"Anyone selling any good magic maces?!"  he asked.

"I am.  I have a surpassingly accurate hammer pick of force."  I told him.

"It's mine."  he said.

I then noticed who the man was.  It was Erasmus the Grim! (back from story First Blood, where I accidently spelled his name Eramis.)  Oh and, that was his mace. :)

"I know, you were so gracious to donate it."  I told him.

"Yeah right, you stole it."  he informed me.

"No, really?  Would you rather I took it off your bleeding corpse?  I'll sell you it for 2,500."  I told him.

"HAHA, you could never kill me.  I'll buy it for 2K."  he said.

"Yea ok man, you were about 2 hits away from death before you recalled last time, you are so lucky.  And no, it's 2.5k or no mace."  I told him.

"I'm not going to pay 2,500 for my own mace."

"Then how about this... we fight again.  If you win, you pay only 2,000.  If I win, you pay 2,500, deal?"  I proposed.

"Fine."  he responded.

I was happy.  I was going to have a 1 on 1 weapon to weapon rematch with an old adversary who managed to escape the first time.  We were going to have the duel outside the entrance to Destard, so I grabbed my favorite war fork and let him use my rune.  He recalled and I followed.

"Kal Vas Flam"  were the only words I saw when I arrived.  Hmmm, that doesn't seem like a weapon attack.  Suddenly my HP was down to half, he had violated our agreement.  It was time to kick ass.  I drank down a greater heal potion I stole off of someone else earlier that day and was then up to 3/4 hp.  I pulled out my heavy xbow and began to whoop some ass.

The fight ended with me at almost full HP and him 1 hit away from death (about 10 hp or so) and recalling.  Once again he managed to escape to due OSI's poor coding with the recall spell.  Hmm, 2 seconds to cast recall and 20 to cast something small and insignificant like "summon creature", nice balance Origin!

I wasn't able to find him after the fight.  Too bad, if the criminal flag didn't wear off I would have finished the job, and then made fun of him till he died of embarassment.  Oh well, there will be another opportunity in the future.