Equipment storing for tournaments

Since tournaments are becoming more frequent and Adapeli is knocking our blocks off with all the coding time he's been putting in I think it'd be a good idea to implement a way to handle storing a players equipment for tournaments(when they're meant for characters to enter with 0coins/0equipment) other than the one we use now(multy and do it yourself).

Perhaps, something like...
character goes North -> all coins deposited/all eq set to free rent -> enters tournament
character goes South -> regains eq as it was/leaves tournament

Is something like that, or pretty similar to it, too hard to code?

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