When attempting to start this on Kubuntu 24.10, I am receiving a segmentation fault and nothing more useful than that at the CLI. Are there any known workarounds?

Your best bet is to use an Interactive Fiction interpreter called gargoyle , the easiest way to install it on Ubuntu is probably through Flatpak bc it's not in the repos or snap, check here for help setting that up. Once installed, use gargoyle to open the Anchorhead.gblorb file located in resources/app/anchorhead in the directory you extracted the zip file and you should be away.