by Thomas Duklain on Sun May 25, 2003 6:00 am
Bank robbers were alot of fun! Even though they still hide like shaboolies.
I was hanging around at home while my wife was out and about. She told me there must have been a bank robbery in Britain, there were bodies everywhere. So, being fairly close to Vesper I stopped what I was doing and went to check it out. I passed through Vesper finding nothing, and turned to check on my favorite town, Minoc. Upon reaching the bank I was jumped by I'd say around 20 or so bank robbers. I did what I could on my own until my wife and Edison showed up to help. We secured the bank and traveled back to Vesper and were set upon by another large group of bank robbers. We secured Vesper, and in doing so Edison and I started tracking shabooli and branubian movements, but we couldn't seem to find them. After awhile we gave it up and went on to other towns. By now we were at the tail end of the string of robberies, and so we only were able to kill off a few straglers in Occlo and Serpent's Hold.
Later I returned to Vesper, still curious about those shabooli and branubian movements we were tracking earlier. I had a few greater explosion potions on me, and I had an idea. I started tossing the potions into the bay east of the mage shop by the bank, and low and behold, a branubian whirlwind popped out of hiding. I was unable to kill him, being a swordsman and having no idea how to stab him from such a distance, so he's still there.
Whether the deaths of the few invaders left there is important or not, I don't know. I do know that while tracking around that area, I saw signs of two whirlwinds, a shabooli, and a branubian warrior. The whirlwinds always came up in tracking, but the others only came up for awhile, then quit altogether.
They could just be straglers from a previous invasion, but I will never trust a shabooli. They may be forward scouts for another invasion. So, if anyone's up in that area and has the tools to handle creatures out in the water......
On the bank robbers. I found nothing significant among their belongings. I don't know if anyone else found anything, a note perhaps.
There was also some ninja activity in Wind. I know little about the ninjas and just as much about Wind, but with both events happening so close to each other, one has to wonder if it's part of a greater scheme.