Some cool ideas, I'll take some time to respond properly tomorrow.

Chronology-wise, our game takes place after Turncoat, but before Changes, so the Vampire War is currently enjoying a lull.

We've just finished the first story of our DFRPG game, City on the River, which has culminated in our Champion of God becoming a fully-fledged Knight of the Cross. At the climax of his final test (about whether he'd willingly take on the rather final mind-wiping of the man he was told to save), the Archangel Michael gave him Amoracchius which he used to great effect at the conclusion of the episode. Turning up in the nick of time at the end of that fight was Sanya, who had cleared a path out of the carnage before the cops arrived. He'd arrived with a plane ticket for Oliver (our new Knight) to Egypt in a few days time.

Oliver Monfort used to be a university lecturer (and active varsity athlete) before his calling found him, largely due to the loss of his wife to Red Court predation (she's one of them, now). He's a devout Anglican, though he tends to save the fiery sermons for battle against the supernatural, rather than proselytising his friends. He's rather new to the supernatural world and finding his feet with it all. But he did just butcher an uber-ghoul with Amoracchius and succeed in his mission to save the soul of a rogue Warden wrongly accused of murder.

My character, the Scion, Faris al-Farik, who is from Egypt originally, asked to go along, and they said yes. So two Knights of the Cross and one of Vlad Drakul's by-blows are going on road trip in the Middle East. Just to clarify the inevitable question, Faris isn't evil, though he used to be. It was a previous wielder of Esperacchius who turned him off the bad path by sparing his life. He is fluent in Arabic (his native tongue, even) and an able backup for the two Knights, being both supernaturally-empowered (all four building blocks) and an excellent fighter (Weapons 5, Fists and Athletics 4).

Both are Chest Deep (9 Refresh 32 Skill point characters) so pretty capable, and we have Sanya and two Swords of the Cross. So they should be able to handle some pretty tough stuff.

This is not going to be story 2, it's some down-time/in-the-between-stories fluff. Which has been left up to us players to make it up for the entertainment of the rest of the group. In-game it's October 2010 and story 2 is scheduled to open in spring 2011, so there's some space for events to take place.

To the question, what could these three badass hombres get up to? I have a stirring of a notion that something they do might be inadvertently connected with the Arab Spring, but that might be presuming too much on current affairs. And maybe cutting a little too close to real miseries going on.

Anyway that's the scenario, ideas welcome.

Will someone recap for us, though? Or can you all re-enact the roleplay session?

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It hasn't been lost, he just didn't grab it so he could do the work to upload it. So he'll have double-duty to pull after tonight's session to catch up on the podcasts.

Kind of. I was aware of the books, but had never read them. It was in gearing up for a proposed DFRPG game (which we're now playing) that I read them all.

Yes I have been doing Minor Milestones in between sessions, so far people haven't really changed much around, though I think Kiero may have used one to change some of Faris' skills around. At the end of last session everybody got a Significant Milestone, but people are still thinking about how to spend it.

I did consider a Stunt-switch in preparation for the fight, but didn't bother in the end. Oriana's player did switch Contacts and I think Rapport around for that session, and made good use of Contacts during.

Sort of appropriate that I used my Significant Milestone at the end of the session to raise my Weapons to Superb (+5). That'll probably stay there til I raise my Inhuman Strength to Supernatural Strength, then I'll review how problematic weapon breakage becomes.

In seriousness, though, a good place to start might be the following site I found:

http://www.history.army.mil/moh.html

Medal of Valor recipients seem like a likely pool of candidates (or at least, those of whom died in battle, as is commonly the case for Medal of Valor recipients).  Of course, this list would be limited to the last century and a half, and to Americans.

What's dubious about the Medal of Honour is that it took a posthumous review of many after action reports to recognise the efforts of non-white soldiers throughout the various wars the US has been in over the last century and a half. There could be lots of others with either lesser awards or ignored altogether who should be up there, but for the colour of their skin.

This will either sound like I'm being stupid or rude, but honestly...I'm just curious.

Why does setting a building on fire have to be a declaration or a maneuver?  Why can't I just make fire and burn said building?

(assuming of course we're ignoring legal and moral implications as well as assuming physics will allow such a thing...)

It doesn't, and frankly I wish that particular example would just die. It's been more detrimental to people's understanding of how FATE works than any other, and feeds into the whole "everything's an Aspect!" lunacy.

Weapon:6 is a good deal less powerful than +6 Weapons.