Hello, and thank you for checking my game. Here are two advices for playing Varkana: - If you use Gargoyle, the default interpreter for Glulx games is Git, which can cause crash while playing. A patch has been released which may fix the problem. You can get it here: http://ifarchive.smallwhitehouse.org/if-archive/interpreters-multi/gargoyle/ But I'd advice using the Glulxe interpreter instead of Git (or for example, in the Gargoyle folder in the program files you can rename git.exe => git-old.exe and copy and rename glulxe.exe => git.exe). - Also, there is a problem with the conversations due to which sometimes the NPCs don't respond when there's actually a reply available. I only found a temporary solution for this problem: if you first ask the NPC about a non-existent topic, it unblocks their conversation, at least for a while (for example, type: "Ask Houtan about abcdef", and then start asking him any questions that you might have). I'm sorry for the inconvenience. That's all. Have fun! Maryam