Episode 52 -- The Drumbeat Beneath The Hills

Welcome, Agents, to Delta Green. Tonight's operation takes you far from American soil, to a small landlocked nation in the African Great Lakes region—Burundi. One of the world's poorest and most densely populated countries, Burundi has been scarred by decades of civil conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples. But tonight, you'll discover there are older scars here. Deeper wounds. The kind that never heal because something keeps picking at them from underneath. Your cell has been activated following the disappearance of Dr. Kenneth Marsh, a CDC epidemiologist investigating a strange illness in the rural commune of Kayanza Province. His last transmission, three days ago, contained a single phrase repeated seventeen times: "The drums have teeth." Your Handler has arranged cover identities through the State Department. You are officially a UN investigative team looking into potential disease vectors. Unofficially, you are here to find out what happened to Dr. Marsh, contain whatever threat exists, and survive long enough to file your report.