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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 1321613" data-attributes="member: 1518">Malthas,"It's not Mr. Lang as y' should be worried 'bout runnin' afoul of.  Poor Mr. Thriceborn has th' thankless task o' learnin' them th' ropes an all; y' should have seen some o' th' ways they took into their heads t' belay th' halyards when we hoisted sail.  Fortunately Mr. Thriceborn took care o' that before Mr. Lang say it; he'd've had a fit o' apoplexy if he'd seen them Orcish hitches," the Captain says with a small smile.Nicodemus,"Dwarvish slavery?  Now that's something I've never seen - or heard much of, come t' think of it.  Can't say I favor slavery much either, strikes me as wrong on moral an' economic grounds.  Morally, because popular to contrary belief Orcs – and of course dwarves too - are just as much free thinking creatures as humans, and there isn’t a man I’ve known or heard of that would argue that humans should be treated like cattle, and economically because you can only beat so much work out of a fellow before he either fights back or dies," Weaver says.  She pauses for a long beat and stares into the depths of her brandy glass."Mr. Arfaliunium," she says at last, "if I told you there were some people I knew, some people that share our views and are actually doing something about it, like you did over in Standishtown...would be interested in getting in contact with these hypothetical people when next we make port?  I assume you were the ringleader in that little caper over in Standishtown, as Lang punished you the heaviest."</blockquote>

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