Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #59 - Selling the Loot

(G59 - BT 21/08/09)

Meanwhile, at sea :

DAY 106 continued

It was decided to sail the half orc ship and for the Sea Wyvern to tow the 'Pride'. I used my skrying pool to look in on Lavinia. She appeared to be rather melancholy as she plucked listlessly at the bouquet of orchids I had given her.

DAY 107

We set off very early in the morning and finally arrived in Port Nyranzaru in the evening.

After paying our bearthing fees we pulled up in the harbour next to the Blue Nixie.

I exchanged a little bit of banter with Leamay, who was on deck, and then looked in on Lady Lavinia.

It took a long while to get everything organised and even halfway ship shape with the Sea Wyvern and our two prizes so it was very late by the time I collapsed into my bunk.

DAY 108

I will always remember today as one of the happiest I have had in a long time. Using Nobby as our broker, we set about selling all our pirate loot and the two ships. Firstly all the weapons, armour, jewellery and other possessions of the pirates were sold, directly from the quay side of the Wyvern. It was almost a carnival atmosphere as merchants picked through our stuff and members of our crew claimed items that they had taken a fancy too.

Finally it was all sold and we had a tidy sum of over seven thousand gold coins! We (being me, Shifty, Nobby and Mathmoss) decided that there should be three types of share, varying in size dependent on the persons role on the ship. So, passengers got a small amount (ten gold each), crew got fifty gold each and combatants (that is, people who had helped fight the pirates) got the rest divided equally. That meant that we each received nearly seven hundred gold! I think everyone was happy with their share, well nearly everyone.

It had occurred to me that Avner might be insulted by being given a mere ten gold when he considers himself such a large and vital part of this expedition. When Mathmoss handed it over to him, he immediately took exception and worked his anger up to such a high pitch that he dared to strike him.

As a stunned Mathmoss stepped back. Shifty leapt at the chance to get involved and walloped Avner across the back of the head with his cosh!

Well, I helped Avner's servants take him to his cabin and used a cure spell to ease his pain. When he came round I offered him some advice, but I don't know if it was taken on board. In essence I warned him that there were some very dangerous characters on the Wyvern and he would be wise not to antagonise them.

Also, I was sure it was not a question of the money, but rather of pride, but if he had wanted to receive a combatants share then at the very least he should have appeared on deck with his sword.

The captain for instance, had only really been in one of the fights, and had drunkenly swayed onto deck right at the end of it, but had still received a fighter's share. I was trying really hard not to suggest that he was a coward, just that this far from home he shouldn't rely totally on his title to gain respect.

Out at sea, you had to earn it.

In the evening, I gathered together as many people as I could in a nearby tavern to drink away as much of our new found wealth as we could!

It was lots of fun, drinking, eating, dancing. I even managed to get Avner to come along, to see of he could be coaxed into integrating with the other passengers and the crew a bit more.

Around nine, I realised Lavinia was not around. I saw her 'boyfriend' with a wench on his knee so I assumed they'd fallen out. Still, I took a good bottle of wine to her cabin in hope of coaxing her out.

She was more in the mood to unburden all her troubles onto me, which I'm afraid to say, I was very far away from the mood for. After fifteen minutes of listening to her, I suggested again that we went to the tavern and after a bit more persuasion she finally relented.

She joined in with the dancing but I think she still had things on her mind and around midnight I walked her back to the Nixie. I attempted to kiss her, perhaps clumsily, and she threw of my aim so that my lips landed not on hers as had been my desire, but on her cheek. Somewhat thwarted I bid her good night and returned to the party.

From what I had gathered from talking to those who were still on their feet (this small list excluded Urol and Lirith who were both dead drunk), Mathmoss was absent because he had gone off with the captain (that woman is insatiable!) and Shifty was absent because he was rumping some wench in a room upstairs somewhere.

With similar thoughts in my own mind, I looked around the various rooms the party had spread into and spent some time dancing and talking to Eriss, but as ever, she is just my friend and nothing more.

I drifted through to were a couple of the Jade Ravens were hanging out and chatted to Leamay for a while and although she seemed to like me a lot I could sense I would get nowhere more than that.

Finally I went back to the main room to see who was left of the die hard partiers. A few of the crew were left around, but the only women left were three of the local trollops, a one legged wench and two older women. I had a drink with them and even sat the younger one on my knee for a while, but in the end there must have been a sensible part of my brain still active somewhere because I went back to the Wyvern alone.

Dawn was just showing over the harbour wall as I went to my bed.

DAY 109

Silvanus have mercy, my head!!