Welcome to the "Story" module in Pirates and Traders. Stories in this game are essentially mini text adventures games. The Story module is used for a lot of different purposes - from trade missions, mutinies on your ship, treasure hunts, etc.

The Story interface will provide you with (hopefully) interesting situations and give you a number of options to solve it. Some of these options will involve tests of your skills - it should generally be obvious which skills are used - and have different advantages or disadvantages.

Some Stories will require you to enter a specific port in the game before a certain date. This will require you to sail to that point on the main game map and enter the port.

Many options will test your skills. In most cases, the used skill should be obvious.

For bargaining, it is worthwhile to keep in mind that the higher the price you are trying to negotiate up from, the harder the skill check will be.