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Gamers mock the endlessly standing fantasy shopkeeper

Original: "Hello, traveler! I can see by the glint in your eye that you're a person of such power and agency that you can actually

A joke about the classic video game NPC is making the rounds: the shopkeeper who greets the hero with grand flattery, admitting they can only stand in one spot forever while asking the player to run a mundane fetch quest. Players are enjoying the send-up of RPG tropes, where NPCs treat simple deliveries as mighty heroic deeds and exist only to serve the wandering protagonist.

Why now: Players are sharing a relatable parody of the immobile quest-giving NPC, one of gaming's most familiar cliches.

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• "Hello, traveler! I can see by the glint in your eye that you're a person of such power and agency that you can actually travel beyond my shop, something I cannot do as I must simply stand here forever. Can you therefore undertake a mighty and heroic quest to deliver these 5… · SJohnRoss@dice.camp · 11

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