Some extremely quick sloppy concept sketches of possible Dappervolk NPC ideas for my custom town. I

Some extremely quick sloppy concept sketches of possible Dappervolk NPC ideas for my custom town. I really like thinking about new town concepts and designing ideas for that sort of thing, even if I know they’d never really exist in game lol. It’s a fun creative exercise~- directory for all custom towns people have been working on so far, HERE (link), in case you’d like to see other people’s ideas as well! - actual DV forum post with my town HERE (link) - more info under read more (just in case you’d like to see the descriptions and stuff for the town/npcs without needing access to the dappervolk website) (most of this text is just copied directly from the forum post lol) A little while ago I made an NPC style clothing set for my own worldhopper character, which then branched into me fully considering what they’d be like as a game NPC (drawing their shop items, hatchable/pet, thinking of their quests, etc.) including what type of town they’d be in, which THEN I guess has now branched into me actually fleshing out that town more, and drawing all of the NPCs in it/coming up with concepts for them lol OuO;; … so… here that is!(note: these are all VERY quick sketches, I’m just thinking about concepts, obviously not actually trying to mimic the level of art on the site lol.. I also apologize in advance for my handwriting) Town Map/ concept:This part is more boring, so feel free to just skip to the NPC designs lol, but I thought it was still important for context - being relevant to the characters since it’s the setting they’re in.I don’t have a name for it or really much info, but just based on my own dappervolk OC and where their whole vibe would fit in, I was thinking the main themes for the area could center around some sort of mystery, or something to do with revealing a little more of the world lore, perhaps uncovering a historical event, or etc. The general vibe would be magical, antique, perhaps just slightly creepy, secluded, and whimsical. This would be a kind of later game town also, probably with higher stat gates and not related to any currently released towns on the world map. I guess the town was once just about completely abandoned but is in the process of being revitalized by new inhabitants, and these groups (old residents and new arrivals) clash with each other a bit over something, but end up being unified in the end due to having to work together to solve a major secret of the town (maybe there’s an important world lore/magic reason it was abandoned? which everyone has forgotten but slowly uncovers with the help of the player character? ?? etc.). Hopelessly generic in concept but I think if the characters are all neat and the execution is bearable something like that would be fine - I’m mostly focusing on general ideas rather than specifics lol. This would loosely be the map layout - The older more abandoned portions of the town and newer parts are kind of separated by the main road that passes through (just imagine it a bit darker, with more old victorian/goth/creepy vibes, which are not apparent in a 5 minute pencil sketch with no lighting or details lol)-- NPC Sketches/concepts:There would be 8 NPCs, each with their own locations and etc. I was kind of focusing a little more on having interesting clothing/outfits added to the game rather than fully the personalities themselves lol, so there’s not much worked out about them all, but I’ll note any vague details I’ve happened to think of. They would all also have more items in their gachas of course, but I just drew separates of a few of the main ones, and didn’t bother with stuff like hatchables or etc.Also none of them have names, and I tried to keep them Lore Friendly -Ish, but I have very little experience working outside of my own worldbulding projects and am also not really sure of the full details of the DV universe lol. Anyway -~~ NPC 1 ~~  Location - Community Garden Nature/associated stat -  Comprehension ?? none of the others fit lolMisc - Cutesy on the outside, but bitter on the inside lol.. Reserved, shy, just wants to be left alone to talk to plants all day. Struggles with social outreach and not alienating the new visitors to the town. They really want to get people passionate and involved with farming/gardening (especially since the area has a lot of unique and rare plants that aren’t found many other places), but their general impatience and awkwardness makes it hard for them to communicate in that way. Not sure of species, some sort of animal person, but not a worldhopper. Young-ishHatching item and pet -  Probably something like a flower in a little clay pot, which hatches into some sort of bug, maybe a catepillar or butterfly  (OR A BEE!!!) with flowers growing from it, in a similar color scheme to the NPC? NPC food -  probably some sort of cream puff or macaron or sugar cookie, with flowers detailed in icing on it, and maybe some sort of sprinkles (though not the rainbow ones, like little sugar crystal type ones lol) --~~ NPC 2 ~~  Location -  Town HallNature -  Tenacity Misc - One of the main people leading the way to clean up the rubble and revitalize the old abandoned city. From very far away out of town, but has been here a few years. Possibly an elven worldhopper or something? Very outgoing and focused but can be determined to a fault, sometimes bad at listening to other’s input (which is not great, for someone in a leadership position like she is lol), etc. Constantly trying to help others and be very welcoming and appealing, extremely empathetic, also obsessed with food/snacks and part of the reason she started traveling the world was to sample different culinary styles lol. Young enough to be considered young, but old enough to have still traveled the world for a good few years prior to ending up in town. Hatching item and pet -  Maybe something like a town hall badge, or a necklace with a little jewel on the end, either way it would have the little bright pinkish/red diamond shape from the clothing incorporated as part of it, and would hatch into something like a cat but not fat and short and fluffy (like apprentice cat), something more like a big slender lanky cat with short hair (kind of like abyssinian cats), but it would also have wings or antlers or something that makes it not just look like Plain Cat Animal and a little more fantastical.. would maybe be a goldish color with red accents NPC food -  some type of sandwich wrap that would be easy to eat on the go (for busy active leadership postion holding people like herself lol), thick fluffly but flat bread wrapped around, with something like tomatoes and some sort of herbs kind of visibly sticking out of the sides, maybe with a decorative pin in it (like how some people use toothpicks to hold sandwiches together) --~~ NPC 3 ~~ Location - RuinsNature -  Honor and Tenacity Misc - Cryptic, generally condescending, almost comically serious (like jokes just go over their head).  Mad at everyone for being here, even old town inhabitants. Refuses to help the worldhopper learn about the ancient secrets involved in the main quest really just to spite them/be difficult lol (though can lighten up if the player character makes choices that respect certain old ceremonies and artifacts and etc). Claims to be almost older then the forest itself, and that they’ve inhabited the area since before the first built structures even existed here. Only lighthearted trait is that they are obsessed with games, which unfortunately for them, usually take two people to play, so even though they hate outside visitors, they tolerate others to be able to show their ancient games to them (like weird old forms of cards, dice games, etc), which they claim is because “The traditions must be passed down and preserved”, but is actually just that they’re lonely and eager for someone to play ancient forest chess with gghHatching item and pet -  Hatching item is maybe something like a clear/white and black gemstone (kind of like zebra jasper), with cracks in it where flowers are growing out, it hatches into a weird dragon/wyrm-like creature but with feathers, that’s loosely based on the speculated designs for feathered dinosaurs/ancient birds (which would be white/gray/black with flowers sprouting from it in places as well).. maybe the stone is also a piece used to play an old boardgame, so it incorporates that into it as well lol.. though it has to look strange and fantastical to fit the Npc Vibe NPC food -  tempted to just be like “a rock” or something hghjgjh but.. maybe a bright red berry/fruit looking type of thing, with white spots and red seeds on the inside, the outside has layers kind of like a flower (kind of like how cabbage has layers but more rounded and petal like, and also it would be only on the outside, the skin would be layered but not internally, kind of like how bananas have a separate skin/peel VS. inner part). The description for the item though would have to include something like “questionably edible, suspiciously poisonous looking” lol --~~ NPC 4 ~~Location - Forest Nature - Comprehension?? Misc - An older resident who’s been there since before the town was initially abandoned, but is kind of too laid back to really mind all of the newcomers (they’ve always lived in the woods and weren’t in the town much to begin with, new or old). Though they look young, they have kind of like an old grandpa/grandma spirit (just hangs out laying on a blanket among the trees, sipping warm tea, watching the sky and daydreaming, etc.). They live in the forest to study ingredients for alchemy, which is a passing interest of theirs, though they’re never specific about the actual goals of their studies. Lives in a little wooden hut. Peaceful and relaxed type of person, though is very unclear about their past, and occasionally says some suspicious things (kind of a “seems like innocent babby but is probably actually a secretly extremely powerful otherwordly being” energy). Probably just a human?? (not worldhopper), but it does seem like they’ve been alive for an unusually long amount of time in that case….. Hatching item and pet -  A tiny bottle of alchemical herbs with a light blue bow on it, which hatches into a weird little foresty bird creature that’s a tiny bit creepy (think maybe like a barn owl, but with a longer neck and longer tail/wing feathers that make it look a bit more uncanny valley), which would be a dusty dark blue/black color with a few light purpley/gray accents and a light blue ribbon around the neck or foot (maybe it also still has the bottle in the design somehow as well???) NPC food -  It could be called something like “(insert NPC name here)’s Herbal Broth’ and it’s like a hearty potiony soup sort of thing in a light blue patterned clay bowl (though the broth itself is maybe a light brown or orangey color, kind of vegetable or beef broth, with various herbs and stuff seen in/poking out of it). Description mentions that maybe it wouldn’t tatste good, but has some sort of very good health properties as an advanced alchemical mixture so it’s okay if it’s difficult to eat lol --~~ NPC 5 ~~ Location - the Old Mansion Nature - Charm and Comprehension Misc - From the familiy who originally built the house like hundreds of years ago, even though their legacy and money has entirely faded away and he’s the only one of them left. Despite not being in the same position in society anymore since the town got abandoned, he still somehow has skated by being able to barely ever do a day of work in his entire life, so he’s almost humorously naieve about common everyday life. Proper but a bit eccentric and dramatic (like instead of just being like "Oh, those flowers are cool.” it would be “Oh, sweet mercy upon my soul!!! *puts hand on forehead and swoons* Oh my dear heavens above, oh such a glorious sight! A rose the likes of which I have never seen in all my years, to behold with my very eyes, my very SOUL - *continues on a monologue for like 5 more minutes about a single flower*). Trying Very Hard to fit in but just doesn’t get it, so usually is satisfied staying secluded in the (at this point somewhat decaying) old mansion. Seems well intentioned enough. Also, idk if there are normal elves in world that aren’t worldhopper elves, but if there are, that’s what he is lolHatching item and pet -  I’m not really sure for hatching item or what types of things are associated with old mansions lol… maybe like… a silvery black candleabra with dark purple candles and a little spiderweb in the corner of it (not a pattern of one, but an actual one, like to show that it’s dusty and abandoned lol), which could hatch into a spider/beetle/moth hybrid looking thing (but not very creepy looking, more focus on the moth than the spider aspect of it since I think people may have problems with a spider pet since it’s such a common phobia) fluffy-ish with small wings and big antenna but kind of longer muliple legs (& eyes?), and it incorporates the candle somehow (like seemingly growing out of it’s back, or maybe the little antennae have flames at the end like candles, etc.) ????? not sure with this one lol NPC food -  Maybe called a ‘breakfast platter’ or 'lunch platter’, and is similar to 'Magdalene’s Banquet’ in that it’s multiple little foods all in one thing. It’d be like a really fancy ornate silver tray with handles, upon which is a drink (in a fancy goblet) and a metal dome plate cover/cloche thing that’s half open to reveal something on the plate inside, with maybe also a little rolled up napkin on the corner. Fancy Meal.. or maybe just a fancy deviled egg or something lol --~~ NPC 6 ~~ Location - General StoreNature - Charm and Tenacity Misc - Came very recently from out of town  used to be a traveling salesman, but since the place was abandoned (and is in the process of being revitalised, which means possibly more traffic), he decided it was a good opportunity to set up shop in a more permanent area. A bit sneaky and will mislead people in order to turn a profit on his sales, but still has some amount of morals and is known to be generous to others… at least in certain situations. Can be pretty convincing, but definitely thinks he’s WAY cooler than he actually is. Pretty young and inexperienced also, and obviously not extremely versed in how to fully function in society and run a business and etc. (the 'jump in over my head and then immediately regret it later’ type), though he’d never let you know that. Completely detached from the general conflict of the main quest/town residents, and is really just there to make some money lol. Hatching item and pet -  Item is a gold bracelet with brightly colored charms dangling from it, which could hatch into a little lizard or salamander (or maybe a frog?? .. or maybe a dragonfly?) looking thing that has really bright coloring/spots similar to the outfit, with gold eyes or little gold rings or something on it for extra ornamentation. Though maybe it also has horns, or two tails, or something else in addition to make it look more like Fantasy Creature Pet and not just … a plain lizard lol NPC food -  A melon cut in half with a smiley face or something sloppily scribbled on it with marker lol (or carved into it)… you can tell he just grabbed something from the store and put minimal effort into preparing it, but it’s at least one of his favorite fruits or something so has some personal element to it --~~ NPC 7 (aka "Ole Basket Head”) ~~ Location - Forest (but a different section than the other character from there)Nature - ALL stats (charm, tenacity, honor, and comprehension)Misc - Mysterious.. Speaks only in vague poems and doesn’t communicate very openly with the player character (even affection letters are like a single sentence long). Has no personal quests. Their gacha shop opens by affection only, at 1400 affection lmao.. The items are silly but provide crazy stat boosts. At 1500 affection, along with normal rewards, you also get a wearable which is creepy red eyes with shadow around them, presumably what their eyes look like underneath the hair and basket. Their totem is just a fish with a worn piece of string tied around it. Seems like a silly joke character, but it’s hinted that they Know Many Things and are possibly older and more mysterious than the NPC that hangs out in the ruins. Seems to just fish all day, and walk around aimlessly through the woods all night, but never sleeps, and never removes their basket hat. Hatching item and pet -  the hatchable is an old moldy boot they fished out of the river, and it hatches into a weird little snail + fish combination creature wearing a shoe on it’s back like a shell lol NPC food -  literally just like… a piece of burnt toast or a pile of leaves or something.. like 'Ole Basket Head’s Barely Edible Pile Of Semi-Rotten Tree Bark’ .. the description would be like “are you SURE you want to feed this to your pet?” ghgjh.. maybe would also note that there’s strange claw marks on the bark like it was torn down hastily - -~~ NPC 8 (Avyera) ~~ And then of course there’s the NPC version of my worldhopper character, which is where the whole idea of a town came for in the first place, though obviously their art looks different since I’m just using the images I already made for them lolLocation - Abandoned Library Nature - Comprehension and honor Misc - Still new-ish,  but has been there longer than the other new residents, moved into the abandoned (possibly haunted, or at least has some sort of bizarre magic enchantments on it) Library and fixed it up about 30+ years ago. Quite old, and is a worldhopper, but all his grand adventuring days are behind him, as he’s now settled down to just do research. He only runs the library since it’s free shelter and free access to books, but his main passion is collecting knowledge and trying to investigate all of the big mysteries of the world. Basically just weird little secluded hermit scholar who smells like dusty old books lol. (this is a small description with not much detail/not including hatching items and etc., since I already have everything about him typed out here - https://dappervolk.com/forum/topic/13849-if-you-your-character-was-an-npc?page=3#post-489580, but I felt weird not including him at all lol. I may transfer over the ‘If my worldhopper were an NPC’ full post contents to tumblr someday, but not right now lol, so currently to see that info I guess you have to go onto Dappervolk, sorry! )– And that’s all! I don’t really know the point of this, but I thought I’d share anyway~! -- source link
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