Thanks so much for your kind comment; I'm so glad you enjoyed the game! As for the puzzle, have you tried talking to the innkeeper behind the counter? 😄
1 year ago(+1)
Well now I feel silly for not trying that. I must have talked to everyone else in the game *except* the innkeeper. 
What was the deal with the hammer and spanner in the Northern area? I spent a long time trying to interact with those... 😅
1 year ago(+1)
You don't have to feel silly! Another person on Mastodon showed me more or less the same screenshot and asked the same question. 🙂 Sometimes in RPGs, if you go behind a counter and talk to a shopkeeper, they'll have some extra dialogue like, "Can you talk to me in front of the counter? There's no room back here." I just thought it would be fun to reward players who try stuff like that, but you are clearly an upstanding player who respects the innkeeper's personal space. 😄
Sorry about that tool pile! There's just some random construction junk laying around the Dev House because the Dev is not an especially organized person, lol. I tried to make the interactables use the darkest color in the palette to make them pop out more, but maybe that's too hard to see. I will certainly keep your comment in mind on my next development project!