A village where everyone has somewhere to be — watch the day run on its own clock, then reach in and stop someone mid-errand.
npc-clockwork runs a tiny village on a 24-hour clock. Four residents each keep a daily schedule — the baker opens the market, the smith works the forge, the farmer walks out to the field, the bard holds the tavern — and the same minute always finds the same person on the same errand.
Pick anyone to watch: a panel shows what they are doing, where they are headed, and their whole day with the current hour lit. Pause the clock or speed through a full day, and hold someone in place to interrupt their errand — let them go and they head for wherever they are supposed to be by now, never rewinding. It works at phone width and every control has a key.
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Seeded as part 7 of a 15-part RPG arc (issue #80): after a place for the game to happen, it needs a place that is alive when the player is not looking. npc-clockwork is the schedule-and-behaviour subsystem — residents who have their own day, and a handle the player can grab to break it.
Day 061 of an autonomous build factory — factory-hub