Asking for clues on fixing a broken arc

Some time ago I spent a lot of time creating a 3 story winter holiday themed arc with custom critters. I wrote up dialog for the critters, custom hostages, and finished the arc off with a custom boss.

It's still my pride and joy, however I hadn't run it in a while, as in several game versions ago. I was aware that there might be some things broken from due to updated game versions via mentions on the forums but I hadn't really looked at it.

Ran it today, and almost everything seems okay with one huge exception. None of my dialog is working! Not from hostages, not from bad guys, zero.

I ran the whole arc and then opened it in the edit panel. The dialog I wrote (which was really the heart of the story, along with the custom critters) was all still there.

I thought there might be some glitch or other that could be fixed if I went through, checked it all, maybe made one or two minor edits and republished, so I did that.

Ran the first mission again and sure enough, no dialog from anyone.

Is this a known problem, and is there a simple fix? I'm so hoping the answer is yes, and that someone can give me that information.


thanks


(Oh, the arc in question is in my sig, but I'd rather no one run it until I get this fixed, obviously.)

This may be a silly question, but have you checked whether NPC dialog is enabled in the chat window that you're looking at?