Dissapearence of a Friendly in New Orleans brings DG in contact with the Demonte clan of ghouls.

While searching Father Luther Marks office at Loyola University, Agent Graham shoots and wounds a ghoul masquerading as Father Marks. Upon learning about the ghouls, A-Cell realizes the lead on Theodore Morse, the ghoul from whom The Ghoul Manuscript was stolen. They dispatch N-Cell. Agent Nick, Nolan and Nancy to assist. Agent Nolan briefly captured by the ghouls before being rescued. He goes insane as a result of their supernatural torture and begins a dangerous obsession with Nancy, demanding to be eaten by her. Disturbed nearly to madness by this confession, Nancy vows revenge on the DeMonte, but Alphonse forbid anyone from the original team operating in the New Orleans theater lest the team risk more exposure.

With the DeMonte's liquidating assets and fleeing into hiding in the wake of the N-Cell disaster, DG sends fresh Agents and Friendlies into New Orleans to reaquire the ghouls as targets

In order to avoid the DeMontes’ countersurveillance assets, the team was based outside New Orleans in Biloxi, Mississippi, some 95 miles away. The DeMontes were willing to dangle a few younger members of the Clan as bait to lure their invisible enemy into the open. In May of 2004, the DeMontes identified a Delta Green surveillance team by their scent, the one element the humans could not disguise from the ghouls’ preternatural senses.This time the DeMontes relied on magic, not technology, to trace their enemy back to a Biloxi motel on US highway 90, not far from the Gulf beaches. On a moonless night, in the midst of an ugly thunderstorm, a Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath was summoned from the depths of the nearby swamps. The team barely escaped through a combination of good luck, paranoia and redundant escape routes. The six other people in the motel were not so lucky.

Agent Graham argued that Delta Green needed to forget about compartmentalizing information and take full advantage of the scope and breadth of their membership. If all the Agents were brought up to speed on the DeMontes, then personnel could be switched out quickly, keeping the DeMontes guessing as to the identity of their hunters.

Hurricane Katrina, in addition to utterly decimating the DeMonte holdings in the city, provides cover for the "hot war" between Agu 29th and Sept. 3rd. DG death squads roam the city with impunity. Over 20 ghouls are put down before the DeMonte's scatter, not counting their casualties from the storm itself.

Death of the last ghoul in the Demonte clan, culmination of the hunt that began in 2005.

Senior Special Agent Morrison of ICE (GILLIAN), William Raymond Weeks (GRAHAM), and an Agent Nolan perform the deed. ( Is this a new Nolan assignment since the death of the man in 2006? )

Ghoul Reproduction

Ghouls can be either born or made.
Offspring of two ghouls are born
as pureblood ghouls and are raised in
the traditions of whatever ghoul society
they are born into. They are raised
with no knowledge or experience of
human society.

The offspring of a human and a ghoul are
known as ‘hu-ghouls’. They occur because
ghouls often infiltrate human society, using
the Consume Likeness spell, and pass for
humans. Sometimes this can even go as far
as the ghoul taking a human spouse and
siring children with that spouse. Hu-ghouls
rarely incorporate the best qualities of
either species. They are usually ugly, by
human standards, infirm and sometimes
even mentally or physically impaired. They
are often the recipients of abuse and poor
treatment, no matter which society they are
raised in.

Humans can also be transformed into
ghouls, so long as they stick to the diet of a
ghoul: eating rotting human flesh. Eventually
this diet of rotting human flesh will activate
dormant prions in the human’s system that
will rewrite their DNA into that of the “subhuman”
ghouls. Sub-human in this instance
is really a misnomer since ghouls routinely
possess super-human strength, immunity
to disease, increased resistance to pain and
physical shock, and an increased longevity
that might very well be literal immortality.
Humans that have transformed into ghouls
remember their previous lives and are better
able to re-infiltrate human society. However,
since they are immortal, the longer they live
among ghouls, the more they forget about
their life among humans.
Then, of course, there is the method the
DeMonte Clan uses. . . .

Instead the DeMonte Clan reproduced by taking so-called
“natural aristocrats” and turning them into ghouls. The traditional
ghoul method of turning humans into ghouls consisted of
feeding humans on a diet of rotting human flesh until their
dormant genes were activated by the prions found in the cadavers’
flesh. Normally this would take years, sometimes even decades.
The DeMontes, however, had come into possession of a book,
previously the property of the Paris Ghoul Cult, known as the
Ghoul Manuscript. Bound in human skin, clasped in bone and
written on vellum harvested from cadavers, the Ghoul Manuscript
contains the secret knowledge of the ghouls, both in the waking
world and in the Dreamlands. It contains knowledge of the gods
they worshipped and the rituals used to appease them, as well as
other spells the DeMontes had found useful over the centuries.
But most importantly, the Ghoul Manuscript is cursed by powerful
magics. No one but a ghoul may read the book, and to ensure
that is always so, any human who reads the Ghoul Manuscript
soon finds himself overcome by unnatural and irresistible desires
to consume the flesh of human cadavers. Once the forbidden
provender is consumed, the human transforms into a ghoul in
just one night