Hi, by complete accident I found a glitch that allows you to skip almost every cutscene in the camp:

I think there are 12 situations in the game where it can be used:

with a time saving of about 70s (running the GOG version, i.e. v1.1 on ScumVM)

This is an awesome find! I verified it also works in 1.0, and unthrottled as well.

It seems that simply pressing the insert key provides an alternative to a save-load in order to switch the wait icon to the previously used icon, giving an improved way to implement the cutscene skips (whew!):

This "function" of insert seems distinct from its usual function of converting between the walk icon and a previous non-walk icon.

That is significant indeed. Good find.