Give Me Your Inventory Item: Difference between revisions

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[[NPC]]s are demanding people. They will ask you to donate money, give you [[Pop Quiz]]zes about what you've done on your quest, send you off on annoying [[sidequest]]s, make you run all the way around the world for that [[Plot Coupon|useless puzzle item]] or [[Chain of Deals|trading game]] item... and the hero will, of course, be obliged to do as the NPC says, because, well, good guys like you are just into philanthropy like that (not to mention the fact that it's [[But Thou Must!|necessary for your quest]] half of the time.)

 

This often results in an the player getting something much better in return, sometimes later in the game, basically making it an unspoken [[Aesop]] about giving stuff to people in need.

 

* The most famous example of this comes from ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]''. In Dungeon 7, there is a monster that will stand in your path and say, "Grumble, Grumble..." until you hand it your bait, a normally useful item for luring enemies away from you.

** It doesn't happen only once, either, so save those Rupees for more than just firing Arrows.