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Challenge #04412-L028: Enlightened Self-Preservation

Karma comes in strange ways, for a false healer it was that now, sometimes it worked -- Knitnan

A Traveling Apothecary was an amazing scam. Roll into town with a showy wagon and an amusing sideshow. Sell a few interesting bottles of simple solutions and coloured water. Then get out before the rubes notice that it's all smoke and mirrors. And, of course, steer clear of any place that has a disease running through it. Claim that you're out of the essential ingredients, if all else failed.

And always, always travel faster than the word about your gig.

In that, Nostrom had done everything right. They even had awnings to cover their advertising when they weren't selling things to the rubes. There was little at all to tell anyone that they were a roaming potioneer. Therefore, it was shocking as all hells to have a goodwife run to their cart, crying, "Bless the gods, an apothecarian! You can help us!"

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spx: thebicker: red3blog: alexheberling: Encik Farhan is a scammer. He backs projects, pledging hundreds or thousands of dollars at the...

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alexheberling:

Encik Farhan is a scammer.  He backs projects, pledging hundreds or thousands of dollars at the highest tier, and then disputes the credit card charges 1-3 months later, often after his rewards have been shipped.

He pledged $1000 to my campaign, and a few days after I posted an update that backer rewards were being shipped, he filed a charge dispute with his credit card company.  I’m still waiting for the outcome of my appeal, but if

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