Afrika Korps - A community roleplaying adventure in 1942

[selmiak]

>carefully check out tent I

[Crimson Wizard]

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG

I KNEW!

>carefully check out tent I

+1.

OH NOW LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE GONE AND DONE, MY BEST HEAVY TROOPER IS DEEEAAAAD!!!

I remember role-playing X-COM, when in case of losing a solder I was going berserk and ordered my troops to throw all the explosive stuff at the alien murderer.
... and also that feeling when one soldier once saved other's life by shooting an enemy through two screens and 3 house windows.   

[KodiakBehr]

> Pick up gas canister, enter tent III.

...I want to know what kind of horrors we're digging up for the Reich before we visit the dig site.  In a clinch, we may just need to burn everything to the ground to be safe.

[Frodo]

Hmm, where's breakfast?   

> Go to mess hall tent for something to eat.

[Ponch]

> Get lamp breakfast.

[NightHawk]

>Search crates for supplies.

[miguel]

>whistle cabaret songs for a moment
>hum the chorus part like you mean it
>go back and open stove

[WHAM]

Okay, going to have to give you guys a heads up, I'm having a real busy two weeks at work and will have guests over for weekend, so expect an update every other day or so. I'll try and have some time to finish up the interior of tent I tomorrow.

[Tabata]

Before we run around outside for longer, we really need to find a head covering somewhere 

>carefully check out tent I

[WHAM]

> Carefully check out tent I

You cautiously approach tent I, peeking in. As you realize this tent, too, is abandoned and void of any signs of life you brave the interior.

You are now inside the command tent. You can see the hammock the officers use next to the proud flag of the fatherland, which has been hung from the wall of the tent.
Next to the door flap is a table with several maps and written reports strewn about. Atop one of the maps lies a discarded officer's cap.
Next to the table, atop a supply crate, is a man-portable radio.

[Ponch]

If this thread is going to be shown in Germany, shouldn't you replace that flag with something else? 

Also: LOOK! A lamp! 

[Fred7162]

>Check the radio

[WHAM]

If this thread is going to be shown in Germany, shouldn't you replace that flag with something else? 

I've actually read up on this, and current german law does not oppose displaying historically accurate insignia and flags in entertainment. Then again, most game devs and movie makers still stick to the old rules simply out of tradition and fear. I am not like most!

[Ponch]

Yeah! Stick it to The Man, WHAM! Take that, Germany! 

And while I'm at it:

> Check radio. Take hat. (Avoid lamp)

[NightHawk]

> Check radio. Take hat.

+1

[Crimson Wizard]

>Check the radio

+1, but I think after that it should be "check papers on wall and table".

[selmiak]

If this thread is going to be shown in Germany, shouldn't you replace that flag with something else? 

I've actually read up on this, and current german law does not oppose displaying historically accurate insignia and flags in entertainment. Then again, most game devs and movie makers still stick to the old rules simply out of tradition and fear. I am not like most!

The swastikas in indiana jones are shown uncensored in the german versions, so if it not playing down the holocaust or glamorizing the crimes of the nazis it is okay to show swastikas in art(works). But then videogames are not considered to be art in germany, that's why the swastikas were replaced in the adventure game for indiana jones and the last crusade (can't remember if there were any in fate of atlantis). And this hasn't changed a lot, but I think authorities couldn't care less about a forumgame on a forum on a server in britain.

The radio is great, looks like it's a character on its own, it even has ears

What's on my mind is, should we take the officer's cap to fake authority to any people we might meet? But maybe better not, as these people are probably not friendly and rather the enemy that checks for survivers after they thermoblasted away our comrades or aliens that kidnapped them and they are always especially searching for high ranks. Better try to find out what the dig is about by going through boring papers in the officer's tent. But let's see what our friend the radio has to say.

[Baron]

Also: LOOK! A lamp! 

>Ninja Lamp

[Frodo]

Also: LOOK! A lamp! 

>  Get lamp   

[Ponch]

>  Get lamp   

Brilliant! Why didn't someone think to do that earlier! 

Also, if we take the hat, we'd better take the insignia off it so we don't get shot for impersonating an officer.