[BlackSolider]

Well back on graal2000 we had numerous quests:

A quest for each of the four graals (red, blue, green, yellow) + the golden gate would unlock when you had them all.

We had the chaos realm quest (or w/e it was called) that was lonnnng as hell. The start was a small house next to tailor richards.

Zols had a quest that took a while as well.

The lizard sword (lvl 2 sword), lizard shield, mirror shield, axe (lvl 3 sword), lvl 1 gloves, lvl 2 gloves, jolt bomb, super bow, nuke shot....and probably a few other npcs...well each of these were found in a quest (sometimes two for one, others just single) that usually resulted in also gaining a heart.

Now obviously we don't have a lot of these npcs, but it wouldn't be hard to make some quality quests and link them into our "storyline".