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[PTTG??]

So I'm GMing a mini-campaign with a misfit platoon of MI-5 B5(b) infiltrators stopping Nazi Ahnenerbe Goons from achieving some dastardly goal of... something.

I want to put them in some forgotten underground city in eastern Turkey, in the coastal mountains along the Black Sea. Part of the campaign in forest, part along the river, and partly on bare rock and narrow goat-trails should give us a nice wasteland feeling. The fact that they're in a neutral nation means neither side can call down artillery strikes; they've got to do this the old-fashioned way.

The PC platoon is three squads and only the lightest support; maybe 30, 35 men. (And women. About 10 of the "men" are women who joined up in some other division and were too good at killing people to drum out. A lot of this campaign is like that...) The PCs are seven oddballs including the Lieutenant in charge of the platoon and squad A and the two PCs in charge of the B and C squads. Everyone else is an NPC.

They'll encounter a larger force of substantially inferior nazi goons.

My question remains: What are the Nazis up to? It has to be impressive but not the Arc of the Covenant, C'thulhu, or anything else too overplayed.

Thoughts?

[Dermonster]

Portal to another world.

[Tawa]

C'thulhu

Who's this guy?

If you need impressive but not legendary or something, come up with a minor artifact or something. Depending on the tone, you could go with something like "The not-quite-so-holy as the Holy Grail grail".

[Bauglir]

A trove of scrolls from the Library of Alexandria, including instructions for neat things like Greek Fire or a functioning Archimedes Death Ray, which the Nazis hope to improve upon to aid in the war effort (you will need to exaggerate their usefulness to a dramatic extent). If your campaign is more supernaturally oriented, designs for a complete Antikythera Mechanism, which does something or other.

[Squeegy]

They're searching for information on the lost tribes.

[Moghjubar]

The perfection virus in order to turn the world aryan.

[Orange Wizard]

They've found the Hanging Gardens. Hammurabi and a bunch of Babylonian dudes are chilling there. Then it's discovered that the Babylonians stole the Fountain of Youth (thus explaining why no-one else could find it and why they're still alive).
The Nazis are trying to buy the Fountain to make Hitler immortal (or resurrect him and then make him immortal, depending on when this is set).

[Urist McScoopbeard]

They've found the Hanging Gardens. Hammurabi and a bunch of Babylonian dudes are chilling there. Then it's discovered that the Babylonians stole the Fountain of Youth (thus explaining why no-one else could find it and why they're still alive).
The Nazis are trying to buy the Fountain to make Hitler immortal (or resurrect him and then make him immortal, depending on when this is set).

This is actually a pretty good plot...

If you were adverse to it though, you could in fact do a variety of lesser holy artifacts.

[Ant]

SCP items? Particularily if your group ain't too familiar with the thing. Discard the Foundation and call them by other name if you wish, or just description. After all, Hitler's ambitions towards supernatural are common ploy in fiction...

For example, Nazis are seeking for 076 without a clue who they're seeking (although it'd be really really dangerous for PCs too). 152 is sought in an attempt to find out dangers to reich and eliminate them quickly (even though it doesn't work just like that). They've run into 802 in France and are seeking some other item to solve the problem, suggested to be in Turkey.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Mystic artifact of an ancient civilization that predates Sumeria which is powered by Ley Lines?

[Comrade P.]

Signing new peace treaty with Soviet union, establishing new borders of Europe and Africa along with nuclear development collaboration program and "Atlantic-Pacific Offensive". With actual magic/artifacts involved, but whole reclamation affair is secondary in general plan, it is a gambit to distract secret services of allied forces. Here's a twist for ya.

[Flying Dice]

They've found the Hanging Gardens. Hammurabi and a bunch of Babylonian dudes are chilling there. Then it's discovered that the Babylonians stole the Fountain of Youth (thus explaining why no-one else could find it and why they're still alive).
The Nazis are trying to buy the Fountain to make Hitler immortal (or resurrect him and then make him immortal, depending on when this is set).

This right here is a good idea.

[chaoticag]

Spear of Longinus? Piece of the True Cross? Noah's little known Life raft? A Noah's ark related tidbit might be good since Mount Ararat is in Turkey. Alternatively Constantine's War Banner? Not sure what I'd suggest that isn't connected to the Eastern Roman Empire or Oriental Christianity, given the place and Indiana Jones stuff. I suppose you could have an ancient tomb with some sort of ancient super science in there if you wanted to as well.

[RedKing]

1. An Ahnenerbe expedition to "prove" that Çatal Hüyük (one of the earliest known cities, sited in southwestern Turkey) or some other made-up city if your players are geography nitpickers was in fact an Aryan civilization. Could also have various lost artifacts of power involved. Maybe they're trying to forge an Aryan origin as grounds for a casus belli to invade Turkey (when what they really want is to control the Straits of Bosphorus and open up a new theater against the Soviets).

2. Searching for a gateway to the underground advanced civilization mentioned in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race, so that they can discover the secret of Vril and develop Vril-powered aircraft and tanks. For shits and giggles, add in the Black Sun Society. Double points if you work in a "It was a dark and stormy night" reference. 

3. They're attempting to find a lost fortress of the Teutonic Knights from the 13th century (yes, the Teutonic Knights were present in the Crusades and had castles in Armenia/eastern Turkey) where a band of the Knight's strongest warriors are said to lie buried under a magical spell that would allow them to rise again. Or alternately, the Nazis have discovered some kind of magic or science to raise them from the dead (Nazi Zombie Knights HO!) and are just trying to find the castle and then the catacombs.

[scriver]

It is a secret industry site for the massproduction of Eva Braun body pillows, the only choice for the proud Aryan soldier in need of comforting.