After taking a massive break from this game, I finally got my shit together and fired it up last night. Still haven't beat the first level, but made plenty of progress. Got the slime, got Theo's book, gave Theo back his book, now apparently I need to head into the cave again, then presumably I get the ship event. Feels good playing this game again, it's pretty fun when stuff happens!
I saw some comments asking about how much time people are spending on this game. Well, I didn't play it for probably 2 or 3 months, but I've sunk maybe around 5 hours into the first level. In my defense, the first hour+ was lost when I found out I couldn't save without clearing out my save memory. I also didn't have the benefit of the walk through until I started replaying last night. Super handy! Hopefully I'll get on to area 2 tonight!
Anyone else still playing?