About the time I invited him and 2 others to village, things started going missing. I had no way of knowing which of the three it was, since all three proclaimed innocence. Flotsums, empresses, bluebells. Things went missing. After a week of the reports I ordered HF's placed over basements so people couldn't be stolen from without having the thief leave a scent. But always things, left out for any amount of time, seemed to disappear occasionally. One of my villagers, ElGato, seemed to log on in coincidence with these thefts, and so I began to suspect very early on. But I had no proof, only a hunch. Of my flaws it seems generosity might be one of them. I forgave the possibility for the time being and accepted the thefts, waiting for proof.
Now, what brought this to a head was actually my girlfriend Lambsauce noticing some odd bug with the cheese trays. I'd noticed that our cheese production seemed much much lower than it should be for our cows, but I waited to see. After a week I was concerned, at two weeks I was downright alarmed. How were we producing a mere 0.8 trays worth of cheese per cow? We're not using THAT much butter. Then she exclaims "God damn, there's that bug again". I walk over to her side of the room to investigate. "See? Another tray emptied overnight. There's no cheese in it."
Bless her heart but she is somewhat new to the game. I'm somewhat slow to anger, but I shortly figured out my little cat had been syphoning 50-90% of cheese production to himself. I'd estimate he stole at least 100-200 trays worth of cheese in total before she alerted me to it. Sadly I can't be everywhere at once so I'd been lax on monitoring cheese production. We nuked his HF to see what he had taken from us and not managed to eat yet. Be aware, Curios and food are communal in my village except the top tier things which I control the distribution of.
All he's done is log on to hunger grind of late, which in and of itself is deserving of a boot really. I never dreamed at the time that he was gobbling what amounted to be hundreds of jorb and MBC from us. Am I too trusting? Seems so. We didn't kill him because the friend who invited him, whom he stole pearls and curios from at the very least, pleaded for his life.
Still, in light of this event, his corpse has been removed from the left testicle of Prenia. Petty thieves and traitors don't deserve that honour.
And so I shall end this with a little note written just for our favorite cat:
Dear kitty,
You fucked your friend over and he pleaded for your life. He knew all along that you stole from the village and he knew *every* time you stole from him. And he's torn to shreds that you betrayed him and this village when we welcomed you with open arms. You are dead to us. If we see you in our area of the world, you will die. Go to the furthest corner of the world and stay out of our sight. The only reason you're not dead now is because of my respect for your friend, even if he let himself and our village be abused.
Of course this isn't the first time you've fucked up either. You've had a string of times where you were booted from villages haven't you? Of course people tell me this after our village is added to the list. This little post, which no one will care about I'm sure, is just to ensure you never get in another established village again.
So, you're not dead yet. You've got a good set of equipment. You'll make good prey for my rangers.
Start running.
