2 hours. That's how long it took me to get enough slime essence to make the bed and the teeth to upgrade the wurm. 2 hours. Partially because the map was just brimming with stabber enemies (who don't drop teeth) and
lumber which led to me farming blight blossoms instead, partially because most of the slimes only dropped one essence per mob on average and for some reason kept spawning with stabbers and whisps for party members instead of more slimes, and partially because of a funky quirk of playing on linux with wine that makes loosing focus for any reason (eg the screen turning off because I went to deal with other matters and my system didn't recognize the app was full screen to prevent that) means that the interface becomes unresponsive with the only fix I found being to restart the game and loose a bunch of progress.
So imagine how pissed I was when I found out it was barely enough to reach the fortress, then find out I needed to return multiple times to find all the keys and reach the top despite the upgrades. Of course I beat the scarab no problem, thought I could take the commander on since she's built up to be pathetic as a fighter and I had plenty of potions,
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which meant an hour of progress went down the drain. The only things keeping me going were the Striker I captured (who btw is absolutly addorible) and the morbid curiosity of what that "Overwhelm" option in the Gallery was about. Otherwhise I would've dropped this game harder than my dad dropped me in the deep part of the beach as a todler.