—Last words spoken by Free Captain Wilihem Wache, moments before his public hanging in Macini for piracy
Port Peril is the center of pirate activity in the Shackles, and the place to be for anyone seeking a life of piracy and adventure. The largest port in the Shackles and its de facto capital. It is situated on the mainland, rather than on one of the outlying islands, on the edge of the Terwa Uplands and overlooking Jeopardy Bay. The city is protected by walls, and the stronghold of Fort Hazard. All manner of vices can be found in its twisting streets, and its busy markets thrive on the sale of stolen goods. Rumour has it that the plunder from decades of piracy is hidden in sea caves beneath the city.
Tonight is like any other at the Formidably Maid, a local tavern that caters to the would be pirates of the Shackles. All manner of green recruits manage to find their way here with the promise of adventure, fame, and booty. Outside the tavern a man hangs in the stocks for some crime committed against the local law, or what passes for it. Less than a block away a dozen men roll around in the dirt fist fighting, shouting and cheering for and against one another as a circle of prostitutes looks on laughing, waiting to take the winners back to their rooms.
The sing outside the Formidably Maid swings in the salt air, a second one under it has the words scrawlled on it: "Time flies when ye arrrr having rum at the Formidably Maid!"
Inside the large tavern are scores of men and women of all types drinking and laughing. Vulgarity, debauchery, all those wholesome pirate traits are in full swing in the tavern. The ale flows freely from the taps, the buxom women serve it up to the already drunk men. A look around room shows dozens of races, and all manner of folks, from all places across Golarion.
Among the dozens a few stand out...