The Mission

At five the next morning Georgi returns to the warehouse. He enters luring several bags, bringing whatever he was able to acquire at the request of the agents the night before, as well as a large bag of warm bread rolls filled with bacon. There's a half dozen packs of smokes, five bars of chocolate, and three wool caps. He also had a small, paperback sized atlas of the local area.

Georgi tells you, "We will drive to the border, about 90 minutes, yes? There may be inspections at the border. You will need to conceal any weapons, explosives, and other suspicious items aboard the lorry."

There is room in the cabin for two passengers. The others will have to ride in the rear, where a rough wooden bench is attached to the frame along the passenger side. The lorry is loaded with vehicle parts, tyres and assorted junk in large, open, wooden crates secured via ropes to rings set in the floor and sides. Georgi says that, "If challenged, we will be posing as scrap metal merchants on our way back from a collection job and that the agents in the rear are migrant workers returning home, to whom I have offered a lift. The nature of the junk means that items can be concealed within the mess for easier access."

Who sits in the front this time? and make your stealth rolls. This can be done by an Insight + Stealth test with a difficulty of 0. If you hide them all in the back then just one of you needs make the roll.

You have Insight + Stealth ranging from 9 to 11. Irish also has an applicable focus, so he'd be rolling a 10 but any 3s or lower would count double. More successes is better, add that would be the target for an inspection.

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Current Momentum: 0
Current Threat: 10

That's right. The total is all that is important, but the skill rank provides the level of 'critical' threshold if you have a relavent focus in that skill. 7+3=10 so that's your base threshold. Your roll could be easily shown by convention as 10(3): successes on 10 or less, doubles on 3 or less.

After an hour and a half driving along a tarmacked, but poorly maintained, road Georgi indicates that you are approaching the border. A short line of traffic is strung out on the approach to a barrier across the road between two wooden shelters. A larger shed with a large awning appears to be an office/inspection area.

As Georgi joins the end of the queue of traffic his face pales briefly. The border post is manned by six uniformed Romanian guards (three in each direction of travel), as Georgi expected, but with them are two soldiers in German uniform.

Georgi reasons that if the Germans have established a new airfield close to this border crossing, then they may simply have assigned additional guards as standard procedure. He asks the agents how they would like to proceed. They can continue as planned or they could take an alternative route, but that would mean a further two hours driving on this side of the border and will make the journey across Romania longer as a lengthy diversion will be required.

You all also see that there are two motorcycles with sidecars bearing Heer markings parked just behind the inspection office

Georgi says, "We could take an alternate route. There is another crossing. It's two hours farther along, and then over the border, and we'd need to double back, but the roads wouldn't be convenient. Could be, maybe eight hours longer, all told."

He seems fine either way, not really worried about this checkpoint, but maybe he's just reluctant to go so far out of the way.

You wait in the queue whilst the vehicles ahead are processed. As each vehicle pulls up to the barrier the two Romanian guards approach, one to each side, and the guard on the driver’s side holds out a hand to the driver. The driver hands over documents which are briefly examined by the guard who hands them back before waving to the third guard at the barrier, who raises it. The inspecting guard then waves the vehicle through. Two cars and a motorbike pass through in this manner, followed by a small farming truck. The next vehicle is an open-topped wagon containing barrels stacked two high. Upon presentation of papers, the guard speaks with the driver before pointing to the inspection area. The wagon is driven under the awning at the side of the office where two more Romanian guards emerge from a door and climb into the back of the wagon to perform a search. As the search continues another car is waved through, followed by two motorbikes. Throughout this the two German guards have remained at the shelter, observing proceedings.

The guard waves Georgi’s lorry forward and approaches the cab. Georgi winds down the window and presents his and the passengers’ papers. He speaks in rapid Romanian, indicating the presence of the passengers in the rear. The first guard passes this information to the second who moves around to the back of the vehicle to open the doors. The passengers in the back are asked something in Romanian, but you pick out the word for 'passports'.