The first question to be settled by the Keeper is how to get Delta Green involved in this situation. To some extent, this is affected by how the Keeper is using the previous two scenarios in this trilogy, and so any advice here can only be sketchy at best.

The simplest solution all around is to have Dr. Silverman - the injured and deranged pediatrician from San Diego - be working not only as an unwitting agent of Majestic- 12, but also as an unwitting Delta Green informant. In this premise, Dr. Silverman's tortured conscience got the better of him and he recently contacted the FDA to report the drug company that Sub-Project BOUNCE is hiding behind. The subsequent investigation got the attention of Delta Green, who hushed up the matter and is now playing out Dr. Silverman as an informant on the operation. When Dr. Silverman turns up in a hospital in Tijuana with two gunshot wounds, Delta Green swoops in to find out what's going on.

If the Keeper is in some fashion using the previous two scenarios, another premise is to have the Delta Green agents called in by a contact from the Conspiracy X adventure which, indeed, is how that scenario ends.

Finally, if you are branching off directly from the Vampire: The Masquerade scenario, the Delta Green agents could be patsies called in by the Sabbat to find out why their cargo of children was intercepted.

Dr. Silverman

Regardless of how the scenario kicks off for your group, the first stop is almost certainly going to be the unfortunate Dr. Luther Silverman. Dr. Silverman has been shot twice with a .32 automatic and is in serious but stable condition at Tijuana City Hospital. He can be approached during normal visiting hours, and thus far has refused to make any comment to the police or other officials about how he came to be injured.

Depending on the circumstances of the Keeper's campaign, Dr. Silverman might be receptive or hostile to the investigators. If he doesn't tell them anything, of course, then the scenario is close to being over. The various facts he might tell the investigators are summarized below. Should the group blow their chance with Dr. Silverman, the nearby sidebar, "Other Sources," can help get them back on track.

Dr. Silverman can (if he's amenable) tell them the following:

He was shot white rescuing six kidnapped children from San Diego. He followed the kidnapper's van south to a gas station/rest stop on this side of the Mexican border, then ambushed the driver in the bathroom. Silverman was shot twice in the attempt. The driver was knocked unconscious with drugs Silverman had brought, but has since vanished and is unidentified. (This can be modulated depending on how the previous two scenarios were used. The driver's identity is of no particular importance to this scenario.)

Other Sources

If Dr. Silverman isn't talking, the investigators can try some other sources to figure out where the kids went. Suggestions are summarized herein.

" Witnesses. The investigators can question workers at the gas station, one of whom might have seen a Childsafelabeled van in the parking lot around the time of the shooting. Potentially, a surveillance video from the time might even show the children being moved from the kidnapper's van to the Childsafe van.

Silverman's Apartment. A search of Dr. Silverman's apartment is fruitful. For starters, the investigators can discover a cache of illicit child photography, along with a directory of mailing addresses that Silverman sends his medical-exam photos to. These are hidden, but his connection to Childsafe is not. Childsafe posters adorn the walls, Childsafe magnets dot the refrigerator, Childsafe tshirts and jackets occupy his closet, and Childsafe bumper stickers grace his car. A successful Psychology roll suggests that Silverman is obsessed with the well-being of children; should the cache of pornography be discovered, it suggests a mind at war with itself.

Tijuana Police. The Tijuana Police Department might or might not have learned of the presence of the Childsafe van. Even if they did, there were dozens of vehicles present and they might not have followed up on that lead yet. However, American law-enforcement PCs can potentially get a look at the files to date and discover this clue.

The kids were safely removed from the scene by Childsafe, a well-known American charity that Dr. Silverman works for in a volunteer capacity. He called Childsafe from his cell phone before succumbing to his injuries.

Rexxola Pharmaceuticals was performing illegal experiments on the children for commercial purposes. Dr. Silverman claims that Rexxola coerced him into cooperating with bribes. He does not admit the truth about his peculiar obsession or the blackmail effort by "Rexxola" that actually got him to cooperate.

He doesn't know where the children are now. He assumes that Childsafe has brought them back to San Diego and reunited them with their parents. If he learns this isn't the case, then he assumes the parents are on Rexxola's payroll and he clams up, refusing to discuss Childsafe further - he now believes that Childsafe is finding safehouses for the kids while preparing some sort of legal action against Rexxola. He considers Childsafe beyond reproach, much as he pretends to see himself; Childsafe is a dissociative metaphor for his own deluded self-image.

Investigating Childsafe

This section summarizes the surface of Childsafe. The information provided here is obtainable to anyone doing a little research.

Childsafe is based in Los Angeles, California. According to public sources, the charity was founded in 1980 by retired POP star Rick Lash. Publicity photos from as recently as 1990 show a smiling, grey-haired Lash posing with rescued street kids. One such photo has Lash dressed and made up as a clown.

As noted earlier, Childsafe wages a very public campaign to rescue kids from the streets - runaways, mostly. They have twelve offices: Los Angeles (their headquarters), San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and New York City. Each office has a staff of six or eight full-time employees, but the real strength of Childsafe is in their network of volunteers.

All told, Childsafe has about ten thousand "Childsavers," volunteers who will rescue children in their communities when notified by Childsafe and who network with local children's organizations to get the help their rescues need. If

Secrets of Childsafe

The head of Childsafe, Larry Barksdale, also runs day-to-day operations at the Los Angeles office. Barksdale is a Knight of the Karotechia who answers directly to Reinhard Galt.

Every regional office is run by a Pawn of the Karotechia. These Pawns have never heard the term "Karotechia" and generally do not have the same racist views as their masters. Instead, they are simply corrupt in some useful way. Some siphon off money from the charity. Others use their involvement with the charity to further their own political or business ambitions. Whatever the specific situation, each Pawn is controlled through blackmail by Larry Barksdale.

Barksdale reviews the daily reports from the regional offices and occasionally flags the cases of children who can be kidnapped without attracting notice. He passes the word to the Pawn on the scene, and the Pawn makes it happen. Between two and six children are kidnapped each month nationwide from the hundreds who pass through Childsafe's hands in that period of time.

The Pawns are also used for other purposes by the Karotechia. Childsafe's offices have numerous street contacts, enabling the Karotechia to keep tabs on racist gangs and other like-minded groups across the country.

GMs may wish to incorporate Childsafe into their part two investigations. Perhaps news reports are constantly reminding people to make a donation to Childsafe or "adopt-a-kid" programs are airing without Childsafe's approval. This sort of limelight attention may alert the PCs to other angles of the story. GMs should be prepared for the consequences when Childsafe is not confortable picking up these kids in part 3, and the story disentegrates into finding Silverman lying dead at payphone, with an empty truck just a few feet away. Come to think of it, that's not so bad...

If Childsafe doesn't have a Childsaver available where a kid needs help, they go straight to other local organizations instead. Childsavers have to pass a criminal -records check and receive at least twenty hours of training in child-crisis management. [There are many ranks within the Childsavers, keyed to progressive levels of certified training; upper-rank Childsavers are often certified youth counselors with emergency medical training. It's sort of an idealistic Masonic lodge.]

Beyond the Childsavers, there are still more volunteers who specialize in child-retated bureaucracies; many volunteers are attorneys doing pro bono work for the charity.

Childsafe is a respected but mildly controversial group. They are militant about getting kids off the streets and following up on their cases when the rescued kids enter the bureaucracy. Some child-welfare administrators dislike the group's evangelical fervor and ability to focus the media spotlight on important cases. In addition, Childsafe has been charged with kidnapping on sixteen occasions by angry parents whose children were rescued and handed off to the authorities; most of those cases are still pending. No convictions have resulted to date.

The Los Angeles headquarters has 20 full-time employees and 60 part-time office volunteers. While the regional offices are autonomous in their day-to-day operations, they do file electronic reports with the L.A. office every night and flag troublesome or media-worthy cases. Childsafe L.A. is very popular with celebrities. Every year, for example, Childsafe L.A. has a "Saved by the Soaps" day where popular daytime soap-opera actors answer the hotlines.

Childsafe claims to get "more than 5,000 kids" off the streets every year. They do not provide specific numbers, and do not track how many of those rescued kids end up on the streets again. As their president, Larry Barksdale, likes to say: "We're not focused on statistics. We're focused on kids."

Connecting Everland

The San Diego Police Department is still looking for the six kidnapped children; clearly, Childsafe has not handed the kids over to the authorities. The San Diego office of Childsafe has a standard press response to questions about the missing kids: "We at Childsafe are very concerned for the welfare of these children, as we are for all children everywhere. Any leads we receive are passed directly on to the SDPD. This is a police matter, however, and we are not directly involved." Reporters are offered a packet of statistics on the nationwide crisis of missing children.

The head of Childsafe San Diego - and a Pawn of the Karotechia - is Lydia Andrews, a former social worker. Andrews is a fiftyish widow who lost her husband and two young daughters in a car wreck ten years ago. She's been an employee of Childsafe for the past eight years, and became head of the San Diego office two years ago.

Being a Pawn, she has a secret. The loss of her family drove the empathic, high-strung Andrews over the edge. She constructed a secret room in her basement and kidnapped two little girls to take the place of her precious daughters, Charity & Chastity. After several weeks, wracked with guilt, Andrews went to her boss at Childsafe and confessed. He was a Pawn of the Karotechia, of course, and saw a perfect opening. He packed the girls off to Everland, and took Andrews along so she could see first-hand what a wonderful place awaited the special children Childsafe sent south of the border.

Andrews bought this fantasy hook, line, and deluded sinker; it was so much easier to accept than the frightening prospect of the law's harsh justice. She helped Childsafe kidnap many more children over the next few years, using her secret room as a temporary safehouse, and eventually became the head of the San Diego office.

It's up to the investigators to find the missing children's trail in San Diego. A search of the Childsafe offices turns up nothing, as their records are digital and immaculate - any information about children diverted to Everland is erased from the system once the decision is made. The staff are friendly, and deny ever making pick-ups south of the border.

Investigation of Lydia Andrews turns up her tragic past, and a search of her house reveals a disordered mind. Thousands of pictures of children cut from magazines are pasted onto the walls in every room. Something resembling an altar to her dead daughters burns with candles around the clock. A dozen framed pictures of unidentified children grace the altar (all rescues sent to Everland); an Idea roll brings recognition that all twelve photographs were taken in Andrews' home. Matching these photographs to missing children advisories issued by the SDPD is child's play, so to speak, though none of the photographs are of the newly missing six children. It's relatively easy to bring Lydia Andrews down - she's only three steps from a nervous breakdown as it is - and she can direct the investigators to Everland, as welt as informing on Childsafe's secrets. Being a Pawn, she knows nothing of the Karotechia.

Without Andrews, the investigators have a tougher time finding a link to Everland. The most likely path is through Rick Lash. Even a cursory investigation into Childsafe turns up his name as the founder, and thousands of articles have been written about Lash over the years. Most, however, date from 1955 to 1970; media coverage of the washed-up pop star drops off dramatically around then. It's not difficult to learn about Everland, though.

His early announcement of the Everland Theme Park made news in 1976, as did reports of how the theme park failed before it even opened in 1978. [That's not what really happened, of course, but that's how outsiders interpret Lash's actions.] A handful of retrospective articles on Lash have appeared since then, generally related to his work with Childsafe. Occasional references to "Everland, Lash's private island in the Sea of Cortez," should catch the investigators' attention. [The island is actually called Isla de Placer, but few reporters get this right.] The last new article about Lash appeared in 1990; he hasn't been seen in public since.

Finding Rick Lash

Hollywood talent directories still list Rick Lash. He's represented by Terry Matthews Talent, an agency with no other clients. Messages can be left with an answering service in Los Angeles; Matthews only checks his messages every couple of weeks. [Pawns and Knights just call him directly at Everland.] Lash's place of residence is apparently Everland. His mailing address is given as Isla de Placer, Mexico.

Isla de Placer

Isla de Placer is a small island in the Sea of Cortez, a couple hours' sail from San Felipe. Lash owns the island outright, though it is still within the jurisdiction of the Mexican government. No tourist information is provided about the island, and inquiries to travel officials are met with the news that the island is private property - visitors are not welcome. Satellite or aerial photos of the island show extensive developments in the center, but the shores are untouched except for a small dock on the western side.

Investigators can approach the island by sea or by air. There is no suitable landing field for a plane, but a seaplane could make a water landing without any trouble. The shores are approachable on all sides for boats, though the dock is certainly more convenient than the beaches.

The shores are nominally unmanned and unguarded, but surveillance stations on the island's highest hills will spot any openly approaching craft. An unmarked jeep with four friendly but well-armed guards - all American or European greets any unexpected visitors. Normal-looking folks are told that the island is private property and they'll have to leave. If the visitors have some sort of trouble with their vessel, help is politely but swiftly rendered. Access to the Everland compound is forbidden - it can't even be seen.

Should the visitors prove hostile, or if it's obvious that they are here on some sort of infiltration/reconnaissance endeavor, Everland's response will be immediate and violent. Numerous guards will surround and attack, using their knowledge of the island's geography to their advantage. The guards will shoot to kill without warning if they are convinced of the intruders' bad intentions, though they will attempt to take one alive for questioning.

Despite the tone of the proceeding, Everland is not a terribly well-guarded facility. Investigators with a background in infiltration should have no problem making a secret night landing, perhaps even parachuting in. The Karotechia are not expecting any covert-ops teams to show up at Everland just the occasional lost tourists or band of crooks.

Halloween Scenario 3: Call of Cthulhu El Dio de los Muertos

Introduction
Getting Started
The Everland Compound
Map of the Everland Compound (slow: 107K)