Rakta's First Diamond

Rakta's First Diamond

Clive Coven appeared outside the Jewelcrafting shop. His sudden appearance startled her. She would have sworn the dark corner was empty. Rakta had business with Coven. She calmed her nerves. From the moment she learned that she was destined to become a Jewelcrafter, she has held a secret obsession with locks and lock picking. Coven had "Hidden Intentions," but with his help she might see that dream come true.

Coven passed along information about where diamonds could be bartered, stolen, or taken by force. They could be found in the Underbelly of Dalaran.

Keya has been in the Underbelly. She knows it is not a nice place. There are Horde in there as well. Not safe. Despite the risks she wanted to do this on her own. The Underbelly is where she must go if she is to reach her goal. If she finds someone willing to sell them, such as a man named Inkrot, she can make a choice - pay the going price or take it by force. Remember, both factions are active. If she fights, Rakta runs the risk of being attacked by the horde while trying to fight Inkrot.

Rakta had a small stipend from Chaitee. Rakta had no idea how much a diamond would cost on the black market, but she would risk all of her gold if that's what it takes. And if that was not emough, she would kill for it.

Rakta found the black market diamond vendor. The vendor prepared to haggle. Rakta took a look at the opening bid and concealed a grin. She haggled just for the practice, and then walked away with her goods for 250 gold. She would have paid five times that much. Rakta left quickly and quietly before word got out.

Back at Tiffany's shop, Rakta couldn't wait to craft her lockpicks and test them. There was some nervousness and a couple of mistakes, but Rakta now has her lockpicks. She happened to have an i550 lockbox to test it on. It worked! She was so happy she almost forgot to see what was in the box! The take was an i780 weapon and 48 gold. Young Rakta was elated.

In the guild bank are 36 elementium lockboxes at i425. There are also four i550 lockboxes similar to the one Rakta opened. Rakta wanted to open them all up right away. However, that was not quite as easy as that. Every lockbox requires it own key to open it. Rakta must craft that key before it can be used. Crafted keys are destroyed when used.

So, picking a lock may be an easy thing. Crafting the correct key to open that box takes materials (sangrite) and skill. Still interested? Sangrite sells for about 20g each. Opening that 550 box cost at least 60 gold to see what was inside. Still interested? Not so much. Spending 60g to get 48g ? Hmmm. And that was with a 550 lockbox. What's in a lesser 425 box? Rakta still wants to find that out.

PS - Rakta did some prospecting on 100 leystone ore. From that she received ONE random sangrit. This lockpicking is a lot more expensive than she thought.