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You pretty much answered all your own questions! Yes, you need to rescue the rookie, get that item he gives you, and you need to use it to pass the 'paralysis' thing.

And yes, that item does expire when you leave the forest, so you need to do it before leaving. And yes, there's a way to 'recharge' that item too.

I've made some great progress. I've unlocked the blacksmith. And I think I've also found a way to recharge that artifact. However I am unable to use it to break that paralysis rune anymore. Am I missing something?

As I mentioned above, you can only pass the paralysis rune when you first travel through the forest. It won't work with the "recharged" artifact. 

I've already started a new game where I did dispel the rune and gotten the fireball spell. I'll just have to use that file then. If the fire spell really is that useful later on. Otherwise I'm currently travelling south in pursuit of the other travellers. Fighting slugs now. But I'm running in error readings a lot more often now.

Please send us a screenshot of your error messages and we may be able to assist you.

This is the error that regularly pops up at random.

Ah, that's because you're playing the game out of a OneDrive location, or you have some kind of cloudsync settings that are trying to make the game save / load to a OneDrive folder.

Due to the nature of OneDrive, it can cause the "persistent.rpgsave" to get desynchronised from the rest of the game. This file is constantly being checked / updated / referred to during the playing of the game and if it doesn't properly match the game's current state it will cause this error.

Anyway, the simple fix is to check where you have our game saved. If it's in your OneDrive folder, please move it out of there. If you have a setting where your files and folders are automatically synced to OneDrive, you'll want to disable that specifically for Grove.

that one drive is really pissing me off. How it's constantly forced onto everything. 

Hopefully you can move the game folder out of OneDrive / disable OneDrive. It should help with preventing these crashes

that did the trick. I managed to finish the game. It was properly challenging all the way through. The supposed recommended level was 11 to finish the current built? I was level 16 and the fights were still pretty challenging. Final battle was a pretty fun guessing game of simon says. Had to make a small makeshift walkthrough of the options to win the fight.