How do I further a conversation? I'm literally in the very first conversation with some bearded tutorial guy, right after the opening cutscene. It won't let me advance the conversation prompt. Clicking mouse just makes his text fade in and out of existence. Pressing all the buttons, nothing's happning. Restarting the game does nothing. Help.

Ahhh, so it's the number keys.... Ok yeah, probably should have figured that out on my own. Kthx.

Easy on yourself: these older games do not have the features of later games that we now take for granted. Things like this happen to many of us. :)

My issue is more that I'm not used to playing k+m games. Too many buttons. xD

LOL - strangely enough, despite having grown up with many "older" games, it also took me a while to figure out that you can only use the number keys to select responses.

For some reason I expected to be able to either use the mouse, or possibly navigate the speech menus using the arrow keys/WASD or something. Even after I figured out that the number keys worked, I still looked up the control scheme, thinking that there must be some way of using arrow keys or (ideally) the middle scroll wheel...

Ditto. Odd choice to make only the number keys work. The game's really not that old, from around the mid 00s, isn't it? Arrow keys did exist back then.

And mice did too ;)! I really would like to be able to select responses with the mouse as well...

That would be cool - though I guess it's not possible to mod this in, otherwise someone would have surely done it by now...