Oak7ree

The Westminster League Of Extraordinary Individuals (WWII Superhero Spy RP)

By the way, a quick question: has anyone played the Hearts of Iron IV? I must admit, I've been playing it way too much over the past few months.

The Westminster League Of Extraordinary Individuals (WWII Superhero Spy RP)

Jean stood next to the truck. He looked quickly and made a fast, overall glance, and many of the Westminsters were still gathering or walking towards their transports. Their faces told all one thing: they all were nervous or afraid. Not one had probably seen a day of combat or fired a rifle in anger, Jean thought. They hadn't seen a dying comrade or faced German Panzers, but they all had had different stories and tragedies behind them.

"Hurry it up!" Jean shouted to the rest of their small League, in a very stern voice, almost demanding. "We don't have all day, and we are burning daylight The boches are waiting."

Jean climbed to the truck and a few other already sat on the benches. He tried to take a more reaffirming tone with his voice, saying: "Try not to worry too much. I've been training parachuting for months, and the falling down is quite a fun experience. Just don't look down when you jump, or you'll freeze at the door." Jean took a glance at each one of them. A woman as tall as a child, a blonde Brit with glasses and a Chinese woman of almost meek appearance.

"By the way, the name's Jean, the sniper of this troupe." Jean again measured each one with his eyes. They all look green, he thought in his head. "How are you feeling? Nervous? Afraid?"

The Westminster League Of Extraordinary Individuals (WWII Superhero Spy RP)

@Oak7reeYou better reply soon or I'll actually start to murder people :^)

@MegaOscarPwn

Sorry, today I was in a series of lectures, and the couple last days have been a bit busy.

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@Lady Selune ...How is your char using a gun that wasn't invented yet? O.o

@Oak7ree *snickers at asparagus* And I don't think they'd've...um...planted? every possible landing zone. But you do have a point, and antiaircraft fire is also an issue. But the idea of the jeep is to be dropped /near/ and then come in on the ground.

@shylarah

No, but the obvious ones, like big fields, could be a priority. But don't worry, Rommel started planting "asparagus" in 1944 prior to the Normandy Landings. And planting came to my mind first.

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I asked a friend about equipment for paratroopers, even though we're not actually paratroopers, and he linked this. Apparently jeeps were often flown in on gliders (for the Allies), and supplies could be dropped along with the soldiers. Cool, huh?

@shylarah

The Germans, for example, devised a way to deny a glider a chance to land safely. They would dig and plant poles into the ground, and as a glider tried to land, it would crash these obstacles. Commonly nicknamed as Rommel's asparagus.

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@Oak7ree By the way, I just noticed Jean had a relationship with a secular Jew. I'm not sure secular Judaism existed in the time of ww2, certainly not as we know it today. Jewish communities, if not something resembling modern Orthodox, were usually something close to what's now considered Conservative. Unless they had completely stopped practicing because of persecution at some point in the past and perhaps no longer really identified as Jewish, I think it's rather unlikely that she would have been a secular Jew. Secular Judaism tends to differ greatly from, say, secular Christianity, and really only gained ground in the past half century or so. *pounces on topic she likes*

@shylarah

I thought Emma and her family just quite ordinary family, not very religious family. It just came to my mind. "Oh, what if Jean dated a Jew?" and just rolled with it. Religions are rarely monolithic. Her being a Jew might play a role in Jean's life during the war, sooner or later.

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Use a Tiger to drift through the streets of Orleans. Problem solved.

@Lady Selune

Tiger didn't enter production before 1942. Problem still lingers.

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@Oak7ree Yeah, but Kat is an adrenaline junkie, and she can pull some /mean/ tricks on wheels -- or treads.

@shylarah

As long she doesn't use a Tiger to drift through the Paris streets, I'm good.

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@Oak7ree I want to steal a tank. <3 That's always fun!

@shylarah

Define "fun". Sometimes riding a tank can be bit bumpy, I can tell you.

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Trust me, I've been thinking of plausible ways for the group to get around.

@Lady Selune

I understand, but I just had to get that idea out of my head and write it down.