The Reputation-Guidance Quest Triggers! A Message from the Phantom Thief Pangolin ### The Gnoll vanguard attacking Scarlet Castle had been crushed, and Murphy and his people had robbed the Gnoll main camp. That basically meant the Gnoll disaster in Transia had entered its "cleanup phase."
But the players who'd been in last night's battle hadn't forgotten their NPC's instructions. They hadn't had time to loot the bodies in the heat of the moment, and Kemport's camp had been enormous—there were bound to be plenty of good things waiting for them to go back and collect. So after daybreak, the players split into two groups.
Players with teams continued pursuing the scattered Gnolls, hoping to push the hunting storyline along as quickly as possible. The unaffiliated players, meanwhile, were organized by Mud Truck and his two buddies and sent to the Andmar Hills to recover the loot the players had left behind.
As it happened, Mud Truck had earned quite a bit of respect among the veteran players thanks to his age and experience. He'd been in charge of collecting materials along the way and dividing them up after the battle in Blood Eagle Pass. Now the second team had also come with him to recover equipment, which made it clear that everyone trusted this "old-timer."
Mud Truck stepped up without hesitation and laid down the rules in the world channel.
Everything they found had to be turned in. Once they brought it back to Scarlet Castle, they'd hold a private auction at the camp to distribute it all. Anyone caught sneaking things away would be condemned by the group.
But that was unlikely to happen.
For one thing, there weren't many players yet. They saw each other all the time, and it really wasn't worth it to pull something like