The Dink Network

Well, basically what I did is after walking around the catacombs for a bit, I found the town. I walked around and talked to people for a bit in the town. I was told by the trader to go see the armorer south, so I went south and found his house. I talked to him, with the whole ridiculous price thing, and he said he'd give it to me if I answered his riddle. I, being bad at riddles, made a whole bunch of bad guesses, and then I decided I'd go back to the all broken up house with the save machine and save (I didn't want to lose my progress with the other townspeople). So I went and saved, and then I closed out dink. I decided it would be funny to ask jeeves "What bees make milk?" (the riddle), and I was surprised when he answered it . So then I loaded my save and talked to the armor boy, but all I could do was "Chat." I tried doing stuff like asking the trader again about protection against the heat, but the armor boy would always only "Chat." So I figured, oh well, I just won't stay long in the firewood forest. So, I took my pair of trusty herb boots and dashed the heck through there whenever I needed to get anywhere. I would only occassionally take some damage, so at that point I figured the ice armor wasn't really important, and that I had just missed out cause I failed the riddle too many times. I was still able to run in, get to the soul man, bring the slurper in, etc, and sometimes I wouldn't even take damage on my way through. Weird. I'm thinking I should probably just start over.
(EDIT: I also realized I should mention, I don't use any cheat programs or any extra stuff)