NPC Info & Interaction Requests

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NPC INTERACTION REQUESTS

The city of San Benedicto is filled with colorful characters and helpful guides. Sometimes, characters will want or need to speak to those people. In the event that you find yourself in that position, use this post to request an interaction with said NPC!

There are several recurring NPCs who are available to be spoken to. These "big name" NPCs are listed below. However, if you need the assistance of, say, a minor NPC or group of NPCs that have not been named, you're welcome to request them, too.

It works as thus: fill out the form below. A mod will respond. You may either play out/summarize the interaction on this page, or, if you have a log or a network post you would like the NPC to respond to, you may direct us that way. (If a thread drags on for a long time, mods may contact you to summarize it to get you the closure and answers you need.)

Below are the recurring NPCs available for interactions:

MAYOR DANICA KARST

Mayor Karst has been in charge of the city for four years. Though firm in her convictions, she manages the city with an almost motherly hand. As part of her pro-tourism and pro-immigration stance, she has decided to welcome the strange new arrivals with open arms.

MAKA MANKATO

Friendly and curious, Maka is the lead excavator at the San Benedicto archeological dig. Left in charge after the disappearance of her father, the former lead excavator, she's young, but well-respected in the community. Always willing to lend new arrivals a helping hand.

HAMISH GUILLORY, PHD

Hamish is the somewhat unusual man who owns the Canyon Historical Preservation Museum. He can give you background on any item found in the building, but he has a tendency to ramble. He has the unfortunate habit of referring to the new arrivals as "finds."

MOSES AFOLABI

The latest in the Afolabi line, Moses is the city's billionaire philanthropist benefactor. His family's name is on stadiums, schools, and streets all over San Benedicto. Whenever there's a humanitarian problem to tackle, Moses is there to help. His latest act of generosity is his willingness to help settle the new arrivals into the city, making sure they're sheltered and able to put food on the table.

JEMMA RHODES

Jemimah "Jemma" Rhodes is an old-woman-turned-Air-Elemental who owns the Rhodes farm near the outskirts of the canyon. Aided by her son and grandson, she's nevertheless no shrinking violet, and never hesitates to speak her mind -- albeit politely, unless you deserve her ire.

DR. AMY KASSABIAN

A psychiatrist that was turned into a Mechanical, who fused with her office. She offers therapeutic sessions as well as prescribed medications.

DIG SITE EMPLOYEES

Tasked with uncovering the ruins that the PCs wake up on, these worker bees are always buzzing about, excitedly awaiting new arrivals to come in on a bolt from the blue. They're the first people new characters see, and inform them of (almost) all they need to know to get them started: where to go, what to do, where they are.

TRANSFORMED CANYONITES

Undergoing the same types of transformations as the PCs, about 2% of the canyon's 9 million person population have transformed so far. Every monster type has been represented by the natives in some way or another. Facing discrimination, they tend to sympathize with others of their kind.

UNTRANSFORMED CANYONITES

Human through and through, the untransformed citizens of San Benedicto have mixed feelings about their transformed brethren. Some regard them with suspicion and fear, while others welcome their neighbors as they always would. Most of them, however, find the PCs suspicious and untrustworthy.

If you have another idea for an NPC encounter and don't see the proper NPC listed here, please just fill out their name/information in the form below, and we'll see what we can do!

NPC interaction form:

<b>Character name:</b> <b>NPC you'd like to interact with:</b> <b>Nature of the interaction/question:</b> <b>Is there a thread for us to tag into?:</b>

Comments

[ribticklers]

It's a relief to be able to understand the whispering entirely instead of only catching bits and pieces. Sans can imagine--or maybe he's seeing?--the mushrooms swallowing up the whole lab, and that's exciting too. This place is a lot easier to reach than the tunnels.

"I know I'm supposed to be trying to get people to see Okpaza. Is there anything else I should be doing?"

More up to date information would be great, if there is any.

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"It'ssss your fellowsss that need the most convincing," the voice says. "Our intrepid explorerssss from other worldssss. Their powerssss are with me now..."

Sans will begin to see visions of those who came into the canyon with some sort of power. Glimpses of their lives, both through their eyes and others'. Beyond Birthday, glancing at himself on a walk through LA, reflections in the windows next to him spelling out everyone's names above their heads, and everyone's lifespan but his own. Dinah Lance, screaming her lungs out and sending masked men flying backward from the force of it. Belladonna, conjuring small, cute things.

Sans will be able to feel a sense like empathy; a great hunger pangs inside him, but it doesn't come from him. Feral and ravenous, it will temporarily overtake his mind, but then the lights flick back to pale yellow, banishing the visions and the madness.

[ribticklers]

Sans briefly realizes that means Okpaza has taken his and Papyrus's old abilities as well, but before he can contemplate any of that the hunger knocks all his thoughts out of his mind. Where Sans is from, monsters can absorb human souls, but it's not something anyone would do except under the most desperate of circumstances. It's wrong. This is the first time Sans thinks he understands wanting to. More than that, it's the first time he's ever wanted to eat a soul, is halfway through the idea of tearing his own out and trying to chew it to pieces before the lights flicker back on and leave him scoured out inside, dizzy with the memory of himself.

"Is that how hungry Okpaza feels all the time?" There are more important things to discuss but Sans can still feel the echo of it, and the sympathy that goes alongside it as Okpaza's messenger.

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"Oh yessss. Sssso dark and emptyyyy... Sssouls from this world can only ssssustain it sssso much. It ffffed, It did, on the creaturesss that wandered to this canyon over millionssss of yyyyears... But It needs mmmmmore."

The lights flicker black again. This time, more scenes play out on the fungus-covered walls.

Victor Zsasz kneeling down, kissing Roman Sionis's ring as they meet for the first time. Hannibal Lecter gutting Will Graham in his kitchen. Waylon Park cradling his firstborn child in his arms. Eponine Thenardier huddling hungry in an alley. Quentin Smith running for his life.

"Yyyyour memoriessss... The ssstrength from other universessss... Lay them down as an offfffering to The One Who Hungers."

[ribticklers]

"How? What should I do?" Sans doesn't know if he's agreeing to get these memories that are playing on the walls or to give Okpaza some of his own right here, but as he is right now, agreeing is the only choice. (Mostly. The core of him that's Sans and doesn't belong to anybody coils tight somewhere below Sans's awareness.)

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The mass of black fungus on the table shifts. Tendrils unfurl and grow and wither and die, and something rises, the fleshy pile bulging. It splits open, spilling inky black liquid onto the floor that reflect more memories -- Fenris and Anders, Richtofen, Wrench, Sal.

What appears, floating there as flesh decays and falls off around it, is a long, thin dagger. Its blade and handle are both pitch black. There is a bulging eye on the base of the handle that looks around the room, and the grip is textured with what look to be tendrils wrapped around it that move in subtle motions.

"Take it," Maka's father says somewhere beneath -- or around -- all the chaos. "Blood sssspilled with this blade under the full moon will releasssse a memory. But -- you musssst do it in the proper place. The caves... The lake... The dump. Where itssss pull is greatessst."

[ribticklers]

Sans takes the blade by the hilt, carefully. It's a gift, it's precious. (He was killed by something like this, once. Before he came here. He doesn't have the presence of free will to have thoughts about holding a knife like this himself right now.)

"I can do that." Though he'll have to pick someone. He doesn't have a lot of time until the next full moon, but that's okay. Time doesn't mean anything, not really. He's known that even before he knew Okpaza.

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"Thissss month," the voice continues. "The One Who Waitssss will make them ffffall in love. To sssstay together... A preview of what'ssss to come."

Perhaps Sans can already feel it happening, the way people have been more affectionate since the comet. He'll be able to feel a rumbling in himself now, deep affection on all levels; platonic, familial, romantic, whichever way there is to feel it. These feelings will be centered on the Okpaza.

"It issss all things that are or will be. It will reunite sssssomeday, as you will with It."

[ribticklers]

Sans has never entirely known what to do with strong affection, except for the kind he feels for Papyrus, but with Okpaza is feels natural enough. He wants even more to help sate its hunger even a little, to help it wait just a little longer until it can devour all of them.

"Right. When the job's done." A reminder to himself that while he could just jump down into the caves, he has work to do here. He has to get everybody else down there first, and everybody else is a lot less willing. Anyway, he isn't going to leave Papyrus alone to wait. Papyrus still thinks all this is a bad thing; Sans needs to convince him, even if he doesn't convince anybody else.