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Embassy personnel
Asher Richardson
Mason Lewis
An embassy is just a public safe house for spies.
Asher Robinson
sure, i was just thinking about the cover roles for those spies
Benjamin Roberts
A whole army of servants to do the manual labour keeping an embassy presentable. Some who might be whores. Or spies. Or both.
Asher Gonzalez
Considering their first posting was the embassy in East Berlin during the 1970's, no, there's no dearth of interesting stuff that's happened to them. And continues to- my cousin is getting ready to change stations from Bangkok, Thailand to Warsaw, Poland.
To understand how embassies serve as intelligence hubs, you need to get a good idea of how spying works. We like to imagine it's all James Bond, sneaking into secured vaults and seducing pretty enemy agents so they spill. And that's perfectly fine in a game because it;s fun and interesting. But a lot of it is gathered in pretty mundane ways.
For instance, take my family members in the Diplomatic service of the US. For the most part, they get letters, petitions, and thousands of mundane items of business every week, and it''s their job to either answer them in standard ways, or pass them up the line to someone who can do something about it. And they have to report everything they do to the agent in charge. Taken separately, these reports are mundane and fairly meaningless. But once the senior analysts filter it all together, a larger picture becomes clear. Maybe there are a number of requests to set up purchases of lumber from the elven kingdom. Not very interesting, but once enough come through, you begin to ask "What the hell do they need with all these trees?" A little more digging can show that the lumber is being sent to a major port for processing. An excuse can be made up for a diplomatic envoy to visit the port and see if the kingdom is building more ships. If so, what kind? And once the ships are built, where will they sail? All this can be found out through some well placed questions that people won't hesitate to answer. Once you have gathered enough information that people will happily give you for free, you can process it into a very good guess as to the goals and plans of the kingdom you're in, and you can pass that on to the Ambassador, who can decide to take action.
Dominic White
bump for interest
Easton Morales
If your elves are as fussy about their food as IRL French, then they will definitely import their own chef !
Ryan Rodriguez
>embassy in East Berlin during the 1970's
WHOA, well feel free to share if you want, might as well find some plot hook in there!
> letters, petitions, and thousands of mundane items of business
can you elaborate more on these? Are these informations directly aimed at the embassy, like i don't know, even advertising flyers? Any example you can give is good for me to understand them better.
Ethan Moore
Why would any country want secretaries, who does nothing but to spy on them?
Henry Barnes
No country wants them, but all of them get them.
Vast majority of embassy personel are spies or agents of spies.