Delta Green: The Aftermath
Well, that's it. Delta Green: A Mother's Love is all over bar the Congressional enquiries. And that's it from the campaign, for the time being at least.
Thank you to all my players. It was a fantastic session with some fantastic PCs. :-)
What the media tell people about the FBI-led investigation into the Skoptsi cult in February 1998:
- The killers of Tracy Hughes, the Secret Service agent who heroically intervened in the home invasion of Professor Adrian Lund in Washington DC, have been found. One, Leonid Petrov, was shot and killed by parties unknown, but the second, Pavel Stanislav, was tracked down and arrested in Baltimore by the local police. During the shootout, he suffered severe spinal damage and was rendered quadraplegic. He eventually goes down, thanks to some plea bargaining and giving his employer's name, for second degree murder, aggravated burglary, assault with a deadly weapon. His sentence was reduced due to his cooperation with the FBI, but he is not expected out of prison until he is well into his 60s.
- Stanislav's employer, the elderly art dealer, Yevgeny Yissanovich, was investigated for organising several art thefts and murders across the US, including the incident at Lund's house and the fatal shooting of Dr Nathaniel Prince in New Orleans in 1997. Following a raid on his property, the FBI discovered a 'murder room' in which he and six accomplices raped and murdered 135 women over a period of 16 years, videotaping each crime as it happened. Media speculation that these killings are the source of the mythical 'snuff movies' allegedly being passed from hand-to-hand around the nation are rejected by the FBI and state prosecutors, who state that the recordings were merely for the gratification of Yissanovich and his accomplices (who were also employed by himself as bodyguards and, as his health failed, carers). Yissanovich was sentenced to death for his vast array of crimes, as are the two accomplices arrested with him (John Smith and James Carter, two graduates of the Cornucopia Farm children's home). The remaining four accomplices, whose employment with Yissanovich ended some years ago, have been identified as members of the local 'Skoptsi' community and are being hunted by federal authorities. 81 of the victims are eventually identified, all of whom are prostitutes, either local or imported from Eastern Europe, with the rest speculated to also be from the latter group.
- Files found in Yissanovich's basement identify him as Fedor Berezkhov, a former member of the Stalin-era NKVD and a senior figure in its Smersh programme. Scholars attribute several hundred 'legal' killings to Berezkhov, including an unknown number of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940. It appears Berezkhov fled under an assumed name to the United States in 1958, following the death of Josef Stalin and the subsequent purging of the NKVD. The US Government fiercely deny that he was a defector and apologise to the people of Baltimore for not spotting a war criminal and serial killer in their midst.
- Investigations into the Yissanovich murders revealed that all the offenders had self-mutilated their genitals to greater or lesser degrees, in the manner of the early twentieth-century Russian sect known as the Skoptsi. Both Smith and Carter, his two most recent accomplices, were alumni of the Cornucopia Farm children's home. In Smith's case, several generations of his family had come from that home and worshipped at the same Russian Orthodox church in a quiet district of Baltimore. Further investigation reveals that the Skoptsi still existed in Baltimore.
- Driven into panic by a potential federal investigation, unnamed members of the Skoptsi sect attempted to murder two FBI agents in a firebombing in Washington DC.
- In the aftermath of their failure, it appears the Skoptsi panicked further and gathered together for a mass suicide. This included the twenty children resident at the Cornucopia Farm and also scores of older children fostered to cult members after being indoctrinated at the home. The coach from the Little Moscow Bus Company sent to pick them up was intercepted by local police, the staff from the home arrested and the children rescued. The church was raided by Baltimore police and the FBI, in which two men were shot dead while attempting to collapse roof supports to bring the roof down onto their co-worshippers.
- 150 Skoptsi cultists were arrested in the basement, but approximately 200 escaped through four additional exits that opened out in locations as variant as beehives, a dog kennel, a children's playhouse and a residential garage, all on property belonging to trusted cult members. Another 60 were arrested over the course of the next week, having been identified by the licence plates of the vehicles they left outside the church (in many cases, deliberately across the highway, to impede the approach of the police).
- Most Skoptsi are released after debriefing, although it appears all those that were medically examined, including children of ages 13 and upward, had undergone some form of genital mutilation. When questioned, they insisted that it was self-inflicted, but would not say why. 58 criminal prosecutions were brought against the Skoptsi detained in and around the church, mostly for child cruelty offences.
- Yalena Kalamatiano, the administrator of the children's home, turned out to have been a suspect in a series of child disappearances in New York during the Second World War. Serious questions were raised with the FBI, who failed to arrest her for those offences at the time, and Maryland authorities, who had allowed her to run her poisonous children's home and cult recruitment centre for over half a century. 'Mama Yalena', as her children knew her, died of a heart attack within hours of her arrest, but was described in court as a 'manipulative and cunning sociopath' who demanded loyalty and misguided love from her victims, which she then had them transfer to the Magna Mater cult. Sabina Apollonov, the deputy administrator, and two other employees are serving sentences totally 297 years for a raft of offences against children, ranging from neglect through to physical and sexual abuse.
- Two of the older children at the home, Andrew Paulson and Ruth Bishop (both 13 years old and who both bore self-inflicted genital mutilation), admitted to social workers and police that they had murdered a third, Katie Steinman, at Sabina's behest, after Katie refused to take up the worship of the Magna Mater. The body was disposed of by unknown means. This sinister turn of events led to further scrutiny of the disappearance of several dozen children from the home, all 13 years old (the age at which the cult inducted new members), who were officially reported to Maryland Child Protection Services as being 'runaways'.
- Father Jermija Bogdanovich, apparent leader of the cult group, has not been located. He is on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list, although it is deemed likely that he has committed suicide.
- The cult, which although ostensibly Russian Orthodox (Bogdanovich was an ordained Orthodox priest and used his church as a front for the group's beliefs), actually worshipped the Magna Mater, believed to be an extreme interpretation of the Virgin Mary. This veneration of virginity is believed to be the reason for their ritualised practice of genital self-mutilation. Although many of the group's members have never been located by federal or state authorities, enquiries are still ongoing to track them down and ascertain what, if any, offences they may have committed. Most Skoptsi 'survivors' are actually being treated as victims if no crimes are attached to them, as almost all Skoptsi are alumni of the Cornucopia Farm.
The Truth Is Out There:
- Two of the three Delta Green agents keeping Professor Lund under surveillance (due to his suspicious, but ultimately innocent, reading habits) were shot and killed by Yissanovich's hired burglars. A third was maimed, but managed to drive himself and the body of one of his colleagues away. He was discharged from his FBI post after having 'accidentally discharged his weapon during cleaning', while his colleague officially suffered a 'fatal skiing accident'.
- One of the burglars, Leonid Petrov, was shot and killed in Washington DC by a sniper using a very specialised Russian-made silenced sniper rifle, normally only issued to specialist units. A pale blue Winnebago was seen driving at speed away from the scene.
- The survivor, Pavel Stanislav, fled to Yissanovich's house in Baltimore before being traced back to the tenement he and Petrov shared. Delta Green (in the guise of the FBI) arrested him in conjunction with the Baltimore police.
- Evidence found in Stanislav's possession indicated that he and Petrov were due to fly out to Los Angeles and pick up a 'black icon', similar to the one they had stolen from Professor Lund, from the White Shadows street gang. (Delta Green is already aware that the White Shadows is largely composed of the American-born children of dead or deported members of the Tcho-Tcho cult, the Children of Shugoran, whom they eliminated in 1990, and also due to the White Shadows' more recent relationship with Benjamin Wilson, a serial killer and disciple of Tsathoggua). Thanks to LAPD sources fostered during the latter incident by the PCs, the icon was recovered by Delta Green without too much difficulty.
- After Yissanovich's arrest, several officials from 'the State Department' turned up at Yissanovich's house, demanding that the FBI/Delta Green cease their investigation of an important intelligence asset. Once they were shown the 'murder room', they immediately washed their hands of Yissanovich and left him to the judicial system.
- By studying the icons they had recovered, plus several others in their store room in the Natural History Museum, Delta Green uncovered the hidden truth of the 'Christian' Skoptsi sect - they were descended from the Children of Semyon, a cult of Shub-Niggurath worshippers, founded centuries ago at the instigation of the entity known as Nyarlathotep. Pogrom after pogrom had driven them to the United States, where a vigilante arson in Los Angeles in 1926 had driven them, including the 2-year-old Yalena Kalamatiano (the original Skoptsi were allowed a single child before taking the 'greater seal of the Goddess' and completely severing or burning away their genitalia.
- In 1928, the cult re-founded itself in Baltimore, but had little ability to recruit new members. In 1947, more cautious after her near-miss with the FBI in New York, Yalena Kalamatiano founded the Cornucopia Farm children's home. Children would be taken in, usually from Eastern European orphanages, made American citizens with American names (to distance them from any remaining family connections) and then abused horrendously by her staff while 'Mama Yalena' took care of them and told them comforting secrets about the loving Magna Mater. At the age of 13, children would be asked to join the cult. If they did, they took the lesser seal and cast their genitalia into a fire. If they did not, the other initiates would feed them to the Sylvan, a creature known to Delta Green as a 'Black Flag' or 'Dark Young', that dwelled in the forest close by the Cornucopia Farm.
- Having visited the Cornucopia Farm twice, the first time being in an FBI capacity following concerns from a friend who worked for Child Protection Services, Agent Wesley experienced memory confusion and terrible nightmares. On the second occasion, she crashed her car after blacking out on the drive home and was rescued by a pleasant retired couple called Neil and Frances Cooper, who drove a suspiciously-coloured Winnebago, albeit with different plates than the one in Washington.
- Delta Green agents, unaware of the full workings of the cult, but aware of Yalena's involvement with the Skoptsi, illegally bugged the phoneline (revealing her and Father Bogdanovich's involvement with the attempted murder of Agents Metcalf and Wesley the previous night), set up a legitimate FBI surveillance post in the outskirts of the woods (not aware of what was living out there) and even obtained real-time NSA satellite coverage of the farm between 2300-0100 hours. With the FBI post now manned by Delta Green Agent Wesley, comms and the satellite uplink manned by Agent Metcalf and Agent Reynolds acting as backup, Agent Ruba infiltrated the farm, killed one of the guard dogs left to roam the grounds after hours, and broke into the main building.
- Curiously, the NSA satellite revealed a pale-coloured Winnebago off the road and amongst some trees, several hundred yards away from the farm.
- After planting a microphone linked to a radio transmitter in a staff room, Ruba encountered a 14-year-old child, but shooed him away. The child, in actuality the 13-year-old murderer and cultist Andrew Paulson, ambushed and stabbed Ruba in the stomach. Ruba fled the house as Paulson raised the alarm.
- Meanwhile, having listened to the radio waves being transmitted by the team's communications equipment, the Sylvan crept up on Agent Wesley, who, unlike FBI Agent Mitchell who had manned the post during the day, appeared to be actively involved in harming its masters in the farm. Due to the 'divine intervention' of the Apache Coyote Spirit (a long story, but she did it a great service a fortnight earlier), she spotted the 'tree creature' at the last minute and fled from the forest, towards the farm. The massive creature took a while to accelerate, but eventually barrelled into Agent Wesley, knocking her to the ground. Fortunately for her, its main aim was to protect the farm, which involved smashing Ruba to the ground, breaking several of his limbs, and then ensuring no once else endangered 'Mama Yalena'.
- Agent Reynolds rammed her car through the gates of the farm and drove across several bumpy fields to avoid the Sylvan and reach the injured Wesley and Ruba. Meanwhile, the Winnebago began moving and parked up just outside the gates. She rescued her colleagues just in time for them to witness a rocket-propelled grenade, fired from beside the Winnebago, strike the Sylvan in its mid-section, apparently causing very little (if any) damage. The Delta Green team fled the area by driving across country until they reached a road.
- Alerted by Metcalf, Delta Green Cell A activated their 'Black Flag protocol', put together after another ill-fated encounter with a creature like the Sylvan. After the Sylvan was shooed back into its wooded lair, a helicopter landed and deployed three heavily-armed DG agents went after it. A short time later, following the ignition of part of the forest canopy, the helicopter left without having picked up the three agents. The mission was deemed a success, as the 'Black Flag' was eliminated. This incident, along with the use of the rocket-propelled grenade, was covered up by judicious manipulation of which FBI agents actually had access to the crime scene at the Cornucopia Farm.
- Following Ruba's break-in, the tapped phoneline revealed Yalena and Father Bogdanovich activating a 'phone tree' and instructing all Skoptsi, including the children at the farm, to gather at the church, prior to going into hiding.
- The FBI (led by Delta Green's joint-head, Agent Adam) and Baltimore police raided the church, more-or-less as released to the press. However, the reason was to arrest and detain as many Mythos cultists as possible, rather than to prevent any mass suicide; as Agent Reynolds surmised, a cult that had survived and recovered from numerous pogroms over the centuries was not likely to destroy itself when threatened.
- The Winnebago was observed by law enforcement officials across the northeast US, but not stopped, at the request of Agent Reynolds, heading up through Maine to the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It has not been seen since. At least, not with those licence plates.
- Yalena, a fully-fledged sorcerer and therefore very difficult to keep in custody, did not have a heart attack.
Thank you to all my players. It was a fantastic session with some fantastic PCs. :-)
What the media tell people about the FBI-led investigation into the Skoptsi cult in February 1998:
- The killers of Tracy Hughes, the Secret Service agent who heroically intervened in the home invasion of Professor Adrian Lund in Washington DC, have been found. One, Leonid Petrov, was shot and killed by parties unknown, but the second, Pavel Stanislav, was tracked down and arrested in Baltimore by the local police. During the shootout, he suffered severe spinal damage and was rendered quadraplegic. He eventually goes down, thanks to some plea bargaining and giving his employer's name, for second degree murder, aggravated burglary, assault with a deadly weapon. His sentence was reduced due to his cooperation with the FBI, but he is not expected out of prison until he is well into his 60s.
- Stanislav's employer, the elderly art dealer, Yevgeny Yissanovich, was investigated for organising several art thefts and murders across the US, including the incident at Lund's house and the fatal shooting of Dr Nathaniel Prince in New Orleans in 1997. Following a raid on his property, the FBI discovered a 'murder room' in which he and six accomplices raped and murdered 135 women over a period of 16 years, videotaping each crime as it happened. Media speculation that these killings are the source of the mythical 'snuff movies' allegedly being passed from hand-to-hand around the nation are rejected by the FBI and state prosecutors, who state that the recordings were merely for the gratification of Yissanovich and his accomplices (who were also employed by himself as bodyguards and, as his health failed, carers). Yissanovich was sentenced to death for his vast array of crimes, as are the two accomplices arrested with him (John Smith and James Carter, two graduates of the Cornucopia Farm children's home). The remaining four accomplices, whose employment with Yissanovich ended some years ago, have been identified as members of the local 'Skoptsi' community and are being hunted by federal authorities. 81 of the victims are eventually identified, all of whom are prostitutes, either local or imported from Eastern Europe, with the rest speculated to also be from the latter group.
- Files found in Yissanovich's basement identify him as Fedor Berezkhov, a former member of the Stalin-era NKVD and a senior figure in its Smersh programme. Scholars attribute several hundred 'legal' killings to Berezkhov, including an unknown number of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940. It appears Berezkhov fled under an assumed name to the United States in 1958, following the death of Josef Stalin and the subsequent purging of the NKVD. The US Government fiercely deny that he was a defector and apologise to the people of Baltimore for not spotting a war criminal and serial killer in their midst.
- Investigations into the Yissanovich murders revealed that all the offenders had self-mutilated their genitals to greater or lesser degrees, in the manner of the early twentieth-century Russian sect known as the Skoptsi. Both Smith and Carter, his two most recent accomplices, were alumni of the Cornucopia Farm children's home. In Smith's case, several generations of his family had come from that home and worshipped at the same Russian Orthodox church in a quiet district of Baltimore. Further investigation reveals that the Skoptsi still existed in Baltimore.
- Driven into panic by a potential federal investigation, unnamed members of the Skoptsi sect attempted to murder two FBI agents in a firebombing in Washington DC.
- In the aftermath of their failure, it appears the Skoptsi panicked further and gathered together for a mass suicide. This included the twenty children resident at the Cornucopia Farm and also scores of older children fostered to cult members after being indoctrinated at the home. The coach from the Little Moscow Bus Company sent to pick them up was intercepted by local police, the staff from the home arrested and the children rescued. The church was raided by Baltimore police and the FBI, in which two men were shot dead while attempting to collapse roof supports to bring the roof down onto their co-worshippers.
- 150 Skoptsi cultists were arrested in the basement, but approximately 200 escaped through four additional exits that opened out in locations as variant as beehives, a dog kennel, a children's playhouse and a residential garage, all on property belonging to trusted cult members. Another 60 were arrested over the course of the next week, having been identified by the licence plates of the vehicles they left outside the church (in many cases, deliberately across the highway, to impede the approach of the police).
- Most Skoptsi are released after debriefing, although it appears all those that were medically examined, including children of ages 13 and upward, had undergone some form of genital mutilation. When questioned, they insisted that it was self-inflicted, but would not say why. 58 criminal prosecutions were brought against the Skoptsi detained in and around the church, mostly for child cruelty offences.
- Yalena Kalamatiano, the administrator of the children's home, turned out to have been a suspect in a series of child disappearances in New York during the Second World War. Serious questions were raised with the FBI, who failed to arrest her for those offences at the time, and Maryland authorities, who had allowed her to run her poisonous children's home and cult recruitment centre for over half a century. 'Mama Yalena', as her children knew her, died of a heart attack within hours of her arrest, but was described in court as a 'manipulative and cunning sociopath' who demanded loyalty and misguided love from her victims, which she then had them transfer to the Magna Mater cult. Sabina Apollonov, the deputy administrator, and two other employees are serving sentences totally 297 years for a raft of offences against children, ranging from neglect through to physical and sexual abuse.
- Two of the older children at the home, Andrew Paulson and Ruth Bishop (both 13 years old and who both bore self-inflicted genital mutilation), admitted to social workers and police that they had murdered a third, Katie Steinman, at Sabina's behest, after Katie refused to take up the worship of the Magna Mater. The body was disposed of by unknown means. This sinister turn of events led to further scrutiny of the disappearance of several dozen children from the home, all 13 years old (the age at which the cult inducted new members), who were officially reported to Maryland Child Protection Services as being 'runaways'.
- Father Jermija Bogdanovich, apparent leader of the cult group, has not been located. He is on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list, although it is deemed likely that he has committed suicide.
- The cult, which although ostensibly Russian Orthodox (Bogdanovich was an ordained Orthodox priest and used his church as a front for the group's beliefs), actually worshipped the Magna Mater, believed to be an extreme interpretation of the Virgin Mary. This veneration of virginity is believed to be the reason for their ritualised practice of genital self-mutilation. Although many of the group's members have never been located by federal or state authorities, enquiries are still ongoing to track them down and ascertain what, if any, offences they may have committed. Most Skoptsi 'survivors' are actually being treated as victims if no crimes are attached to them, as almost all Skoptsi are alumni of the Cornucopia Farm.
The Truth Is Out There:
- Two of the three Delta Green agents keeping Professor Lund under surveillance (due to his suspicious, but ultimately innocent, reading habits) were shot and killed by Yissanovich's hired burglars. A third was maimed, but managed to drive himself and the body of one of his colleagues away. He was discharged from his FBI post after having 'accidentally discharged his weapon during cleaning', while his colleague officially suffered a 'fatal skiing accident'.
- One of the burglars, Leonid Petrov, was shot and killed in Washington DC by a sniper using a very specialised Russian-made silenced sniper rifle, normally only issued to specialist units. A pale blue Winnebago was seen driving at speed away from the scene.
- The survivor, Pavel Stanislav, fled to Yissanovich's house in Baltimore before being traced back to the tenement he and Petrov shared. Delta Green (in the guise of the FBI) arrested him in conjunction with the Baltimore police.
- Evidence found in Stanislav's possession indicated that he and Petrov were due to fly out to Los Angeles and pick up a 'black icon', similar to the one they had stolen from Professor Lund, from the White Shadows street gang. (Delta Green is already aware that the White Shadows is largely composed of the American-born children of dead or deported members of the Tcho-Tcho cult, the Children of Shugoran, whom they eliminated in 1990, and also due to the White Shadows' more recent relationship with Benjamin Wilson, a serial killer and disciple of Tsathoggua). Thanks to LAPD sources fostered during the latter incident by the PCs, the icon was recovered by Delta Green without too much difficulty.
- After Yissanovich's arrest, several officials from 'the State Department' turned up at Yissanovich's house, demanding that the FBI/Delta Green cease their investigation of an important intelligence asset. Once they were shown the 'murder room', they immediately washed their hands of Yissanovich and left him to the judicial system.
- By studying the icons they had recovered, plus several others in their store room in the Natural History Museum, Delta Green uncovered the hidden truth of the 'Christian' Skoptsi sect - they were descended from the Children of Semyon, a cult of Shub-Niggurath worshippers, founded centuries ago at the instigation of the entity known as Nyarlathotep. Pogrom after pogrom had driven them to the United States, where a vigilante arson in Los Angeles in 1926 had driven them, including the 2-year-old Yalena Kalamatiano (the original Skoptsi were allowed a single child before taking the 'greater seal of the Goddess' and completely severing or burning away their genitalia.
- In 1928, the cult re-founded itself in Baltimore, but had little ability to recruit new members. In 1947, more cautious after her near-miss with the FBI in New York, Yalena Kalamatiano founded the Cornucopia Farm children's home. Children would be taken in, usually from Eastern European orphanages, made American citizens with American names (to distance them from any remaining family connections) and then abused horrendously by her staff while 'Mama Yalena' took care of them and told them comforting secrets about the loving Magna Mater. At the age of 13, children would be asked to join the cult. If they did, they took the lesser seal and cast their genitalia into a fire. If they did not, the other initiates would feed them to the Sylvan, a creature known to Delta Green as a 'Black Flag' or 'Dark Young', that dwelled in the forest close by the Cornucopia Farm.
- Having visited the Cornucopia Farm twice, the first time being in an FBI capacity following concerns from a friend who worked for Child Protection Services, Agent Wesley experienced memory confusion and terrible nightmares. On the second occasion, she crashed her car after blacking out on the drive home and was rescued by a pleasant retired couple called Neil and Frances Cooper, who drove a suspiciously-coloured Winnebago, albeit with different plates than the one in Washington.
- Delta Green agents, unaware of the full workings of the cult, but aware of Yalena's involvement with the Skoptsi, illegally bugged the phoneline (revealing her and Father Bogdanovich's involvement with the attempted murder of Agents Metcalf and Wesley the previous night), set up a legitimate FBI surveillance post in the outskirts of the woods (not aware of what was living out there) and even obtained real-time NSA satellite coverage of the farm between 2300-0100 hours. With the FBI post now manned by Delta Green Agent Wesley, comms and the satellite uplink manned by Agent Metcalf and Agent Reynolds acting as backup, Agent Ruba infiltrated the farm, killed one of the guard dogs left to roam the grounds after hours, and broke into the main building.
- Curiously, the NSA satellite revealed a pale-coloured Winnebago off the road and amongst some trees, several hundred yards away from the farm.
- After planting a microphone linked to a radio transmitter in a staff room, Ruba encountered a 14-year-old child, but shooed him away. The child, in actuality the 13-year-old murderer and cultist Andrew Paulson, ambushed and stabbed Ruba in the stomach. Ruba fled the house as Paulson raised the alarm.
- Meanwhile, having listened to the radio waves being transmitted by the team's communications equipment, the Sylvan crept up on Agent Wesley, who, unlike FBI Agent Mitchell who had manned the post during the day, appeared to be actively involved in harming its masters in the farm. Due to the 'divine intervention' of the Apache Coyote Spirit (a long story, but she did it a great service a fortnight earlier), she spotted the 'tree creature' at the last minute and fled from the forest, towards the farm. The massive creature took a while to accelerate, but eventually barrelled into Agent Wesley, knocking her to the ground. Fortunately for her, its main aim was to protect the farm, which involved smashing Ruba to the ground, breaking several of his limbs, and then ensuring no once else endangered 'Mama Yalena'.
- Agent Reynolds rammed her car through the gates of the farm and drove across several bumpy fields to avoid the Sylvan and reach the injured Wesley and Ruba. Meanwhile, the Winnebago began moving and parked up just outside the gates. She rescued her colleagues just in time for them to witness a rocket-propelled grenade, fired from beside the Winnebago, strike the Sylvan in its mid-section, apparently causing very little (if any) damage. The Delta Green team fled the area by driving across country until they reached a road.
- Alerted by Metcalf, Delta Green Cell A activated their 'Black Flag protocol', put together after another ill-fated encounter with a creature like the Sylvan. After the Sylvan was shooed back into its wooded lair, a helicopter landed and deployed three heavily-armed DG agents went after it. A short time later, following the ignition of part of the forest canopy, the helicopter left without having picked up the three agents. The mission was deemed a success, as the 'Black Flag' was eliminated. This incident, along with the use of the rocket-propelled grenade, was covered up by judicious manipulation of which FBI agents actually had access to the crime scene at the Cornucopia Farm.
- Following Ruba's break-in, the tapped phoneline revealed Yalena and Father Bogdanovich activating a 'phone tree' and instructing all Skoptsi, including the children at the farm, to gather at the church, prior to going into hiding.
- The FBI (led by Delta Green's joint-head, Agent Adam) and Baltimore police raided the church, more-or-less as released to the press. However, the reason was to arrest and detain as many Mythos cultists as possible, rather than to prevent any mass suicide; as Agent Reynolds surmised, a cult that had survived and recovered from numerous pogroms over the centuries was not likely to destroy itself when threatened.
- The Winnebago was observed by law enforcement officials across the northeast US, but not stopped, at the request of Agent Reynolds, heading up through Maine to the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It has not been seen since. At least, not with those licence plates.
- Yalena, a fully-fledged sorcerer and therefore very difficult to keep in custody, did not have a heart attack.