~This story is pieced together by witnesses and what the thief chose to brag about during a drunken night at the Greenbriar Tavern~ Those involved may feel free to add to the tale~
A lone cloaked figure walked into Trollsbane. Nothing out of the ordinary. The day had been good to her. Yesterday, she had nicked about 25 leathers and 180 nails, and had been doing well in the 'Dark' trade of "redistribution". (Thievery).
As she walked the road though, she overheard a conversation,
"I got about 180 gold nuggets to sell"
The word "Gold" caught her ear. What if....
She strolled up to the couple and smiled.
"You have gold nuggets to sell?" she said very innocently.
"Yes, are you interested?" the lady said.
The cost was 3 nuggets to a silver. Naturally you never take the first offer, so she pressed it to 4 per silver. After a little haggling, the price was agreed. She said she'd buy them all, and waited for the nuggets.
The lady said "show me the silver". Ohhh, she thought, I have a cautious one here. I better play this safe. She said, "will you take coppers too, I have about 2000?" as she looked in her paltry depot of 26 coppers and 10 silvers, she thought "How am I going to get her to trust enough to pass that gold over?
The lady then asked, "How many silvers is that left" The repsonse was 25. Then the anxiety increased when the Lady said "show me the silvers"
Ahh!!! What was she to do? Think fast.......ok, how do I turn 10 silvers into 25? .....how about this.....
She took her 10 silvers out in her palm....
She put 10 on the ground behind her for the briefest of moments.....
Bending over, she palmed them and placed them down again in a spot next to the old one......
then she palmed them again and put only 5 on the ground.....then she quickly picked up those 5.
When she rose up, she smiled innocently as if she had just put down 25 silvers.
Relief!! The Lady was satisfied, and said "Let's trade then". It took everything she had to not 'jump for joy' as the Gold nuggets were taken out and given to her care for the supposed 25 silvers and 2000 coppers.
After the transfer was complete, the lady asked for her money, and for a moment the stranger looked in her depot and simply said...
"You won't believe this....."
"You've been robbed...."
Then she ran away for her life as she never did. The last glimpse she had of the lady was that she was in so much shock, she simply collapsed in a chair. Her partner had no such 'shock' though and gave chase. He chased her though the streets, and out the southeast gate. Need a quick getaway, she thought.....ahh!!! She ran for the teleporter, ready at a moments notice to pick a random destination to evade her pursuer. As she gained distance from him, he yelled "Stop!!" presumably to cut her down. Fool. she thought as she entered the portal and magically whisked away.
Her last sight of the man was of anger and resentment as he turned away from the teleporter.
She arrived safe, rich and able to tell her tale. After a heist of 180 Gold Nuggets, she goes by the title of....
"Princess of Thieves"
The Heist of the Year
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