hitting this game like ngu idle is probably the best way to avoid dying over it: progress for an hour, sleep, then get twice as far the next day for the first week or so
if you try hard enough you can lose sanity sparingly this way (you've signed yourself up for a sanity drain anyways, may as well enjoy it)
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