Good Day Mr. Mad,

Just wanted to give you a heads up that we tested your theory last night after you logged off.  Team Grim arranged a raid on Mad Tower.  Starting off late we loaded down with equipment for the invasion and made steady pace through the night.  As the sun reached dawn we were in position with a siege camp arranged on the bottom of the South facing of your hill (we left our two storage chests there as evidence).

Started about 0700 (game time) and by 1100 we had penetration at two points, first being at the door, and second being at the roof with a siege tower.  Third entry point was an underground mine aimed at the minerals shaft, which took longer.  We left the last block of stone intact to keep you from being invaded, but it is right next to your mineshaft.  We left your upper door so you would not have your inner sanctum breached (although we went inside ourselves).

However, I would like to say that it would have been short work to loot your entire castle.  11 ingots in the forge, two beds, torches galore, 10 chests on the south facing, 10 chests on the north facing, 6 chests with the fireplace.  We went down and saw your deep mine that doesn't go anywhere.  Also, nice water elevator.  :0)

We also went ahead and tested the destruction of a chest (upper right on the south facing), and it yielded no items.  Thus we left everything alone.  We're hoping that chest was empty.  However, it was not hard to break, particularly when you have three bodies at work.  Longsword took some screenshots that I am sure he will be delighted to post.

The premise is this; with open ended PVP, every player will have to worry about this when they are offline.  That means coming online and finding every box missing.  That escalates naturally (like it has done throughout history), and means the powerful groups need to band together to wreck other players potential to do the same back (big stick rules).  We intended this as a test raid so no harm meant.  Fun screen shots makes for good smiles, and nothing lost.  However, if it's open raid, you would have to start back at zero (and that means the smaller forts are dog meat).