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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 2741715" data-attributes="member: 1165">The players were trying to get into Mexico by van, but some of them were slightly wanted by law enforcement authorities for questioning, but not for crimes. One of them (a Russian immigrant) had killed a crooked cop in self defense, and really wanted to avoid cops. The cops, of course, really hated him, but he wasn't found guilty of anything. The PCs split up into two vans, with the wanted guys (a hitman, martial artist and Russian ex-soldier) in one van and the weapons in the other.The second van got through no problem - they got this low-level customs agent who would accept bribes, too.The second group ran into a high-level customs agent with lots of Sense Motive and Spot. The ex-soldier stayed in the van while the martail artist and hitman went to speak with the customs agent, who was suspicious of their van - he was going to search it for contraband. The hitman has a low Charisma, no Bluff skill but high Sleight of Hand. He tried to feed the customs agent a line of BS but the agent wouldn't accept it. (Bluff -1 vs Sense Motive +13. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) On the other hand, the customs agent had no evidence to hold them, so he had to let them go anyway. However, he was very suspicious of these PCs, and obviously would be alert around them.Suddenly the hitman decided he wanted a genuine customs agent badge. This came out of the blue, and prompted much disapproval from all of the other players. Nonetheless he figured he could pull it off. Nope. The customs agent saw him. The hitman offered a bribe - now the customs agent was even more offended. Finally, he drew the customs agent's gun and held it at him. This prompted the security guards watching through the closed-circuit TV camera to call in the Special Response Team aka the SWAT team.Two players vs a SWAT team. They lost. They spent their time in prison while the rest of teh adventurers did their thing in Mexico (and got XP for that, too).</blockquote>

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