Brahm's Question (Part 3 of 4)

"Brahm's Question: Fame, is it really worth the trouble?"

With his hoard growing to about the size of ten million in gems and gold and assorted treasures, it also brought some unwanted popularity and thus came the thieves. The first ten or twenty he would just crush with an appendage because he couldn't waste his "breath weapon" for every little threat. One thing he knew was that he always could hire a powerful wizard to cast some magical traps on his hoard. But he knew that so far these first little minor attempts of theft on his hoard was not his greatest challenge.

He had heard of a priest of Mask who had been plundering and gaining fame and fortune and experience. So he was just wondering when he would have a visit from the priest/thief. It was at that time that he heard a barely audible noise. Then he heard someone start stepping on some of the outer reaches of his gold which was the end of his hoard. And then he finally caught a glimpse of a moving shadow and it had kind of mystified him that this creature had entered under the radar of his nostrils. This shadow had confiscated a little of the hoard, so he had pretty much signed his death warrant.

Brahm was tired of playing games now, so he decided that he would take the next opportunity and blast this fool off this plane of existence. And so he acted like he was sleepy and he laid down on his hoard to get a face-to-face level view with this thief. And as the thief came over the next mound of treasure, Brahm hit him with a full frontal blast of fire as hot as that from the ninth level of hell. With the destruction of the thief he inadvertently made a gold mold of the thief's outline crawling across the hoard. Brahm's 20/0.1 vision picked up something that didn't belong in his cave and it was a holy symbol of Mask where the thief had obviously removed it and hung it to get back after he had stolen his bounty. So this was the new upstart thief of Mask. What a classic end to a pilfering plot, and Brahm got a new addition to the hoard…a little holy symbol of Mask.