Excalibur Squadron OOC - Too Tough To Die? (CLOSED)

[The Two Jerseys]

I'm a civil engineer.

That could be useful! Civil engineer as in, do you build infrastructure,

I design roads.

or are you just really nice to people?

Are you kidding? Robert Moses is my idol!

[The Tiger Kingdom]

That could be useful! Civil engineer as in, do you build infrastructure,

I design roads.

or are you just really nice to people?

Are you kidding? Robert Moses is my idol!

[Grenartia]

That could be useful! Civil engineer as in, do you build infrastructure,

I design roads.

or are you just really nice to people?

Are you kidding? Robert Moses is my idol!

I used to know a guy who worked for TN's DOT. Apparently, the informal motto was "we can handle everything except a loose nut behind the wheel". I imagine that's a common joke in your field.

[The Two Jerseys]

Well, up yours too, Photofuckit!

[Monfrox]

Alright, I got a lot of work coming up and I just had to shell out to get my wheel bearing replaced. Not a good week for me.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Well, up yours too, Photofuckit!

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Photofuckup went down the tubes at some point in the last few years - totally unusable now.

IT LOOKS AWESOME TJ THANK YOU SO MUCH

Ugh, and in Monfrox's vein, as I mentioned earlier, I got bit in the ass by a giant project that I *didn't know I had to do* that's due at noon tomorrow. I have to write about ten cover letters. And get my resume re-prepped. And get my writing samples massaged to be basically comprehensible. And submit all of this.
So, it looks like I'll be on all night. Maybe I'll get some ES stuff done, for procrastination's sake!

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

I'm always ready for helpings. I can do whatever.

As for the good-for-nothing scrapers of ill luck and stupidity lawyers, there's me, there's you... I don't know of others, at least not in this thread. Do you have a favourite area of law? In my humble opinion, international public law is the bomb.

So, we've got two lawyers, at least one soldier (air man?) and what else? What do people do when they're not writing about commandos who fly Spitfires?

Learning literature in college? Because I currently did the exact thing.

And probably reading some....international news.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

So, we've got two lawyers, at least one soldier (air man?) and what else? What do people do when they're not writing about commandos who fly Spitfires?

Learning literature in college? Because I currently did the exact thing.

And probably reading some....international news.

While we may not have proper fighting skills, at least we have plenty of titles in our squadron.

[The Two Jerseys]

Well, up yours too, Photofuckit!

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Photofuckup went down the tubes at some point in the last few years - totally unusable now.

If they think I'm going to pay $50 a year for a feature that was completely free up to this point, my response to them is YOU GO TO HELL! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!

[Morrdh]

Photofuckup went down the tubes at some point in the last few years - totally unusable now.

If they think I'm going to pay $50 a year for a feature that was completely free up to this point, my response to them is YOU GO TO HELL! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!

Its per month since its only part of their top end package.

[Goram]

Learning literature in college? Because I currently did the exact thing.

And probably reading some....international news.

While we may not have proper fighting skills, at least we have plenty of titles in our squadron.

Shame about the lack of commandos and fighter pilots though. Feel like those would have come in handy...

[The Two Jerseys]

If they think I'm going to pay $50 a year for a feature that was completely free up to this point, my response to them is YOU GO TO HELL! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!

Its per month since its only part of their top end package.

Who's running that site now, Martin Shkreli?

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Photofuckup went down the tubes at some point in the last few years - totally unusable now.

If they think I'm going to pay $50 a year for a feature that was completely free up to this point, my response to them is YOU GO TO HELL! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!

It reminds me of Adblock's hilarious plan to turn itself into an advertising service. Which was a perfectly fiendish and devilish plan, until they realized that its success would depend on the companies that advertised online - which Adblock had spent years screwing over and who hated Adblock with the heat of a thousand suns - who would now be their prime customers.
It didn't work out.

[The Two Jerseys]

Behold, another REMF!

Name: Gerald Saunders

Date of Birth: 3 July 1906 (age 33)

Rank: Senior Intelligence Officer, Secret Intelligence Service; Major, 3rd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (mobilized 3 Sept. 1939)

Physical Description:

6'3" tall, powerful build; blue eyes; auburn hair, typically slicked back to reveal a receding hairline; bulbous nose, prominent chin; deep, smooth voice. Well-dressed, typically uses a cigarette holder.

Place of Origin: Berlin, German Empire (British subject born overseas)

Flight/Flight Combat Experience:

• Imperial Airways to Hong Kong
• British Airways to the Continent

Ground Combat Experience:

• Officer Cadet, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1926
• Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Shanghai, 1927
• Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Hong Kong, 1928
• Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Malta, 1929
• Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Tientsin, 1930-32

Intelligence Experience:

• "Passport Control Officer, Diplomatic Service", Moscow, 1933
• "Passport Control Officer, Diplomatic Service", Tokyo, 1934-35
• "Passport Control Officer, Diplomatic Service", Berlin, 1936-39
• Senior Intelligence Officer, Secret Intelligence Service, Section D, Sept. 1939-present

Specialties:

• Fluent in English, German, French, and Russian; working knowledge of Japanese and Mandarin
• Numerous contacts in Whitehall, the Continent, and the Orient
• Getting people to do work for him
• Avoiding doing work himself; whatever work he can't manage to avoid is done diligently
• Instigating
• Good swimmer and boxer; average pistol shot
• Massive quantities of charm, wit, and narcissism
• Good singing voice

Weapons of Choice (in descending order):

• Other people
• Charm
• Sharp insults
• Webley Mk VI in .455 Webley; his old service revolver, now mostly retired except for when in uniform and the occasional range day
• FN Model 1922 in .32 ACP; for concealed carry on intelligence ops
• Fists (when all else fails...)

RP Experience: I wrote a song about an octopus!

Personal History/Bio: The second of three children and youngest son of a British diplomat, Gerald Saunders was born in Berlin during his father's posting there and spent his childhood following his father to various Continental diplomatic postings: Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg. When various revolutions eventually made being in St. Petersburg a bad idea, the elder Saunders and his family were recalled home, where young Gerald was promptly enrolled in (and almost equally promptly expelled from) a series of public schools before finally maintaining a steady enrollment at Brighton College. After graduating from Brighton, he (surprisingly) obtained an appointment to Sandhurst; though not an outstanding cadet, he (equally surprisingly) managed to avoid being court-martialed or expelled, and after passing out was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).

Most of his military career was spent with his battalion in the Far East, where his experience consisted of, in his own words, "drilling troops, drinking liquor, swatting flies, haggling with merchants, exploiting laborers, punching sailors, viewing Japanese troops with suspicion, and occasionally visiting opium dens...".

After his commission was transferred to the Supplementary Reserve list, Saunders was approached by the Secret Intelligent Service, who sought to recruit him based on his knowledge of various cultures and languages, the numerous foreign contacts he had, and his renowned ability to charm everyone who crossed his path. Saunders accepted their offer, and spent the remainder of the interwar years as "Passport Control Officer" at the British Embassies in Moscow, Tokyo, and Berlin; during these assignments, he demonstrated an excellent ability in assembling and operating rings of informants.

At the outbreak of the war, Saunders was recalled to London and mobilized; however, the 3rd Queen's Royal Regiment was a battalion that existed solely on a sheet of paper in the War Office, so the Army simply decided to maintain the status quo and assigned him the SIS as a liaison officer. With his rings of informants mostly cut off from contact and his Army superiors remembering his penchant for making trouble, Saunders was soon transferred to Section D, where he was tasked with helping to assemble a military unit to carry out covert operations against the Germans.

[Reverend Norv]

Jean-Martin's thoughts on Gerald Saunders: "He is me, except less experienced, less competent, younger, and Anglo-Saxon, and therefore inferior in every possible way."

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Learning literature in college? Because I currently did the exact thing.

And probably reading some....international news.

While we may not have proper fighting skills, at least we have plenty of titles in our squadron.

Titles are important, too. Without titles, there will be no "Fuhrer" title.

[The Two Jerseys]

Jean-Martin's thoughts on Gerald Saunders: "He is me, except less experienced, less competent, younger, and Anglo-Saxon, and therefore inferior in every possible way."

Saunders's thoughts on Jean-Martin: "Which one of us has the office and the secretary, old boy?"

[Monfrox]

Oh hey, TJ. Photobucket is awful. Use imgur at least.

[Goram]

Jean-Martin's thoughts on Gerald Saunders: "He is me, except less experienced, less competent, younger, and Anglo-Saxon, and therefore inferior in every possible way."

Saunders's thoughts on Jean-Martin: "Which one of us has the office and the secretary, old boy?"

Is Saunders the chap in the car?

Also, I might make it so that White knows him - via Imperial Airways - if you don't mind.

[Monfrox]

Not sure if I should do a Whitehall segment or not.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Not sure if I should do a Whitehall segment or not.

My IC post is going to be split between Manston and our target destination, so if you want to do a cutaway kind of segment, it'll probably fit with what I'm doing.

[Monfrox]

Not sure if I should do a Whitehall segment or not.

My IC post is going to be split between Manston and our target destination, so if you want to do a cutaway kind of segment, it'll probably fit with what I'm doing.

I'll put Sam at Manston, but I'm not sure whether to do a thing with Whitehall at all.

[The Two Jerseys]

Saunders's thoughts on Jean-Martin: "Which one of us has the office and the secretary, old boy?"

Is Saunders the chap in the car?

Also, I might make it so that White knows him - via Imperial Airways - if you don't mind.

No, that's Talbot in the car.

Saunders is probably in the office next to Barrett's, avoiding doing as much work as possible...

And for that matter, would White actually remember individual airline passengers?

[The Two Jerseys]

Oh hey, TJ. Photobucket is awful. Use imgur at least.

Already done.

Just waiting on Tigger to copy the image code into the OP...

[Goram]

Just got in from the cinema. Saw Dunkirk. It's the best film of the year. It might be the best war film ever made. I'm sat here trying to work out how to sum it up properly, but I can't seem to find the words. Go and see the movie. Go and see it now.