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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Vagabond on August 31, 2022, 07:27:48 PM
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The Great Escape – The
Movie Game
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Looking down from the hill overlooking the camp Snappers opined “We can’t let this go” Dougers agreed with him and the only dissenting voice was Vaggers. “Look you two; we’ve only just freed you from the clutches of the German Army, who’s left to rescue you if we all get captured this time.
He looked despairingly at Bunty and received a blank stare back.
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These are my responsibility said Snappers, this is my land and they are my people, he’s never really got over the concept of medieval feudality.
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Look they’re even interning the Clergy and the Sisters from Mother Teresa’s Nunnery or whatever they call it.
I didn’t like to point out that these were Catholics and he’d been at war with the Catholics ever since Good Queen Beth’s time.
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OK, lets do it, how do you want to play it out I asked. He looked vaguely disconcerted and then responded, the same as always. Oh no, not the knock, knock who’s there I asked. Well is there any other way.
I suppose not, I guess you want me to be the knocker I asked resignedly. Of course old chap – you do it so well he grinned.
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Knock, knock I smiled at the grim looking SS guard on the outer barrier.
What the hell do you want Gerda replied.
Err – I have another batch of prisoners for you I responded.
You’re not Jim or Fred she said, they’ve been driving the trucks with the Internees.
Err – no, I tried all of my charm but met a stony reserve.
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Looking over her shoulder I could see the 2nd gate and wondered how the hell we were going to get in if she wouldn’t let us through.
Bugger off - she suddenly said when the dice roll finally went her way. We’d spent quite a while with me trying my charm against her brains but as they say brains will do as brains will do, although I’ve no idea what that means. We both realised what I was trying to do wouldn’t work.
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Well I did all a man can do when spurned by a woman. - I shot her.
Yes I know it wasn’t such a gentlemanly act, I had a double barrelled shotgun and she had a bolt action rifle, but equality is overrated, never go into a fight unless the odds are on your side.
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Go Go Go I shouted to Bunty who had been sat quietly in the driver’s seat of the truck. She’d been listening to her man trying to charm another woman and failing completely. She shoved her foot to the floor and the big truck leapt forward. Crashing into the big wooden barrier it pushed it out of the way like a piece of matchwood.
Gerda was down on the ground bleeding like a stuck pig, although I’ve never seen a pig stuck so not really sure what that looks like.
Don’t imagine it’s very pleasant though.
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Even from where I was standing I could see the whites of the Italian Guards eyes as Bunty drove the truck straight at the gate. He raised his rifle but a little too late as there was a resounding crash and the truck burst through.
He jumped to one side and didn’t get crushed as the truck careered into the compound.
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It flicked to the right and started to roll, Ingrid and Luca the guards jumped out of the way as did the Rev Green, he was surprisingly lithe for a man of his size and years, but the Nuns were caught unawares.
Sister Monica was killed in the blink of an eye and Sister Matilda was thrown 10 ft into the air before landing with a crunch and she was out of any fight there might be.
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Reactions varied throughout the camp. Major Kamilla Altman of the SS was stunned but Amelia Frost thought that now was a good time to indicate her disapproval at being rounded up and interned in the camp. Her walking stick twitched and she really would have liked to bring it down on Kamilla’s head, but quickly realised that she was probably too old to start a cat fight, as she’d heard them called, and it might not have the desired effect, so she stayed her hand.
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Ingrid of the SS and Luca both devout Catholics, although Ingrid can’t admit to it, rushed forward and tried to help the Nuns, as Kamilla a devout self server runs forward with her gun in hand to check the truck. She sees the limp body of Bunty Hampster-Crust in the driver’s seat and relaxes a little.
Most of the guards are stunned by this turn of events, although not as stunned as the occupants of the truck.
Bunty the driver is out of the fight as is Mad Patsie who was sat in the back. Snappers, Dougers and Spankers are still conscious even if a little banged about. They gradually collect them selves and make their way to the back of the truck.
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Bunty me love screamed Vaggers as he ran forward to help his beloved woman. He should have been paying more attention to what was happening elsewhere, but love is blind and Fiore the guard saw him coming and fired off a single shot from his bolt action rifle.
Fiore is a bit of a good shot and even though Vaggers was running fast enough to break the 100yards school record, it wasn’t fast enough to outpace Fiore’s bullet and he was hit, - hard - and went down and wouldn’t get back up in this fight.
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Snappers, Dougers and Spankers slowly climbed out of the back of the upturned truck. Snappers and Dougers being pragmatic men saw that they were surrounded with gun toting German and Italian troops and threw their hands up in the air.
Spankers though, failed her brains test. She’s going to do something silly. She should have run but instead drew her pistol and opened fire on the nearest guard who happened to be Luca the Italian. He was so surprised by this that even though he had his rifle at the ready Spankers was too quick for him. He was even more surprised when she hit him between the eyes and he fell dead. It was no consolation that she’s not a very good shot (she has other attributes) and it was just a lucky random 6 on the dice. Dead is dead as they say in the morgue.
That’s when the brown stuff really hit the fan and everyone started shouting, running and in some cases even shooting.
Retribution for Spankers ill considered action was swift but inaccurate. Giuseppe off to our left opened fire on her, missing by a whisker as well as everyone else in that crowded area. Of course Snappers and Dougers had already hit the deck, these old pro’s move quickly when they need to and that probably saved them.
I use a random activation, weighted to the best characters and the next to activate were Spankers and Snappers.
Snappers, who strangely has a very Anglocentric view on life, knows that a true English Gentleman doesn’t surrender one minute and then pull a gun on his adversary the next, it’s just not cricket, so he just stayed on the ground.
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Spankers took a more considered view of her predicament and with the words that Arnie would make famous years later she shouted “I’ll be back” and ran through the gate and as far down the road as her legs could carry her. Until recently she’d been a pretty handy 100m sprinter and indeed one of Snappers prized possessions is a photograph of her in the Berlin Harriers running kit. The flying boots that she’s taken to wearing lately hardly slowed her at all and she was covering a lot of ground very quickly.
A few bullets whizzed past her, but the guards were winded having to run to get into position to fire and nothing came anywhere near her.
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Well the two old Duffers, I mean hero’s are incarcerated again, this time in a place a little more secure than a cellar in Greater Snoring.
No one has escaped from the Cooler – yet. Of course they are the first English occupants of the place so that’s not such a daunting fact as it might seem. Given a teaspoon and a bit of wood they will soon have a tunnel underway.
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The small hospital is full to over flowing, patients are laying on the floor because there aren’t enough beds and of course there is no nursing staff either. Sister Matilda who has the skills might have helped out if Bunty hadn’t run her over and was a little miffed that she was sharing the floor with the erstwhile Bunty and the other intrepid rescuers Mad Patsie and Vaggers.
Vaggers might have enjoyed his sojourn in the hospital with three young women if the floor wasn’t so hard and the wound in his leg didn’t hurt so much. There was the added disadvantage that there was no medication or pain relief available either, however :-
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It was better than the alternative, as the Reverend Green surveys the 3 new graves and wonders who is occupying the fourth one that was already there this morning.
Well as plans go, trying to charm your way into an Internment Camp wasn’t such a good idea and driving the truck through the barrier didn’t work as well this time as it did with the shop window in Greater Snoring.
You live and learn.
Years ago Alfrik posted a number of games using the Pulp Alley rules and in one of these he has some Agents enter a Secret Facility using forged documents. Each encounter was a combat between the good guys to see if they could persuade the bad guy’s that their documents were genuine, or it might have been the reverse, it was a long time ago. Anyway I’ve always wanted to use the idea of breaking into a camp of some sort with the same idea. It obviously didn’t work here but now I have something to break into I’ll try and find his game report and see what his criteria were and probably have another go.
Thanks for reading – if you did.
Cheers
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Excellent to see this kick off. I always look forward to your games.
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The subtle approach does not appear to be the Three Duffers forte lol lol lol This is a great "hold my beer" story and quite entertaining as always.
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What a fabulous cock-up, I can’t wait to see how they manage to extricate themselves.
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They definitely need to come up with a third or fourth go to plan. The ol' knock knock doesn't seems to have much success lately.
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But it looked like a fun game.
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What a splendid, rip-roaring, complete balls-up; Dougers is proud to have been involved in such a spectacular snafu. Some nice piccies there as well, old bean; it looks a treat.
Now I see there’s another post from you above this one (although it’ll be below this one when I hit "Post" but, if I comment on that one, it’ll be above again - comprendez?) so I’m off to read it.
Doug
Edit: I didn’t comment on the other topic so this one remains, for now, on top
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Er, well, that could have gone better for our intrepid, if not successful, heroes. However, as to which you alluded, I suspect "Great Escape 2.0" may be in the offing. I just don't see them cooling their jets in the cooler for long.
And there is that well.... ;)
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Wow...that was one heck of an...interesting? plan! lol
Great story, so far. Nice to see it will continue on for awhile more, it appears!
Mike Demana
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Harumph! Back in chokey again, eh what? The only consolation being that Spankers (my housekeeper at the Hall) has gone on the lam. If anyone can sort this mess out, it's Ilsa Spankhurst.
What a great AAR and a fine rambunctious start to doings at the internment camp. I'll be playing on this sumptuous terrain two weeks tomorrow, can't wait!
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Wonderful as always :)
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What an utterly glorious cock-up. lol
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Excellent to see this kick off. I always look forward to your games.
You are so kind :D CheersThe subtle approach does not appear to be the Three Duffers forte lol lol lol This is a great "hold my beer" story and quite entertaining as always.
Subtle doesn't enter into it. ;)
What a fabulous cock-up, I can’t wait to see how they manage to extricate themselves.
I can see I'm going to have to give that a bit more thought than I did with this plan. o_o
They definitely need to come up with a third or fourth go to plan. The ol' knock knock doesn't seems to have much success lately.
I like to keep my plans simple, knock knock is usually a good one. ::)
But it looked like a fun game.
I enjoyed it - cheers
What a splendid, rip-roaring, complete balls-up; Dougers is proud to have been involved in such a spectacular snafu.
I've enjoyed the Dougers, Snappers Vaggers games, I'm just a bit worried what will happen if I get one of us killed. o_o
Er, well, that could have gone better for our intrepid, if not successful, heroes. However, as to which you alluded, I suspect "Great Escape 2.0" may be in the offing.
There's always money to be made from sequels. ;D
Wow...that was one heck of an...interesting? plan! lol
Do I detect a note of irony there or just plain sarcasm. ;)
Harumph! Back in chokey again, eh what? The only consolation being that Spankers (my housekeeper at the Hall) has gone on the lam. If anyone can sort this mess out, it's Ilsa Spankhurst.
At least you're out of harms way lol It does look as though everything is riding on Spankers. o_o
Wonderful as always :)
Cheers Blackwolf 8)
What an utterly glorious cock-up. lol
That probably sums it up and seems to be a reocouring thread through the comments. ::)
Hey ho!!
Cheers
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I see the graves appear to be outside of the camp? I wonder ifnthe guards would notice an extra one that might provide a tunnel entrance?
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A ripping yarn! Hard cheese for the would-be rescuers, but they'll be back at the wicket before long.
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I see the graves appear to be outside of the camp? I wonder ifnthe guards would notice an extra one that might provide a tunnel entrance?
I have it on good authority that with 4 fingers and a thumb the guards can count to 5 but once they start to use their other hand things get confusing. So we might need a few more graves for your plan to work.
However you've probably noticed subtlety isn't my forte and I think I'm only left with Spankers and Auntie Edna to effect a break in/out. This is probably a 3 glasses of whiskey problem.
A ripping yarn! Hard cheese for the would-be rescuers, but they'll be back at the wicket before long.
Unfortunately while Snappers Dougers and Vaggers are well versed in the subtly of 5 day Test cricket, Spankers is more of your 1 day knock out game and I'm not sure she understands the "at the wicket" phrase.
Cheers
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Unfortunately while Snappers Dougers and Vaggers are well versed in the subtly of 5 day Test cricket, Spankers is more of your 1 day knock out game and I'm not sure she understands the "at the wicket" phrase.
Cheers
So long as she doesn’t "step up to the plate and throw a curve ball", or any other of that baseball nonsense, we’ll be fine.
Doug
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No, no, no. You see, some "baseball nonsense" is exactly what the doctor ordered. She needs to throw a change-up and nick the inside corner of the plate. Catch the batter looking. Strike him out that way. And that, my good men, is their ticket out of their current lodgings...
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Some form of cunning ruse may be in order.
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However you've probably noticed subtlety isn't my forte and I think I'm only left with Spankers and Auntie Edna to effect a break in/out. This is probably a 3 glasses of whiskey problem.
That could be the kernel of a new plan. Spankers & Auntie E, specially 'spiced' baked goods and whiskey. No explosions and knocking but well it would have whiskey going for it.
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No, no, no. You see, some "baseball nonsense" is exactly what the doctor ordered. She needs to throw a change-up and nick the inside corner of the plate. Catch the batter looking. Strike him out that way. And that, my good men, is their ticket out of their current lodgings...
CapnJim let me see if I understand you.
Throw a charge up, so fling an explosive charge or grenade.
Nick the corner of the plate, so steal the corner of a round plate! I.e. set him a riddle.
Catch the batter looking, so let him see you.
Strike him out that way, so hit him with something.
So while he's looking at you, set him a riddle and hit him with something explosive.
Well that might work. o_o o_o o_o
Some form of cunning ruse may be in order.
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That could be the kernel of a new plan. Spankers & Auntie E, specially 'spiced' baked goods and whiskey. No explosions and knocking but well it would have whiskey going for it.
So if we put Spankers and Auntie Edna in a pantomime cow with a bottle of whisky and ignore CptnJims advice about knocking and charges you think that might work better. Hummmm. lol lol lol
I greatly appreciate these kernels of wisdom and will endeavor to include them in my next cunning plan to break into and then out of the camp. :D
Cheers
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There's always the "you're a little short for a stormtrooper" approach. A 'local' patrol gas picked up the dastardly saboteurs and is bringing them in to the camp. Do any of the remaining team speak German?
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Do any of the remaining team speak German?
Ilsa Spankhurst (Spankers) is German by birth. Born as Ilsa von Spanckwürst, in pre-war Berlin, her mother is Merkin von Spanckwürst. The story of Ilsa's adventures in Berlin and escape to war-torn Britain to join the SOE, is yet to be revealed.
After the war, Ilsa was employed at Snapcase Hall as the strict disciplinarian housekeeper. Unfortunately, her mother, driven mad by events yet to be revealed, has had to be incarcerated in the attic of the east wing. Old Scrotum (the wrinkled old Snapcase family butler), keeps her well supplied with Wiener Schnitzel and schnapps and other delicacies.
It's rumoured that Ilsa's brother (a committed Nazi) was a member of the Vril Society and disappeared in New Swabia, Antarctica. Apparently Merkin's insanity is linked to this event, in mysterious circumstances.
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Antarctica?! Probably a derelict secret nazi base up there over run with giant penguins. I bet the penguins got to poor Merlin too.
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CapnJim let me see if I understand you.
Throw a charge up, so fling an explosive charge or grenade.
Nick the corner of the plate, so steal the corner of a round plate! I.e. set him a riddle.
Catch the batter looking, so let him see you.
Strike him out that way, so hit him with something.
So while he's looking at you, set him a riddle and hit him with something explosive.
Well that might work. o_o o_o o_o
Um, Sure? I must say, that is quite the creative interpretation. Well done, lad! You get a gold star on your report card.... :D
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Some form of cunning ruse may be in order.
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I wonder if this might do
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lol
Perfect!
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Nice nun. Where's her yardstick? :D
And her base label now has "Sister Matilda, Sister Matilda, Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me..." going through my head... :o
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I’m a bit late to the party but this was such a fun read!