I get to the room you are talking about, my options are talking to the cat (has dialogue about knowing devon), walking thru the top right door (character in a different art style asks me to not ignore, prevented from going through), exiting thru the bottom left, or re-entering hallfway in the bottom right (which is just the entrance to the shrine). Nothing I find leads me to a fight.
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yeah I got devon a good bit before the shrine.
maybe related to flags, but the phone calls you get tend to repeat a lot for me. devon has gotten their "sorry" calls at least 5 times now, which seemed strange. Ramona has gotten a lot of the same call from the landlord as well, which seemed normal, but I think the mom call may have happened multiple times too.
Yeah about that, I put a 1 out of 15 chance to get a phone call anywhere you go because I thought it’d be annoying and make dodging certain encounters harder. The phone calls you get are supposed to be randomized, but I only made three for the demo because I honestly didn’t expect other people to trigger it that often.