Ah I figured it out. You have to die once and press continue before stepping on the stick again. It should give a few sentence in the middle of the section mentioning "Doing this before" then MC will carry-on after stepping on the stick.
I seem to be having the same issue as well. I haven't found any answers to to get past it and the discord link to dark's server doesn't seem to be working but I will get back to you if I can find it.
