Oooh, so you are that rob! You are officially in the game now, I updated the game 6 hours after you wrote that and you made the dialog ;)
You are not the only one who missed the lever, I saw two people streaming the game, and one of them died about 30 times just trying over and over again to shoot and attack the boar until they made it =D
I will implement the take damage and death sprite of the ocunid as well, right now it's just the blinking to take damage for everything and I just have a lazy poof effect for the death of any enemy (except bosses).
2.5 months until release, working hard! Good luck with the bug finding in your character asset =D