Double Trouble

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"Guan give me the heading." Chau said as Hanya Jo formed in.

"It seems the cooperating perpetrators' theory was spot on. We got hits of material trades that were SUSAF." Guan said.

"Yeah, I bet." Chau said, as he cringed.

"Focus on the mission 47, not my hip lingo." Guan said sarcastically, making Chau cringe more.

"Give me account names." Chau grunted.

"Suspect one.

Username: AlbatrossCrow

Main Class: Battlemage

Sub-Classes: Unkown

Guild Affiliation: The Dark Owls

Recent spike in materials/weapons trades. But nothing on their account suggests they did any Boss killing in dungeons. Nothing more is known at this time.

Suspect two.

Username: CallofSwallows

Main Class: Chi-Master

Sub-Classes: Unknown

Guild Affiliation: The Dark Owls

Also a recent spike in materials/weapons trades. Nothing in their character's game data suggests they killed the bosses for them.

"Does this mean what I think it means." Chau said nursing his forehead.

"They're likely auto-generating the materials with the account cards, actually I know they definitely are." Guan said.

"I would hope so, materials spawned from Admin account cards leave a mark, it's how the boss makes sure we're not playing favorites among players." Chau said as he scanned the forest around him.

"We went over the accounts of the players they traded with, they haven't traded with the big guilds. Yet...why?"Guan asked.

"If I had to guess they want them to come to them, you seen how much RMB the Clubs go through for materials and weapon development?" Chau said, resting his head on his hand.

"Is it true about the money Samsara spent recently?" Guan asked. Chau could picture his face, a pair of rectangular lenses glaring upon him ready to do whatever it took to confirm his suspicions.

"I told you, the guy went on a bender and was likely spouting nonsense." Chau reasoned but smiled as he played coy.

"He was a Samsara Executive and a drunk Executive loves to talk." Guan argued.

"Weren't you just saying to focus on the mission?" Chau retorted.

"Well...point is these guys have been spending more time trading in towns than playing, its gonna be a mess telling these players they've got illegal goods." Guan said with a sigh.

"After we clear these guys, we'll refund the materials they traded, it's all we can do. We're gonna have to delete those materials from their accounts one way or another. If they trade with the big guilds, it'll be a real problem." Chau lamented.

"To that end I've bad news." Guan said.

Chau looked outward to the lake observing players head for the dungeon entrance.

"Just speak." Chau said bitterly.

"Bad news, the two perps just went AFK. They're not even trading right now." Guan said reluctantly.

"Atleast they stopped trading for awhile, in the meantime, if those bastards won't move we'll make them move. I got a plan. Call networking!" Chau said turning his back to the lake.

"Should I call you-know-who?" Guan asked eagerly.

"Yeah we might need her. If we can't keep this quiet than well use it to our advantage. Now here's the plan…" Chau said.

2 Days and 8 hours until Server 11 update

The Battlemage AlbatrossCrow and Chi Master CallofSwalllows finally moved their characters in their respective booth.

"Time to get back to get business." AlbatrossCrow said, with a yawn.

"Those Club guilds are dungeoning here tonight, according to the forums. Now all we do is wait." Callofswallows said.

The pair patiently stood in their booth, waiting for more players to walk in.

5 minutes in, no player came by, they thought nothing of it.

10 minutes had gone by and they started feeling irritated.

At the 15 minute mark they noticed how eerily quiet the town suddenly became.

"Yo, where is everybody!?" AlbatrossCrow said.

CallofSwallows looked back & forth between the streets.

Not a sound anywhere.

"Why did everyone leave?" CallofSwallows said, getting wary of the atmosphere.

"Should we check the lake dungeon?" Albatross asked.

"Come to think of it, if a wild boss appeared and the big guilds showed up that would attract a lot of attention." CallofSwallows thought aloud.

"Is that good or bad for us?" AlbatrossCrow said.

"Depending on how things go, VERY good, but we gotta go find out." CallofSwallows said eagerly exiting the booth with AlbatrossCrow behind.

The two hastily made their way into the forest honing in on Thousand Waves Lake.

Expecting to find sounds of battle and cursing they heard silence. The closer they got to the lake, the more apparent it was.

No wild boss was here. No players in sight either. The lake was serene reflecting the calm surroundings

"Did they all kill each other or what?" Albatross said.

"But there would've been a system announcement wouldn't there?" CallofSwallows asked.

"I think that's just for first kills." AlbatrossCrow said.

As his partner was about to respond, a shadow engulfed the Battlemage and flung him into the water.

CallofSwallows still surprised, was too slow to react to the shadow re-emerging from the water and forcing him down as well.

As the Chi-Master splashed in, Chau stood at the edge of the lake, his Character drenched head to toe.

"Bout damn time!" Chau shouted as jumped back in the water, for this would be a sea-faring hunt.