Talk:Rafael's playthrough - Introduction/@comment-75.139.26.85-20151229002223/@comment-27405625-20160120002641

I can say with some certainty that you should probably avoid the merchant camp at all costs. The only other event that gives a comparable malus to your days is going back to the optional dungeon in devils pass. (A whopping 10 days, or double the cache revisit). This might be the lady's inside joke about avoiding grinding by making every slime killing outing not really worth it. (Although that first one on the road to the merchant outpost certainly doesn't seem to hurt you at all).