The Awakening, Act I: Civil Unrest:Baker's Journal
Title: Baker's Journal
Author: Antony Bath
The past few months
have been horrid for
business with the rising
cost of goods and the
lack of large farms
nearby the city of
Trinsic. My wife has been
pestering me to sell out
my ownership and to
retire on the coast for
a few years now, but
with the harsh business
climate I fear it may be
some time before that�s
possible.
Another rise in the cost of flour imported in from Yew is causing my prices to have to be raised... and I�ve already seen the protests that happened at the weaponsmith�s last week.
I hope that things don�t continue in this vein.
I had to lay off one of my three assistant bakers today, to keep us afloat. I don�t want to close down this shop, as it�s been mine for over two decades now. One of my friends who works for the butcher was attacked and beaten badly last eve, and had his belongings stolen. The guards managed to arrest one of the suspects but the others got away.
I had to close the shop early as we ran out of flour and the next shipment isn�t for three days. The shipping lanes have been fraught with piracy over the past few weeks, and our shipments only come biweekly now by sea due to this danger. Supposedly there will be new caravan shipments to offset this, but there haven�t been any yet.
Flour costs rose again after an entire shipment was stolen by pirates. I�ve had customers I�ve known for years come in and ask me how I can justify charging so much for things that just a year ago were almost half this price. I tried to make Jeffrey understand but he just sneered at me and left. Everyone�s been on edge lately, and the increase in arrests hasn�t made the tension lessen.
As we tried to close this
evening we came outside
into a group of people
armed with torches and
various weapons. Almost
before I could think they
assailed myself and my
assistant, and I just
managed to yank her back
inside before Virtues
know what might have
happened. I managed to
scream for the guards
loud enough that the mob
beat a retreat, and the
guards had to douse a
fire that they had hastily
set... what is happening?
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