You can just ask random people for quests!

I went to a pub and asked this guy if he had any missions for me. He turned to me with a serious look, said and I quote: “I need you to recover an 8GB white Toshiba flash drive I lost around here yesterday. It has some valuable information, but it’s encrypted, so dont go snooping in. If you find it for me. I’ll make it worth your while.”

    • @kewwwi@lemmy.world
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      smells like copypasta, but random strangers will deadass just give you shit to do if you ask, and the “ask for rumors”-thing totally works irl

    • Catpurrple
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      271 year ago

      It’s gotta be a copypasta, the format seems very similar to that one about TES Oblivion, with the person asking for rumors at a bar and being told a guy went missing in the mountains or whatever. Been a while since I loaded up a stalker game, but the “it’s encrypted so don’t go snooping” bit I think is actual game dialog, no random person would say this.

    • @catsup
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      They still are??? Tons of people still use them

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          BEHOLD!

          The entirety of South America

          • @Detheroth@lemmy.world
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            The guy above you was obviously being disingenuous. I use 8gb thumb drives to organise my jobs and hobbies. All the work I need for Job A is on Drive A etc.

            So there’s got to be at least ten of us. Maybe even twenty!!

            • @citty@sh.itjust.works
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              You can get a bunch of fairly reliable 8GBs cheap from the right places, I use them for boot media or installers or “man it’d be really nice to move a file from here to there without much thought” scenarios

        • @catonwheels@ttrpg.network
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          Hello I am using them! Well actually I don’t even have bigger than a 4GB. But mostly I use my big box of 508MB usb sticks they do their job fine because rarely I need to transfer something that needs to be together so I just use like 3 or four when I am lazy.

        • @ChexMax@lemmy.world
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          I still use 8gig, but for work. If I’m giving this away with three docs on it, I’m buying them in bulk and trying to get them cheap

    • RachelRodent
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      because he is lying it is not actually encrypted the quest has two endings. it depends on what you decide to do with the drive

  • Kaity
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    111 months ago

    I thought I wouldn’t have a mission for anyone but then I realized I’m an escort quest and unlockable companion.