Leona turns down Jack’s idea to invite others to Playfulland because of Ruggie: “Tickets to an illusionary amusement park? All provided free of charge? What do you think would happen if HE caught wind of that? He’d swipe your ticket and re-sell it to some poor sucker at an exorbitant markup, guaranteed. People off-campus with no other options for getting in would pay any price he cared to name. If a dispute broke out, there’d be no sweeping it under the rug. And Crowley would pin all the responsibility on me as housewarden.”
Jack agrees in order to not “spark some sort of huge fight.”
During New Year’s Ruggie expresses interest in buying kitchenware for cheap to “flip it to some bonehead rich guy,” but after he hears about the Sam’s Golden Ticket system he shifts his sights to a luxury carpet that he could sell for much more. After losing out on the ticket Ruggie says, “Just thinking about the pile of cash I coulda made is making me feel faint,” and Leona has Jack drag Ruggie back to Savanaclaw.
Ruggie mentions reselling a spelldrive disc as a child that he’d found lying in the street, and “When I was a little kid, l’d head out into the streets and sell the rare bugs I caught.”
Ruggie wonders if he could get Idia’s tsum to make things for him that he could then sell.
Ruggie prepares a large, empty backpack for the social at Noble Bell College so that he will be able to bring things back with him: “Way I figure, if I can pick up some cheap souvenirs over there, and then pitch ’em right when I get back…I can smell the money already!”
Ruggie is intrigued by the cost of the clothes that they receive in Fleur City (Jamil: “You’re not supposed to ask how much a present costs!”), and his priority is seeing local handicrafts and specialty goods. He is unimpressed by old-fashioned wooden figures (“If it’s not valuable, I’m not interested”) until Idia tells him that they could easily be resold at high prices because of the quality.
Ruggie is very interested (“Are you saying I could get a hundred times that on resale? Or even more?!”) but it was maybe never confirmed if he ended up investing in the figures.
Ruggie has a voice line about getting “too greedy” during alchemy classes and messing things up, possibly implying that he sells his alchemy assignment failures.
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