NPC support

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Don't know if you guys realize this, but anything sentient not controlled by the player is an NPC (non-player character). Just because the gatherers don't really do anything doesn't somehow not make them NPCs. Having them actually do something that looks like what a normal person would do is just a matter of updating their animations library and scripting out the activity in question. Making a grunt interactable (maybe having an RPG style dialogue tree) is just a question of being able to program it, which would take a lot of work because it's not a native feature of the HPL engine.