@cstross@futurebird
"So yeah, word got around that we had a lot of gold. Bands of well-armed psychopaths started showing up for some light murder-robbery.
A couple of elders devised a plan: plant something expensive at the end of an obvious cave or pyramid, fill it with traps and let them kill themselves trying to get to the thing."
"What? Fight them directly? What part of 'psychopath' is difficult to understand? No way we're dealing with those people directly. You get hurt doing that." 🧵
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