Part 32: Flea Market
Flea MarketMusic: Festival
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Today's the Flea Market, which is one of the most involved festivals(relatively speaking) in the game. Everyone in town will be selling stuff, or trading stuff for other stuff, or playing games in exchange for stuff. And I mean everyone. There's also a trading chain to get the top-tier stuff, which you'll see in due time.
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20 gold a pop? Clearly garbage.
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Gee, if we can't trust Daria, who CAN we trust? Let's do this!
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I've been bamboozled.
Let's try again!
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Sensing a trend? There is a very small chance of getting something good, but I'll show that off later.
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Hopefully the small child is more trustworthy.
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1 win is a veggie and recipe bread, 2 wins is a flower seed, 3 wins is "a nice tonic", 4 wins is a farm tool, and 5 is the secret prize. I know what I'm aiming for. Savescum powers activate!
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The rules aren't all that complicated. Prepare your favorite sacrifice to the RNG, and get going.
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Feel free to consult the Rock Paper Scissors LP if you don't understand how to play.
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Repeat 4 times...
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So yeah, the secret prize is getting bitten. I'll take the 4 win prize instead, since farming string for the fishing poles is a pain in the ass.
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Shara's selling a couple things that normally don't show up in her store until the fourth dungeon is done. They're also ridiculously cheap compared to normal.
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BUY BUY BUY
(The emery flower is a spring flower, and the pom pom grass is a fall flower.)
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Might as well go for it.
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Naturally I'm going to use the power of ~magic~ to see all three.
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Top Gift is okay, I guess.
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Special Gift is cake.
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And Token Gift is a ring.
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I go with Special Gift since cake is worth the most. Seriously, look at that price!
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Carmen's running her own version of Carmen's Paradise.
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The fished item is, shockingly, a fish.
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The mystery item is some generic crafting stuff.
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And the sparkly item(and also the one I settle for) is a ruby.
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Rusk sells exactly what you expect, but with a twist.
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It's all being sold cheap enough that you can flip it for a tidy profit.
Eat it? Why would we do that? Link gets to cram alarming amounts of simple dishes down his throat for his daily Eating skill points.
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Cheap ore? Don't mind if I do.
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Marjorie's where those trades I mentioned come in. I don't have the ability to make any of those dishes yet, but I can get two of them from trades around town. And I definitely want those items, since stat boosts and all.
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Marian is less than amused if you bullshit her about her own(seemingly terrible) trade.
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This is the same deal as Rusk's food, where all of it's being sold for less than we can sell it, but the Curry Rice should be saved to trade for Invincroid instead.
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Golden seeds are ridiculously rare. So naturally I'm going to buy both of them. (and not plant them now, because typhoons. The summer ones can go in the desert once typhoon season is over.)
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Pia sells some stuff, but also has a trade that makes Marian's trade less ridiculous.
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And Sakuya is conveniently selling a Raccoon Leaf for people who don't happen to have one lying around.
Trade chain, go!
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No time to be alarmed, gotta get this heavy spice over to Pia.
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No, thank you.
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Sherman is the only person in town not selling or trading anything. How rude.
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Why yes, that IS completely ridiculous. So it'll probably sit in the "too awesome to consider using" pile, but hey, I have it!
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The love potion is...interesting. I'll show it off later.
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Raven's selling accessories. I grab a scarf because why not.
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A second use of Heavy Spice appears.
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It doesn't actually help in any trade chains, but whatever, I'll take it.
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All three of these are pretty good. The critical ring gives increased chance of critical hits, and the silent/paralyze rings grant resistance to seal/paralysis while giving you a chance to seal/paralyze foes yourself.
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Evenlyn's got a backup option for getting a raccoon leaf, along with some other goodies. I go with the Platinum since it's in short supply right now.
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Same deal as Rusk and Collette's stores.
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Cheap seeds, cheap food, and some greenifier I'll probably use at some point.
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After many, many, many tries, I get a non-trash item out of Daria's lottery. It's not worth it. At all. Daria, I normally like you, but fuck you.
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With all the Flea Market stuff taken care of, let's check in on the settlement.
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Fascinating.
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Back to town to do a simple request.
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tl;dr: Mystery person left this trash here.
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I take everything because even the literal trash is worth a gold or two.
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Once the Flea Market's done, everyone will talk about how well their stuff sold. Most of it is boring variations on "I sold a lot!".
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So let's timeskip to tomorrow and do a Karina quest.
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For added comedy, it's a hurricane today.
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Why can't she practice walking around town? Oh well, who cares, let's get this over with.
Music: Privera Forest
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This is the literal first screen of the dungeon.
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What he said.
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If this game was set in the modern era, Karina would live in her mom's basement and only emerge for pizza deliveries.
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We've made it all the way to the second screen in the dungeon! Karina just might make it!
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Oh no! Now Link's become the tutorial!
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A small amount of mining later...
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You know, as easy as it is to hate on Marian, Karina's an almost equal(but more low-key) terrible. Who the hell wrote all this and went "yes, this is a character that players will want to interact with as one of the possible marriage choices"?
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You're no Sherman, Karina.
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Good riddance. Let's go talk to more interesting characters.
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Link delivers the brutal truth.
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Have you tried developing character traits that don't involve food?
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I'm running out of ways to say "here's the next quest."
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Link is just the best at keeping secrets.
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But thou mustn't.
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I seriously have to wonder how traumatic shaving is for this to be the one thing Link grows a backbone over.
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Nobody will ever piece together this puzzle.
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Link & Sakuya conveniently go offscreen so nobody has to animate any of this. Tell, don't show.
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The game doesn't even provide portraits.
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The real reward is the trauma you endured along the way.
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A rare appearance of the portrait parasol!
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One thing I somehow haven't shown off until now is that you can refight bosses to farm their drops.
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They don't tend to last very long when you're several dungeons ahead of them.
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"This beast that was threatening the settlement is here again all of a sudden. Okay."
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I try fighting Skelefang in human form since I can do that now, but the timing's all off for its attack patterns. At least they tuned it really well for the mandatory woolyform fight?
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It's 1AM by the time it goes down, so the update ends here.
Next time: Why did one-month-ago me do another Marian quest?
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