As for the rat thing, I believe it\'s a new issue, I\'ve been to poked about it, so it seems to be true that now rats are far more dangerous than what they should (probably related to the changes they made to the server) and apparently seems that every creature kills with one hit only (Thanks Narfus and Shauri for the report)
There are also reports about mined items pricings (some not being bought and so, I guess that\'s too related with the updates they\'re doing to the server, most likely, putting it ready for crafting)
(Those price \"changes\", as well as that \"power\" of creatures shouldn\'t be roleplayed, imo

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As for the key sentence, NPC have always had problems with that, try some sentences involving _FIX_ or repair, and _SHIELD_ or item. Good luck with it.
