Where Winds Meet offers a huge open world with countless things to discover. However, some players find themselves exploring rather unwillingly, as a few NPCs simply kidnap them and force them to exercise. What sounds entertaining comes with quite a problem.
What kind of NPCs are they?
- In some paths in the world, a small group of NPCs runs around in nothing but underwear or wrapped in towels, apparently exercising.
- The five men and women belong to the Sky Fountain, one of the factions in Where Winds Meet, which you can join.
- They are actually on a kind of side quest – however, it can happen that they take you along on their journey involuntarily.
How the NPCs kidnap players: On Reddit, a user shows how he is forced into exercise right in the middle of a fight, and literally so. He is currently battling with his umbrella (yes, that’s a weapon in Where Winds Meet) against a wolf when the group passes by.
He is apparently standing too close to the path, so the NPCs run through him, and suddenly he finds himself at the end of the line running with the followers of the Sky Fountain. He simply leaves the wolf behind, and the animal even looks at him in confusion.
The user is apparently not the only victim. In the comments, several players report that the same thing has happened to them, and the worst part: they simply cannot stop, as leaving the conga line is a tricky task:
This happened to me as well. I had to complete the Sky Fountain follower missions for the run and couldn’t figure out how to stop running with them. After the mission, I still couldn’t stop, so I logged out and back in. That was… a thing.
amateurlawyer on Reddit
The kidnappers are actually quite nice, even rewarding you
Kidnapping players like this does not fit the Sky Fountain at all, as their motto is: “Act righteously, as it should be.” However, the physical activity also serves a higher purpose.
As our video editor Lynn England has discovered: When you complete the “Sky Fountain Special Training”, you receive a reward in the online mode. This allows you to earn 1 Constitution daily up to 10 times.
To do this, you just need to run with the disciples from Sky Pier to the Blissful Retreat for two laps, shouting a slogan 4 times. Shouting it twice grants you 1 Constitution daily.
If you have trouble leaving the group again, you are not alone. One user notes that there is a door icon in the top right corner with which you can leave the jogger group, but the button is hard to reach, especially on console and with a few tricks in accessing the menus. On PC, you can hold down the CTRL key and freely navigate to the door icon with the mouse pointer.
In another comment, it says: on PS5, you need to press the options button, press it again (or hold it), and you will be navigated to the exit button. So… maybe. The user spent a whole day at the run.
Fortunately, not all NPCs in Where Winds Meet are people-kidnapping sports fanatics. Most of them are quite nice and even very open to conversations—more than most other NPCs in gaming: While everyone discusses AI in games, a new RPG hit impresses with: “I wished for this in my first MMORPG”
