Woodcutter 4

Three – Consequences

I picked up some valuable lessons about kidnapping during my visit to Port Jasper, the first is that it is really hard to move someone who doesn't want to be moved, they fight, shout, and, in the case of my visitor, squirt blood everywhere and on everything, the second is that an unconscious person is almost as hard, they go limp and it turns out that a couple hundred pounds of meat with four limbs attached is more unwieldy than a mattress when it comes down to it. I managed, and was pretty sure he wouldn't end up with brain damage from hitting him all those times, but I didn't really care either way, he likely would have killed me if given the chance, and had thoroughly interfered with my plans.

The last thing I learned is that it is really easy to hide a naked, unconscious, tied up man in a cart when leaving a city, I guess that is kind of obvious in hindsight, but I was sweating as I approached the gate, visions of guards poking through my stuff, alerted to foul play by rumors of a limb removal the previous night, but it turns out no one cares about blood and severing at a seedy inn in the worst part of the city.

I had money now, more than I had ever had before, enough to set me and anyone I cared about up for life anywhere I cared to live, whats more I had information, letters of introduction to certain people and organizations, almost everything I needed to get started, what I needed now was time, and the thief had robbed me of that as surely as he would have taken my valuables. Nothing for it though but to push on, I'd get some use out of him as well

The problem was time, I didn't have enough of it, and money doesn't buy time, I checked. What I had in mind would take a while, and I wouldn't be able to make it work if I was constantly being interrupted by adventurers, religious lunatics, or both. Fortunately I had a solution, it was a two part plan: A book, and a ring.