Online:Kickback

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ON-icon-skill-Legerdemain-Kickback.png Kickback
Line Legerdemain
Skill Rank Line Rank
Rank I 1 6
Rank II 2 10
Rank III 3 15
Rank IV 4 20
Kickback I: Reduces bounties you willingly pay to guards and fences by 10%.
Kickback II: Reduces bounties you willingly pay to guards and fences by 20%.
Kickback III: Reduces bounties you willingly pay to guards and fences by 30%.
Kickback IV: Reduces bounties you willingly pay to guards and fences by 40%.

Kickback reduces the penalties you must pay to guards or fences if you are caught committing a crime. Though you could just escape and stay away from towns or cities until your bounty goes away on its own, a very large bounty can take a long time to clear. This can bring the payable total down to manageable levels that can be offset by fencing some fine or better quality contraband.

Note that this does not reduce the amount of bounty actually incurred by a crime, it merely reduces the amount of gold paid to guards or fences to clear your bounty. (Ex. Committing a minor crime that gives 92 bounty will still incur 92 bounty with Kickback I, it just reduces the amount paid to the guard/fence to 83.) This skill has no interaction with bounty decay, whether natural or enhanced by Swiftly Forgotten.