One of Jayden's favorite Magellan network stories was about a rich innkeeper who was ripping off his staff.

Each night, shortly before closing, the innkeeper would take the night's earnings and deposit them in the strongroom of his nearby house. Then, when it came time to pay his employees, he would claim poor, never seeming to have quite enough money to pay them their agreed wage.

Instead, they often ended up getting paid 60%, 50% or even 40% of what they had earnt. And in the meantime, his house gained luxuries, his clothes grew finer and his wife sashayed around town like a member of royalty.

One day the innkeeper came home, opened the strongroom door and found a big hole in the floor. When he investigated the hole, he found a tunnel connecting his strongroom to an abandoned factory nearly three streets away.

It would have taken months to dig the tunnel. Somebody had been planning this heist for a long time. And no one was really clear on how it had happened or who had done it. But it had all the marks of the Magellan network.

The clincher was when all of the innkeeper's staff left and the innkeeper couldn't afford to hire new staff. He and his wife had to work in their own inn. They were worked to the bone as they tried to do the work of six people. Their luxurious life was quickly curtailed by the money they'd lost and the hours they needed to work just to keep things afloat.

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There were other stories, like when the Magellan network had kidnapped a corrupt judge. They'd snuck in during the night while the judge was sleeping, gagged him, put a hood over his head and marched him down to the local guard house.

There they’d managed to get him impounded into one of the cells as a 'dangerous criminal' who would ‘spit and scratch if you took his hood off it’. It took until 10am the next morning before the town guard finally discovered who he was, when they removed his hood and gag to give him water and breakfast.

That little escapade was in protest of all the heavy sentences the judge had been giving for non-serious crimes. Unjustly imprisoning people who might have broken the letter of the law, but really not really the spirit of it.

And then there were the mysterious deposits and withdrawals. A stagecoach would arrive in town, mysteriously missing its treasure box, which had previously been securely fastened to the back of the stagecoach.

Several weeks later a few needy families suddenly found bags of coin hung on the outside of their front doors, helping them to pay off their debts and feed their families.

The network sounded amazing, and Jayden wondered how they pulled off some of their heists. Sometimes what they did seemed very fair and just, and other times he wasn't quite sure why they'd done it or if they'd gone too far.

But nonetheless, they made for spectacular stories to be told over a pub table at the end of a long day's work.