Another stunning revelation in Andorlor's covert gold making businesses reveals a heinous plot to farm for reboot only items. The idiosyncrasies of farming for gear unobtainable except after crashes and reboots may strike us as...Idiosyncratic! But several sources in the black market have lifted the veil of the conspiracy.

"The Great Crash", as it has become known to the black marketers of Andolor, "was caused by greedy farmers wanting reboot portals." So says CrawlingGut BigButt, a middleman of illegal transactions between unseemly characters. "I heard this stuff was going down. Didn't believe it of course. Well, I didn't quite understand it either. But it was big, this was! I heard it from my grandmother. She makes the best porridge, you know. She was born back in v1 and swiftly married herself to have a good partner for conversation."

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After seven hours of Bigbutt's grandmother's life story and ascertaining that BigButt had certainly inherited his grandmother's love of vacuous conversation, he finally disclosed the grand scheme.

"Well, as far as I understood, a bunch of magey types and necrotic types"

I swiftly asked him if he did not mean necromantic types but he assured me that he was quite sure it was necrotic, I didn't push the case. It is generally best not to when dealing with black market dealers named CrawlingGut, I've learned, because you never really know where they've been.

"These people and some other ones named haggis or hackis or something similar actually shook the foundation of the universe and made everything go boom! I don't know how it happened that they could crash the world like Boy were they surprised when all of a sudden, like the kick of an unborn gender neutral goblin with no legs, the Great and All Powerful Lasher, God of all lives and deaths, creator of the world, the universe and everything else, turned back timethat, boy was I scared!"

With obvious signs of relief the grubby BigButt wiped a wad of mucus from his forehead and continued.

"They had it crash like five times, every time going for reboot-only things and whenever they saw some poor bastard log on, all confused and stuff, they took all their gear! When I say they, I of course mean that I had nothing to do with it and may only have sold a few pieces of the aforementioned equipment to high bidders. Anyway, these people were making like, loads of gold and trivia points and such. Boy were they surprised when all of a sudden, like the kick of an unborn gender neutral goblin with no legs, the Great and All Powerful Lasher, God of all lives and deaths, creator of the world, the universe and everything else, turned back time to before The Great Crash. Yup, I tell you, and not only that, but they lost all their gold as well! It was so funny, them being all smart and necrotic and stuff and lying in heaps crying and whining like 12 year olds."

It is rumoured that many of the perpetrators, upon finishing their heapage of whining, fled to the all the corners of Andolor to hide and fish for sea monsters until they were safe to resume their so called 'gold speculation'. Some of the perpetrators, however, were logged in the Ivarian Financial records and were promptly hunted down and used as either bait and game in hunting contests or as slaves in Ivarian Brothels across the world.

It is unsure whether CrawlingGut BigButt is entirely trustworthy, but based on the Great Crash happening, I don't see why not. One thing is sure, I am headed to his grandmother for porridge and perhaps to scold her for having had offspring.