Okay, now CTRL-Skip related bugs (panels not showing, backgrounds not loading, music possibly not playing, etc) should be fixed and guarded against. This was quite the thing to do, because by initial design my dialogue system is "stateless". It runs independently of the game, the idea was that I can essentially show any dialogue anywhere and as far as game thinks: nothing happened. This is useful, for example for cutscenes. But, as it happens, I organically decided to add the control flow of the game (what music plays, what poses characters have, what background is on the screen, etc) into dialogue files... suddenly, skipping dialogue became a bit fraught with danger. It should all be fixed now, I think. Hope. Pray. I'm thinking I can probably push out the next version during the weekend. Friday might have been possible otherwise, but Fridays are baaad days for me to do any work on the game.