Wvaske: Session 51 ingest: create NPC stub for the Luskan dockmaster (name garbled in recording; no prior page or canonical spelling found)

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Session 51 ingest: create NPC stub for the Luskan dockmaster (name garbled in recording; no prior page or canonical spelling found)

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== Bargan Thrust ==
'''Bargan Thrust''' ''(name uncertain — the Session 51 recording renders it variously as "bargain thrust," "Argan," and "Bargus"; no earlier canonical spelling exists on this wiki)'' is the dwarf '''dockmaster of [[Luskan]]''', a wide, no-nonsense fixture of the harbor with ties to '''Ship Kurth'''.

=== Session 51 — corrupted, cured, and remembering ===
When [[Deez Nuts]] returned to Luskan in [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)|Session 51]], the dockmaster was two weeks deep in the blood-red coin corruption: he shook down his own hometown captain, [[Captain LaRustah|Captain Larusta]], for a docking fee every Luskan-based captain had always been spared, and kept a bolted-down box of '''130 red coins''' at the docks. At the words "red coins" his hand went to his sword — and [[Baelgrum]] won initiative and delivered '''Remove Curse''' by touch mid-handshake.

The curse washed through so powerfully that Bargan, '''unique among the cured, kept his memories''' of the corruption — he remembers the coins ''calling to him''. Staggered by his two lost weeks (and by the news that Old White Death is dead), he surrendered his coin box ([[Xanphina]] tore it free of its bolts), was overpaid with a pearl worth more than the gold, and pledged to '''spread the party's name to Ship Kurth''' — "Spread the word of these nuts, indeed."

He also swallowed [[Shade]]'s false rumor that the [[Bronze Blades]] carry red coins, vowing that Ship Kurth will "search them good."

=== Status ===
Active at the Luskan docks; cured; a rare cured Luskanite who remembers what the coins felt like. Currently the party's advocate within Ship Kurth.

=== Appearances ===
* [[Session 47 - The Sea of Moving Ice]] ''(implied — the party met a dockmaster on the way out, per Session 51; not recorded in the Session 47 log)''
* [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)]] — corrupted → cured; keeps his memories; advocates for [[Deez Nuts]] with Ship Kurth

[[Category:NPCs]] [[Category:Luskan]] [[Category:Rise of Tiamat]]

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Wvaske: Session 51 ingest: create NPC stub for the Luskan dockmaster (name garbled in recording; no prior page or canonical spelling found)