Operation: ShoreLeave 40 (part 3)

The Shoreleave team of gamers had already proven themselves to be unusually skilled at their jobs, but their successes kept coming. They quickly located the hidden contraband in the smuggler's ship, they managed to meet up with the smugglers' contact without suspicion, and amazingly—a definite first for any team I've played with—they managed to complete the transfer of contraband without blowing their cover. They also cleverly managed to send their stealthy Omul along with the contraband so he could report its destination—a starliner cruise ship headed for a colony on a planet light years away. The team boarded the starliner undercover and spent some time gathering rumors and talking with various NPC's (non-player characters). They met a light-hearted, enthusiastic plant-like Erwani that was eager to visit the distant colony for “Greener Pastures,” and they learned he was a gambler who loved casinos and flavored CO2 (he's a plant, after all). They later met a nervous Archaeloid who was a cybersecurity expert sent to strengthen the colony banking systems because of past cyber-heists, and the team offered to run a test hack on his cybersecurity system to test it for flaws, hoping to encourage him that he could handle the job—they weren't able to crack it. And the team also met a shady Krissethi who asked them to keep their eyes open for a particular Erwani that owed him a great deal of money. The Krissethi explained he was a loan shark and had heard that Erwani had moved to the colony. Interestingly, the players had no qualms about pointing the Erwani out to the loan-shark, justifying it to themselves by pointing out he had an obvious gambling problem.