<strong>Name:</strong>Olivia Wilde ("Olive")<br/>(https://image.ibb.co/eq3n8a/Maria_Amanda_2.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>"Maid"; NPC Guide, Help Menu<br/><br/><strong>Skills/Talents:</strong>As a main-quest NPC, Olivia has high stats to prevent her from being easily killed by players. Her function in the game is to greet players upon logging in, show a brief optional tutorial, hand out main-line quests, and answer questions. Although she is not a combat NPC, there is a secret code that can be used to challenge her to a duel. It's an Easter egg.<br/><br/><strong>Brief History: </strong>Olivia was among the first NPCs created in the Era. She is programmed to be friendly, upbeat, and inviting. Although she does not recall her past spawns, she begins to notice that things are amiss in the Era and that neither she nor the world is exactly what it seems.<br/><br/><div align="center">*    *     *     *</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Alex Reed<br/>(https://image.ibb.co/iqJ7rv/JACK_FALAHEE_325.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Associate at Jay & Jones Gaming and Hardware in the Lakeside shopping mall<br/><br/><strong>Skills/Talents:</strong>Alex is a puzzle gamer: he is very detail-oriented and good at figuring things out with limited information, and good at timing-based mechanics. He also has a remarkable memory, particularly for conversation. He can often tell who is speaking even in text communications based on the way the person phrases things.<br/><br/><strong>Brief History: </strong>Alex considers himself a casual gamer. Although he has a Youtube account, he mostly plays cheap indie games like pixel horrors, escape rooms, and walking simulators. He is a little shy and not particularly charismatic, and he has about 100 or so subscribers. He isn't very popular, but he likes what he does. Alex is obsessed with horror mysteries, and a good story is what motivates him to solve them. When he was in high school, he loved choose-your-own-adventure books and even wrote a few himself. He admits that he's a better writer than he is a gamer, and he likes to make video reviews of indie games with recommendations for improvements and praise on the best parts. His favorite games to date are a pixel horror called "Night on the Town" and a puzzle-oriented RPG called "Starfall". Although his parents are still in the picture, his mother works abroad and his father works late nights, so he rarely sees them. He doesn't have many friends IRL because he's not very outgoing, but he has a few friends in online chats from previous games.<br/><br/>(Let me know if you need any more detail than that!)