Same root cause as #228 — the shop/storage/talk role lookup degraded silently into the chatter fallback when a row was missing. The lookup is fixed. Leaving IN PROGRESS because San Commerci's shop stock is the part I cannot fabricate: if a specific NPC there still refuses to open a shop, it means its inventory was never imported and I need to extract it. Please re-test and name any that stay broken.

Fixed alongside 228 — see the detail there. The three shop NPCs open now, the salon NPC works, and Ms. Molly's storage opens.

On "none have any quest": that is correct and unchanged. Commerci quests are from a much later version and none are imported, so there is nothing for them to offer yet. That is a content import, not a bug — tell me if you want it queued.

Fixed - and confirmed in this round of testing. San Commerci's shop NPCs open now.

Same root cause as #228: an NPC's role came from a table lookup that fell through silently to "just talk" when the row was missing, so a merchant with no imported stock was indistinguishable from an ordinary NPC. The fall-through is gone and a missing row fails loudly instead.

Moving this to FIXED. Thanks for the report.