diff --git a/pages/items.php b/pages/items.php
index 3317bece..00340df4 100644
--- a/pages/items.php
+++ b/pages/items.php
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ class ItemsPage extends GenericPage
                 if (isset($this->filter['sl']))             // skip lookups for unselected slots
                     $groups = array_intersect($groups, (array)$this->filter['sl']);
 
-                if (isset($this->filter['upg']))            // skip lookups for slots we dont have items to upgrade for
+                if (!empty($this->filter['upg']))           // skip lookups for slots we dont have items to upgrade for
                     $groups = array_intersect($groups, (array)$this->filter['upg']);
 
                 if ($groups)
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ class ItemsPage extends GenericPage
         }
 
         // reformat for use in template
-        if (isset($this->filter['upg']))
+        if (!empty($this->filter['upg']))
             $this->filter['upg'] = implode(':', array_keys($this->filter['upg']));
 
         // whoops, we have no data? create emergency content
diff --git a/pages/npc.php b/pages/npc.php
index f6692b59..6489b5de 100644
--- a/pages/npc.php
+++ b/pages/npc.php
@@ -957,6 +957,9 @@ class NpcPage extends GenericPage
                 if (in_array($t['type'], [2, 16]) && strpos($msg, '%s') === false)
                     $msg = '%s '.$msg;
 
+                // fixup: bad case-insensivity
+                $msg = str_replace('%S', '%s', $msg);
+
                 $line = array(
                     'range' => $t['range'],
                     'type'  => 2,                           // [type: 0, 12] say: yellow-ish