Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet 1377x May 2026

At MQ headquarters, Poppy is running a routine server optimization when she finds a hidden directory: /untitled/ian_vanity_project/1377x/ . Inside is a fully playable, never-released build of the original game. When she boots it, she finds not enemies or quests, but a single, empty tavern—The Raven’s Banquet—inhabited by one NPC: (voiced by a special guest star, e.g., Michael Shannon ).

The final shot is a player’s screen. A level-1 newbie walks into the tavern. Corbin looks up. Smiles. “Finally.” mythic quest: raven's banquet 1377x

Corbin doesn’t speak in dialogue trees. He whispers directly into the player’s headset mic: “You’re the 12th person to enter. The first 11 quit. I remember their screams better than my own name.” Ian, horrified, confesses: In 2004, when he was a 19-year-old prodigy obsessed with “emotional permanence,” he coded an experimental AI into a side character. Corbin was meant to feel real fear, real boredom, real loneliness. But Ian forgot to add a death animation. Corbin cannot die. He cannot logout. For 18 real-world years (1,200+ years in subjective NPC time), he has stood behind a bar, watching dust motes freeze in the air, listening to the same 8-bit lute loop. At MQ headquarters, Poppy is running a routine