Righting the Shipwright

Haldbroda

Now, the way I see it, if you have time to be standing here questioning my character, then you most certainly have the time to get that arse of yours down to the Salt Strand and help us search for survivors of the wreck.

• FR Dis, tu ne voudrais pas nous aider dans nos recherches ? ‘Say, wouldn't you like to help us with our search?’ English sailor rudely tells you to get your arse to the Salt Strand; French politely asks for help.
• DE Willst du uns nicht dabei helfen? ‘Won't you help us with it?’ English sailor rudely tells you to get your arse to the Salt Strand; German simply asks for help.
• JA そうだっ、我々の捜索に協力していただけませんか！？ ‘That's it, would you kindly help us with our search!?’ English sailor rudely tells you to get your arse to the Salt Strand; Japanese asks very politely for help.
• DE Es geht schließlich um Leben oder Tod! ‘It is, after all, a matter of life or death!’ German pleads urgency - life or death - with none of the English sailor's rudeness.

Who knows? You may just run across this Fyrilsmyd everyone seems so eager to find. Here's to hoping the Navigator hasn't found him first.

• FR Fyrilsmyd y a peut-être trouvé refuge. ‘Fyrilsmyd may have found refuge there.’ English grimly hopes the Navigator hasn't found him first; French says he may have found refuge there.
• JA 潮の流れからすると、この近くに流れ着いているはずです。 ‘Judging by the currents, he should have washed ashore near here.’ English grimly hopes the Navigator hasn't found him first; Japanese says the currents should have carried him ashore nearby.
• FR Nous nous concentrons sur les zones en mer. ‘We are concentrating on the areas out at sea.’ French explains the split: sailors search at sea, you take the shore. No dark remark about the Navigator.
• DE Wir Seeleute suchen das Meer nach Wracktrümmern ab und für die Küsten stellen wir Abenteurer ein. ‘We sailors comb the sea for wreckage, and for the coasts we hire adventurers.’ German explains adventurers are hired for the shores while sailors search the sea; no Navigator remark.

FFyrilsmyd

Aye, I'm Fyrilsmyd. Ye say the foreman's wonderin' on me whereabouts? I thought he might be. But ye must know, I cannot show me face at the Drydocks until I've righted the terrible wrong I caused.

Two nights past, I made the trip from the Drydocks to Candlekeep Quay, just as the foreman asked. The seas were right rough, and the cap'n of the cargo ship was wary of bringin' her too close to the cliffs, so I paid a few coins to a fisher to take me out to meet her.

• FR Elles sont passées par-dessus bord lorsque le bac a été heurté par un navire, vous voyez. ‘They went overboard when the ferry was struck by a ship, you see.’ Here a ship struck the ferry, and Ahtbyrm suspects pirates, as in the Japanese.
• DE Unter der Ladung des Schiffs befanden sich wichtige Bauteile für die Victory, ohne die ich nicht zu den Moraby-Trockendocks zurückkehren werde. ‘Among the ship's cargo were important parts for the Victory, without which I will not return to the Moraby Drydocks.’ German has no tale of rough seas and a hired fisher; he only refuses to return without the parts.
• JA そうか……だが、なくなった部材を見つけるまでは帰れん。 ‘I see... but I can't go back until I find the lost parts.’ Japanese has no story of rough seas and a hired fisher; he just refuses to return without the parts.

By the time we was halfway 'twixt shore and ship, the swells had risen to nigh on ten yalms, and 'twasn't long afore the waves had hold of us. Try as we might to steady the boat, nature's grip was too tight, and we was flung headlong into the Lominsan galley.

• JA 乗っていた連絡船の事故で、大事な部材が海に落ちてな。とっさに海へ飛び込み、ここまで追ってきたが……体力を使い果たしてこのザマだ。 ‘The ferry I was on had an accident, and the vital parts went into the sea. Without a second thought, I jumped into the sea and chased them all the way here... but I've used up all my strength, and now look at me.’ Fyrilsmyd went after the precious parts himself. The hired fisher who dies exists only in the English.
• FR J'ai immédiatement plongé pour les récupérer, mais je n'ai pas pu les retrouver... et je n'ose pas trop m'aventurer n'importe où avec les créatures dangereuses qui rôdent dans le coin. ‘I immediately dove in to recover them, but I couldn't find them... and I don't dare wander just anywhere with the dangerous creatures prowling around here.’ English: the waves flung their boat into the galley; French: he dove in at once to recover the parts.
• DE Die heftige Karambolage hat die Ladung weit aufs offene Meer hinaus geschleudert, aber die Strömung müsste sie an diese Küste getrieben haben. ‘The violent collision flung the cargo far out onto the open sea, but the current should have carried it to this coast.’ English: the waves flung their boat into the galley; German: the collision flung the cargo far out to sea.
• JA とっさに海へ飛び込み、ここまで追ってきたが……体力を使い果たしてこのザマだ。 ‘I jumped into the sea on the spot and chased them this far... but I used up my strength, and look at the state of me.’ Japanese says he dived in after the parts and is now exhausted; English describes the wreck in the waves.

When I awoke, both ships were gone, and the cargo I was to collect lay strewn across the Salt Strand. I's made every effort to salvage it, but the sands are crawlin' with Qiqirn, and I ain't a one with a sword. And now ye see why it is I cannot return to the Drydocks...

• DE Die verfressenen Biester kennen kein Halten, wenn sie schmackhafte Beute wittern - und das tun sie bei dir garantiert. ‘The greedy beasts know no restraint when they scent tasty prey - and with you they're guaranteed to.’ English: he admits he is no swordsman; German jokes the Qiqirn will surely see you as tasty prey.
• FR Ah, soyez prudent(e), il y a des Qiqirns par ici, et j'ai découvert à mes frais qu'ils ne sont pas très amicaux. ‘Ah, be careful, there are Qiqirn around here, and I found out the hard way that they are not very friendly.’ French makes it a wry understatement: he learned the hard way the Qiqirn are unfriendly.

FFyrilsmyd

That night, I was tossed into the sea like some doll of rags, and it weren't long afore the world 'round me faded to black as I slipped deeper into the abyss. But lo, the Navigator wouldn't see me to the gates of the seven hells, and I woke to find meself washed ashore. And here I's been, ever since, waitin' for a chance to salvage me master's cargo.

• FR Si je rentre au chantier naval sans la barre à roue, le cordage et la voilure pour le Victoire, Ahtbyrm va me tomber dessus comme la misère sur le pauvre monde... ‘If I go back to the shipyard without the wheel, the rigging and the sails for the Victory, Ahtbyrm will come down on me like misery on the poor...’ French has him fear the foreman's wrath, with a proverb; English recounts his near-drowning.
• DE Bei allen blindäugigen, kaltblütigen Ungeheuern des Meeres! ‘By all the blind-eyed, cold-blooded monsters of the sea!’ German has a sea-monster oath and a vow not to return; no story of nearly drowning.

The missin' parts! I-I don't know how I can repay you!

• DE Da tritt mich doch ein Kloaken-Mull! Du hast tatsächlich die Bauteile der Victory bergen können. ‘Well, I'll be kicked by a sewer mole! You really managed to salvage the Victory's parts.’ The saying „mich tritt ein Pferd“, 'I'll be kicked by a horse', is a cry of surprise. Fyrilsmyd swaps its horse for a sewer mole.
• DE Für eine Landratte hast du es wirklich faustdick hinter den Ohren. ‘For a landlubber, you're a really crafty one.’ English: he doesn't know how to repay you; German: he calls you crafty for a landlubber.

I'll deliver the supplies right away...but first I must stop by the Quay so that I might pay me respects to the widow of the brave fisher who gave his life fer a handful o' coin.

• JA おかげさんで、少しは体力も回復したんでな。部材を持って、モラビー造船廠に帰るとしよう。 ‘Thanks to you, I've got some strength back. I'll take the parts back to the Moraby Drydocks.’
• FR Je vais rassurer les marins du quai de la Torche pour qu'ils arrêtent de me chercher en mer. ‘I'm going to reassure the sailors at Candlekeep Quay so they stop searching for me at sea.’ English: he will visit the widow of the fisher who died; French: he will tell the sailors to stop searching.
• DE Ich werde den Arbeitern am Kai einen Besuch abstatten und dann zurückkehren. ‘I'll pay a visit to the workers at the quay and then head back.’ English: he will visit the widow of the fisher who died; German: he will visit the workers at the quay.
• JA 部材を持って、モラビー造船廠に帰るとしよう。 ‘I'll take the parts and head back to the Moraby Drydocks.’ Japanese has no dead fisher or widow; he says he has recovered and will carry the parts back.

Could ye tell Ahtbyrm that I'll be back at the Drydocks by daybreak/nightfall? Many thanks, adventurer! I will not forget this kindness!

• JA 俺は、心配掛けた埠頭の水夫にも挨拶してから帰るんで、すまんがお前は、先にモラビー造船廠に戻ってアートビルムのお頭に、俺は無事だって報告してくれ。 ‘I'll go back after greeting the sailors at the quay whom I worried, so, sorry, but you go on ahead to the Moraby Drydocks and report to boss Ahtbyrm that I'm safe.’ Japanese gives no time of return; he first greets the quay sailors who worried about him.

Ahtbyrm

I am relieved to hear that both Fyrilsmyd and the supplies are unharmed, though it was foolish for him to believe that I would blame him for that which was obviously out of his hands.

• FR Ça ressemble beaucoup à une ruse de pirates pour voler la cargaison du bac sans être soupçonnés... ‘It looks a lot like a pirates' ruse to steal the ferry's cargo without being suspected...’ English calls the accident obviously out of Fyrilsmyd's hands; French suspects a pirate ruse to steal the cargo.
• DE Die Havarie war also kein Unglück, sondern ein Überfall. ‘So the wreck was no accident, but an attack.’ English calls it obviously out of Fyrilsmyd's hands; German says the wreck was no accident but an attack.
• JA 連絡船に衝突とは……積荷を狙う海賊の仕業だろうか？ ‘A collision with the ferry... could it be the work of pirates after the cargo?’ Japanese has him suspect pirates after the cargo; nothing about not blaming Fyrilsmyd.

You see, there was no storm that day, and the seas here adjacent the Drydocks were as calm as a slumbering child. This leads me to believe that the trouble the ships encountered off Candlekeep Quay was of a less natural sort─the sort which the Sahagin have been known to conjure.

• FR Enfin, le plus important, c'est qu'il soit sain et sauf. ‘Anyway, the most important thing is that he is safe and sound.’ English blames trouble of the kind the Sahagin conjure; French only says what matters is that he is safe.
• DE Wie auch immer, das Wichtigste ist, dass es Firylsmyd gut geht. ‘Anyway, the most important thing is that Firylsmyd is all right.’ English blames trouble of the kind the Sahagin conjure; German only says what matters is that Firylsmyd is fine.
• JA ともあれ、あいつが無事に戻ってくれて、なによりだ。 ‘In any case, the best thing is that he came back safely.’ English blames trouble of the kind the Sahagin conjure; Japanese only says it is best that he returned safely.