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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 7992289" data-attributes="member: 6761960">[ATTACH=full]122117[/ATTACH]Our 9th session of Blades in the Dark: Nameless Vagabonds!Our crew hired the Fog Hounds, a smuggling gang with a steam ship, for a risky trip out to an old Navy gunnery range in the Void Sea. Their destination: the wreck of an old Skovland blockade runner. The cargo: six ghosts who wanted to return to their beloved ship.During a storm, the ship was boarded by a sea demon, Setarra, who claimed they owed a toll for passing through her waters. Fortunately, Karen the Whisper was an acquaintance of the demon, and convinced her to accept 1/3 of the treasure on the wreck they were going to find, instead of 1/3 of the ghosts they had as cargo.The uneasy standoff resolved, the crew made it to Glass Reef, the site where the old smuggler ship had been sunken as a naval gunnery target. Scotch the Hound suited up for a dive while the others kept an eye out for naval patrols.Once Scotch had located the wreck, the ghosts dashed down to find their final resting place. As payment, they revealed a secret compartment that the Navy had never found. This contained some ingots of spirit-enchanted silver, which could be used to make demon-slaying munitions.That was when Scotch felt a tap on her shoulder, and slammed her diving knife into the figure who had appeared behind her. Setarra merely smiled and returned the knife, then took a third of the silver ingots as her toll. And told Scotch to hurry before the other ship arrived...On the surface, another ship appeared from around the reef, with searchlights pointing at the Fog Hounds' ship. "This is the Imperial Navy Ship Cataclysm! Prepare to be boarded!"The Fog Hound captain enacted a plan to shine searchlights back, bluffing that they too were a Navy patrol ship. Scotch came back up in time to help with a Navy code book which she had acquired in a flashback."We'll flash them a message indicating we're on a secret mission...ending with the phrase 'Donkey Balls.'"But the other ship didn't seem to recognise the code. Through a series of hails and counter-hails, both our crew and the opposing ship tried to claim that they were legitimate Navy patrol ships.Eventually the enemy ship broke cover and accused our crew of "ALSO pretending to be a Navy ship," and suddenly a stern chase was on! Zhao the Spider acquired Navy signal flares through a flashback and fired them as a bluff to buy time, Irfan the Leech upgraded the boiler with Fire Oil, and Scotch took some sniper shots at the pursuing ship's search lights. As the Fog Hounds retreated the way they came, Karen called upon Setarra to check if they would incur a second toll by passing through her turf, but fortunately, Setarra was happy to let them through.Shortly, the crew watched as their pursuer lost power and chaos ensued aboard it. Now another ship had to pay Setarra's toll. And so the Vagabonds and the Fog Hounds returned to Doskvol with a rich treasure (10 Coin) and all their souls still intact!</blockquote>

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