Thread: Ideas Are Easy
View Single Post
Old 03-27-2019, 07:53 PM   #488
jason taylor
 
jason taylor's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
Default Re: Ideas Are Easy

It is the 1980's and the Evil Empire is at it's crest. The Russians and Afghans are busy slaying each other (not to mention doing less gentlemanly things to each other) with great gusto. And the PCs are covert operatives for Someone that Does Not Like the Russians engaged in facilitating that.

A rogue Warsaw pact general has a load of Strela-2 manportable antiaircraft missiles for sale. As it is the CIA's orders at the time to do nothing so simple as shipping American ordinance, Soviet stuff is preferred because if it is captured the fiction that the local tribes stole it or bought it on the local black market is easier to maintain.

This mission goes in stages. You must negotiate the transfer, and get the stuff from Europe to the Northwest Frontier. This will involve several stages including forged orders to local officials (who may not care where it goes or even prefer that it go that way but who definitely do not want their names involved) as well as a quid pro quo to the defecting general. You also have to watch your own back as not everyone in your own government approves of this. Along the way you can meet colorful, valiant, and brutal Afghan chiefs; sophisticated Bondish gentleman-spies, or "guys that get things done" types, or both; tramp captains, cynical merchants-of-death, and all the stuff that goes into such work. You might even meet an outrageously hedonistic Congressman whose name shall not be mentioned...

Hint: this is based on a real CIA op. The seller was a Polish general, and one of his quid pro quos was a gravestone for his emmigrant grandfather which shows that you might have to think on your feet. This stage is a good time for the GM to come up with something interesting as a sidequest.
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison
jason taylor is offline   Reply With Quote