Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Waking the NPCs
What the dungeon's people know about themselves: Mordecai's distinction between naturals, whose memories cannot be altered unless they sign away their rights, and the printed and imprinted rest, and the question, whenever an NPC seems to know more than it should, of what waking would mean.
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Progression
Herot's essay at the back of the sixteenth Cookbook on the nature of the NPCs, and her 'Worn Path Method' (ch. 17).