When a player turns into an NPC

I can only imagine him explaining the quest like: "My kin has journeyed to fight the monks of hergspire alone. I would accompany her, but alas, my work is needed here in Honeywood. Please make sure she is safe, and help her on her quest, adventurer!"

This was how Ben glitched into a sentient NPC and couldn't escape from the game, and no one believed him ever since.

The quest is to go help his friend at with those monks. He can’t leave his post soo many orders.

"Then the players all abandoned the quest to start a business." Every DM's nightmare scenario.

You either die a adventurer, or you live long enough to become NPC.

I feel like this is going to turn to lore, the npc that is aware but people think it is an easter egg, qnd Ben turning to an npc. The new era in the series has begun.

if you notice, after he makes that fire chestplate, the player tag goes away

This is honestly a genius skit. love it so much.

"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I got a master crafting skill."

Ah yes, that moment where a player has been so notable in the community that the devs decide to make an npc of them. How sweet. Original player probably died or had cancer. And now there is an npc of him for all time...

Ben's character is finally getting karma for all the times he said "skip" to the other NPCs

He has reached the master level that unlocks the Hidden Class: NPC.

This happened to my friend in FFXIV. He got top level crafting to get us geared for the end game raids. He never made it to the raids.

There could be a great movie or series based on this premise!

I like to imagine its actually a darker and deeper story. The player spent countless hours grinding to become the first Master Craftsman. Unfortunately they passed away pushing their body to the limit staying up. His friends and guild found out their death because they had a schudel raid for the monks and he missed it. They petitioned the devs to immortalize him into the game, which they devs were happy to do. This video is the NPC/Former Player's reaction to their situation.

So Britt comes back and totally accepts Ben as an NPC, not even recognizing him as her former friend adventurer. Or with a different adventurer who helped her with the monks, and talking about the former Ben This is pretty scary lol.

At 1:36 when Ben says "How can I help Adventurer?" and then chuckles, I knew he had sealed his own fate.

I actually remember there was a quest in WoW I did during Cataclysm where the player momentarily took the place of an NPC quest giver. You had the giant exclamation mark above your head and everything. It was legit one of the funniest quests I ever did in that game. The NPC you were standing in for at the time provided color commentary on the "Adventurers" you handed out quests to. You later ended up doing a quest chain where you helped them out of the trouble they got into while fulfilling their quest. That part was funny as well. I remember one of them needed help because despite being very high level, he couldn't swim.

The video about Alan warning the adventurers about a "crazy" guy makes so much sense now.

New Lore: when the game was in development, there were no NPCs, it was a game where all humanoids you interacted with were, in fact, players. However, the development team became so engrosed in their side roles, that they became NPCs. Greg, Bodger, Baelin, Baradun, etc, were the original Dev team. When the game released, players whose side talents/crafting became more useful as NPCs actually became NPCs. Over time, the now-NPCs forgot they were ever players. Each new update/expansion increases the need for higher-tier NPCs, so the game turns players with perfected skills into appropriate NPCs.