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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karl Green" data-source="post: 1477832" data-attributes="member: 1467">It is mid to late afternoon down on the docks of Scurvytown, the sea gules are fighting over the trash that floats in and around the docks and the rats are making themselves fat on refuge that litters the street with little or no fear of passersby. A number of drunks’ stubble down the streets and beggars are just starting to appear, pleading their woes to any who will listen. Typical of this part of town, and most people are going about their business and not looking at anyone and not wanting any trouble… when a cry is heard over by the water… a body has been found and a small crowd has formed as a team of the Lord’s Watch arrives, pushing their way through the crowd.Torren Blackquill and Kitsch are just returning from Dimetrios’s “Goods & Transports” shop a couple of blocks north of here. Dimetrios is a ‘merchant’ of some good standing who is not opposed to transporting just about anything from anywhere… generally free of taxes or official inspection. About the only things he will not deal in are Abyss Dust and slaves. Torren had just received some particular ingredients that he had requested Dimetrios to get, that would have cost at least twice as much and taken twice as long had he gone through the ‘proper cannels’. The pair noticed the crowd, and craning their necks can see that the Watch Sergeant had just turned the body over and was examining it…Black Jack O'bannon was just leaving the Chumhouse, one of the cheapest, most violent, ugliest watering holes in all of Freeport… run by a pair of bad tempered dwarves no less! But Jack had been hoping to meet a Privateer Captain by the name of Fargus Ironfoot, a somewhat strange Halfling who is in town waiting to acquire the “Letters of Marquee” and to hire a new crew. But without the Letters, Fargus has not been hiring anyone and was instead drinking away his troubles at the Chumhouse, meaning Black Jack has left empty handed, without a job and limited coin. As he is walking down the dock heading toward his room at the Broken Mug (another tavern on the docks but over in the Warehouse District, that is actually fairly clean and cheap, and attracts better cliental then the Chumhouse) when he notices the crowd forming down at the water. A sergeant of the Lord’s Watch is just turning over the body to examine it. Everyone notices that the body was a human male, with a thick black beard and he is fully clothed, if waterlogged. As people start to get a look at the man’s face there is a mutter as a few people seem to recognize him… “Oi now, that be Warty Pete, he done works out at the Crematorium!” “Ho now, I never did cotton to them carrion collectors coming into town and such… bad luck to be a handling the dead every day, iffin you ask me…”“Whats this? Who’d be so crazy as to go a swimming in their cloths?” “Had to be a crazy to work at that the “burn and tombs” iffin ya ask me, I tell you want”…And similar such comments are made by the crowd. The four man team of the Lord’s Watch look at each other with some nervousness, and try and avoid looking at the Sergeant as much as possible. He makes a face and says “You lads gets these people back a bit… and quit being so squeamish, an’t the first time ya all have seen a body… so stop acting like school girls and do yer jobs” The Sergeant looks up and around and says to the crowd “Ok you jack-a-bites have seen enough of this here show for today… ya all best be back to your business…” he then looks around at the backs of his men and shakes his head.  About then a small human male with a shaven head and wearing monks robes runs down the dock. When he gets closer you notice the symbol of Wee Jas is weaved into his robes… “Oh my oh my… this is simply horrible… simply horrible… dear fellow that is young Pete, I knew something was dreadfully wrong when the boat from the Crematorium did not stop by this morning… Sergeant, I demand that you send a detachment to the island at once to discover what has happened there… why pirates or some dreadful Sea Devils could have overrun the place…  All three of you notice that at this the Lord’s Watch guards are shaking their heads and are not looking at all pleased.[i.e. go ahead and post your comments or observations now; assuming that you are interested in what is happening or where you might be heading next]</blockquote>

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