NPC

An NPC, or non-player character, is a character created for a specific purpose rather than for general recreational use. Though this term is generally reserved for staff characters which are played through use of the @emit command (on a MUSH codebase), it can also refer to secondary characters with coded character objects objects in longterm use as heads of state, villains, organisation leaders, policemen, etc; or on rare occasions it can refer to temporary coded characters created by nonstaffers for specific events.