Thanks for the explanation. I completed the demo. I don't know if figuring that out is part of the puzzle or if it would be better to provide that kind of instructions with the game?
Hehe.... my "solution" was to put the hint of what to do in the game description above. This was at about 2:00AM last night when my brain was already half asleep.
The "demo" is very clunky and incomplete. It's basically everything that was finished on the game plus some stuff like combat that was not finished but needed a quick and dirty "fix" to make even a "demo" possible.
About 50% of what I got done during the month is still behind the scenes. About half the code is blocked with //, there are dozens and dozens of unused sprites, a couple of half-complete puzzles, and a few unused locations

I decided that the game deserved better than to just be rushed for the deadline and just went with as much of the story as I could bring out, which turned out to be not much.
So, yeah, please forgive a very clunky demo and hopefully the full game will better reflect what it is supposed to be.