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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9796667" data-attributes="member: 6999616">July 1940. We are in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, on the never-ending quest to transport the Duke of Windsor, and his wife, to the Bahamas, of which he's been appointed governor to keep him out of the way. We came here to get US currency, since after we fly across the South Atlantic via Ascension Island, in our Empire-class flying boat, which is a bit short of range for the job, we will have to work our way north up the coast of South, then North America, and US dollars will be useful. Liberia (and the USA) is neutral at this point of the war, so there are Spanish and German diplomatic representatives, who are very keen on getting rights to operate land-based aircraft. Since the current government is hilariously corrupt and spendthrift, they stand a chance of that. However, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which operates a million-acre rubber plantation, is a bit more sensible, and co-operates with the Liberian central bank to keep the politicians under control. The president, on learning that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were in town, called a diplomatic reception for everyone to meet them. The PCs' job there was to soak up the time of the German and Spanish representatives and keep them from talking to the Duke too much. The representatives from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society" target="_blank">American Colonization Society</a> proved to be rather zealous Evangelical Christians, who somewhat upset the duchess, so they had to be occupied too.  We had left a PC on the moored flying boat and another in the Embassy to get radio reports from him. Fortunately, the boats full of unknown people did not set out from the harbour to the 'boat until the reception was finished. We could thus put the Duke & Duchess in the embassy, tell it to lock the doors, and take the embassy car to the waterfront. We acquired a boat, found it had no engine, and started rowing as best we could towards the aircraft. Said boats carried on coming after Svend on the aircraft illuminated them with a spotlight, fired warning shots and then began shooting the paddlers. When shots were heard, the Embassy security man broke out some rifles and he and the Duke gave fire support, and made a few hits. Both boats stopped moving after several (but not all) of the figures in them had been hit. Under GURPS, being shot with a WWII-era rifle will reliably take out that hit location, so this wasn't surprising. What was surprising was the inhuman heads of the people in those boats, and we ended the session there.</blockquote>

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