Anyone followong the news (in Europe at least) will have probably heard of Paul, the psychic octopus who has been choosing correctly the winners of all the Germany games this World Cup.

The question is, how would you turn this into a spoof spy adventure, in the vein of Get Smart or Chuck?

Doctor Evil, in an attempt to make millions off of sports betting, kidnaps Paul the Oracular Octopus. Once the sports betting has raked in enough cash, he then uses the hapless Paul to predict national elections.

Can our heroes save Paul and foil Doctor Evil's nefarious scheme?

This is what I think I'm goign to go with.

In 2005 the British Ministry of Defence sponsored a secret research programme into psychic abilities in animals, in response to similar research being performed by the Americans military (which results in Oscar the cat for Providence, Rhode Island nursing home which seems to predict patients who are about to die http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6917113.stm).

In 2008 a group of Animal Rights activists broken in the Dorset based labs in which these tests were being performed and set the animals free. The animals were recovered except for a baby octopus, which the authorities assumed had been released into the ocean.

When Paul the Psychic octopus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus) begane to make the headlines in the world press for predicting all the Germany matches, the British secret service MI6 began to suspect that Paul might be infact the missing octopus.

The mission therefore will be for the players to the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre, steal Paul and replace it with a cosmetically altered ringer octopus made to look identical to Paul.  
The catch is at the Sea Life Centre with will discover that Paul is already gone, what is in its place is a animatronic replica.

The investigation to receover Paul should get the players mixed up with SPECTRE Commander Cyborg Franciso Franco, a private eye hired by the Sea Life Institutes to protect Paul due to all the death threats and  Animal Right Activists group GAIA'S SWORD and it's leader codename; Aquaman who knows Paul's true origin and are now looking for clues to expose the British Government.

Quote from: Soylent Green;393009Anyone followong the news (in Europe at least) will have probably heard of Paul, the psychic octopus who has been choosing correctly the winners of all the Germany games this World Cup.

Ladies and gentlemen, the new Spanish flag:

Hehe

That is an awesome flag. This sort of stuff happens, though it's funny that some folks actually take the octopus seriously.

Granted, the other 255 bars that used a frog/guinea pig/ferret/pair of breasts to correctly guess the outcomes of eight win/loss matches in a roll failed so badly they didn't make the news, but that just means those other guys didn't use an octopus!

My daughter just keeps muttering 'Calamari'....

Quote from: mexal;393206My daughter just keeps muttering 'Calamari'....

My daughter saw him and simply said "Cthulhu".

I think that this could all be part of a Gnomish conspiracy, meant to destroy the last really meaningful international sporting competition left that hasn't been totally destroyed by bad publicity, rumours of steroid-use, corporate interests, etc.

Paul could be part of some dark Gnomish ritual.

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