{"id":1541827,"date":"2026-04-01T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/E65M5iuYJhEvLF97PTJNpJ"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:07:46","slug":"billy-the-pickpocket-is-the-unluckiest-man-in-crimson-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/billy-the-pickpocket-is-the-unluckiest-man-in-crimson-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I met Billy in a Hernand alley on my first day in Crimson Desert<\/a>. There I was, just minding my own business, chatting to a beggar, when this numpty bumps into me. “Rude!” I think to myself. Then he immediately legs it, a millisecond before I realise my pockets are feeling a touch lighter. The villain! <\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Billy, he’s not very fast, and I am extremely fast. In a split second he’s pinned to the ground and I’m smashing his dumb face in. It turns out, Billy is a wanted man\u2014since he seems to be Hernand’s only pickpocket. <\/p>\n

Since this was just the start of my adventure, last week, I hadn’t started picking up bounties<\/a> yet. Also, I ain’t helping round up people to toss them in prison. That’s not how you solve the systemic social problems in Hernand that thrust potentially otherwise good people into a life of crime and banditry. <\/p>\n

OK, so my reasons weren’t actually as noble as that. I’d just been too busy petting cats and dogs. <\/p>\n

Anyway! Despite not having a quest to hunt down Billy, here he was, in my clutches. Out of pure vengeance, I brought the light-fingered idiot to the guard and received my reward. And off I went. But I keep thinking about Billy, and how if he’d just wandered down a different alley, or had just kept his fingers to himself, he’d still be a free man. <\/p>\n

But it turns out that Billy can’t help getting himself thrown in jail, and he might be the unluckiest fella in Crimson Desert. <\/p>\n

Over on the Crimson Desert subreddit<\/a>, iamhakanlol posted a short clip of an effortless bounty hunt. It’s brilliant. In it, they’re reading a bounty poster. It’s for Billy. And right that very second, who should walk by but the man himself. He does his classic bump and steal, and a moment later he’s on the ground getting battered. <\/p>\n

Bounty hunting is hard work…<\/a> from r\/CrimsonDesert<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n