Full Immersion [for what it's worth]

How about everyone's favorite assassin Blue Mage and our resident Elven alien. They kill things.

This makes sense to me, too, actually. So..

We rejoin Auleoris and Anansi, approaching what looks to be a large opening in a hillside. "So..does the game have quests?" asks the winged girl.
"I..am not sure what you mean by the word."
"Like, you know, in a lot of Earth games at least, you'll walk up to some NPC and they'll tell you to go do something and when you go and do it and come back, they give you stuff."
"Oh. This has that sort of task. But..they are not predetermined by the game, but created by the player."

"How's that work?"
"Well, aahh.." The space alien pauses to think a few seconds. "The world of game has pre-determined things in it, any of which could be turned into such a task. For example: Perhaps a despot's grand building has a pest problem, of which all complain. A player can easily learn of this problem in the nearby civilization, and come to the castle prepared to eliminate the pests. And the player might come to the despot, or a secretary, and offer to exterminate the pests. But the kind of reward obtained may depend on the way the offer is given."
"You mean..like, someone with enough charisma might be able to convince the king that the pests are magic spies from an enemy kingdom or something, right?"
He nods. "Yes. Convincing this may cause political complicated with the other country, but the reward obtained at the end would be very better than the reward normally offered. But in fact, it is possible for a player to create such a pest problem, or even fabricate it entirely with words and trickery, and still create the quest to delete it."

They arrive at the mouth of the cave. There are a couple of guards in light armor, holding spears, standing on either side of the entrance. They, and the less-armored man between them, all have the ears and tail of a wolf.

The man in the middle gives a friendly wave and says, "Hello, visitors, and welcome to Laerta. Names and purpose, please?"

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