I am so exhausted after work today, but I DID manage to get Purple Muriel following me at a slow, steady, smooth pace while avoiding obstacles. Tomorrow, I'm going to add in some animations (and JEEZ, there's a lot to choose from, I'm honestly impressed with how generous EG was with this game's assets, all these options for free is nuts) and I should probably try and design the actual map or something. I have the day off tomorrow (barring getting called in), I have no excuse.
My biggest issues though are the crashing. While fiddling with blueprints, Unreal will just randomly crash so hard that it destroys my laptop visuals if not freezes my machine altogether. But screw it, I really like working with Blueprints, so I'm willing to put up with crashes. I'm used to Scratch-level visual scripting so Blueprints are just blowing my mind.