Dulcinea goes (back) to Bascaradine

[The Nottest of Daves]

Dulcinea, shocked at the current state of Nexian education (and Disc 101 in general), goes to see if Bascaradine is offering any mercantile training programs, or at least if they know anything about what's happening on Disc 101.

[Lord Gadigan]

What does she currently have in terms of Merchant?

They can provide an informational brochure for 5,000 Gold, or they can provided more detailed divinations for higher amounts of money if you want specifics.

[The Nottest of Daves]

Apprentice Merchant Proficiency- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 10,000 Gold.
Basic Merchant Proficiency- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 5,000 Gold.
Chest Finder- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor may claim Bonus Chests
Florist- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 2,500 Gold for Plant pets, Possessor's Plant pets and summons gain +100 to all stats
Item Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Items (as in the type Item, which most Materials and Antiquities have, not all items)
Office Worker- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor obtains +5 MP and 1% Fatigued Resistance
Pet Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Pets
Training in Economics- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold.

and she will purchase and read the 5,000 Gold pamphlet before asking for more detailed information, if she feels she needs it.

[Lord Gadigan]

Dulcinea gets:

'Tsayikk is Back!: Survival Tips'- (Antiquity, Technology & Light, 5,000 Gold)

The pamphlet goes over who Tsayikk is, what Tsayikk generally does, and how reality has recently been horribly reformatted. It touches on the basics of several new elements and alterations to stat systems, as well as giving lists of signs to watch out for to determine that a location or individual has been infected by Tsayikk's version of reality. It also touches on various Nexus hot-spots that are currently known to be compromised, finally ending with contact hotlines to inform (or hire assistance from) Bascaradine and the Knights, as well as hotlines to contact if you are interested in being evaluated for recruitment by either organization to one of their anti-Tsayikk forces.

Let me know if you want more info along any of those avenues.

What Merchant abilities are statted that you don't have that are for sale?

[The Nottest of Daves]

Accessory Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Accessories
Requires: Basic Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Antiquity Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Antiquities
Requires: Item Salesman
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Armor Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Armor
Requires: Basic Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Banker- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor and possessor's allies gain +5,000 Defense against Gold Damage
Requires: Merchant
Cost: 5,000,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Bear-Ass-Utilization Technique- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor may, once per month in the Shop thread, choose to sacrifice 500 non-unique Antiquities and/or Materials that drop from monsters that are normally fightable for drops on the Enemy List but that are out-of-stock in the Shop, Should possessor choose to do so, this ability provides +500 to all stats for the remainder of the month
Requires: Merchant, Antiquity Salesman, Item Salesman
Cost: 500,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Consumable Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Consumables
Requires: Item Salesman
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Drink Vendor- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Drink consumables
Requires: Consumable Salesman
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Economist- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor may choose to have possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 5,000 Gold for 1 week in regards to sold-out items in exchange for having possessor's half-price sales cap decrease by 10,000 Gold for 2 weeks in regards to in-stock items.
Requires: Training in Economics, Mathematical Knowledge
Cost: 220,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Fast Food Vendor- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +100 to possessor's turn-order-determining stat sum for turn-order-determining purposes as a non-stacking bonus on rounds after rounds during which possessor trades or uses a Food consumable, Possessor gains +500 Defense against Gold Damage on rounds after rounds during which possessor trades a Food consumable
Requires: Food Vendor
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Food Vendor- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Food consumables
Requires: Consumable Salesman
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Knowledge of Accounting- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +2,000 Defense against Gold Damage.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of Advertising and Marketing- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's Charm infliction chances are increased by 5%
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of Business Administration- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +5,000 Defense against Gold Damage. Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 50,000 Gold.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 500,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of Economics- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 20,000 Gold.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency, Training in Economics
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of International Business- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor may target allies in other battlespaces with 'Trade' actions so long as there are no opponents in the battlespaces of those allies or in possessor's battlespace
Requires: Knowledge of Business Administration, Trader
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Knowledge of Logistics and Supply Chain Management- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's 'Trade' actions may not be countered by opponents below Level 20.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of Public Relations- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's Charm infliction chances are increased by 5%
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Material Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Materials
Requires: Item Salesman
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Merchant- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 5,000 Gold, Possessor gains +5 to all stats for every 25,000 points of value that possessor's equipped items are worth.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency, 10 other Merchant abilities
Cost: 1,250,000 Gold, 4 Weeks=

Property Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Properties
Requires: Item Salesman
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Spell Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Spells
Requires: Basic Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Trader- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +200 to all stats as a non-stacking buff that lasts until the end of the round whenever an item is traded to or from possessor (not counting the stealing of items or the creation of items)
Requires: Merchant
Cost: 300,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Transformation Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Transformations
Requires: Basic Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

Weapons Salesman- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 500 Gold for Weapons
Requires: Basic Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 50,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

What is the list of currently compromised locations from the pamphlet?

[Lord Gadigan]

Handling part of this to prevent it from backing up entirely: Bascaradine can currently provide up to 15 weeks of training over the course of a matching length of time, at a cost of 1,000,000 Gold per week, provided you have the prerequisites and are also paying the Gold cost. Alternatively, they can provide up to 5 weeks of training immediately, at the cost of 50,000,000 Gold per week, provided you have the prerequisites and are also paying the Gold cost.

[The Nottest of Daves]

she'll take the 15 weeks for 15,000,000 Gold.

Knowledge of Advertising and Marketing- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's Charm infliction chances are increased by 5%
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of Business Administration- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +5,000 Defense against Gold Damage. Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 50,000 Gold.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency
Cost: 500,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Knowledge of Economics- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 20,000 Gold.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency, Training in Economics
Cost: 200,000 Gold, 3 Weeks

Merchant- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 5,000 Gold, Possessor gains +5 to all stats for every 25,000 points of value that possessor's equipped items are worth.
Requires: Apprentice Merchant Proficiency, 10 other Merchant abilities
Cost: 1,250,000 Gold, 4 Weeks

Trader- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +200 to all stats as a non-stacking buff that lasts until the end of the round whenever an item is traded to or from possessor (not counting the stealing of items or the creation of items)
Requires: Merchant
Cost: 300,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

for a total of 17,450,000 Gold, to complete in 15 weeks on 2021-07-27

On a different topic, do they happen to have anything like the Robo-Sensei for sale? Not necessarily a robot, and not necessarily covering the same training, but just in general.

[Lord Gadigan]

Not at present. They may put something like that on offer at some point in the future, but there presently aren't any for BA members.

[The Nottest of Daves]

Dulcinea will inquire as to what they have on special discount at present, then, while continuing to read through the (surprisingly dense and well illustrated much-larger-than-it-looks-on-the-outside) brochure.

[The Nottest of Daves]

Making an update post here to note that the purchased training completes in two days (on Tuesday the 27th of July). I'll be away on vacation, so I'm leaving this note here now in case I'm too busy and forget the day of.

[Lord Gadigan]

There's currently discounts on battle-discs, business gophers, home security systems, rot-removing rifles, and golf-clubs that snap open and become fishing rods.

[The Nottest of Daves]

Dulcinea would like a little more information on each of those, but is particularly interested in the security systems and rot-removing rifles.

[The Nottest of Daves]

~~WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE~~

Given certain shop updates that have recently been finished, Dulcinea would like to inquire about the cost of purchasing Adept Technomancer.

She has all 15 purchasable Technomancer abilities, and is only missing

Summon Robo-Golems- (Passive Ability, Technomancer) Possessor may, when summoning a Golem, choose to give it a non-stacking buff that gives its possessor the additional element Technology and the additional subtype Robot
Requires: Technomancer, Evermason, Golomancer
Cost: 500,000 Gold, 2 Weeks

from the complete list of Technomancer abilities, because the class-name-tier ability for Golomancer doesn't actually exist in the Ability Shop.

Adept Technomancer does not exist in the shop either, but Technomancer matches the format of Scientist for its name-rank ability, so here's a potential version based off of Adept Hypertech Attunement:

Adept Technomancy Attunement- (Passive Ability, Technomancer) Technomancy spells cost possessor 10,000 less MP to cast, Technomancy spells cast by possessor that provide a Magical Attack bonus provide an additional +500 Magical Attack, Possessor gains 10 Spell slots that may not be used for purposes other than carrying spells, may only carry Technomancy Spells, and may not be converted into other types of slots by individuals below Level 100
Requires: Technomancer, 50 other Technomancer Abilities, Level 20
Cost: 5,000,000 Gold, 10 Weeks

[The Nottest of Daves]

Dulcinea cancels all further questions and inquiries.

SUMMARY

Dulcinea gets

'Tsayikk is Back!: Survival Tips'- (Item, Antiquity, Technology & Light, 5,000 Gold)

Knowledge of Advertising and Marketing- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's Charm infliction chances are increased by 5%
Knowledge of Business Administration- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +5,000 Defense against Gold Damage. Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 50,000 Gold.
Knowledge of Economics- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor's half-price sales cap increases by 20,000 Gold.
Merchant- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Character's half-price sales cap increases by 5,000 Gold, Possessor gains +5 to all stats for every 25,000 points of value that possessor's equipped items are worth.
Trader- (Passive Ability, Merchant) Possessor gains +200 to all stats as a non-stacking buff that lasts until the end of the round whenever an item is traded to or from possessor (not counting the stealing of items or the creation of items)

Dulcinea pays
17,455,000 Gold

Moved to NMA.

[Lord Gadigan]

Exit from thread approved.

[The Nottest of Daves]

~UPDATED, Moved & locked~