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So, our hero has just given the blacksmith or healer some [[Elemental Crafting|unobtanium]] or [[Find the Cure|rare plant]] he gathered from the far reaches of [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]] to make into something he can actually use in battle. The NPC tells him it will take a while "so wander around and come back."
Our hero, ever impatient to get on with his epic quest, comes right back inside after walking out, probably to bug the NPC with taunts of "[[Are You Done Yet?]]?" Amazingly, the NPC is not only finished with the commission, he asks what took our hero so long to get back.
This is a video game trope in where the game expects the player to [[Talk to Everyone]] in town while waiting for the [[Item Crafting]] NPC to finish, but the actual programming causes the [[Event Flag]] for them to finish to turn once the player leaves the building. This leads to the hilarious situation where the NPC can apparently finish the [[Infinity+1 Sword]] in less than half a minute.
If the game forces the player to finish a dungeon or some other plot event before the "commission" (likely some [[Plot Coupon]]) is finished, that's a [[Broken Bridge]].
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== [[Action Adventure]] ==
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
** ''[[Link to The Past]]'' did this as well with the Level 3 Sword. If you left the building and immediately returned, the smiths wouldn't be finished, but all you have to do to trigger the flag is leave the larger map screen where the shop was located.
*** A faster way is to get there in the Dark World, whip out the mirror, go to the Light World, drop the thing off, then step in your mirror portal and immediately warp back. All done!
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* In ''[[Diablo]] 2'', Act 3, Alkor the alchemist tells you to busy yourself while he's experimenting with the ashes of Ku'yleh, but clicking on him again is more than enough.
== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ==
* A variant in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is equally silly. You're told to wait, but three seconds later he's done. However, there's a good reason it doesn't happen for more than a few seconds in WoW. Griefers could simply log off and wait in the building to prevent anyone from turning in quests to that NPC.
* Quite a few contacts in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' have dialog that reflects passage of time in between missions in a story arc, even if you select the next mission right on the heels of the last. "I'll have this mysterious substance analyzed to find out what it is. Good, you're back. I had that stuff analyzed and..."
== [[Role
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' has one of these when a blacksmith is forging you a weapon. The flag triggers as soon as you go to the moon.
** Attempting to breed chocobos in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' involves "wait time." The flag is triggered once you fight about ten battles at any spot.
** In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', after finishing the first half of the Shumi Village sidequest (when Attendant is assigned to help sculpt Laguna's statue), the quest will not continue until you exit to the world map and re-enter the village.
* The fossil reviver in all the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games. Sometimes you actually ''do'' need to walk around a bit, but it's just as common that you can walk out and into the building.
** Averted in the Day Care Center, where you must spend some time walking to get [[
** Also averted with the Apricorns in the Generation II
* The blacksmith in ''[[
** Instead of leaving the town, you could also just spend the night at the inn or walk into the sanctum.
* The end trigger in the 'Mission's Brother' quest in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' is a particularly amusing example: the trigger for the next conversation is you leaving the zone, but because of how the despawning system works, you can overtake Griff on the way to the door, come back in and be told he skipped town while he's still visible behind you.
** If you ask Ajuur to set up a duel with Bendak, it "takes some time" to bribe officials etc. If you have that conversation late enough in the main Taris storyline, this is apparently just long enough for you to get to the door and back.
* In ''[[
** As well as when the [[Broken Bridge|bridge]] is being repaired so you can get said block. Thought somewhat of an aversion as you actually have to [[Talk to Everyone]] before the event flag will trigger.
* Common in the ''[[Tales
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] III: [[Morrowind]]'' you do need to wait for several days for the statue you ordered to finish the construction, but you need to exit the building if you try the rest method, or else the sculptor won't go make it.
** Being a game that is aware of its own internal calendar, and likes to use it, ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] II: [[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' is ''all over'' this trope.
* ''[[Ultima Underworld]]'' features a blacksmith character who will repair your items. The trope is averted by requiring X REAL TIME minutes to accomplish the repairs, and then de-averted via ([[Captain Obvious|game]]) time-speeding tricks like sleeping (unless your character isn't tired).
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* When you give Naomi the Military Secret or {{spoiler|Japanese Sword}} in ''[[No More Heroes]]'', she tells you to come back later for a new beam katana. "Later", of course, means "as long as it takes to leave and come back in"... though they're so expensive it's more like "leave, do a few assassination side-jobs, come back in".
== [[Turn
* ''[[Shining Force]] II'' has this with the [[Mithril]] weapons.
== [[Wide Open Sandbox]] ==
* A solid example appears in the game ''[[Prototype (
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