History RolePlay / WizardsVsMuggles

[[caption-width-right:267: [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters A fraction of the cast.]] Right-to-left, top-to-bottom: Geno Hardiman, Paxton Nott, James Damon, Hector Marez, [[LackOfEmpathy Jakob Elsritter]], Jack Green, LeBlanc, Amanda Hewlett, Nobby Flint, Hermione Weasley nee Granger, Jamie Thatcher, [[RainbowSix Capt. Price]], Dolores Umbridge, Inquisitor Gregory Goyle, Neville Longbottom, Sinclain Wolf, Rhuadrí O'Connel, Arkady Ivanovich Serov, Jay Bell Hood, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alex Fields, Karla, [[DresdenFiles Erik]] [[ShoutOut Alzey]], [[OnlyOneName Charmdrummer]], [[BattleMedic Olivia Browning]], Bob Ritter, [[BadassSpaniard Lita]] [[TeenGenius Garza]], Chess, Warren Peace, and Arthur Clark.]]

[[caption-width-right:267: [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters A fraction of the cast.]] Right-to-left, top-to-bottom: Geno Hardiman, Paxton Nott, James Damon, Hector Marez, [[LackOfEmpathy Jakob Elsritter]], Jack Green, LeBlanc, Amanda Hewlett, Nobby Flint, Hermione Weasley nee Granger, Jamie Thatcher, [[RainbowSix Capt. Price]], Dolores Umbridge, Inquisitor Gregory Goyle, Neville Longbottom, Sinclain Wolf, Rhuadrí O'Connel, Arkady Ivanovich Serov, Jay Bell Hood, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alex Fields, Karla, Erik Alzey, [[OneNameGiven Charmdrummer]], [[BattleMedic Olivia Browning]], Bob Ritter, [[BadassSpaniard Lita]] [[TeenGenius Garza]], Chess, Warren Peace, and Arthur Clark.]]

[[caption-width-right:267: [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters A fraction of the cast.]] Right-to-left, top-to-bottom: Geno Hardiman, Paxton Nott, James Damon, Hector Marez, Jakob Elsritter, Jack Green, LeBlanc, Amanda Hewlett, Nobby Flint, Hermione Weasley nee Granger, Jamie Thatcher, Capt. Price, Dolores Umbridge, Inquisitor Gregory Goyle, Neville Longbottom, Sinclain Wolf, Rhuadrí O'Connel, Arkady Ivanovich Serov, Jay Bell Hood, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alex Fields, Karla, Erik Alzey, Charmdrummer, Olivia Browning, Bob Ritter, Lita, Chess, Warren Peace, and Arthur Clark.]]

[[caption-width-right:267:A few of the characters in the game]]

* NoodleIncident: Lita's spent hours inside a hat. With a turkey!

* ThinkHappyThoughts: When blindfolded, and handcuffed in a chair. There's a reason for it: Patronus-summoning.

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** '''[=McMurdosford=]''': The commandos meet a mob of angry townspeople and things start to go down from there; meanwhile, the wizard group starts its own investigations into something that happened nearly thirty years ago.

* ThatNightFeltLikeMonths: the events in Romania, starting with an infiltration into a police station and ending with the final extraction, canonically took less than twelve hours total. It encompassed at least three separate action sequences (including the StormingTheCastle scene, which had to be coordinated with actual maps and a company-sized [[RussiansWithRustingRockets Motor-Rifle group]]), lots of intrigue, and the crossover event to boot--so that it spanned approximately five months of game time. Whew.

* [[MeaningfulRename Questionably Meaningful Rename]]: the Rainbow/Unicorn joint command has been reorganized and renamed into the [[TheLaundrySeries Occult Coordination Command Unit Liaison--Unconventional Situations]], or [[FunWithAcronyms OCCULUS]] for short. In-game this was to reflect Unicorn's success in proving the concept and in highlighting their changing role. Out-of-game, it was due to a general desire to avoid any more jokes about [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "miniature fornicating equines".]]

* '''Diplomacy and Mediation''': Lita goes over to the commandos' place to talk peace with Mr. Clark, and does an old acquaintance a favor; kicking a hornet's nest in the process and starting the discovery of a conspiracy, as Charmdrummer becomes suspicious of his own memories' validity. Mr. Krum, former Quidditch star, makes a cameo. New team members appear in both groups. ** '''[=McMurdosford=]''': The commandos meet a mob of angry townspeople and things start to go down from there; meanwhile, the wizard group starts its own investigations into something that happened nearly thirty years ago.

* SignificantRename: the Rainbow/Unicorn joint command has been reorganized and renamed into the [[TheLaundrySeries Occult Coordination Command Unit Liaison--Unconventional Situations]], or [[FunWithAcronyms OCCULUS]] for short. In-game this was to reflect Unicorn's success in proving the concept and in highlighting their changing role. Out-of-game, it was due to a general desire to avoid any more jokes about [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "miniature fornicating equines".]]

* ''' Diplomacy and Mediation ''': Lita goes over to the comandos' place to talk peace with Mr. Clark, and does an old acquaintance a favor; kicking a hornet's nest in the process and starting the discovery of a conspiracy, as Charmdrummer becomes suspicious of his own memories' validity. Mr. Krum former quidditch star makes a cameo. New team members appear in both groups. The comandos meet a mob of angry townspeople and things start to go down from there.
** '''[=McMurdosford=]''':...to be written

* AbortedArc: Iceland.

* BlackHelicopter: to some extent. Though helicopter rides for the commandos are common, they are mostly ordinary military or police helicopters. The GM has hinted that the infamous Stealth Hawks of Abbottabad fame may feature in the future.
* BritsWithBattleships: Unicorn is technically under British command.

* {{Crossover}}: the boys and girls of ''KingdomHeartsTwilightOfTheStars'' are in the midst of a visit to this world as well.
* Chekhov's Armoury: Were to begin...

* EscortMission: the first Wizard mission involved getting a bunch of schoolkids to King's Cross, and it would've been just fine had not [[ExecutiveMeddling Umbridge]] showed up...

* HulkSpeak: Polish party member Czesława Szymańska.

* LadyOfWar: Karla.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: in addition to the [=PCs=], practically every new mission introduces a bevy of new characters. This is a good way of loading and firing ChekhovsGuns.
* MauveShirt: Sergeant Milu.

* ShoutOut: ''lots''. For one, Rainbow exists and occasionally interacts with Unicorn, and most if not all of the named [=NPCs=] are shout-outs to existing characters in other media. In addition, characters, themes, and events from the ModernWarfare-verse are regularly mentioned, though CanonWelding the worlds together has been recognized as difficult if not impossible.

* SpiesInAVan

* TheSpymaster: Karla, Ritter, probably Sergey.

* ThatNightFeltLikeMonths

* ''' Diplomacy and Mediation ''': Lita goes over to the comandos' place to talk peace with Mr. Clark, and does an old acquaintance a favor. Kicking a hornet's nest in the process and starting the discovery of a conspiracy, as Charmdrummer becomes suspicious of his own memories' validity. Mr. Krum former quidditch star makes a cameo. New team members appear in both groups. The comandos meet a mob of angry townspeople and things start to go down from there.

* TeensAreShort: Played straight with Lita, who is shorter than all the commandos, Chess, Jay, Jamie, and Karla, and Charmdrummer...

** ''' Diplomacy and Mediation ''': Lita goes over to the comandos' place to talk peace, and does an old acquaintance a favor. Kicking a hornet's nest in the process and starting the discovery of a conspiracy.

* AbortedArc: Iceland is starting to fit the part.

The RP is [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12926194470A15322500 here]]; discussion, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12924428110A55412300 here]].

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Everyone seems to think this of Lita, the youngest member of the PCs.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: WordOfGod confirms that the campaign is going to try to go this way, as both the Muggle countries and the Wizarding Ministries of Magic resort to more and more cynical methods to achieve victory.

* ThirtyGambitPileup: Romania. There are four factions there already before the crossover elements and the players arrive.