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* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: Your Merchant Level can go all the way up to level 99, despite the fact that Recette doesn't get any extra privileges after level 50.
* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]:
** Inverted in the fact that ''you'' are the shopkeeper now, gouging poor adventurers out of their hard earned cash. Tear even mentions Adam Smith by name when you buy your first stock from the Merchant guild with the express purpose of reselling at an inflated price
:The game however strongly encourages selling them equipment at low prices since it'll benefit you when you go adventuring with them later.
** "Gouging" is the light term once you start seeing increases or decreases in prices. You can charge upwards of '''300%''' on something that has had a price increase and get away with it. Moreso if people trust you and/or you run a more high-end expensive shop
:Of course, you can do this both ways when people start selling stuff back to you. You can buy things as low as 20% of the base price.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: If you fail to meet a debt repayment, everything prior to that point turns out to be this as Recette wakes up on Day 2. Well, everything but any renovations and remodeling done to the store, store levels, and your items.
** Considering that you return to Day 2 with ''everything'' you'd earned up until the point you failed (items, merchant levels, store renovations, ''and'' adventurer levels) it may feel more like Recette [[Groundhog Day Loop|just got sent back in time]], rather than just woke up from a particularly bad dream.
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* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]: Alouette does her best twelve year old imitation of this at every opportunity.
* [[No Hero Discount]]:
** Can be averted or played straight since you set the prices. Tear expressly advises you to offer this to the heroes you hire personally since they will use gear they buy which saves you from having to equip them yourself. Plus not having to equip them means being able to carry more loot
:The heroes actually expect you to do that, as the price range they find agreeable is a lot lower than usual when they could upgrade their equipment with the item on sale.
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** Occurs in full view of the player. The first time Arma wanders into your shop, she requires a lengthy explanation of what a shop is, which is faded out. She then needs to be told how money works, so Recette begins her explanation as the screen fades out and comes back to Recette telling an adventure story, fades out ''again'', then comes back with Recette ''finishing her explanation of money''. Which Arma somehow gets. Exactly how these points are logically connected is left up to the player's imagination.
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* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Possible to happen, and in a rather amusing way, as Charme starts coming to your shop acting familiarly with Recette in the fourth week even if you only cleared the Hall of Trials, and never saw her before in the 2nd dungeon.
** [[New Game+]] is an exercise in sequence breaking. With True Cards you get access to adventurers from the start of the game, allowing you to do every [[Defeat Equals Friendship]] boss battle as a mirror match if you possess the right True Cards. This also leads to weird dialogue such as Louie being grateful for Recette helping him through the Hall of Trials... Despite him not entering the dungeon at all.
* [[Shockingly Expensive Bill]]: Recette's father's debts are so huge, Tear refuses to tell Recette the exact amount for fear of making her faint on the spot
:If you're curious, and to ensure ''you'' don't faint on the spot, this is spoiler-tagged. Over the course of normal gameplay, the debt adds up to {{spoiler|820,000 pix}}. Have fun in the game's final week, where your goal is to pay back {{spoiler|500,000pix - over half the loan in one shot}}.
** This can be made hilarious in a new Game+. Since your items carry over, you can easily have millions worth of top-end equipment sitting in your inventory ready to go right from the beginning. Despite this, Tear insists the quantity of money would make Recette faint.
* [[Shoryuken]]: A favored move of Elan's.
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