diff --git a/src/npc_manager.py b/src/npc_manager.py
index 2a1c41b..7925613 100644
--- a/src/npc_manager.py
+++ b/src/npc_manager.py
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ def open_npc_menu(
     # Search for npc name tags by hovering to all template locations that are found
     start = time.time()
     attempts = 0
+    # Clicks taken on a body+pose guess rather than a confirmed name tag.
+    weak_attempts = 0
+    MAX_WEAK_ATTEMPTS = 2
     while (time.time() - start) < NPC_SEARCH_TIMEOUT:
         img = grab()
         # Fast path: if the target NPC's dialogue is already open, return immediately.
@@ -405,7 +408,17 @@ def open_npc_menu(
             if name_tag_confirmed:
                 Logger.info(f"Clicking on {npc_key} at {mouse.get_position()} (name tag confirmed)")
             elif body_confident and pose_confirmed:
-                Logger.info(f"Clicking on {npc_key} at {mouse.get_position()} (body+pose confirmed, name tag score {res_w.score:.3f})")
+                # Body+pose is a guess, not a confirmation: over the 2026-09-04 session it
+                # opened the dialogue 5/73 times for Ormus (7%) while the name-tag path hit
+                # 37/47 (79%). Body score does not separate the two (failures averaged 0.46,
+                # successes 0.40-0.46, one false positive scored 0.79), so there is nothing
+                # to threshold on — the only useful lever is to stop spending the search
+                # window on guesses and reach the grid sweep, which does find the NPC.
+                if weak_attempts >= MAX_WEAK_ATTEMPTS:
+                    Logger.debug(f"NPC {npc_key} - body+pose guess budget spent, leaving the rest to the grid sweep")
+                    break
+                weak_attempts += 1
+                Logger.info(f"Clicking on {npc_key} at {mouse.get_position()} (body+pose guess {weak_attempts}/{MAX_WEAK_ATTEMPTS}, name tag score {res_w.score:.3f})")
             else:
                 Logger.debug(f"NPC {npc_key} - skipping pos {result['pos']}: name_tag={name_tag_confirmed} in_roi={in_npc_roi} body={body_confident} pose={pose_confirmed}")
                 continue
@@ -421,8 +434,10 @@ def open_npc_menu(
             if _wait_action_btns(npc_key, timeout=2.5):
                 Logger.debug(f"NPC {npc_key} - dialogue open (action buttons visible)")
                 return True
-            # Retry once: first click sometimes just turns the NPC toward you.
-            if attempts <= 2:
+            # Retry once: first click sometimes just turns the NPC toward you. Only worth
+            # doing when the name tag confirmed we are actually on the NPC — retrying a
+            # body+pose guess just pays the click and the 2.5s wait twice for nothing.
+            if attempts <= 2 and name_tag_confirmed:
                 Logger.debug(f"NPC {npc_key} - action buttons not found, retrying click on body")
                 mouse.move(*result["pos"], randomize=3, delay_factor=[0.2, 0.3])
                 wait(0.2, 0.3)
diff --git a/src/town/town_manager.py b/src/town/town_manager.py
index 23e0451..777bb8b 100644
--- a/src/town/town_manager.py
+++ b/src/town/town_manager.py
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ from inventory import personal, vendor, common
 TOWN_MARKERS = [
             "A5_TOWN_0", "A5_TOWN_1", "A5_TOWN_5", "A5_TOWN_6",
             "A4_TOWN_4", "A4_TOWN_5",
-            "A3_TOWN_0", "A3_TOWN_1",
+            # A3_TOWN_14 / _20 carry Act 3: measured against 8 Kurast Docks screenshots
+            # they hit 0.95 / 0.74, while A3_TOWN_0 and _1 managed 0.21 and 0.29 — the two
+            # worst of all 20 a3_town templates, i.e. act detection in A3 could not succeed.
+            # Both are act-unique (<=0.35 against A4 and A5 frames), so they cannot misfire.
+            "A3_TOWN_14", "A3_TOWN_20", "A3_TOWN_0", "A3_TOWN_1",
             "A2_TOWN_0", "A2_TOWN_1", "A2_TOWN_10",
             "A1_TOWN_1", "A1_TOWN_3"
         ]