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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9535234" data-attributes="member: 7041055">Shanghai Bullets by Robin D. LawsShanghai is a thin slice of heaven on a thick slice of hell. This adventure could be called "JP Diamond's bad idea theater.”Summoned to the “Paris of the East” by a paranoid padre, the investigation was going perfectly well… until the players went to the Black Lotus nightclub.There, Lily Tsiao took the stage and completely enraptured 2/3 of the party, with Giulia and JP smitten… and Aldous bored. Unfortunately, Lily was dating the second-in-command of the Green Gang. She was a flirt though, and neither the Italian stuntwoman nor the Louisiana detective could keep their mind far from her siren songs.The mistakes didn't end there. The players skipped investigating one of the crime scenes, opting only to talk to a witness. And while they were digging up a grave in the Yellow Mountains, a communication error led to the group absolutely walloping a gang of peasant-bandits.Back in town, JP decamped to the horse track… And soon he and Lily were neck and neck.  Given the choice to leave Shanghai or die, he decided to go it alone, confronting a suspect one on one. And then lost the powerful artifact the group had recovered.  Which led to the detective fleeing a demon-parasite across shanty rooftops, only escaping when the roof collapsed. Of course, Diamond was cunning when put against the wall.  He told the Greens he knew one of the Red’s assassins was squatting nearby, (coincidentally the one with the artifact). After that, his sentence was commuted to "stay away from my girlfriend forever and we won't kill you.” Lala noted the gangsters would store the artifact in the nightclub where they first saw Miss Tsiao. So they made friends with another performer (longtime frenemy Bebe Broussard) and decided to pretend to be her backup band. Which they did amazingly at. Too bad they used their newfound attention as a distraction to steal the artifact, leaving Bebe holding the bag, again.Then, it was time to call in every favor possible to get them, their luggage, their vehicles, and the artifact to their vault in Cairo.  Was a shame to abandon Lily, but maybe they could write…</blockquote>

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