Playing through this lovely game again but I've run into problems that I have no idea how to deal with.

1) In the swamp by the tomb, there are two monsters you need to defeat before looking at the tomb. One of them can be reached and killed, but the other is unreachable and the player refuses to throw or cast anything saying "this is a bad place for practice!

2) In the castle, after going up the stairs with the ghost, you get to a room with a safe. However, both doors in this room lead back down to the stars with the ghost! This didn't happen the last time I was in the castle.

Any ideas?

I managed to get past these problems.

1) You need to stand above the monster to the right and then click on it to reach it. Sometimes, the player just walks past and down the bottom of the screen though.

2) I think this bug was caused in combination with overhearing a conversation and using a secret doorway. If you go to the room you came out in after using this doorway, and go back through it, the bug is reset.