A Group Of Unlikely Faces

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Zoyral was looking at his phone when he realized that it was nearly time to go. Putting on the suit he had bought for this occasion, he quickly dressed up before exiting his room. He closed the door behind him. A few minutes later, Zoyral was driving down the roads heading to the World Trade Center building. He was exceptionally nervous as this would be one of the first times Zukchiva had made real contact with foreign countries. He hoped nothing would go wrong and Zukchiva would come to be better for this event.

As he was contemplating these things, Zoyral heard a roar that seemed to surround him. He hit his head on the roof and began to rub the hurt spot as he looked out the window. He just managed to see the F-19s complete their pass, and watched in awe as they zoomed away. Truly, this country was a world superpower.

As the car slowly ground to a halt, Zoyral rubbed his hands on his pant cuff. He felt as if he was drowning in his nervousness although he knew that he was imagining it. Slowly Zoyral got up, being careful not to fall and make the best first impression he could make. He turned around and waved the car off, before heading towards the doors of the tall building.

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After a couple of days on sea, the Xagrurgian Republican Navy’s Trek-class aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines finally arrive at Kuthernburg, loaded up with fighter jets ready to perform combat manuververs for the war games along with several cargo ships carrying tanks, vehicles, equipment, and infantry.

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The East Cerdan & Chianskian delegations both woke up relatively early with their translators and assistants doing their final revisions and amendments to the speeches and documents before the group left the hotel for the first day at the WTC.

As they were driving along the unmistakable roar of jet engines buzzed past them. The delegation however remained mostly placid about it with a few looking out the windows trying to see what had happened.

After a few more minutes the cars pulled up in front of the WTC shortly after 9am and one by one they hopped out of the cars and assembled next to the road before walking in as a small group. Erich Honecker walked in front followed by Taraki Kivlok and Victor Stills closely behind followed by a few translators and assistants carrying briefcases and following the group. They walked inside the lobby and began looking for where they were supposed to go

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King Franco got dressed after he woke & quickly ate then left for Luthernburg He was escorted on his KT-2 with 6 elite guards heavy armored Vans surrounding his vehicle, He arrived to the WTC & entered and was greeted by a few people.

He Goes to the designated room for the meeting.

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Vice Chancellor Ludwig Bohmer’s Lada 1500. A marvel of technology.
Courtesy of Neueburg’s People’s Security Police.

The day after, Vice Chancellor Bohmer and Dietrich, his secretry, reach the World Trade Center in the morning at 9am. They step out of the Volksicherheitspolizei Lada 1500 parked right behind a motorcade of armoured vans bearing the flag of the Kingdom of Kolosia. The Lada 1500 is a product of Neueburg’s autarchy. Entirely manufactured in the state-owned factories of the People’s Republic and promoted by propagand as “a marvel of technology” the vehicle failed four crash tests out of five and has a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour. For unkown reasons, the Ministry of Interior ordered thousands of Lada 1500 for the People’s Security Police. As a result, Neueburg’s Verkehrpolizei, the traffic police division, has the lowest record of successful apprehensions of speeders and traffic offenders.

Dietrich is carrying a briefcase. Vizekanzler Bohmer is leading the way into the huge skyskraper. When the couple walk into the building, they take a stand in the middle of the hall. They observe dozens of busy bureaucrats, diplomats and delegates as they go on with their daily routine. Vice Chancellor Bohmer pretends to be looking for familiar faces. It is the first time a representative of the People’s Republic of Neueburg visits a foreign country.

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Jeff stood at the front door greeting all the delegates arriving , “Good Morning, Elevator B, E or F to Floor 130” he repeated as they passed by, he shook some hands and walked outside. He pulled his camera out and took a couple shots of the Blue Diamonds team as they continued their performance over the Blvd, “Such a beautiful display” He gestured to Rico who was standing by him, “yea I agree I use to love seeing them when I was younger”. Rico had been standing around waiting on his good pal Woolf to show up so he could show him a new idea he wanted to get a opinion on.

Naomi awaited the incoming guest and delegates at their arrival to floor 130, all she could think about was that 5 more floors was the observation deck and 10 more was the roof, to make matters worse a large cloud layer was forming just under floor 130 blocking the view out the windows. She quickly thought about something else and greeted everyone , Floor 130 was one of a kind, two streams both with several biomes and fauna were built, one showed what happens when they properly take care of the waterways and remove human obstacles vs the other one with dams that do not have fish ladders and other things to keep the stream flowing and free. The structure wrapped around the entire floor into a little pool that sends the water back to the start, several bridges were built across them to access the conference area.

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After a couple minutes in the elevator, James Deref and Theodora Quhencia arrive to Floor 130 and greet Queen Naomi ll when they step out and then take their seats.
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After the Xagrurgian fleet docks in one of the military dockyards within the bay, the equipment are offloaded amongst other things.

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28th January 2018
Bourbon Café, Luthernburg

From his hotel room, the drive wasn’t long. The café was a luxurious building on the outskirts of the city. He had been in communication with Leon Jolva, the 2nd President of Axdel, and Arngrímur Sigurdarson, Prime Minister of Lokania. They had agreed to meet for breakfast at an earlier time than the meeting.

Walter was sat alone, at the corner of the café with nobody else around. The café was luxurious and accommodated only the wealthiest men. In fact, it held such high status that poorly dressed men and women would not get served. Of course, Walter had dressed smart for the day. It was a routine to him, and abnormal not to. He smiled as a waitress delivered a tray containing his hobsti tea and a welcome dish.
Smart he thought. Addressing the people with a miniature welcome dish.
The waitress produced three dishes. One a small slice of what looked like salmon, one a Staynish dish of hobstiberries delicately placed around a unique pastry-pie tower and a little rice dish. He chose the salmon. Whilst the hobstiberry dish was absolutely delicious, he wanted to try something different for once.
Leon and Arngrímur had entered at different times one after each other. At this point, Walter had finished his small welcome dish. Leon and Arngrímur had began eating theirs, albeit not salmon; Leon had the Staynish dish and Arngrímur had the rice.
After they had finished their welcome dishes, they naturally slid into a more political mindset.
“Junt was almost captured a couple of days ago,” Leon stated. “She has persistently defied our predictions and we currently believe she is heading south. Its likely she’s following the media coverage about her to predict our actions, so we should advise the police to not publish any sensitive data regarding the search from now on.”
Walter nodded. “Her erratic and unpredictable manoeuvrability is challenging. We’ve never had so much trouble with one individual. How she has sustained herself for so long is besides me,” he paused “A classified report on the woman conducted last month showed her to be funded from a third party, their location and identity unknown. What is known is that she has got a LOT of money behind her. Whoever is funding her escape does not want her to be caught, leading us to believe she has information we need.”
“She is certainly taking her time to escape.” Leon added.
“You say, she is hiding information?” Arngrímur asked.
“Why, that is what Director Lucas Brom has proposed to me,” Walter stopped to sip his tea. “The Morstaybishlian Intelligence Bureau has spent a lot of money on her case.”
“Well then we must catch her.”
“We will. Amalda Harimann is a lost cause. We can’t find her records anywhere.”
“That old tyrant?”
“We speculate she flew to Gondwana or Atlantia in the very last days of the war,” Walter spoke “Exactly where? We cannot find out.”
“What do you foresee from this meeting?”
“Something new.”
“We shall see. We shall see.”

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After leaving from their respective hotels, the Kaiser of Asendavia and his wife encountered the King of Talusi and his Minister of Foreign Affairs in the World Trade Center and exchanged pleasentries. After finishing their small conversation, both pairs of people took the elevator to the 130th floor. After the small wait they finally reached the 130th floor.

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World Trade Center, Lutherburg, Kuthernburg
January 29

Dajida Taru had enjoyed her stay at the hotel that the Kutherns had availed to and designated for visiting dignitaries to the conference to use. While public officials generally did not personally use social media sites, they were able to instruct their staff to share what they were feeling or thinking or doing or planning on them.

Dajida Taru posted on her Chirper account, @dtaru, an image of her in her hotel suite with her staff working through documents in preparation for the conference. She highlighted key policy objectives, but she was annoyed by the 140 character limit that limited the ability to articulate those objectives more thoroughly. Luckily her Chirper account was followed by enough people to be an effective means to reach people, particularly the youth.

She had Hobsti tea with her staff, a brief address to encourage them and a toast to top it all off. She enjoyed having a somewhat less stoic and hierarchical relationship with her staff. It made it easier to work with them and made them hate their jobs a lot less. The fact that the A-grade Hobsti tea was full bodied and relaxing, gave them a good start.

She got into her car, a black Royal Redrugus sedan armed by the personal transport division of kAE Industries, with basic protection features for its precious passenger. She waved at all the people who lined the route to the conference. There were even a couple Hamanians here or there cheering her on. It was refreshing to see that public participation and interest in the political life of a nation extended beyond watching the news and posting on Chirper. The physical presence of people was far more potent.

She arrived at the World Trade Center and got out of her car. She wore a raspberry jumpsuit and a black coat (which she wore over a soft pink suit jacket) and a Fatima Muhammadu red bottom black suede heels and a Evana Rashid diamond and platinum bracelet and chandelier earings. She wore a red scarf on her head that she wore like a crown, the frills rising like a large coronet. (OOC: http://oldworldnew.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gele-via-3d-looks.jpg
is an idea of what I mean).

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Luthernburg, Kuthernburg
January 29, 2018

The ride from the resort to the World Trade Center was uncomfortably quiet for Elsa Colombo. Although the stay at the resort was probably one of the greatest nights in her life, it didn’t help calm her anxiousness. Leaving the homeland was frightening for her, not to mention to a country across the ocean for a large international meeting. Of all the people that could be sent to represent Fortuna, the regime requested she attended. Since everyone else was tied up back home and it only made sense that the head of Environmental Protection attended a meeting concerning environmental protection, she in the end reluctantly agreed. Still though. . .

She looked down at her notes of points she might possibly bring up in the meeting, then noticing her hand begin shaking. She cursed under her breath as she fumbled through her purse until she found her small bottle of tablets. Popping one into her water bottle, she nervously waited for it to dissolve. Dear Unus, she is not ready for this meeting at all. It honestly astonished her how anyone can be calm in such situations.

Elsa glanced down over at her fellow delegate next to her who was preoccupied with taking pictures of the passing view. Now Lorenzo was a perfect example of someone being able to stay calm in stressful situations. No matter the situation, Lorenzo always was calm and coolheaded, and if the time permits, he’ll begin talking about his two children. What kind of man begins talking about how his daughter finger-painting flowers on her sibling right after a meeting on increased funding of re-education camps? Well Lorenzo anyways, cause that’s exactly what he did. Although Elsa admired his calmness, it was times like that that made him seem a bit. . . coldhearted. Then again, she voted in favor of increased funding, so she wasn’t one to talk.

Seeing that the tablet finally dissolved in her bottle, Elsa chugged the drink down. Although it was a bit early for the tablet to take any effect, she felt her hand starting to calm down a bit. Hopefully things will be better once inside the WTC where she can focus on the meeting. She glanced over again at Lorenzo who beamed with happiness as he swiped through the pictures he took.

“Are. . . Are those for your children?” she hesitantly asked.

“Hmm? Oh yes, the kiddos will for sure love seeing these beautiful buildings,” Lorenzo calmly replied, looking over to his fellow delegate with a smile. “If you want, I can share them with you when we get home.”

“Oh, oh no thanks. I can take my own pictures,” she quickly replied as she fumbled through her purse again, this time pulling out her phone for Lorenzo to see.

“Ah, well suit yourself,” he said as he turned his gaze to the front. “If I were to make a recommendation, you should definitely take a picture of that,” he added as he pointed at a building that just came into view; the World Trade Center.

Their little convoy of three SUVs pulled up to the front of the WTC, and the two delegates with their two guards and translator hopped out and made their way to the entrance. Besides their translator who went with a black suit, all of them wore uniforms in the dark green color of their nation. Elsa went with a simple dress with gold outlines, her long, brown hair tied back in a bun. On the other hand Lorenzo wore a normal suit, his golden tie being what stood out the most. Their guards, as expected, wore the ceremonial uniforms of the Elite Guardsmen, quite an eye catcher at first glance. The delegation paused for a second at the entrance as their translator found the directions, all the while Lorenzo was busying himself with taking pictures of the lobby, snapping an awkward selfie with Elsa (after much pestering, he later had it deleted). Once they figured out where they needed to go, the Fortunan delegation hopped onto one of the elevators and made their way onto floor 130.

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King Franco enters the room & is relieved to see the Queen is there & he politely greets himself to her majesty,

“It is an Honor to meet you, Queen Naomi”

He quickly gets seated and waits for the arrival of the others.

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World Trade Centre, Lutherburg, Kuthernburg
January 29

Dajida Taru saw the King of Kolosia sitting alone at the table waiting for the conference to start. She walked up to him. “King Franco? Good evening, sir. I am Dajida Taru, Foreign Minister of the Hamanian Empire”.

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Greetings Madam Taru,

It is an honor to meet you I hear great things about Hamania, So how are you liking Kuthernburg so far?

I personally love Kuthernburg as the cold air is refreshing from the warm climate back home

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She replied, “Kuthernburg has enough activities to keep those who can afford them preoccupied and amused on their stay. You should come to Hama one day. It’s a lovely place and there is a lot to do. With that in mind, I wanted to take the opportunity to know you better. What are your nation’s vested interests in this conference? What do you hope to walk away with?”

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"I might visit Hama one day,
But my schedule is getting busy and I can only go to certain events from time to time,

But the reason I came is that UKKNJ has realized that a few major wars have been starting around Urth & we believe that we should all together attempt to prevent another war & have a more peaceful Environment as war causes more trouble & Kolosia likes the feeling of security."

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World Trade Center, Luthernburg, Kuthernburg
January 29

She replied to King Franco, “I took the liberty of acquiring some information about Kolosia’s geopolitical situation. As far as I understand, do correct me if I am wrong, Kolosia was a former colony of the Morstaybishlian Empire and maintains a close or at least cordial relationship with it. With the heavy military presence that the United Kingdom has maintained in Joralesia, or South Joralesia if I should say, wouldn’t your nation be in a comfortable geopolitical, strategic and security situation? And subsequent to its independence, your nation has remained fairly docile on international politics, and I mean no disrespect whatsoever. My question then is what aspirations does your nation have or new challenges does it face that it would shift its agenda and increase its focus on international agreements such as the ones we hope to frame today?”

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Earlier, prior to her meeting with and subsequently conversing with King Franco, Dajida Taru approached the acting president of Xagrurg, James Deref, “Good evening Mr President. I am Dajida Taru, the Foreign Minister of the Hamanian Empire”.

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"Kolosia has recently gotten interested and realizes how important it is to come out to the international community as you stated we have been fairly quiet for the last 2 centuries which Kolosia has noticed isn’t good as many nations don’t know as & we are seen a secretive nation & can be classified sorta isolationist,

Kolosia would like to change its way and become a key player in helping the International Community with resolving issues as war, refugees, famine and other events that occur."