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A promising start, wish it was longer but this could still work as a loop in a short in-between section of a game!
When you show up in town, you see that a gloomy cloud has descended upon the otherwise cheery locale, and none of the locals seem willing to converse with you or sell you anything (until you complete the next mainline quest, that is, at which point you can hit up the store to buy all the low-level health potions you can cram into your pockets).
Unfortunately I didn't have much time to work with today and ended up causing myself some issues with SC55 emulation, so I went the route of finishing up in MSGS and hoping that it works correctly!