Deadmines Tour, Part Three of Three

 Now about that ship we found.   There was a massive cavern with an underground bay behind the last doors and the warship was sitting placidly amidst a network of docks and gangways.   The docks were crawling with Defias Shipbuilders, Pillagers and Pirates.   And to add insult to injury, even the Pirates’ parrots are trained to attack. 

At the bottom of the gangplank, there were two rogues carefully lying in wait for the first unfortunate person to set foot near the ship.   At the top of the gangplank was Mr. Smite, the ship’s First Mate.   Whoever said that Tauren were placid has obviously never met Mr. Smite. He was not pleased to see us at all! 

After my …chat…with Mr. Smite and his War Stomping self, we were able to gain the deck of the ship.   The Defias must have an impressive payroll!   I’ve never seen so many Pirates in one place without it resulting in total mayhem.   Making our way around the left side of the lower deck, we found one of the reasons why.   The Ship’s Cook, Cookie (original, I know), was wandering the deck and letting the loafers know what he thought and where the galley was for potato peeling duty. 

Personally I think it is fairly obvious that the Pirates and Smugglers have way too much time on their hands here.   Any crew that has time to paint flames on their cannons just to make them look more impressive obviously has not yet been shown the finer points of polishing the ship’s brass fittings!   Apparently Captain Greenskin didn’t agree with me.   As I was “admiring” the paint job on one of his “pimped” guns, he tried to forcibly get me to leave the ship.   I didn’t want to leave yet, having not reached the upper cabins to see exactly what he had up there.

Once we finally reached the upper deck, we found Edwin VanCleef himself lurking in a cabin. But he is never alone.   It’s a good thing we remembered this before we tried to talk with him. When we approached him, two Rogues engaged us and VanCleef himself seemed to take an instant dislike for us and attacked.   After taking out VanCleef, we still had his Bodyguards to deal with before we could relax. 

VanCleef had a letter on his person that Varimoog picked up so he could deliver it to the appropriate authorities.   The only remaining task was to get back out of the mine safely. 

We jumped down off the upper deck at the far side of the ship, using the tops of cabins below to break out fall so we didn’t injure ourselves. We had plans to leave by the tunnel at the back of the cavern.  However, before making our escape, we decided to cause a bit more disruption by introducing a bit of chaos into the camp on the shore. 

After that little duty was performed, we made our way out the back passage and into the light of day.   This back passage led us out at the very southern most part of Longshore. In fact the lighthouse was in view through the fog in the distance. 

And that was the adventure in “the Barn” in Moonbrook.   This is what the locals have been referring to as “The Deadmines”.   Sarra is going to be upset she missed this adventure, but there will be many more I’m sure.

Until next time, keep safe. 

–Zyrena

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