Natsumi
07-23-2011, 01:27 PM
Blimey! It’s a blustery day here at the port in the city-state of Zaun. Shame that every sailing vessel not flying a black pennant has her sails furled up tighter than the bark on a tree! See, Zaun ordered that the shipping lanes be cleared while a Noxian convoy takes on merchandise and gets headed back towards the home country. While this means the dockside is busier than a handsome barmaid back home in Bilgewater, it also means that every honest sailor unfortunate enough to drop anchor in Zaun since the regrettable business with the late, great Boram Darkwill might as well be in dry dock.
Despite assurances from Zaun’s Board of Directors that they aren’t involved in trading wartime supplies, the streets have been positively buzzing with rumors concerning what might be boarding a fleet of Noxian state ships that’s so important they don’t want anyone else’s vessels moored within spitting distance. The Noxians haven’t exactly been forthcoming with information on what they happen to be transporting out of Runeterra’s fair industrial paradise, either. Suffice to say that – given that this is Zaun – it could be just about anything. One thing’s for certain, however: whatever it is, Noxus and Zaun are willing to disrupt open trade with a number of other nations to ensure that it makes it out to sea without incident.
The ports haven’t been this empty of merchant ships since the last time Piltover and Zaun were launching warships across the bay at one another!
Matter of fact, the only blighter outside the Noxian Navy that’s still loading freight on a day like today is an eccentric chap by the name of Darin the Daring who owns a blimp tourism service on the outskirts of the city. The chant is that the bloke’s fond of boasting that he once defeated Janna, the Storm’s Fury, in a zeppelin race. While he’s probably more pumped full of hot air than one of his balloons, the cheeky little upstart’s all there enough to have the presence of mind to retrofit his fleet to profit from the shipping crisis. He’s got every merchant worried about making his quota lined up down the street trying to book their cargo out for a trip on one of his blimps! And while he’s prospering in the meantime, it’s certainly not making him any friends down on the waterfront.
If being landlocked isn’t enough to get a get an honest sailor fuming, being laid up with a bad case of cabin fever watching Darin’s Daring Dirigible Delivery cruise off with your profits is bound to raise a few pulses. Presently, this particular string of cancelled shipments has only resulted in a long series of benders and perhaps a few honest brawls between seamen. But the tensions still mounting, and there’s no telling what a good and honorable mariner might get himself up to after he’s been sat landlocked in a dockside tavern for a bit too long.
Despite assurances from Zaun’s Board of Directors that they aren’t involved in trading wartime supplies, the streets have been positively buzzing with rumors concerning what might be boarding a fleet of Noxian state ships that’s so important they don’t want anyone else’s vessels moored within spitting distance. The Noxians haven’t exactly been forthcoming with information on what they happen to be transporting out of Runeterra’s fair industrial paradise, either. Suffice to say that – given that this is Zaun – it could be just about anything. One thing’s for certain, however: whatever it is, Noxus and Zaun are willing to disrupt open trade with a number of other nations to ensure that it makes it out to sea without incident.
The ports haven’t been this empty of merchant ships since the last time Piltover and Zaun were launching warships across the bay at one another!
Matter of fact, the only blighter outside the Noxian Navy that’s still loading freight on a day like today is an eccentric chap by the name of Darin the Daring who owns a blimp tourism service on the outskirts of the city. The chant is that the bloke’s fond of boasting that he once defeated Janna, the Storm’s Fury, in a zeppelin race. While he’s probably more pumped full of hot air than one of his balloons, the cheeky little upstart’s all there enough to have the presence of mind to retrofit his fleet to profit from the shipping crisis. He’s got every merchant worried about making his quota lined up down the street trying to book their cargo out for a trip on one of his blimps! And while he’s prospering in the meantime, it’s certainly not making him any friends down on the waterfront.
If being landlocked isn’t enough to get a get an honest sailor fuming, being laid up with a bad case of cabin fever watching Darin’s Daring Dirigible Delivery cruise off with your profits is bound to raise a few pulses. Presently, this particular string of cancelled shipments has only resulted in a long series of benders and perhaps a few honest brawls between seamen. But the tensions still mounting, and there’s no telling what a good and honorable mariner might get himself up to after he’s been sat landlocked in a dockside tavern for a bit too long.