Just wanna say I would love like a permamanent consequence from getting captured by the rats or something, that would be cool! But I know you're on limited time for this so it's just a fun suggestion :3
Otherwise still can't wait for this OwO
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Depends on what you consider "permanent", but I've been working on hammering down some more of the lore details and actual flow of things today, and there's definitely at least one thing I think would qualify. Just don't be discouraged if it's not in first-release: the thing I'm thinking of will probably be packaged in later.
If you just mean a hard-stop bad end possibility with the rats though, absolutely going to be the case.