Once More, from the Top

"Once More, from the Top" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Adam Scott Glancy, which takes place in the Delta Green sub-setting for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. It was first published in the anthology Delta Green: Dark Theatres (2001, Armitage House) Title: "Once More, from the Top" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
A retired former U.S. marine, now semi-crippled and living in a retirement home, relates the story of his deployment as a young man to the coastal fishing town of Innsmouth during the late 1920s. His battalion was assigned to conduct door-to-door operations, separating those citizens who were obviously inhuman from the others. He and another marine bore witness to the vengeful retaliation of the Deep Ones and their Shoggoth servitors, and were instrumental in turning the tide against their aquatic opponents.
The story concludes with the man telling of how he went on to have a long career in the military, and had witnessed several enclaves of the same strange-looking people he saw in Innsmouth in various locations across the globe. When he asks his interviewers if humanity is winning the conflict against these creatures, the lead interviewer tells him yes, but privately reflects that the opposite is true.
==Publication History ==
*Delta Green: Dark Theatres (2001, Armitage House)
*The Book of Cthulhu II (2012, 2022, Night Shade Books)
==References==
Category:Adam Scott Glancy works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works