SAGA: IHNM (Ellen) Softlock if short-circuiting the Anubis statue before talking with it

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In Ellen's section, if you short-circuit the Anubis statue before talking with it, you can get softlocked.

Reproduction Steps

Either:

1. Load the first attached save game (in which the Anubis statue has never been talked to)
2. Use the cup of water on the statue
3. Use the forceps on the statue to gain the rom chip
4. Go two screens right
5. Place the chip on the left workstation
6. Use the workstation
7. Reassign the chip's master to "Humanity"
8. Use the forceps on the workstation to regain the rom chip
9. Go two screens left
10. Insert the chip into the statue
11. Talk to the statue

Or:

1. Load the second attached save game (after the above sequence has been completed and the softlock is already happening)
2. Talk to the statue

The dialogue options available are only those that are intended to be given before reprogramming the statue. The ones that are supposed to be there after reprogramming the chip are "Now who is the master?" followed by "Okay, so what's the access code?", at which point you get an access code to proceed.

Without being able to trigger these dialogue options, the game is softlocked.

​This walkthrough describes this bug, so it is likely in the original game

Note: It's important you talk to Anubis about AM being the master before proceeding. If you skip talking to Anubis now, you won't be able to select these dialogue options later, softlocking the scenario, preventing you from completing it.

Tested on

• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream ​GOG release
• ScummVM 2.9.1

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Before short-circuiting the statue

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After reprogramming the chip (softlocked)