Half the posts on the game forum today were about the gangland treasure Banzai Happy Stick had uncovered.
In particular, that outrageous "server-wide announcement" had revealed to the little players who were obsessed with scavenging that the game had all sorts of strange treasure-hunting activities—and some of them were highly profitable.
So the little players, whether or not they had logged into the game, along with the forum's "watching-from-the-sidelines crowd," launched into a lively discussion.
Judging from the information Stick Bro had revealed so far, these hidden treasures usually required players to gather a great many scattered clues and piece them together before they could determine the treasure's approximate location and nature. The real challenge wasn't defeating monsters, but gathering information.
After all, they were called "hidden" treasures. They obviously weren't going to be left lying out in the open for little players to pick up.
Once they had worked that out, Meow Brother, who was determined to become an information broker, began making his move. He opened a thread of his own, claiming he had at least three leads that might be connected to hidden treasures. Naturally, he wasn't giving them away for free; anyone interested could message him privately in-game.
Meow Brother wasn't just fishing for attention. He really did have something.
As one of the first players to join the Witch Hunters, he had gathered plenty of information from the Avalon Church. And the Witch Hunters were a group skilled at collecting intelligence. They had fought throughout the Ten-Year War, so they knew far more about Transia and the surrounding areas than the players did.
At the moment, Meow Brother was certain that the ruins of Xico City, destroyed by the Pioneer Legion in northern Transia, would hold plenty of valuable things.
He'd also heard through the