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The Afrikaner was glad to be back in Africa, but quite disgruntled that it was in Algeria and not in his homeland. He supposed that it would have to do. Instantly, he could tell that most of them were quite unaccustomed to the climate and insisted on a night operation. While it made sense tactically, he was sure that they were motivated at least partially by the weak desire of avoiding the inhospitable African sun - which was unrelenting to all who felt her rays.
The journey from Geneva to Algeria, and indeed the entire process, had been a silent one for v.d. Westhuizen. He felt no inclination to speak up at Geneva, or in the flight over, or really at any point in the process. What did he have to say? The stares and glares from the kaffers and their like-minded companions burned into his skin like laser-beams. The hatred that they felt for him radiated off of their skin like the radiance of the African sun. But what did he care?
Hate him, and see if he minded.
As the car drove onward into the night, he smiled to himself. If they were stopped by a Bedouin with half a brain, they would instantly be suspicious at not only the kaffer in the front seat pretending to be their commander, but by the woman beside him. They would all be shot dead in the car before they could even raise their weapons in anger. It was a gross miscalculation, he thought, on the part of Brick for even including them in this mission. They were sure to get them all killed.
"Let us drive West!" The Afrikaner spoke up, motivated by no desire except to say the opposite of the "French" kaffer who suggested the idea, "it will be the easiest course to take. We should not risk any confrontation or discovery. If we are stopped..." he spoke for the first time about his concerns, or really at all, since they had been assigned the mission, "...they will discover we are not who we say we are."
The journey from Geneva to Algeria, and indeed the entire process, had been a silent one for v.d. Westhuizen. He felt no inclination to speak up at Geneva, or in the flight over, or really at any point in the process. What did he have to say? The stares and glares from the kaffers and their like-minded companions burned into his skin like laser-beams. The hatred that they felt for him radiated off of their skin like the radiance of the African sun. But what did he care?
Hate him, and see if he minded.
As the car drove onward into the night, he smiled to himself. If they were stopped by a Bedouin with half a brain, they would instantly be suspicious at not only the kaffer in the front seat pretending to be their commander, but by the woman beside him. They would all be shot dead in the car before they could even raise their weapons in anger. It was a gross miscalculation, he thought, on the part of Brick for even including them in this mission. They were sure to get them all killed.
"Let us drive West!" The Afrikaner spoke up, motivated by no desire except to say the opposite of the "French" kaffer who suggested the idea, "it will be the easiest course to take. We should not risk any confrontation or discovery. If we are stopped..." he spoke for the first time about his concerns, or really at all, since they had been assigned the mission, "...they will discover we are not who we say we are."
@Starboard Watch To put it shortly, I'd be interested.
I'm interested in this. Are you guys still accepting?
Yes. Feel free to post up whenever.
Here's some flavor-in-flag-form to build a sort of worldview on where we sit:
Here is a brief view (in the form of the national flags) of the major powers of Europe.
The German Confederation's major power-players. This obviously doesn't cover all of the princely entities that exist in Germany, but most of them are under the sway of one or the other.
Here is a brief view (in the form of the national flags) of the major powers of Europe.
The German Confederation's major power-players. This obviously doesn't cover all of the princely entities that exist in Germany, but most of them are under the sway of one or the other.
I'll let Gunther come up with a sort of regimental structure, but these will be the two different units we can pick from on where we'll go.
Below will be all the approved characters. I have included mine as the first as a template for the format I'd like to follow:
What is the German's Fatherland?
Is it Prussia? Is it Austria?
Those great and noble Empires of Old?
Is it the North, where Protestants rave?
Or is it the Catholic South, the land of Bishops?
No!
The resounding no rippled throughout Middle-Europe in 1848. Germans took to the streets in open defiance of the Holy Roman Emperor, demanding a true unification of the German Nation under a German King - not a pretender who still wore the garb of a Medieval Emperor. As the Holy Roman Emperor Francis saw Hungary, Ruthenia, and Dalmatia fall through his fingers in the wake of the Magyar Uprising, he was forced to the table with the King of Prussia and the other German nobles.
Some of those Kings and Princes were genuinely motivated by the desire to unite the Germans, while others sought to dismantle the powerful influence of the Hapsburger in Vienna. Others still feared the rebels in their streets deposing them and putting their heads on pikes. Whatever their motivation, the agreements made at Frankfurt on that winter day in December of 1848 led to the formation of the Deutscher Bund, the German Confederation, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
A loose union of the German states which had formerly been a part of the HRE, it won its first military victory in an expedition into Danish Schleswig-Holstein, seizing the territory that was German in spirit and adding another German territory into the union. But it also exposed the cracks that would plague the Confederation for decades to come. Austria and the Southern states opposed the adventure, fearing a tipping of balance in favor of the Prussian-led North with the introduction of another Protestant state into the Confederation.
The following decades of internal pressure have done nothing to alleviate this. Growing tensions between the North, which has become the dominant industrial power with the Rhineland boom in the 1870s, and the South, which still clings to its trappings of Hapsburg glory and prestige, have led the Confederation down the route to eventual war. The North is currently plotting and scheming to drag the Confederation into a war with the Kingdom of France, to reunify the Germans in the Elsaß-Lothringen, under the rule of the French Crown, with their brothers in the Confederation. The South, hearing of this plot, has pledged secret loyalty with the French if Prussia and its allies invade them.
The Confederation is at a cross-roads, and it appears the only way for it to survive is if one side - North or South - wins out over each other in combat. All of Europe looks towards Germany, to the place where the Seven Years' War more than a hundred and fifty-years ago began, with apprehension and dread as the cloud of War looms over the world.
In this roleplay we will play a cohort of noblemen within the Kingdom of Prussia on the eve of the Confederation War (Der Bundeskrieg). Young, foppish, a bit deviant nobles who have grown up in the Grand Age, knowing only the Confederation. The beginning of the roleplay will set the stage for the War, which will then break out and we'll set about joining the Prussian Army. We can take this many different ways, so we'll cross that bridge when the time comes but consider this a mix between a military roleplay and a life-style roleplay.
My expectations are that the quality of posts resemble something advanced, obviously. I'm not concerned with length so much as quality. I don't really mind if the post is only one paragraph, so long as it gives everyone something to build off of. Other things that I'd like to see are a commitment to the world-building and a serious approach to the characters we create. Nothing ridiculous, nothing fantastical. I would prefer if people sought out portraits and photographs of the era to visually represent their characters, so as to add to the atmosphere and make things a little more interesting.
The roleplay will begin in the castle home of Friedrich von der Austerwald, who has gathered his friends together to celebrate his birthday on the eve of the outbreak of the greatest war man has ever known.
Everything else is pretty self-explanatory, I think. This is a military RP that sort of takes on more than that, since it isn't necessarily about the combat but rather the individual characters. If anyone has any questions, I'll be pleased to answer them.
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Ah I see, pity. I would have loved to have taken part in this.
If you know anyone, I would love to do it. The concept is that we're all sort of world-building and running our own show. The man who plays, say, the Baron Marshall and his troops can fuck with the peasant characters and so forth without really needing to add credence to the overall plot - which is the young Baron Roger filling his father's place.
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4 yrs ago
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Ummm this still on the table?
or has it been discarded already? Liking the look of it.
It's still on the table but it doesn't look like much interest got around it.
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