As always, thanks for blessing me with such a thorough review of your experience!
Some really great finds there with the bugs, made me create around 5 new tasks i can tackle after DD.
Ganna is the appeal follower while Dirk is supposed to be a joke cameo guy. Maybe he will be recruitable at some point. Gotta admit that I didn't think too much about the dialogue/story stuff while making all the other stuff.
Overworld areas can easily be done already. The town is actually generated just like the other levels, but it's just a single big "room" with a hardcoded seed. Got some ideas floating around for some wilderness areas etc. Just vague stuff right now though.