If anyone else gets stuck in the character creation screen you have to customize your character by switching the elements with Q/E and pressing enter to finalize each one. After you select her shoes and hit enter you can progress into the game.
Interesting game, I dare say the scope might have been a bit ambitious for the jam- but taking into account the scope it was pretty impressive.
The best QTE was probably the screwdriver one. I hate QTEs in general, but I'm definitely stealing that for one of my games in the future.