Mild Spice Prices reaching 15 gold a sack! Unheard of for every gourmet and cook from far and near as the supply of the delicious ingredient are so short that merchants pump up prices into oblivion! The South Sea Daily crew went into a journey to investigate this crisis and find the reasons of the stopped shipments from the South Seas!
We swiftly managed to find Captain Narsing Swiftstream, Goblin Merchant in the service of the Steamwheedle Cartel, his comments concerning the lack of shipments towards Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms were as following:
“Trading becomes harder and harder with each day, lack of spices is currently one of the lesser problems! Lack of slaves is the real problem! If we don’t have workers on the Islands to cultivate the so-ever-cheap Mild Spices we cannot produce it in big measures, so we pump the prices, we have to make a living after all!”
Captain Narsing
“But what is the reason behind the lack of slaves in the Goblin Cartels then?”
“We don’t enslave our own, look, we count on war, but not our own but those of the taller fellas. Ever since the Horde and the Alliance dropped all parleys and slash each other to death how can we get some prisoners of war? They take em, sell em, we buy em and that’s the deal usually…but now it’s to the oh-so-bitter-end! Curses I sez! Thanks to that we lack numbers in here! How ya wanna have anything from under these conditions!?”
“The South Seas are mainly populated by Goblins and Trolls, the Cartels posses great mercenary armies why not make use of the trolls then?”
“Trolls are bad slaves, ever tried to shackle one and explain him what to do!? He cuts of his limbs and humps away or maybe leaves a stone axe in your head before that even! I tell ya trolls didn’t know this trick before! Bad tidings this be I sez, for when there are no workers there will be more goblin sweat on the plantations!”
Truly we can confirm that the Islands producing various spices, fruits and other common exportable resources run on low production! If this does carry on might we see high prices on about everything? Or must the population of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms rely on their own resources?
Could Gorrilas make better slaves?
Famous Goblin Baron Revilgaz said:
” I have daily guests from both the Horde and the Alliance in the Salty Sailor Tavern, I come down to share a drink or two with good customers and they tell tales of battle usually. Some Orc showed me his collection of Kobold ears from the foes he slayed, some Tauren the hoofs of a dozen Centaurs! And there was a Dwarf who collects the tusks from the trolls he cleaves with his axe! I just thought if they sell those along with the rest of the ‘trophy’s’ in a living form down to the Islands we wouldn’t have these problems now!”
But do not worry dear readers, no matter how bad the situation shall be! The South Sea Daily will gladly report the problems of the world to you!
Grum One Eye “The Watcher”
