Aye, unfortunately ren'py can be like that occasionally and for no good reason. Luckily, right clicking the "skip" in the quick menu skips to the next choice automatically.Thanks for the tip.
Going through that debug menu there are so many things that are contrary to what I chose, it's no wonder you thought I'd made some "interesting choices".
I'm gonna have to start again, which I really did not want to do.