Although the characters encountered during the Gnomecopter Tours appear to be players, they are actually NPCs. They are commonly known as Player spoofs. They cannot be interacted with, however, they can be followed and traded with (but it will say that the other player is busy), and they can speak like normal players. As opposed to regular players, when right-clicked they all have an examine feature that simply states A player. They all have their own programmed path which they repeatedly follow. Some of these player NPCs have also appeared in other parts of RuneScape.