Biodynamics Play Report - Part 2

This is part two of my play report for Biodynamics, a shotgun scenario I wrote for the 2022 contest. You can find part one here.

Four players were present for this rather short sessions. The Agents they played are:

• Isabella Wilson, a young lawyer
• Gabriel Vega, member of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
• John Damon, a New York-based firefighter
• Debbie Morgan, a US Army physician

Our fifth player could not make it to this session. I ruled that his character, Lucas Brady, was conducting his own investigation in the background.

The session started with the Agents splitting up in teams. Wilson and Morgan wanted to check out the community garden in which cancer patient and suicide victim Mitchell Parker grew his vegetables.

The other team, consisting of Vega and Morgan, took a 1.5 hour drive to the town of Helen, GA. Helen was the home of Terrence Harding, another victim of the unnatural cancer that drew Delta Green's attention. When the Agents arrive they quickly notice that Helen, in an effort to draw in tourists, was designed to look like an alpine Bavarian town. Harding had a small shop here, in which he sold New Age and esoteric literature and items, mostly with a German background.

After failing to get a key to the shop from an elderly neighbor, the Agents decide to break into the shop. Inside the shop they discover books on anthroposophy and biodynamical agriculture, something which they have also found in Mitchell Parker's apartment. They also find that Harding sold quartz crystals, which can be used for biodynamic practices. The Agents take the books, the crystals, and the computer they find in Harding's small office, before returning to Atlanta.

In the meantime, Wilson and Morgan have arrived at the community garden, where they a woman performing a strange dance in front of her garden patch. The woman, Daniela Köhler, is very nice and helpful. She offers the Agents some of her vegetables, which have grown to extraordinary sizes, and lectures them about biodynamic agriculture. The Agents learn that one of the biodynamic practices is to spray a mixture of horn silica and water over crops, in order to facilitate their growth. Horn silica is powdered quartz crystal that is put into a cow horn and then "energized" by burying it in the ground for some time.

Horn silica

The Agents notice that Parker's garden patch is right next to that of Daniela. During this conversation a fourth person arrives, which turns out to be Daniela's husband Sebastian. Sebastian seems to be very annoyed with his wife and also the Agents. They notice the hateful looks he gives them from time to time.

Wilson and Morgan leave the community with some of Daniela's donated vegetables and a secretly taken photo of the license plate on Sebastian Köhler's car. Debbie Morgan uses one of her Bonds (her husband) to get in contact with someone at the CDC. Their plan is to have the vegetables be examined in a proper laboratory. The CDC contact, someone called Solomon Nelson, turns out to be quite suspicious about the origin of the vegetables, but nevertheless promises to take a look at them.

Afterwards, the two teams meet up again to exchange information and plan their next steps.