It was likely the friend that caused the merchant hit. I have killed Trumpy
about 12 times and am kindly to the merchants now. However, the bouncer, or
Madame Serena, or the Captain will all help Trumpy if they are nearby. All
of them give minus faction hits to the merchants of Qeynos.

Kit
-----Original Message-----
From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:20 AM
To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Re: Subject: RE: Re: RE: Sol Ro Temple Quest

From: <kim@...>

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
>
> The weapon is nice for clerics who want to sit back and enjoy the +10MR
and
> only occasionally melee. Also, the faction hit isn't particularly
> important. I killed the renegade Trumpy many times and am still only
> dubious to the corrupt guards. Since I don't want to have anything to do
> with the corrupt guards anyhow, that's a plus in my book. Also killing
> Trumpy raises your faction with merchants, not lowers it.

Hmm, are you sure on that last bit? I used to be amiable with
the merchants there. Then I camped in Cazic and got hit by
that bug that reset some of my factions and I was back to
dubious with them, but they'd still sell to me. I was grouped
with a friend who was KOS to Trumpy, and we ran into this bug.
Trumpy and a friend came charging up the dock and my friends
casually killed them both. Since I was playing Clarity at the
time, I took the faction hits. The merchants wouldn't sell to
me after that.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...

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