Operation GOODBURGER

An endless supply of food, and nightmares.

## **HOW IT STARTS**

Augustus Blake hasn’t eaten any meat or animal byproducts for over 20 of his 35 years. He has done deep research and maintains an extremely healthy lifestyle. When the new meat substitutes came on the market, called ‘Beyond Meat’, ‘Impossible Burgers’ and other buzzword-filled names, he was curious. But Augustus knew that when someone seems too good to be true, it often is.

And so, Augustus wanted to be at the forefront of the research this time. A pharmacist technician, he had made many professional and personal contacts in the health food industry. He knew what companies to avoid, and which doctors were only in it for publicity.

What he didn’t know was how far down a rabbit hole he had fallen.

After reaching out to his contacts, he was turned on to a startup named simply ‘Good Grub’. They claimed a remarkably small carbon footprint, and amazing sustainability. He sent them an email, and after some back and forth and signing of an NDA, he was sent his first box of burgers. He eats one at every meal, never craves anything else, and has never felt better.

And his dreams have never been more terrifying.

## **GOOD GRUB**

Good Grub are not the nice, friendly, planet-saving company they claim to be. Sure, their marketing team is. The customer-facing portion of the company believes everything they’re saying. But they don’t know the truth of what it is they’re unleashing on the public. Not even the scientists behind their meat substitute do. But that’s why they’re doing it. They’re conducting an experiment on the public, an experiment into shared consciousness. An experiment known officially, thought not publicly, as Operation GOODBURGER.

The burgers themselves are created from something brought back after a field operation by the Program. A creature that could communicate telepathically, and had turned a team of agents against each other. Eventually, through trial and error, and deep digging into Majestic’s files on Project SEARCH, MKULTRA, and MKSEARCH, they stumbled upon a chemical concoction that could quiet the creature’s thoughts. They then discovered the creature also had remarkable regenerative capabilities. With a creature they could continually cut pieces off of and study, they began looking for a way to put telepathy to use in the field.

The study they conducted was originally titled Operation MINDMELD. Their first experiments ended in horrifying results. Any agents who came in direct contact with the creature had their brains overloaded with thoughts, to the point that some of them clawed their own eyes and ears out.

This was less than ideal.

Eventually Operation MINDMELD learned that the problem was the diet of the subjects. They needed subjects who had not consumed animal byproducts for multiple years. So many years that not a trace remained. Such subjects were hard to find within government agents.

So they reached out to the public, and the project was renamed as Operation GOODBURGER.

Their first subjects have had miraculous success. Since the subjects don’t know how they’re being studied, or even that they are, Operation GOODBURGER has had to reach out to other parts of the Program. Those who are being sent the burgers made from this creature are being closely monitored, their homes bugged and all of their incoming & outgoing data combed through dilligintely.

## **THE RESULTS**

Augustus, and others like him who have been eating these burgers, have become addicted, though they don’t know it. They simply have no desire to eat anything else. These burgers are the most delicious thing they’ve ever tasted, and the latent telepathic powers found within the meat has latched onto their brains.

This is causing them to have horrible nightmares. What Operation GOODBURGER doesn’t realize is that the creature absorbed the memories of every agent sent to take it down. Every Opera, every murder, every monster. Those memories are now being fed to the subjects, literally.

## **WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOUR AGENTS**

This is designed as a sandbox scenario. It’s up to you how you implement it into your game. What follows one way you can do so.

One of your Agent’s Bonds is an early adopter of Good Grub. They’re eating the burgers, and having the nightmares. This could have multiple effects on the agent. Their Bond will begin having horrible dreams, and eventually those dreams will start affecting them in the waking world. They may have unnatural desires that they want to act on.

What happens when an Agent’s best friend, sibling, or parent becomes the subject of an Opera?

## Credits

Operation GOODBURGER was written by Lex for the 2020  shotgun scenario contest.

Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this document are © Lex, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

Operation GOODBURGER is not available here under CC-BY-SA.