Thank you!! And certainly, I planned on adding more dialogue with the motivations and backstory of the player, which I sort of tried to add to that bit of dialogue with the shopkeeper outside the cave. Perhaps you didn't notice you could go outside? wouldn't blame you, and the dialogue is not enough to properly establish the goal of "just endure" anyway. Other than that, I was thinking of adding ways to investigate to see if the monster could be slain somehow, but ultimately left it in a "see how many days you can last" due to lack of time.