Drug Dealer

The Drug Dealer is a very notable character who only appears as a NPC that sell various drugs, as their name implies. And they appear wearing a blue hoodie.

NPC
Drug Dealers have a chance to spawn almost anywhere in the Slums, and will still appear often in the rest of the Stages. They can spawn on the streets and walk around aimlessly and appear in almost any building, most notably they appear in Drug Dens and in Hideouts. However in Uptown they become rare and can only appear in Hideouts, Deportation Centers and in Police Stations in jail, due to the ban of drugs in the stage.

Unlike most other businesses, they are unaffected by some traits, such as Suspicious, Malodorous and Wanted.

They can either carry a Baseball Bat, Pistol or a Knife. When aggravated, they'll use drugs and syringes on themselves should they get attacked. These effects include Fast, Strength, Regenerate Health, Always Crit, Resurrection and Invisibility.

With The Law trait, or in the Law Abiding Law Enforcer Big Quest, Drug Dealers are always marked guilty by default, regardless of their involvement with a mission. If a Drug Dealer spots a Mech Pilot riding a Mech or a character with the Scumbag Slaughterer trait, they'll become Hostile and will attack those characters on sight.



Store
Their prices of the items they sale goes up and increases every floor.

Drops

 * Money.png Money
 * BaseballBat.png Baseball Bat
 * Knife.png Knife
 * Pistol.png Pistol
 * Cigarettes.png Cigarettes
 * Syringes.gif Syringe
 * ElectroPill.png Electro Pill
 * Sugar.png Sugar
 * MusclyPill.png Muscly Pill
 * RagePoison.png Rage Poison
 * Shrinker.png Shrinker
 * Giantizer.png Giantizer
 * CyanidePill.png Cyanide Pill
 * CritterUpper.png Critter Upper

Tips and Strategies

 * While Drug dealers aren't much of a threat. But after getting attacked, they will use syringes and drugs on themselves. And can become extremely different under those effects (Especially Always Crit, Resurrection and Invisible). Take them out quickly before they inject themselves with a syringe or wait for the Drug Effect to run out.
 * When playing as the Cop. You'll always want to arrest them, they are easy Guilty NPCs for filling up your marks. Arrest every one you find in your Big Quest.
 * Playing the Mobster. You also want to threaten and shake them down. Some are wandering outside or inside establishments or in buildings they own. They can be easy targets for increasing your revenue especially when they're alone.

Trivia

 * In the early Chinese version of the game, Drug Dealers were renamed into Street Peddlers. And all references to drugs were removed or renamed, for example, Syringes were called Wacky Needles instead.