside to investigate. The picture reveals in sharp clarity, the cabbie staring down the barrel as she snapped the shot directly at her. MAVERICK gets to work in the kitchen and MALATESTA picks over things in the living room and bedroom respectively.
Search rolls for those in the apartment.
Outside, the cab has turned the corner and the pedestrian has carried on, though MAIN and MILHOUSE are able to work out where they went. MILHOUSE heads to cut off the other side of the alley, while MAIN approaches from behind, getting the pedestrian's attention. It's the height of summer in NYC, the air reeks of gasoline, rotting garbage and baking, soiled concrete and asphalt.
MAIN finds a nondescript, seemingly homeless man by the state of his clothes, but with a python draped over his shoulders. MAIN strikes up conversation, lighting a Gitane cigarette and pointing to the snake. From the other end of the alley, MILHOUSE makes his way towards the pair.
MAIN fails an alertness check.
Is this guy sweating? It's hot and he's bundled up like it's winter. Is he sweating? Why isn't he sweating?
Back in the apartment, MAVERICK tests the kitchen for blood and body fluids, breaking out the spray bottle and UV light. There's no cutlery, glassware or dishware anywhere in the room, but as he's lifting what could be a print, finds a mechanical diagram drawn on a napkin taped above the inside of an otherwise empty drawer. MALATESTA & MIRANDA continue their search of the living and bedroom, with MALATESTA finding a card printed with the following:
"For a good time Call D - 999-202-9989"
On the reverse are a series of what appear to be street corner addresses in Brooklyn. Could be a sex-line, could be a way to see Red Band underground film screenings, could be something online related. MALATESTA drifts between a few circles and he pockets it out of curiosity. When MIRANDA locates the grenade in the bedroom, she is careful to give it a wide berth and locates what MAIN missed: a backpack radio in the bedroom's walk-in closet. She calls MALATESTA over.
Back in the alleyway, MILHOUSE rolls under 10% and passes his disguise check. Dressed casually and a college athlete to boot, he fits the general chad look in his New York Knicks shirt despite his academic leanings. Being loud and obnoxious like he's drunk, he barrels into the homeless guy with the snake who stonewalled MAIN.
Instead he hits MAIN as the man with the snake is there and gone in the space between blinks. One moment MAIN is looking at him and then MILHOUSE knocks him flat on his ass. Like a film edit. Just gone. MAIN crit fails his SAN check and takes 4 SAN loss without projecting. Instead, as he scrambles up begins kicking over trash cans and searching the alley while MILHOUSE tries to calm him down and get a handle on things.
As MILHOUSE is talking MAIN out of tearing the alley apart, MIRANDA and MALATESTA check out the radio. As it comes to life, they listen and hear the following:
"Exeter. India. One. Thirteen. Sierra. Twenty. Twenty. Forty-nine."
MAVERICK meanwhile, finding the kitchen bare oddly finds the refrigerator stocked. There isn't much inside, some milk unopened and a pack of cheese and deli meat. Expiration is months ago, but through the plastic and glass of the bottle it looks fresh. Curious, he opens the milk and finds it smells as fresh as the day it was bought. Months ago.
Passes his SAN check. Given what he heard on the tape, it's not the strangest thing today.
MAIN and MILHOUSE detour to grab some more coffees, more to calm MAIN down and give him a (successful CHAx5 check) to flirt with the coffeeshop waitress. On their return, MAIN heads into the bedroom, pulls the pin on the grenade and activates the firing lever.
Nothing happens. His "hunch" was correct. Despite failing to properly identify it, something about the shape of it didn't match modern ordnance. Like the radio, it's vintage and either deactivated or else rendered inert by time and age.
I gave MAIN a SAN point back, because why not?
As things begin winding down, MILHOUSE and MAVERICK puzzle over the weird fridge, with MILHOUSE sacrificing his green tea and MAVERICK a donut to see how "fresh" they are come morning between the fridge and not.

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After 6pm, EST
Between them, M-Cell take the rest of the evening to take care of home-scenes or any unfinished business they can get done with their resources at hand. They also divide the Operational evidence from the Case evidence, with MIRANDA taking the symbol, MALATESTA the backpack radio & phone number, MAVERICK the cassette tape (for obvious reasons) and MAIN the mechanical sketch on the napkin.
MIRANDA and MILHOUSE, using the former's academic credentials both stay on the case, with MIRANDA leaving her photos from the park to develop in her bathroom. While she fails her roll, she does help MILHOUSE identify the demon the symbol refers to and book-related lead. She hits up a criminal contact named Hugo to put out feelers for weird items she may be interested in. He agrees for a fee, which she negotiates in her favour.
Returning to her apartment, MIRANDA finds her photos of the dancing clown and watching crowd have developed. In every photograph, the clown is turned away from her, but the faces in the crowd are looking at her. That's not how she remembers it. Fails a SAN check. Projects on to her editor, knowing she's going to be taking a "personal day" tomorrow, and this after she agreed to go to the grill.
This will have consequences.
MAIN, unnerved by the day's events, not the least of which was being knocked on his ass by a fitter, younger man, heads out. He returns to the coffeeshop he and MILHOUSE visited and takes the waitress he hit on out on a date. After a romantic interlude, MAIN has a new bond. Her name's Marsha, she's 27 and very nice.
Breaking Operational Security, MAVERICK asks MALATESTA to come back to his apartment and check for possible surveillance. Despite suffering comparatively little SAN loss overall, MAVERICK is letting the day's events impact his behaviour.
It's trivially easy for MALATESTA to confirm there are no bugs in place, which really does narrow the options for how the conversation could have been recorded. Thankful, he asks MALATESTA to keep this to himself for now, to which the grunge-kid agrees. MAVERICK drops MALATESTA near his home and leaves, putting the tape in the player of his car as he pulls away.
MALATESTA lives near the Village and diverts to check out the Mercury Gallery. Though closed, it seems legit and he makes a note of it for later. Back at home, he breaks open the backpack radio and examines it. The battery is not connected to the radio itself, the wires having been stripped out, yet he and MIRANDA both heard a voice on the end of its phone-mic. He passes his SAN check and finds in place of one of the transistors a small, black stone which does not feel like stone at all and feels like it's body temperature. MALATESTA leaves it on his desk, covered in a cloth.
Alone in his apartment, MAVERICK watches his phone. The time comes and he does not call Natalie. A moment later, his phone rings.
Alone in the apartment, MAVERICK does not answer.

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Post-Mortem
We ended up playing for a touch longer than I intended, but I knew that would happen by the time the cab sounded its horn. Despite some tiredness and some drinking, we ended up with a really strong session in retrospect, which has set the overall tone of the campaign for me as GM going forward. Between the five players, two have been through one Delta Green campaign, one has experience with Pulp Cthulhu and two have varying levels of exposure. They all roleplayed the f##k out of their characters and while I was worried about just how weird I wanted things to get out the gate, it feels like the balance is correct and I've given enough avenues for further investigation they may want to pursue.
I got a far better sense, as did the players, as to what drives and motivates their characters and how they cope or don't cope with Delta Green work.
MILHOUSE is definitely setting himself up as the curious academic, Iain playing his interest as forever drawn towards what's there "to discover," he said in character. Perhaps a fool and his sanity are easily parted?
MAVERICK is the "all-American", Agent Cooper adjacent FBI Agent who butts up against the para-natural and is seemingly rocked by it, revealing a complicated and perhaps conflicted depth. In his previous operation with MIRANDA, MAVERICK killed one person, but something about this has gotten under his skin. I wonder what Natalie thinks about their missed call?
A hacker by trade, MALATESTA likes a puzzle as much as he does not like the "weird shit." He talks a good talk when it's about something he knows, but is much too shy to chat up his co-worker. He and MAVERICK had some friction in Session 0 when MAVERICK wanted to call him Mal, to which the younger man pushed back against. Yet, he now knows where MAVERICK lives. Maybe he can learn more? What will he do with that? Does he even want to?
As much as MILHOUSE, MIRANDA is likewise driven by curiosity and a need to know, but first and foremost to keep herself safe. She and him are not the same. There's a scar above her hip from a knife, and it still twinges from time to time. She's also the first to directly or indirectly involve a Bond in the investigation. I wonder what Hugo will or won't find? I wonder what those photos mean. MIRANDA wondered aloud whether the crowd or the clown was the "entity." What does that mean?
Despite being built like Jack Reacher (albeit in a sailor suit), MAIN projects a tough air but is clearly a man at the crossroads. He turns 40 before 1995 ends; middle age. When hit with a problem or something he can't otherwise work out, his behaviour swings from one extreme to the other. To date, he's coped with the case by: lashing out at trash cans in an alley. Chatting up a waitress and forming a romantic bond with her. Pulling the pin on a grenade he "thought" could be fake. It's day one. I'm here for it.
Our next session is scheduled for June 7th, 2024.
Until then, be seeing you.

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2024.05.28 20:30 rsb120 Miranda Cosgrove