Harbor Guard
The Harbor Guard patrols the water as well as the streets along the Docks district. Their most common investigations involve catching smugglers, fences, kidnappers, and thieves. Patrols spend most of their time at the waterfront and usually leave activity deeper in the city to other guard watches, unless following up on a lead or chasing a perpetrator.
The Harbor Guard has a bureaucratic power structure based on navy ranks, partly at the insistence of Absalom’s navy (with whom they often cooperate). Captain Elmoira “Tackle Queen” Taggart insists that the guard prioritizes smuggling cases and discourages interfering with brawls unless there’s serious risk of an outright riot. The presence of sailors blowing off steam, she believes, is a fixture of her district.
Common sailors tend to like that the Harbor Guard doesn’t hassle them, but those who do need help often end up frustrated. The Harbor Guard is commonly believed to be corrupt, and the truth isn’t far off: smugglers often pay them to look the other way, while the guard frequently shakes down wealthy merchants under ill-founded (or outright manufactured) suspicions of smuggling. Straddling a line between sailors and city watch, members of the Harbor Guard have few allies except for the similarly unscrupulous Token Guard.
The Harbor Guard has a bureaucratic power structure based on navy ranks, partly at the insistence of Absalom’s navy (with whom they often cooperate). Captain Elmoira “Tackle Queen” Taggart insists that the guard prioritizes smuggling cases and discourages interfering with brawls unless there’s serious risk of an outright riot. The presence of sailors blowing off steam, she believes, is a fixture of her district.
Common sailors tend to like that the Harbor Guard doesn’t hassle them, but those who do need help often end up frustrated. The Harbor Guard is commonly believed to be corrupt, and the truth isn’t far off: smugglers often pay them to look the other way, while the guard frequently shakes down wealthy merchants under ill-founded (or outright manufactured) suspicions of smuggling. Straddling a line between sailors and city watch, members of the Harbor Guard have few allies except for the similarly unscrupulous Token Guard.
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