The PAX Prime Trail: Here Lies NPC, Cheese and Pepperoni.
August 22, 2012
So in case you didn't know this is a joke about the classic, "educational" game The Oregon Trail. I say eduacational in quotes, because I don't know if I actually learned anything historically significant from the game besides that the whole Oregon Trail thing existed. That and fording a river will always end with half your family drowning, but I'm not sure that's too historically accurate.
I'll give you all a little insight on my writing process. The entire reason I did this story arc was to tell this joke. Well I wanted to do a road trip story arc, but I knew this joke was going to be a part of it. This was the first joke I wrote for this arc, and while it isn't the strongest joke in the arc by far, but without it there would be no road trip arc, but I digress. I wasn't going to kill off a normal character, you know the ones that need to abide by the laws of mortality, but hey, I have NPC, he can die and come back. Don't need to explain anything there, he's an NPC they die all the time! So yeah, that's the only reason why NPC is in this story arc, so he can die, for comedy!