Random events / Profit
Tipping the scales
When it can happenLeaving a town
CooldownOnce per character
Your troops are taking a bit longer than usual to get ready, and you've had time to relax a bit and watch goings-on at the market. One commodity vendor in particular has caught your attention. He always uses one set of weights for the sacks that he is buying from local farmers, and another for goods that he sells. You have little doubt that one or both of these sets is a false measure, allowing him to defraud his customers.
Requirements
- Trade skill at least 30
This isn't your affair, and you don't know if other merchants or corrupt officials may be in on it. Walk away.
- No effect
Denounce the merchant loudly, even if you run the risk of making enemies among the town elite.
- Honor +100
- Relation with the last visited settlement's notables -20 (50% chance)
Walk up to the merchant, and insist he use the lighter weights to sell you one measure of his goods. Then come back later and return them, insisting he use the heavier weights.
- Gold +200
- Honor -50
- Roguery skill XP +50