When a player turns into an NPC

[@WormiT]

I can only imagine him explaining the quest like: "My kin has journeyed to fight the monks of hergspire alone. I would accompany her, but alas, my work is needed here in Honeywood. Please make sure she is safe, and help her on her quest, adventurer!"

[@Elias_Ehler]

And thus he doomed her to become the NPC for an escort quest.

[@AngelStickman]

Oh no! He doomed her too.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

Wait does that mean Britt has become an NPC too?!

[@ReijiK]

NPC 2: Britt Boogaloo

[@schenkov]

@@VivaLaDirtLeague She was one in soulmate. So now we know how that came to be.

[@1st_riddick78]

The quest is to go help his friend at with those monks. He can’t leave his post soo many orders.

[@Tombr4mb4]

Haha smart

[@danacarajb]

I wanna see how his friend turned into an escort mission during this time.

[@elmondo-s1e]

I was fully expecting him to offer that up not realising it was gonna turn into a player accepting a quest from him, and then freaking out 😂 but the dramatic exclamation point reveal was too tempting I guess

[@Lucas-Stl]

Or a fetch quest to fill orders only for the player to be swapped as the blacksmith.

[@MensHominis]

My exact thought!

[@lolio5979]

I feel like this is going to turn to lore, the npc that is aware but people think it is an easter egg, qnd Ben turning to an npc. The new era in the series has begun.

[@Babush1993]

I would love that

[@andremcdonald6120]

new lore. what is SkyCraft hiding?!! also is this the origin story of that one npc with sentience!!!

[@AidestheKiwi]

I think it kinda already is. This seems suspiciously like a prequel to "Imprisoned inside a videogame"

[@DrTheRich]

Yaeh def want more of this

[@ThogDontCare]

Similar to M'aiq from ESO

[@johndaniels1197]

"Then the players all abandoned the quest to start a business." Every DM's nightmare scenario.

[@sinxenon3181]

Very relevant 😥

[@zikram_ttv1247]

bet the quest is to go help the friend who hasnt come back

[@Elmithian]

Not really, just say that that adventurer retired from the current adventure.

[@daviderwin4705]

Happy, well balanced, productive people who don't get off on killing are everybody's worst nightmare.

[@mariosebastiani3214]

My players ALWAYS do that. And keep adventuring... they just like a side line of income.

[@kentho7093]

This was how Ben glitched into a sentient NPC and couldn't escape from the game, and no one believed him ever since.

[@kamilziemian995]

I like this interpretation. I hope next episodes expand on this theme.

[@cttommy73]

Cool. This could be the prologue for that. Maybe this is the test to see if people would be fully interested in a full series or not.

[@nolanloughlin1793]

I was just about to say that

[@hadli93]

Yea, i also thought that clip too

[@ryanhiggins8869]

Quest?

[@BUBO26]

You either die a adventurer, or you live long enough to become NPC.

[@AfterDarkVision]

Well, that's what happens in d&d if you think about that 😂

[@kapitan19969838]

@@AfterDarkVision True! Say You hit the big leagues and save the world. Your guys retire, some settle down, marry, have children, some open shops, some do something else. But at the end of the day, it's over. They go their seperate ways and future parties eventually meet them, hehe

[@kei2kei]

Well the BBEG is an NPC, so the revision is apt.

[@Xsasan2001]

Lubos thats brillant!

[@Arik..]

He'll make so much gold from that. And will never be able to buy anything from it... 🤣

[@Gadzinisko]

"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I got a master crafting skill."

[@jaredstuteville6499]

"Let me guess, someone stole your sheep?"

[@jandepuydt5377]

@@jaredstuteville6499 No, he got an arrow in the knee.

[@navajogamer1663]

No. His sweet roll is running amuck

[@eleethtahgra7182]

@@navajogamer1663 No, it must have been the wind

[@Gadzinisko]

@Michael Hamm "Skip, skip, I'm not interested in your sappy backstory."

[@parkerking6410]

This is honestly a genius skit. love it so much.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Whatever happened to Ben? I don’t see him in recent skits. Same goes for Hamish.

[@Amin-hv8tt]

And then he marched on a quest to restore himself, to convince all that he isn't an npc only to find his efforts ending in vain. Having been glitched into becoming an npc, the lack of acceptance from other players, being treated like an AI, constantly having his dialogues skipped slowly drove him towards madness until he finally met another who faced the same predicament, though the latter had already lost himself. However, the two joined forces and went on to become the muggers of Honeywood...

[@syncagray]

Okay, that was an awesome punchline of an explanation...

[@jamiehoskins2000]

Give me that punchline give it over or I will mug more than just punch line. Why I doing this because I am a mugger an what do we do?Mug people

[@Deathend]

OI, IT'S THE LEADING GAME DEVELOPER. LET'S MUG 'EMMMM!!

[@thequietkid425]

The redemption arc will be the muggers accidentally mugged the Savior of HoneyWood. The female Savior quickly defeated them of cos. However after the defeat, it awoken something buried deep within his supposedly long forgotten memory. A wave of familiarity surfaced. Filled with questions of his identity and existence. The mugger asked "Do we know each other?" "Once upon a time" Savior replied.

[@cherrydragon3120]

Oohhhh shit. A mastercrafted story, so cool! This NPC is deffinetly lore worthy

[@craigyeah1052]

At 1:36 when Ben says "How can I help Adventurer?" and then chuckles, I knew he had sealed his own fate.

[@AbdullahQumper]

je talked as NPC. that is why he giggled

[@KnowItAllDM]

New Lore: when the game was in development, there were no NPCs, it was a game where all humanoids you interacted with were, in fact, players. However, the development team became so engrosed in their side roles, that they became NPCs. Greg, Bodger, Baelin, Baradun, etc, were the original Dev team. When the game released, players whose side talents/crafting became more useful as NPCs actually became NPCs. Over time, the now-NPCs forgot they were ever players. Each new update/expansion increases the need for higher-tier NPCs, so the game turns players with perfected skills into appropriate NPCs.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

Oh. My. God. THIS

[@OverlordDenooh]

man I was going to make a comment similar to this but where the game is alive and absorbs players who starts doing task like NPCs or makes a copy of them seamlessly, like the real ben left after helping the guys friend and the new NPC ben toke his place still having his memories.

[@conduit64]

If Rod Serling made an isekai anime.

[@lincolnvang9272]

Did you play Fallout 76 when it released? You didn't? Good.

[@SaintSarcasm]

Ya know i think wow? When they made games that allowed for players to be "added" into the lore (but really it was just flavor text. But i like the idea of turning them into NPCs kinda like mercemaries that show up as cameos or special events.

[@CaffeeNated]

if you notice, after he makes that fire chestplate, the player tag goes away

[@adrtit]

He also started to address players as ‘adventurer’

[@Spyke114]

It's not just his though, they're gone from everyone.... Is *that* why NPCs address everyone as "Adventurer"? Because they can't see the name displays?

[@nigisjourney]

Nah, the transformation process has been happened before, he even said “good luck adventure” with his friend and also feel weird about that himself

[@icefoxy3460]

@@Spyke114 but they made a video of Greg reading nicknames,and also they are just not shown if not needed(if the player is alone for example)

[@src6339]

This guy must have been a legendary player who also went viral enough to have an impact pop culture in the wider gaming community, then tragically passed away IRL so the game developers choose to play tribute to them by placing an NPC into the game based on on his ingame avatar.

[@atimidbirb]

Okay this makes it less terrifying

[@marcocappelli2236]

*"then tragically passed away IRL"* after spending many consecutive hours sitting still playing as an NPC, fueled by his never-ending greed for more riches.

[@braindamage_eclipse]

Or he was a developer / artist who passed forever memorialized by his team. (E.g., Kanai in Diablo 3).

[@cdquillen95]

The Boarderlands devs actually did this in Borderlands 2. There is a secret character in sanctuary that occasionally spawns and gives you a gun if you find him. I beleive his name is Michael. He passed away due to cancer. He spent his last days playing borderlands with his friends.

[@kilerscn]

@@cdquillen95 WoW did it with a Tauren I think. Ahab Wheathoof

[@frugalrocks0748]

Id like to see ben argue with a player who tries to skip his speech lol. “OUTRAGEOUS!”

[@QuintarFarenor]

But that second guy did skip ^^' but yea an outrageous would've been funny too.

[@danielshea6916]

"ITS LITERALLY PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE"

[@TheWarmotor]

Goddamnit you beat me to it :) Good on you, sir!

[@danielshea6916]

@@TheWarmotor I'd naturally assume it's the very first though any of us would have 😂😂

[@thatpunkcatte]

This happened to my friend in FFXIV. He got top level crafting to get us geared for the end game raids. He never made it to the raids.

[@lessoriginal]

Oh man same

[@Nekorbmi]

yeah I was an omni-crafters back in the day and though I didnt mind crafting for FC mates I never really got to play the game. I still think ffxiv had some of the best crafting

[@glodusmuspell9069]

My deepest condolences

[@bretsheeley4034]

Hopefully he's charging high enough to make bank on the transactions.

[@alimatloob2850]

F for respect

[@TrickyTalon23]

Ben's character is finally getting karma for all the times he said "skip" to the other NPCs

[@ThePigeon5734]

The idea of all the NPCs actually being players cursed to live their lives in Skycraft is both terrifying and makes a lot of a sense.

[@farhanaditya2647]

skycraft?

[@ThePigeon5734]

@@farhanaditya2647 Skycraft is the game Epic NPC Man is set in. It's a cross between Skyrim and Warcraft.

[@pbonfanti]

"I was a adventurer like you, but i got a arrown on the knee" (make sense now).

[@Ryvaken]

@@pbonfanti Weird place to fletch an arrow.

[@ThePigeon5734]

@@pbonfanti oh my god they could %100 drop that line in this context... We already know the game is super complex, so what if a player gets crippled by an arrow to the knee and tries to trade for healing items. And becomes an NPC.

[@GoldenMan1002]

At this point you have to ask yourself: Where you ever really an Adventurerer? Or an NPC with an Adventure backstory that settled in Honeywood?

[@TheInsomniaddict]

After the devs caught the woodcutter not remembering his wife and child's name, they decided to procedurally generate the NPCs going forward.

[@weirddan455]

He used to be an adventurer like you... until he took an arrow to the knee.

[@Arcayenneist]

Oh no. "I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee," was always a cry for help from someone trapped in the game.

[@flashaxl]

No wonder the fruit merchant was strong AF. He used to be an adventurer and then retired to be a humbled fruit merchant.

[@pd28cat]

Degree in philosophy, you have

[@hadlee73]

Something like this happened to me in my old Everquest days. I was an almost maxed-out Cleric and I helped somebody out with a powerful buff. Somebody nearby recognised what I'd done and asked me to group buff their entire party, and paid for the privilege with gems. Then others saw what I was doing and soon I had a queue. After some time a raid group showed up providing some rare gems so that I could buff them all with the best buff in the game. After I'd finished playing for that night, I had literally stood in one spot for several hours and made more money and gems than I'd made in my entire time playing the rest of the game. lol

[@Hirokuro_Asura]

Ah, EverQuest, haven't heard that name for years...

[@athomenotavailable]

Congrats, you managed to escape back into real life.

[@thelionsshare6668]

This is a totally awesome that happened to you. There are some players who would really enjoy that.

[@Thenlar]

Shit, I remember in EQ when Druids would just stand at city gates and sell "Spirit of the Wolf" buffs for 5sp a pop.

[@Yggdrasil777]

Yeah, those were the days back then. I know exactly how you felt at that time.

[@tekkenryu]

He has reached the master level that unlocks the Hidden Class: NPC.

[@sergioplazat3995]

archievement:no.... NOOOOOOO

[@mattgustavson2780]

Just brilliant. Having "I'm not an NPC, I'm a player" as his signature catch phrase is a nice swerve.

[@MidnightDStroyer]

A nice touch was when one of the players tried to 'skip' some of Ben's dialogue...

[@michatuodziecki2079]

He get more gold crafting for other players than adventuring. Some admins have much fun giving him that "!"

[@struanpeat5116]

Everyone on about the cosmic horror of it but im fully onboard with a trolling admin arc

[@RandomGuy-so8of]

@@struanpeat5116 yessir

[@Zanozaish]

Don't forget that he lost his nickname too...

[@OverkillBillsXbox]

@@Zanozaish / hide Nick command

[@MrMrx123456789]

I'm actually starting to believe that Baelin was actually a player who enjoyed fishing so much he lost track of time and became an NPC

[@kirank287]

いいね

[@jocosesonata]

I like to think he was the very first one, from years back, even decades. The most powerful player who got bored of the main quests, and decided to settle down and have a nice little routine of fishing every morning.

[@Groffili]

Well... it IS a nice day for fishing, ain't it?

[@Delsanar]

Nice day for finishing aint it? Huh hah

[@vukkulvar9769]

Because he enjoyed fishing so much, his gear and stats were quite low. Intelligence was also his dump state at character creation which is why it's speech is limited.

[@tejdeep125]

There could be a great movie or series based on this premise!

[@chilarius]

Similar to Free Guy, i really liked that movie.

[@wolfrainexxx]

It'd make a great horror story.

[@drodgyn]

It has some similarities to Mogworld.

[@phillipherbert7157]

Basically Twighlight Zone

[@vladimiralexanderlagos1477]

There's a ton of Japanese isekai trash anime that more or less follow on this concept.

[@serrasedai]

I love how this lore was rolled out: first with the desperate rags NPC claiming he was stuck, then with Sir Vey asking Bob if he was a player or NPC, and now this... THE TRUTH REVEALED. 🥁

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

Hehehehe

[@stevenharper9108]

So… what happened to the guy chopping trees?

[@Luum81]

@@stevenharper9108 He couldn't hack it any longer and branched out to a splinter role

[@wanderingbufoon]

since he's still a player, his quest is to subscribe.

[@CrowbornChaos]

Ah yes, that moment where a player has been so notable in the community that the devs decide to make an npc of them. How sweet. Original player probably died or had cancer. And now there is an npc of him for all time...

[@yasininn76]

Glitterbeard vibes

[@gentblue]

When I made Wizard on the old LPMUDs, I used to do this all the time! It was a simple bit of niceness that gave you a groupie for life! Or at least until you got banished for upsetting a God!

[@moteroargentino7944]

That's like a heartwarming version of a creepypasta.

[@kovacsj7823]

Yeah, i remember Fallout 4 had an NPC like that. Think he was in the Nuka-World DLC.

[@ouTPhaze]

That got dark quickly...While also bittersweet

[@Amethystar]

At some point Ben did such a good job as a merchant that his code naturally split. The player left and caught up to his friend and defeated the Monks, moving on to a higher level area, while his double remained, forever bound to the crafting table.

[@PandoraPotatoSalad]

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

For the sanity/life of the real person I really hope this is the real lore

[@arcticfluffyfoxy]

@@VivaLaDirtLeague you are viva you must have some control decide whether it's true or not

[@gadman85]

I actually remember there was a quest in WoW I did during Cataclysm where the player momentarily took the place of an NPC quest giver. You had the giant exclamation mark above your head and everything. It was legit one of the funniest quests I ever did in that game. The NPC you were standing in for at the time provided color commentary on the "Adventurers" you handed out quests to. You later ended up doing a quest chain where you helped them out of the trouble they got into while fulfilling their quest. That part was funny as well. I remember one of them needed help because despite being very high level, he couldn't swim.

[@Tiana_Tea_Leaves]

This happened to me when I played Runescape. The monsters scared me so I spent heaps of time learning cooking/baking instead. Eventually I was feeding the entire server

[@Soapy-chan_old]

The Hero we dont deserve

[@glodusmuspell9069]

My condolences

[@hewhobattles8869]

Did you max out your cooking skills?

[@ImbuedBeard]

Old School is still going strong! RSN: RIP Olmlet

[@Mabswer]

The hero the server.. Had

[@YoSomePerson]

The quest: His friend the adventurer with the amulet of clarity has gone off to fight the monks. Now as he is stuck with being an npc you have to go and help his friend and defeat the monks. In the end you don't find the friend but only the amulet in the pockets of one of the monks. What you don't know, is that this is the prerequisite quest for a quest chain 40 levels later that leads you to fight an evil boss which ones was an adventurer but forgotten. It was her. She escaped back then, never able to trust another friend again.

[@bear4772]

omg so dark - i love it lol

[@Leo-ry6zh]

Would love to see a mini series like this within the epic NPC man series

[@exemida]

Adventurer I am currently overloaded with work orders but I made a promise to help a friend fight the monks of herkshire can you go in my place? I will reward you with an amulet of foresight if you do so? Do you accept...Hmm that was odd.

[@Ceece20]

Thanks for inspiring my next DND campaign lol

[@eddieb1995]

Miyazaki: write that down write that down.

[@redt3788]

I can't help but smile at the fact that Ben became an NPC just by helping other players out

[@JuMiKu]

And that is why most mmos are full of a-holes. They are all careful not to turn into NPCs.

[@MrHarshverdhan]

What playing support in moba feels like 🥲

[@Hirokuro_Asura]

That's why becoming a master craftsman you never tell anyone that you are one... Well, mb just the guild mates, but we all know that true masters of the craft are solo no-clan/guild PvE players...

[@Dargoneth]

I just waited for someone to 'skip' him, it didnt take long :D

[@ServantofBaal]

And let it be a lesson for you

[@victorrutledge257]

The strangest situation is the PC who is sitting at the table and has invested in the "Table of many things" so that all the other Players use his time to become better equipped. I got one of those crafting tables in a module, it was oh twenty-five years ago, and my character hasn't finished all the requests yet. he used to be a Fighter/Magic user/ Cleric, but now he runs the shop at Fire Mountain.

[@twilightsparkle75]

this is actually basically what I did in ESO LOL

[@thomasace2547]

Looks like Bodger might have some competition in Honeywood 💰 🔨

[@waegit1697]

Bodger lost his business already and is off fighting some hag

[@maxnaz47]

You're giving away their future plans, or giving them future plans... Either way is a win win.

[@casualgrandpa9263]

Bodger was never truly a blacksmith, he's a retailer pretending to be one.

[@ShaspioBorderwolf]

@@casualgrandpa9263 Ah. Kinda like Rowan pretending to be a manager of PlayTech.

[@ordermind]

So this is what happened to Greg. That explains his sentience, doesn't it.

[@lassesipila6418]

He must've been among the first players in the game, receiving unique though gameplay-wise useless resources, like - Congratulations! As the first player to save the farmers of Honeywood from encroaching Plantrot, you are awarded a unique local resource: Garlic farm! - Dude sweet! I got my own farm! And it produces garlics? Are they an ingredient for... No? Just a unique food item? Oh well, that's still pretty fun. So no one else gets garlics? I gotta start selling these to other players!

[@cetus835]

@@lassesipila6418 I literally read that in Greg's voice

[@estertorrevillas7528]

So Britt comes back and totally accepts Ben as an NPC, not even recognizing him as her former friend adventurer. Or with a different adventurer who helped her with the monks, and talking about the former Ben This is pretty scary lol.

[@Hoi4o]

Sequel episode :D

[@stanamilanovich3956]

It's terrifying.

[@Soron661]

It really is worthy of a horror film. A really shitty horror film, but still...

[@Red-uf6ld]

Skycraft has to be hiding some dark secrets not gonna be surprised if they can remove memories would explain a lot of things

[@rrralpop157]

reminds me of Goosebump books series xD

[@BL-9065]

This episode and "Skipping the Grind with Money" are a perfect example of VLDL's ability to bring perfect continuity and attention to the tiniest detail in a skit series.

[@captainandrew45]

Just when you thought NPC's becoming aware would give you an existential crisis, Viva rolls out this

[@alessandromattioli8937]

The highest level any player can get: being stuck in a menial job escaping their menial job.

[@wanttobeasage2952]

Well in the right game it might pay better

[@maksymisaiev1828]

@@wanttobeasage2952 there are quite few games, where good crafter is not more rich than regular boss raider.

[@wanttobeasage2952]

@@maksymisaiev1828 I meant it might pay better than the real world job. Only a few games manage that. Like Eve, but I can see how my comment wasn't clear.

[@maksymisaiev1828]

@@wanttobeasage2952 ah then yeah, also games like Entropia, where you literally earn money by playing.

[@MrDUneven]

I have heard some ESO guild leaders complain about that.

[@KaktitsMartins]

This actually has serious horror vibes. Damn

[@akmal94ibrahim]

Very Black Mirror

[@JuMiKu]

Would make for a nice goosebumps episode.

[@Durkan34]

Twilight zone episode where it turns out she’s a shop dummy…

[@Stennocrick]

The video about Alan warning the adventurers about a "crazy" guy makes so much sense now.

[@janwensveen1406]

This actually happens a lot to high level players in one of our Life Action Role Playing settings. When the player retires its character, often it becomes an NPC for the script writers to take over and keep around in the background and sometimes brought back for the original player to play for short stints. For quest, he will propbably ask for materials to be collected to restock and reward the player with one made item.

[@sheolcodemonkey4027]

Headcanon: Greg was once an adventurer too, all the NPCs of Honeywood were, when he said "Sure you are" and tapped his nose, what he meant was "I remember when I used to 'think' I was an adventurer, that'll wear off"

[@raven4k998]

when being a hero gets so boring you turn NPC that's the way the cookie crumbles

[@justsomedude1269]

you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become an NPC

[@RHTQ1]

I doubt all NPCs are former adventurers, just the sentient ones

[@jerryalbus1492]

Now it makes sense why NPCs in honey wood are always stronger than the players

[@mindlessdude2216]

Greg probably started off picking/collecting Garlic for the previous garlic farmer, for gold. Greg eventually did enough quests to earn the garlic farm as a quest reward. Which he used to grind more gold. Eventually, the grind became his everyday, and, like Ben, got the "!" above his head soon after.

[@gabenvandenbrink9114]

It's funny, the second he made that amulet for his friend, he already was turned into an NPC. You can see this by him saying 'good luck adventurer' automatically. Followed by him being weirded out from it and looking at his hand.

[@Yoggoth]

2:28 "These items ain't gonna make themselves" 🤣

[@lasfw190aa]

I feel like he’s having a nightmare while grinding his way to be master craftsman when he fall asleep. That’s totally the kind of dream one will get.

[@JS-rv3et]

then he wakes up in the game world when he was the only one left online when the servers got shut down.

[@DutchmanCalypso]

Ben's NPC aura is so strong, he doesn't even have to force out the quest exclamation mark - it just appears!

[@picaludica]

Between the "crazy" self-aware NPC and this, I really love the exploration of horror - Ben really sells it too, he's perfect in both!

[@MidnightDStroyer]

They say that the worst hell anyone could experience is one of their own making. Ben has literally crafted his own hell...

[@emdeka]

@@MidnightDStroyer Well, he is a Master craftsman after all

[@JadenAizen]

1:24 The point where Ben started to become an NPC

[@snuke37]

Ben's acting is on another level. He's simultaneously charismatic and annoyed here and it's beautiful.

[@OgreProgrammer]

"Skip!"

[@GCEXTREMEMN]

You might say its OUTRAGEOUS

[@valiantwarrior4517]

Ah. Now we know why some NPCs give such snarky, trolling quests.

[@legendary8764]

Now we can have a sequel of this where the high monks appear and despawn constantly as Brit goes in and out of their zone when waiting

[@redt3788]

The origin of the self-aware NPC that wants to escape the game

[@alanfrost75]

I think this is the very trauma that eventually led him to become a mugger.

[@AtrusOranis]

which is why he's the one who constantly fights the programming, and has to be put back in place by Bernard

[@vaclavmusil1197]

This would actually be an interesting concept to add to RPGs. You need something but don't want to farm it? Make it a quest for low level adventurers. Maybe all the NPCs are players with different gameplay, making the world feel basically alive. :D

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

That would actually be super cool

[@narnia1233]

I love that idea. And honestly probably some players would get into being traders they might not do much adventuring. It could be fun to be a shop owner. Or an adventurer part time. If you could really make your own items to sell that would be so cool too. Mixing potions or spells or whatever. Maybe going adventuring yourself to find rare materials to use in your trade.

[@earendurvoneinzbern7585]

That's sounds like Sword Art online, where some players chose to become crafters.

[@vaclavmusil1197]

@@earendurvoneinzbern7585 Really? I never watched it. :/

[@RoyalDog214]

Yeah right. Look at what happen to Fallout 76.

[@aphenier]

You noticed how Adam was skipping an NPC, whereas Rowan still remembers the GREG Skipping incident.

[@jackadams3878]

"if i ever see you skip another questgiver, i'll destroy everything you love"

[@thenickshark1]

As a Crafter/Hoarder/Builder in games this is often how it ends up for me. Lol

[@darellmawitjere]

it happen to me also when i Play Durrango game & Phantasy Star Online 2 😂.

[@djdrack4681]

I can only imagine his 1st quest he gives an adventurer: "So recently I rescued 3 children from this bandit camp, but the damn garlic farmer wasn't happy and wants the rest of them rescued from wolves now..."

[@blizzkinggaming6587]

You only get this quest. If you didnt save all the kids.

[@Yemith_Gaming]

I'm shocked that bodger didn't make an appearance. After all, another craftsman has appeared to take his customers.

[@sleepinghermit7778]

I smell a sequel

[@JuMiKu]

Particularly, because the new guy's prices are way better.

[@OverkillBillsXbox]

@@JuMiKu and hes a master were as bodger might just be apprentice as its still beginner/starter vilage

[@yaemz123]

Bodger isn't threatened by Ben. Bodger does quest blacksmithing, Ben does PC gear crafting. Also Bodger only needs 1 hammer hit.

[@XoIoRouge]

I would LOVE to see this story line developed more. A more indepth story about Ben's character stuck as an NPC, giving out quests that at first are expected from a master craftsmen but he starts rigging the system to give out a quests that help him break out of the programming. And it'd be cool to see more interaction with how a player became an NPC affects that player in the real world. Does he still play the game even though his character is stuck? Does he try to remake a new character, but feel at a major loss because he's not a master craftsman? Does the NPC log out when he logs out?

[@desecr4t0r63]

Skip

[@XoIoRouge]

@@desecr4t0r63 :(

[@karasu8310]

Plot twist he can't log out now hahaha

[@jonasgarcia4546]

Yo you’ve got it hes an old man npc on latest video

[@meenakshiogirala]

@@karasu8310 like Sword Art Online? That is scary.

[@kingbacon2937]

The fact that Ben played a weirdo about a week ago. The one where he said he was trapped in the game, but everyone thought he was just a cool npc. It’s like he managed to stop being a quest-giver but the player was actualy stuck in the game... I feel like epic npc man is forming a timeline here guys!

[@KaleidoscopeEffect]

What's the name of that video? I missed it 😅

[@LaukMir]

Westworld vibes

[@kingbacon2937]

@@KaleidoscopeEffect The video is «Imprisoned inside a videogame!» kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3KxcmWofp6om8k

[@TheRealMirCat]

The lore keeps getting more and more Twilight Zoney and I love it.

[@IrishRepoMan]

Turns out, this is how all the self aware NPCs came to be. Greg used to be a player.

[@DragonSkyNija]

Let me guess in version 1.0?

[@michaelsmith2619]

He had his farming skill maxxed out. And alot of players wanted to buy his garlic for potions and high tier food.

[@imalittletoxicjustalittle]

this would be an amazing concept for an anime, a player in a VR MMO does all of this and when he becomes an npc he cant log out and all of the npc's start talking to him and inviting him into there community then due to the amount of skills he has and through comedic circumstances he becomes the end boss or an end game companion after working his way up through the npc community and all the players are still normal its only him

[@imalittletoxicjustalittle]

someone steal my idea please

[@HaloMachinimaFilms]

I like to imagine its actually a darker and deeper story. The player spent countless hours grinding to become the first Master Craftsman. Unfortunately they passed away pushing their body to the limit staying up. His friends and guild found out their death because they had a schudel raid for the monks and he missed it. They petitioned the devs to immortalize him into the game, which they devs were happy to do. This video is the NPC/Former Player's reaction to their situation.

[@B-Lux]

Hi fellow halo machinima creator :D

[@Seven_Leaf]

I could see this happening after an expansion to make the vanilla game's top tier stuffs more accessible to newer players without having to pay out the ass and spamming chat to find someone who still plays with those recipes. Anyone who's done low level dueling knows how much of a grind getting all the BiS gear and enchants ends up being.

[@leyrua]

So, are you familiar with Eric the Slayer from Skyrim? Because...

[@HaloMachinimaFilms]

@@leyrua Yea, I'm familiar with lots of fallen comrades. Erik in Skyrim, Michael PS Trailer, Michael in Borderlands, Taylor's brother mod, Robin Williams in World of Warcraft, Evan in Fallout 4, and more.

[@JR-bf3bu]

Oh that would be cool story about a npc acting like the original player not realizing that he's just a copy , while he thinks he go transported into the game the truth is that the devs created him to honor a fallen player . The reason he acts so similar to the original is because the devs were friends with the player so they knew how he would react in any given situation

[@SolaScientia]

I started laughing at Adam's first "skip" to Ben, but I was practically howling with laughter by the end with the questmarker appearing above Ben's head and Greg's enthusiastic waving at him. I guess we need to know Ben's NPC name for his character now.

[@cliffordsherman7702]

Other Ben: Mastercraftsman

[@cherrydragon3120]

@@cliffordsherman7702 mastercrafter Ben the 1st

[@cliffordsherman7702]

@@cherrydragon3120 nope Ben the first has mustache and glasses.

[@TheEvilBere]

Probably B.O.B.

[@tjsnizek1017]

Bartholomew Osiris Bladesong ...

[@MisterMac4321]

Well, he could always make his "quest" to go and assist his former player-companion... That way he could kind of live vicariously while still supporting his buddy.

[@agiar2000]

Now I'm imagining jbmh0818 (Britt's character) coming back, complaining that she couldn't beat the High Monks of Hergspire by herself and that he just left her there. Yakarin (Ben's character) responds desperately that he's become an NPC and people are coming to him constantly for crafting and now even quests. She thinks he's joking about the NPC part, so she tells him "Well, if people won't stop bothering you here, then just leave! You can just log off the console." Ominous music plays. Yakarin: "I'm... not sitting in front of a console..."

[@jonathanorillo8721]

Isekai'ed!

[@skippy2987]

Of course not. He's clearly on PC

[@jamesorion24]

this is overlord/log horizon kind of shit all over again

[@fearedjames]

@@jamesorion24 Its also literally the plot of the first dot hack anime. Guy gets trapped in a game, although in that he doesn't want to leave until later.

[@treygracen7867]

@@fearedjames ..."He" was trapped in the game? An Shoji is not a "He"...

[@potato3018]

Funny enough, this is exactly what happened to my friend in one of our games. People discovered he maxed out blacksmithing and potion making so he made it his in-game business, he just stands by one of the npc housed and waits till a player asks for his services. He's also pretty strong cause he uses his gold to buy legendary unique player-made equipments with op crystals and enchants

[@LegendOfNym]

Which game are we talking about?

[@maksymisaiev1828]

Easy money by using brain, instead of hands. Like in real life.

[@ShaspioBorderwolf]

R.I.P to anyone refusing to pay.

[@IrishRepoMan]

@@LegendOfNym none because it didn't happen

[@Chraan]

@@IrishRepoMan You don't know that. New MMORPGs are too generic to allow that, but it definitely happened in the classics like Ultima Online.

[@themarushin]

Imagine a game when you can give quests as a player. This is the most brillant idea. Amazing video

[@IamSoylent]

This was what initially excited me when Dungeons & Dragons went MMO... that you could literally be the DM, playing/stalking alongside the players, and spontaneously jump into any character anywhere in the game to do anything you wanted with them... give them spontaneous quests based on something they JUST did, whatever you want. Unfortunately it was too much of a pain to actually DM back when I was looking at it (it had JUST come out at the time, this was a looooong time ago now). But the idea was just so awesome.

[@legendp2011]

great concept, impossible to implement and regulate without the game turning into chaos

[@themarushin]

@@legendp2011 well it doesnt has to be an mmo i think. Maybe 100 players making some kind of contract like you sen him to do a task to gather and specific item and getting some currency on return ir would be great for inmersión than just buying things from someone

[@RW77777777]

it's probably not impossible at all. they would just give you quest giving cooldowns and ways you could pay $$ to decrease the cooldowns

[@mr_indie_fan]

Gathering certain items or doing bounties doesnt sound to hard to implement! Also yeah does sound cool

[@bettyblue0271]

"How I ended up as an NPC in another world"

[@DigitalJesuit]

You know... being able to play as an NPC once you've 100% cleared a game would actually be a fun feature. :)

[@schm00b0]

That's actually a great idea for a MMORPG downtime. You log off and leave your toon to earn Gold and Exp as a NPC.

[@triplet5375]

this was so clever, loved that ending where people crack up laughing. feels so wholesome. keep it up guys

[@defalt2682]

We need continuation, where he realizes how badly npcs are being treated, then apologizes for all he did to them himself and then cast back to normal, but with a capped npc relationships.

[@MaskedButcher7]

Imagine Ben complaining about his character becoming an NPC

[@harry7679]

3:00 now that some plot twist🤣

[@jarrodsteers8991]

3:26 Ben: "...Subscribe?" Me: Is that the quest?

[@ten.points.to.hufflepuf]

I like how Ben looks at his thumb-up with slight confusion when sending off his quest mate and how moments later he giggles after saying to the player's friend 'How can I help adventurer?' as if he's surprised by the sensation saying that gave him, but in a good way. It's the little things👌🏼

[@ailexx3377]

Master crafting is truly a miracle. He didn't even need a mashed potato to make the ashen gauntlets.

[@thebenforever]

Oh I see...this is the nonchalant sprinkling of backstory for that one trapped player episode. Clever Kiwis.

[@Superbus753]

its so good to have britt back for regular videos. she is a part of the great viva la dirt league team and i was missing her character.

[@VivaLaDirtLeague]

We love having her back too!

[@continuumkat]

Britt is so very talented

[@AgentofLADON]

You have double subverted my expectations. I was expecting a horror story like that sentient NPC from a few videos ago. Then it was an amusing skit about a guy who just has fun doing favours accidentally filling an NPC role and being mistaken for one. Then twist again, it ended on a comedy horror note. Well played indeed.

[@23masterOf_salt]

I would rely like a sequel where the guy who turned into an NPC give someone a quest to save his friend from the monks of hergspire & that friend is Britt who has also become an NPC

[@EG-cm5th]

"Good luck, adventurer!" "How can I help, adventurer?" there's a reason they think you're an NPC now, LOL

[@sergioplazat3995]

I just wanted to be nice nothing more😫

[@SaltStorm007]

Refreshing to see Ben actually being nice😂He make such a good ‘bad guy’ too.....who knew he was so versatile! This channel is one of my FAVORITES....literally given me hours of joy with their SPECTACULAR CONTENT💯🔥THANK YOU GUYS!!!

[@etykespeer2230]

I used to be an NPC in Project Zomboid, giving tasks to people to collect things or build walls/barricades etc, but also preparing them for the game, helped a lot of newbies get on their feet. I have so many insane realistic stories out of that period and PZ is getting better every update. As always top content VLDL and not without some nostalgic note.

[@flightlesslord2688]

So you were the tutorial NPC?

[@JamielAlmeida]

is this how all the town guardsmen started? "I used to be an adventurer like you..." of course!

[@Ajoh]

Origin story of the crazy conspiracy guy? That was awesome hahaha

[@akrumvatum1627]

Patch now, for a prequel of this NPC story

[@paladinrpg]

This reminds me of when I played Asheron's Call and was the server's only titled Enchantress. I spent more time in the town enchanting people to craft epic swords, or buffs for combat and summoning portal taxis than actual adventuring and even sold mana stones from salvaged magical items. Earned me a place in the top guild of the time as a full time job, lol. :)

[@kitkat12326]

Screw that I'd be charging so much for all that crafting. You could set your own market haha

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

A quest line develops to unseat your enchanting monopoly lol.

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Did you create bootleg fetch quests to get crafting materials? Bring me 30 beetle toenails and I will reward you with XP and some stones ;p

[@thebrotherskrynn]

At last! Ben's finally got a proper 'NPC Character'! I've waited YEARS for this! Proof that customer service isn't dead! Thank you guys, best channel out there!

[@shaunkollamparampil1710]

"I will ya mugg ya." Ben.

[@vladdangel]

What do you mean by "proof that customer service isn't dead"?

[@thebrotherskrynn]

@@vladdangel I begged for awhile for Ben to have an NPC character other than the Mugger (whom I adore), someone akin to his own Bodger or Baradun. Sorry my joke sounded funny in my head and I guess it really wasn't :)

[@tttpppbbbaaa]

A sequel to this needs to be done like Ben trying to log out but can't only to be interrupted by an adventure to either craft or give quest

[@CrustySpam87]

Didn't you see the previous episode with the "crazy npc"?

[@Shadow-hm3uq]

@@CrustySpam87 OH MY GOD now that you mention it! It all makes sense now!

[@jackojb1]

It's like when you help some people out of kindness in real life and slowly but surely you are the go-to guy even for near strangers. And if it becomes too much for you and you refuse someone they become offended.

[@lassesipila6418]

That's why you tell your last customer "Sorry, I'm getting out of this business, BUT as my last customer, I will serve you for no charge. All I want from you as payment is for you to stay here and tell the next customer I'm gone."

[@101Mant]

People don't appreciate things they don't pay for and start feeling entitled to them.

[@Spawn256]

This series meta of npcs actually having consciousness is so good. Please keep expanding it, like you have.

[@Slywulf86]

Reminds me of playing EverQuest, getting up jewel crafting and selling in the tunnel, or back in the day on Veeshan sever in Freeport lol. Great work y'all!

[@SnakeFox87]

Although the self-aware NPC was played like a spontaneous AI emergence type thing, this would make a great origin story for that 😂

[@AdamBragg]

I think it's better if Ben and Greg have different backstories. Having Ben literally not exist in the real world, but still be self-aware, AND have Ben have a real world existence (which he now has lost?) but becomes an NPC is more interesting than them both being the same thing.

[@SnakeFox87]

@@AdamBragg Oh sorry no, when I said "the self-aware NPC" I didn't mean Greg, I was referring to the video from the other day where Ben played an NPC who knew he was an NPC, begging players Rowan and Adam to help him because he wanted to escape the game. They thought he was a prescripted event, ignored him and left, and then he went through the agony of despawning.

[@AdamBragg]

@@SnakeFox87 Oh yeah, that video. I wasn't thinking about that one. That guy seems like another example of Greg, but unfortunately one with a despawn process which Greg the garlic-farmer appears to (mostly) be immune to - so long as he doesn't leave Honeywood on a quest...

[@Kalaniwolf]

There has to be at least one additional episode where he's in the background. Giving quests or making stuff either distraught or crying.

[@jotheunissen9274]

I want a reaction from Bodger saying Ben is stealing his customers

[@iguanafurgaming2992]

It's like when you hold the door open for someone and then you're stuck there...Forever...

[@whocares9033]

3:11 best part of the video 🤣🤣🤣

[@yoichiplays8806]

"Good luck adventurer" I died🤣

[@jonathanschmitt5762]

2:08 is the last time we see him as a player.