The Release of the HIMS Buttercup

Drache is the present-day capital of the Kingdom of Arangoth and lies at the mouth of the River Darian, surrounded by the city docks all along the waterfront. Click here for information on the various suburbs and areas of Drache. You can also click here to view a sketched map of the city.
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Alex
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The Release of the HIMS Buttercup

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In the southwestern corner of the city, near the famed Castle Black, there was an airship dock. In the cordoned-off Pier Three of this dock there sat a Reshalian airship. She'd been set upon for two days by Azaani engineers to determine the threat she represented. It had been determined that on board spellcasters had been responsible for her method of interdimensional travel. Her guns had been thoroughly analyzed after being disarmed, and she'd been treated fairly well, all things considered. A few greasy palm prints on the windshield, a few dusty boot prints on the fancy carpet in the captain's quarters, but nothing major.

As she was being towed out of the pier by the Azaani airship The Last Place You Look, the ship's on board automata decided to adjust her angle of inclination so fractionally that none of the helmsmen caught it, nor did her captain.

"Watch the starboard--"

But that was all he managed to say. There was a >skreeee<, a collective wince, and The Last Place You Look carried on as though nothing had happened.

"He really upset you, didn't he?" Asked Captain Sigma of his ship.

"Yes, sir," replied the ship.

The paperwork would show that the scrape along her side had, of course, been there from the beginning, and affidavits regarding her condition were filed away in the proper order for the Azaani records, and for those of the Free City. It was without further incident that the HIMS Buttercup was returned to her prior place of berth at the wharf, made secure, and promptly abandoned by the Azaani.

A letter was dispatched via local carrier to the King's Inn, addressed to 'Mister Davis', informing him that his fishing vessel was no longer the responsibility of the Free City of Drache's Port Authority, and that she had been returned in the same condition in which she had been impounded.
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