When you go to Port Royale to report completion of the "Sao Feng's Bodyguards" sidequest to Father Bernard, he accuses you of blackmailing Father Jerald, and also says that as you have the women still with you, you must be the kidnapper. You conclude that Ammand the Corsair told Father Bernard about the blackmail scheme. But as to the charge of still having the women with you, nonsense! Starting from Puerto Rico, where you went to collect them, it's quicker to first sail to Turks Island and hand them over to Sao Feng before going to Port Royale, rather than vice versa, which means by the time you get to Father Bernard, you probably don't have the women with you.
Suggestion: have Father Bernard check if the women really are with you. If so, he calls the guards, as at present. If not, he only accuses you of blackmail and uses that as an excuse to not pay you.
In Oranjestad, you see two men fighting, and if you choose to intervene, it turns out the one doing the attacking was a slave and the one being attacked, who you've just saved, is a slaver. You decide to go along with him in the hope of freeing some more slaves. If, at the start of the game, you went down the "Brock/Brinkley" path rather than the "Christopher Mings" path, then when you arrive at Eleuthera plantation, Gentleman Jocard tells you to go away and you do. The quest shuts down. According to the questbook, you can't fight a pirate lord. This is likely to happen if you're used to the normal "Artois Voysey/Nigel Blythe" start, in which, if you're trying to be the nice guy, you intervene on the side of the one being bullied; and if you chose "Brock Brinkley", either because you know how the story goes and want to save the Brin sisters, or because you're new to the story and didn't spot Lt. Bligh - if you don't talk to him on Speightstown port then Ming doesn't appear in the tavern.
Suggestion: allow the quest to proceed if you are yourself a pirate lord because you've completed "Sao Feng's Bodyguards" and Teague has given you his piece of eight. Also perhaps allow it to proceed if you've joined the Brotherhood at Nevis and achieved a high enough rank. (How high?)
Suggestion: have Father Bernard check if the women really are with you. If so, he calls the guards, as at present. If not, he only accuses you of blackmail and uses that as an excuse to not pay you.
In Oranjestad, you see two men fighting, and if you choose to intervene, it turns out the one doing the attacking was a slave and the one being attacked, who you've just saved, is a slaver. You decide to go along with him in the hope of freeing some more slaves. If, at the start of the game, you went down the "Brock/Brinkley" path rather than the "Christopher Mings" path, then when you arrive at Eleuthera plantation, Gentleman Jocard tells you to go away and you do. The quest shuts down. According to the questbook, you can't fight a pirate lord. This is likely to happen if you're used to the normal "Artois Voysey/Nigel Blythe" start, in which, if you're trying to be the nice guy, you intervene on the side of the one being bullied; and if you chose "Brock Brinkley", either because you know how the story goes and want to save the Brin sisters, or because you're new to the story and didn't spot Lt. Bligh - if you don't talk to him on Speightstown port then Ming doesn't appear in the tavern.
Suggestion: allow the quest to proceed if you are yourself a pirate lord because you've completed "Sao Feng's Bodyguards" and Teague has given you his piece of eight. Also perhaps allow it to proceed if you've joined the Brotherhood at Nevis and achieved a high enough rank. (How high?)