Random events / Profit
Back taxes
When it can happenEntering a town
CooldownOnce per character
Your reputation as a skilled trader generally does you good, but there is always a downside. When you arrive in [town], the market inspector descends from his tower to present you with a list of fees that you supposedly accumulated over the years, based on decrees that go back several centuries. The decrees may be genuine, but in all your talk with merchants, you never heard of anyone ever paying them.
Requirements
- Player is in a settlement
- Trade skill at least 40
Erupt in fury, telling the inspector that there is no way you will be fleeced in this way, legally or illegally.
- Valor +100
- Calculating -100
- Renown +5
- Crime rating -10
Pay, but say for all to hear that selective application of obscure laws is little better than theft.
- Honor +100
- Gold -300
Reason with the inspector over a splendid dinner and an amphora of the finest wine that is of course on you.
- Honor -50
- Influence +50
- Gold -100
Just hand over the money to make the problem go away.
- Gold -200
- Valor -100