Went hiking alone and accidentally triggered an NPC quest chain

Posted anonymously: 'I went hiking alone yesterday — felt like doing a quest lol'

The post reads: 'Okay so at every single turn on the trail, there were elderly folks just sitting there. And every time I walked past, they'd start talking to me lmaooo. Genuinely thought they were NPCs.'

The hiker couldn't pass a single checkpoint without triggering dialogue from a random elder, exactly like walking past an NPC in an RPG who has a quest for you. Peak open-world hiking experience.