mason just stoped showing up, preventing stuff like the tavern

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So, uh, I don't really know how this happened, but I've started a new game in the Windows download version, and nothing's happening. Music is playing, clouds in the background are moving, I can mute the game, I can unmute the game...Aaaaaaaaand that's it, the NPCs aren't coming to give me choices to progress. My only guess is that maybe something happened when I last reset my PC?
Yeah, but in that case it would be 3rd person / past tense. Like, “they embarked on a treacherous quest”.
No one would say in the 1st person / present tense, “I plan to embark on a treacherous quest”, except like… if they planned to backstab everyone (or maybe if they didn’t trust the people with them?). – Or if they could see the future, I guess.
It feels like a translation issue.
I logged into Gamejolt for the achievements and stuff, and it worked. But I exited out of the game (I got to day 41) to take a break from the game for a bit. But I have to log back into Gamejolt again after entering the game again. Everytime I (try to) log into Gamejolt the crashes now. It worked the first time, but now it won't work. For some reason. I would still like to get the achievements while playing, but I can't do that (I don't think) w/o logging into Gamejolt. I tried clearing the cookies and cache to see if that would fix this issue, but it didn't. Help please, thank you.
I downloaded the game on bootcamp and it saved at first. I went back into the game after deleting, and the save file was still there. I decided to reboot my computer in mac os to get some work done. I recently tried starting back up in bootcamp and my sort the court data is nowhere to be found. I will give up on the game if i have to keep starting over please help.