NationStates Jolt Archive

The IC thread can be found here (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=493112).

From talking with the thread creator over MSN, yes, it is an open RP. Please, if you have a habit of posting "Two line posts," don't bother. Modern Tech only, was my understanding of the technological timeframe.

Ah, splendid. Tag, and fair warning of my continued interest. Looks like a potentially good RP.

If it is quite all right, then, I'm preparing an initial IC post to indicate Yugoslavia's interest, and the reasons for it.

Is it okay if I play a group of people selling arms to the partisans?

Ah, two quality RP'ers so far.

Now, I can't speak for Kilrany. I'm not him, I just know him. But I can tell you that:
- Yugoslavia, go ahead, by all means.
- Aeson: That'd be a good thing, but we do need to take the beginning slow here. If the partisans suddenly show up carrying military-grade weapons, right at the beginning, even though some of them are former Khurzav soldiers (Including troops who didn't acknowledge the surrender and fled into the rural areas with their gear), then Kilrany involvement will crush us all.

I've worked with 5th Division in the past. Kilrany's a little hesitant as to how they'd be percieved by the general NS population here, but from the SFR* showings, the last thing the Partisans need is 5th Division hunting them all down, right now.

So we'll take it slow - and then yes, if we can figure out a place for an arms deal, at least one partisan group would take you up on it.

* - SFR was established by a Slovene who set up the FLRJ (Probably sounds familiar to you, Yugoslavia) and is a private region with its own forums. This is a "controlled" situation in the SFR to gauge outside interest. That is, if I recall what I was told earlier correctly.

All right. I suppose once the RP gets going I'll have someone go into the country and start trying to find a partisan group to sell to.

It'll be difficult to get in, but one or two guys should be able to do it. As to getting the materiel itself in, that'll be harder. As you can see if you read the first post in the IC thread, there are "Exclusion Zones" around the vast majority of the country.

Good morning all.
I appreciate your interest in my thread.

In regards to arms dealers, as my associate there already mentioned right now would be difficult, the coast is still being patroled by coastal craft and some destroyers and attack submarines, but more critically most of the nation is still not considered stable enough by the Kilrany to allow normal trade to continue. So there aren't a whole lot of aircraft or ships coming in that aren't Kilrany in origin. However, it would be quite possible to get a couple guys it, be dangerous just now, but quite possible to find interested buyers. As the peacekeeping thread gets going and depending on how the situation goes it may began to stabilise enough in the eyes of the Kilrany to allow for limited trade to start again, which opens many doors for arms dealers to begin smuggling in relatively small numbers of weapons unoticed.

I can just tell you that the Kilrany likely wont appreciate it if they ever catch one. heh

(This is a puppet nation owned by the same player that Controls Independent Hitmen)

Hi there, Im quite interested in this RP under the guise of my newer nation The House of James-.

Basically I'm applying to be a peacekeeper with my new nation to try and establish it a little more in RPing circles. If you want me to post from IH to prove its me and/or would like links to examples of RP's I have already participated in I will be glad to provide them.

If you give me the go ahead I will start work on a post today.

Certainly, you are quite welcome to join in.

Yugoslavia, The House of James, very well done posts. It'll be a challenge for me to keep up to you two, in terms of post quality.
Post amended to include Otares. Looking forward to RP'ing with you guys.

I think I can skip over some of the protocol exchange stuff. Writing out posts like that is a little dry. I am ready to deploy, with you clearance. Is there anything I should be aware of? Oocly or icly?

It is isn't it. I have no problem with getting your guys sorted out, my general idea would have been to have your HQ element and aircraft operate out of one of the two major airfields I have noted on the map. Those are the two airfields that aren't either currently unusable due to shelling and/or bombing, or quite saturated with Kilrany aircraft.

Is that acceptable?

On a related note, I'm not exactly restricting anyone from bringing in anti air weapons, but I must admit it puts me on edge just a little bit that you think you might need it, since the only aircraft in the skies are Kilrany. heh

I never thought to ask before, but I will now, I've been asuming you have all been bringing vehicles painted in whatever camo scheme your nations uses for a temperate enviroment. I was curious if this was really the case. It makes no difference as to your forces being in the nation, more for my own curiousity, are all your vehicles in a camo scheme, or do any of you have the 'UN' like white or noticable colours like that? Same question extends to the helmets to, just curious.

I'm intrested in the Khurzav initial re-action when they learn that Kilrany will have other countries involved I wonder if Khurzav will attack on re-action to it or not that's all i'm wondering about

With regards the Un style markings that is an interesting topic. Perhaps once the peacekeeping forces are established we should have a small meeting, either on MSN or IC to determine what/if we should do to show that they are international peacekeepers rather than Kilrany troops in other vehicles.

Most Kingdom vehicles are painted in woodland camo style (mainly differeing shades of green) as a default because those are the conditions in the Kingdom, with the exception of Norseland which does have a disproportionate amount of snow in winter leading to troops from that province to have an even mixture of white painted vehicles. However the 3rd Irian that has been deployed all currently have woodland camoflauge patterns on their combat vehicles, support vehicles will just be painted green, or in the case of tankers grey.

I'd been wondering about the same thing, maybe you would like to distinguish yourselves in some way from Kilrany forces, I'll leave it at your guy's call really.

The Yugoslavian soldiery of course have their own uniforms and markings. They have brought berets and forage caps in addition to helmets, thinking this a fairly low-intensity theatre and intending to do most of their work without looking like they've come to fight. However, being warned against saluting even at the airbase they've landed at is likely to see them quickly replacing caps with NE-44 helmets (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Chivtv/NS1/YUGOSLAVIA_NE44.jpg) with a red star visible on the front. Like the helmets, the rest of their uniform is likely to look a little dated -Cold War chic, if you will- as Yugoslavia has expended many of its resources developing the L-20 (Novi Avion/Yu-Supersonik) fighter to replace archaic MiG-21 and covering the nation with defensive bunkers and pillboxes, and given uniforms et cetera a low priority. Now a JNA soldier is likely to be easily identified in silhouette thanks to the very retro shape of his tin helmet, where everyone else probably has kevlar or similar headgear.

Yugoslav vehicles will be marginally updated copies of the Jeep and UAZ, Yugoslav-built trucks, and the BOV-VP 4x4 APC. No tracked vehicles have been attached to the mission as yet. Some will bear the large red star of the SFRY, and all others will feature the coat of arms (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Chivtv/NS1/Grbsfrj.jpg). A lot of vehicles -BOV especially- arrive flying the flag of the SFRY (http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/yugo_slavia.jpg).

The Yugoslav deployment half expects to take down its own flags and adopt some sort of multi-national or neutral standard, and Javoric is prepared to re-paint the markings on his vehicles if need be. The Yugoslavs could also quite easily paint their tin helmets if required. They really are here to make friends in the Slavic world, and are probably going to be offended when someone decides to shoot at them! :)

Oh, camo schemes are likely suitable, at the moment, being for use in temperate and continental climate. Again, it won't take long to see that the Yugoslavians are prepared to go along with redesignation and adaptation of the deployment.

(I'll be back later for the IC thread.)

If I gave you the impression that snipers are common that was unintentional, as of yet, the Kilrany personnel haven't come under sniper fire, let alone competant sniper fire. But they're a paranoid bunch, and not being in their own country, and being in one where they know the people are less then enthusiatic about their presence, they're just so damned paranoid about. heh

This is something Kilrany personnel learned during the Virinov Inserection, a small province in the Kilrany Empire that had a small but strongly motivated group seeking to suceed from the Empire. Kilrany troops who saluted were prone to come under sniper fire, not always sucessful, but they learned quickly it was best not to draw fire. heh

I look forward to your IC post

If I gave you the impression that snipers are common that was unintentional, as of yet, the Kilrany personnel haven't come under sniper fire, let alone competant sniper fire.


Operative term: "As of yet." Heh.

So far so good guys, nice writing from all those involved. Make sure you have good route-security and march discipline, or you may find yourselves the target of a quick ambush on the way to your kasernes, although very unlikely.

I should mention something about the map, I only have one river noted on it, that's not to say there aren't other rivers and whatnot, that's merely the only major river, the kind you have little hope of crossing unless it's by bridge or ship, the river is on average 200 m wide and 40 m deep, Kilrany engineers have been tasked with rebuilding the other bridges, but the work goes slowly.

Just wanted to make a note to you House of James, if you wanted an element of Alpha company to have a good conversation with Khurzav civilians undesturbed by Kilrany personnel I would recommend a small town or village. Smaller towns and villages do not have troops constantly present like the cities do.

Also as a side note to everyone, Khurzav roads were mostly paved, and well maintained, so you shouldn't encounter to many unpaved roads unless you go on the back roads.

Yugoslavia, nicely done. I'll try to come up with some sort of response for that in the near future. We should get a footy game on with some of the local young'uns and a few of your Infanteers.

Heh, thanks, that's just what happens when I get drunk at home, in reach of a computer, because nobody wants to go out :)

Or should that be :(

Anyway, no rush, I know that I dropped out for a day or two myself, there.

I have question for you House of James, might seem a little unusual but I was wondering how you generaly refer to your soldiers. By that I mean if I had someone speaking about them, would it just be like -

"Those soldiers over there are from the House of James."

- or is there something else you use? I ask mainly becuase I'm more used to dealing with nations from the SFR where the names tend to be simplistic in form like: Russkya, Spazjenia, The FLRJ, etc, your name just makes it feel odd typing it out as someone saying it, no offence.

Note to all those involved in the RP, Sunday afternoon while talking to Russkya he disappeared and I haven't seen him since, I believe his net might have crashed on him, it has happened before, so if anyone is waiting on a responce from him, he should ideally be back in a couple days.

Sorry its taken a while to get back to you on this one.

Well sometimes I think its easier to refer to my troops as Kingdom forces or something like that. For instance using your example

"Those troops over there are from the Kingdom"

Not sure if that makes it easier. In the larger NS world I'm sure there is already another nation that goes by the Kingdom, but as there isnt in this RP perhaps that would be easier?

I only use Kingdom because my nation is set up very much like a Feudal system, with the King ruling over eight Dukes who then rule over the rest of the people with various tiers of society. Hopefully the factbook I'm working on will be up soon to fully explain how I have broken the nation down to try and make it a realistic total monarchy in the modern world.

Oh and I apologise if I go on a bit in my posts about internal conflicts from the history of the Kingdom, I get a little carried away sometime trying to incorperate background into the posts and they tend to read a little like a ramble. :(

Good to know, I will keep that in mind, as I said, just a little to used to being in the SFR private forum I imagine. As for your post, I'd say that's a good thing, give some insight, something I should try adding really but most of the time just forget, heh.

Sorry about that lads, I've been away due to technical failure, and I'm still trying to get caught up. Times like these I'm glad I'm only really actively controlling the KRG and a handful of others. Gah.

Appologies for the horribly long delay in my posting, distractions around the home kept me busy and a telegram from Skgorrian left unsure just what to do in one situation. However I'm now working on a proper responce to the main thread. Sorry for the delay.

Also, in regards to the TG from Skgorria, he has informed me that he is going on vacation for an undetermened amount of time and that I should take charge of his forces. Now I'm reluctant to RP someone elses forces, even with their permission, especially when I don't have the in depth knowledge of how they work, so I am going to leave them be untill he gets back, with the possible exception of simple sending his rapid reaction force back home when the hostage situation is resolved, assuming that it is before he gets back.

Sviasuka - A composite modern (1750-onwards) Russian-language derogatory phrase for a Kilrany of any age and gender. Plural: Sviasukii. Composite of current Kilrany Emperor's name (Sviatov) and the Russian word for bitch, "Suka." Pronounciation: "Svee-ah-soo-kah."

Just to clarify, if any of you noticed in the 'marksman' post I made and were wondering what it meant.

I thought it best to inform everyone waiting for a responce from me that I should have one up some time on Sunday, we've had family friends staying for the past couple days, which include their children and we've been babysitting my niece who is quite young, so combined with bickering siblings and temper tantrems from a small child I haven't been able to concentrate on anything. However tomorow shall be quiet, blessed quietness, how I long for thee, heh. So just a bit more patience and hopefully I'll have a good reply then.

Just a quick OOC heads up. I'm going to be gone for a while due to a vacation here.

If you need to shoot someone, use the KLF. They're University students, ideologues, and not particularly intelligent despite their education. There are bound to be other groups like the KLF, even KLF splinter groups.

There's going to be a slight delay in an IC responce from me, might get it up tonight, might be held off till tomorow. Came down with a nasty cold, not making it easy to concentrate and write something decent to move the story along. I'd rather delay a day here then put up something that's crap, heh.

An apology from me for the inconsistency of my previous posts, especially on the time its taken to get them up!

Hopefully with a better shedule now I will be able to do regular posts of a better quality :) starting in about ten mins.

Just a note, I haven't posted yet becuase I wanted to leave the House of James an opportunity to actually converse with the partisan/terrorist before everything goes to hell, heh. However if you don't really want to do that, I'll just carry the story forward.

I'm not sure I can get a post up today (my search only seems to show this thread at the moment for some reason and I've been hit with a load of stuff. You guys carry on and I'll join in where I can, hopefully within a couple of days!)

I've got Kilrany over here telling me to hold off on posting the next KRG action, so that'll be delayed by a bit more. Anyone seen Yugoslavia lately?

Im willing to continue if others are still around?

I'm still here. Kilrany is still here - talking to him on MSN now.

I have no idea where Yugoslavia or the others went though.

Yes, hopefully that is the case. I'm just hoping the others notice it's still alive, if barely, and come back as well.

Well, now that I'm home from work, I did a quick check, Yugo Slavia's nation appears to be gone from NS. Delesa and Skgorria will hopefully jump back in when if they realise the thread is still alive.

My own fault it went as long as it did without a post. I had intended to leave a opening for Skgorria to detail what his units did as they entered the building since I don't like RP someone else's 'units'. But he likely didn't realise my intention. Probably should have said so. Anyway, in an attempt to move the RP along again I can of pushed along the assault in the building to get it done with, it's not nearly as detailed as I would have liked, but it's there at least.

Ok, so shall we move on from that situation.....say jump a week or two into the peackeepers stay?? That way we can develop some of the relationships in one post to establish it pretty quick rather than strech it out over several that rely on everyone else posting??

Just an idea.

Yeah, I'm good with that.

Given our current situation that's probably not a bad idea. I could easily wrap up this whole hostage bit in one more post if need be or something like that. I had to admit I'm a little new to having to deal with people I don't readily have acess to on MSN for an RP, heh.

I guess I could wrap up the hotel bit if you don't have anything further to add to it I'll do that.

I'll TG you my msn address....should help there!

Just to note, I had intended to post something last night, but was unable to write, was rather tired, work has been exceptionally busy the last two weeks, however I will have plenty of time to get that reply out tonight. Sorry for the delay.

I've missed too much to catch up on every single post, so I suppose I'm just asking for any items of major significance since the early stages of the multi-national deployment. The Belgrade Brigade was starting to set-up command facilities in Pashchatova City, and hadn't met much trouble.

My nation was deleted for inactivity, and I'm only back for a little while, as I have some time/net-access, but, yes, where are we, now!?

No major problems in your sector. I would go so far as to say that the Belgrade Brigade is being accepted well by the locals, especially if you got those football/soccer (Same thing, I know) games on the go. All the problems are in someone else's sector, none of the partisans in the area want to take a potshot at your troops since they're fellow Slavs and nice guys.

Good deal you have, thus far. I'll see what kind of friction I can cause you in the future. Heh.

Apologies for yet another long delay in my posting, but one will be forthcoming shortly, work is just keeping me extremely busy of late that I'm either to busy, or just to tired to write.

Unfortunately reality demands you pay the bills. heh

Yes, this is a bump.

Contrary to popular belief, the IC Thread, and hence the RP (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=493112&page=11) is not dead. Feel free to post, despite that "Hang time" thing going on with the hostage situation that will hopefully be resolved soon. Isn't that right, Kilrany? Indeed it is. Hint hint, damn it.

Yes, I am in fact doing my best to keep the thread alive, it is my wish to carry on with it. Just so damned unfortunate that work kicked in to such a high degree for a couple weeks there. I can understand how some of you may have lost interest due to those horrendous delays. If you have any question please ask, spam here if you need to, heh, but it does impart a bit of comfort to know you're all still about.

A quick apology for the delay in my post and also the quality of the one I just put up, after accidentally deleting the original 4 page document I had nearly finished that was the best I could do in the situation I'm afraid!

Oh man, there really are no appropriate words to describe just how much that had to suck.

Hello all, first I would first like to say I am so so so so sorry for just going MIA on you Kilrany, not that the posts I made (I went back and read them) were anything but acceptable by my standards now. And thats the other thing I am so so so so sorry for the crappy posts I made for the RP. If you wouldn't mind, but as you can see from my fact book and going into my new region, I have turned my nation around and made it much much better, same goes for my post quality and spelling, I would like to rejoin and i could make some sort of excuse for the lack of posts IC. Thanks.

Not a problem mate, you're welcome to rejoin, I haven't 'officially' considered anyone out yet, I was going to give them a little bit more time before I would assume they just decided to leave. So at this point there's no problem in coming back in.

Sorry its a pretty crap post. I'll try and edit it over the weekend if I get time. Its my 19th birthday tomorrow so all the stuff associated with that means I won't be able to post for a few days I suspect!

Happy birthday, may you drink yourself into insensibility and recover in short order.

Man, and I thought I was overly critical of my writing, heh, you don't have anything to worry about with your post House of James, looks just fine to me, not every post need be a novel, as much as some of us might like to do so anyway, heh.

And I agree with Russkya, happy birthday. heh

Happy 19th, drink her up!

And yeah thanks to not 'officially' kick me out. haha

Would have prefered to make a better post there for you Delesa but I was coming up blank for anything better and I didn't want to delay posting any longer then I already did for such a simple post. At the very least it will get the ball rolling.

Meh I dont care, I mean I havent been posted anything here since, I dont even remember hehe. At least the ball is rolling.

I guess you can consider that last post with the news cast bit something of a bump as well as informative bit. I wanted to get the civil transport reopened and Khurzav trade active again for a while now, had a little writing spurt in me tonight and that little post just flowed out, so I wrote while the writing was good, heh.

Appologies for the delay in my posting, working on one now, let myself get lazy over the Christmas break. heh

I should have a quick reply up shortly.

Happy New Year Guys :)

Post will be up tomorrow...I neeeed sleep!

Happy New Year!

Yes, Happy New Year all.

Not a problem there House of James.

Oh and Delesa, I'll assume that when that civilian Cessna Citation XLS approached what is now Kilrany airspace to land in Khurzav it broadcasted itself as being a Delesa aircraft, otherwise it's very possible it would have been shot down had it not.

Yeah it would have, it would have said something like "This is Delesian Governement aircraft 193, security clearance (something high level i'm not sure yet), requesting to land." and so on and such.

I'm not quite sure how to reply to your post just now Delesa, I wasn't expecting you to run into an 'empty' camp. I'll post what I have ready now for the protest then get something up for you later.

Well the empty camp is that of the one you RPed someone over watching my camp, so I decided that I'll add some helicopters to the patrol, that would scare away the people watching, that way i wouldn't get any prisoners, but just an empty camp.

Sorry for the delay with my post, moved back into uni so things have been reasonbly chaotic!! Am writing one up at the moment

That is quite logical, and I would have RP'ed them hastily trying to pack up and take off once they realised you were sending out a large number of ground forces, although I'm not sure helicopters alone would have scared them off seeing as how you were, for a time, if my understanding of a previous post is correct, air lifting in and out a your new men here for the previous 'garrison'.

I also would have went into more detail about their camp, something I should have done before anyway I guess. But it's no matter, I'll think of something when I get home from work.

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No problem there, things come up, I figured I could at least update the situation seeing as it had almost been a full week from my last post.

Alright then.

I don't mean to be difficult Delesa, but how exactly does your radioman there have so much detailed knowledge on an event that just barely happened?

Presuming you have a Signals Squadron (AKA specialist communications equipment and men) to decrypt the somewhat low level encryption ISM units use, which is possible given it's not extensive, as it's mainly meant to keep people with simple scanners from listening in as I stated earlier in the RP.

I'm however more curious about the details of the incident, as the media wasn't there and there have been no public report on it yet, even the ISM don't know what exactly happened besides that from all appearances they came under attack. Another note there would be that Rublev was not on the radio himself ordering the cease fire, but telling his communications officer to order it.

Like I said, I don't mean to be difficult, but you seem to be RP'ing with more information then they should have just yet.

Ah my bad, I just fired through your post then went really fast through my post, guess I missed a few things. My bad, I'll fix it up.

Appoligies gentlemen, I had planned to write up an update today, but woke up with a nasty flu, I finally managed to get to the point I could look at my computer after work, hellish as that was, if I'm feeling better tomorow I will attempt to write something up.

Its alright, everyone has those kind of days.

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of posting. ive been out with flu for what seems like far too long now! Its getting better but not brilliant still. I hope to be able to write something pretty soon. So sorry mate!

That took way too long to get posted, chock that up to a combination mental block and work making it difficult to find a decent amount of time to just sit down and write. But the important thing is it's up and we can move along.

And I have my story coming along, but was working on a map today for another RP

I recognize that I've kind of jumped the timetable forward fro its last position rather substantially, but since its has been almost a full month since any one else posted I felt the need to update my thread.

Now, I did get your telegram House of James, and that's not a problem, as most know work comes first, heh, so whenever you have time, and if you're still interested in the thread feel free to post any responces you had planned or just wanted to do before I jumped ahead here, I have no problem being flexable on the timetable. Like I said I simply feel the thread needed a post.

Same goes for you as well Delesa if your still interested in the thread.

Anyone else who happens to be reading this and might be interested in joining the thread as well, I have no problem with that, this isn't exactly a closed thread. Anyone who would like to RP a gun runner or some foreign reporter, now would be a good time to start as travel has been opened up again. If any of you are interested in joining, just post your intent here and we can work out the details.

Yeah sorry guys i haven't been active on any forums in the past month, my life has been a roller coaster ride! And i get sick on roller coaster!

No problem mate, shit happens, heh.
Just join back in whenever you get time.