
Project Meridian
⚠️ Mature Audience Required
Content Warnings: Substance abuse, child/youth endangerment, violence, human trafficking, exploitation, psychological/light body horror, and religious themes.
Episode Count: 2 episodes
System: Cthulhu Deep Green by Justin Ford.
Series Synopsis
Project Meridian is an investigative horror actual play set in 2018. When a routine federal audit of a youth ministry in Joplin, Missouri, uncovers anomalies that defy logic, a small team of Agents is dispatched to dig through the ledgers. In the Ozarks, some secrets are buried in the books, but others are buried in the soil.
The Cast
Series themes & touchstones
- The Cost of Secrecy: The friction between a professional duty to the truth and a conspiratorial mandate to hide it.
- Domestic Erosion: The slow, painful breakdown of family life and "Bonds" caused by a life of trauma.
- Rural Noir: Gritty, small-town atmosphere where poverty, faith, and the Unnatural collide.
- Media Touchstones: True Detective (S1), The X-Files, Sicario, Mindhunter, and The Outsider (HBO).
System Mechanics: Project Meridian uses the official Delta Green setting and scenario but runs on the Cthulhu Deep Green engine. It is a streamlined, narrative-heavy system inspired by Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
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