You're quite welcome! I believe it was the mage's path that I was on, the dark haired woman's. I selected hers because as I understood it, the other two led either to femdom and a yandere paths, both of which I am not a fan of and had wished to avoid. I had read among the comments to avoid them simply limit which characters to interact with, so I did. Then found I couldn't progress unless I took their paths anyway, due to those otherwise unseen events.