Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #73 - Get them Nuts!

(G73 28/11/09 BG - GF(GM), AP, ON)

DAY 136 cont...

Nobby and Shlump didn't waste any time in the afternoon though and went straight to the shop of Darsh 'Dirty Dave' Tuskhunter. Here they divided up the Sea Wyvern's booty and decided what to sell and what to keep.

The spent nearly two hours with Darsh and at the end Nobby noticed that he was hiding something so she talked to him privately.

He revealed to her that only that morning, someone had been trying to sell the Wyvern to him!

When asked who it was, he revealed that it had been the same man that had been in the shop the day before buying the Break Enchantment scroll.

Since Eriss had been with Shifty that day when he had purchased the scroll it didn't take much detective work from Nobby to put all the clues together.

Darsh continued 'Since Rollo and Lady Lavinia had already been in to my shop yesterday and the Nixie and the Wyvern were the only two ships in harbour right now, I chatted to them for a while and when I assumed both ships belonged to Lavinia, the druid corrected me and said that your ship was joint owned by him, yourself Miss Nobwinkle and a gent by the name of Shifty.

So imagine my surprise when someone came in this morning trying to sell it.

He presented some documents to me, but to be honest the ink looked fresh on them and I was not convinced. Then the conversation went something like this :

'These are the legal papers to the Sea Wyvern down in the harbour. I will sell this ship to you for two thousand gold.' he said.

'Oh right. Let's see.', says I looking them over.

Seeing them as forgeries I say, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I don't buy ships at any price.'

'For twelve hundred gold?' says he?

'Well ok then;, says I 'Lets have a look at it!'

'No!', he cries. 'Take it now, or I'll burn it and sail away with my other one. I cannot go back to it as it holds too many bad memories.'

Well, I was utterly flabbergasted at that and told him to get out! He then swore and left.

Now I'm telling you this in confidence my dear! You promise no harm will come to my shop or to the village over this?'

Nobby promised and thanked Darsh for his information and wondered where she could find the nefarious rogue? She found me though, and I asked if Darsh had maybe been mistaken and Shifty was only trying to sell his share? But Darsh had been very clear, Nobby thought, Shifty had been trying to sell the whole ship!

I then asked for directions to the corrupted glade as I wished to fly out there and take a look at it for myself.

Yesterday evening, the merchant ship 'Fortune's Child' had arrived in port and Crispy and Veddic talked to the locals about it. The captain was a Sasserine man called Hayder Kaysho and his second in command was the wizard Shelly Drakesbane. They then talked to the captain about trade and among other things he let Veddic know that he had a set of magical full plate which he could let go at a cheap price (since it was off a dead elf and was a bit 'leafy' in design).

A party was being organised in the new park, drink and food were being taken there by the happy locals and tents and shades erected. There was also a pit roast that filled the area with the smell of succulent cooking pork.

People gathered to eat and talk, and one of the topics of conversation for the fellows was who was staying and who was going. Eventually it seemed that Olander and Eriss had poached Meree, Falah, Kelech and Skald from the Sea Wyverns crew. Eriss was very apologetic to Nobby and promised to sent some people to the ship in the morning to replace those lost.