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[T.Y.N]

Bumped into a random NPC named 'Al Fabet' at Core City. Wiki didn't say anything about him. Sells junk and organs, thinking they're valuable.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=813237860

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=813238707








Then again, I need those intestines to make taurine...

[Altos]

Al Fabet isn't covered on the wiki because he's just a joke character. First off, his entire existence is spent walking around the Core City merchant district attempting to sell a bunch of crap to all the same vendors. This is a parody of 90% of the people who play Underrail--those people who constantly walk around at half speed because they're carrying every single piece of scrap they find in the hope that they can eventually sell it to some vendor somewhere. Secondly, his name is just "Alphabet" split into two words, which is probably a pun about how he'll try to sell the vendors (and the player) anything from A to Z.

[Fenix-Venix]

Actually his name stylized as name one of the Underrail forum members, who complained that traders doesn't buy all junk, so every time hi is overloaded, and traders should trade like in Diablo.
So it not only archtype, it is specific forum character lol.

And looks like some of his phrases just copied from forum looool.

[Altos]

Originally posted by Fenix-Venix:

Actually his name stylized as name one of the Underrail forum members, who complained that traders doesn't buy all junk, so every time hi is overloaded, and traders should trade like in Diablo.
So it not only archtype, it is specific forum character lol.

And looks like some of his phrases just copied from forum looool.

Wow, I never knew that, and I'm on the forums! xD
That's even more hilarious!

[Zebrazilla]

Just stumbled across this character as well. Wow, this is pure comedy gold xD

[Fenix-Venix]

Originally posted by Altos:

Originally posted by Fenix-Venix:

Actually his name stylized as name one of the Underrail forum members, who complained that traders doesn't buy all junk, so every time hi is overloaded, and traders should trade like in Diablo.
So it not only archtype, it is specific forum character lol.

And looks like some of his phrases just copied from forum looool.

Wow, I never knew that, and I'm on the forums! xD
That's even more hilarious!

Just search Elhazzared or something like that there.

[DedZedNub]

Thanks to Altos and Fenix-Venix for the development history on this character.

OMG his dialog in those two screenies actually describe my last 7DTD play session, and I was trying to fight it then. It is almost exactly like the arguments I have with myself when playing any loot centric RPG. That is funny. What worries me, and has for some time, is that I've become a lot like this Alfa Bet character. It's actually ruining much of my gameplay experience. I am trying to break it but it is hard. Too many RPGs and a few MMOs engrained it into my soul. The advent of more crafting in RPGs tends to have made it worsen over the years. Everything could be an ingredient, everything has SOME value. Just like he would say. OMG. Boring trips back and forth repeatedly carrying trash, even often in Titan Quest, for the love of Pete. It is totally counter-productive in that game, where anything that isn't grey is worth at least 10-100 times more and enough of non-grey loot can be made to drop in a 10 minutes of fighting to fill the entire inventory. Hmm, maybe this is therapeutic.

I even do that in Vanilla Skyrim, so you KNOW I have a major problem (since it really wastes time, better to just have more encounters and drop the iron armor -- but it is demonstrably hard for me to do, even with conscious effort. Yep that bad.) So far I've only managed to tend to drop the Iron and lowest leather or hide type armor. Of course, I also have to try on everything to see how it looks in Bethesda games. What a mania. Often I'd spend minutes returning to camp overburdened in games. Even sometimes I'd sort of bunny hop, dropping more valuable loot then taking other loot forward, dropping it, then going back to the other pile. I did break that habit after a while, but I did seriously do it for a time. Good grief. Hours wasted trying to maxi-min every possible loot find.

But I do find his dialog shown funny, it's ironic and mocks my own gameplay style. I'm going to look for this guy, maybe by dealing with him enough, I'll learn to break the habit. LOL. Bad news is I'll probably end up hanging out with him and using him as my mentor instead of completing the game.

In an attempt to wean myself slowly off some of these bad habits, I'm going to refuse to level Pickpocketing on this first character, Braudcaste, which I've just started the game with for the first time. Probably will do badly, as she's slightly too much an exploratory well-rounded master of nothing. I also did not get the pack-rat like feat and just grabbed the extra utility socket instead.

Have to try not to min-max and not go alfabet crazy. I'll try to lean a bit towards a roleplay approach in an Oddity game.

[Jami]

Hah, I recognised who that is based on instantly.