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{{Infobox non-player character
|name = Charlie the Tramp
|image = [[File:Charlie the Tramp.png|Charlie the Tramp|150px]]
|release = [[4 January]] [[2001]]
|update = Runescape beta is now online!
|race = [[Human]]
|members = No
|quest = [[Shield of Arrav]]
|location = [[Varrock]]
|shop = No
|gender = Male
|examine = Looks down on his luck.
|map = [[File:Charlie the tramp npc.png|200px]]
}}
[[File:Charlie the Tramp chathead.png|left]]
'''Charlie the Tramp''' (also known as '''Charles Lyeman''' or '''Charles E. Trampin'''' and originally''' Varrock Tramp '''in''' '''[[RuneScape Classic]]) is a tramp who is found right next to the southern entrance to [[Varrock]], at the end of the alleyway to the [[Black Arm Gang]]'s headquarters. He tells players about the Black Arm Gang headquarters during the [[Shield of Arrav]] quest.

He appears to be wearing [[villager sandals]].

==Wealth==
Despite his apparent poverty, he claims to be surprisingly rich. In the [[Update:Postbag from the Hedge 31|Postbag 31]] edition of [[Postbag from the Hedge]] (dated the [[29 May]] [[2008]]), a player asked him how much money he had received. Charlie's response was: "in the region of maybe... a couple of billion these days, give or take a Christmas Cracker or two."{{CitePostbag |url=http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Postbag_31 |issue=31 |letter= Letter 1|title=Ectofuntically friendly |date=16:30, June 5, 2011 (UTC) |name= }}

The value of a [[Christmas cracker]] was 650 million [[coins]] at the time of the postbag, so two of them would be worth 1300 million (i.e. ¤1,300,000,000). This means that he is claiming to own a minimum of ¤700,000,000, or 700 million, coins (two billion minus the value of two Christmas crackers).

Assuming that Charlie was present in the very first beta release of ''[[RuneScape Classic]]'', which was in January 2001, this means that Charlie has had 7 years to accumulate his money. This works out to approximately 8 million coins per month, or 260k per day. To gain this purely through [[begging]] would be a tremendous accomplishment.

==Myths==

In [[RuneScape Classic]], there was a myth that if a player gave Charlie 200 coins, by giving him one coin at a time, he would give them the key to the bank vault in [[Varrock]]. This was never found to be true (though this may have been a contributing factor to Charlie's supposed 'wealth').

==Trivia==
*Charlie the Tramp is a reference to Charlie Chaplin's famous character, "The Tramp".

==References==

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[[Category:Varrock]]
[[Category:Shield of Arrav]]

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