”Son, don´t you dare to forget us!” My dad was uncharacteristically frightened this day and I have no idea why.
“No dad! Why!?”
“Son, whatever happens to mom an me, please remember that we love you!” Dad was distressed and it’s starting to frighten me.
“My sweet sweet child! My loved little son, please don´t in any way, blame yourself!” Mother was beginning to confuse me even more and I started to become a little bit scared.
“Don´t worry Tremo I will take care of the boy. You do know the rules but I´ll do my utmost in spite of them.” The elderly and scary looking man came and put his hands on my shoulders and began to drag me away from them.
“Mom! Dad! Please explain! What’s happening!? Why are you crying mom?!” But despite my screams all they did was to turn away from me.
What did I do? What?! Why was this happening? Where are they going? I want my mom and dad!
The scary looking man took me by the shoulders and dragged me away from the house.
After some time I couldn’t see my house any more. And the scary man started to talk.
“The rules….kid… the rules states that you never had a family and if you want to live you better remember that… From now on you don´t have a last name, you don´t have relatives and no one can speak to you until you get them to recognize you. You are a pop-up-child with no background. You hear?”
What?! …What?!
“pup-up… what´s that?”
“Kid…your folks are by now long gone and there is no….. kid, there is nothing we can do… The… there isn’t even a house left of the people that used to live in that part of the forest. And from now on you better forget them all together. There wasn’t ever a house there.” The words just flew straight over my head and I couldn’t understand him. It seemed that whatever he said it hurt him more than he could say.
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There was no house? But? What?!
“Kid, just forget and start anew…”
With a snap he woke up.
What a lovely day! The sun is shining and the grass just smells fresh with the dew from the night.
It’s been a while since he had a nightmare last, but the bliss of being him is that he’s quick to forget.
But some things is harder than others. Like that in a couple of weeks, the world will change..
In a couple of weeks the players will arrive and the colonization of my world will start. The pain!
No one knew why they were coming but they were. And the authorities made up rules for as they called it “respectable conduct worthy of the NPC”. But at least they informed everyone beforehand.
So here he is in the middle of nowhere trying to build a settlement. The rules where that you can act however you like as long as you can point to a culture in your settlement that condone the act. So all over the world people like him started to build hostile settlements to guard at least that spot of the world.
This particular spot of forasty-hell is a nasty one. The monsters are frightening, the weather appalling, and the closest player-friendly town is at least half or even up to a month away.
Safe away from the bastards.
He spent as long as he could remember trying to prepare for the change. Going to different schools and dojos trying to get a scholarship in the adventures guild and since 2 years he became an honorary member and will probably be one of the only npc's in the guild as it is reserved for players.
The last 2 years he helped build walls and destroying roads leading up to one settlement or another. Everything he could to make it harder for the coming players. This will probably be the last settlement he helps before he goes back in to a “beginner town”.