Really cool game, I love it. On my first playthrough I had a bug where all enemies, NPCs, and items kept respawning after I saved and loaded, and going into the character menu all stats were 0 and hitting confirm just set all my stats to 0 and would gain no experience no matter how many enemies I killed (I was a stone scholar, if it matters). I fixed it by creating a new character as a cursed fool.
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Does the game currently end after beating the abhorrent beast? Trying to 'go inside' after killing him just returns 'the path towards go inside is locked'. It's alright if that's as far as it goes now, I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Enemies respawning after a save/load is how the game functions currently, I do not have it set up to keep enemies dead when killed. Treat that as a feature! Infinite xp farm 😂 In regards to bugs with your character stats, can you let me know the steps you took to get that bug so i can recreate it on my end? As for the key to get inside the house, you can get inside, the key is in the flutewood forest, even though the area is unfinished, it is in there.