Thanks for that information, I’m currently looking around in the code. That’s extremely odd that you can’t talk to anyone. That prompt is only there to catch the occasional odd error, usually caused by me misnaming a key somewhere. The fact that you can’t talk to anyone seems nuts to me. There is one potential issue that started in 0.12 that will be fixed in the next patch but I can’t be certain it’s the cause.
One other question that slipped my mind before, if you don’t mind. Did you start this game in V0.12 or did you patch up from a previous version? In case you haven’t seen it, if the game patches you’ll get a black screen when you load your save and it will say “patching game” in the bottom right. Then when everything does load you get a prompt that says “welcome to patch 0.whatever”.