Maybe the issue with conflicting persistent files.
Copy the Persistent file in your save folder... (Holiday Island/game/saves)
Paste that Persistent in your AppData file (C: user/***/AppData/roaming/RenPy/Island-1499865023)*** your user id
Try to run the game again.
Thanks for the suggestion but it didnt help. I did however notice another .txt file next to the log. This one called traceback.txt. Its dated about the last time I had the game working. It says -
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
Exception: Sayer 'i_char1.talk' is not defined.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "game/script.rpyc", line 1155, in script call
File "game/loc_massage.rpyc", line 102, in script
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File "renpy/ast.py", line 680, in execute
who = eval_who(self.who, self.who_fast)
File "renpy/ast.py", line 574, in eval_who
raise Exception("Sayer '%s' is not defined." % who)
Exception: Sayer 'i_char1.talk' is not defined.
Any ideas?