RPG farmers
This day is just like any other. I get off the bale of wheat, that replaces the bed I do not own, grab my hoe, and walk outside to fix up the land. No breakfast yet, food is too precious. Water will also be drunk later, as it too is in limited supply. Even though water is potentially endless due to magic, no one has bothered to do anything with this, and so people die every year due to dehydration.
Not that I could do much about this, I am just a simple farmer after all. Hmm? Whos that in my house?
Oh, another robber who randomly enters peoples, and steals whatever money they can find. Ah, there goes my bed, I used that to feed my cows too, you know.
Oh, they came into my field too? ah, they started digging out any seeds I might have in the ground. There go my crops, and whatever money I might earn. And my single cow.
Jeese, dude just stuck a knife right in her and cut out a single rib bone. And now they are coming over here, hands still bloody, crops still dug up, house still in tatters, and a face that is looking as if all this is perfectly normal.
"Villager, quest?"
The actual hell is going on. Quest? Like what a king gives to a hero? Is he seriously acting as if he is a hero?? Also, I am not a villager, I am a farmer. For that matter, he might as well call me by name for all he has done for me.
"Matt. I am called Matt, and I am a farmer, whose farm is now ruined. Guess I am going to be a homeless person soon, huh."
"Farm getting ruined? Monsters attacking at night. Quest to kill all monsters in this region? Rewards, tell me."
Uhhhh, please don't. The only reason I am alive is that I can capture and kill the weak monsters in this region, and then eat them. They are also bloody good fertiliser, although the food tastes a little odd.
"Rewards: 5 gold bars, and 5000 silver coins, and some combat exp. Must kill 50 small boars to get."
HOW MUCH?!!? I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN 10 SILVER COINS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
"Hang on one second here, I don't have any of that, you took it all from me! Literally all of it! I HAVE NOTH... and he's gone."
"BOOM!!!!"
Did... did that guy just kick that boar 50 meters into the sky? WHY?!?! A punch at like, 1% of that strength could still break everybody in anyone's body, why the hell is he doing so much...
10 minutes of intense slaughtering later...
"I am back. Boars, dead. Money, now."
So. I'm dead if I give don't give him money, based on what just happened. And even if he spares me, I will die since I have no food or water, and all the wildlife in the surroundings is now just blood. Everything is painted red from the blood of boars, and this place now stinks. No one will come by and save me, nobody will want to save me, I might not even leave this encounter alive...
"My horse is hurt. I must leave. I will be back."
And he's gone. I guess this must be my lucky day. Everything I own is ruined, and I am actually glad for once that my daughter died 3 years ago, who knows what this person would have done to them. Based on everything else he has done... lets not think about it.
What now though?