Having a lot of fun with the game and I absolutely adore it! I'm just commenting to share a crash-bug I encountered on a playthrough :)
If Letters Had Pants error
ERR [string "code/game.lua"]:864: attempt to perform arithmetic on global 'i' (a nil value)
Stack traceback:
[string "code/game.lua"]:150: in function <[string "code/game.lua"]:148>
[string "code/game.lua"]:5354: in function 'upd_timers'
[string "code/game.lua"]:1366: in function 'foo'
[string "code/game.lua"]:864: in function 'foo'