Category talk:NPC Players

New NPC?

"The Enchanted Flying Oyster" character was created on Oyster Egg Day XII, and seems to be a scripted bot - occasionally posting haiku-ish messages in chat, as well as a few other auto-response mechanisms for kmail & pm's. Can anyone confirm/deny that this is a new NPC?

Something else to speculate on: He sent me a cryptic message about an invasion of Seaside Town in the near future. --Grimdel 22:40, 17 August 2007 (CDT)

Heres the message:

Prince of Oyster Egg Day,

Though my words do not carry through to chat, I am still here in mind, and spirit. I ask of you, to spread my word to the people of the Kingdom. Seaside Town will be invaded. I see it coming very soon!

--Grimdel 23:58, 17 August 2007 (CDT)

Obviously a fake. No custom avatar, no NPC tag, he's in a clan... --MrAndersonMan 04:11, 18 August 2007 (CDT)

What Makes an NPC?

The current list of NPC Players seems to be just the ones that have an account and can thus send and receive mail. But others exist that can only send mail, such as Subject 37, and the Crimbo elves that gave out DNOTC Boxes last January. Do we want to add those here or make a different NPC category? --Club (#66669) (Talk)

• To me, in KoL-matters, everything with a face that I don't (immediately) fight qualifies as an NPC. Some monsters seem NPC-y as well when they fill in a narrative role, like Professor Jacking or Rene C. Corman. Up until now I've used the NPC-category only to determine whether a kmail came from a legitimate source or was some sort of scam (as I have encountered several times in other games but gladly never in the Kingdom). So on that basis I only felt the need to look up a list of accountless NPCs for their actual use when they were right in front of me and I already had a name to look up. NPCs in KoL tend to be handled as a location and sometimes as store in addition. The only occasions when the admins wanted an actual account to represent an NPC was when they needed one, because the game was programmed in a certain way (buffing, talk with a certain name in chat, collect items) or for rare cosmetic reasons. Radiobugbear is an exception to me, because he doesn't represent anything from the KoL universe; he seems more of a shared admin chat-multi. To get back to your second question: The Prisoner and the gift sending NPC-elves seem to come from an era where the admins figured out a way to send kmails without having to create an account to go with it. Those are faceless NPCs, existing only to perform a single task and vanish again. Because of that facelessness and the fact that they are not players (having no account) I'd propose we add a separate Category:kmailing NPCs or something, add links to the existing pages where the kmail text is listed as well as NPCs from this category that actually send kmails and call it a day. I don't think we need a list to collect everyone in the Kingdom who owns a store or talks smack to players just for the sake of having that list. --Yatsufusa 05:15, 19 December 2012 (CET)