today we learned: it's possible to get a surprise encounter *and* an advantage encounter at the same time

by shooting an enemy with the sorcerer's ring the moment that you enter a cutscene area, while said enemy is near enough to the spot you spawn after the cutscene to trigger an encounter, on the rear of where you spawn, and get lucky that you get the dizzy effect instead of the angry or stunned effect

how the fuck did all that line up perfectly without even trying

...should have screen recorded that but didn't think to until after posting this and it's been too long now

for anyone interested in reproducing this not-exactly-glitch (which I would like to see since *dammit* I feel really bad about missing that screen recording): this was the knight at the top of the right-hand staircase in the room right past where you fight Yeager in Zaude. the cutscene that triggered was the one where Patty finds the Maris Stella

augh i feel really bad about not thinking in time to screen capture that glitch, it's important for archival stuff

can someone please provide reassurances or something

actually i didn't save after so i can still try to reproduce it!! going to do that, hold on

got it! took like twenty tries but eventually it worked

it's not really a glitch, since the game seems to handle it just fine--it's just weird and not something normally possible.

@connie since I think you might find this mildly interesting

@Felthry Don't think I ever encountered this, interesting find!

@connie I can't imagine there's any actual use for it, though I did want to make some sort of record of it in case it's helpful for speedrunning or something somehow (I can't imagine how though)

I mostly find it interesting that the game handles that properly, and the "advantage encounter" and "surprise encounter" texts are actually shifted to not overlap or naything