Been thinking about this for awhile. Would it be possible to have a conversation option with an npc ally that adds it to a pool (and despawns the NPC), and you could spend that pool like a currency to acquire a set of random items (or a stat effect) in a list depending on another menu option? Perhaps the NPC could instead constently generate that pool currency depending on how many NPC have been despawned.
Maybe it could be a way to “fill out” the player’s faction in a non game-space way and enhance the game for people like me who regard NPC as they currently are as liabilities.
It might also be a way to keep score, as the number of NPCs despawned like this could be considered people the PC has ‘saved’ and are in a safe-ish place and are scavenging resources.
