Illegal Activities in the Painted Caves

ord was spreading about illegal gold collecting activities by certain characters on each shard. These characters were permanently fighting Troglodytes in the Painted Caves, equipped with a repond slayer weapon (a Soul Seeker), running out of the dungeon when their backpack was full, recalling to the bank, coming back and continuing with the procedure. This all happened "automatically" (meaning, a script was operating the character), and thus ruining Britannia's economy by flooding the market with billions of cold pieces. Hawkeye Pike decided to make a trip to Felucca and see for himself.

It actually was true: He had been watching this fighter for quite some time. It was evident that this person was performing illegal activities.

Hawkeye decided to take matters into his own hands. He equipped his war fork, waited until the fighter would turn and run to the exit (thus having a backpack full of gold), disarmed the fighter and killed him. Unfortunately, the whole equipment was insured. The pirate looted 14,000 gold pieces from the corpse and received a murder count a little while later. Hawkeye calculated: This fighter would run to the bank approximately evey 10 minutes with 14,000 gold coins in his backpack. Doing this 8 hours a day would yield 672,000 gold coins a day, or almost 5 million gold coins a week. And Hawkeye knew that Red Apple was not the only person on Catskills performing this kind of activity.

An hour or so later, Hawkeye Pike watched the same person doing exactly the same thing, just in Trammel. He grabbed his dagger and prepared for a shadow strike. This time, Lurg would handle this...

05/2008

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