Session 20: Pirates and Wenches Report

General Summary

The group spends the morning resting before heading off to The Broken Mug, in hopes of helping Dakarta Gringsson. Their travel across The Docks district is still as tough as it has been with very little signs of their popularity slowing down. They even notice a few bards out on the street corners singing songs about their deeds.   Arriving about an hour after midday they find a seedy looking tavern and inn sitting on the edge of the pier. Considered a dive by most it is actually quite popular for it's good food and ale. The tavern is quite busy, and as they take seats at the counter they are quickly met by Darkarta herself, she tells the group that she wants the pirates tossed out, she cares not about how they do so. She does request they take their leader alive. She wants to punish him herself by dunking him in the water. The party agrees, and all order a late lunch and drinks to hold themselves until the pirates show themselves. Ganbold wonders around the patrons, showing off his new tattoo of Diala (which is actually a very naked a provocative hairy dwarf) and many of the patrons give off either an air of indifference or pity. Hard to say.   A few hours of waiting around, chatting with some of the patrons, eating, drinking, and keeping themselves busy. A group of pirates slam open the doors looking to party it up in the joint. Dakarta mentions these are the folks causing problems, so Ganbold tells them to fuck off by immediately shooting two arrows into the leader. Caught by surprise, the pirates now charge the party looking for blood. Especially the leader, he single mindedly charges Ganbold looking to get even after taking a couple arrows in his shoulder. A brawl later, many pirates now dead, tied up, or routed. The party helps clean up the mess they just made.   It takes about an hour give or take and the pirates come to once more. Now chained up in manacles the leader is tied by the feat on a rope that is sitting by the opening in the floor leading into the water below. Cursing, spitting, and being unpleasant the pirate leader is thrown over into the water. About half a minute later he is pulled up. Still cursing and being uncooperative he is thrown in a few more times until he is much more compliant. He promises to not come back to the Broken Mug, Dakarta orders the party to throw him out once and for all, so Hanz does so. The pirate is thrown onto The Docks outside. His companions see a similar treatment. Dakarta thanks the party and as promises pays the group 100 gold.   Now after spending the afternoon and part of the evening at the Broken Mug they decide to try and help the prostitutes at Horus's Leap. With information they already had at hand, the group decides to send someone on the inside to try and get a better idea what is going on inside. Diala's owl scouts the outside once more while Ganbold volunteers for entering the premises. He has no problems getting in, his' silver is just as good as everybody else. Once he makes it in he is met by a very unfortunate site. It is clear these girls are not willing, many of them are also beaten and broken. Many with old and new bruises. Black eyes, broken noses, mangled extremities, and even a few festering wounds. These girls are all for the most part doll like almost. They do not respond to stimuli as their pirate clients pass them around. Ganbold quickly moves in trying to find one that might still be slightly responsive. He is lucky to find one somewhat further in the back of the den of whores. Approaching the girl who just had been used by an orc pirate she is not overly responsive. Ganbold notices some of the drugs that are flowing around is called Abyss Dust. A substance that causes hallucinations, and prolonged used can put users in a trance dream like state they never can awake from. After Ganbold manages to tap her face a few times to get her attention she manages to respond with a dry broken voice. She was once kidnapped. Then forced to work here in the whore house. She is quite weak so unfortunately this is all Ganbold manages to get out of her. He gives a slightly convincing faking of a climax and then leaves the warehouse to report back to the group.   The party decides, kicking down the door and storming the place as fast as possible would be the most effective option given the only single entrance to the building. They believe this way they would be able to save as many of the girls they can.