I feel like I'm missing something here. On the Chasing Tsug quest, which I must advance so I can leave the slave market, the walkthrough says to have Tink do various splits with weapons and people. I never get those options, but the message with the walkthrough is a year and a half out of date so I don't even know if it's still accurate. After waking up, I go to the Harem and meet Kleo. I choose whatever option for the merchant... and then no options at all. Next thing I know I'm getting message from Tink and Pino saying they've been defeated. I get a message saying "it doesn't have to be this way" and the scene starts over. The same exact thing happens - no choice after deciding whether or not to kill the slaver. After failing that time, the game offers to give me help. If I accept, I get 200 soldiers. This feels like cheating and isn't my preferred method of continuing.
To be clear:
- The day after I kill her uncle I am given two quests.
- Both quests send me to the slaver.
- I must advance Chasing Tsung before I'm allowed to go anywhere. The only place I can go is back to the slave market.
- After advancing Chasing Tsung, I am obliterated because I have no production, no army, etc - none of that has opened up to me yet.
- I am never given any options regarding Tink's splitting of defensive forces, weapons, etc, that is mentioned in the walkthrough from December of 2020.
- The other quest does advance, and says I need to meet the important people... but again, NOTHING is opened up except the slave market until I advance Chasing Tsug. After advancing Chasing Tsug the palace opens back up. Clicking on it immediately puts me to sleep - I can not go meet anyone.
I did try skipping it, thinking that I could do it later after the economics opened up. There is no way to do that from what I've seen.
Is this bugged? Did I screw up somewhere previously? Is accepting this help the only way to move forward? Typically I'd look through the scripts to find out what's going on, but I can't do that with this one because I don't understand Russian, so any information would be nice. I've searched the thread for a few different phrases ("Chasing Tsug") and none of them seemed to have any results that are relevant.