• 1163
• Merchant
  Something big is happening with your friends in Calicut.
  Things are crazy over there right now.

• 1164
• Merchant
  You're Player, right? After you've just started to make a name for yourself, too.
  Bad luck!

• 1165
• How will you respond?

• 1166
• Bad luck?

• 1167
• What are you talking about?

• 1168
• Merchant
  You don't know yet? The orders you carried back.
  Once they were deciphered, well...
  the content was something else! Admiral Gama's men are on the verge of rioting!

• 1169
• Merchant
  I feel for you, I really do.
  You were just starting to get noticed.

• 1170
• Merchant
  I heard there was as much pepper for sale as you can fit in your hold so I came all the way here--but now these new orders say that all of the pepper purchased through some merchant called Sanjai is to be stored at the Company House in Madeira.
  That means regular sailors like ourselves have to buy it from the market at home, then? So what's changed?

• 1171
• Sanjai
  I don't know what's with this Gama guy, I really don't! I took the pepper to the Company House and he just sat there, stony faced, and said "I don't have the authority to accept that!" I don't want to think about how much time I've wasted on this venture!

• 1172
• Officer
  Ah, Player.
  Here to help with the decamping, are you? I can't believe those orders led to all this...

• 1173
• How will you respond?

• 1174
• What did the orders say?

• 1175
• What do you mean, decamping?

• 1176
• Officer
  ...Ah, of course, you weren't there.
  Allow me to explain, then...
  Forget thanks for you and Alvero, there wasn't even one word of gratitude to Gama himself in those orders.
  Rather, orders for him to give up all rights relating to trade and vacate the premises...!

• 1177
• Officer
  ...Ah, of course, you weren't there.
  Allow me to explain, then...
  Forget thanks for you and Alvero, there wasn't even one word of gratitude to Gama himself in those orders.
  Rather, orders for him to give up all rights relating to trade and vacate the premises...!

• 1178
• How will you respond?

• 1179
• Vacate them to who?

• 1180
• That's insane...!

• 1181
• Officer
  An organization directly under the king's command, the India Trading Company, created especially for handling trade through India.
  They'll be setting up here in town soon and will be dealing with all trade, including the pepper.
  We have to be out of here and return to Goa before they arrive.

• 1182
• Officer
  It's all going to be decided by an organization directly under the king's command, the India Trading Company, created especially for handling trade through India.
  They'll be setting up here in town soon and will be dealing with all trade, including the pepper.
  We have to be out of here and return to Goa before they arrive.

• 1183
• How will you respond?

• 1184
• Why are you following those orders?

• 1185
• I see...

• 1186
• Officer
  It's all going to be decided by an organization directly under the king's command, the India Trading Company, created especially for handling trade through India.
  They'll be setting up here in town soon and will be dealing with all trade, including the pepper.
  We have to be out of here and return to Goa before they arrive.

• 1187
• Officer
  It's understandable that many in the fleet don't agree with these orders.
  There are even those who want to declare all out war on the new trading company...
  but an Admiral can't allow that to happen.

• 1188
• Gama
  I understand your upset, but orders from the king cannot just be ignored.
  As a minister of the king I have decided to follow these orders to the letter.
  I know that you brave men who have overcome so much in the past will do the same.
  Thank you for your attention.

• 1189
• Officer
  Admiral Gama's only wish is for the glory of our nation.
  That's what brought him here, and he can't turn on that ideal now.
  No one could argue with him in the face of his declaration and in the end the decision was made to clear out of the Company House...

• 1190
• Officer
  But that doesn't mean the sparks of unrest have been entirely quelled.
  With dereliction of duty rife the great Gama fleet is now in the gutter, truly...

• 1191
• Sanjai
  I heard all about it.
  All your hard work has been passed off to someone else? That's harsh.
  If you don't like the duties forced upon you by your country then my shop can hire the entire fleet, if you like!

• 1192
• Resident
  There's been a mob of Portuguese causing trouble around the tavern recently.
  You can't concentrate on your drink with that kind of crowd hanging around!

• 1193
• Officer
  There are even those who have decided to forgo their duties for drink.
  How the famous Gama fleet has fallen, eh?

• 1194
• Soldier
  ...Changing our orders, after coming this far?! Goa is overrun with Muslim traders, too!

• 1195
• Officer
  That's quite a demotion, isn't it...
  Just how much power does this new trading company wield...?!

• 1196
• Commerce Clerk
  ...I've been hearing rumours from among the other traders about that very Trading Company.
  Although I shouldn't say this too loudly...

• 1197
• Officer
  ...What?! That's what's going on here?!

• 1198
• Commerce Clerk
  Shhhh! Keep your voice down!

• 1199
• Commerce Clerk
  What do you want?

• 1200
• How will you respond?

• 1201
• Tell me about the Trading Company.

• 1202
• I don't have any news in particular.

• 1203
• Commerce Clerk
  You had to ask, didn't you...
  It turns out that the famous merchant from Lisbon, Diego Sarmiento, was behind the creation of the Trading Company.

• 1204
• Soldier
  The Company House in Madeira was obviously created with the intention of taking the pepper from you...

• 1205
• Officer
  In other words...
  Sarmiento had planned this all from the start!

• 1206
• Officer
  ...That makes sense.
  I can see him doing that, certainly.

• 1207
• Soldier
  How dare he...
  treating Admiral Gama like this!

• 1208
• Commerce Clerk
  ...So we've been dancing like Sarmiento's puppets this whole time?!

• 1209
• Officer
  Player...
  Have you heard the rumours about Sarmiento? I've always thought he was up to something.
  There were rumours about port permits, too, weren't there.
  I guess the only thing he thinks of is lining his own pockets, eh.

• 1210
• Alvero
  Player, I'm sorry.
  You helped out so much and in the end it was all for nothing...!

• 1211
• What do you want to do?

• 1212
• Mention the rumours about Sarmiento.

• 1213
• Leave her alone

• 1214
• Alvero
  ......

• 1215
• Alvero
  I've heard that too...
  and I was pretty shocked by it.
  No one knows I'm his son, and they are tearing into him pretty badly.
  But I don't believe it.
  My hard-headed father would never dirty his hands by stealing the credit for something like this.
  There's definitely something going on here.

• 1216
• Voice
  You might be right...
  as you say, I'm sure your father has some plan here.

• 1217
• Alvero
  Admiral Gama...?! Did you hear all that? That I'm Sarmiento's son?!

• 1218
• Gama
  ...Yes.
  We are ready to depart so I wanted you to take a roll-call...

• 1219
• Alvero
  Did you hear all that? That I'm Sarmiento's son?!

• 1220
• Gama
  To tell you the truth, I'm actually relieved to hear that Mr.
  Sarmiento is involved.

• 1221
• How will you respond?

• 1222
• Why?

• 1223
• I see...

• 1224
• Alvero
  Why...? You aren't angry?

• 1225
• Gama
  I am only a single military man.
  Mr Sarmiento has far more experience with trading than I do.
  I'm starting to think that storing the pepper in Madeira might be the only way to prevent its price from plummeting.

• 1226
• How will you respond?

• 1227
• Avoiding a plummet in price? How?

• 1228
• I see.

• 1229
• Gama
  Allow unlimited wholesaling and see what happens.
  A massive amount of pepper would pour into the Lisbon market and its price would quickly plummet.
  All that pepper and the profits for our country would totally go to waste.

• 1230
• Gama
  I'm sure Mr.
  Sarmiento has placed the limitations as a necessary evil for the sake of Portugal...
  that's what I'd like to think, anyway.

• 1231
• Alvero
  ......

• 1232
• Alvero
  ...For the sake of the country, huh...

• 1233
• Gama
  Player.
  From now on the Trading Company will be giving you your work.
  I am deeply grateful for everything you have done for us.
  Now then, Alvero.
  We're about to set sail.
  Please get everyone together.

• 1234
• Alvero
  Yeah...
  no problem.

• 1235
• Gama
  Farewell, Player.
  If you are ever near Goa please stop by.

• 1236
• Therefore, Gama - reduced to governor of India in name only, all trade rights taken from him - left the promised land of Calicut behind him and moved on to his next posting, Goa.

• 22100
• Player was approached by a Portuguese merchant from Calicut who stated that something terrible had happened.

• 22101
• Determined to find out what had happened, the group went down to the Portuguese trading hall, where they were approached by an officer with an anguished look on his face.
  According to the officer, orders from back home stated that all trading rights would be handed over to the India Trade Committee, which was under the direct control of the King, and that Gama's fleet had been ordered to leave Calicut.
  However, Gama accepted the orders, with most of his fleet obeying, despite the fact that the orders ignored the fleet's accomplishments.

• 22102
• However, a group of sailors who were refusing to leave Calicut were hanging about the tavern.

• 22103
• According to them, the trade committee was an organisation proposed by the great merchant Diego Sarmiento of Lisbon.
  They claimed that it could not be a coincidence that the purchased pepper would be brought not to Lisbon, but to the trading hall that Diego had built in Madeira.
  Therefore, they reasoned that Diego must have been planning to seize the fruits of Gama's labours from the beginning.

• 22104
• Alvero was unable to believe the rumours about his father.
  In the midst of his confusion, he let slip the fact that he was Diego's son to Gama.

• 22105
• However, Gama was not surprised, as he calmly surmised that whoever was behind this incident wished to avoid a drop in the price of pepper.
  Additionally, in regards to Diego, he stated that he was more likely to do an accurate job with the distribution than was a mere military man.

• 22106
• Then, giving Alvero the order to gather the fleet, he thanked Player for the assistance and left Calicut.