Taciturn Cras Are Back

They are back. Finally!

For quite some time I haven’t seen these groups of technicolor cras. The day the world changed they disappeared. Moreover we were promised they would never come back. But here they are: fighting monsters restlessly, running incredibly fast, never talking to anyone… While before I saw them primarily in the surroundings of Astrub and The Jelly Peninsula, today I found them near the Milicluster, on Ingalsses’ Fields.

The choice of hunting grounds is obvious. Fields are inhabited by tofus, various flowers, mushrooms, and moskitos. Resources collected from dead tofus don’t sell really good, but for some reason one can find quite a few coins in tofus’ feathers. All other field dwellers possess materials exchangeable for scrolls, therefore these resources are in high and constant demand.

Why am I so happy with the reappearance of the cras? Because it means that cheap resources are going to return to the markets: cheap food for pets, cheap scrolling materials, hence no tofu and flowers hunts in the future.

The impact on economy these silent workers have always has been underestimated. The majority of people were unhappy with the cras and sadidas running around, but when they disappeared prices went up. Moskito wings, for example, cost four times more than they used to (400 kamas each instead of 100).  I believe many people will be happy to see prices drop.

Nonetheless, there are negative consequences. These cras never soul archmonsters, they just kill them. On top of that they normally fight weak monsters, and archmonsters of this type are harder to find. So, we can expect some raise in prices on tofu and flowers archmonsters souls, if the cras keep doing their work. Another concern is related to the ways cra teams use to gain access to the territories outside Astrub. I wonder if they use Ogrines (which are special currency allowing to buy access to more developed areas, to change the name, race, personal colours, and even gender [I have no idea how they do it, but they really do it!]).