Nick sits down with Tom Ogus, the primary handler and co-creator of the critically acclaimed Delta Green actual-play podcast, Stories & Lies. Moving away from the active campaign, this raw, behind-the-scenes conversation pulls back the curtain on the creative mechanics of high-production TTRPG storytelling.

Subscribe to Stories & Lies feed today to be informed when new episodes arrive. If you'd like to support the show, ⁠please visit their Patreon⁠. Join them on their ⁠⁠Discord server⁠⁠ and play RPGs with them! Also, check out their website too⁠.

In this exclusive post-campaign wrap-up, the creators and cast from Dead Letter Bureau and Hand on the Door break down the final curtain call of Damnatio Memoriae. Joining the crew are Patrick G. (the season's Handler) and Hank (the lead writer of the campaign), pulling back the curtain on the actual trauma, hidden mechanics, and structural design choices that shaped the season.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

It is 6AM on the final day. Sleep-deprived and operating on pure prescription stimulants, and transporting three industrial cylinders of Phosgene gas, the remaining operatives of the cell descend into the subterranean levels of a condemned downtown department store.

Down in the boiler room, the campaign’s expanding geographic spiral finally reaches its center. To neutralize an entity that has spent years quietly devouring the reality and personal histories of the Pacific Northwest, the agents are forced to make a series of agonizing, split-second calculations, weighing the literal preservation of their own sanity against the cold mathematics of containment.

There is no plot armor left, no safety net, and no chance to catch their breath.

Thank you to Patrick G. for handling this incredible run, Hank for writing it, the fine people at Hand on the Door for joining us, and to everyone who tuned in for Damnatio Memoriae.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

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It is 6:00 AM on December 31, 2024. Pushed past the brink of mortal sleep deprivation and operating on raw tactical impulse, the cell moves on the condemned Bon Marché building. Armed with a final, desperate evacuation cover story from Agent Madison, the agents breach the concrete interior through the rear loading docks, transporting their lethal Phosgene payload into the freezing subterranean depths.

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Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

Discover what happens when a high-stakes cosmic horror investigation collides with the clinical grimness of a gritty espionage thriller. In this episode of our Delta Green actual play campaign, Damnatio Memoriae, the sleep-deprived agents of the cell arrive in Seattle at 5:00 AM, pushed to their absolute limits and running on pure adrenaline.

To track an elusive target through a city plagued by a strange environmental contagion that systematically erases human memory, the team relies on a brilliant bureaucratic loophole: tracking the automated data networks that are physically incapable of forgetting. The investigation leads them to a decaying, mold-infested apartment containing a long-abandoned laptop. The recovered digital archives reveal a history of terrifying, desperate biological experiments—forcing the cell to confront a horrific tactical reality to neutralize the threat.

With the clock ticking toward the final incursion, the agents plan a tense tactical stakeout at a street-level coffee shop embedded in a massive, condemned downtown department store.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/576NbWAEm1uOBDxlW1F4Os?si=c7228e49ddb94035

Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-letter-bureau-delta-green/id1826992923

Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

The 2:00 AM highway run to Seattle turns into a clinical descent into hell. While Agent Magpie uses his medical gear to carve the intricate ABLANATHANALBA sigil onto Miles's and Moorison's flesh in the back of a moving van, the universe strikes back at their defenses. A single phone call from a localized vector shatters the distance between the campaign's global stakes and the characters' domestic lives. Forced to choose between structural compartmentalization and emotional collapse, the cell transforms from an investigative unit into a hardened, heavily armed machine with zero remaining ties to the world they are trying to protect.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/576NbWAEm1uOBDxlW1F4Os?si=c7228e49ddb94035

Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-letter-bureau-delta-green/id1826992923

Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

Miles and Magpie now realize that they cannot trust their own sensory input. Without the physical scarification of the brand, they are completely vulnerable to the dream-space transmissions. By moving the timeline forward and rushing Hayden's apartment at 0300 hours, they are betting their lives that they can outrun the contagion before their motor skills fully degrade.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/576NbWAEm1uOBDxlW1F4Os?si=c7228e49ddb94035

Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-letter-bureau-delta-green/id1826992923

Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

The scrubbing has failed. The memories of August 2020 have returned like a sleeper agent activating in the middle of a dinner party. The air in the house is no longer stagnant; it is vibrating with the sound of automatic fire and the muttering of a Messiah in a five-thousand-dollar suit.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/576NbWAEm1uOBDxlW1F4Os?si=c7228e49ddb94035

Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-letter-bureau-delta-green/id1826992923

Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

The San Juan Island investigation reaches a fiery conclusion. The team learns that some witnesses can't be silenced by a bullet, and some missions can't be survived with your memory intact.

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Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

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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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer, read his writing here!

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

The air on the island has turned. It’s no longer an investigation; it’s a surgical amputation. In the modernist villa, the "meditation" has left behind more than just headless corpses. It has left a hole in the fabric of things.

Gavin Ross used to say that a man has only one life, but an agent has many "legends." Tonight, those legends were perforated by lead and lithium.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/576NbWAEm1uOBDxlW1F4Os?si=c7228e49ddb94035

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Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deadletterbureau

Find transcripts: https://dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/

Talk to us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2RFYaWHm33

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 podcast are ©Nick Sayers, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.