Oh, I didn't realize the jankiness with the crouch. Always glad to have someone point something out that needs fixed!
If time had permitted I was going to give more space around the pods. It seems silly you can't get to everywhere around them. I would have just required more batteries later on to compensate.
Yes! Vignette is a good word for this! The full idea is so much bigger, I just had to cut it off somewhere and I didn't want to leave players wandering around with nothing else to do. I think a good take away here is to find a way to cap off the story a different way to give players some closure. Or perhaps be devious and allude to even more? Ha.
It's wonderful that people want more! So I'll be working on this, especially since there's so much more to the story!
Thanks!