Carlton Grey and the Many Employment Opportunities of Daiking

Daiking is a really busy place. We just arrived, and paid the docking fee, but already there were people who wanted to give us jobs. I already suspected, that we won’t be able to explore the city properly, since we needed to find some solution to the murder-ghost problem, but not that we are going to be hindered by potential employers.
As it turns out, stuff like this is quite common here, since everyone has a favorite animal that they put on their clothes, and they don’t like all the animals the others put on their clothes, and they fight about it all the time.
This whole problem could be solved, if they just found an animal that everyone likes, like a narwhal or a vulture, but maybe they haven’t thought about this. We should mention it to the king if we meet him.

Our first job offer was setting fire to a place, which we declined. I was glad. I mean, we just arrived, and I wanted to see the city before it burns down. Also somebody might have gotten hurt in the fire.
After that, we stumbled upon some tattoo artist, who wanted us to save his daughter from some evil guy who kidnapped her.  This we accepted, and we will get magical tattoos if we can do it. Maybe the captain can just get one, that lets you stop murderous pedophile-ghosts, and then we could kill two birds with one stone as they say.

We did not abandon our original plan however, and found a wise old woman, who said, that she could help us with our ghost problem. She also wanted to have Krastuses eyestalk, but he did not want to give it to her. I don’t know why, as he is always going on about how they grow back.
Anyway, we got the old lady to come to our boat to search for the murder-ghost, and we also lit some weird smelling sticks for some reason. Supposedly it helps her finding the ghost, but I don’t remember ever hearing about ghosts being bothered by smells. Maybe it was to help her find the boat, or she just liked it.

In the end, it did not matter either way, because she took one look at the captain, and ran away. She must have discovered that she is afraid of ghosts after all, but the timing sure was inconvenient. Luckily I spotted the captains shadow running away to the shore, but it was quite quick so we could not give chase, and decided to save the girl instead.

We went to the house of the man who took her. It was well guarded, first there was a wall, then some guards on that wall, then even more guards at the door, and everyone was wearing scorpion-themed things. I hope that we will see some giant scorpion at the end of this adventure, although we did not find any giant bloodpools yet, so I won’t keep my hopes up.