Tales: The Shopkeeper — Npc

His lines were few but functional: “Welcome. Take a look.” “That’ll be three gold.” “Careful on the north road—bandits.” He’d said the bandit line exactly 2,317 times. Adventurers came, sweaty and loud, kicked his display rack, sold him seventeen identical goblin ears, and left. The hero—the one with the glowing sword and the destiny—never even glanced at the chipped mug Gren kept by the register. The one that said WORLD’S OKAYEST SHOPKEEPER .

“You’re not supposed to have that,” she said. npc tales: the shopkeeper

He should have said, “That’ll be three gold.” His lines were few but functional: “Welcome

Gren looked at her. Her health bar (visible only to him, a floating sliver of crimson dread) was at 4%. 317 times. Adventurers came