Yeah sorry, was really picking up a pace there and we were against the clock. If We'd known that you'd missed out on firefights throughout the weekend due to sneaky beaky and patrolling we probably would have let ya join on (if not exactly for good in-game reasons!)
We honestly thought there was no way it was serious, trustable offer from a reality point of view - for future use, a quick "out of game" reference to how you were actually itching for a gunfight etc... ie actually say "Out of character" or "out of game guys.." and we snap out of character for a few secs to discuss what's good for people rather than characters - if ya see what I mean.
Was a great situation anyway... panned out pretty much as expected, although I thought at one point that 2Para were actually close to going guns down!
Yeah I thought about that afterwards, in that I should have said something along of the lines of "out of game" etc. First time I had been involved in roleplaying. I should have given the whole thing a lot more thought but we were somewhat rushed because we knew a large attack was only 15 minutes away and we were rushing to get to you guys to use that intel as a bargaining tool to gain your trust. Unfortunately it all kicked off 10 minutes earlier than due.
The reasoning behind the offer was primarily to spend the last hour seeing how you guys work. Being so distant from the game was never an issue for our team because we get a kicking out of doing long range recce's and op work. As said in a previous post, I did not fire a single round during the whole weekend, but it doesn't bother me in the slightest, because I had a good time.
No the main reason was after hearing about the stories of things that had happened over the weekend I thought to come up with the offer of a mercenary service would be something no one would of expected and was my way of contributing that additional bit of flavouring to an already flavoured dish.
At the end of the day, the brief 20 minutes I had with you guys gave me what I was looking for. I was right in the middle of an on the cuff improvised action and watched you guys doing your stuff.
Although it was a strange feeling when you had us on our knees ordering the para's in the FOB to lay down there arms. I knew you guys would never compromise, I knew the para's would never compromise, I knew I was caught in the middle and totally screwed.....
Nice work lads.
