Stories from Astyria (The OOC thread)

[Aurora Confederacy]

IC Thread can be found here

Astyria is a land of extremes, from the hot desert plains of Riysa and ViZion to the tropical jungles of the Blackhelm Confederacy, or even to the polar tundra of Nouvel Ecosse and the Aurora Confederacy, Daily life to trade deals and even Diplomatic evens such as Trade deals between nations, the scope of this RP covers it all. The regional news board quotes "Welcome to Astyria, a region of vast, ancient continents and wide-ranging cultures, both young and old. There is plenty for new explorers to conquer", to this We ask, Are you that explorer?, well why not come and find out.

As well as the diverse geography, residents of Astyria are just as diverse yet Astyria has many possibilities as well as places in which to settle with each place as diverse and different as its neighbour from Riysa and its islamic culture, to the easy going and relaxed culture of the Aurora Confederacy.

Like social RPs across NS, this one is about character buildings rather than wars or terrorism, mass plagues and pestilence, however its scope may range from the halls of power where leaders meet leaders, engage in diplomatic talks to discuss travel without borders or the price of bread, or maybe the small cafe tucked away on an alleyway somewhere, serving what could be said as being the finest cappucinos. Will Astyrian Nations manage to flesh out diplomatic deals with other nations? Will visitors to the region may get to see the pomp and circumstance of ceremonies such as opening of parliaments, even a royal wedding who knows what lies in store. Can diplomats and bureaucrats bring in political harmonisation, can foreigners settle and thive in this land of opportunity, that is all down to you!

Getting Around Astyria is easy, with most of the major nations within the central area connected by Astyrail, providing rapid(ish) transport between capital cities on japanese style Shinkanesen, or you could take the vast interstate highways that cover the country, for once you are in Astyria, you need not be confined to one part such as Nouvel Ecosse, Nikolia or the Aurora Confederacy... You can be that holiday maker, that truck driver, the sales rep and travel the nation, the choice is yours! Astyrians can RP any number of characters in their own nation as needed in order to provide interraction with other players and keep the RP rolling, though please generate an app form for characters who are going to other nations within Astyria.

The 10 commandments of this RP
1. Godmodding is forbidden.

2. PG-17 or below.

3. NO ONE LINERS.

4. NO MASS FIREFIGHTS, TERRORISM, - Thats for the intrigue. This thread is about character interraction.

5. tech level UPTO 2014 ONLY!

6. Species wise, player characters Must be HUMAN, however if your character is say a Police officer with a police dog, you can RP the dog but it will behave LIKE A DOG! so no sentient ponies or dragons, half humans etc

7. NO KILLING OF OTHER PLAYER CHARACTERS UNLESS BOTH PARTIES AGREE FOR IT TO HAPPEN IN A REALISTIC WAY

8. RESPECT the judgement of the nominated story tellers and Mentors.

9. AFTER REGISTERING TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE WAIT FOR YOU TO BE ACCEPTED, ACCEPTANCE OR DENIAL CAN BE MADE BY ANY ASTYRIAN MEMBER,

10. HAVE FUN!

Any nation is eligible to apply to join, please then wait for an member of the Astyria to formally accept you

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Introduce your character(s)
[b]Nation Name:[/b]
[b]Name of citizen(s):[/b]
[b]Age(s) of citizen(s):[/b]
[b]Language(s) of citizen(s):[/b]
[b]Religion(s) of citizen(s):[/b]
[b]Occupation of citizen(s):[/b]
[spoiler=appearance][/spoiler]
[b]Visiting:[/b]

[b]Bio *optional[/b]

[b]RP Samples[/b]

The concept has been written by the Aurora Confederacy, but run by ALL of Astyria, and so can cover Astyrian events as well as daily life within Astyria. Astyrian members can jump in with characters within the IC thread in order to keep it rolling as needed

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National factbook for Aurora Confederacy
National factbook for Aurelia * _{nation known as gaveria ooc'ly}
national Information for Neu Engollon

[Aurora Confederacy]

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name: Aurora Confederacy
Name of citizen(s): Scorpio Mirala, + Joanne Nikolov
Age(s) of citizen(s): Scorpio: 34. Joanne 26
Language(s) of citizen(s): English
Religion(s) of citizen(s): not religious
Occupation of citizen(s): Truck drivers

Visiting: Nikolia and Neu Engollon
RP Samples viewtopic.php?f=4&t=232681

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Introduce your character(s)

Name of citizen(s): Miranda Hartingen
Age(s) of citizen(s): 24
Language(s) of citizen(s): English
Religion(s) of citizen(s): non practicing christian
Occupation of citizen(s): unemployed - volunteers as a Telephonist

Name of citizen(s): Sharron Deo
Age(s) of citizen(s): 38
Language(s) of citizen(s): English
Religion(s) of citizen(s): none
Occupation of citizen(s): Driver

OR

Name of citizen(s): Karen Deo
Age(s) of citizen(s):38
Language(s) of citizen(s): English
Religion(s) of citizen(s): none
Occupation of citizen(s): driver

Karen, Sharron and Miranda also sport surgically split tongues!

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Introduce your character(s)

Name of citizen(s):Isis Mc.Callum
Age(s) of citizen(s): 26
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, Arabic, German
Religion(s) of citizen(s): None
Occupation of citizen(s): Trail guide, Travel reporter.

Visiting: Riysa for a travel magazine

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Name of citizen(s):Nebraska "Nebo" Sinclair
Age(s) of citizen(s): 25
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, German
Religion(s) of citizen(s): None
Occupation of citizen(s): Bar worker

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[Gaveria]

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name: Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Gaius Claudius Scipio
Age(s) of citizen(s):25
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin & English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):Politician

[Aurora Confederacy]

fact finding trip?

[Aurora Confederacy]

come on guys, sign up. you know you want to

[Londsdale]

Thanks for the TG

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name: The United Dominion of Londsdale
Name of citizen(s): Richard Romanov
Age(s) of citizen(s): 24
Language(s) of citizen(s): English
Religion(s) of citizen(s): Non-religious
Occupation of citizen(s): Richard Romanov works for the Ministry of Defense as a Tech and Communications Specialist

Image is too big so...link it is

Visiting: Woodstead (and beyond as he stays longer.)
RP Samples: -null-

[Aurora Confederacy]

I have been wanting to use these two outside the Aurora Confederacy for a while now.

Full Name: Gina Fittipaldi
Age: 34
Nationality: Auroran
Ethnicity:White
Ideology/Political affiliation (if any): None
Religion (if any): Officially Roman Catholic, not practicing however
Spoken Languages in order of fluency: English, French, - basic German
Any healthcare issues? above knee right amputee
Height: 5'6"
A picture of the applicant:

Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying:
Previous (if any) and current career(s): Ships cook, now an owner-driver truck in the Aurora Confederacy
Please provide a small biography:

Born into a merchant navy family, Gina, youngest of her parents 3 children, and the only daughter, Gina was very much the unwanted one. Though not abused, Gina was pretty much left out of everything, Enrico spent more on his two sons than he did on Gina, and Dominica wasn’t much different either.

Her education was at St. John’s High in South Sands, a Catholic school, where she received a good education during her school years, leaving school with good exam results. As her brothers turned 16, they followed the family footsteps and joined the navy. William Fittipaldi, the eldest, joined the navy; Angelo Fittipaldi joined up with a merchant shipping company. In 1996, when Fitt turned 16, she was signed up to Chemica Atlantico, a chemical shipping company. The ship that she was signed onto, the Celestia was a ship with a chequered past, having been stretched in 1980 after being built in 1976 and had seen better days but the company still continued to use it. Gina was given the position of becoming the assistant to the ships cook.

It took a few weeks for Gina to settle into the all male crew, however settle she did, and unlike her father, who was the captain, Gina gained the respect of the crew, probably because of female company in an all male environment. Because of the respect, Gina became known as “Fitt” to her fellow crewmates, ever since then the name stuck.

In the early hours of 9th November 1999, 2 days before her 19th birthday, out in the ocean off 200km off the coast of Terra Azure, Astyria Celestia suffered a power loss then breaks her keel and begins to roll over, this roll threw Gina out of her bunk.

Sensing that the ship was in danger, Fitt put her life jacket on then began her escape, and to do this Gina used a fire extinguisher to break the latch off the porthole window, allowing water to cascade into the ship. As soon as the cabin was full of water Gina swam out and once out of the ship the ripcord on the life jacket was pulled, catapulting Gina to the surface, the ship itself now lies in 150m of water.

When Gina surfaced she looked around in the moonlit night only to see the main hull slowly heel over and sink as by by this time the entire front end had already gone under whilst on the surface was a slick of diesel oil from the Celestia’s fuel tanks. Hearing someone shout, Gina turned around and saw one of her colleagues so she started to swim to a lifeboat.

As she swam, Gina spotted a small semi inflatable speed boat racing towards her the men aboard it letting rip with machine gun fire whilst in the distance, a dark, low slung shape of a submarine was silhouetted by the moonlight. The seaman who shouted Gina was mown down in a stream of bullets, dying instantly and falling into the water. As the boat came closer Gina tried to dive out of the way, but the boat caught her right leg and ankle, chewing them up and almost instantly the salt instantly getting into the wounds. Gina later resurfaced, and with the inflatable going back to the mother boat. Gina recalls the ship as being very low to the water, almost submarine like in profile), Gina swam to the remains of a lifeboat, she also grabbed a dead crewman and removed his survival suit and put it on herself. With the life suit on Gina was alone in the ocean. The first thing she did was use a belt of one of the dead crewmen to seal the leg of the suit to ensure that the blood was contained, she also stuffed what ever fabric she could around the leg as well to act as a blood soak though being in salt water the pain was almost unbarable until that was the nerve damage meant that the wounds to her leg went numb.

Come dawn, Gina looked around to survey her surroundings, of the 30 crew aboard the Celestia she was the only survivor. Lying on the water were numerous plastic containers, pop bottles and the likes of, a couple of sports bags containing some water filters and sterilising tablets that had come from the two of the lifeboats. 19 other corpses lay afloat on the water, along with a partly deflated inflatable lifeboat, (the floor, and 4 of the 9 side sections were deflated, but it was afloat). Gina swam round to pick up some of these fizzy drinks bottles, and a couple of belts off the dead crewmen, climbed aboard it, the partially inflated boat moulding to her shape. As the sun climbed higher into the horizon, Fitt began to succumb to the fact that she may never get picked up which gave her a deep fear of the unknown. The day went on without so much as a single passing ship; the distress beacon pinging away but nothing came.

The first night alone at sea was quite frightening for Gina, as she wasn’t sure what lay for her in the morning, and she was frightened to go sleep for fear of slipping into unconsciousness and then death. After a night that was totally still, not much in the way of moonlight, as there was quite a bit of cloud cover. During the night, Gina resorted to singing with herself, if anything to take her mind off the situation and to keep her fighting on. These lyrics were made up of what ever thoughts came into her head, Usually, these were song lyrics inspired by what ever she is thinking of at the time, mainly to keep her spirits up. During the day, Gina was also taking note at the direction of the sun throughout the day, so she could gather a fix on which way she was drifting, (which turned out to be away from the site of the sinking, heading Northeast, away from land).

The morning of the second day, (Fitt’s 19th Birthday), began much like the other morning, except it was raining, so Fitt took the condenser apart and let it fill with water, it may not have been the nicest water in the world but it was water. Having an empty bottle and a knife at hand, Gina sliced the top off one bottle to make a funnel, then placed it over another bottle in order to collect rainwater. Once the bottle was full, Fitt added a sterilising tab and placed the top back on, then later on drunk the water. That evening, Gina was ready to give up hope; she was cold, tired and had practically had enough. Her physical strength to to keep going was fading and the EPRB was pinging at longer intervals now as the battery was beginning to fail, and so taking longer to power up the capacitor that flashes the strobe. Gina by this time was weak and nauseous, almost incoherent but she carried on through the night.

The following morning Gina looked up to the east and could make out the lines of a warship silhouetted by the morning sun, the warship was an Auroran patrol Frigate that had detected the distress frequency transmission from Fitt’s EPRB and come over to take a peek at what was giving off the radio blip. As it neared Gina, a Lynx helicopter was dispatched and once airborne it flew over. As it flew over the water the crew had spotted Gina, slowly moving her arms. Soon after, a Zodiac boat was dispatched to bring Fitt in. Once aboard the warship, Fitt was sent straight to the medical centre where surgeons began working on Fitt’s leg, however it had to be amoutated.

As the medical team operated on Gina, the ship sailed to the last known location of the Celestia, to retrieve any bodies on the surface. Some 18 hours later, Fitt woke up in sickbay aboard the warship standing over her was one of the medical staff and the captain. Fitt was hooked up to an IV Nutrient feed to help Fitt recover as she was very weak, many feared she may not survive, however she did, gradually getting stronger thanks to the cocktail of medical nutrients and medical steroids that were being put into her system, however she was in a lot of pain, to which Fitt puts down to the propeller of the Terra Azuran boat that ran over her.

When the Naval ship reached Haven, the capital city of Khayr Var a few days later, Fitt was put into the forces hospital on the colony, where she continued to recover. Gina stayed in Port Haven for a couple of weeks whilst she recovered sufficiently to be transfered home. Once recovered Gina was transferred onto a Ministry of Defence flight from Port Haven back home to South Sands.

Gina returned to the Aurora Confederacy only to find that she was not to be included in her father’s will, with everything being sent to her brothers, and all items purchased by her father for Gina, were also to go to them, this left Gina with almost nothing except what she had purchased herself. Arriving home, though her mother and two brothers were made aware of the loss of the Celestia and that Gina was the only survivor, NO ONE in her family came to meet her, only a few relatives of fellow crewmen, yet to this day Fitt has never spoken to the rest of her family, instead being closer to the rest of the crew relatives than her own family.

In 2000, with her residual limb recovered to the point it could bare weight, Gina received her artificial leg which gave her some mobility back and so with practice she was able to walk again. When she took those first steps, someone was there to meet her in the rehabilitation centre, it was the captain of the warship that had rescued Fitt, to this day they remain in contact.

With compensation and the wages of life at sea, plus a business loan (now paid off) Fitt went into business in something safer, trucking. her contract with her truck was hauling foodstuffs to places in the north of the country, some of it to outlying communities that can only be resupplied in winter when the northern ocean freezes over allowing access to those communities

Full Name: Roberta "Robbie" Greenwood
Age: 24
Nationality: Auroran (Khayr var)
Ethnicity: White
Ideology/Political affiliation (if any): None
Religion (if any): None
Spoken Languages in order of fluency: English
Any healthcare issues? double above knee amputee
A picture of the applicant:

Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying:
Previous (if any) and current career(s):
Please provide a small biography:A few years younger than Fitt. Robbie is a victim of circumstances, put into care as a child, exploited by the welfare system that should have looked after her, made homeless at the age of 18 because the privately run care home saw her as 18 and no longer their responsibility, so after spending a week homeless on the streets aged 18, Robbie came across Fitt's place and was cought raiding the dumpster for food, it was there that she was taken in, given a place to stay and a roof over her head and importantly clean clothes and pride. As a result of Gina's kind and loving heart, Robbie and Gina have been living together ever since.

An assault in mid 2009 by a drunken youth left Robbie with heavily fractured legs which were amputated at the knees but now uses two prothetic legs that are able to detect nerve impulses to ease walking and provide a more natural gait where as Fitt who has some nerve damage in her legs uses a regular prosthetic leg, just don't expect Fitt or Robbie to be willing to try and run a sprint race it isn't going to happen. Of the assault, Robbie doesn't remember most of it, just a glass bottle hitting her square in her face then waking up in hospital some time later without her legs from just above her knees.

Height: 5'5"

[New Edom]

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name:The Allied States of New Edom
Name of citizen(s): Timothy Stanton
Age(s) of citizen(s): 32
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, Baran, Latin, German
Religion(s) of citizen(s): End Times Church of New Edom (radical edenist Christianity)
Occupation of citizen(s): Journalist for the Fineberg Times

(I don't normally use pictures for my characters. Tim Stanton is a medium height man with a compact build, fair skin with an all over tan, more charming and pleasant looking than handsome, but his charisma and easygoing nature grows on people. He has dark hair, blue eyes.

Visiting: Tim is covering the visit of a New Edomite politician to various nations in Astyria. It is a fact finding tour to explore future economic possibilities for New Edom. He is also doing a series called "Life in Astyria" which was commissioned to enlighten New Edomite citizens of possibilities for cultural change as a result of increasing prosperity.
RP SamplesA Day in a Life

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name: The Allied States of New Edom
Name of citizen(s): Catalina Stanton
Age(s) of citizen(s): 31
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, Baran, Latin, German, a bit of French
Religion(s) of citizen(s): End Times Church of New Edom
Occupation of citizen(s): National Council for Refugees administrator

(I don't usually use pictures for my characters. Catalina is fair skinned, with long red hair, blue eyes, freckles on her face, back and upper chest, is attractive with a strong build, curvy hips, a lush full bosom.

Visiting: Catalina is actually on vacation for the first time in her life. She and her husband have left their two children with grandparents.
RP Samples A Day in a Life

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name:The Allied States of New Edom
Name of citizen(s): John Carmel
Age(s) of citizen(s): 39
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, Baran, Latin, German, Greek, French
Religion(s) of citizen(s): End Times Church of New Edom
Occupation of citizen(s): Politician, currently Minister of Trade

John Carmel is a slim dark haired, dark olive tanned man who is often well dressed. He is handsome in a striking way with a large nose, bold eyes and a sharp chin.

Visiting: John Carmel with a small staff is visiting various nations in Astyria on a fact finding mission for the President.
RP SamplesVotes and Arrows

Staff:
1. Press Adviser (Doria Ghatto)
2. Private Secretary (Nathaniel Shale)
3. Driver/bodyguard (Council Police officer)
4. 3 other bodyguards (Council Police, plainclothes)

[Aurora Confederacy]

new Edom: ACCEPTED

[Aurora Confederacy]

Edom, I am surprised you are not going to meet up with the character here viewtopic.php?p=20270029#p20270029
anyway welcome to the AC

[Riysa]

Name of citizen(s): Bassam al-Amawi
Age(s) of citizen(s): 45
Language(s) of citizen(s): Arabic, English
Religion(s) of citizen(s): Sunni Islam
Occupation of citizen(s): Reporter for Akhbar al-Watan
Visiting: Symphonia, possibly other nations
RP Samples <3 AC

[Aurora Confederacy]

Riysa, as a fellow Astyrian, make your entrance as i bump this thread!

[Gaveria]

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Elizabetha ''Liz'' Marshall
Age(s) of citizen(s):43
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin,English and conversational French
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):First Lady of the Republic

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):John ''Trip'' Marshall III
Age(s) of citizen(s):16
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin & English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):Student

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Sandra ''Adrian'' Marshall
Age(s) of citizen(s):18
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin and English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):University Student

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Lucius Julius Marius
Age(s) of citizen(s):31
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin and English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):Senator

[Aurora Confederacy]

Edom, you do realise that you are in Valeria Port Aurora, and NOT Hai'lu'kai city, Hai'lu'kai is a couple of thousand KM to the south, I can work with it however

[Aurora Confederacy]

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Elizabetha ''Liz'' Marshall
Age(s) of citizen(s):43
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin,English and conversational French
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):First Lady of the Republic

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):John ''Trip'' Marshall III
Age(s) of citizen(s):16
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin & English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):Student

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Sandra ''Adrian'' Marshall
Age(s) of citizen(s):18
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin and English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):University Student

Nation Name:Aurelia
Name of citizen(s):Lucius Julius Marius
Age(s) of citizen(s):31
Language(s) of citizen(s):Latin and English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Greco-Roman Polytheism
Occupation of citizen(s):Senator

Make their entrance

[Aurora Confederacy]

Riysa

have you any festivals coming up?

[Riysa]

Riysa

have you any festivals coming up?

I don't believe so, no, but Ramadan is in a few weeks, so she could stay for that?

[Aurora Confederacy]

Riysa

have you any festivals coming up?

I don't believe so, no, but Ramadan is in a few weeks, so she could stay for that?

that could be done.

[McNernia]

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name:The Kingdom of McNernia
Name of citizen(s):Ryan Garfield
Age(s) of citizen(s):19
Language(s) of citizen(s):English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Anglo-Catholic Christian
Occupation of citizen(s):Student,Writer

http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp9980594.jpg

Visiting:Neu Engollon
RP Sampleshttp://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=205356&start=450

[Aurora Confederacy]

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name:The Kingdom of McNernia
Name of citizen(s):Ryan Garfield
Age(s) of citizen(s):19
Language(s) of citizen(s):English
Religion(s) of citizen(s):Anglo-Catholic Christian
Occupation of citizen(s):Student,Writer

http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp9980594.jpg

Visiting:Neu Engollon
RP Sampleshttp://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=205356&start=450

You're in

[Zitru]

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name: United States of Zitru
Name of citizen(s): Arnold Böhler
Age(s) of citizen(s): 47
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, Spanish, German
Religion(s) of citizen(s): Christian
Occupation of citizen(s): Executive at Destiny Airlines

Visiting:Arnold is visiting ViZion to engage in a conference with the executive staff of ViZionair.
RP Samples: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=200938&hilit=World+War+III , http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=135942

(For RP purposes, please refer to Zitru as either the United States, the US or the USZ. Thanks!)

[Riysa]

Zitru, do you have any other RP samples than that?

[Zitru]

Zitru, do you have any other RP samples than that?

Uh, nope. I can't find any others, unless I've missed any which I'm sure I haven't. To be honest, I'm not that big on RP'ing, I'm more of a GE&T person.

[Aurora Confederacy]

Zitru, do you have any other RP samples than that?

Uh, nope. I can't find any others, unless I've missed any which I'm sure I haven't. To be honest, I'm not that big on RP'ing, I'm more of a GE&T person.

you could have used those then. Riysa I will let you rule on this one

[Riysa]

Alright then AC,

Introduce your character(s)
Nation Name: United States of Zitru
Name of citizen(s): Arnold Böhler
Age(s) of citizen(s): 47
Language(s) of citizen(s): English, Spanish, German
Religion(s) of citizen(s): Christian
Occupation of citizen(s): Executive at Destiny Airlines

(Image)

Visiting:Arnold is visiting ViZion to engage in a conference with the executive staff of ViZionair.
RP Samples: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=200938&hilit=World+War+III , http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=135942

(For RP purposes, please refer to Zitru as either the United States, the US or the USZ. Thanks!)

Accepted.