This loft serves as Gellan Primewater’s private office. Shelves and chests hold meticulous shipping ledgers tracking his two merchant vessels. Two worn charts—one of the Saltmarsh Coast, the other of Javan Bay—lie spread across a sturdy table. The books are practical: navigation manuals, privateer accounts, and annotated coastal guides.

A narrow spy chair rests by the windows, which open to a commanding view of Saltmarsh Bay and the town beyond—an ideal perch to watch ships arrive and depart, and to plan in quiet.

• Hidden Code: DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) reveals subtle coded notations in the ledgers.

• Meaning: Code identifies smuggled goods and which ship carries them.

• Deciphering: Without the key, DC 24 Intelligence (Investigation) yields only partial results.

• Who Knows the Code:

  • Gellan Primewater

  • Old Bren

  • Linhart Weller

• Each holds a duplicate encoded ledger.