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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9370776" data-attributes="member: 6999616">The occult WWII campaign has two strands at present. I run the China-Burma-India theatre, and Zyg runs the neutral countries. The characters in the latter work for MI6, under cover as a BOAC civilian flying boat crew. They were sent to Lisbon to convey the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George,_Duke_of_Kent" target="_blank">Duke of Kent</a> back to the UK. He's been in neutral Portugal visiting a trade fair. That was all going fine until 05:00 local time on Monday 1st July when we heard several multi-engine aircraft approaching the Lisbon seaplane base. As dawn started, we could see they had four engines and wondered if they might be Luftwaffe Fw 200 Kondors but they were RAF Sunderland flying boats, who landed but stayed out in the channel. The Air Attaché from the embassy arrived with a signal for us saying that the Sunderlands were to take the Duke of Kent, and we were to remain in Lisbon to take alternative passengers. We started speculating about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Windsor" target="_blank">Duke of Windsor</a> at that point, but it wasn't confirmed for a few hours, when the attaché told us he had set off from Madrid towards Lisbon, but nobody knew just where he was. Magical detection revealed he wasn't in Portugal; detection across national borders is at serious penalties, so we needed to be in Spain to check there. We flew towards Gibraltar, had "engine trouble" and alighted in Spanish territorial waters for engine repairs and detection. That revealed the Duke & Duchess at a hotel along a reasonable route from Madrid to Lisbon. We flew back, talked to the Embassy, and four of the six PCs set off by car for the border, with the embassy's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eccles,_1st_Viscount_Eccles" target="_blank">economic adviser</a>, who appears to be running things. One of the PCs is a racing driver, so we made good time, although it was hard on the passengers; the roads in 1940 Portugal are not superb.In the next session, we will have to sneak across the border, magically locate the Duke, and track him, or possibly rescue him.</blockquote>

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