Reminds of that notorious quest in FFXI where you had to smuggle goods for the Tenshodo from Jeuno to San d'Oria via airship (you couldn't teleport to the destination as it would destroy the goods, and it needed to be delivered more quickly than travel by chocobo was capable of), and it had the especially frustrating caveat that you had a one in two chance of being actually caught by the customs agents at the airship dock, who would then confiscate your airship pass for a whole week of real time (as well as the contraband you were smuggling, meaning you not only failed the objective, you lost your ability to travel by airship for a whole week - given how big the world was this made it even more worse).

But then, that was FFXI for you, it wasn't exactly a merciful game...