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[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Word has arrived in Lisbon that a fugitive is to arrive wanted for espionage, sedition, terrorism, and as an accessory to the recent assassination of a German officer. He is said to be accompanied by an attractive women. The PCs are officers in the local police.
As an added complication it turns out that this fugitive carries a visa signed by Charles de Gaulle. Maintaining neutrality between beligerants is hard enough. This visa will involve the local government in someone else's civil war. And whatever the PCs do they know uncomfortably that if a diplomatic mistake, is made the government won't hesitate to explain it as the work of "overenthusiastic officers".

What do they do when Victor Lazlo comes to town?

Depends. Is there such a place as "Rick's Café Américain"? :)

Seriously, this would be a great espionage/intrigue setting, but you'd want to build it out more, and define the relationships between the local constabulary and the NAZI liaison, the Vichy military, the Free French resistance, and the Moroccans.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Word has arrived in Lisbon that a fugitive is to arrive wanted for espionage, sedition, terrorism, and as an accessory to the recent assassination of a German officer. He is said to be accompanied by an attractive women. The PCs are officers in the local police.
As an added complication it turns out that this fugitive carries a visa signed by Charles de Gaulle. Maintaining neutrality between beligerants is hard enough. This visa will involve the local government in someone else's civil war. And whatever the PCs do they know uncomfortably that if a diplomatic mistake, is made the government won't hesitate to explain it as the work of "overenthusiastic officers".

What do they do when Victor Lazlo comes to town?

Not much unless there's a new wrinkle. They can avoid trouble by just not noticing Lazlo. It might get interesting, though if a prominent German is killed in Lisbon while Lazlo is in the vicinity.

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

Depends. Is there such a place as "Rick's Café Américain"? :)

I'm sure there is in Casablanca by now. It's to obvious an advertising gimmick. But it wouldn't be the real one. I was talking about Lisbon however. If you remember at the end of the movie Lazlo had gotten his hop to Lisbon from Casablanca. However he will be in a similar difficulty there, and he has to get from there to Allied territory. The Germans of course will want that not to happen.

But there were real places like Rick's in neutral cities that catered to rich refugees who were stuck in town and had nothing to do with their money but party. Or acted as places where the Good Guys and the Bad Guys met and exchanged sporting insults. Or all of that kind of thing. They are mentioned in some of the espionage histories I have. Some of the tradecraft of the movie was off but the basic premise was real.

The poorer refugees didn't have as much fun. And the poorer spies were likely to end up with a knife in the back-from whoever-and dumped in the harbor for the fish. But what the hey.

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

I'm sure there is in Casablanca by now.

There is. Also one in Cape Town, South Africa, for some reason.

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

There is. Also one in Cape Town, South Africa, for some reason.

The one in Casablanca looks like almost an exact copy from the movie, and the staff willingly gives up a seat at the piano for anybody who wants to play, "As Time Goes By."

(It wouldn't surprise me to learn the house pianists are absolutely sick of that song, by now, and are happy to let the guests play it, so they don't have to.)

I sent the link to the site for the restaurant to a co-worker, a black guy, who said he'd like to take his wife, some day. He also said he'd learn to play that one song, and buy a white dinner jacket with bow-tie, just so he could do it right -- and get pictures.

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[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

The one in Casablanca looks like almost an exact copy from the movie, and the staff willingly gives up a seat at the piano for anybody who wants to play, "As Time Goes By."

(It wouldn't surprise me to learn the house pianists are absolutely sick of that song, by now, and are happy to let the guests play it, so they don't have to.)

I sent the link to the site for the restaurant to a co-worker, a black guy, who said he'd like to take his wife, some day. He also said he'd learn to play that one song, and buy a white dinner jacket with bow-tie, just so he could do it right -- and get pictures.

Does the police chief allow gambling?

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Does the police chief allow gambling?

Of course not! Unless he wins.

[Edges]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Does the police chief allow gambling?

I'm sure he would be shocked to find gambling taking place.

[David Johnston2]

The Age of the Superhero started in the 18th century. As a result Europe is filled with super powered nobles and royalty, many of whom have a lot more authority than in real life. Meanwhile the United States Constitution never happened. Instead the not especially United States still operate under the Articles of Confederation as fundamentally autonomous political entities. Weirdly autonomous political entities, what with the one that was influenced by a superheroine to remove the vote from men, the one that had a successful slave rebellion and is dominated by the descendants of the slaves, and the one that is a theocracy. And elsewhere the Machine Empire rules what used to be the empire of Russia, and Europe and the Empire of China watch it with dread.