NPC Problem

After returning to the fortress, Deimos observed from his balcony how the players had surrounded Mudshaper and began to work in the pit, nodding at the player's spirits Deimos took a seat and enjoying the sunset, he opened the forums and after reading the reports of the day, he started browsing the player forums.

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Any experienced carpenter?

Basic guide to the handling of swords, do not stab yourself or your companions

Create your own bow prototype with materials you can found in the wild

Latest news, the first campaign "The Goblin Threat" has finally appeared

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Seeing that most themes were requests or guides, Deimos glanced at them before moving on to the next until one caught his eye.

OP - Norgn

Maybe you do not know me since it is the first time that I publish in the forum but I am a member of the construction team formed by the old Mudshaper, some may wonder what this has to do with the subject.

Well, I will explain it now.

Since yesterday, our construction team has been digging the palisade pit which allowed us to advance over 40 percent of it to date with the help of a few other players who also took the daily construction missions.

This has apparently managed to unlock the first mission of The Goblin Threat campaign which apparently has to do with the goblins in the mines at the east of the territory.

I say this because of what Mudshaper told us after receiving the title of temporary foreman.

Apparently now in addition to giving us orders as he already did, he can assign us with missions that have a greater reward so if you wanted to test the construction in the game, now is the right time.

This in conjunction with the collection missions confirms that this game has a dynamic mission system that depending on the demand for certain material or work, we can obtain more or fewer rewards from the said mission.

So I invite all my colleagues in the beta to participate in the construction of the palisade, perhaps by completing it we can unlock the second phase of the campaign.

That's all for now, I open discussion in the comments

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1-Goblin Slayer [The goblins must die!]

2- [How is it that he is always the first to comment]

3- [I see, so the missions are hidden behind certain requirements in the daily missions]

4-Strawberry [I wonder if there will be missions that unlock some way to improve the equipment, it is already the third spear that I have broken since yesterday]

5- [4- Perhaps if we advance in the campaign we will be able to unlock more NPCs]

6- SoyBean [Sure developers, pay attention only to the builders and ignore us, farmers, we have also cultivated the soil since the server opened but you don't give us anything]

7- [For whoever uses bows, make sure you know how to shoot. When we were hunting undead you hit us more than them]

8- AWellInformedGoblin [6- Do not forget that the crops take a week to grow, maybe when you collect them the developers will unlock more things for you]

9- [OP do not forget also that apparently, the developers increased the number of types of goblins that will appear in the mines]

10- Cookingpapa [8- I hope as they unlocked the constructors' profession they unlock the chef profession, that eating wolf meat or grilled fish without seasonings and old bread can get tired very quickly]

11- [10- How was the collection of spices?]

12- Cookingpapa [11- Bad, in the forest to the east only some mushrooms and to the north and east a large part of the plants are poisonous or have a bad taste]

13-Splitbullet [7- You say it as if the vanguard even knew how to hold the line, the bows are not that they are of much help and if charging against the mobs and getting in the path of the arrows is not our fault]

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Entertaining himself for a while with the comments and seeing that it will get dark soon, Deimos got in and thought while recalling the conversations on the forums that soon it would be necessary to train the players a bit if he really wanted them to be useful.

Hey, Abaddon you- "

"Don't bother about it boy, until I release more of my powers from that annoying seal I won't be able to create avatars with their own conscience, so it's up to you to find your own NPCs"

Realizing that there was nothing he could do at the moment and not wanting to hire someone from the capital for fear that he was once again a puppet of one of the nobles sent to spy on him, Deimos thought a bit without finding an answer and feeling a little hungry he promptly walked to the soul matrix with which it was transported to earth.

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After opening the door to the apartment Oak had given them, Deimos could observe the pair of brothers arguing as Yin helped wipe Yun's sweat.

"Sister, the doctor already said it, you cannot continue exercising until your wounds heal"

"I'm fine Yin, you don't have to worry"

"Sister, it's the third time I've found you passed out from overworking yourself, at least wait for you to get used to the prosthetics ... oh, good night lord ..."

"... Good Night Lord"

Understanding from what he was able to hear, the problem was that Yun kept trying to exert herself even after the surgery was done to her in this world, without saying anything Deimos simply entered the apartment and quietly walked until he sat facing the brothers in the room.

"Yin, could you make me something light for dinner? ..."

"Lord, the thing is that-"

"Yin, go"

Hearing the words of his sister, it was that he realized that they wanted to speak alone so clenching his fists for his impotence, after wiping Yun's forehead one last time, Yin got up and went to the kitchen.

Left alone in the room, Yun stared at Deimos and spoke "Well he's gone, what do you want to talk about?"

"Nothing, at least nothing important"

"Then why did you make Yin walk away?"

"I didn't, I just asked him to prepare some food, I haven't eaten anything since this morning"

"?"

Confused by Deimos's response, he explained how he was in their world all day and explained the goblins' situation.

"That, in short, is all but since we are here I would like to ask you, why did you give those clothes to Yin yesterday?"

"You hired him as a servant, didn't you? I thought he would need a work uniform "

"Yes, but why one of a maid?"

"That is not the proper uniform?"

Confusing each other with their words, Deimos explained that although these uniforms are the appropriate ones, they are usually worn by women, for men, there is another established uniform to which Yun, surprised, told him that she did not know.

"In Butterflap's territory, all his servants wore that uniform ..."

"Was there a male servant besides Yin?"

"... no, I don't think so"

"You know, forget it, I'll ask Oak for a pair of uniforms in addition to a couple of formal suits and let's let Yin choose his outfit, after he comes back from cooking use that terminal to decide some clothes for you too since we're at it"

After that, they entered a silence that lasted for several minutes until Yin returned with several plates of salad and fish which Deimos began to eat while the pair decided on various clothes at Deimos's request.

When he finished eating and seeing that the two were silently looking at him, he asked them what was happening, to which Yun replied that usually, they had to wait for the lord to leave the room before they could leave.

"{Sigh} I don't know how Butterflap treated his servants but I'm not the kind of noble you usually find, so you can forget about the most basic formalities. If you want to eat or leave while I have not asked for something, you can do so "

"...I understood…"

"{Sigh} Do what makes you feel most comfortable, besides, it's not like we're in Kazakh."

Receiving no reply from the pair, Deimos simply shook his head and told Yin to clear the table and looking at Yun came up with something.

"Yun, you said that Butterflap had trained you in combat, didn't you?"

"That's right lord, more specifically in the art of assassination but I can handle swords, spears, and maces at a decent level ... or at least I could do it before losing my legs"

"Excellent, what do you think if you train the players, as I mentioned the goblins began to appear more often in the mines, and without the proper training, those players will take too much time to learn how to fight"

"Lord Deimos, it is not that I do not want to help you with your request, but as I already mentioned, I can't use my skills as i am right now and training them with pure words would not do any good"

"You don't need to worry about that."

Being confused for the fourth time that day by Deimos's words, Yun asked him what he meant, as Deimos simply picked up the phone and after calling Selene, he asked her if she could send a virtual reality helmet to his department.

After conversing for a minute and telling her that the next morning he would go to the virtual reality office to refine the details of the next patch, he hung up and without answering Yun's questions he got up and walked a bit.

In less than an hour, they soon heard the doorbell and when Deimos opened the door he saw Selene wearing a gray coat carrying a box that he assumed contained the virtual reality equipment.

Surprised by that, Deimos took the box that Selene had given him "Since I had to send someone to deliver the gear, I thought of coming to visit Yun and reminding you that you should rest better, after all, you are our only link with that team of yours "

"I see ... wait you know each other?"

"Yes, since you are usually away and Yin doesn't know how to drive, at the office we take turns bringing him home, that's when I met Yun. Either way, why do you need this for? "

Understanding how they met and without giving too much importance to Selene's words, Deimos explained that he wanted Yun to enter the game to take on the role of NPC.

"What do you need that for? your development team can't just add more NPC´s? "

Hearing Selene's question, Deimos told her the excuse that he had prepared for several days.

He told her that for each NPC to reach that level of realism and for them to have their own personality, the server needs to do too many calculations

That, that is why they cannot add NPC´s out of noting until they have more samples and that the only advanced NPC at that time was created thanks to the fact that he spends some time inside the game for the server to simulated an NPC based on his behavior.

"That is why I want Yun to act as an NPC to speed up the creation of the next advance NPC that would take her place in the future and accumulate more data."

"... Could it be that the NPCs in your game are actually real people?"

"{Phff} No, of course not, that it's insane... look, in the following days you will see a simple version of what we have achieved and that will show that they are not people of this world, it would be impossible to hire so many"

"You say it as if the game were another world"

"... Well ... that's the plan, isn't it? make it look like a second world ... "

"Hehe, it's a joke, I know that it is impossible to use real people to simulate the behavior of mobs, I hope to see what your team achieved in the following days, that will help us for the next advertising campaign"

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Hey Mudshaper, any luck with the continuation of the mission? "

"Nothing yet Artur, the NPC has not appeared yet"

"You've been taking care of this place since morning and it's almost noon, why we won't go and hunt for a while?"

Seeing his friend offering him some dried meat, Mudshaper gladly took it, and while he chewed it he spoke

"Na, you know that I don't like fighting, I also have to be around here to assign the missions to the other players, or else they will start complaining"

"Well who told you to agree to become an NPC"

"Needless to say, the only thing is that I can gain essence without doing anything"

"Whatever you say, Mister NPC"

"That I am not a-"

"Old Mud, Artur, have you seen the forums?"

"Oh, it's you John, what happened? why are you so excited? "

"It's a new patch, they'll finally release another NPC!"

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