I believe the game has a "clock" but haven't confirmed it, yet. There's a time sensitive event in the underdark that resolved itself after I took a long rest so it's possible the same is happening at that junction.
This is well confirmed. If you hit an event trigger then don’t hit the subsequent event in time it will resolve without you.
I really hope that's not the case.
Do you know if it's tied to long rests or can leaving my game on in not turn based mode trigger things?
Both for different things.
Make a save, do the fight and see what happens!
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