Thanks for playing!
I understand the frustration. The merchant is only supposed to show up with a 30% chance, but apparently the way I had set the RNG, it seems higher than that. As any game in a jam, things didn't go as planned and the ending cinematic had to be cut short due to some bugs with timers that would skip cinematics and even in this version played through the text. I apologize for the experience not being as great as I had planned, but I hope in the near future as I address these problems I could get your experienced opinion again :).