Simon Townshend

Simon Townshend, known to his followers as "Lord Si-Mon", is one of the three human developers on the Mogworld project. He, along with Barry, are the main antagonists of the story.

General Information
Simon was hired by Loincloth Entertainment for his "supposed" work on Interstellar Bum Pirates, a game that had won Game of the Year (however it is implied that he stole the credit.) However, he was also known for putting the game Ham Fighters 3 behind six months.

Simon quickly earns the ire of his co-workers, Don Sunderland and Bill Williams or "Dub" for his incompetence and annoyingly lackadaisical attitude. Don and Dub refer to him as a "dickhead" behind his back.

After Dub discovers 33 extra NPCs in the world's population, Simon is the one who discovers Lord Dreadgrave's undead horde and deletes him, his castle, and the entire horde, however he misses three. This inadvertently causes the town of Yawnbore to be bugged out, so Don tells him to take care of the issue. Simon hires an NPC, a vicar named Barry, to do the job, upping his magical stats to the highest. However, he did so in the form of a moderator angel, causing Barry to renown Simon as a god. Simon also tells Barry the "truth" about their existence, so Barry resolves to spread the word to everyone. He also tells Barry to seek out the three undead he missed.

After Don goes away on vacation, Simon comes up with a plan to unite the regions of Mogworld into one big country with one ruler. He hacks the internal net security, so Dub is unable to report him. He goes on a mad power trip, locking Dub out of his admin tools, locking him out of he building he works in and messing up the game. This causes Dub to recruit Jim and Thaddeus to corrupt the game and reset it.

Simon captures Meryl in order to interrogate her, however he cannot figure out how she is undead, and promptly deletes her. Jim is successful in his endeavors and causes the Mogworld server to crash, however he manages to wipe everything out except for him and Barry. Barry reveals Simon told him the truth: their whole world was created solely for adventuring. Simon attempts to transfer Barry via the company intranet (so he can hack into the payroll and securities), however, Jim corrupts Barry, causing him to explode.

In a concluding email, Loincloth CEO Brian Garret informs the employees that Simon had been fired, as his actions were exposed.

Trivia

 * Simon's last name comes from one of the protagonists of the Silent Hill series, Henry Townshend from Silent Hill 4: The Room.