Morning Everyone
Lot of reports of Scams going around the
province recently, people hearing nothing but bad news are more likely to want
to believe good news, and that in turn plays into the hands of those who are
willing to put good news out there, even if it isn’t true.
Case in point, we’ve had official paperwork
from the Illenia Ascendant requesting permission to cast off and leave
port towards Tyravig. Any other ship and
it wouldn’t have made the briefing, but that ship’s been laid up for more than
six years, recently got bought by a private individual through a consortium of
merchants, and now they’re offering passage to Tyravig where there’s no infection,
bargain price of three thousand golden rails a head, more than any of us make
in a year.
Now, you know, and I know, Tyravig’s
just as infected as everywhere else, and even if it wasn’t, it would be if all
the people who are going to get on that ship got there, but we don’t think that’s
the consortiums aim. We did a little
checking on the crew roster, not one of them ever served in the Navy or the
Merchant Marine, so the chance of that ship making it anywhere isn’t high, and the
chance of it making it all the way to Tyravig?
The captain’s name is Tyrus Oldarov, Mage, used to be a swimmer in the
Balion Olympics team till they caught him using Water Elementals for a speed
boost and disqualified him for life. Way
we figure it, he uses the Elementals to get the ship out into reasonably deep
waters, and then sinks everything and they take him to another country where he
does the same again. We’ve seen that he’s
already overloaded with passengers and there’s a waiting list that he’s working
down.
Problem here is that we can’t stop people
leaving, the lockdown is on the city, and if anyone gets out of it, short of force,
there’s nothing we can do or say to them that’s going to convince them that
staying here is a better idea.
With this in mind, I need a show of
hands to repaint a mages tower…
Yep, repaint a mages tower… The only way we save all the people on that
ship is to get it to sink in the harbour, and to do that, we need something
that can repel the Elementals. Rayelle Srenas
is willing to do it, but on condition that someone cleans all the “Take your
virus with you” slogans scribbled on her tower and mount a guard on it for the
next month or so. City watch will
provide the guard if we do the cleaning, all those volunteering get a boon from
the city reserves.
In other news, the Alliance of
Affordable Companions have applauded our efforts in the last two weeks, and are
offering their services for free, to any member of the guild. You all know the score with this, I don’t
mind them applauding us, I just don’t want them clapping us, so just remember…
Let’s be careful out there…
