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Excellent, TCM. Looking forward to it.

Pokemonrocks, about your character bio. The camp he went to, let's assume that's boy scouts of america, yeah, so some wilderness survival skills and suchlike. The globetrotting unspecified philanthropist angle needs a little work - let's say he worked through the Red Cross foundation in Sudan. This will mean your character has some practical experience (though the majority of what a teen would do there is grunt work) and we'll say he learned to speak Arabic while he was there too.

Yes, this is so. Six more players can join, though I'm starting it off once we're at four.

Yep, it's fine. Seven more slots left open, I guess.

The date is 2024 (Remember this when you fill out your application, seriously, it's relevant.)

Over the course of the ten years it has become clear that what was once nonsense is now fact. Psychic abilities, manifesting only in children, are now fact. The cause is uncertain. Telepathy, telekinesis, a strange sort of machine-empathy called technopathy, and pyro-and-cryo-kineses, the rapid heating or cooling of objects or, worse, people. The response was varied, but universally not positive. The ones lucky enough to be born in more forward-thinking societies were simply put on lists, tattooed and not allowed in certain restaurants or to work at certain jobs. Others were not so fortunate.

And then the Crustaceans landed in Indonesia, bringing gas and fire and spitting plumes of corrosive acid. When the mothership appeared in the night sky it induced mass panic. A hasty U.N. meeting later and the nuclear strikes were authorized.

The mothership shot every one down with high precision point-defence lasers. A co-ordinated attack from every major nuclear power was slapped aside like a mosquito. The massive, organic ship rebuffed every sort of scan or weapon aimed at it. Information of the crustaceans is somewhat limited, but by all accounts they appear to be intelligent, intent on conquest, and totally hostile. The United States made an effort to make telepathic contact. In a concrete lined bunker they set the most powerful telepath in a sensory deprivation chamber and had her reach out to the mothership. There was some success - the crustaceans responded. They used a lot of unpleasant terms. Phrases like "Defilers" and "Parasites" were bandied about, and some rather creative insults about the purity of the telepath's parent. All this information was relayed to a dismayed staff before the girl in question keeled over bleeding from the ears. The intentions of the crustaceans have been made clear. Their landing zone has been totally purged of all human life. The crustaceans want nothing less than the genocide of the entire human species.

Now, the U.N. has formed a new organization. A task force dedicated to fighting the alien invaders off with the use of psychic powers. This initiative will receive funding from a number of U.N. members, and will build a secret underground bunker in the far north of Russia - Where the crustaceans will not go. This initiative is the PALADIN program.

Psychic Alliance Locked Against Deadly Invading Nemesis.

But before we begin defending the earth, let's hear a little bit more about you, our plucky new teenage applicant.

Surname:
Full name:
Full name at birth:
All other names used (ie nicknames):
Sex:
Age in Y/M/D:
Country of Birth:
Daytime telephone number:
Email address:
Have you ever convicted of a criminal offence for which you have not been granted a pardon? If so, ask your recruiter for Form 2B.

Optionally, to get to know you better the PALADIN program would like you to fill in a small bio about yourself here. Please limit biography to 25000 words or less. Your recruiter will provide you with extra paper if asked.

Another vote for Sheb's plan here.

Loved the narration. Just generally loved this LP. Disappointed that you flee to Argentina so readily.

Perhaps I will find this game in a bargain bin somewheres...And nobly lead the troops on to the Russian Front?

NOTE: Normans were not rebels but former French vassals who took Saxon England and kept Normandy for themselves. They then came back and try to take France for themselves.

Just saying because from your writing it didn't seem like you knew.

Er. To explain this, there is no way to setup custom battles vs. rebels, so I basically pretended it was a bunch of rebels funded by the English instead of the English themselves. Also, update's coming.