i'm at a loss as to why you wouldn't want to use qglobals, but at the very least, you probably want to keep the connection persistent for the lifetime of the npc. maybe set a timer to where it closes the connection after a certain amount of inactivity. perhaps look into caching the results as well. you don't want to give players the opportunity to create new database connections (or load perl modules, for that matter) at the press of a button.
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say(rand 99>49?'try '.('0x'.join '',map{unpack 'H*',chr rand 256}1..2):'incoherent nonsense')while our $Noport=1;
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