Lore:The Pyrates of Antaloor - Volume VI
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A General History of the Most Notorious Pyrates of Antaloor and Their Exploits
Maurice Laurius alias Captain Rustsaber.
Long hailed as one of the most eccentric privateers in Antaloor's history, Maurice Laurius spent 40 years as the operator of a modest but profitable clothing shop in New Ashos. Yet when he found out that his business partner was cheating him, selling him low-quality garments at far too high a price, he ditched the upper crust of the Red City for a life of adventure on the high seas. Few men live to see sixty years, let alone start a career of murder and piracy at that age, but Maurice Laurius was one such man.
It began with Laurius slashing his business partner open from groin to shoulder with his now-eponimous rusty raber, pouring rum in the man's wounds while still inside his shop, lighting the rum afire and laughing drunkenly while the whole shop burned. The New Ashos authorities registered the fire as an accident, but were clued to foul play when a day later the man's charred bones mysteriously vanished from the ruins of Laurius's shop, where an excavation was under way. Accounts began flooding in that Laurius had been seen rowing away from the city on his family's ancestral rowboat with the charred bones lashed to the stern.
"Take what I leave you with and live," the man was said to tell ayone who crossed his path, "or you shall be cut, drowned in rum, and burned alive."
He apparently made a quiet living as a sailor for a while, trading up from his rowboat to a schooner and then finally captaining a full galley, until one day the ship was taken by the schooner of pirate captain "Viper" Neddley. Neddley was a follower of the Code of the Brethren, and thus, upon plundering the ship, proposed that those willing should join his crew.
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[The story of Captain Laurius should be continued here, but the book has been badly damaged by seawater and the remaining pages of the volume are missing. Perhaps the rest sill exists somewhere...]