"That's a lot of social control." She still sounds impressed but also slightly annoyed, at this point. "I see why you worry about your governments being even more capable of rulemaking. My main worry about theft is that it'll draw attention to us, which is a bigger problem if we can't even skip town; if you're pretty sure people can't scry for items, and we are skipping town, I'm all right with taking some - back taxes - with us on the way out. "Who issues identity permits for the adventurer's guild, how hard is it to mind-control them?"

"That's a lot of social control." She still sounds impressed but also slightly annoyed, at this point. "I see why you worry about your governments being even more capable of rulemaking. My main worry about theft is that it'll draw attention to us, which is a bigger problem if we can't even skip town; if you're pretty sure people can't scry for items, and we are skipping town, I'm all right with taking some - back taxes - with us on the way out. Who issues identity permits for the adventurer's guild, how hard is it to mind-control them?"