Escaping Magicant

 In the Earthbound/ Mother video game, I have gotten stuck in Magicant (the cloud city with elves) several times.

No, the game isn't broken. You're not trapped in the cloud city forever.

I just now realized that there's a man inside the well dungeon, near the sleeping dragon.

You keep going down holes inside the well, just keep going down the left one till you reach a dead end, then climb the ladder and go down the one next to it until you find a dungeon that doesn't look like a square.

You go inside the box shaped hole, catty corner from the path above the sleeping dragon and fight the fish. It looks like just another enemy, but you can't get the magic hook without fighting him.

The important detail I kept missing was how that blue blob in the crack near the top of the dungeon wall is a guy that you're supposed to talk to.

If you choose 'check,' it only says 'no problem here.' You actually need to talk to the blob.

 The hook only takes you back to magicant, which sucks, because the door blob guy is blocking leads to a new area with semis that give you asthma. You can't do anything once you get asthma, so it wipes you out and you end up in the Magicant save point again.