Thanks for replying!  And yes, for me that's the true victory here, that for once I didn't just either let a jam go by or flat out quit in the middle.  Stay tuned for the next build, which with 5 days left on the judging is sure to be at least a hundred percent of an improvement :) Also, I'm intending to make the sequel (or rather, this is the prequel) for Drifty's jam coming up.

Hello, and thanks for replying!  Yeah this build is a complete trashfire, I'd completely forgotten how to make cutscenes or even how to properly event the boss so he'd play his music.  I fixed it and so many other things in the new build, thanks to some help, but that build will have to wait until after the judging.  Of course, with so much time before that's over, I can flesh the whole thing out more, like establishing how everyone got to their starting positions.