I've 100% the game but noticed there was a tentacle potion thanks to the comment. I started up a new save, ran through real quick going while defeating the jerks. I beat Jester's game. Made the dark potion at night. Forgot to check their pc.
Fed the Beeg Lizard just the feeding potion, didn't recruit Poko. But I did swap the potions out.
Crusher is tiny and no one attempts to bully me in the Grove. I paint the flags. Can't do the password of course.
After that I talk to Jester and like above it loops me back to before I started the conversation with him to initiate the ending.
This would also be a medium ending.
I have updated.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to provide the specific triggers my ending is on incase that matters at all.
The game is lovely. I've had a blast seeing all the different endings and variations in the medium endings.
I feel like it might be because we defeated all three jerks but didn't scare off the Beeg Lizard. At least that's what it sounds like since the potions are different and therefore unlikely the source. And I've also gotten a ton of different medium endings, just not one where I defeated them and kept the lizard around
I ran through on a new game from tutorial to the grove (Dialogue skip made that easy, tysm) and when I talk to Jester to confirm that I'm done messing around it starts to fade to white before resetting back to before that conversation. This time I even forgot to swap out the potion (I'm realizing now).