[OOC] Operation Third Rock: A Cold War-era Espionage RP

[Lord Coake]

Operation Third Rock

The year is 1971. The two global nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, are locked in a perpetual arms race. To counter the threat presented, the US military and Central Intelligence Agency have joined forces to enact a plan to disarm the Soviet Union's stockpile of nuclear weapons, by way of infiltration. The Soviet Union, by way of disguised agents, has learned of this plan, and enacted their own to disarm the United States' weapons. This event would come to be known as Operation Third Rock.

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So we will play the agents involved, either from the US, or the USSR. I'll leave it up to the players to choose individually. I'll have my own character, while also controlling everything from the guards, to the director of the CIA. In terms of gear/weaponry, 1971 is the cutoff year. Anything made on or before 1971 is permitted. Players on both sides will often be PMed orders that, if mentioned ICly or OOCly, would spoil the story.

CS Format

Name:
Alias/Nicknames:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:

Preferred Weapons:
Preferred Gear:
Notable Skills/Talents:

History:

[Jozarin]

Do you mind picture appearances?

[Lord Coake]

@JozarinPictures are fine!

[Jozarin]

This is my WIP:

Name: Kenneth Miles
Alias/Nicknames: (In decreasing order of how well-known the alias is) Ken, Miles, Innocent Flower, James Brown, Andrei Ivanov, Ken Doll, Sandra Starr
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: i.imgur.com/TwvFfFx.png, i.imgur.com/MHYRDTt.png

Preferred Weapons: 9mm Browning Hi-Power, rapier (he knows he'll never use it).
Preferred Gear: Rope, sniper camera, clawed glove, artist's paint, poison, invisible ink
Notable Skills/Talents: Really good with rope - he knows all the knots and can make new ones. He is also great at sending coded messages, and torture. Speaks fluent french and russian.

History: Kenneth Miles was born into the New York middle class. Growing up, he loved the city, except the crime. He learned ballet all through his teenage years, and attended AADA to learn acting. It was while he was in acting school that the CIA picked him up as a potential infiltrator. He completed his acting training in 1967, and has spent the last four years in CIA training.

[Sekritter]

What about an MI6 agent thrown in to assist the CIA?

[Lord Coake]

@SekritterThat would be fine. The general idea of the RP is the Allied powers of the time competing with the Communist powers, so nations allied with the US and USSR would send agents to assist.

[Lord Coake]

One thing I forgot to specify, Players will often be PMed orders that, if mentioned in the IC, would spoil parts of the story.

My character:

Name: Nathan Blackford
Alias/Nicknames: Nikolas(when disguised as a Russian)
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Appearance: [url=Here!]tegonity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/0..

Preferred Weapons: silenced handguns, preferably the M1911A1, close-combat knives of all kinds, and sniper rifles.
Preferred Gear: Binoculars, two-way radio, cassette player(for use as a distraction device), disguise kit.
Notable Skills/Talents: Nathan is skilled in close-quarters fighting, as well as long-range sniping in urban settings. He's also an expert lockpick, and highly trained in urban stealth. He is also fluent in Russian.

History: Nathan keeps most of his history shrouded, preferring that it only be known he has former experience in military special forces(no mention which group), and is currently employed by the CIA.

[Oak7ree]

Here's my bid to the stage.

Name: David Logan
Alias/Nicknames: Ocelot
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Appearance: David is an average-looking man. He is six-feet one tall, muscular, black haired and has many scars all over his body, mostly due to special operations in South-East Asia.

Preferred weapons: Knives and handguns, particularly revolvers, but is also proficient in using other standard weaponry.
Preferred gear: LP player at his New York apartment, military gear (ODs and such)
Notable skills/talents: David is trained in survival techniques and military tactics. He is an experienced soldier, sharpshooter and medic. Speaks fluent Russian.

History: Born into a middle-classed family in New York, David was raised in the very center of American wealth and high standard of living in 1942. But in the land of the free, the Logans, a family of entrepreneurs and importers fell into hard times in the 1950s. His father turned to alcoholism and died of stomach cancer in 1954 and his mother dying of pneumonia five years later in 1959.
Some time after graduating from high school in 1960, David joined the Army's paratroopers, serving in the 101st Division for a few years as an NCO. In 1963 a CIA agent took interest on David and offered him a transfer to the Agency's newly-founded special forces unit. After the induction to the Agency, David was drilled and trained to become a field operative for commando, behind-the-lines and guerrilla operations.

[Lord Coake]

@Oak7reeSeems good to me, go ahead and throw it into the Characters tab.

[Jozarin]

Name: Kenneth Miles
Alias/Nicknames: (In decreasing order of how well-known the alias is) Ken, Miles, Innocent Flower, James Brown, Andrei Ivanov, Ken Doll, Sandra Starr
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: i.imgur.com/TwvFfFx.png, i.imgur.com/MHYRDTt.png

Preferred Weapons: 9mm Browning Hi-Power, rapier (he knows he'll never use it).
Preferred Gear: Rope, sniper camera, clawed glove, artist's paint, poison, invisible ink
Notable Skills/Talents: Really good with rope - he knows all the knots and can make new ones. He is also great at sending coded messages, and torture. Speaks fluent french and russian.

History: Kenneth Miles was born into the New York middle class. Growing up, he loved the city, except the crime. He learned ballet all through his teenage years, and attended AADA to learn acting. It was while he was in acting school that the CIA picked him up as a potential infiltrator. He completed his acting training in 1967, and has spent the last four years in CIA training.

[Lord Coake]

@JozarinLooks decent, feel free to copy it over to the characters tab

[Kaalee]

Name: Ekaterina Naryshkina
Alias/Nicknames: Katherine Beauchamp when in France, or Katya by close, Russian, friends
Age: 26
Gender: Female

Appearance:

Preferred Weapons: Makarov Pistol, close combats knifes, poison, lipstick gun
Preferred Gear:The Thing, Button Cam, Coin Cache, Heel transmitter
Notable Skills/Talents: She can speak Russian, French, and English with no detectable accent as well as being very skilled in close quarters combat.

History: Ekaterina was born in Leningrad in 1945 to one of the oldest families in Russia. Her parents pushed her towards becoming the perfect housewife but she had none of it. She learned to fight on the schoolyard, picking fights until her father finally had enough and had someone teach her how to fight. After her younger brother, Sergei, was born, she utterly devoted her life to her country and became a spy in the KGB when she was nineteen years old. Thankfully, her parents kept her out of the spotlight when she was growing up and very few people know about Ekaterina Naryshkina, much less what she looks like.

She now resides as a spy in France, gathering what intel she can on the SDECE and CIA projects, especially against the USSR

[Lord Coake]

@KaaleeLooks good to me. Once I finish up my character, I'll start working on the IC thread

[Jozarin]

@Lord Coake Estimate?

[Lord Coake]

@JozarinI'll get it up sometime today. I've had a busy week so far, but today should be good.

[Jozarin]

@Lord Coake, would kenneth know the location of the meeting?

[Lord Coake]

@JozarinThe meeting of the Russian agents, or the CIA ones?

[Jozarin]

@Lord Coake

Is Nathan CIA or KGB? I was getting a CIA vibe, and there is no character sheet.

[Kaalee]

@Jozarin He's CIA posing as KGB

[Jozarin]

Thought so. So, does kenneth know about that meeting?