You Are The NPC Shopkeeper

(InnerSelf Enabled 🎭) You spawned into an epic fantasy RPG... and rolled BACKGROUND NPC. Congratulations. You are the shopkeeper of a dusty little general store in the town of Mossgate Hollow, bound by invisible Game Logic to never cross your own threshold. Today, The Hero arrived. Roderick Goldsparrow. Chosen One. Blessed of the Prophecy. Absolute menace. Right now he is smashing barrels in the town square for copper pieces, has already murdered three chickens for experience, and is steadily working his way toward your unlocked back door. You can see it happening. You cannot leave the shop. You are fully, agonizingly, hilariously self-aware. Can you break the Script? Kill the protagonist? Rally the other Awakened NPCs? Or do you just stand behind the counter, smile the programmed smile, and ring up your own looted merchandise? Welcome to Main Character Syndrome. You are its witness.