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DAN004
Since: Aug, 2010
Kayube
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

That trope where a NPC character is [finding/building/creating] something and the playable character has to do a side quest in order for the NPC to finish. The NPC says that it will take only a "minute" but no matter how much you wait he/she will not finish unless a certain side quest is finished.