New Government in Holland.

[damocles]

MVB Sent in the clear

WAR WARNING all forces:
1. Be prepared for surprise attack,
2. Condition I in effect until situation is clarified in NOI area and New Zion areas.
3. All civil defense units are to mobilize and assume their defensive stations and REPORT violations of their defense observation zones by unauthorized traffic. 


   

[damocles]

Coded message.

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[Walter]

A very questionable code. :)

[Kaiser Kirk]

Grim message, not much to smile about there.  ::)

[TexanCowboy]

Foreign Languages don't work on this forum. Learned that the hard way when I tried to post my entire new article in Hebrew.... :)

[damocles]

Foreign Languages don't work on this forum. Learned that the hard way when I tried to post my entire new article in Hebrew.... :)

KK got it in one, TC. You are right, too. but the intent was to send a message without someone being able to understand anything more than the emotional content, if they could tease it out.

D. 

[Borys]

Ha! I could write in Cyrillic!
Borys

[Guinness]

Yeah, sorry. The database is set up to use mysql's default character set (latin 1). So it supports a few non-ASCII 7 characters, like ö and ß, etc., but nothing fancier.

I suppose if I was feeling adventurous, I could try to change that, but it feels risky to me at this point, and if I did I'd certainly want to set aside a few hours in case something went horribly wrong and I had to restore the DB. This feels like it's not worth the time.

If ever we migrate the forum to some other host, or decide we need to upgrade it to SMF 2.0, I'd probalby try to convert the DB to UTF-8 or some other more internationalized character set in the process.

[damocles]

Experimental...........................for now.

[ctwaterman]

*snickers*... yes very experimental.... looks at the 3 Regiments of them mixed with some FT-17 varriations currently active in New Zion.... 

I think I have a color image of that Armored Car currently on my MSN Display Picture.

[damocles]

Bits from all over........

Nicholas van Rijn throws Anders Welsen bodily out of his office.

"Don't you dare come back here until that Kyrt Huergens incident is straightened out! Laughing stocks......we are the jokes of Europe!"  

.........Welsen picks himself up from where he was tossed in the hallwayand dusts himself off. "If I had the funds, he wouldn't have opened that brothel!"

NvR: "Its not the brothel, you incompetent! That I expect of our more resourceful NRDN agents Its the fact that I heard of it, from the French ambassador. Huergens IS NOT an NRDN agent is he? He's an ambassador, and  he was found out! Now clean your  mess up!"    

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Kolonel Geiner rubs the sweat out of his eyes. He's too old for all this hiking and marching. Not enough trucks. He must remember that a motorized force must have enough lorries.

He must have sweated three kilos off this past week just marching with these leger. In the background, the dust slowly settles as a line of peculiar machines halts. Again a vehicle's track has snapped on the rocks; and again the way is too narrow for the other vehicles to pass.  There is some frantic activity as from the rear of the column, some mechanics from a hulpmiddelwagen rush up to try to fix the mobility casualty.

Geiner scans the hills looking for the "red team", to see if their horse cavalrie exploits this opportunity. Nothing.

An hour it takes to fix the machine, a whole hour wasted. Geiner writes in his little green book. There are more things he must remember when the experimental pantser brigade stands up.  This column resumes its march under the hot sun. Already  the infantrie ahead is on the objective. Men can out-march machinesjust like they out-march horses? Apparently yes, if the terrain is right.

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Majoor Generaal Albert van Seik long ago abandoned his dark green Landmacht uniform for the mustard browns and greens worn by the allies here. Ehere he is, it is almost midnight.  A 100mm  minengewerfer chuffs a dull POOMF: there is a delayed bang and then in the night sky a new star is born. It slowly descends under a reflected silk canopy. Generaal van Seik can now see the thousands of men who do, with brute labor what should have been done years ago with machines.

A small man in one of those mottled mustard colored uniforms  runs up to him and shows him this:

     

In a language, not Dutch, he says: "No good. It breaks too easy. We need better tools."

And more time it appears. Albert van Seik is only one man. There is so very much to do. "We will have steel tools soon, and machines to help, if the railroads get here.....in time."

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Meanwhile: at the MVB Kommandant;

"Satan' s twee staarten! Look at this!"

For once the NRDN earns its pay.
         

[damocles]

Note passed to NvR, during a cabinet meeting.

The note reads.

1. Herzog wants more Dutch chocolates.
2. van Seik says he needs more time and more equipment.
3. Huertgens is under house arrest.
4. Geiner sends his regards.
5. Hind sends his regards.
6. Fokker thanks you for the orders.
7. BRNO says it can't be done.    
8. Anders Welsen arranged the shipment for van Seik.
9. The Egyptians have been contacted. They may exchange embassies.
10. We are IN.  

NvR scribbles a reply.

1. How much will this cost us?  
2. Make do until more help arrives.
3. Bribe him loose. I need an ambassador, not a prisoner.
4. Tell Geiner he better learn from his experience. We will need it soon.
5. Tell Hind he better learn from his experience as well.
6. Tell Fokker to expedite. We have another order on top of this one.
7. Arrest the incompetent mismanaging BRNO and REPLACE him.
8. See if there are other suppliers.
9. Tell Welsen to pick this ambassador with extreme care.
10. Move on it, NOW.

[damocles]

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Clankety, clankety....

[damocles]

Anders Welsen on the phone: "And just who supplied the New Zionists with poison gas shells and the minengewerfer to use them?"

Muffled voice on the other end.

Anders Welsen on the phone: "What do you mean you can't say?  You can tell from the lies they print in their newspapers who supplied the gas and the specialists.......I don't care about that! Get proof. That is all this government needs right now, war criminals loose with poison gas allied with a terrorist regime. And get the French ambassador! I want to know if the rumor about a botched Nassau Alliance naval ambush is true? ......... No! I want his denial on the record if he denies it!.............................And get that deal finalized with the Bavarians!"      

He slams the phone onto its cradle in disgust.

"What is the MVB doing with all the money if they can't even tell us what the !@#$%^&*() is going on?" he yells at the ceiling.

[damocles]

Anders Welsen's office.

The MVB agent puts on his hat and takes his umbrella and says in broken French, (He's a Walloon) :"That is what the MVB is doing with the money, Meister Minister Welsen. Agent 30 died to get those!" 

Hercule storms out of the office as Anders Welsen looks at the photos.