I'm in Vivalzart's house and know I have to feed the vulture a worm while Fingus is being hammered by the vulture's beak. Only problem is -- and I'm not sure if this is just me or possibly a bug in the game -- I can't reach my inventory while Fingus is getting clobbered. This means I can't get Winkle the worm in order to distract/feed the vulture. The inventory simply doesn't open during the clobbering.

I've tried getting the worm first, but that just means I'd be using the worm on the button that sends Fingus to the vulture -- obviously a no go. I've also tried running Winkle to the worm jar while Fingus is getting clobbered. That *almost* works, but Winkle never gets to the vulture on time.

Has anyone else run into this issue? Should the inventory be openable while Fingus is getting clobbered?

Aha! The bug isn't with the game, it's with my memory. The solution here is to use the alternate way to open the inventory, which is to right-click. The reason right-click wasn't working for me is because I had a gestures app running in the background. As soon as I quit the game, disabled my gestures app, then restarted, I was able to right-click to open the inventory for Winkle, who then had plenty of time to retrieve the worm and feed the vulture to continue the game.