You are in a fictional island off the coast of Brazil in 1939. Who is in the pub?

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You find yourself on a large island off the east coast of Brazil. The year is 1939. The island has three medium-sized cities and many small, coastal fishing villages.

After getting shipwrecked not too far from island, you've made your way onto land and could use a stiff drink. Luckily, with minimal effort, you find a pub! Who else is in there with you?
 
D. B. Cooper, lying low and enjoying his planeload of stolen money in a nice tropical climate.
 
Howard Hughes.
Adolf Hitler.
Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy had been dead for twenty years.
All at the same table. Playing cards.

Figure that one out, you meddling kids!
For a poker game that would really puzzle the kids

  • Kaspar Gutman
  • Signor Ferrari
  • Doctor Lorenz
  • Harry Lime
 
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'doh. I read that as 1993 for some stupid reason. NVM.

If the island is big enough to support three substantial cities and numerous fishing villages, it must be pretty big. I'm think something the size of Cyprus, Puerto Rico, or Crete, if not bigger. And since there's really only one thing you could call a big huge island in the Atlantic Ocean, I'm thinking the pub might have a bunch of drunken archaeologists celebrating their discovery of some really cool 10,000 year old artifacts.
 
You find yourself on a large island off the east coast of Brazil. The year is 1939. The island has three medium-sized cities and many small, coastal fishing villages.

After getting shipwrecked not too far from island, you've made your way onto land and could use a stiff drink. Luckily, with minimal effort, you find a pub! Who else is in there with you?
This post is highly relevant to my interests:shade:.
Here's Bing's answer, which BTW was interesting enough to share:thumbsup:!

"You enter the pub and see a lively crowd of locals and foreigners. The pub is decorated with flags and posters of the Republic of the United States of Brazil the name of the country since 1889. You hear people speaking Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, and other languages. You smell the aroma of beer, coffee, and fried snacks.

You notice that some of the patrons are wearing military uniforms or badges. Brazil is not officially involved in World War II yet, but it has been under pressure from both the Axis and the Allies to join their side. You wonder if any of them are spies or saboteurs.

You also see some people wearing traditional clothes or jewelry from different regions of Brazil. You recognize some of them as descendants of African slaves, indigenous peoples, European immigrants, or mixed-race groups. You admire the diversity and richness of Brazilian culture.

You walk up to the bar and order a cachaça, a strong distilled liquor made from sugarcane juice. You hope it will help you forget your troubles and enjoy your stay on this beautiful island."

...not half-bad, I'd say:grin:!
 
When I posted this thread, I thought people would most likely reply with 20th-Century takes on your typical pseudo-medieval fantasy tavern denizens. Stocking it with the real people y'all have mentioned is much more interesting! Definitely planning to go in that direction.
 
Nicolas Flamel.

(There's other legendary immortal possibilities but Unknown Armies pretty much has the Comte de St Germain angle covered and the Wandering Jew comes with, um, connotations you may want to avoid in a game).
 
A cigar maker.
Eugene Bullard.
A struggling author searching for inspiration.
A German double agent.
The bartender, a man of many secrets whose origin no one really knows.
Two farmers.
A woman of ill repute, who is spying, and has a British handler.
A local drunk who is not as addled as he appears and hears everything people say, which is a lot, since everyone acts as if he isn't even there.
 
My neighbor Bob, who is as confused as I as to how he found himself in 1930's Brazil.

A fully functional Bob Semple tank... that's possessed by the ghost of Harry Houdini, who is quite cross with the fact that all those years disproving mediums was all for naught.

H.P. Lovecraft, who is back from the dead for just one more heist.

The corpse of Teddy Roosevelt being weekend at Bernie'sd by a troupe of humanzees that defected from the Soviet Union.

The immortal vampire that is Elvis.

The Ghost of Christmas Past, on vacation.

Leon Trotsky who knows about his death next year.

An invisible extraterrestrial teenager out on the alien equivalent of a bender.

Batman, come to life but still 2D.

Dr. Moreau looking for his humanzees.

You, the reader of this sentence.
 
More National Socialists than anyone wants in one location.
Yeah, I totally forgot to add some conflict to my dream team.

I invoke Coco Chanel and her squad of SS werewolves looking for the lost secrets of Atlantean fashion design. Allied with the horrors of the deep and bent on conquest through occult couture nothing will stand in their way!
 
Antonin Artaud
(not at all surprised to suddenly be in a different reality)​
William Burroughs
(he was young once, wasn't he?)​
Josephine Baker
(might sing for us later)​
Rebecca West
(ask her about the book she's writing)​
Frantz Fanon & Flannery O'Connor
(teenagers are such idealists)​
 
Robert E. Howard, having faked his 1936 suicide to battle occult menaces he discovered while researching his stories. He's actually there with Professor Tolkien (per Fenris-77 Fenris-77) , looking for lost Numenorian secrets.
When I posted this thread, I thought people would most likely reply with 20th-Century takes on your typical pseudo-medieval fantasy tavern denizens. Stocking it with the real people y'all have mentioned is much more interesting! Definitely planning to go in that direction.
For certain values of real, anyway.
 
Henri, count of Paris, attempting to negotiate with the Brazilian government from the name of France and as part of the French Foreign Legion.
His sister, Princess Anne, of whose presence he disapproves. She's always been a troublemaker, this one: first marrying a non-Catholic, now she absconds to Brazil without him? Preposterous:shade:!
Euclydes Tatem, catch wrestler, on a holiday, known as "Tatu" ("Armadillo") for his stature.
Luiz Franca, non-Gracie BJJ practitioner (both him and the Gracies studied under Conte Koma) looking for a friendly match with "Tatu", and possibly to make money (him teaching kids from the favelas isn't exactly lucrative:thumbsup:).
Kazuo Ohno, visiting some relatives.
 
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Henri, count of Paris, attempting to negotiate with the Brazilian government from the name of France and as part of the French Foreign Legion.
His sister, Princess Anne, of whose presence he disapproves. She's always been a troublemaker, this one: first marrying a non-Catholic, now she absconds to Brazil without him? Preposterous:shade:!
Euclydes Tatem, catch wrestler, on a holiday, known as "Tatu" ("Armadillo") for his stature.
Luiz Franca, non-Gracie BJJ practitioner (both him and the Gracies studied under Conte Koma) looking for a friendly match with "Tatu", and possibly to make money (him teaching kids from the favelas isn't exactly lucrative:thumbsup:).
Kazuo Ohno, visiting some relatives.
I'm getting Tales of the Floating Vagabond vibes from this thread :grin: (from the, not of the :grin:)
 
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