Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy by Dennis Detwiller Read Free Book Online Page A

a terrible new weapon in the hands of their Führer. Soldin and Mors pored through the text, uncovering four “calling rituals” utilized by the Polynesian peoples to contact the Deep Ones. Weber, Lutzen, and Schwelm worked on the actual content of the book and the meanings implied in its often horrific text, trying to put together a diplomatic primer for the Führer himself, in the hopes that when contact was made, a deal could be struck rapidly to assure victory.
     
    The year 1940 saw great change for Germany: the utilization of Operation Case Yellow in May; the rapid invasions of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the low countries; Germany’s power increased as did the legend of its fighting prowess. This acquisition of territory opened new vistas of research to the men of Black Water, and in late 1940 their entire project was relocated to the shores of Normandy in northern France. The book Unter Zee Kulten pointed to the coasts of Cornwall and Normandy as gathering places for the creatures of the deep, and it was implied that something like a city of the Deep Ones existed in the English Channel somewhere nearby.
     
    The German fortifications being constructed on the coast of France served as perfect cover for the construction of the Black Water facility at Cap de la Hague on the channel. Housing over forty people, the Black Water camp was known as the Bootshaus, or the Boat House, by the local German forces, due to the extensive small boat traffic from the camp to the Channel Islands at all hours. The isolating cliffs on either side of Cap de la Hague and its deep natural inlet provided an ideal secluded spot for contact to be initiated by the Karotechia with the Deep Ones. Most thought that the highly secretive Bootshaus was a mining facility, laying magnetic mines near the Channel Islands in anticipation of the Allied invasion. In truth, these boats were part of the more mundane aspects of Black Water. Researchers and experts were stringing the area between Cap de la Hague and the Channel Islands with underwater microphones in the hopes that the furtive Deep Ones could be located and monitored through sound.
     
    First attempts at contact were made on the evening of March 27, 1941. Weber, Lutzen, and Schwelm cast the first three “calling stones” into the sea off the point on the Cap de la Hague on a moonless night and waited for nearly five hours. The sign, as it had been foretold in the Cthaat Aquadingen , appeared just after midnight, when the water out past the reefs began to glow a vivid greenish blue. The phenomenon lasted for more than three hours and was well documented on film by a team of Wermacht cameramen. A small Kriegsmarine craft was even sent out to collect samples of the water while it was still luminescing. As far as modern science could discern, the glowing algae discovered in the samples was a species unknown to man. Evidently a more hardy cousin to Chlorophycea, or common green algae, this odd organism contained an equivocal compound which rendered it luminescent under certain conditions. An extensive amount of the water and algae was sent to the University of Stuttgart for study.
     
    Meanwhile, the Black Water team celebrated amidst the frantic preparations for the second calling. Weber, Lutzen, and Schwelm prepared the second sequence of stones, planning to initiate the call on the 26th of April, and everything appeared to be fine until the night of April 19th. That night proved to be the turning point for Black Water and would lead later to Weber’s obscurement of facts and falsified reports to Karotechia command.
     
    It began innocuously enough. Dr. Franz Mors, the mathematician in charge of detecting codes and ciphers within the Cthaat Aquadingen , informed his personal guard that he was going to walk the compound at 9:37 P.M. Nothing about it seemed amiss; it was his usual activity for the evening. According to the guard, he seemed “his usual self.” No one had noticed any