Misunderstanding Crewel’s instructions during Fairy Gala Ruggie encourages Kalim to dress him up in the most expensive looking accessories available, intending to “make a fortune” through reselling it all after the event. He then learns that he will not be allowed to keep any part of the outfit.
During Vargas Camp it is revealed that Ruggie had been hiding a magestone from the group even when they were facing down the Vargas Monster, as he “would’ve made bank selling it!” and “Why would I willingly give up a moneymaker like that?…magestones make money. Admiration doesn’t. It’s not a hard choice.”
When Ruggie refuses to go into the mines to find Deuce Jack successfully tempts him into joining the search by assuring him that “there are tons of big magestones in the tunnel where Deuce went missing. I bet they’d go for a lot of thaumarks.”
When facing another monster in the mines it is revealed that Ruggie had been hiding yet another magestone from the group, refusing to reveal it “even in this moment of dire peril”, but it seems Leona had been aware of it all along.
Ruggie refuses to leave the mines after the monster’s defeat. When Jack asks, “So you’d be okay with your club getting shut down AND losing out on the prize?” Ruggie responds, “…Yeah. I could live with that. Sure, our club might get disbanded, but if I dug up a decent number of magestones and sold ‘em…My return would more than make up for it!”
Ruggie is eventually forced out of the mines without his magestones by Floyd, in accordance with a deal the two had made earlier in the event.
Ruggie shares his plan to sell or trade things that he receives in the new year’s mystery bags, and says that he will accept the grown-out hair of the lantern event group if they don’t need it, as he can sell it to a wig shop.
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