Carlton Grey and the Journey with the Suspicious Singing Convicts

After our horrid journey through the wilderness of the Perck, we spent a few days recuperating in Shark Bay. It would have been boring, but I was worried the whole time about whether or not Sira will be able to repair Grandpa. In the end, she did, and now I am eternally grateful to her! She really is a master gunsmith! In the honor of her great deed, we decided to name our semi-new ship “Grandpa’s revenge”
Leaving the bay behind, the captain told us about his plans of continuing our studies in piracy. I am really not sure about this, someone could get hurt while we pirate from them, especially since we are still so unexperienced at it. I would not like that. Maybe we should find some book on how to do pirating without hurting people first.  Héléne was also opposed to the idea, but we could not convince the captain.

We did not pirate anyone however, since the first ship we saw escaped, and the second one was another pirate, and already in trouble. I thought that would just make pirating easier, but apparently you are not supposed to do it like that. Pirating is much more complex than I thought.
Anyway the captain of the ship was a pretty lady, who asked for help and so we sent over Krastus to repair their ship, and Héléne to heal their wounded, and the captain so Krastus would not kill anyone.
This was a big mistake, since it was a trap! Sira noticed it first, she is really good at sniffing these things out. She wanted to fight them, but they held the captain hostage, so we had to comply. Thankfully they did not take anything valuable, just our money and cargo.

We continued our journey, and arrived at the port of Tulago. Here it dawned on me just how cruel these lady pirates were. I had to sit through a discussion about getting money again. It was so boring, that in the end, I just walked out, and went gambling. I got some money I gave to the others, but more importantly I had fun. The captain started to see the wisdom of my ways, so I had to repeat this again in Baltimus. I did it, and so we were able to go to the theatre. I was really excited about it, since it was written by one of our very own people, Shakespeare, so I invited Serrene. Sira and Héléne were also interested, and in the end all four of us went together, while the captain and Krastus had to go to some boring business meeting.

When we got back, there were a lot of black people in shackles on the ship. Apparently they were prisoners we were supposed to transport to Jomba Town for some reason. The whole thing was a bit weird, but the captain told me I should not ask them about it, since they were mind control murderers or something like that.
They actually seemed quite inoffensive and peaceful, and they kept singing songs about working on some farm. I thought back to recent events about people who seemed really friendly, and decided that this must mean that they were up to no good at all.

Thankfully we had no trouble at arriving at Jomba Town, but then some administrator wanted to see our cargo hold, and the captain did not want him to. At first I didn’t understand why, I mean this was official prisoner transporting business, but then I remembered about the mind control.

Even without mind control, things got confusing again. We had to bribe the administrator, and we needed money for that so we went into town. It turns out, that the contact point for the convict transports is outside town, and that we cannot get paid before we go there, so now we needed to find a moneylender.
The captain found one, and then he asked me to find another. I did not understand why, but I did, and then no one was there when I got back. I was confused about this, and the moneylender lady wanted me to sign something but I was not sure if I should so I did not. Then the administrator arrived, and wanted to play a game of dice. We did, and I won, so in the end we did not have to borrow money after all. I must remember to get some money sometimes, if it helps us making the boring and confusing parts of this adventure go away faster.

We returned to the ship to a horrible revelation. It turns out, that the evil mind control convicts might be innocent slaves after all. I can see how the captain has fallen for that, it is a very believable lie. Although I guess it is also possible that the whole thing is just a trick of these cunning murderers. In any case, I need to keep my eyes open!