Albert on A Spot of Time in the Port III

Kultzman’s orders were surprisingly easy to comply with this day. All I was to do was to plan a wedding for the whore and Zimmerman. Durak was to guard the boat and I must say I did a better job of my duties than he did. Well I suppose I should give him something of a break, he couldn’t have known someone had snuck a beastman into a box, sent it to sleep, and had it delivered to our ship! Our enemies are nothing if not inventive in their attempts on our lives. I stayed happily below deck with my door locked as Durak and some recruits dealt with the still sleepy beastman.

Honestly I didn’t do much for the wedding. Kultzman had already organized a priest, a harpist and some tailors to come and suit up the couple. All I did was ask for the Halfling cook family to organize some food, buy a wedding cake and get everyone on deck to attend the service. Zimmerman did say something disturbing though, apparently servants who are fucking must get married according to Kultzman. I have to let Carlotta know that it is over because there is no way I am marrying her! During the service two of our men were killed mysteriously, but that is getting ahead of myself.

At lunch some bastards tried to punch my ticket. I had gone to lunch with the Halfling servant to the Harbormaster. She was agitated but I thought it was merely some dating nerves. The date was going well until someone attempted to put a club through my skull despite being in a room full of diners. What I said before about inventiveness? Take it back, this was amateur hour. I didn’t even bother trying to fight them and ran screaming from the restaurant until I got back to the boat. The bastards didn’t have the guts to attack me when I had my friends around.

Seeking some kind of vengeance I grabbed Durak and stormed off to the Harbormaster’s office demanding the girl and making formal complaints to the guards. Apparently the girl was probably acting under duress, bitch could have warned me subtly so I don’t feel to guilty about setting the guards onto her.

Durak had organized some shipwright to take a look at the damage done to our boat by some river troll, or something, during the night. I ignored it all because there was no way I was going near the water if something nasty was down there! Well the shipwright had his leg ripped off and Durak only barely managed to save the man. Thankfully a Guard Corporal was there investigating some murders on board the boat. The guard had found a hatch in Kultzman’s quarters where something had crept in and cut the throats of the guards.

With the guard’s permission we took the barge to a drydock facility to have the barge raised and the damage inspected more carefully. I quickly penned a note to Kultzman to let him know where we were going. At the drydocks a strange fishbeast was found under the barge. Others swiftly killed it and burnt its corpse. I am so glad we went to the drydocks!

Kultzman arrived later with his potential wife, a petulant Josi, a medal from the Countess and a crate of guns.