Ok, thanks, I usually like to play games on hard difficulty levels, so now I guess I got what I wanted, LOL!

Yeh after you get them.

I found a bed in the suers where you can actualy sleep on. Just enter the suers from the forest and look around. Its there. Hint: When you enter the forrest through the north gate head east.

Thanks for all the hints and suggestions!
The problem is, I usually lack of gold for potions, can barely buy 2-3 of them, spent my initial gold on armor and shield, and the battles are quite hard, I get more and more wounded after each, not to mention my AI compaignon...

And since I play a warrior, (like I usually do in fantasy RPGs), I doubt I will become able to cast too many healing spells...so yes, the altairs you have mentioned remain.

(done 2-3 quests too, but those damn AIs never payed me with gold, despite playing the role of a quite greedy hero)

The graveyard is full of graves to loot. The stuff at low levels is really cheap, but all of it can be sold, and you'll get some healing potions too. There are also some corpses on the north road in the forest you can loot for free stuff. Plus all the houses and stuff in town itself, and at least with those, there's no chance of getting jumped by any critters, living or...not living. Heh.

Yeah, that's what I haven't took time for yet, looting houses inside the town, many thanks!
I only recently realized selling goes with tab, and I don't have much things to sell either, but yeah, the graveyard and corpse looting is a good idea too, there should be stuff worth to sell for sure.

Looting and selling loot is your friend in this game. You'll soon have more gold than you know what to do with.

You can equip your party by pressing CTRL + e. Once in that menu, tab to switch between party members. I believe you can also access that menu by pressing tab at any time in the game. That will present you with several options that will be useful. For example, talk to your party members, get character details such as current attributes, skill descriptions, and other stats. There's also an option to use skills. Certain skills are available outside of battle. That includes healing and recovering mana or stamina points. Of course, provided you have the characters with those skills.

Yeah, it's going quite well now, 3 party-members, level 5, getting more money and loot to sell, winning fights more easily...
(plus I got totally familiar with the orientation too, along with how sound-alerts actually work during it)

Yes, it is indeed a very good and interesting game, way worth its price!

I agree with your oppinion about poisons.

And, since I have a healer in my party now, I have no more worries to heal my party after fights, I need healing potions only during battles, when I wish to avoid "sacrificing" the healer's turn in combat.

Plus, since the healer can regain, recharge her mana with a single skill, which takes only a second, (when not in combat), she is always able to totally cure the whole party of their wounds, and still recharge her mana to maximum after doing so.

Actually, the game  is becoming too easy for my taste now, LOL!

OK, I can partially answer my own question.  I figured out that the TAB key gets me into menus where I can check health and mana.  Clumsy but it works.  It has a section for USE SKILLS but when I tried to cast a healing spell nothing happened.  Is that just how the game works?
    That is weird to me as my intro to RPG's many years ago was D&D and clerics did most all there healing after fights.