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Tiger Tiger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?


– William Blake


Great Britain, July 1940. The lone British war machine is reeling from the military disaster of Dunkirk, where only 20,000 troops of the British Expeditionary Force escaped from France and the rest dead or taken prisoner by the advancing Wehrmacht. Now, the German Luftwaffe prepares to launch a crushing air superiority campaign across the English Channel, with British factories, seaports, and civilian centers all newly designated targets of Operation Sealion. With the great empires of the United States and the Soviet Union infuriatingly neutral, the United Kingdom braces for a final death struggle against the Nazi menace.

But how could it have come to this? How could have hope dissipated so quickly?

As far as you are concerned, you will never know. The 20,000 survivors of Dunkirk and their rescuers in the various branches of the Royal Armed Forces have been prevented from contacting their families and forced to remain on their respective bases. New recruits to the Royal Army, Navy, or Air Force, for now, have been directed to other bases of operation.

You are a newly minted aircraftman in the British Royal Air Force. The first thing you are greeted by as you arrive on your first base of duty is an empty airfield and around five to seven other fresh recruits just as confused as you are. However, you have certainly heard rumors about what transpired in the last few months in France - that the Germans have developed a secret weapon that made our men literally lose their minds, that the dead in Dunkirk were slain not by the Wehrmacht but by their fellow soldiers, that the survivors on base have been indefinitely confined to mental institutions, robbed of their sanity, their rationality, and their hope.

But, of course, those are just rumors. High Command will release pertinent information when it can.

Meanwhile, you are one of the lucky few aircraftmen in the RAF who have been assigned to Turin Squadron, a special detachment of the Royal Air Force that, for all intents and purposes, does not exist. You have been especially chosen for your supposed 'fortitude of mind', whatever that means. The only thing you have been told at the briefing is that you will play a special part in the defense of the British Isles against the Luftwaffe assault. As far as anyone else in the force is concerned, you are part of other, officially recognized squadrons. You are not told of the exact nature of your missions, only that your first will start in forty-eight hours.

You attempt to sleep peacefully after the briefing, pushing out of your conscience the nagging feeling that you have absolutely no idea what you have gotten yourself into.






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I would be interested on this RP. Here's my work-in-progress character sheet.


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Hi everyone, sorry about the sloppy and extremely rushed OOC. I added in a callsign field in the CS: please refer to the Characters Tab for available callsigns. I will probably be editing further in the future.

@Oak7ree Great so far, though unfortunately we can't use Arthur's cool nickname during missions for the reasons stated above. Remember to explain where your character's mental fortitude came from in his history.
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@BingTheWing Roger that, I'll be writing and refining the character later today. And I would like to volunteer as the leader for Ghost. Would you then mind if there was a red thirteen painted on Arthur's plane, or would that violate the secretive nature of the squadron?
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I’m really excited to get started with my CS, but first I would like to point out how unlikely it would be for an elite squadron to be made up entirely of fresh graduates. Wouldn’t it make sense to have some characters with combat experience, or will those roles be taken entirely by NPCs?
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Do I need to know anything about lovecroft to join?

Generally know that Gaint ass tentacle monasters, chaos powerful ernough to cause madness, general mind destroying powers. General shenanigans that make most monsters look like ready bears?
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@PrinceAlexus Well, sometimes, even knowing about the Lovecraftian monsters or aliens can cause insanity.
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I tried to do something a little different with this CS, and it didn't come out just how I wanted, so it'll be a WIP for now. Please let me know if you want me to change it to a more traditional CS or just change anything in general.


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@Dusty You have a very valid point, and I struggled a lot with that when I first made the concept. However, most veteran pilots would have been assigned to the Dunkirk evacuation, where even those who survived physically did not mentally. That's a majority of the experienced section of the RAF out of service. In addition, many new pilots were recruited specifically for the Battle of Britain itself. A severe shortage of pilots led to many new recruits entering battle with only ten hours of flight time - your character graduating from a proper flying school with a sufficient number of hours, let alone with honors, is already an elite achievement by the standards of the time.

Important note for all: your character could have graduated years ago, but have never been sent into actual combat.

Also, Dunkirk was the first major military operation in WW2 for the British - I don't see where else your character could have had pre-WW2 experience except in a far-off desert colony or two.

Plus, knowing what happened at Dunkirk would significantly take away from the first half of the RP - there is an element of mystery within all of Lovecraft's tales, after all.

Your CS is excellent as of now - your Psych Evaluation is exactly what I was looking for. However, you can only go up to Green Three for a callsign.

I will get to everyone else's questions when I have more time.
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@Oak7ree Whoops, I forgot to say that my character will be Ghost Leader, so sorry about that :( but you can be Gold or Green Leader. I just need to see your CS first. And I think it's best that you refrain from any unusual markings on your plane, for secrecy purposes and for other shenanigans later

@PrinceAlexus There are a lot more interesting nuances and tidbits if you study the mythos itself, but for the most part you're all set.
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@BingTheWing I suppose that makes sense considering the situation.

I'll go ahead and bump myself up to Green Leader if that's okay. I'm guessing the positions are going Green Leader, Green 1, Green 2, and Green 3? I only wanted to be Green 4 because of the nifty little call sign that could've been with the Roman Numerals.

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@Dusty Just a clarification - is your CS final? Also, the aversion to chemical wounds thing is a bit of a red flag for your eligibility as leader. We're going to see some nasty stuff in battle, and as wing leader you're supposed to keep your cool through the icky and gory things when nobody else is. You could remedy this by elaborating on how your character is a self-proclaimed killer, seeing as he hasn't actually killed anyone before, given his bio.

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Well, it wasn't necessarily a final CS in case you wanted me to modify anything.

As for Johnathan's disposition against chemicals and gasses isn't so much a phobia but a strong fear of that particular kind of death. He'll keep his cool through most of it and just be very disturbed, unless it gets really bad.

As for his self proclaimed "killer" status, that's mostly just hot air. A surprising number of people join the infantry and other combat roles wanting to cause death, pain, and destruction, at least in my experience. Shapiro's feral desires were strong enough to deny a posh life in Ohio and risk his citizenship in the US just because of his eagerness to fight.
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The thing is, where did he get his feral desires? Did he grow up in an abusive family? Has he ever killed a living being, even an animal? He's going to have to be a slight cut above the average gung-ho bloodthirsty country bumpkin if he's going to go up against literal god-spawn of Cthulhu the dark lord himself really spooky eldritch horrors.

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I've been hungering for something mind-rending as of recent. I shall endeavor to put a character sheet up! Should time and circumstance allow.
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Would a non-British pilot in the RAF have experienced any of the horrors that the evacuated personnel from Dunkirk would have? A Polish or French pilot that might have somehow slipped through the cracks of the quarantine, or taken into a separate quarantine after their country fell to German occupations? And what's going on in the Far East, or Austrailia and New Zealand?
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@BingTheWing Arthur Howell would be ready.
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The thing is, where did he get his feral desires? Did he grow up in an abusive family? Has he ever killed a living being, even an animal? He's going to have to be a slight cut above the average gung-ho bloodthirsty country bumpkin if he's going to go up against literal god-spawn of Cthulhu the dark lord himself really spooky eldritch horrors.


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Well I imagine he signed on to kill Germans not the god-spawn of Cthulhu... That one might come as a bit of a shocker to anyone, no matter how mentally strong they are.

Also I thought I explained his disposition in his character sheet, in this line "Extended evaluation concluded a strong fear of death in general from the subject and a desire to control death through killing the enemy, of which he has a great desire"

I understand that's kinda vague but due to they CS style it was the best I could do. Anyway, the mental condition he has is prescribed in Ernest Becker's book The Denial of Death as one of the ways certain people deal with the inevitability of death. Its nothing more than the product of Johnathan's fears and him trying to control it.

Anyway I can drop him down a billet if you want me too.
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Il have to see if I can create a charecter and see what the creative juices mix up.
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@Dusty That's fine. Your CS is pretty good as is, and the format of your Psych Evaluation is a stellar example of how I wanted it to be, though I may have to drop him down to Green One. Lob it into the CS tab.

@Voltus_Ventus Most of the French that happened to be rescued at Dunkirk were quarantined. If your character is French or Polish, he could have fled to the UK pre-Dunkirk and witnessed a little of what the Germans had released (you can PM me for further details). An important note: Polish pilots were some of the most experienced in the war, having had hundreds of flying hours and defending the German invasion in 1939 (where your character could have experienced a smattering of eldritch shenanigans).

And as for what's going on in the other colonies, as with the real world timeline nothing much though the Japs could be up to something.
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