Has anyone specced out or run a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in the ongoing conflict in Iraq?  There are some rather tasty Mythos hooks there if one is willing to deal with the controversy.  Several Great Old Ones like Dagon and Hastur were first mentioned in Mesopotamian mythology, after all.  And was Saddam Hussein's archeological program--which actually existed--all about glorification of the Baathist regime by associating it with the aura of Babylon and Sumer?  Or did his attentions towards acquiring weapons of mass destruction stray from the mundane to the more exotic?

     Imagine a Ranger squad detailed to investigate a "WMD" hide site that turns out to have a lot, lot worse than anthrax or uranium-enrichment parts.  Or a particularly nihilistic cell within the insurgency turning towards...other...powers besides Allah to drive out the infidels.  Perhaps Delta Green itself is resurrected as an official government unit by the Bush administration desperate to contain the horrors it uncovered by accident, and which the alien-centered MJ-12 is unqualified to deal with.

Andrew

I ran an adventure with that setting in mind; where there really WERE weapons of mass destruction, hidden in an abandoned oil dig out in the middle of the desert, in a place that had become overrun by ghouls feasting on the bodies of Iraqi soldiers who'd been massacred en masse by american bombing raids.

RPGPundit

Quote from: SamarkandHas anyone specced out or run a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in the ongoing conflict in Iraq?  There are some rather tasty Mythos hooks there if one is willing to deal with the controversy.

A while back I was bashing out some ideas with someone.  Some thoughts I had involved the 1990 invasion of Kuwait as an attempt by Republican Guard elites to capture/plunder the lost city of Irem.  In more recent events, the widespread looting of national museums in 2003 following the US invasion and occupation allowed a number of Mythos-related secrets to be spirited out, including whatever the Republican Guard retrieved from Irem in 1990.

QuotePerhaps Delta Green itself is resurrected as an official government unit by the Bush administration desperate to contain the horrors it uncovered by accident...

What I would find particularly amusing is if, indeed, the Bush administration re-established Delta Green on an official basis, but it ended up being a different Delta Green from the illegal conspiracy within the US federal government that currently exists.  In other words, simply using the name, the Bush administration creates a super-secret organisation within the intelligence and military community, but they fail to incorporate the on-going conspiracy members, who end up disagreeing with the charter of the new organisation.

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