Submitted: 5 May 1999

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Graverobbing

by Durandal Q'thalas

"You know Baresh, there are an awful lot of people who are complaining about invasion graverobbing these days. Well, I'd just like to say: Stop your complainin'!"

"Now this by no way means I condone graverobbing. Stealing the equipment of a fallen adventurerer can never be excused. But to those who've been victims, you could have easily prevented it."

"Now when an invasion rolls into town, two things can be certain. 1) People will die, and 2) other people will take their stuff. So a word of advice! When you hear about an invasion, don't go running straight over to the area. Chances are you'll get killed and your stuff stolen. Instead, head over to your vault, unload all your excess junk (and I do mean junk), put away all your valuable weapons, and get a bunch of cheap, throwaway weapons. Then you can go proceed to get killed by the monstrous invasion beasts who leave piles of bodies everywhere. This especially is for you Crossing folk. Most of you don't think before you act, and die before you figured out what happened."

"If you're going to fight in an invasion, don't go with your best blades, shields, bows, etc. They're just be another tempting target for some little thief to grab. And don't just run in without thinking. You're end up dead way too quick."

"And don't think you can change society. There will always be graverobbers. But if you die using common weapons, you won't be losing anything."

Durandal orders another ale and quickly downs it.

"Well, Baresh, that's my two kronars. If anyone has a beef with that, they can tell it a goblin corpse."

Baresh will listen to your well-presented viewpoint on this, too.