List of entries for the 4th Annual Night at the Opera Scenario Contest

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The 4th Annual Night at the Opera Scenario Contest was organized by /r/nightattheopera, an open table RPG community that utilizes a living world where Delta Green Agents and Operations take place in the same linear (or non-linear, non-Euclidean) timeline. The contest run from January 15th, 2021 through March 15th 2021.

## Contest Rules

First off, no length restriction, go crazy (or don’t, you’re a human being with the ability to make rational choices, right?). However, scenarios must contain at least **three** of the following themes or features.

*Note: If you submitted one of the below prompts, you must use it in your submitted scenario. If multiple of your prompts are below you can submit them all together, or one per scenario.*

* A Terrible Place to Have a Firefight
* The Cowboy Years aka "Fallen Delta Green" era - 1970-1994
* Saving someone you don't want to save
* A sequel to an existing scenario
* Alternative medicine and unorthodox treatments
* Tainted bloodlines
* Betting on the wrong horse
* Marine archaeology
* Awake on Foreign Shores
* One day, you won't recognize yourself
* Online community
* Set your scenario in a place you’ve lived

These features must be integral to the scenario, not just window dressing (For example: An operation where the agents are briefed in an online community then the rest of the game has nothing to do with the community and is all about a cult of serpent men in the desert isn’t integral, but a scenario where agents track down members and have to find clues hidden in the HTML on the forums is integral.)

We ask that *if* you playtest your scenario online, that you do it on the Night at the Opera discord. It’s just a request, not a demand though.

Submissions are due as a **google doc** (no PDFs) to [[1]] by 1200 Eastern, 5 March, 2021, and the winner will be announced on 18 March, 2021 (the anniversary of our first game).  Voting will run from 5 March through 1200 Eastern, 17 March, 2021.

Submissions **must** include: A link to the scenario, a one sentence blurb/elevator pitch describing it, how you would like to be credited, and which prompts you used.

### Voting

This year we will crown two winners. Submitters will be asked to vote on 5 other submissions, rating them using the rubric below and providing feedback. Due to the way this works, there needs to be a gap of at least 5 submissions between a user submitting two scenarios. If you send me a second submission I may need to put it on hold until other submissions arrive.

A popular vote will also be held open to all to crown a ‘people’s choice’.

### Judging

Entries will be judged on the following criteria using a 1-5 scale:

* **Runnability**: Would I run this scenario?
	+ 1 - I would not run this scenario
	+ 3 - I might run this scenario, but would have to make tweaks
	+ 5 - I would run this scenario
* **Freshness**: Does the scenario bring something new to the medium?
	+ 1 - The scenario is a trip down memory lane, full of tried and true tropes, setpieces, and characters.
	+ 3 - The scenario doesn’t exactly bring anything new to the table, but it also doesn’t lean too heavily on established elements
	+ 5 - The scenario breathes fresh air into the world of Delta Green, trying something new.
* **Presentation**: Is the scenario laid out in a matter conducive to understanding and running it?
	+ 1 - The scenario needs an editor, badly. It’s tough to read.
	+ 3 - A run on here, a chunky paragraph here, the scenario isn’t beautiful but it’s not shooting itself in the foot.
	+ 5 - The scenario is clear, well laid out, and flows from one section to the next in logical fashion.
* **Feature/Theme usage**: How did the entry use the three (or more) included themes or features?
	+ 1 - A theme was clearly shoehorned in to fit the requirement
	+ 3 - Features and themes are used appropriately
	+ 5 - A novel take on a theme that elevates the theme to new highs
* **Bonus**: Was there something that stood out in this group write up that you weren’t able to capture in the rest of the voting rubric? Assign up to 5 bonus points (or 0).

## The Winners

**Popular and Judge Award**
You Can Go Home Again by Bargain Brand
## Submitted Scenarios

1. The Porn Parlour by mellonbread - Corrupt Detectives in 1970s London chase after a pornographer obsessed with unusual magazines.
2. Once, And Young by Kevin Ham - It’s July 1st, 2002, and the 1st Airborne Battlegroup is conducting wargames before deployment to the Middle East.
3. Second Hand Accounts by mellonbread - An Agent infiltrates a Mythos self help group.
4. Operation OBSIDIAN II by Jake “ChiefMcClane” Cook - After Delta Green bombed Cambodia back to the Stone Age, Agents find themselves far from home and out of time.
5. You Can Go Home Again by Bargain Brand - When 3 children go missing in northern New Jersey and a fourth turns up dead in the Passaic River with a mutilated skull, a few former agents band together without the government’s protection in order to get to the bottom of this before any more children die.
6. Setting Suns Over Blood-Soaked Pastures (or) Operation GIDDYUP by Slantio1 - August 1988, the report of a grizzly murder in Stafford Kansas has drawn Cell A’s attention. A local friendly suspects the killer has been traveling with the touring amateur rodeo.
7. Sins of the Fathers by Fuzzy - Magic racists in a small industrial town.
8. Operation FATEFUL LIGHTNING by Acebuckeye13 - The job seems simple: Pick up a weird artifact found at Shiloh National Military Park and bring it back to a Green Box. What could go wrong?