Protection Money

This Encounter is added to the map after the player completes the Loan Shark Encounter.

## Event

*The shopkeeper looks troubled as you enter his establishment.*

*"Anything I can help you with...?" he asks, tentatively.*

1) Demand that he pay you the gold owed to Badger.

*"I'm sick of your sort thinking that you can push us around!" he exclaims loudly. "My brother-in-law is a high ranking officer in the Imperial Army and he's sent some help to keep filth like you out of the city!"*
**The Dealer draws 1-4 Steel Monster Cards.**
*Imperial soldiers rush in from the back room and draw their weapons.*
*"You're under arrest!"*
**The player enters Combat.**
*"Stop! Stop the violence!" the shop owner comes forward with a small wooden chest brimming with gold.*
*"Just take it and leave!" he pleads, looking around at the scattered bodies.*
=> Go to **The Dealer reveals 1 Gold Gain Card** below

* Outcome 2:

*The shopkeeper falls to his knees, crying.*
*"Take what you want, just please don't hurt me!"*
*In a back room you find a wooden chest.*
=> Go to **The Dealer reveals 1 Gold Gain Card** below

* Outcome 3:

*"Of course!" the shopkeeper exclaims, stepping into a backroom. "I'll just get the gold now!"*
*A minute passes in silence before you decide to follow him.*
*In the next room you discover an open trapdoor with a ladder leading down.*
A) Go down the ladder.
**The player enters a Maze of Traps with a 60 second timer.**
If the Maze of Traps is completed within 60 seconds:
*Emerging from the dangerous tunnels, you manage to catch up to the shopkeeper and corner him.*
*Surprised, he quickly relents and offers you a chest full of coins.*
=> Go to **The Dealer reveals 1 Gold Gain Card** below
Otherwise:
*You emerge from the dangerous tunnels too late - the shopkeeper is nowhere to be found.*
*You leave, but soon after receive word from Badger.*
**The Dealer reveals Loan Shark.**
*Since you failed to recover the gold from the shopkeeper, Badger assumes you took it.*
**The player acquires Loan Debt.** (You must payback [10-60] gold in 5 steps.)
**Encounter ends.**
B) Let the shopkeeper go.
*You leave, but soon after receive word from Badger.*
**The Dealer reveals Loan Shark.**
*Since you failed to recover the gold from the shopkeeper, Badger assumes you took it.*
**The player acquires Loan Debt.** (You must payback [10-60] gold in 5 steps.)
**Encounter ends.**

* Outcome 4:

*The shopkeeper curses you in six different languages, then throws a chest full on coins onto the table.*
**The player draws a Curse.**
=> Go to **The Dealer reveals 1 Gold Gain Card** below

**The Dealer reveals 1 Gold Gain Card.**
*You inspect the gold inside the chest.*
A) Take a small share of the gold.
*You take your share of the gold before locking up the chest and leaving.*
**The player receives a Gold Gain Card 1/3 the value of the revealed Gold Gain Card.**
*Soon after, Badger appears from an alleyway and takes possession of the chest.*
*"Any problem getting this lot? Actually, never mind the details - business is business."*
**Encounter ends.**
B) Keep all the gold.
**The player receives the revealed Gold Gain Card.**
*You close up the chest of gold and leave, with no intention of telling Badger of it.*
**The Dealer reveals Loan Shark.**
*Somehow Badger hears of it, anyway.*
**The player acquires Loan Debt.** (You must payback [value of revealed Gold Gain Card] gold in 5 steps.)
**Encounter ends.**

2) Try to convince him to pay you the gold.

**Chance Cards Gambit** (2 Success, 1 Failure, 1 Huge Failure)
Huge success (only possible with Eternal Hope blessing)
(insert text here)
Success
*"Very well then, if it will keep the peace, then I shall pay," the shopkeeper says, going into the backroom and returning with a wooden chest.*
**The Dealer reveals 1 Gold Gain Card.**
*You inspect the gold inside the chest.*
A) Take a small share of the gold.
*You take your share of the gold before locking up the chest and leaving.*
**The player receives a Gold Gain Card 1/3 the value of the revealed Gold Gain Card.**
*Soon after, Badger appears from an alleyway and takes possession of the chest.*
*"Any problem getting this lot? Actually, never mind the details - business is business."*
**Encounter ends.**
B) Keep all the gold.
**The player receives the revealed Gold Gain Card.**
*You close up the chest of gold and leave, with no intention of telling Badger of it.*
**The Dealer reveals Loan Shark.**
*Somehow Badger hears of it, anyway.*
**The player acquires Loan Debt.** (You must payback [value of revealed Gold Gain Card] gold in 5 steps.)
**Encounter ends.**
Failure
*The shopkeeper is unmoved by your reasonable arguments and veiled threats.*
*The shopkeeper indicates the door, saying, "If you have no other business today?"*
**The player will not be able retry this option.**
Huge Failure
Same as Outcome 1 from "Demand that he pay you the gold owed to Badger." above.
3) Leave the shopkeeper in peace.

*You leave, but soon after receive word from Badger.*
**The Dealer reveals Loan Shark.**
*Since you failed to recover the gold from the shopkeeper, Badger assumes you took it.*
**The player acquires Loan Debt.** (You must payback [10-60] gold in 5 steps.)
**Encounter ends.**