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You'd be surprised with the greed within humans. Especially towards someone they consider an outsider ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I mean yeah it's not surprising they're selfish but the main crew are the ones with all the resources. This plan of theirs makes no sense on every metric, especially since they seem to be average villagers and not bandits. The most obvious plan would be to act as pitiful as possible and then switch up if it doesn't work lol.
No offense, but that's the most npc plan ever and its kind of forced. If they're already struggling to survive, there's no way their first thought would be to expend more energy like what