A friend of mine, Vapor, was out of town in RL and had offered to pay me to sort his tower while he was gone. Well, he's rich and I could always use 100k, so I agreed. I was off doing some other stuff when my RL date (who watched me play ALL the time) offered to use me and my roommate's 3rd account to do some sorting (she's an organize freak like I am). So, I said why not.

She was there at Vapor's tower on the computer next to me when she said, "some guy keeps running around the tower." Hmm... well, I'm all for running someone off and I have a murder or two to spare. So, I head over to Vapor's house and find a guy named SPAWN running around the tower like a moron. I get his attention and have a brief discussion with him.

Nighthawk: hey man
Nighthawk: what are you doing camping around my friend's tower?
SPAWN: it's my tower
Nighthawk: no, it's not
SPAWN: well i used to own it
SPAWN: i got another tower
SPAWN: is ok
Nighthawk: then your business here is done
SPAWN: just wanted to see who got it
SPAWN: and who is your friend
Nighthawk: now you've seen
Nighthawk: depart
SPAWN: depart??
SPAWN: name
Nighthawk: yes
SPAWN: ??
Nighthawk: take your sorry ass
Nighthawk: and leave
SPAWN: sorry
SPAWN: can't do
Nighthawk: In Por Yelm

As you can tell, the conversation was relatively over at that point aside from a couple of explosions and some ebolts. Strangely enough, he'd keep recalling, but always to the front of Vapor's tower. So, finding him again to continue the onslaught was simplistic. All of this was followed by the corpse of SPAWN lying in front of Vapor's tower.

I checked through his bags and was stunned to see that one of the bags had 20-30 runes in it and a full keyring. Ummm... he had all those runes to chose from to recall to, but he decided to stay in the area and die with all these runes/keys on him? Wow. Thank god for morons.

I recall of the first rune and check the nearest house. "You quickly unlock, open and relock the door.". I ICQ Charley and he met me in Serpent's Hold. The looting begins. The first house (yes, you read that right) had a lot of goodies in it - most notably was the 5k+ ingots. Some unknown person banned Charley and me after we got all the good stuff out. So, we gated the loot back to my tower.

The next rune was a bust, but the third rune went to a large brick house with someone named Bobby macroing inside (note the loot already taken outside for gating). I have no idea what he was macroing because he was just seemed to be sitting there, but he didn't try to ban us or resist when we eventually killed him (hoping for more keys to our runes). We looted that place dry and killed all the trapped animals. I left a rune behind explaining how they got looted and why trusting moron's like SPAWN with such valuable items as keys and runes was a bad idea.

Several runes later we found ourselves next door to the first house we looted. Since I seemed to remember the person who banned us coming from there, I decided to test the keyring on it. Naturally, since I'm mentioning it, it opened. Strangely enough, the house was just filled with cows and bulls. I have NO idea why they would keep a small house full of those animals, but a few firefields later they didn't have any of them left. I don't know who these people were, but they were lagging the shit out of their house's areas with all the damn animals. I think all their neighbors would thank me if they knew what I'd done since in each house they had an average of 12 animals (stacks of bears, bulls, cows, and horses - pretty unnecessary).

A few more runes later we came across this mining house. And no, I don't use UOE, Charley was just saying he was "[88%]" sure that these lootings will piss of the owners. :/ There wasn't much in this house, but we still took anything of value that wasn't nailed down.

The total loot score was 5600 regular ingots, 200-500 of 6 colored ingots, magic weapons, magic armor, bolts, arrows, feathers, shafts, runes, gold, clothing (*gag*), and tons of odds and ends. Counting all the FULL bags on and off screen during that screenshot, we probably hauled around 13,000 stones worth of loot. Not too bad considering that I was merely gonna ask some guy to stop camping around Vapor's tower....

Moral of this story : If you're getting wailed on by someone and you have keys and runes to MULTIPLE houses, it's time to use one of the 12 town runes you have on you and leave. Also, looting under the new housing system is possible without Stealth or using bugs - you just have the kill the fool with the keys/runes on him far away from his house and loot quickly.

Nighthawk