Seems like the news reports were inverted, compared to the quest results. I'll fix it for version 0.987, together with the sprite not turning when you talk to the NPC.
There is a way to learn about the full moon requirement in-game (if you show the spell to the court magician), but one can miss it, so I should add some other way to get the information, actually. I thought for sure I had something in the game, but maybe I forgot to save it or to add it later on.
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Oh, okay, I came across that exchange with the court wizard today.
Looking through the guide, the statues with the sword and lance in front of the locked off door in the second shapeshifter temple can have magic used on them. I couldn't examine them though. Usually, you can examine things you can use magic on unless you can't reach them.
When talking to Keiko about repairing Golden Leaf, she still lists the mill as an dialogue option while it's being repaired. The thing is I have the light house being repaired at the same time, but she doesn't comment on that anymore.
For the spell, you'll be able to research the topic at the library in the future, and learn about the full moon thing. I'd like to move it to one of the "advanced" libraries I want to add in the future, but for now it will have to do at the mages' guild and the like.
Seems fair, I'll add a brief description of the statues.
I changed the dialogue option to disappear for the mill as well.
When progressing chapters, the rest heals you, but the HP and MP increase happens afterwards leaving the player not fully replenished the next day.
Also going through Sonya's pet path, the CG after getting the heart tattoo shows a part of Erica's naked standing portrait without a face in front of the picture.