Wired2051: Yes, you were right, in Detta's bedroom is a merchant who sells nearly every second-best weapon in the game.
Thank you for your help!
Now after I've seen the hole game, I must say: gameplay and the fighting was really strange, I didn't understood it till the end. But I loved the setting, the characters and the story.
No problems, glad to see things worked out for you.
Yes, the fighting was definitely not the game's strong point - luckily it's not required to fully understand it in order to trounce 99% of fights in the game. The most difficult fight is against that crazy character in the Mystech tunnels (he's only there after you go back to them, and it's entirely optional - I can't say what the rewards for it are since when I last played it, the game would crash every time partway through (this should be fixed with GOG's version)).
It's a shame Mystech was pretty much unnecessary for most of the fights as well, especially considering what a big deal is made of it.
Agree with you on setting, story and characters. Also I think they did a great job graphics-wise considering that the engine they used was already outdated for the time, and the level design was mostly believeable as well. For me it's definitely in the "best games most people have never even heard of" category - I discovered it prior to GOG existing but still well after it first came out.
Apart from the combat, the only things that bugged me a little was the backtracking required for certain weapons, and the crazy effort required for some of the others (Moon Burger - never could get PAL's weapon from this; Paco's best weapon from Bipidri photos - very easy to mess this up and it's kind of annoying, though I've done it a few times now).
Luckily for some of the other more annoying weapons - where you normally need a certain character to be present - you can kind of cheat using the ctrl key (IIRC) - if you hold that key down while clicking, you can pick things up as any character, such as those books for Rho's abilities, or the "hot" stones for Paco. I can't remember how I actually discovered this, but it defintely works (though I'm not 100% if it's ctrl or some other key).