Carlton Grey and the City of Quite Confusing Terrors

After a few days of sailing, we finally reached Kiera. It is a very fine city, with lots of walls and terraces, but apparently their emperor is not very nice and also a whale. This must be the reason for all those streets and houses underwater at the harbor.  The emperor lives on the highest tier tough, so all that effort to build him a nice place to swim about was wasted.  Maybe this is, why everyone thinks he is a bad guy.

When we docked with the ship. I wanted to go out to the city exploring, but everybody else was occupied with future plans and how we could acquire lots of money, which is important for some reason.
I suggested, we just go to a casino or something, you can win money there, but the others were more focused on things like privateering, and trading and piracy. The discussion quickly got really boring, so I decided to do something more important, like naming my gun.
I thought up lots of amazing names, like Turnip, or Algebra, but in the end I decided to name it after my beloved grandfather, Andrew Scott Grey. From now on, my musket shall be known as Grandpa!
That settled, I went back to the others, who reached a conclusion, that we need to borrow a lot of money, to make a lot of money, and then we can pay back the money we borrowed. I thought, that was a weird idea, but I did not want to press the issue, fearing we might be stuck on the boat longer if I did.

Anyway, I volunteered to help find us a moneylender, who Heléne can barter with. I asked some nice folks in the harbor, and soon we were at this kind of run-down little pub. The people were helpful tough,and  they quickly agreed to show us to the back room, if Heléne would sleep with them. She did not want to do that for some reason, so I played dice with the guys instead, and got us in. Heléne  could then convince the moneylender, to look at our boat, before he gave us money. She even remembered to use that complicated catch phrase we were supposed to say and I forgot. I was glad she was with me.
After that we met the girlfriend of Krastus, who was not a crabwoman, but a human like us. Maybe he got tired of not being able to tell which other crabs were ladies and which weren’t.  The poor girl was really upset because her dad disappeared, so we agreed to help her.

That all settled, we finally got our priorities straight, and visited the zoo. I really liked it, there were lots of interesting creatures to look at, although some of them weren’t very happy. The zookeeper also mentioned, that we should keep an eye out for a mermaid, who lives at some crystal place, because there is a reward for her. I don’t know what crimes she could have committed, but they must have been bad, because the price was high.
Sira and Krastus went on to buy some cannons, while me and Heléne went for a nice dinner in a restaurant called Keoughs.  It was really relaxing, and I almost forgot that we were there to ask questions about Krastuses future father-in-law. Heléne remembered tough. She must be able to use some remembering magic now, that she finally became a wizard on that monkey island. We still didn’t learn anything new but at least we tried.

I asked around on the streets, and found a guy, who seemed to know something about some terror making people disappear. It must be a very strange terror, because in my experience terror usually makes people more noticeable, with all the screaming and running about. I also noticed, that some strange people were following me, so I went back to the ship, and told Heléne all about it. She got quite scared, so there might be something to this terror business after all. I kept a close eye on her, so she didn’t disappear.

By the time the others came back, there were a lot of these terror-people at the harbor, so we set sail to avoid them. We also learned, that they are in league with the emperor, who lied about being a whale and is just a bit fat. I was a bit disappointed, that we had to leave Kiera just when things started to get really interesting.
 I thought we were going to sell the iron we bought or something boring like that, but thankfully the others also discovered, that these terrors have some base on an island called Terras which was nearby, so we visited it. It was in the direction of the crystal-mermaid-place the zookeeper mentioned, so maybe she is involved in it too, like a big conspiracy, which is even worse than regular piracy.

Anyway, we got to Terras, where we found a lot of terror-guards and a fort. We wanted to go in, but they wouldn’t let us. Cortes tried to show them some love letter from Krastus and his girlfriend to convince them, and when that did not work he told them about the Very Important People we have on board. I did not know about those, so they might be invisible.
In the end we had to attack the terror people. Krastus blasted away a lot of them, and Heléne stunned some of them, and Sira shot one in the head and I shot the leader in the head and Cortes did not get beaten up by anyone, so it was a good battle.
We now have to run away from the terror-guards of the not-whale emperor, while keeping a lookout for the evil mermaid, and avoid bumping into the invisible important persons on the ship. Trading iron is much more exciting than I thought it would be.