Governor Haskell’s Letter to Fortune Heayton is a letter found within the game Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden.
Governor Haskell’s Letter to Fortune Heayton
2nd March
in this the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and ninety-four, from the pen of the most honorable Fairefax H. Haskell, Governor of the Colonies of New Eden and roundabouts, to Master Fortune Heayton,
Heayton’s Forge or Smithy,
Bracemonks, London
LETTER OF APPOINTMENT
My dear most fortunate Mr. Heayton,
Further to our most recent and urgent correspondence, I refer to your last letter, dated 14th December, in which you confirm your desire to join the colony of New Eden, wherefore to practice the trade of blacksmithing.
As you are known in London as in Boston as a blacksmith of some renown and, indeed, a Puritan of impeccable faith, I have the pleasure of confirming that a place awaits you here. We shall provide you with a small-holding in which to establish your business, and while we shall endeavor to provide you with whatever materials you should require, pray bring whichever tools you may need as they can be scarce here a-times.
Please reply immediately, at least within a month, and book passage at your earliest convenience. I have enclosed a stipend which for with to pay the fare. With fields to plow and horses to shoe, we are in urgent need of your services. We shall expect you before winter.
TO ALL WHO SHOULD BE CONCERNED, HEREWITH LET IT BE KNOWN THAT FORTUNE HEAYTON HAS BEEN CONTRACTED TO THE COLONY OF NEW EDEN AS THE NEW BLACKSMITH.
Yours most sincerely,
Gov. Fairefax H. Haskell
This letter must have been received before the whole haunting, because at this point there are no horses to shoe or fields of crops anywhere. Didn’t Red mention it’s the month of June to Jacob before? So it’s been at least a month. And the haunting seems to have gone on longer–I can’t remember if Charles had mentioned a date, or that he even knew how long.
If it’s June, I don’t know when the ship arrived to bring Heayton ashore, but it seems like it would’ve been a little while of getting crappy blacksmithing products.
Wouldn’t the townsfolk have gotten suspicious?
Especially the huntress.
