Thank you! Good to know I'm allowed to skip them if I can manage and think it's the right call haha. (Don't worry. I sprained my ankle on day 2 so really no one escapes unharmed lol)
also, no one is watching! so if you wanna return to the cave later and dive deeper, i'm not gonna come to your house and slap the pencil out of your hand. it's worth the dive i think once you have a weapon or two