Hi Ryne and welcome back!
A new story arc started a few weeks ago, and part of it is that you can show your loyalty to a city of your choosing. There are protesters, rioters and other unhappy people in the towns (and I am not talking about the usual bank-sitters!) and by either giving them money and/or food or handing them in to the authorities (there is some officer in or around every town who will ask you to bring them to him), you gain loyalty points. In addidtion you can put out the fires these NPCs started and pick up the trash they leave behind, both will give you small amounts of loyalty to that city as well.
Now invasions of the towns started as well, where you see red rioters milling around the streets and by killing them you gain more loyalty. What this all means and what this loyalty will achieve in the future, nobody really knows yet.
And the loot you see is part of a new loot-generating system which was introduced a while ago in dungeon Shame and is now implemented in Wrong as well ... oh, and in the towns it seems.
I hope this helps a bit.
