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Happy to be aboard! Also asking this question here, instead of via pm, in case others have a similar query: Are they (meaning the parents and our future spylings) part of Verita or native intelligence corps? Or both?


Your parents are a part of BOTH their direct intelligence agency as well as secretly members of Verita. None of the parents of our characters will be solely members of Verita. In part that is what the Academy program is designed to do (Create Verita only agents).
Welcome aboard @Infernal Flame!
Awwwwwww tuck it! @Ryteb Pymeroce getting in on this! Well get ready to have your writing responded in kind good sir. Cause this guy here is all about the replying in character to interactions with other writers in the story!
Addition Information About The Academy Program


Leadership / Teaching Staff

REDACTED - William Stephenson - Verita Leadership

REDACTED - Elizabeth Lew - Logistics and Travel Training

REDACTED - Nathan Hale - Information & Communications Training

REDACTED - Alexander Koral - Tactical & Support Training

REDACTED - Rose Greenhow - Diplomacy and Negotiation Training

REDACTED - Fritz Duquesne - Weapons and Firearms Training

REDACTED - Sherry Chen - Close Quarters Combat Training

REDACTED - Rabinder Singh - Resident Administrator

Facilities / Living Quarters

The Academy Classroom - At this location all pre and post mission briefs are held. Specific lectures also happen here as well as some communication with Verita.

Student Apartment Complex - All Academy students are housed in a single London Flat code named 'Black Box' but more often referred to as the 'shoe box'. The location has several safe rooms along with a full operations and support room, personal bedrooms and bathrooms for every occupant along with an indoor pool and gym facilities.



Oxford, UK - Hide in plain sight is a common phrase in the spy world. What better place to hide a secret spy program then at a city with over 40,000 students in it. Located an hour away from London by train the city is vibrant, young, and green. With several organizations that unknowingly partner with Verita.

The Academy 'Syllabus'

Training - Everything your sponsor to The Academy made you do led up to surviving The Academy training. Surprise exercise on and off campus are a regular occurrence. The only options besides keeping up is to fail and to do so is not an option. There is more than one way to succeed.

Exams - Exams are delivered in a myriad of ways that seem to only be limited by the training officers imagination. The only consistency is that Exams actually mean live mission exercise. Simply take a tour of a countries embassy all the way to assist with the extraction of an asset are a few examples of previous exams.

REDACTED Test - Very little is known about a students REDACTED test. What is known is that it is the most dangerous task assigned in The Academy with numinous students being labeled MIA or worse.

Final Report - Before a student is confirmed to have graduated they must undergo a Final Report debrief of their REDACTED test and entire time at The Academy. This is is said to be the most comprehensive meeting of an agents life even outdoing a retirement debrief. Reviewing everything from the students background and actions to that of their contacts and family members.

Graduation - Upon graduation a student from the Academy is granted full membership into the ranks of Verita and assigned to a director of a specific region or program. During the graduation ceremony a student is given their formal code name.
I should have a post up before end of day tomorrow! Great to be writing with you @SimpleWriter!
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Just finished watching knives out and heat. Gotta say they were really great movies. Knives out really brought back the gentleman detective while heat showed me the amazing back and forth between getting caught and getting away Scott free. Thanks to that I actually have a new idea :)


Ummm WOW THANK YOU! This might be the first time I actually heard of someone following up on a movie recommendation that isn't in theaters lol

Happy you liked Knives Out as it was the real surprise of the past few years for me movie wise. Also happy to say that they have confirmed a sequel (unsure if it will be mainly the detective character of the main woman who gets the story)

Check out Murder on the Orient Express if you liked Knives Out or Clue as they are both also murder mysteries done well in film form though MOTOE is a little older (1970's) so it isn't everyone's cup of tea. That said if you do like it then go back further and watch The Thin Man film series as those are some of my favorite of all time in the murder mystery films.

Happy it gave you some ideas :D
Just stopping in to say those are some pretty amazing character sheets and the role play looks beautiful!
Casino is a great mob movie based on a real guy who at one point was the toast of the town (That town being Vegas!)

Heat is widely consider one of the all time great cops and robbers movie with it based on the cat and mouse game of Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson hunting down a criminal named McCauley.

The French Connection is one of my favorite movies of all time. Based on a real story (All the great ones are!)

For what you are looking for and for possible ideas I would highly recommend Nightcrawler.

To wash this heavy film list down with some light comedy I would circle back to The Nice Guys.

There are other obvious ones like The Godfather, The Departed, and many many more!

I went way too Mafia with this list. For Murder Mysteries there is a fun rule of thumb. You always find out who did it... by the end of the hour. Basically it means tv shows do the murder mystery better than most movies do. Clue, Murder on the Orient Express (70's version) and Knives Out (The recent ray of sunshine of what is an otherwise bleak list).

I would also like to recommend Death in Paradise! It fits the perfect cut on the classic Who Done It mold and with the different lead detectives you get basically all the classic personality and solve types you see in other shows. Murder She Wrote is also a true gold standard and can be a lot of fun if you recall or enjoy seeing random actors from the late 80's and 90's
Interesting I will definitely take a look at it. Honestly I've been having a bit of a movie watching mood so I will definitely take a look at it. If you got other movies that I should watch I'm all ears.

As for that second part it's hard to tell on that I'll agree it's even harder to see that journalism is a godsend rather then a detriment.


Are you looking for general recommendations or anything specific? I am a rather massive movie nerd so I got lots and lots and lots of recommendations :D
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