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I didn't get pass the first few scenes, the yank-the-current-frame-aside motions hurts my eyes.

Oh shame about that - try just reading the lyrics instead.

Blink. That's rather sad, IMO.

Marina! Adore her. Wonderful poetry, both of you! And I was thinking Katrina could be a clothing designer. All she does is sketch out ideas and send them off.

Side note: I won't post anything on the RP until I get back home tomorrow evening (PT). I'm finding myself quite exhausted and out of the mood for roleplaying, so until then, I'll try to post here.

I've just gone brain dead. 3am here.

Here's my attempt on writing a runaway civil servant's profile, tell me if you needs more or have a suggestion or two. ^^


Name: Jeffrey Mccullough

33 years old. Divorced, no offspring. Graduated from Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College. Speaks English, Germany, French, Dutch, Greek. Served in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Paris, Athens.

Friendly. Outgoing, social, group oriented. Does not like to be alone. Open. Likes to be the center of attention. Likes external praise. Likes crowds. Self-confident. Good at getting people to have fun. Adaptable and action-oriented. A doer, focused on immediate results. Disorganized, messy. Decisive. Finisher. Talented at presentation. Likes to lead. Likes sports. Tends to dominate conversations. Lives in the here-and-now. Fast-paced lifestyle. Impatient with long explanations. Extremely loyal to his peers, but not usually respectful of laws and rules if they get in the way of getting things done. Emotionally stable. Frequently joking. Adjusts easily. Neutral moods. Not easily annoyed. Enjoys crude jokes. Risk taker, fearless, can handle criticism, hard to discourage.

Psychological Disorder: Narcissistic.

Details of accident: McCullough and his female 'friend' Carol Hogan sent a May Day in rough conditions at 7am. The ten-metre vessel was stranded in high winds and 10ft waves and was smashing against cliffs in Es Calo, off the island of Formentura.
Rescue teams were unable to access the cliffs by sea because of the rough conditions, and an emergency helicopter was scrambled to help.
The body of Ms. Hogan found in the water but not Mr. Mccullough's. In the autopsy, there are traces of [insert substances here] with profile that almost a perfect match for Katrina's mother's. Jeffrey Mccullough was suspect of being alive because after his disappearance his previously dormant account in the Bank of Scotland, Aviemore branch, under the name of Ronald Adair (( )) suddenly become active.

Hello folks, how's the day going I'm getting back to normal.
Help me out here.

Q. 1) Are we having it that he is Katrina’s father and her mother died? Because that’s what I suggested a while back and I can go with that still if archenemy wants it that way. Thoughts on that from archenemy would be good, please.

If it is just a case so they spend time together I’d rather know now because it will significantly affect things in the case. This is why I need to know the answer to Question 1.

I archenemy doesn't want to know the answer to Q 1 please PM me instead

Q 2 If Katrina is going overseas with Sherlock then:
Formentera looks a very good place they can go to. Nice one. Ron Adair, also nice touch, thank you. Magdalen, Oxford is good if we go there, if we’ve seen Morse we know what it looks like. Paris is an option if Katrina would like it, fashion designer. I’ll pass on Aviemore to cut down on locations research, I know where he can be living. I’ll make Jeffrey a civil service interpreter seeing as he speaks Greek English and 3 other languages and give him flaws.

Thoughts please.

Welcome back. ^^ Is it possible for a civil service interpreter to possess certain kind of sensitive information that makes even Mycroft Holmes chases him?

Oh definitely so. ^^

Recorded conversation?

Making him actually Katrina's father can lead into some interesting plot twists. Of course, that could be the reason why this case is particularly important for Sherlock and the reason why he bring her along.

It could be very interesting plot twists. I'm getting ideas now that I've time to think.
Recorded conversation is good. I like your brain. Can I have it for my mantelpiece when you are done with it?

I do long term planning by default. I'm OCD that way

Sherlock. wrote:It could be very interesting plot twists. I'm getting ideas now that I've time to think.
Recorded conversation is good. I like your brain. Can I have it for my mantelpiece when you are done with it?

I do long term planning by default. I'm OCD that way

I am very much attached to my brain and have plan to bring it with me to the other side but you may derive enjoyment from the stream of wackiness that come when it is still in operation. However, I'll toast you for relentless long-range planning.

Hmm... Katrina is 23 years old, then JM better be at least twice that age to be her biological father.

I do. I do. And I do hope you mean 'toast' as in drinking a glass of something. Cheers!

The ceremonial kind unless you are a slice of bread, then it can mean the other way.

What kind of ideas floating in your mind right now?

Yeah we say - *use my Muse CD as a drinks coaster again and you are toast.*

Interpreters have access to digital and actual overseas communications and people. It only takes one idea for a get rich quick scheme for a not highly paid civil servant to

A) sell info
From say France to Spain and bypassing it getting into British hands. Treason.

B) keeping sensitive info secret
One civil servant turned down the job initially converted to Muslim faith, got in with terrorists and then thought but people are getting killed -he led a double life working for civil service and keeping in with the terrorist leader and engineered him to be arrested for drug dealing. Real life case. The interpreter could have received info on the group and kept it off the radar in pay of the group.

C) Altering info downplaying significance or scale instead of translating it properly and being paid to mislead British security.
One of the Greek islands? (I need to check that) had bad rep for being a haven for arms dealing gun running buying then selling to terrorist or civil war groups. Real report from a few years ago.

D) Altering info so country X who pays interpreter puts blame on country Z.

E) Making up info and being paid to supply it to Britain by foreign country
A group invents a phoney mole and has a government running around like headless chickens unable to find this non-existent head of a group in another country. Real life case.

I think there's an F as well.

The bottom line is, can we actually play the scheme in question without undermining the original settings? Those schemes looks more believable as an intelligence officer' line of work, especially if he was supposed to do it on enough scale to warrant Mycroft's personal attention. Even then, why use Sherlock the outside contractor, a civilian and with requirement to capture alive too. Mycroft can get in a lot of trouble just from that alone and it is hardly believable if he didn't think that way to cover his back.

It'd work.
Intelligence officers are civil servants some of them sit in a back office and transcribe mobile phone calls, overseas ones would need an interpreter. The Diplomatic arm of interpreters do work overseas - got that from the Civil Service website

Also Katrina's father could be innocent - could have made a silly little mistake and a colleague blackmails him about it so to keep pace with the demands he has to do more high pay work or he is forced to do as the blackmailer says. The blame falls on her father not the blackmailer.

Why use Sherlock - the job may require a little law breaking or entrapment and it's much cheaper and quieter to send little brother than have a dozen highly paid agents clomping about.
Mycroft wouldn't be accountable if Sherlock does it quietly because it is sensitive possibly it only becomes official if Mycroft gets a result and decides it is official.
If Sherlock failed they were no worse off. IF MI5 failed it'd be very embarrassing and sour political relations.
Needs the man alive so that truth comes out, justice is done under British law where the event took place and if there is a blackmailer to make sure he's uncovered so her father doesn't get saddled with all the blame. Father would get lenient treatment because he was a victim protecting his family and the civil service by not making the whole mess public -Official secrets act in the past if you made something public you were guilty of treason.

1. This is the computerized age
2. Katrina is supposed to be the owner of a fashion-related company. The biggest probability is that was an inherited company. Why daddy ran away to become a civil servant under a different identity?
3. There are a lot of freelancers who can be contracted, there's no need to send Sherlock into a dangerous mission.
4. If Sherlock failed then it will put the Holmes brothers in the bad light, you can think the possible repercussions yourself.
5. If the truth comes out then it would be an entirely different matter, it is time to play the blame game and usually it is the weakest link who falls. Justice and law is mere lip service on this kind of circle.

1. The computerised age started as a private network used by USA government and spread to UK before the Internet The Internet WWW was in infancy when her father would have been involved as a civil servant about 1988 straight from University. I'm suggesting her daddy didn't run away to be a civil servant he already was one before Katrina was born.

2. Maybe Katrina started the fashion design company herself or took over from her mother.??

3. Who would Mycroft trust - his brother or a goldfish freelance contractor?

4. Let's say for sake of the plot that Mycroft believes that Sherlock won't fail.

5. Her dad vanished because he saw a way to get clear of his enemy. Hence Mycroft wants him alive and brought back to London. It'd come out who the blackmailer is. ??

I love bouncing ideas around and you think of how to make things logical and watertight *cheers*

1. What year right now when the debacle happen? This is the kind of toy that GCHQ use. Father was/is a civil servant is possible.
2. If it is Katrina then it is very likely she is still busy developing it, don't expect her to have much time romping across Europe with Sherlock.
3. Chasing a dangerous criminal? A professional goldfish than risking himself become the only living Holmes son.
4. -.- I hate dumbing down a character and blind faith counts among that kind of offenses.
5. Wrong. What's in my mind is, McCullough will not escape unscathed once Mycroft have him. Unless you plan to play JM for a long time, he is a disposable character.

Sorry, I don't think I follow point 1 you made about year. Year he shows up using his bank account would be within the last few months. Vanished 9 years ago without a trace.?

2. Not much romping she said Katrina had plans / was busy, just time to consolidate friendship or feelings was what I was thinking.
3. Okay he isn't dangerous, then. Just damned clever at hiding.
4. I agree but what are the alternatives which I haven't thought of?
5. Realistically he'd only go to prison. I thought he'd appear once when he's found and unless archenemy wants otherwise there'd be a reunion and his return to London. If that is her father archenemy should choose what her father's personality is and either I'll play him or archenenemy can.

I'm thinking we should let archenemy catch up at this point. It's great, but there's no gain in hammering out finer details if she says no to the Q1. I asked in post 782.

My answer to Question 1 is yes, absolutely. I'm open to change on most things, and I think it would make a splendid plot twist. I am disappointed in you, Sherlock., for using a Muse CD as a coaster. CD cases work way better. And can I have both of your brains? If asking nicely won't work I might have to steal them, so watch out. Finally, major correction: Katrina is not the owner of a company, she works for one.

I'll leave you two to plot together. Meanwhile, the game was/is stuck unless Sherlock. take his turn.

No, my brain is for hire but I don't share ownership, ever. Smirk.

There isn't very much for me to post about, so the waiting game it is for both of us. Lol, stealing your brain it is then.

Actually, there is something for me to say. On the car ride back home, I got bored and began writing about Katrina's life with the Donovans. It's helping me flesh out how she was back then, and it's very fun to write.

Katrina is free right now, this is your chance to build her character more.