NPC: ONC2026

Prompt 86.
A wasteland hides pockets of thriving communities protected by mysterious shields.

Well, not too thriving. Fenix was a Peddler, and he constantly had to avoid Heroes beating him up with clubs-usually not intentional, but then it was hard to tell clumsy from greedy.

The problem wasn't that he could die-he could. He would respawn if he did. The real issue is that he could remember, once he picked up loot that belonged to Heroes, not to an NPC.

Leaving his home only placed him in a world of confusion. Home may have its respawns, but it was less real than the wilderness outside of it. And worse, there was a hint of an ancient history with the outside world to plague his actions.

Maybe that would be enough to make exploring the real world a necessity, but the last hero he interacted with said it would all end.

But what was it that would end? The very real but empty world, or the really full world stuffed with improbable things?

And could he live through that end?