Malloy and Owings

Malloy and Owings are two simpletons working in the mines of Covetous in Ultima VII. Malloy is the smarter of the two, but he tends to have fits of rage. Owings is the dumber one. Beside their stupidity, they are both really clumsy.

When the Avatar met them deep within the Covetous mines, it took a while to find out the real backstory of these two simpletons. Apparently they were both fooled by Sullivan to pay 100 gold pieces for a supposed treasure map, leading them to Covetous. Too bad for them that when they started digging, the Britannian Mining Company threatened to throw them into jail in Yew and only by offering their services to the lead worker Mikos, they avoided this fate. However, Mikos was soon sick of them and sent them on a fool's errand, to build a tunnel between Minoc and New Magincia, just to get rid of them.

Malloy and Owings were still busy with this task, taking it completely serious, when the Avatar talked with them. However, their clumsiness stopped them from having even the sligthest progress, the ceiling always threatened to come down and they argued about their helmets. So the Avatar left them alone and went on.

Trivia

 * Malloy and Owings are of course Laurel and Hardy. The way these two look like and how they act fits perfect.
 * These two simpletons sent Lord British a helmet. Sadly the player can not ask if it arrived.