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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:18
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Actually, no.
Round 1
It was the summer of 1944. "Stalag Luft III" was a POW camp somewhere in territory controlled by a Germany at war. The prisoners were mostly officers of the RAF and USAF, hence the name "Luft", German for "air". Here and there there were also a few more interesting characters who did not belong to the Allied air forces, but who had ended up on the camp on their own paths.
One such prisoner was the man known simply as Nikolai, who was a captured member of the Norwegian resistance movement. He would often tell tales of the heroic deed he and his unit did in Telemark where Germany had a captured heavy water plant, and how his efforts had thwarted the German A-bomb project.
He had later been captured, but by a twist of fate he had ended up on Stalag Luft III, probably by the help of a Norwegian sympathiser somewhere in the command chain. Usually he would have been shot on sight.
Nikolai's role in the Norwegian resistance had been great, but he would also be the catalyst for a grand adventure. Unfortunately for him, this catalyst was his own demise. On a sunny morning, he was found dead in his bunk. His neck was gaping wide open with blood everywhere, and the murder weapon was most likely the piece of barbed wire discarded on the floor.
After a day's pondering, the POWs realised what was happening. They had already noticed how every week the guards of the camp were being replaced by very young, very old or very sickly men, probably drafted from the bottom of the German barrel of manpower. However, even these scraps were probably badly needed on the front - a few of these new people had disappeared too, giving grey hairs to the Kommandant of the camp.
The best bet would be to get rid of the POWs... but with the military situation what it was, it was a very risky gambit to actually kill POWs, as long as it there was a danger of getting caught after the war. The Kommandant obviously did not want such a potential burden on his shoulder. That, and he was rather old in age - he would probably, as an officer, be let go home if there would no longer be a need for a camp..
So he, the POWs reasoned, must have infiltrated the camp itself with a fake prisoner, who would take out the other prisoners one by one. The Kommandant's hands would be clean and the camp empty in a few weeks.
Hence the prisoners decided take the chance and try to escape. A plan would need to be hatched, roles and jobs would have to be shared, efforts co-ordinated... and the killer would have to be eliminated as quickly as possible.
(Cue the first voting round. Detailed character descriptions next round.)
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Jon Miller
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I don't like the above options
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11-07-2005 06:17
So we're all criminals, there are just two who are the worst 
didn't notice it was gone, but I have not taken it away... Weird!
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