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During a meeting of Bishops from around Europe, an explosion rocked the skyscape of Rome. While the King and Duce were at first believed dead, having infact fled and hijacked a train respectively, it was discovered that their was a large pile of rubble and mangled bodies in the Holy City. Reports are sketchy, with some reporting the rubble of the Sistine Chapel and attached areas to be surprisingly low considering the size of the building, meaning that the jewels thiefs tunneling under the catacombs of St. Peter's are to be blamed, though not as much as the Jews going after the MEnorah they claim to be hidden there. Less reliable sources suggest that it was an attempt to hush up the priests of formerly Republican Catalan and Basque areas invaded by the Nationalists, as with priests from the German lands being given further instructions on how to handle what his Holiness deemed dangerous practices involving blood, inside and outside the body. Accussations are also being made that American antifascists saw the Vatican delegate to the United States tagging along with the Italian Ambassador as them being in bed together.


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(There are of course inaccuracies in here, as people are racing to get their papers out immediately, bluffing if they have to. Things should be sensational and jingoistic, and there should be mistakes. Attempted assassiinations will of course be possible, though the successful ones far less so. If you try it, you will be expected to give a very detailed out of character post about it to be considered whether or not it is plausible or the wounds lethal.)

(As a note for what happened here, it is mostly Europeans in the building. Meaning that the Western Hemisphere now has a far greater amount of Cardinals remaining than Italy and other areas. The next Papal Conclave should be fun. And please note, after the things happening in the related threads with Japan and Germany, security will be ever so tight around the world. Don't think you can catch someone keeping in a fortress like Stalin or a warlord sleeping in a different house every night with enough body doubles to overawe Saddam's retinue will not be easy to kill)
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