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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9431936" data-attributes="member: 6999616">The PCs work for MI6, under cover as the crew of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Empire" target="_blank">Short Empire BOAC flying boat</a>. We were sent to Lisbon in Portugal to bring the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George,_Duke_of_Kent" target="_blank">Duke of Kent</a> home from a trade visit, then our orders were changed, and two RAF Sunderland flying boats arrived to take DoK back to the UK. Our new mission is to bring the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII" target="_blank">Duke of Windsor</a> and his wife back to the UK. He had been living in France, but left for Spain when the Germans invaded. Everything connected with him is legally and politically sensitive, so actual discretion is required from the PCs and we had a chap from the embassy in Lisbon to provide diplomacy. We found the Duke in a town just on the Spanish side of the Portuguese border and were able to escort him to Lisbon. That went OK. Then the Ritz Hotel, where he'd booked a suite, "felt they could not provide proper security" and cancelled his booking. Substitute accommodation was available, at an out-of-town villa belonging to the richest man in Portugal, who is, of course, closely connected to the authoritarian government of António <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar" target="_blank">Salazar</a>. The government isn't pro-Nazi, because the Spanish government is, but it is also difficult to trust. The Duke has settled into the villa, playing golf, socialising and arranging his financial affairs via telegrams to London. It's been announced that he is to be the new Governor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamas" target="_blank">Bahamas</a>, and the PCs job is to take him there in their flying boat. This is a bit tricky, because an Empire boat hasn't the range to do that easily. We have a <a href="http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=LIS-LPA-BJL-MLW-ASI-NAT-MCP-GEO-BAQ-KIN-NAS" target="_blank">route</a> via Liberia, Ascension Island and Brazil, and after a lot of admin, we have all the fuelling arranged, accommodation booked, and the Duke is in no hurry to depart. Like his historical version, this Duke has never qualified as a mature adult and only really cares about his own pleasures. There are Gestapo agents in Lisbon, and he's invited for a season's hunting in Spain. We're trying to work out how best to get him to depart; mind-control magic is definitely on the agenda.</blockquote>

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