Trying this for the first time based on a friend's recommendation when I got soft-locked in the second area. Is this a bug?
I was fighting two water elementals and a mushroom. I put one water elemental to sleep and applied Bleed to the other two enemies with Kyra's Gladius. The mushroom put both my characters to sleep before perishing to Bleed damage, leaving all remaining combatants left sleeping. I waited 10 minutes and watched my characters wet themselves several times before assuming that the Sleep state probably doesn't have an expiration timer.
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Huh, that's interesting. I never predicted that an edge case like that could happen. I could have sworn that the sleep status had a timer on that, and/or it could be an issue with some event that runs during combat. Regardless, it is not intended to work that way, and I am sorry that you lost progress because of it!