Rudolf Speijk

"I'm sorry, I don't believewe've met. Who? Ludwig Prost? I don't know him, but you'renot the first to comment on the resemblance. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have business...."

- Rudolf Speijk

Rudolf Speijk, also known by his alias of "Ludwig Prost", is a former con-man who became a legitimate merchant a few years ago. Some months ago he bought a good number of future-shares in an expedition to Lustria. The expedition is now more than two months overdue, the value of his shares have hit rock-bottom and Speijk fears the worst. What's more, he's being pressured by his creditors to payback certain debts he has incurred on other bad trading deals.

He may be a lousy merchant, but Speijk is a good con-man. He's forged three letters from Tomas Boorsboom, the captain of the Lustrian expedition he backed, and planted them on the shoreline this morning. Last night he toured several inns and asked three groups of travellers new to the city to help find his missing document case. What he's hoping is that they - or someone else - will find the letters and act on the information in them, bidding up the price of the future-shares in Boorsboom's expedition, so that he can sell his holding at a profit and pay off his debts.

Speijk's motto is "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day", and he lives by it. If things begin to look heavy, he will flee as fast and as far as he can. Unfortunately his creditors have caught up with him, and have given him a week to pay back the 5,000 Gu he owes them. He's already preparing to run again as soon as he gets the chance.

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 * Warhammer Fantasy RPG 1st ED -- Marienburg: Sold Down the River
 * pg. 134
 * pg. 135