tried turning off the dual dialogue, that didn't fix it, I kept a save where i was bugged, but i sucked it up and got back to where I was finally on the third goaround. Everyone watch your characters cause what i first notice is the stuck character constantly has weapon out, and then if you go into combat he is immortal. Also you can't even get more starstones activated cause the dialogue won't trigger with the imp in your homestead.
Sadly I lost a really good unique on the second try...