I'm not sure if it's meant to occur, but the VN for me in the most recent version starts at the vending machine and meeting Bale and Felix, but I think skipping over meeting the zebra and the dragon. Will say the short bit I got to see was great though!
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Holy Moly, dear gods, no, that is not supposed to occur! Thank you, good Sir, for letting me know. I have rolled out a quick fix so that people who download it for the first time get the entire chapter 1, not just half of it. I'll write a devlog this week for those that this error might have confounded. Many thanks, gapbadge! :)