Wanna buy your key back?
 
 
This story takes place at the mines north of Minoc
 
 
Once again, I was loitering around the mines north of Minoc looking for miners who might 'lend' me a few ingots so I could tinker. After killing one of them who attacked me, and almost getting bludgeoned to death by another who beat me silly with a warhammer, I decided to call it a day. As I was walking back down to Minoc, I hear the lovely click of a door opening, so I quickly hit my AllNames macro, and see two people to the north. I haul ass for the door, and I push one newbie out of the way, and another person named Gandalf. Gandalf tells me to go away, and I was thinking of telling him to go fuck himself. Then the conversation went along as most of my others do when I hide.

"In Flam Grav"

He must have clicked on the forge and wasn't able to make a fire field, so he got the spell bug.

"In Flam Grav"
"In Flam Grav"
"In Flam Grav"
"In Flam Grav"

Finally he gets a fire field down, and me with my 54 resist, get a nice golden tan. I decide enough with the foreplay, lets get some. I casually walk over to him, and give his backpack a runthrough with my fingers. I see a spellbook, and 34 gold coin. I saw no vendor outside, so I decided the key was somewhere on him. I moved his spellbook, and low and behold, thar she was. I got the spellbook to disappear, and used my sticky fingers on the key. I instantly log out, as any smart person would. I wait 2 hours, and decide to log on, No one is inside, so I decide to take a gander around my newest abode. I see that I have yet another master key. There was nothing of value, except a few precious ingots for tinkering. I swipe those, and become Blue again, and tromp down to the bank, and bank the key. I walked back up to the house with a copy, and an intent on changing the sign. The sign says "To whoever stole my key, my ICQ # is XXXXXX" So, being the fair guy I am, I gave him a chance to buy his key back for a premium price. He tells me that he needs it back, blah blah blah. Eventually he offers some items and he says I can come and take a look at them in his (my) new house.

I never mentioned I would look at them when he isn't logged on. I looted the house and got some decent magic shit, more reags, and more ingots. Crime does pay. (And being an Archer, Fencer, Tinkerer, Rogue doesn't hurt either.)


Cyle of EiG, Great Lakes Chapter