Questions/Question 489

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit creepyfingers asked on FAQ/Main FAQ at 2025-07-21 Answer date: 2025-07-30	I know I am a mod but I wish to shuffle this where it can be seen, for Floriananigans!! There is city guardsmen posted at the entryways to Karteria's barrier. What do they do? In that same vein... would they stop an individual from smuggling Katalyth into the city? How would they respond to an Augmented One attempting to bring some in where they can see it? Or, would they be able to stop them if they were being discreet? DO THEY PAT EVERYONE DOWN AS THEY ENTER/EXIT THE CITY???	Hello Florian. Fancy seeing you here. City guards mostly ensure that people aren't being weird when they're trying to get in and out of the city. They stand post night and day; it's not a very strenuous job, most of the time, and it doesn't pay exceptionally well either. It's not very glamorous. Most of their duties involve quieting the rabble of outer city folks who have started to go mad with arcane radiation poisoning... you know, as their senses start to slip and all. They are free to come into the city they FORMALLY call home all they like, but they can't come running in screaming about how they're going to kill the hatman or whatever they're hallucinating! They'll disturb the peace! Katalyth smuggling is a very real deal, and something Karteria's security force has cracked down on—hard. If an Augmented One attempts to enter the city with Katalyth in plain sight, they will be told to leave, pronto. The guards will be aghast! (Definitely report such happenings on any Reputation thread if you choose to do this.) Carrying any amount of Katalyth where the guards can see it will result in this reaction. If a character attempts to discreetly smuggle Katalyth into the city (god, why would you)... No, the guard doesn't pat anyone down—for now. But they don't need to. Katalyth that comes in the size of a US quarter or larger will cause a device on their person to chime, a radar for arcane radiation in close proximity. Obviously, there are few applications Karterians have for such a device since they can't get close to Katalyth, but they have to do what they have to do if someone's going to bring it to their doorstep like this! In this kind of situation, the character will be turned around and sent back into the wilderness, told to deposit the Katalyth before returning. But they're gonna write you up. So you will get in trouble for doing this, and more extreme trouble for trying to be discreet about it. This will even involve penalty. (Again, let us know if you decide to have your character do this in a Reputation report.) But any amount smaller than a quarter, discreetly smuggled... is an amount that their radars do not detect. However, having Katalyth in the city perimeter is a felony, and characters will be punished if they're found out. Edited (MOBILLLLLLE) 2025-07-30 03:55 pm (local)