So, The Golden Bracers can successfully detect the 1000 Gold coins in the inventory, thereby granting the Crit token, but it fails to remove 1000 Gold coins from the inventory.
It's a bug, noticed on the Android release.
I understood that the overworld time progresses automatically. An alternative to that would be treating the time you gain from dungeons as a resource you spend on the overworld.
Each curio you interact with gains you time. Each combat finished gains you time. So the question would be, will I have my party do something potentially dangerous to gain time?
You know, risk vs reward
Then the usage of time is like the spending of currency. Numbers can be tweaked.
You know, use it or lose it.
The "corset/posture collar/heels of education" have a chance each turn to add a semi-permanent token that persists through dungeons. The token can stack up to 10x, but in order to uncurse the item, you need to start a turn with 5 tokens.
Edit: those tokens have a chance to be reduced by 1 by NOT wearing any corset/posture collar/heels.