Hey Circuitarity, It’s a bit hard for me to individually assess how much of the script you’ve gotten through, but there should have been a brief pause and comment when you reached the end of the story missions. It might be that you need to level up, or visit a particular area to progress. Maybe you could check the hints feature on the executor and see what it says?
I’m glad you enjoy sabacc! It took a while for me to program that from the ground up. There’ll be some quality-of-life and imagery updates for that in the next game release.
Is the underworld really ONLY sending you back to the merchant? I’d hope it would still be giving you some small random interactions mixed in.