I’m planning to run a series of 1960s spy-fi adventures by way of Jitsi videochat, at 08:30–11:30 UTC on Sundays, starting on Sunday 15th of March, 2026. That will allow players in Europe to play in the daytime on Sunday, players in Australia and East Asia to play on Sunday evenings. I’ll start with one adventure, with a view to extending into an indefinite series of episodic adventures. I would like a total of two or three character-players.
The player characters will be agents of a secret agency of British counter-intelligence, mysteriously associated with the Home Office, Military Intelligence, Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, and Section V of the Secret Intelligence Service. Perhaps it’s MI5, but MI5 has not at this stage been admitted to exist. Adventures will consist of their investigations into anomalous incidents in the UK and sometimes British Overseas Territories and members of the British Commonwealth. These will often take place in the space between later seasons of The Avengers and The X-Files — plenty of marvellous intrusions by dreadful inventions and the paranormal. But sometimes Scully will be right, so to speak.
The game system will be a hack of James Bond 007 and ForeSight that will be developed in play, without the baked-in James Bondisms and with an expanded list of attributes, skills, and fields of knowledge, but not as intricate as ForeSight . I will provide a character generation spreadsheet. Development in play may lead to fields of knowledge coming to work more like “investigative skills” in Gumshoe, backgrounds more like “aspects” in Fate .
Jitsi is an internet videoconferencing solution that will run in a browser, with no account or login required, that does not require that you supply any personal information, and that works with end-to-end encryption of the video and text-chat data. I have yet to sort out whether I will use the public Jitsi server at meet.jit.si or a Our Roger’s private server.
Let me know it you would like to take part.