From The Dust - Part 2: The Mansion | Delta Green Actual Play
Part 2 of our Delta Green scenario!
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New York, 1993. Our four mismatched agents begin to investigate the mansion that Delta Green believes is linked to the disappearances of three young children. What they start to uncover is both troubling and unsettling. Can they find out the truth before it begins to eat away at their own lives?
Narrative Damage is a TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.
Cast:
Benedict Anning, author of Atomic Coffin - Agent Meridian
Tariq Ashkanani, author of The Hollow Boys - Agent Midnight
Nicholas Binge, author of Abyss - Agent Mercator
David Goodman, Author of Solitary Agents - Agent Myriad
With Marco Rinaldi as The Handler
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"From The Dust" written by Dennis Detwiller and published by Arc Dream Publishing.
Opening Credits music - The Legacy of Hades by Jok'a'Face (Code: VRTXXQOXR8HQPELK)
Background music - Monument Studios
Chapters
00:00 Start
00:35 Previously on From The Dust
02:40 Opening credits
04:30 Player introductions and chat
06:40 The investigation continues...
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Author/Cast Member/Co-host
Tariq Ashkanani is an award-winning Scottish crime author. His first novel, Welcome to Cooper, was released back in 2021 and won the Bloody Scotland Debut Award. It was also nominated for the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the CWA New Blood Dagger.
His novel The Midnight King picked up the McIlvanney Award for best Scottish crime book of the year at Bloody Scotland.
He has also started an Edinburgh-set crime series starring Callie Munro - a female Private Investigator who has to contend with a serial killer in her first outing, The Night Watcher.
His latest novel is The Hollow Boys. A small Appalachian town is thrown into disarray when two boys go missing, presumed drowned — only for one to suddenly reappear ten months later…
When he's not writing, he's working the day job as a solicitor or recording Page One - The Writer's Podcast, where he interviews writers of all kinds and dive into their journey to publication. Give it a listen!
Author/Cast Member
David Goodman is an award-winning, multi-genre Scottish author. His debut novel A RELUCTANT SPY won the 2025 McDermid Debut Award and Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and was optioned for television by Carnival Films. The sequel SOLITARY AGENTS was longlisted for the 2026 McIlvanney Prize.
His SF debut, SHARDS OF STARLIGHT, as David W. Goodman, is forthcoming in Autumn 2027 from Solaris. He also has several published short SF stories and novelettes.
Author/Cast Member
Nicholas Binge is a bestselling author and screenwriter. He writes speculative thrillers that blend big sci-fi concepts with psychological horror, as well as crime and thriller novels under the pseudonym Nick Brucker, with his crime debut White Smoke set to release in 2027.
In 2023, his breakout novel Ascension was a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, finalist for the Goodreads' Choice Awards and Ignotus Award, and named a ‘best book of the year’ by Vulture, Goodreads, The LA Times, and The Sunday Times. His sophomore novel, Dissolution, was hailed as one of the best thrillers of 2025 by The New York Times and other leading outlets, and was followed swiftly by the critically acclaimed novellas Extremity and Abyss.
His work has been, or is being, translated into over 30 languages and several of his novels are in active development for either film or TV. Notably, Dissolution is being adapted into a major motion picture by Sony Pictures, with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Birdbox) penning the script, and White Smoke is being adapted into a prestige TV series by A24, with Benedict Cumberbatch starring in the lead. Ascension and Extremity are also in active development for film and TV, respectively. He is also creating and writing Understudy, a TV show for Netflix, alongside Steven Yeun, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller.
Binge has lived across Asia and Europe — from Singapore to Switzerland to Hong Kong —before settling in the UK, where he writes and co-hosts the Binge Reading Book Club podcast. Beyond fiction, he has wr… Read More
Author/Cast Member
Benedict Anning is a Surrey-born author and charity worker living just outside of Edinburgh with his wonderful cat, Penny.
After a stint in creative studies then ancient history at university, Ben spent three years as a bookseller before moving to the third sector where he now works for a local animal shelter. His debut novel, ATOMIC COFFIN, was published to critical acclaim in June 2026, featured in The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Times, The Scotsman, and other outlets.
An artist at heart and fan of all things eerie, Ben has a special love for twisty horror fiction where the setting is a principal character and things just aren't quite right.