Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

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GSpectre

GSpectre

OG criminal to his cellmate: "now remember whatever you do don't get caught up in anything the Germans find interesting."
Young criminal: "Why because their tough or something?!?"
No because they get interested and the goverment sends in the assassins till they control the trade.

Seariously Kat is going to be a criminal legend, and pop historians are going to argue if Otto was a goverment plant for generations after she pulled off this stunt. No one is going to accept she legit got the fortunes of two criminal empires, conspiracy theorists are going to insist she was a second generation agent.
 
theg*ddam*hoi2fan

theg*ddam*hoi2fan

Another great chapter :) Though 'great' is redundant where this TL is concerned :p

Peabody-Martini said:
“Does Anna know about this?”

“The two of them are making a weekend of it”
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Actually, this is highly sensible. If it's known that Vicky's potentially going to be marrying into the Wittelsbachs, having Anna establish herself early on as a friend who's close enough that she helps Vicky with her wedding planning and shopping... It means most people won't even question if she gets seen in the future Queen's company following the wedding. Why would they? She's a good friend who helped Vicky get ready for her marriage... Heck, odds are people will praise her for not forgetting her old friends after she gets married :p

Peabody-Martini said:
It was about then that George realized that he was completely screwed.
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A particular verse of the song In Time by Mark Collie seems appropriate here...

You know your days are numbered,
Count 'em one by one.
Like notches in the handle of an outlaw's gun.
You can outrun the Devil if you try...
But you will never outrun the hands of time.

Inevitability caught up with you, Georgie-boy...

 

MBerco

If this was an op that Kat and Juan Pujol orchestrated on their own and the German government is not getting the money, I really want to see how she and JFK launder the money this time.
 

ejpsan

I am sure that a nice portion of the money went Kat and Juan Pujol for expenses and commission but the bulk of the money is now part of the BND slush fund for off the books operations.
As for George he could go to the CIA and spill the beans about how the Germans screwed him over and they will be very sympathetic to his plight and help him out by telling the IRS all about it.
Of course the IRS will then provide him with a place for him to sleep and eat for the next twenty years in places like Atlanta, GA, Marion IN, Leavenworth KS, and Lewisburg PA just to name a few.

Kiki should just suck it up, play Princess for a little bit and bring Ben along as her escort and have some fun for once.

Good for Ben in bringing up marriage to Kiki they don't have to commit to making firm plans right now but there should be discussions about the future of their relationship and how Ben wants marriage to be that future.
 
holyknight

holyknight

Istariol said:
Congratulations Mr. Bush,
you just met the biggest and most dangerous mobster in Germany/Europe.
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Forgot Government Backed Mobster.....
MBerco said:
If this was an op that Kat and Juan Pujol orchestrated on their own and the German government is not getting the money, I really want to see how she and JFK launder the money this time.
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Knowing things, Kat will invest in the new German, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese technology industry that's blooming due to the Moon exploration, and few if any will ever question from where it came the generous support of these businesses, chalking it to the Business Acumen of the Crimson Baroness, and she also will donate generously to Women education charities....
 

Salamander

This is something that would have had official sanction. Possibly even Imperial approval, due to the people involved. For something on this scale, Kat wouldn't have gone off reservation. Officially sanctioned or not, it was a beautiful piece of work.
It kept Kiki from being shot at. Again. It forced the US to allow the reciprocal "training" mission. It acquired a considerable sum of liquid assets for the Empire and it punished a war profiteer in the most deliciously embarrassing way possible; stripping him of all of his assets, leaving him with absolutely nothing except a very large number of extremely pissed off & well armed people looking for him. Pissed off people that HE had just finished arming to the teeth. Oh, and the alimony & child support payments are probably due.

As I said earlier, George REALLY needed a longer spoon when he decided to sit at the big boys table & sup with the Devil.

As for Kat being a government backed mobster, it's more like she's the officiallly unofficial government liaison to the unofficial authorities present in her society. Mainly because the criminal bosses are fucking scared shitless by her. This will only enhance that reputation among them.
 

ejpsan

ferdi254 said:
Talking about unromantic proposals
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If you want unromantic go to the first thread when Helene informed the Kaiser and Kaiserin when they were inspecting the rail disaster that Hans was her fiancee without him knowing that they were engaged.
My interpretation is that this was not a proposal but a preliminary discussion on getting married.
 
Dan

Dan

FickleCrossroad said:
On one hand, I wanted to see Bush get away with it, to retire and at least be one Ami who could hold his middle finger high...
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I have to admit, I was hoping for this too. Bush had already decided to get out of the game, and it would have been nice to see, possibly end up somewhere remote but comfortable, like the South Pacific, writing a set of memoirs to be published after his death.
 

Darth_Kiryan

ferdi254 said:
Talking about unromantic proposals
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ejpsan said:
If you want unromantic go to the first thread when Helene informed the Kaiser and Kaiserin when they were inspecting the rail disaster that Hans was her fiancee without him knowing that they were engaged.
My interpretation is that this was not a proposal but a preliminary discussion on getting married.
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THat really was not a proposal.

But still, Kiki will delay as long as she can until I would assume that Louis the Emperor comes down and says somehting like "Get on with it already."
 
theg*ddam*hoi2fan

theg*ddam*hoi2fan

Darth_Kiryan said:
THat really was not a proposal.

But still, Kiki will delay as long as she can until I would assume that Louis the Emperor comes down and says somehting like "Get on with it already."
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Yep.

It'll be an interesting conversation.

KAISER: The two of you clearly love one another...the boy's a noble now so even back in the day there wouldn't have been an issue, even less so now...I effectively gave my permission a long time ago if either of you care about that...there are literally no reasons now for you not to get married.

KIKI: ...
 

M. A. Dickens

GSpectre said:
OG criminal to his cellmate: "now remember whatever you do don't get caught up in anything the Germans find interesting."
Young criminal: "Why because their tough or something?!?"
No because they get interested and the goverment sends in the assassins till they control the trade.

Seariously Kat is going to be a criminal legend, and pop historians are going to argue if Otto was a goverment plant for generations after she pulled off this stunt. No one is going to accept she legit got the fortunes of two criminal empires, conspiracy theorists are going to insist she was a second generation agent.
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I have a feeling that Bush's ill-gotten fortune would end up in a Foundation for War Orphans and Victims of Genocide or somesuch.

Marc A
 

ejpsan

The crunch time for Kiki and Ben to decide about marriage comes when they are finishing up on their final degrees.
I don't know how long that is until but for now Ben is doing the right thing in proclaiming his love for Kiki, saying that he wants to marry her while at the same time not pressuring her in to saying yes or no right now but letting Kiki have as much time to think about it and get used to that idea.
At the same time Ben should be psychologically preparing himself to walk away from the relationship if Kiki doesn't want to marry him for whatever reasons she comes up with.

As for George Bush, there are so many different scenarios I can think of that he can do.
If I think that little meeting he had with Kat and Juan Pujols took place at the V-8 Club and the American was John Ellis (aka John Dillinger born 1903) and if he makes that connection all George has to do it drop an anonymous 10 pfenig piece at a payphone and call the U.S. Embassy FBI liaison and let the chips fall all over the place.
But most likely George has no real idea what John Dillinger really looks like as his image of what Dillinger looks like is shaped by various actors in different movies playing him, as an example of that whenever I think Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post my first thought is that he looks nothing like Dustin Hoffman.
 

Jinx999

Hopefully Kat will have learned from her past that letting people with serious grudges and nothing to lose run around loose is a bad idea.
 

Turrosh Mak

Jinx999 said:
Hopefully Kat will have learned from her past that letting people with serious grudges and nothing to lose run around loose is a bad idea.
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I second this.
"If your enemy lies beaten at your feet, STRIKE HIM DOWN, lest he rise up with terrible vengeance"
 
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