<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: poor richard;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;">On Her Majesty’s Secret Service</span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_u">Active Threads</span><br/>April 1, London (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=69802.0)<br/>This OOC Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=69743.0)<br/><br/>The world of the 1980s was a far different place than our world today. Before the rise of religious extremism and rogue states, Socialism and Capitalism fought a cold war over the world’s developing regions and its peoples. The soldiers in this war didn’t wear uniforms or carry flags; they weren’t boys led into the field by men on horseback wielding sabers. The soldiers in this war were the man on the street, the lover in your bed, and the man behind the desk. It was hard to distinguish between friends and enemies, and players played different sides depending on what was going on in a tiny village deep inside some backwater province.<br/><br/>As the superpowers engaged themselves in ideological deadlock, the underworld criminal elements thrived, sometimes even subversively supported by the governments of the world powers. The general populace of the free world was powerless to resist such an insidious, hidden enemy; it could only be protected by men and women who could personalize their patriotism into deeds that would make a normal person cringe and reel back from fear. They weren’t superheroes. They were men and women just like you and me. Trained, honed, and chiseled into the cutting edge of what a person could be.<br/><br/>This story follows four such members of the world’s paramount espionage agency, the UK’s MI6. Its field agents protect NATO and its allies from the machinations of the KGB and various other criminal elements, no matter where they may appear on the globe. Much like a nuclear arsenal, they could be launched great distances at a moment’s notice, lacking the punch of a nuclear attack, but providing the precision of a surgeon. It was these dedicated men and women that allowed the rest of us commute to work and school, to go on holiday in summer. In some cases, it was these dedicated men and women who kept the world from a conflagration of nuclear holocaust.<br/><br/>This is the world of James Bond 007, and the JB7 RPG game system.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Starring:</span><br/>Anathanasia – 1169<br/>Major Major – 1198<br/>Midnight Diamond – 1136<br/>Zebu – 1112<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Also Making Appearances </span><br/>Gosco<br/>Hera<br/>Imogen<br/>Mithlomwen<br/>RedEve<br/><em>with</em><br/>Lord Mayerling<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">The Threads</span><br/>Post anything OOC in this thread. The threads of the game will be the current date and location of the story. For example, [OHMSS - April 1, London] will be the title of the first thread. Thus, in theory, only two threads will be active in the game, whatever the current date is, and the OOC thread. The first post in each thread will be the players involved in the thread, and the initial posting order. If they so choose, the baddies will have a private thread of their own. Baddies, just request it if you want one; I can also make it public if that’s easier. The year isn’t important. Don’t get wound up with historical events and their relation to the plot or calendar. Just pretend you’re in a movie or novel: the plot is more important than the history.<br/><br/>I’ll post the links of the game threads in this thread, so this is the best one to bookmark.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Posting Order</span><br/>Initial posting order will be posted in the first post of the thread when I set it up. The MI6 agents will be identified en bloc if they are together, and their posting order isn’t paramount. Generally, post as you wish, but don’t go crazy if you see someone hasn’t had the chance to post yet. The last thing you want as a player is to have to incorporate six or seven responses to posts above yours.<br/><br/>As I will be setting the scenes, my posts will tend to be a little longer than most. Don’t feel like you have to post in parallel to me. I’m a big fan of the three paragraph model with some flexibility. If I see the thread has stalled, but there’s more that needs to be covered, I’ll move the story along with a post of my own. Mostly, though, I plan on letting the story evolve on its own. Also feel free to separate from your fellow characters within the same thread, especially if you’re not all together. If it gets too confusing, I’ll create separate threads and place players in them, but I’d rather keep the entire story (day by day) in a single thread, if possible.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Content</span><br/>Feel free to pursue this as you would like, but don’t be an asshole, and don’t hold up the story. If you’re holding up the story, I’ll leave the thread open for you to finish up, but open a new thread so the rest of us can move on. If your finishing up is part of the story, and you’re holding us up, then I’ll PM you to please move it along. Have fun. Remember you’re doing it for your country.<br/>