I do not play the Call of Cthulhu RPG nor it's Delta Green supplement, Actually, table-top RPG's are pretty much alien to me.

But the basic structure, that of the investigators battling squamous evils and holding back the maddening death of mankind (no matter who they have to kill to keep themselves and the horrors hidden); as well as the plan I have for a mythos-based fic I have in the works, leads me to a question.

What if Delta Green (or the Miskatonic University Kickassery and Polo Club) went into a situation expecting to face another evil... and found something less icky, but perhaps odder. With lots of Wrong-Genre Saavy.

Picture it: Essex County Mass, 1961. A young Miskatonic Sophmore is recruited by a group of investigators to provide the brains for a mission: children have been going missing and another uptick in cult sacrifices is expected for the annual Samhein. After exhaustive tracking work, they pursue a shaggy looking young man who is fleeing with a young runaway. Armed with pistols, shotguns, old Tommy Guns and a good amount of dynamite, they enter a section of forest upstream from Arkham...

And suddenly late spring replaces the fall weather they had been dressed for. They have entered a Lilac Wood and, in a grove within that wood, find an entire community of feral children, the oldest of which have already began pairing off and having children of their own. Seemingly possessed of an inhuman ability for stealth, they ambush the investigators, killing several of them wile some get killed themselves.

However, something begins coming forward out of the forest toward those tho lay injured but not dying. The investigators, seemingly hardened men who have faced unearthly horrors with only minimal SAN loss, watch in frozen incomprehension as the tip of an opaline horn touches each of the injured, feral youth and outsider alike, and brings them back to health. The feral youth form a screen around the creature as it and them disappear back into the woods.

In short, opinions within the party differ between those who think this creature might be benign or even a potential ally against other creatures (the academics) and those who don't want to take the chance of a Mythos infection spreading (likely DG Feds). A seige of the grove develops and the situation escalates as research is done and heavy artillery is continually threatened.

In the end, it's the young Miskatonic student that helps diffuse the situation, convincing the creature (more multi-dimensional energy being than flesh and blood unicorn, but still) to have the youths leave, despite its rather blue-and-orange morality (that it keeps runaways and orphans safe and healthy while at the same time turning them into something more like forest elves than humans).

He helps bring these children (and young adults) back into society and stops the firebomb option while securing a potential ally chain against the scarier Abominations that eventually pans out. Hooray for him. However, for that experience, the student makes permenant enemies of certain militant cells within Delta Green and pretty much loses much of his remaining SAN.

Not to mention... even to this day, you can't see yourself when you look into his eyes. Just a dim reflection of that same lilac wood. That did not help in the romance department at all, and may have played a role in his development as the mentor-academic.

The whole scenario is meant to introduce the idea that, even in Delta Green (withit's nihilism, scorched earth policies and other hooha), not everything should have an immediate kill order on it, that SAN loss takes different forms... and how the primitive Sue-glamour exuded by Beagle Unicorns might work while applied to the Mythos.

Actually, it's more of the Profs back-story for my Mythos fic.

Anyway, what do you think? I know it's a bit Derlethian, but I was just curious.