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Oh Billy, will you never learn?
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I met Billy in a Hernand alley on my first day in Crimson Desert. There I was, just minding my own business, chatting to a beggar, when this numpty bumps into me. "Rude!" I think to myself. Then he immediately legs it, a millisecond before I realise my pockets are feeling a touch lighter. The villain!
Unfortunately for Billy, he's not very fast, and I am extremely fast. In a split second he's pinned to the ground and I'm smashing his dumb face in. It turns out, Billy is a wanted man—since he seems to be Hernand's only pickpocket.
Since this was just the start of my adventure, last week, I hadn't started picking up bounties yet. Also, I ain't helping round up people to toss them in prison. That's not how you solve the systemic social problems in Hernand that thrust potentially otherwise good people into a life of crime and banditry.
OK, so my reasons weren't actually as noble as that. I'd just been too busy petting cats and dogs.
Anyway! Despite not having a quest to hunt down Billy, here he was, in my clutches. Out of pure vengeance, I brought the light-fingered idiot to the guard and received my reward. And off I went. But I keep thinking about Billy, and how if he'd just wandered down a different alley, or had just kept his fingers to himself, he'd still be a free man.
But it turns out that Billy can't help getting himself thrown in jail, and he might be the unluckiest fella in Crimson Desert.
Over on the Crimson Desert subreddit, iamhakanlol posted a short clip of an effortless bounty hunt. It's brilliant. In it, they're reading a bounty poster. It's for Billy. And right that very second, who should walk by but the man himself. He does his classic bump and steal, and a moment later he's on the ground getting battered.
The comic timing is just exceptional. But it's clearly not accidental.
Indeed, this seems to be how a lot of people encounter Billy. It's how Pearl Abyss introduces you to bounties—even though some of you will have already started grabbing those posters. And it's a really smart way to do it.
While most criminals can be found scattered around the wilderness getting up to no good, Billy is merrily wander...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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I met Billy in a Hernand alley on my first day in Crimson Desert. There I was, just minding my own business, chatting to a beggar, when this numpty bumps into me. "Rude!" I think to myself. Then he immediately legs it, a millisecond before I realise my pockets are feeling a touch lighter. The villain!
Unfortunately for Billy, he's not very fast, and I am extremely fast. In a split second he's pinned to the ground and I'm smashing his dumb face in. It turns out, Billy is a wanted man—since he seems to be Hernand's only pickpocket.
Since this was just the start of my adventure, last week, I hadn't started picking up bounties yet. Also, I ain't helping round up people to toss them in prison. That's not how you solve the systemic social problems in Hernand that thrust potentially otherwise good people into a life of crime and banditry.
OK, so my reasons weren't actually as noble as that. I'd just been too busy petting cats and dogs.
Anyway! Despite not having a quest to hunt down Billy, here he was, in my clutches. Out of pure vengeance, I brought the light-fingered idiot to the guard and received my reward. And off I went. But I keep thinking about Billy, and how if he'd just wandered down a different alley, or had just kept his fingers to himself, he'd still be a free man.
But it turns out that Billy can't help getting himself thrown in jail, and he might be the unluckiest fella in Crimson Desert.
Over on the Crimson Desert subreddit, iamhakanlol posted a short clip of an effortless bounty hunt. It's brilliant. In it, they're reading a bounty poster. It's for Billy. And right that very second, who should walk by but the man himself. He does his classic bump and steal, and a moment later he's on the ground getting battered.
The comic timing is just exceptional. But it's clearly not accidental.
Indeed, this seems to be how a lot of people encounter Billy. It's how Pearl Abyss introduces you to bounties—even though some of you will have already started grabbing those posters. And it's a really smart way to do it.
While most criminals can be found scattered around the wilderness getting up to no good, Billy is merrily wander...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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