For the guy not responding to your attacks: is he global? Remember, characters have to be global to interact with the code. Also make sure your player characters are the "Hero" alignment and people you're attacking are Good NPC or Neutral NPC.
I think if you rename your character to not have CYS,LUCS,DAF, etc. in the first part of their name, those keywords won't show up. We need to figure out how to prevent those keywords from showing up.
Not sure why those two extra characters added, but they might be listed under the "global others" in the characters, which you can see by clicking on that silver "O" button on the characters menu (next to the green and purple buttons). You might just be able to delete them, and if any code refers to them, just find and replace all instances of code referring to them and instead have them refer to your character.
