The Valuable Shipment

Your city depends heavily on trade. Several ships arrive after a long journey carrying food and expensive goods your merchants have been waiting months to receive. The ships came from a region experiencing some kind of unexplained crisis. Information is unreliable. Rumors range from political violence to food shortages to illness.

A. Allow normal trade. You cannot govern based on rumors.

B. Keep the ships offshore until you know more.

C. Allow the cargo in but temporarily keep the crews aboard.