Okay, what kind of pirate captain gets pissed at a stranger for making a joke about the local beer brew? I was trying to lighten the mood and his crew attacks and kills me for insulting Mulsantir?

I just arrived in Mulsantir. I feel like the protagonist of Kafka's "the Castle": the entire "town" is a small, grey-brown village full of frightened people (and when I say full I mean "7 or 8 all in all") who hardly talk to me, and then there's the house of the head witch but it's locked.