1 - to progress the main story start by returning to home village
I completed that. It was like the one instruction I actually got. I'm at Sheri's Trickery.
2 - from FaQ
"-How to steal somebody's panties?
-You need to learn how to lockpick. Hire investigator for your court, she can help you with that."
Thanks. I hired the investigator ages ago but I never bothered to speak to her after her intro because I can't flirt without nuking discipline further. Her passive is annoying enough as-is.
3 -to not watch scenes just hire Olivia. You can just leave the punishment room to let her handle everything herself and not spend any time to watch it. Or even get vacation to explore the world outside.
I have Olivia, and I haven't personally administered punishment since. The repetition I was talking about are the employees. I have to punish 3-4 every day.
4 - watch Olivia carefully, her mistakes drop discipline of all employees (except Vivian). Probably this is the reason.
Are there triggers besides her empty bucket? I know how to check on her failing to cut the birches, which she does most days with zero flirting with any character and the Friday group punishment upgrade active for weeks. I check every character every morning and know one failstate for all of them (oversleeping for the guard, having a sex partner over for the secretary, having the room be messy for the investigator, empty bucket for the punisher, sending a wrong letter for the archivist, and the poison cloud bucket for the quartermaster). I don't have the Prison Guard yet (though I'm very close). I haven't used flirt in at least seven in-game weeks.
Are there additional things I should be watching for? I figured it was just one fail each.
5 - stealing panties is bratty.
I have returned to Olivia with stolen panties in my inventory (Lesly's, the only person I found who didn't lock her door). I still had 'nothing to confess'. I will try to talk to the investigator to find others, but I REALLY don't want to do flirting since I don't want to spend more time on employee fails.
Even so, thanks a lot for the help. I would never have talked to the investigator, probably.