I had the excact same problem. I think it took me 10 minutes before I could play, and after that I died really quickly and had to go through all the dialogue again :(
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I've uploaded two fixed versions to my Github: https://github.com/Ionox-studios/Bug-in-the-system. Obvz don't rate off of those. But for those who ran into a bug and still want to give it a shot. If either version works please let me know, I'm more curious than anything.
Original is still the one up top!