Talk:A Poet Under Pressure/@comment-38889884-20190505151747/@comment-35089194-20190716214902

You don't have to fight the drowners, or retrieve the ring. It's optional. This is rather besides the point however, as you make it sound like this is somehow an outrageous and never before seen scenario for the game to be presenting you with, and not, in fact, two things you spend the majority of the game doing - Killing monsters and finding items that are out of the way. If that's not your cup of tea, maybe this isn't the game for you.

Nor do you have to be on foot to track Dandelion, a realisation you seem to have come to at the end of your comment, yet for some reason decided not to delete your prior statement of needing to be on foot.