for me when penny flies me at the start its just a black screen with the river sounds in the backround. does that happend to anyone else?
ye thats probably another pesky bug :P Tho a bug like this happend to me as well,so just need to press play,and the game will work again.Tho if that for some reason doesnt work,then try reloading the game to the previous check point :P
Basically this:
press esc when you are in game,and go to chapter select:
then you can go to the check point before you talked with the birda(Penny).
Btw this does effect gossip and some events in the game,by that i mean you will need to talk to all the critters all over again ,if you want for the specific events to happen :P)