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Herbert, who's in second right now, seems to be popping on and off the list. Is somebody (Lopez maybe) scouting his place?

So Lopez is the official king now...

Looks like the de-throning must commence again! Though I doubt I'll be the one who does it, I'm far too cautious now that I have a good house and paintings.

I find it really fun to design new psych traps. My completely original trap Korridor has been very successful, especially in its more secure third modification currently. I also just built a new psych trap, which I might dub Lucky, that will hopefully be successful as well.

I liked your place, and wanted to solve it legit, but my final run was tooled just because I didn't want to die from cops.
I'm also so glad that the steel was only 5 thick! That was pure luck!

In my old house, Blood Blossom (see link in my sig), I used two effective counterforce traps. The first was a "corner of death", in which cutting in either direction once the dog sees you results in death.
The second is a magic dance, locked behind a door, on a clock-powered floor. One the robber enters, they're locked in and will die if they use tools because of the clock.

In general, counterforce traps cause tool use to be deadly, or cause tool use to prevent forward progress without cutting through thick walls.

This is in contrast to psychological traps, which are also designed to kill well-tooled robbers. Psych traps make the robber think that something is safe such that they don't even try to use tools. These traps are surprisingly effective once you have concrete walls and a simple failsafe; my current one, nicknamed "Korridor", has not been solved for over 2 weeks.

Not just yet. I have some (non-TCD) work to do, and then have to actually to and finalize my solution before heading in with my main; I only can bring $4k work of tools with me!

I may have a bit more cash coming my way. My alt nearly cracked Brit's place, I think.

Lopez, who's at the top atm, seems to just be dog-commit for most of the way.

I take it back! Don't take my art yet!

I was around before even Josh, and I had my day back in v8, being the first player to break $100k since the broken days of v5. Back then it was an electronics arms race between Zed and me; it's still puzzling how neither of us came up with a clock. I guess it wasn't really necessary; in the days of 8 tools max, with wire cutters not cutting floors, having a step counter and a line of floors was all we really needed.

Anyways, guys, I'd rather not be entitled "King". I'm more of an "Art Collector", with my goal not being to be on top, but to have every painting (except the William Bebe ones. Seriously, what the fuck Will?)!

I didn't record the robbery because I was convinced I would fail. What was the bug I found? Was the path I took through those last few powered doors unintended?

Also, the current painting count is 61. That's a lot of art. It'll probably give me away at some point. But, MMaster, I say we wait, hide the tapes, and watch the new fight for the #1 spot from the sidelines for a while.

For those of you who want the tapes, here's a little something to whet your appetite:

You think I'll tell you? I'm trying to hide for a bit and keep my art safe! Because frankly, I didn't think I'd pull this off, and would finally get to get rid of a surprisingly rich house that has way too many psychological traps. Now I have over 50 paintings behind those traps!

HOLYFUCKIROBBEDMMASTER!

I spent all my cash on crowbars on a wild guess that he had kept the cat maze from his previous house (still in the same life, right)...
And then I guessed at a corner vault. I followed some buttons and HOLYSHITITSTHEVAULT!

I am shaking as I write this. It's time to burn some cash and hide for a bit.

I hope you put your vengeful quest against LiteS off a bit so that I can give it a shot. I might not have as many lofty ideas about his downfall as you do, but I very much would like that art he has.