Okay, so long time since I've set up an RP, but the premise is simple. Lots of Nazis, lots of gold, lots of backstabbing and very few fucks left to give.

Think Raid meets Kelly's Heroes meets Inglorious Bastards meets The Dirty Dozen, with a distinct bastardry attached to it.... This is an RP that sets itself in the backdrop of the Second World War, and will play in that time period throughout, and if it goes on long enough, even beyond. The key premise is that your character isn't just driven by fighting for a cause, or wanting to save the world from oppression.

It's all about stealing loads of fucking money while doing it.

Your character is an intelligence operative, hired by SOE, OSS, the NKVD, even the SS or Axis inteligence services, of the double agent variety, or deep undercover within Axis territory. Of course, there is more to this than meets the eye- they have a unique set of skills, be it weapons, coercion and cunning, fear tactics, they are definitely not orthodox. They range from femme fatales, to vicious Nazi-hunting psychopaths, to suave and charasmatic characters. Or all three. Your character is certainly someone who does have one thing on their mind. There is a lot of money that is being dealt with. And that is for the stealing, for personal gain...or not?

Even if they don't, they know this is the best way to sabotage the Germans when put into the situation here. Even if they're German themselves, they may be seeing this as a form of resistance, and get involved. There's some morality there- choosing to be involved with the personal stakes, or not.

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This RP is going to probably not dwell massively on historical events albeit set within them (note- this means it'll probably mean we don't change the course of the war itself, but exist as characters who may influence the way the tide ends up going), and is a portmanteau of classic WW2 heisty films and some more modern takes. It's going to be morally questionable, and I'm not going to glaze over the fact that if you're allergic to people getting shot in the fucking head, you shouldn't be here. There's gonna be controversial material here, given the nature of any RP that involves Nazis, gold, and people involved in that.

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The RP is starts in December 1943, and starts in the foothills of the Alps in Bavaria, at a very lovely beerhall. Your character has been called about, or heard about a British double-agent, Robert Fitzroy. He has put out the feelers indirectly and found a group of individuals (you) who are interested in an intelligence operation. Some have been sent directly from the Allies. Others are already in theatre. Either way, Fitzroy has you there.

Fitzroy works for the British SOE, but is also in the services of the German SD as a double-agent, with neither actually sure anymore of who he is loyal to, given how deep he is in...though the Allies mostly assume it's them. He provides such good intel on both sides- though in his heart, he's still loyal to King and Country. His assistant and contact to the Allies as well as a general fixer, Valerie Mercier- a former Swiss gendarme- really is a wildcard compared to him. Unpredictable yet calculating, and if Fitzroy has no clear loyalty, it almost seems impossible to tell if Mercier just wants to watch the world burn, or profit from the chaos.

With a bet that the Allies are going to win the war, and the Germans beginning to make a mess of things, stealing seems to come up prominently as a way of hitting the German war economy, and that is Fitzroy's plan. Keeping a little also seems to fit the bill.

The plan at first is simple. Steal a train carrying about half a ton of Nazi gold, using firearms, replaced signalling and a small group of loyal agents, divert it to Switzerland by any means needed, take the gold onto trucks, and hit the German war machine where it hurts- it's money. And well, take some for themselves, wait till the war ends, and profit. Of course, Fitzroy knows he can't do that alone. He's smart enough to get the right people on board, and serves King and Country cleverly.

Or so he thinks. Because he doesn't know how deep the rabbit hole is about to go, and that no robbery goes easy. The gold is only the start of an adventure that sees a lot of plundering, good ol' Nazi killing, and a deep plot that tests the characters and their loyalties, to morality, money and country.

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So yeah, any takers?

Fascinating...hmmm...give me abit. See if I can't come up with something.

Sweet. Any other takers?

I'll see where this goes, at least. Don't know if I have the time to commit though.

I'd probably be game for this. Sounds interesting. An Abwehr agent out of Amtsgruppe Ausland (Foreign Department) or maybe a Abwehr IIIF (Counter-Espionage, Counter-Agent Bureau) could be interesting.

I'm totally on board for this!

@DepressedSoviet@JDolan@gathering gloom

Sweet! A couple more names and I'll make an OOC potentially. I'm up for any ideas people may have also (I've thought that there might even just be German intelligence operatives on board who are actually just in for the cash, trying to get out of Germany with money before it all burns- might be a theme I'll also play along now you mention the Abwehr).

I've thought that there might even just be German intelligence operatives on board who are actually just in for the cash, trying to get out of Germany with money before it all burns- might be a theme I'll also play along now you mention the Abwehr.

That was basically my plan, especially given the institutional skepticism from as far back as 1937 of any sort of German victory in even a limited war against Czechoslovakia, and the wider skepticism that was present as early at the eve of Barbarossa - with OKH building its orders on incomplete and rushed Abwehr reports, which the Abwehr knew was incomplete when they were forced to make their final submissions a week or two prior to the start date. They've seen the writing on the wall for ages now, and with an impending dissolution of the Abwehr and its absorption into the SD-Ausland later in the winter of 43/44...well, let's just say that there's plenty of motivation to jump ship for certain folks.

Similarly, given the Abwehr's regular communications with SOE and OSS via the German vice-consul to Switzerland, it's certainly not unreasonable that someone might join in on an Allied heist to cover his own ass.

Yeah, definitely interested in this. An SOE operative with a distinctly unhealthy appetite for enriching himself wouldn't go amiss I'm hoping?

@Ulstermann

Precisely that. It's a perfect place to be a greedy bastard (or not).

@JDolan

Yup, I'd say that all the characters in this RP are the people who have seen the writing on the wall before it's even happened, they've seen it coming for a long time and Allied, Axis, know the world's going to change. Some just want to make money out of it, while others want to push that downfall along.

Overall very happy to see this is well received!

Do people want me to make an OOC now so you can begin making characters? I've got a lot more in the way of plot that I can spell out into the OOC, on how your agents may find out about this plan, amongst other things.

Might be good to get an OOC up? That way we can start putting characters together.

I'm completely new here (and to RPing in general) but I might be interested. Any room for someone deeply and somewhat ironically committed to a cause? I was thinking of a Maoist soldier trying to steal some cash to fund the Communist cause, knowing that the tide is turning and that the real struggle in his home country has just begun and his side will need money to come out on top. Maybe he plays at being a lot more mercenary and unscrupulous than he really is, but the façade is starting to become reality?

@Ulstermann

I'll cook something up later this evening! I'll make skeletons for my characters so you can see what Robert, Valerie and my as of yet unamed Pole are.

@Force and Fury

So long as you're comfortable in writing in the way RPs are and know the Guild Rules, no worries. That can actually work- though explaining why someone from China is in Germany at that time period is gonna be difficult. It might actually be slightly easier to have a Soviet, given that they might be better at being a double or infiltrating into Germany, who maybe wants to steal money through the NKVD for China?

That'd be a possibility. Then again, I could have my character posing as Japanese. The issue is that he'd be extremely conspicuous no matter what if he were to remain Asian.

I've had three flops of WWII RP's.

Let's rock and roll.

@Force and Fury

Preeety much. Viewed with a fucking lot of suspicion, by pretty much everyone, very likely even their own. Which is depressing, to be honest. But I like the angle- feel free to take a Russian.

@Lady Selune

I hope this an RP that isn't the traditional "we're heroes, let's kill Nazis" type. It's a little more than that. Sure, it has moments of gratuitous crazy shit (okay definitely, I mean there's gonna be moments of just pure violence) but there are some finer elements to it, that there is a lot more than just "heroes" involved. A lot of cunning, a lot of swagger, a lot of thought going into things. The individuals involved range from real people who want to end the war, to people who are genuinely in it for purely greed, money and to fuck people over is nothing to them. Who turns out to be what is what captivates me. The heist is the beginning.

Also, for everyone else....we have an OOC! Post up your CS- mine are going to be very skeletal, but lay out the basics of my three characters. I'll finish it tomorrow morning- but feel free to post yours all in the OOC then into the character section!

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