So I'm on my first honour mode run and at Felogyr's Fireworks I walked past the guards to go to the top floor. I triggered the dialogue where they tell me I cannot go up there. My whole party gets moved back to the top of the stairs to the first floor/in front of the counter with the clerk. However, Gale keeps getting sucked into a dialogue with the guard about not being allowed past. I would happily select the "Attack" option, except I'm not given any response options and the conversation ends. Once it ends I cannot select anything, no spells, no fast travel, no long rest, no attack. I have tried switching characters and I'm not sure if it just is slow to swap or if it won't let me before the conversation starts up again and I get pulled into the conversation cutscene. I barely have time to open an inventory or map before it sucks me back into the conversation.

I have submitted a bug report, but I'm not sure if that will do anything to help my situation. I'm pretty bummed to make it so far in my first honour mode run only to get defeated by a dialogue loop on a quest I could have just skipped if I didn't find it fun to complete. I did a lot of searching on these forums and around other sites and the fixes people have found don't seem applicable here as I can't really do anything in between conversations and since it's honour mode I can't reload a previous save.

Has this happened to anyone else, and does anyone have any thoughts on how I might be able to get out of this loop? Am I, or is my laptop just too slow to start combat? Any tips to start combat in between conversations? Or other ways to try and stop it?

Thank you for any tips or tricks you all might have for me!