Sorry it took me so long to get back to you !! I've been sick 😅😅 but I got a corroborating bug report on Tumblr so you're definitely not the only one. Thanks for the super detailed report as well !! So, addressing a few things:
- Evade/Check Who It Is is supposed to be a fast, timed decision !! It's just supposed to convey the urgency of actually making that decision in real time, but it doesn't change the course of the game or nothin
- Personality counters are supposed to go up and down depending on what you pick !! This is meant to let you kind of build a personality despite maybe having varying reactions to things, but I think I mathed the math wrong: that fix'll need to come after I'm better though, because it was written while I was at 100% and I'd hate to see what it looked like writing it at a strong 40% fjdsjfk
- Somehow, despite everything, I STILL can't recreate the bug 😱😱 the other bug report has it happening on frost too, but I've tested on Edge, I've gone over the passages you listed, I've tried saving and reloading immediately, I've tried saving, closing, reopening, and reloading. I've darted around the menus, I've built saves, I've played through from the start, I've tried Tahira's route, I've tried Siruud's route...nothing !!
I'm wondering if it might be some kind of cookie setting in your browser, but I'm not sure what it would need to be set to in order to not wipe the save but mess with it? I've tried it both on my firefox install which is very strict about cookies (so strict that I can't test saves on here djkfddsf) and then I've tried on my pure out of the box Edge install with default cookie settings, and neither had any trouble remembering which magic type I'd set it to. I don't even know what to follow up on at this point ;; I'll keep trying to trip it but it's so wild that you can reliably reproduce it but I can't even accidentally do it once !!