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In the hectic world of MMOG development, a developer rarely has enough time to sit back and do any writing outside of his or her particular field. Luckily for the Ten Ton Hammer readers, our editorial staff has coerced Nina "Aythem" Sund into preparing a regular set of developer journals for us, and she has even gone so far as to answer some of your questions from our forums! Without any further prose, the Ten Ton Hammer team presents our Anarchy Online Developer Journal #2! If you haven't checked it out already, make sure you go back and read Nina's introductory dev journal to learn a bit about her background.

The very first thing I did when I joined the Anarchy Online team was to learn the NPC chat tool by writing dialogue for what we call the PvP quests. In these missions, players talk to a person who asks them to perform a series of tasks, all concerning the demise of their enemy. In the process of doing this, the players are flagged for PvP and risk encountering other players who might attack them.

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