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Non-Combatant NPC
Status that bars an NPC from directly touching a god — but not from loading someone else's crossbow.
Story so far
When Mordecai walked into the tent, Huanxin Jinx hissed that he was a non-combatant NPC: he can't touch her, he can't fucking touch her.
Mordecai agreed — not directly. He held up an ordinary crossbow bolt tipped with his mother's ashes, loaded it into the weapon mounted on Donut's back, said goodbye to Katia, and walked out. Donut fired it. The status stopped him from killing a god himself; it did not stop him from arming the cat who would.
Role
The rules limit Mordecai works around to get his revenge without breaking it.
Relationships
Mordecai — His status; he works around it rather than through it
Huanxin Jinx — Invokes it against him moments before dying
Donut — Fires the weapon he loads
Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 33
- Rule set forbidding NPCs like Milk from interfering in crawler conflicts except in self-defense.
Chapter 36
- Distinction Carl notes between true NPCs and other mercenaries among the guards inherited from the Prism.
Chapter 94
- The status King Rust negotiated for his harem, which made them unconscriptable and, fatally, still markable outworlders.
Chapter 96
- The rule set Mordecai invokes aloud so that cutting open a warlord's golem isn't counted as an attack.
Chapter 98
- Status that bars an NPC from directly touching a god — but not from loading someone else's crossbow.