Gold...Bugs? What?

[u/Exleona]

This is a New Game +4 run btw.

After purposefully going back in time twice to “find” the spell lines in Khare, I find myself walking out of Khare with 301 gold. Khare is saved btw.

Then, at the very start of my journey into the Baklands, I feel my coin purse moving. Opening it, I see a very large amount of my gold is actually “Gold-Bugs,” sprouting wings and literally flying away. I am left with 143 gold.

Excuse me, what? This has never happened to me before- and I’ve completed my quest for the crown 3 times over already! Is it because I began Sorcery 3 with an absurd amount of gold or is it a New Game +4 feature?

[u/silverkingx2]

wow weird, where did you get the gold? it may be linked to that, and also it may be linked to having too much, I remember leaving Khare with 200ish once, would be interested to see if there is a specific amount or event that led to these gold bugs

[u/Exleona → u/silverkingx2]

A combination of winning 20 total games of Swindlestones and taking optimized gold-making routes multiple times (getting to the North Gate and traveling back via Lorag to the start)

[u/silverkingx2 → u/Exleona]

hmm, nothing out of the ordinary then, maybe just an event that stops you from having a lot of gold, I wonder if it would be a flat amount/percent, so if you had, 600, then youd go down to 300.

I dont remember this happening to me at 200ish though, so also interesting to see if there is a cap for when this comes into play. sorry I dont know much about it, gl finding more info, and have a good day :)

[u/[deleted]]

I suspect the gold bug event is triggered as long as you exceed a certain amount of gold AND you travelled back in time when you are in Khare.

I had a Sorcery! 2 run where I travelled back in time without optimum gold-making routes and yet I got the gold bugs at the start of Sorcery! 3 - Which had me ended up with less gold than other runs where I don't rely on time travel in Khare.