Suspicious NPC
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Candidate Card
Contents
Synopsis
| NPC’s behaviours evidencing suspicion for the PC’s presence. |
Relationships
Context:
Awareness 
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Contrasts with:
Unaware NPC 
, Seeking for PC 
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May relates to:
Anticipation 
, ....
Description
The representation of Suspicious NPC consists of small utterances (e.g. "Uh?!") or Dialogue (e.g. "I heard something...") that evidence that a NPC is hostile and has detected some sign of the PC's presence, which being confirmed would lead to Engagement. Suspicious NPC may fit or trigger an Anticipation phase.
In terms of Awareness of hostile NPC towards the PC, Suspicious NPC represents an intermediate state, between Unaware NPC and Seeking for PC.
Suspicious NPC usually works as a Beacon Locator of the NPC, in the sense that it contributes mostly for the player to become aware of a (nearby) offscreen NPC, who otherwise might attack furtively.
Examples
[Note: considering that this is still a candidate pattern, more examples then usually are presented, in order to provide a better support for the discussion.]
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