Yikes, there won't be enough coffee in the world for this one. At least I have a reminder that the final boss has Retaliate: Fireball going in...
I don't know whether I'm going to try to skip the Shade boss. Saving popcorn to clear Curses is an iffy proposition at best with the food issues. PISORF helps a lot by granting curse-free damage, and Corrosion stacks can help a little, but this isn't exactly a Rat Monarch we're playing as today, either. It would take good geometry and a huge mana spike (probably fighting while worshiping EM) to make boss-skipping work. Since level-up heals aren't even a thing, this might be the most sensible thing to try. Popcorn will be more about Curse stacks and less about having an XP spike ready. I guess you might want to kill enough to have a decent food supply, but you'll want whatever's left to do down easily. But the low-level monsters probably had to die to feed you just to get through the exploration stage.
Argh, goats. At least no one's saying that this one's another Rock Garden deathtrap.