Previously:
Villagers, out of the blue, report that people are attacking them. The villagers live about a minimap or two down the road from me (road, as in, a long straight stone-layed road, several tiles wide). They are shouting about revenge against Projeear - Screenshot from the villager in my previous post.
Stealing and vandalism on a non-claimed area, nothing you can do but sit it out... Then one of the villagers say they've been attacked, so I then herded these people into my claim and underground.
Alright so, after I herded everybody into my mine, I went out to fight them. I was confident that I would be able to fight them off if they attacked me, and that I could follow those scents afterwards.
I charged in, taunting them... they ran away. Le fu-.


After this, Raven logged on. He started coming to us, to investigate. They raiders were gone, so I let everybody out of the mine, and back to work (Reminds me of Age of Empires II, when you let Villagers out of the village center, heh).
I went down to the docks whilst Raven went looking for scents - only to see they had come back, only five minutes after teleporting away... so they're still in the area.
Raven comes running down, and I tell James that I want a one-on-one to end all this. One man against one man, good old duel, end of conflict.
He declines.

I then trick him into coming close to the shore, declaim my own plot to emergency-draw up Rage, and...


Suddenly, he has a change of heart, and wants only
peace. PEACE? He attacked defenceless fucking newbies, instead of looking for me directly. They could have had nothing to do with me, for all they cared. In fact, they even said the only knew of me (which was true for the fellow who said it, he is a friend of a friend).
Still, they didn't stop to listen, to the fact they might not of even known me. They wanted to loot and pillage, and used me as an excuse for this unguarded party of newbies, who admittantly had a bunch of baskets (20+) lieng around.
Anyway. To further support the fact that these Russians are, in fact, thieves...

Q36 Boots on a newbie? I only recently got that kind of leather myself. Previously, as you can see in a screenshot, they hadn't even killed a fox yet.
Anyway, the ring-leader is dead, and the others dissapeared to the four winds. Hopefully, that's the end of things, but I highly doubt it. The others didn't seem as much wanting of death and destruction, admittantly, and I'm quite happy to let them go, and we split to our own ends. I'll make sure to tell this to them when they log on again.
However, I am making plans for bricks walls now, before they come across a righteous Russian ranger who they can twist the story to...
"Raiders attack us! They destroy everything! Then they kill my friend!!" etc etc.
Grand Walker of World 1 (w1).
Ex-Lawspeaker of New London, Deadwood and New Deadwood (w3).
Witness of the World 4 Great Explosion (w4).
Ex-Lawspeaker of Gregminster (w5).
Ex-Lawspeaker of Laketown (w6).
Squatter and Rebuilder of Templus Pacis (w6).
Hermit thereafter.
Lawspeaker of Tachbrookshire (Hafen 2)