Is there a secret behind the word "blubber"?

Question

Recently while talking to NPC Jessica I came across an interesting thing unrelated to any known quest. If you ask her about 'rumours' she will tell us that Sven is willing to pay 1,000 gold pieces for each Venorean hunter's head. 

It turns out that Venore hunters reside near Svargrond. Their base is located on Tyrsung. Jessica hates the Venoreans. Sven has no sympathy for them either. According to Jessica, we need to say the word „Blubber” when talking to Sven. Supposedly it's a secret word that will tell Sven that he can trust us. If we go to him and in the NPC channel type the word "Blubber" Sven will answer us, but apparently, he is surprised and does not give us any task. Turns out Jessica probably fooled us.

However, when we copy the word "Blubber" from Jessica's statement instead of typing it, strange things start to happen. The image below shows the use of the copied word.

When you try to send a copied word in the NPC Channel, the message "Sorry, not possible" appears and Sven doesn't react to the word. It looks like the word "Blubber" in Jessica's statement contains some unknown encoding or some hidden characters. I asked my friend to check it on a completely different computer and account. The result was the same. 

I would like to know what is the purpose of this? I've had a lot of conversations with NPCs and this is the first time I've seen such a strange situation. I suspect this is some kind of bug, but I'd like to make sure because it's a strange case that this "secret" word is bugged.

Comments

@idontknow Good observations. I also researched this thread on Tyrsung. I love this kind of research. I wish you the best of luck. You may come across something unexpected. @FPoPP I have already sent the bug report. We'll see what comes out of it.

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Nice @Mogh ! I think that we are up to something!

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i found something, maybe is indeed a glitch, the word "blubber" copied from jessica is totally different to regular words, actually is a bit higher than average words, like if actually were a code (as bold, italic or superscript) in the message.

the important stuff is: when u copy the word and u erase it without erasing the "coding" behind the word, then u could write whichever word or empty and would still say "sorry not possible" due is probably a non-supported text-coding.

Answer 1

Today I went to talk to Jessica.To my surprise, it turns out that after many months Cipsoft has fixed the issue spoken by the NPC. 

As you can see, the word "Venorans" has been replaced with "Venoreans". The word "Blubber" has also been fixed. After copying this word and pasting it into the NPC Channel, the message "Sorry, not possible" no longer shows. NPC Sven reacts to the word "Blubber" in the same way as before. So, taking all this into account, it seems that there is no secret behind the word "Blubber". The strange situation described in the question was undoubtedly a bug.

Comments

Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate when I see that Cip, from time to time, fix those small game issues. There are still hundreds of minor things to fix, but it's good to see that they still care to fix some of them.