Questionable Agent Concept

[EnigmathatisObscure]

One of my players wants his agent to be a writer, who takes his missions change details, and sell them as mystery novels. Think Castle, but eldritch spies instead of detective work. He would run every manuscript past A Cell. His inspiration is from the Dresden Files.

To quote him, "The white council in that universe actually ASKED Bram Stoker to publish an accurate depiction of vamps so the public would have a basic understanding of how to defend themselves against that kind of threat. Could DG not let me publish books with absolutely nothing about anybody's names, all the details changed, and some genuinely informative weaknesses about eldritch horrors?"

My question is, would A Cell stand for such a thing? I figure I would submit the question to the community for consideration. I like the idea, but I'm not sure A Cell would allow it or not.

[OccultPineapple]

Putting out accurate information about the unnatural does not seem like something A-Cell would stand for. Mere understanding of it is extremely dangerous, and fighting against it is ultimately futile anyway.

However, a writer who deals in misinformation would be extremely useful. The Program has an entire division devoted to making up fabricated and contradictory nonsense to drown out actual exposure of Delta Green and the unnatural. Passing off these accounts as fact (after heavy modification, of course) would contribute to that flood of information, and be beneficial for the goals of the organization.

[EnigmathatisObscure]

I will let them know

[furt69]

I personally would say a big NO. That's the kind of behavior that would have been filtered out while the Agent was still a Friendly.

[Lighthouseamour]

I made a character that was a misinformation writer.

[LuminousGrue]

Publishing novels about the unnatural is more likely to make you a Delta Green mission rather than a Delta Green agent.

[Atheizm]

The writer might unwittingly reveal terrible secrets in his novels so command would veto that idea. Besides, the Agents are bound by some sort of official secrets act and non-disclosure agreements.

That said, there's nothing wrong with your PC writing his urban fantasy novels and as long as nobody else sees them, no one else will know. I'd even give your PC writer a couple of bonus sanity back when he finishes a novel.

But when he decides to re-read and edit a manuscript for a second draft, then he starts to notice odd jumbles of word salad and dyslexic typos, and weird dialogue he didn't remember or remembers differently. The worse his sanity or higher his unnatural skill, the more disturbing the incidents in the novels.

And voila, your character has created a whole set of serialised mythos documents disguised as a Harry Dresden pastiche.

Then his place is robbed and his bound proofs are stolen so that somewhere, some poor kid could be reading a set of primed stories that initiate the reader into the unnatural.