Afrika Korps - A community roleplaying adventure in 1942

[Tabata]

> Appropriate crucifix

You do not need to use the word "appropriate" in this game.

> Appropriate crucifix

You do not need to use the word "appropriate" in this game.

  déjà vu!? - An encrypted message? - A bug in the game?   

[Crimson Wizard]

> Appropriate crucifix

You do not need to use the word "appropriate" in this game.

  déjà vu!? - An encrypted message? - A bug in the game?   

Someone pressed ENTER twice .

Anyway, WHAM, did you notice there's still some other tent is visible through opening, even though we are standing in the farthermost tent? Is this intended and there's fifth tent, or is it bug?

[miguel]

Is it another tent we see or is it the desert sand?

Although we have been walking from tent to tent without noticing any kind of life, I believe that someone or something is watching us. Or might be near. So I think we should:

>really get everything strapped to the backpack TIGHT.

We don't want to go around sounding like tin man. I remember when I served in the army that we use to have a rough time with superiors when we didn't muffle our gear.

[Baron]

Right, that's the tents.  Now if I recall page 5 of the thread correctly, there is a single vehicle in the vehicle depot to the EAST, and an archaeological dig to the WEST.  I think we can all agree that the Phantom Menace (or "Ghost in the Darkness", if you will) has something to do with the dig, so I would propose that we scope out the vehicle first, with the goal of finding more clues as to our situation or maybe exchanging our current swag for more useful items (I don't know about you guys, but I'd feel a whole lot safer with a tire iron in my kit).

>>Examine vehicle and surrounding depot area

[WHAM]

> Really get everything strapped to the backpack TIGHT

You take a moment to rearrange your rucksack and strap it's contents securely in place to minimize any noise you might cause while moving.
You now have a little bit more space in your rucksack and are more quiet, but due to the tight straps and arrangement of you gear accessing your rucksack is now slightly slower.

[miguel]

Wow! This was very rewarding! I finally found how to jailbreak Afrika Korps! The trick here is to insert the word REALLY before your actions. This way the software acknowledges that you really mean it.
Also, although it doesn't show, I feel like my Sneak skill increased.

> strap and unstrap rucksack several times until the rucksack feels like a extension of own body

[Crimson Wizard]

>>Examine vehicle and surrounding depot area

+1

[NightHawk]

>Take whatever food will fit in our ruck and go to the depot area.

[selmiak]

>Take whatever food will fit in our ruck and go to the depot area.

that + finally find a weapon...

[Baron]

Weapons just disappear!  What we need is a tire iron!  Those things are like kryptonite to mummies, werewolves, unicorns, garden gnomes, and various other beings of that ilk.

>> Really examine vehicle and surrounding depot area

[miguel]

>> Really examine vehicle and surrounding depot area

+1

>press enter

[WHAM]

> Take whatever food will fit in our ruck and go to the depot area

You snatch a few tins of food and stuff them to your overstrained rucksack, which is now barely able to hold it's contents.
Carrying the rucksack is now uncomfortable and straining.




You head out of the tent and walk EAST to the vehicle depot.
Well, it's not much of a depot with only the kubelwagen present, the rest of the designated vehicle depot is just so much more sand.

[miguel]

> examine kubelwagen

[Baron]

Is that a camel spider sneaking up behind us?

If so.....

>> Take evasive action

If not.... +1 for examining the Kubelwagen.

[Ghost]

Is that a camel spider sneaking up behind us?

Great, now I shat a brick. Thanks, baron!

Also, +1 for examining the Kübelwagen, and +1 for honking its horn. Maybe someone's still in range to hear us?

[Crimson Wizard]

Maybe someone's still in range to hear us?

Right, Ghost. Maybe something still in range to hear us. 

[miguel]

Maybe someone's still in range to hear us?

Right, Ghost. Maybe something still in range to hear us. 

I'm pretty sure that we have been detected lurking around the camp site carrying a lantern. We never told WHAM to act particularly stealthy, we carry so much stuff with us that we are going to make noise, and we even had some ghost appearance!
I have a feeling that we'll have to fix this car later on...

[Ghost]

In my defense, spiders do not have ears. They listen with their hair and taste with their feet, and they are actually rather peaceful, even though a pack can easily bring down a moose... no wait, that was wolves, right?
Still, they have *no* ears, spiders, and won't come over waving their pincers at us should we decide to honk the horn.

[selmiak]

hey WHAM, please start posting the gamescreens with the imagezoom tags so that they are zoomable. Great fun.

Maybe we should get a weapon first and THEN honk the horn? Did I mention that we are unarmed already? And we are in a military camp. But at least we have boot polish

[Baron]

Did I mention that we are unarmed already?

What are you talking about, unarmed?!?  We've got das Kubelwagen!  Get that sucker north of 80 km/hr and we can be playing fetch with werewolf road kill for the rest of this adventure.  And if that fails my plan is to smash the lamp beer-bottle-style and use it as a slashing weapon.  ( Why isn't there a bottle-smashing emoticon??  Tabata, a little help, please?)