Hell Awakening Prologue: The Dorm

[Kreekakon]

As I tried to leave the room where I got the crowbar in the cellar, I think I was flung across the room, because all of a sudden I was in a corner and the door was closed. When I opened the door again, I was told something like "You feel a burn.", and I thought that maybe those events were supposed to be executed at the same time.

No, that was intentional as...

Spoiler below!

...you can hear a soft chuckle when it shows "You feel a burn". Originally the chuckle was going to go with the door slam, bu the slam drowned out the laugh, so I changed it.

First of all, when you're teleported back to your room, and you hear a
scraping sound, as if the statue is moving around as a regular grunt,
that spooked me so much that I quit the game. When I loaded it up again,
the sound wasn't there anymore.

There is ambient noise in the main hall being played at random, so you might've heard that. Although I don't recall you ever being teleported back to your own room. Can you be even more specific under what circumstances this happens?

I'm actually suspecting that this actually might be a bug having to do with the PlayerStartAreas, although no one else I've seen play the mod has run into such an issue before.

The second encounter is the grunt in the cellar, that you're told that you must sneak past. I tried to get around it by checking other rooms, but having no lamp oil, the door I opened turned out to be the second entry door to the cellar, so I exited the cellar instead. When I reentered the cellar, the monster was gone.

Hmm...I "could" try, and fix that slightly with a bit more scripting, and model editing.

So, where have you hidden the TV room crowbar?

Spoiler below!

It's on the last TV table at the far end of the TV room.